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Lot #178
Winston Churchill

The unfortunate but necessary omission of a “half-tone plate of the portrait of General Sylvester Churchill”

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The unfortunate but necessary omission of a “half-tone plate of the portrait of General Sylvester Churchill”

TLS signed “Winston S. Churchill,” one page, 7.5 x 9.5, personal letterhead, January 15, 1951. Letter to Desmond Flower. In part: “I quite understand the circumstances which make it impossible for you to include in Volume IV a half-tone plate of the portrait of General Sylvester Churchill.” In fine condition, with central vertical and horizontal folds and a punch hole to upper left corner. Flower was a publisher, book-collector, and scholar who headed the Cassell & Co. publishing house, through whom Churchill published his works. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Rare Manuscript, Document & Autograph
  • Dates: #426 - Ended April 16, 2014





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