Lot 518
Churchill, Sir Winston Spencer. Marlborough, His Life and Times, 4 volumes, first editions, volume 1 for Canada, volumes 2-4 for the United Kingdom, half-titles, portrait frontispieces, plates, maps and charts, original cloth, top edges gilt, volume 1 rebacked preserving most of the original spine, bookplate of Alan Lascelles, 8vo, London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1933-1938
PRESENTATION COPY. Volume One inscribed on the front free-endpaper, 'A.F. Lascelles CMG MVO &c With high esteem, (?)regard, the best of wishes for the New Year - [signature] R. B. Bennett, Christmas 33', the front paste-down with a manuscript family tree in Alan Lascelles hand, from John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough through Joan Thesiger, Alan Lascelles' wife, to their son, John Frederick Lascelles, ' to whom devolves this book, the work of his kinsman' and thence SIGNED BY Winston S. Churchill.
