[Victory, in Swedish.] Seger. Tal hållna under krigsåret 1945. Samlade av Charles Eade. Till svenska av Birgitta Hammar och Vanja Lantz.

CHURCHILL, Winston S.

Published by Stockholm: Aktiebolaget Skoglunds Bokförlagm, 1946

About this Item

First edition in Swedish, first printing, inscribed by Churchill for his Swedish publishers on the initial binder's blank: "inscribed by Winston S. Churchill 1946". Churchill's Swedish publishers normally sent him two specially bound copies of each of his titles that they published. It was his practice to inscribe one copy and return it to them, leaving one copy for his library. A run of the publisher's inscribed copies was sold at Sotheby's on 15 July 1998 (lots 208-213), this being lot 213. The work was first published in Britain as Victory the same year. It is the final wartime collection of his speeches. Sweden remained neutral throughout the conflict. Provenance: the collection of Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Magazine, and presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections; his book label is loosely inserted. Cohen A223 (under "translations"). Large octavo (230 x 159 mm). Bound in brown morocco for the publisher by the Nordiska Bokhandelns bindery in Stockholm, spine lettered in gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges, original front wrapper bound in. Colour skilfully retouched where binding rubbed, contents clean: a very good copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [Victory, in Swedish.] Seger. Tal hållna under krigsåret 1945. Samlade av Charles Eade. Till svenska av Birgitta Hammar och Vanja Lantz.
• Publisher: Stockholm: Aktiebolaget Skoglunds Bokförlagm, 1946
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)