Signed book: A History of the English Speaking Peoples: Volume I, The Birth of Britain. Second edition. London: Cassell and Company, 1956. Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.75, 416 pages. Signed on the half-title page in fountain pen, "Winston S. Churchill." The first free end page bears an affixed TLS from Anthony Montague Browne, Churchill’s private secretary, dated April 2, 1963, asking Madame de Miramon for a “copy of one of Sir Winston’s books that I can ask him if he will sign it.” Includes a second TLS from Browne sent to Marquis de Miramon in 1965. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: G+/None, with a cracked front hinge, edgewear, and rubbing the head of the spine. Churchill began publishing his massive four-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples in 1956, which he began writing in 1937.
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