Arms And The Covenant. Compiled By Randolph S. Churchill. Churchill, Winston S.

First edition, first impression, the working copy of the compiler, Churchill's son Randolph Churchill, with his bookplate to the front and rear pastedowns and his extensive pencil annotations and frequent excision of passages and leaves. It is probable Randolph was attacking the volume with an eye to producing an abridged edition. Seven leaves are entirely cut out, as are sections of six others; numerous pages are struck out with his pencil. Each speech is preceded by a section of relevant dates giving context. Randolph has ticked certain dates, and in one case sidelined an event and written "not this". If an abridgement was his purpose, no further such edition was published. Provenance: the collection of Steve Forbes. Cohen A107.1; Woods 44a. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Photographic half-tone frontispiece of the author. Spine sunned, contents partly excised and heavily annotated (see note): an extensively-altered familial copy.