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Churchill (Winston Spencer, 1874-1965). Works, 47 volumes, 1898-1961, comprising: The Story of the Malakand Field Force, 1st Colonial edition, 1898, author's presentation copy to Regimental Sergeant-Major W. Brown 4th Hussars (with original covers and spine bound-in at rear); The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1899; Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania, 1st edition, 1900; London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, 1st edition, 1900; Ian Hamilton's March, 1st edition, 1900 (bound without half title); Lord Randolph Churchill, 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1906; My African Journey, 1908; Liberalism and the Social Problem, 1st edition, 1909; The People's Rights, 1st paperback edition, 2nd state (with pagination corrected and Appendix II in place of the index) [1910], with close-trimmed upper wrapper only bound-in; The World Crisis, 5 volumes bound in 6, 1st edition, 1923-31, My Early Life. A Roving Commission, 1st edition, 1930; India. Speeches and an Introduction by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill, 1st paperback edition, 1931 (with original orange wrappers bound-in); Thoughts and Adventures, 1st edition, 1932; Marlborough. His Life and Times, 4 volumes, 1933-38, limited edition 87/155, signed by Winston Churchill; Great Contemporaries, 1st edition, 1937; Arms and the Covenant; 1st edition, 1938; Step by Step, 1936-1939, 1st edition, 1939; Into Battle, 1st edition, 1941; The End of the Begining, 1st edition, 1943; The Dawn of Liberation, 1st edition, 1945; The Second World War, 6 volumes, 1st editions except volume I a Book Society edition, 1948-54, The Sinews of Peace, 1st edition, 1948; Europe Unite. Speeches 1947 and 1948, 1st edition, 1950, In the Balance, 1st edition, 1951; Stemming the Tide, 1st edition, 1953; A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, 4 volumes, 1st edition, 1956-58; The Second World War and an Epilogue on the Years 1945 to 1957, 1st edition, 1959; The American Civil War, 1st edition, 1961; The Unwritten Alliance, 1st edition, 1961, maps and illustrations, occasional light spotting to a few volumes, top edge gilt, uniformly bound by Henry Sotheran in red morocco, upper covers with the gilt arms of the Duke of Marlborough, the four volume limited edition Marlborough. His Life and Times bound in similar original red morocco with the gilt arms to upper covers (spines a little faded and rubbed at ends) (Qty: 47) Provenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). A fine set of the major works of Winston Churchill including The Story of the Malakand Field Force inscribed by Churchill 'To Regimental Sergeant-Major W. Brown 4th (Q.O.) Hussars, with the author's compliments', (The 4th Hussars were Churchill's first regiment, which he joined as Lieutenant in 1895), and the 4-volume limited signed edition of Marlborough. His Life and Times.