Nov 26, 2013 - Sale 2333

Sale 2333 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 4,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CHURCHILL, WINSTON S. My Early Life. Signed and Inscribed on front free endpaper: "To the Red Cross / from / WinstonS. Churchill / July 1940." 8vo, publisher's cloth, covers dampstained, backstrip darkened with chipping to ends; moderate uneven toning affecting inscription and signature, spine cocked. Later edition. London, 1940; inscription: July 1940

Additional Details

During the War, Churchill donated autographed items to a war charity sale whose proceeds were to benefit the Red Cross. See Sotheby's London sale, June 29, 1982, lot 47.