CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965)
CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965)
CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister 1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Book signed and inscribed, being a folio softcover edition of Winston Churchill The Greatest Figure of Our Time, edited by Bruce Ingram, First edition published by The Illustrated London News, London, 1954. Issued as an Eightieth Year tribute to Churchill, the volume is profusely illustrated and includes twelve colour plates and four gravure plates and with sections of text devoted to Churchill in Parliament, and in War, Churchill the man, and his place in history. Signed by Churchill in fountain pen ink to the plain recto of the frontispiece illustration, To P. G. Oates from Winston S. Churchill, and dated 1954 in his hand. An unusual volume to find signed. Some very light, minor age wear, VG
Peter Geoffrey Oates (1919-2007) British civil servant who worked in the Prime Ministers office at 10 Downing Street from 1951, firstly as private secretary to Attlee, and later to Winston S. Churchill.
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