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London: Thornton Butterworth Ltd,, 1934. Inscribed and attractively bound First Keystone edition, first impression, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "Inscribed by Winston S. Churchill July. 1936", noted in a different hand on the title page, "For Lady Moyra Cavendish", and likely specially bound for presentation. Cavendish (1876-1942) married Richard Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire, in 1895. She took up residence at the family's Holker Hall, where she is noted for redesigning the gardens, and took a prominent role in local institutions. The pair knew Churchill for decades, and correspondence from Moyra from 1903 to 1935 is preserved in the Churchill Archives. The duke served in Churchill's wartime government as a parliamentary under-secretary of state for India and Burma (1940-1942) and for the Colonies (1942-1945). My Early Life was first published in 1930. It was Churchill's only volume of sustained autobiography, covering his formative years from his birth…

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