THE LAST LION. Winston Spencer Churchill. Visions of Glory 1874-1932 [with,] THE LAST LION. Winston Spencer Churchill. Alone 1932-1940

2 volumes. First Edition, first issue of "Visions of Glory", First Edition Club Issue of "Alone" Illustrated throughout with a vast profusion of maps, charts, facsimiles, photographs and other renderings. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth, pictorially blocked in blind on the covers with images of lions rampant, the spine lettered in gilt and with label blocked in red and lettered in gilt, and both volumes with their original pictorial dust-jackets. [xviii], 973 pp. A bright, clean and tight copy of the first volume, showing only very minor evidence of use, the second volume also well preserved though the jacket has some light rubbing to the extremities.

Edizione: a superb historical work by an important american historian. manchester had met churchill when, as a young foreign correspondent, he found himself in the stateroom on the queen mary adjacent to the prime minister’s suite. a mutual friend introduced them. churchill was intrigued by manchester’s assignment: the middle east and india.<br> manchester worked with diaries, memoranda, government documents, the private correspondence of churchill and others, interviewed churchill’s surviving colleagues and members of his family. he had a profound grasp of british history. he served for many years as a professor of history and was the author of many other important works including the death of a president, american caesar, the arms of krupp and the glory and the dream.