Signed book: The Second World War, Vol. II: Their Finest Hour. First edition. London: Cassell & Co., 1949. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.5, 684 pages. Signed on the first free end page in fountain pen, "Winston S. Churchill." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/VG, with the bookplate of journalist and politician Woodrow Wyatt affixed to the front pastedown, toning to the jacket's spine, some very minor chipping to the jacket's edges, and a vertical crease to the front flap. Housed in a handsome custom-made quarter-leather navy blue clamshell case.
In addition to his political acumen, Churchill was a celebrated writer; though probably best known for his six-volume history of World War II, he published more than 40 books and received the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature 'for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.' Woodrow Wyatt was a British politician, author, journalist and broadcaster, known for his close ties to the Queen Mother, Margaret Thatcher, and Rupert Murdoch.
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