A Roving Commission
Signed by Churchill
My Early Life A Roving Commission
Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1934.
First Keystone Library edition. Red cloth, blind stamped rules and vignette to upper cover, gilt titles to upper cover and spine. Signed by the author to the front free endpaper "Inscribed for The Contessa di Sant'elia' by Winston S. Churchill. Christmas 1934". A near fine copy, with the spine slightly faded and a few light marks to the edge of the text block.
Churchill's account of his youthful years, education and military training. Written in his 50s after the Great War, he reflects on the social structures of his youth as those of a bygone era.
This copy is inscribed to British born noblewoman Esther Rosamond Marke Wood who married an Italian count and became a lady in waiting to the Queen of Italy, she is well known for her ownership of racing horses, and remained in England after the rise of Mussolini, fearing restrictions on her freedom to travel.
Stock ID: 46806
£4,500.00
