A Roving Commission, a presentation copy inscribed and dated in New York City

by Churchill

$10,000 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition · Signed

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. This presentation copy of Winston Churchill's extremely popular autobiography was inscribed in New York City in December 1931, just weeks after Churchill’s near-fatal accident, almost certainly as a Christmas gift to one of the people who aided his convalescence. The inscription, inked in five lines on the half title, reads “To

• Binding: Hardcover

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