Churchill, Winston (1939) ‘Step by Step’, UK first edition

Winston Churchill (1939) ‘Step by Step: 1936-1939‘, UK first edition, first printing, published by Thornton Butterworth. Complete with the fold-out map at the back and with the exceedingly scarce dust jacket. One of only 7,500 first impression copies.

Condition: the book is near fine with only the slightest of shelf wears. No previous owners’ inscriptions, no book plates, no stamps. Boards retain their green colour. Pages NOT foxed. The dust jacket is very good, NOT price clipped showing the 12s 6d net price as caled for. The jacket’s spine is browned and the edges have small chipps and wear as shown.

A collection of Churchill’s 82 newspaper articles on foreign affairs written on the eve of the outbreak of WW II.