Savrola

Edité par Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1915

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This is the first state of the 1915 Hodder & Stoughton "Sevenpenny Library Edition" of Churchill's third book and only novel, extremely scarce thus in the strikingly illustrated dust jacket. This is an aesthetically pleasing little book measuring 6.625 inches tall by 4.5 inches wide (17 x 11.5 cm), bound in a decorated bright red embossed cloth, and with a frontispiece illustration. Worn and soiled copies are not uncommon, but since the edition was small, fragile, and printed on cheap paper, collector-worthy copies have become scarce. Scarcer still is the illustrated dust jacket, the front panel of which features a four-color reproduction of the frontispiece on a red background; in recent decades, we have seen only a tiny handful of copies ever offered on the world market and infer that precious few survive. In 1998, Richard Langworth (A Connoisseur’s Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill) wrote: "Presence of the evocative jacket turns this rather ordinary book into a collector treasure." We quite agree. This jacketed example is very good plus in a very good dust jacket. The red cloth binding is bright, clean, square, and tight with only minor bruising to the upper corners and a touch of wrinkling to the spine ends. The contents are inevitably age-toned, but otherwise clean, with trivial spotting confined to the endpapers and page edges. First state is confirmed by absence of the "1915" publication date on the title page. The sole previous ownership mark is a penciled name and First World War date of "June 1915." on the front free endpaper recto. The dust jacket is the most complete example we have offered, with losses confined to a shallow strip at the spine head and lesser loss to the flap fold corners. The signature front panel illustration remains bright and intact, the white spine and rear face a bit soiled, the spine a bit sunned, resulting in fading of the red-printed price, which is nonetheless still clearly legible. Old tape reinforcement has been applied to the verso of the jacket at points along the upper and lower edges. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover. Provenance is noteworthy; this copy belonged to the collection of Professor Patrick Powers (1943-2022), a singular authority on Savrola. Powers asserted that Savrola gave "dramatic voice to Churchill’s mature philosophical reflections about his fundamental political and ethical principles at the very moment when he settled on them for the rest of his life." (Powers, Finest Hour #74)The year during the First World War when this edition was published was a momentous time for Churchill, which saw him busy writing history, not fiction. In 1915 he was the wartime First Lord of the Admiralty, but after the disaster in the Dardanelles he was scapegoated by his peers and his Prime Minister and forced out of the Cabinet. Churchill would go from the Cabinet to the Front, serving as a lieutenant colonel leading a battalion in the trenches, before being exonerated by war's end and returning to the Government. Although Savrola was Churchill’s third published book, it was actually the first book he undertook and the second he completed. When Savrola was first published in 1900, a very young Churchill was exuberant about publication. He would later make deprecating comments about the work. In his 1930 autobiography he wrote, "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it [Savrola]." However, his mixed feelings about his only novel did not keep Churchill from writing a foreword to a new edition in 1956, in which he said: "The preface to the first edition in 1900 submitted the book 'with considerable trepidation to the judgment or the clemency of the public.' The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled though certainly not changed my sentiments on this point." Irrespective of Churchill's feelings about his book and his limitations as a novelist, this novel certainly provides insight into the early perspective and s.…

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
Savrola
Auteur
Winston S. Churchill
Éditeur
Hodder & Stoughton, London
Année de publication
1915
Jaquette
Jaquette
Reliure
Hardcover
Édition
Sevenpenny Library edition.

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