6 volumes, 8vo. Half-titles, engraved maps and charts. Publisher's black cloth, spines gilt, top edges red, corners occasionally bumped; with dustjackets, generally in fine condition with some very minor edge wear, spines somewhat faded, prices unclipped.

"I will leave judgements on this matter to history – but I will be one of the historians." A very good set comprising the first English editions of Churchill's monumental history of World War II, inscribed and dated by Churchill on the half-title in volume one, initialed on the half-titles in volumes two and three. Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1953 in recognition of "his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values."