Lot 519
Churchill, Sir Winston Spencer. The World Crisis 1911-1918, 5 volumes, mixed edition, but volumes 3 and 5 firsts, half-titles, folding maps and charts, one slightly frayed due to poor folding, original cloth, bookplate of Alan Lascelles, 8vo, London: Thornton and Butterworth, 1927-1930
PRESENTATION COPY. Volume One inscribed by the King on front pastedown, 'from George RI, Christmas 1940'. Volume Five inscribed on preliminary leaf, 'To Philip from Winston, 1 Mar 1929'. With a further note in the hand of Alan Lascelles, 'This volume being out of print, I had to get a secondhand copy. It came from Philip Sassoon's collection, recently sold, & is evidently the copy given to him by Winston Churchill. 16 iv 1941, A.L.'
