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My Early Life & Great Contemporaries: Inscribed by Churchill

2 books by Churchill Wedding Gift to Frewen

Churchill's Inscription in Great Contemporaries

Churchill's Inscription in My Early Life

2 books Inscribed by Churchill to Frewen

2 books by Churchill with Frewen's Bookplate

My Early Life & Great Contemporaries by Winston Churchill
Presentation Copies – Wedding Gift
With Inscriptions and Handwritten Signature of Winston Churchill

Here’s 2 identically bound books in red morocco by Bumpus Ltd. My Early Life, A Roving Commission and Great Contemporaries. Churchill inscribed both books before giving them to Roger Frewen as a wedding gift in 1952. (Roger Frewen was Churchill’s godson and the son of Churchill’s first cousin, Hugh Frewen.)

Both Books:
Full red morocco by Bumpus Ltd of Oxford Street
Odhams Press Limited – 1948 second printing
Roger Moreton Frewen’s bookplate on front paste-down
All edges gilt

Small books ~8.25″ x 5.25″

Condition: Very Good. Spines slightly discolored, 1/2″ strip faded at top of front binding of My Early Life.

Churchill’s inscription on the otherwise blank second front free endpaper is the same in both books:

“To

Roger Frewen

on his Marriage

from

Winston S. Churchill

1952”

My Early Life:
Woods A37(g.2)
Cohen A91.9.c
Langworth p.141

Great Contemporaries:
Woods A43(g.2)
Cohen A109.9.c
Langworth p.186

Item #129

Price: $12000

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