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Winston Spencer Churchill. Lord Randolph Churchill. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1906....
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Inscribed by Churchill to a correspondent of his father
Winston Spencer Churchill. Lord Randolph Churchill.
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1906.2 volumes, 8vo. With frontispieces and 16 inserted plates. Publisher's plum cloth stamped in gilt; cloth slipcase.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY CHURCHILL TO CONSERVATIVE POLITICIAN J. MOORE BAYLEY, THE DAY BEFORE PUBLICATION, on the front free endpaper of volume I: "J. Moore Bayley, Esq. / from / Winston S. Churchill / 1 Jan. 1906."
J. Moore Bayley, Esq., was a Conservative politician from Birmingham, UK. Appendix VII, the Political Letters of Lord Randolph Churchill, includes a letter from Bayley to Lord Randolph Churchill and Churchill's reply under the heading "Freedom of Contract." Bayley asked Churchill to expound on his views on the rights of contract. Churchill, also a staunch Conservative, replied in part: "...I am quite averse to State interference, so long as the contract in question may be either moral or legal... The good of the State, in my opinion, stands far above freedom of contract; and when these two forces clash, the latter will have to submit..."
Condition: Ex-library with accession bookplates on both pastedowns and ink shelf numbers on versos of both title pages, some bleed through to title page rectos. Cloth somewhat worn, spines sunned, edgewear. Foxing and soiling throughout, moderate dampstaining, most notably to the lower margins of the later half of volume I.
References: Woods A8(a).
Provenance: J. Moore Bayley, Esq. (presentation inscription); The Grundy Library, Malvern College, donated by J. Moore Bayley in 1938, later deaccessioned. From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2024 June 27 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part I, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6295 (go to Auction Home page)
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