Winston Spencer Churchill Servant of the Crown and Commonwealth.

CHURCHILL, Winston S. Edited by Sir James Marchant.

Item Number: 121833

London: Cassell & Company, 1954.

First edition of this work compiled for Churchill’s 80th birthday. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. From the library of Churchill historian and scholar Geoffrey Best, author of Churchill And War and Churchill, A Study In Greatness, with several notes to the rear endpaper and Best’s signature to the front endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A nice example with noted provenance.

This tribute to Sir Winston Churchill on his eightieth birthday is the work of many illustrious hands. Within these covers lies a composite portrait drawn by some of the greatest of his colleagues and contemporaries, each enjoying some particular vantage point from which to view Sir Winston's incomparable stature.