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CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) British Prime Minister 1940-45, 1951-55. Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1953. Book signed and inscribed, being a hardback edition of The Grand Alliance, Volume III of The Second World War (originally published in six volumes; the others no longer present), First Edition published by Cassell & Co. Ltd., London, 1950. Signed by Churchill in blue ink to the half title page, 'Inscribed for Norman McGowan - Winston S. Churchill' and dated 1951 in his hand. Accompanied by the dust jacket. Contained in a handsome custom designed blue quarter leather and cloth clamshell box with a gilt stamped title to the spine. Some light overall age wear, about VG
Norman McGowan served as a personal valet to Churchill and was the author of My Years with Churchill (1958).
