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First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the month of publication "To Ernest Poulter from Winston S. Churchill Oct 1933". Poulter supplied Churchill with the print, "The Mauritshuis at the Hague", which is reproduced facing page 540, with Poulter acknowledged. Churchill's biography "took its place at once among the classics of historical writing. As the story of his ancestor's leadership of a grand alliance to prevent the domination of the continent by a single power, it was also a source of inspiration to Churchill in his campaign against appeasement" (ODNB). Provenance: Sotheby's, 16 December 1974, lot 139; the collection of Steve Forbes. Large octavo. Original purple cloth, spines lettered in gilt, Marlborough crest gilt to front cover, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece to each volume, 99 additional plates, 14 facsimiles of letters, and 182 maps and plans, several folding. Slight sunning to spine and extremities as often, light foxing. A very good copy. Cohen A97.2(I).a.

Marlborough: His Life and Times is a comprehensive biography of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, written by Winston Churchill. The work details the Duke's military campaigns and personal life.