FIRST EDITION IN PARTS OF CHURCHILL’S ILLUSTRATED THE GREAT WAR

CHURCHILL, Winston. The Great War. Fully Illustrated with Photographs, Drawings and Maps. London: George Newnes, [1933-34]. Twenty-six parts. Quarto, original paper wrappers. Housed in two custom clamshell boxes. $2200.

First illustrated edition of Churchill’s The World Crisis, in original parts.

With a new Foreword by Churchill dated August 1933. Churchill's monumental history of the first World War was first published in six volumes as The World Crisis, 1923-31; these 26 parts were issued fortnightly by Newnes from September 1933 to October 1934, "in a form which will make them accessible to a very wide public." "Not only the best account of the most tremendous convulsion the world has ever seen, but one of the most brilliant treatises on war that has ever been written" (Spectator). With hundreds of photographic illustrations, maps, and plans. Langworth, 118-20. Woods A31a.

Interiors bright and clean, occasional light foxing to spines and paper wrappers. A near-fine copy, rare in such good condition.