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The Book: Proceedings Of The Presentation of the Williamsburg Award to Sir Winston S. Churchill + Attendee Program. The Drapers Hall, 7th Dec. 1955

The Williamsburg Award – Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s Highest Honor was presented to Sir Winston Churchill at a ceremony at The Drapers Hall, London, on 7th Dec. 1955.

Churchill was the first recipient of this prestigious award presented to “a person who in the course of contemporary events had made an outstanding contribution to the historic struggle of men and women to live free and self-respecting in a just society” according to archived documents housed in the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library. The only other recipient is Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy who received the award on Nov 19th, 2021

2 copies of the book that records the ceremony honoring the Greatest Man of the 20th Century:
Limited Edition bound in morocco leather, one of only 36 copies
Trade Edition (fine copy) with a mylar protective jacket

Also included is the actual program given to attendees of the event. In addition to the menu it lists the 11 trustees of Colonial Williamsburg, at which the chairman, Winthrop Rockerfeller, (1912 -1973), Governor of Arkansas, presented Churchill with a Town Crier’s Bell, symbolizing the award. The frontispiece in the books features a full-page color photo of the bell presented to Churchill.

The Williamsburg Award Program is printed on hand-made paper. The Williamsburg seal embossed in gold, is on the front cover together with a tied blue ribbon.

Tipped in are an envelope + a letter from Kenneth Chorley to Lewis W. Douglas offering Mr. Douglas a copy of the book, presumably the Limited Edition book included in this listing. Kenneth Chorley was the President of The Trustees Of Colonial Williamsburg. Lewis Douglas was a guest at the ceremony; the envelope is addressed to him in New York.

A wonderful addition to your Churchill book collection.

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Price includes 2 copies of the book, Proceedings Of The Presentation of the Williamsburg Award to Sir Winston S. Churchill, the Williamburg Award Program and the tipped in letter/envelope.