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MODERN LITERATURE, ART AND HISTORY
Lot 147

CHURCHILL (WINSTON)
Painting as a Pastime, first separate edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, Odhams, 1948

1 December 2021, 12:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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CHURCHILL (WINSTON)

Painting as a Pastime, first separate edition, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, "Inscribed for T.E.R. Harris by Winston S. Churchill. 1948" on front free endpaper, and with typed compliments slip loosely inserted ("With Mr. Churchill's compliments", on 28 Hyde Park Gate notepaper, dated 30 November 1948), frontispiece and colour plates, some light foxing, publisher's gilt lettered cloth, dust-jacket (frayed at edges), 8vo, Odhams, 1948

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Provenance: T.E.R. Harris; and thence by descent to the present owner (see lot 142).

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