Marlborough. His Life and Times. Volume 1

First Edition, first printing, with the tatty and browned dust-jacket. Original purple cloth with patch of fading at head of spine, gilt crest to front board. 612 pages, top edge gilt. 56 b/w plates including frontispiece. Decent copy in the rather bashed about jacket. Churchill's monumental life of Marlborough encompassed four volumes, the first of which appeared in October 1933 with subsequent volumes in 1934, 1936 and 1938. In 1929, London house George G. Harrap paid an advance of £10,000 for the publishing rights.