[CHURCHILL, WINSTON SPENCER]. My Early Life: A Roving Commission. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930.
FIRST U.K. EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, second state, with twelve Churchill books advertised on half-title verso. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (22 x 14 x 4 cm); pp. 392. English text. Stunningly bound in full crimson crushed morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe; all page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; half-title; twenty-eight illustrations including a portrait frontispiece and folding map; rear index in double columns. Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd. Condition: FINE. An immaculate copy. Without previous ownership markings. Scarce thus.
Notes: First edition, first impression, second state, with twelve Churchill books advertised on half-title verso. A finely bound copy by Sangorskin & Sutcliffe, with a black and white photographic frontispiece, and sixteen further photographic plates, as well as several other illustrations in-text and a folding map. A truly exceptional copy of Churchill's only volume of sustained autobiography, covering the formative years from his birth in 1874 until his election as Parliamentary MP for Oldham in 1900. Cohen A91.1.c; Woods A37(a).
