Amid These Storms: Thoughts and Adventures
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First U.S. printing. Black and white frontispiece portrait, drawings. Cloth over boards. Octavo. 320 pages. Bound in red cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board titles. Slight fading to spine. Prior owner name and contemporaneous date on front free endpaper. Near fine.
An intra-war collection of Churchill's essays on a wide variety of topics, from U-boats to espionage, from politics to the effects of modern life. Importantly, this is the first American appearance of his wonderful essay, "Painting as a Pastime."
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