Title: LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
Publisher: London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.
Publication Date: 1906
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Edition: 1st
xvi, [2], 564; viii, [2], 531 printed pages. Uncut. With 18 illustrations including two fine tissue-guarded photogravure frontispieces. Light scattered foxing mostly marginal and towards the foredges. Hinges to volume one cracked but the binding is not loose - it is still firm. 16 x 23 cm. Original burgundy cloth. Spines lettered in gilt with Macmillan & Co. at the foot of each volume. Slightly faded with very slight wear to the hinges. Upper covers with gilt lettering and gilt stamped Churchill family crest and motto. Corners very slightly bumped. A very presentable first edition with no insciption from any previous owners. Cohen A17.1. Woods A8a. Langworth, 68-71. Winston Churchill wrote Lord Randolph Churchill, a two-volume biography of his Conservative politician father from 1903-5, it was published in 1906 and received much critical acclaim. However, filial devotion caused him to soften some of his father's less attractive aspects. Theodore Roosevelt, who had known Lord Randolph, reviewed the book as "a clever, tactful and rather cheap and vulgar life of that clever, tactful and rather cheap and vulgar egotist". Some historians suggest Churchill used the book in part to vindicate his own political career and in particular to justify joining the Liberal party. Bookseller Inventory # 4311