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Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. AN ESPECIALLY HANDSOME AND FINE COSWAY-STYLE BINDING, full crushed morocco by Asprey, the upper cover with an inlaid oval portrait of Churchill set into the cover and framed with a fine gilt bordering of triple gilt fillet lines with further gilt tooled chain decoration, with large corner gilt tooled devices of rampart British lions and portcullises, the spine with raised bands separating the six compartments which are gilt tooled in panels and decorated with elaborate borders and with central gilt lion and portcullis devices repeated between the gilt tooled bands, two compartments gilt lettered and framed, double gilt ruled board edges, wide turn-overs gilt tooled matching the framework of the covers around red moire silk endpapers, a.e.g. In all a stunning binding. Housed and protected in a red cloth-covered slipcase. 392 pp. First edition, first printing. A very fine copy indeed, internally pristine and the…

My Early Life is an autobiographical work by Winston Churchill. It covers his birth in 1874 to his first few years in Parliament.

First editions can be identified by the publisher's name Butterworth on the bottom of the spine and title page, as later editions were published by other publishers.