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WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL (1874-1965)
Step by Step 1936-1939. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1939.
First edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author one month after publication, July 1939. Step by Step gathers Churchill's weekly commentaries for the Evening Standard, which had been widely read throughout Europe in syndication. Woods A45.

Octavo (213 x 134mm). Half-title, folding map of Europe at end, full-page map in the text (pp.21-24 lightly creased in fore-margin). Full tan-crushed morocco, gilt edges (spine slightly faded).

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Winston Churchill (authorial inscription on flyleaf 'To Audrey ... July 1939') – 'S.B.' (gift dated 1940 lettered in gilt on front turn-in) – Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (bookplate and initalled 'A' in gilt on spine).
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