Impressive complete 34-volume set of The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill. Centenary Limited Edition, numbered 365/3000. London: Library of Imperial History, 1973. Handsomely bound in tan vellum with 22-carat gold borders and titling, gilt textblocks, and marbled endpapers, each includes their dark green slipcase with gilt ‘Fiel Pero Desdichado’ (Faithful though Joyless) emblem. The titles: My Early Life, My African Journey; The Story of the Malakand Field Force; The River War; The Boer War; Savrola: A Political Romance; Lord Randolph Churchill; Mr. Brodrick's Army and Other Early Speeches; The World Crisis, Part I-V (5 vols.); Thoughts and Adventures; Marlborough, His Life and Times (2 vols.); Great Contemporaries; Arms and the Covenant; Step By Step; War Speeches (3 vols.); The Second World War (6 vols.); Post-War Speeches (3 vols.); and A History of the English Speaking Peoples (4 vols.). This multi-volume set was produced to the specifications of the British Museum and U.S. Library of Congress to have a minimum working life of 500 years. Book condition: NF/None in VG slipcases, with general wear to the cases. Each volume is accompanied by its certificate of authenticity from the publisher.
