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32 CHURCHILL, Winston S. – MURRAY, D. L. Brighton & Hove in Battledress 1939–1945. Brighton: Designed and produced by Brighton Herald, Ltd, for the Brighton and Hove War Memorial Fund, 1946 PRESENTED TO CHURCHILL IN GRATITUDE FOR HIS “INDOMITABLE LEADERSHIP” Inscribed on an elegantly executed calligraphic sheet, “Presented to the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill . . . by the ex-Service men and women of Brighton and Hove on the occasion of the opening by him of Churchill House, the club which has been presented by the citizens of the two Boroughs as a permanent memorial to those who served under his indomitable leadership . . . October 3rd 1947”. With Churchill’s posthumous bookplate and that of his son Randolph S. Churchill on the front endpapers; following his father’s death, Randolph ensured that the “From the Library of Sir Winston
Churchill” bookplate was added to the books inherited by him. This is the first and sole edition, scarce, with WorldCat listing only three copies, at Illinois, Calgary, and Victoria, Canada. On the day that Churchill was presented with this copy he was awarded the Freedom of the Borough of Brighton, the presentation sheet being signed by Arthur Nicholls, chairman of the Churchill House Committee and mayor of Brighton in 1944. In his autobiography, My Early Life , Churchill wrote fondly of his education in the town: “The impression of those years makes a pleasant picture in my mind, in strong contrast to my earlier schoolday memories”. Brighton & Hove in Battledress is a thorough and attractively produced photographic record of the towns’ war effort. Fittingly, the final illustration is that of Churchill House, “to be equipped as permanent headquarters for the many regimental associations and ex-Service organisations”. Octavo (213 × 135 mm). Original presentation binding of blue morocco-grain padded leather, front cover lettered in gilt and stamped with arms of Brighton and Hove, floral gilt roll
turn-ins, pale blue marbled endpapers, edges gilt. Illustrated throughout with half-tones from photographs. Loosely inserted is a photocopy of a portrait of Churchill speaking at the Conservative party conference at the Brighton Dome on 4 October 1947, with a note below, “See Page 115”, at which appears an illustration of the Dome. Spine sunned, light wear at head of spine and touch of rubbing at joints. A very good copy indeed. ¶ Winston S. Churchill, My Early Life , 1996. £1,250 [154433] 33 CHURCHILL, Winston S. – BUTCHER, Harry C. My Three Years with Eisenhower. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946 INSCRIBED TO CHURCHILL First edition, an excellent presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the frontispiece recto, “To the Honorable Winston Churchill, Respectfully, Harry Butcher. 2 April 1946. NY City”, and with
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