Winds Change 1914 1939 Blast by Macmillan Harold (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Six volume complete set. All hardcovers, H 23.25cm x L 16cm. Dust jackets rubbed with some sunning; small chips, short tears, nicks/scuffs, as well as some creasing; front flaps are not price-clipped. Black cloth spines/boards; some bumping to spine ends and board corners. Varied foxing/toning to text block edges. Light foxing to several initial and rear pages but interior leaves are mostly clean. Bindings are firm. ***** VOLUME I. WINDS OF CHANGE 1914-1939. Harper & Row, [September] 1966. First U.S. Edition (as stated upon copyright page). ***** VOLUME II. THE BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945. Harper & Row, [January] 1968. Early printing (no edition/printing statement provided). No ISBN specified. ***** VOLUME III. TIDES OF FORTUNE 1945-1955. Harper & Row, [October] 1969. First U.S. Edition (as stated upon copyright page). No ISBN specified. ***** VOLUME IV. RIDING THE STORM 1956-1959. Harper & Row, 1971. First U.S. Edition (as stated upon copyright page). ISBN 0060127749. ***** VOLUME V. POINTING THE WAY 1959-1961. Harper & Row, 1972. First U.S. Edition (as stated upon copyright page). ISBN 0060127414. ***** VOLUME VI. AT THE END OF THE DAY 1961-1963. Harper & Row, 1973. First U.S. Edition (as stated upon copyright page). ISBN 006012783X. ***** Please note that this set has an approximate shipping weight of 15 pounds (6.8 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail (international postage will be in excess of US$100).

First Edition. Signed. Fine copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; viii, 664 pages 16 plates (including portraits) 23 cm; xvi, 765 pages frontispiece, 26 plates (including portraits), 4 maps 23 cm; Subjects; Political biography England 1967. England, political biography 1967. World War, 1939-1945 ; Personal narratives, British. Politicians Great Britain ; Biography. Statesmen Great Britain Biography. Great Britain Politics and government 20th century. 1 Kg.

Cloth. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition, Second Printing. Complete six volume set of The Memoirs of Harold Macmillan, signed by the former prime minister on the title page of Volume I and Volume II. Octavo, [six volumes], red cloth with title in gilt on spine. Yellow endpapers with important world events noted. This collection of first editions contains some first and second printings: Winds of Change (first edition, early printing); The Blast Of War (first edition, early printing); Tides Of Fortune (first edition, early printing); Riding the Storm (first edition, first printing); Pointing the Way (first edition, first printing); At the End of the Day (first edition, first printing). In very good dust jackets, retail price on each volume, light shelf wear and wear to top edge at spine of certain volumes. Volume I and Volume II are signed by Prime Minister Macmillan on the title page. A nice collection. Harold Macmillan served as the British Prime Minister from 1957-1963. A protégé of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Macmillan served as the Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Churchill's successor, Anthony Eden. Upon Eden's resignation, Macmillan succeeded him as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister. During his tenure, he rebuilt the "Special Relationship" with the United States that had been damaged by the Suez Crisis. In retirement, Macmillan published a six-volume autobiography, which included: Winds of Change 1914-1939, The Blast of War 1939-1945, Tides of Fortune 1945-1955, Riding the Storm 1956-1959, Pointing the Way 1959-1961 and At the End of the Day 1991-1963. His final publication, War Diaries: Politics and War in the Mediterranean, January 1943-May 1945 was a commercial success. Upon his death in 1986, he was the longest-lived prime minister in British history.

First editions of each volume in Harold Macmillanâs memoirs. Octavo, seven volumes, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page of 'Winds of Change,' "For Faye Bozin from Harold Macmillan." Additionally signed by Macmillan on the title page of 'Pointing the Way' and 'The Past Masters.' Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. Harold Macmillan was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability. Macmillan served in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. He was wounded three times, most severely in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He spent the rest of the war in a military hospital unable to walk, and suffered pain and partial immobility for the rest of his life. After the war Macmillan joined his family business, then entered Parliament in the 1924 General Election, for the northern industrial constituency of Stockton-on-Tees. After losing his seat in 1929, he regained it in 1931, soon after which he spoke out against the high rate of unemployment in Stockton-On-Tees, and against appeasement. Rising to high office during the Second World War as a protege of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Macmillan then served as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Churchill's successor Sir Anthony Eden. When Eden resigned in 1957 following the Suez Crisis, Macmillan succeeded him as Prime Minister. As a One Nation Tory of the Disraelian tradition, haunted by memories of the Great Depression, he believed in the post-war settlement and the necessity of a mixed economy, championing a Keynesian strategy of public investment to maintain demand and pursuing corporatist policies to develop the domestic market as the engine of growth. Benefiting from favorable international conditions, he presided over an age of affluence, marked by low unemployment and high if uneven growth. In his Bedford speech in July 1957 he told the nation they had 'never had it so good', but warned of the dangers of inflation, summing up the fragile prosperity of the 1950s. The Conservatives were re-elected in 1959 with an increased majority. In international affairs, Macmillan rebuilt the Special Relationship with the United States from the wreckage of the Suez Crisis (of which he had been one of the architects), and redrew the world map by decolonizing sub-Saharan Africa. Reconfiguring the nation's defenses to meet the realities of the nuclear age, he ended National Service, strengthened the nuclear forces by acquiring Polaris, and pioneered the Nuclear Test Ban with the United States and the Soviet Union. Belatedly recognizing the dangers of strategic dependence, he sought a new role for Britain in Europe, but his unwillingness to disclose United States nuclear secrets to France contributed to a French veto of the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community.

Hard Cover. Winds of Change - 1914-1939 (London: Macmillan & Co Ltd 1966 First Published September 1966, Reprinted September 1966); The Blast of War - 1939-1945 (London: Macmillan & Co Ltd 1967); Tides of Fortune - 1945-1955 (London: Macmillan & Co Ltd 1969); Riding the Storm - 1956-1959 (London: Macmillan & Co Ltd 1971). EACH VOLUME SIGNED BY THE LATE HAROLD MACMILLAN ON THE TITLE PAGE. All four volumes bound in full russet morocco by Aquarius with maps and illustrations, chronologies of events bound at front of each volume, all edges gilt, raised bands to the spine, title and author in gilt to the spine, gilt border to the front board, lettered and decorated in gilt, 8vo. An Exquisite Set of the first four volumes of Harold Macmillan's Memoirs. Each volume signed by the author to titles. Photographs/scans available upon request. Signed by Author.

First editions of each volume in Harold Macmillan's memoirs, each signed by him. Octavo, six volumes, illustrated. Each volume is signed by Harold MacMillan on the title page. Each are fine in near fine to fine dust jackets. Complete signed sets are rare. Harold Macmillan was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability. Macmillan served in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. He was wounded three times, most severely in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He spent the rest of the war in a military hospital unable to walk, and suffered pain and partial immobility for the rest of his life. After the war Macmillan joined his family business, then entered Parliament in the 1924 General Election, for the northern industrial constituency of Stockton-on-Tees. After losing his seat in 1929, he regained it in 1931, soon after which he spoke out against the high rate of unemployment in Stockton-On-Tees, and against appeasement. Rising to high office during the Second World War as a protege of wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Macmillan then served as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Churchill's successor Sir Anthony Eden. When Eden resigned in 1957 following the Suez Crisis, Macmillan succeeded him as Prime Minister. As a One Nation Tory of the Disraelian tradition, haunted by memories of the Great Depression, he believed in the post-war settlement and the necessity of a mixed economy, championing a Keynesian strategy of public investment to maintain demand and pursuing corporatist policies to develop the domestic market as the engine of growth. Benefiting from favorable international conditions, he presided over an age of affluence, marked by low unemployment and high if uneven growth. In his Bedford speech in July 1957 he told the nation they had 'never had it so good', but warned of the dangers of inflation, summing up the fragile prosperity of the 1950s. The Conservatives were re-elected in 1959 with an increased majority. In international affairs, Macmillan rebuilt the Special Relationship with the United States from the wreckage of the Suez Crisis (of which he had been one of the architects), and redrew the world map by decolonizing sub-Saharan Africa. Reconfiguring the nation's defenses to meet the realities of the nuclear age, he ended National Service, strengthened the nuclear forces by acquiring Polaris, and pioneered the Nuclear Test Ban with the United States and the Soviet Union. Belatedly recognizing the dangers of strategic dependence, he sought a new role for Britain in Europe, but his unwillingness to disclose United States nuclear secrets to France contributed to a French veto of the United Kingdom's entry into the European Economic Community.