Description: Title: The Collected Works of Sir Winston S. Churchill, complete in 38 volumes, 34+4 including The Collected Essays. 8vo (10" x 6-7/8") 1973-76. Churchill, Winston. London: Library of Imperial History. Original full vellum with 22-carat gold blocking, including titles to spines, armorial device to front boards and ruling to spines and front boards, gilt edges, green marbled endpapers, printed on Archive Long-Life Text Paper. Housed in the original green imitation leather slipcases stamped with the Churchill arms in gilt. Typical natural variation to the tone of the vellum and occasional patches of minor discoloration to spines, slipcases scuffed with some shelf wear, slipcases tight as usual. A FINE SET. Frontispieces and illustrations throughout, as plates and to the text. First complete collected edition. The Centenary Edition is the only full collected works of Winston Churchill, reproducing his 50 books in 34 volumes. (In 1976 4 volumes of The Collected Essays were printed and similarly bound with slipcases.) The Library of Imperial History went bankrupt before the projected run of 3,000 sets could be completed, so "the print run never exceeded 2,000 copies and only 1,750 sets were ever published" (Cohen). "The specifications were titanic: five million words in 19,000 pages, weighing 119 lbs, taking up 4.5 ft of shelf space. To achieve publication, 11 publishing houses in Great Britain, the United States and Canada released their individual copyrights in exchange for the promise that no other complete edition of Churchill works would be published until the expiration of international copyright in 2019" (Richard M. Langworth). Free shipping via USPS for United State purchaser within the continental U.S., International shipping determined using USPS Priority Express, DHL, FedEx, or Parcel Monkey.
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