Mary Soames — Speaking for Themselves

London, New York, Toronto, Sydney and Auckland, Doubleday, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill edited and inscribed by their daughter Mary. Married for fifty-six years, Clementine and Winston Churchill's marriage saw two World Wars and Churchill's two stints as Prime Minister; it ended with his death in 1965.Inscribed by Mary Soames to the title page. Soames was the daughter of Winston Churchill and an author; she married Christopher Soames, a Conservative politician, with whom she had five children.Inscription reads, 'For John Taylor-Smith with good wishes and thanks for your help, Oct '98 Mary Soames&apos.Taylor-Smith was the surname of Major Alan Taylor-Smith, an expert on Sir Winston Churchill, antiquarian and historian. Illustrated with photographs of the Churchill family.A first edition, complete with an excellent dust wrapper. In the publisher's original full cloth binding with an unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart, with just a touch of bumping tot he head and tail of the spine and extremities. Dust wrapper is a little sunned to the spine, with just a touch of edgewear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.