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Charles Scribner's Sons, New York Edition

My Early Life: A Roving Commission

Winston S. Churchill
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Scribner library paperback edition, 1st thus (sept 1960) printing.
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Very Good
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RCB-770a86e92a7c
What we checked, and where to see itRCB-770a86e92a7c · 8 photographs of this copy
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True first is the 1930 hardcover (UK Thornton Butterworth / US Scribner)
examined on the copy in hand
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Copyright page states 'First published in the United States under the title, A ROVING COMMISSION, My Early Life'
examined on the copy in hand
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This copy is the Scribner Library paperback series (SL 25), priced $1.45
examined on the copy in hand
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Scribner code 'A-9.60 [c.]' dates this printing to September 1960, the [c] denoting the Scribner Library paper format
examined on the copy in hand
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A 1960 paperback cannot be the 1930 first edition
examined on the copy in hand
Flaws, each one named
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creased/bumped upper-fore corner of front cover, photo 1
noted on the copy in hand
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edge wear and light chipping along front cover edges and corners, photo 1
noted on the copy in hand
3
wear and small splits at head of spine, photo 7
noted on the copy in hand
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tanned/browned page-block edges, photos 5-6-8
noted on the copy in hand
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general shelf/handling wear to wrappers
noted on the copy in hand
This copy
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York Edition

What a true first shows: London: Thornton Butterworth, 1930 (as 'My Early Life: A Roving Commission'); US first: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930, under the title 'A Roving Commission: My Early Life' — both hardcover.

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.