Lord Randolph Churchill.

Frontispiece portraits to each volume; nine illustrations to volume I, seven to volume II. First edition. Two volumes. Large 8vo. Original red cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, ruling continued to boards in blind, front covers lettered in gilt with the Churchill family crest stamped in gilt, edges untrimmed. London, Macmillan and Co. Limited.

An association copy of Churchill's great biography of his father Lord Randolph Churchill, from the library of the Conservative MP Major Ronald Cartland (1907-1940) with his engraved armorial bookplate to the front pastedown of volume one. Ronald Cartland was one of the most outspoken critics of Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Nazi Germany, which won him the admiration of Churchill. Poignantly, Cartland would pay a heavy price for Chamberlain's appeasement policy, becoming the first British Member of Parliament to be killed in action during the Second World War.

An excellent set.

Stock Code: 245775