Churchill (Winston Spencer)

Great Contemporaries, later edition, signed and inscribed "To John R. Colville, from Winston S. Churchill, Christmas 1940" to half-title, bookplate of John Rupert Colville, very light yellowing, original blue cloth, gilt lettering, spine slightly faded, light wear to corners, 8vo, Thornton Butterworth, 1940.

******Sir John Rupert Colville (28 January 1915 – 19 November 1987) was a British civil servant. He was Assistant Private Secretary to three Prime Ministers: Neville Chamberlain 1939-1940; Winston Churchill, 1940–41 and 1943–45 (and Joint Principal Private Secretary, 1951–55) and Clement Attlee, 1945