CHURCHILL (Winston S.)
The World Crisis.
RETAINING THE SCARCE ORIGINAL DUST JACKETS
A very good set of Churchill’s famous account of the First World War, retaining the scarce original dust jackets.
The printing history of The World Crisis is complicated to say the least and there exist subtle differences between the various states of both the printed books and dust jackets: Vol. 1 in Cohen’s third state, with errata slip tipped into page 1 and lacking one quotation mark at the bottom of p.472, dust jacket possibly in the fifth state or an intermediate state between the fifth and sixth unseen by Cohen, with an advert for the 1915 volume on the rear panel but with reviews for the 1915 volume on the back flap; Vol. 2 first printing and only state with matching dust jacket; Vol. 3 first printing and only state with matching dust jacket; Vol. 4 first printing and only state with matching dust jacket; Vol 5. first printing and second state with errata slip on p. 9 with matching dust jacket; Vol. 5 first printing and only state with matching dust jacket.
A very good set, faint partial offsetting to endpapers with some foxing and browning as usual, all volumes except the last with neat engraved armorial bookplates to front pastedowns, Vol. 2 with neat ownership inscription to front free endpaper. The rare original dust jackets are largely complete, with general wear to edges and some staining, Vols. 1 & 2 in very good order, Vol. 3 & 4 with staining to spine panels and loss to tips of spine panels and corners, front turn-in fold of Vol. 3 completely detached but kept together by the archival cover, Vol. 5 The Aftermath very good with only some minor staining to spine panel and slight chipping at head, Vol. 6 The Eastern Front lacking large portion of spine panel with some loss of text, with long closed tear running upwards from the spine panel along the front joint.
