In the Balance, Taiwanese pirated edition

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This is the Taiwanese pirated edition of the third volume of Sir Winston Churchill's post-war speeches. The British first edition, only printing, was published in 1951. Sometime thereafter a Taiwanese pirated edition was produced. This edition is undated, but offprinted from the British first edition. There were pirated editions of several Churchill works. All are scarce, particularly in the original dust jackets.This pirated edition of In the Balance is smaller in stature than the British first edition and printed on thinner paper. The volume measures 7.5 x 5.25 inches (19 x 13.3 cm) and is bound in dark blue cloth, lettered in silver on the spine. The dust jacket is in a similar style to that of the British first, but in dark blue instead of black. Perhaps understandably given its illicit origins, the volume features no printing information. This copy is very good plus in a very good dust jacket. The binding remains square, tight, and bright, with tiny bumps to the lower corners, a touch of wrinkling at the spine ends, and a few blemishes along the front cover fore edge. The contents are clean, a little age-toned at the edges but with no spotting. The sole previous ownership mark is a pasted piece of lined paper on the final free endpaper verso, evidently placed there by a bookseller as it features a price in pencil. The endpapers show differential toning corresponding to the dust jacket flaps, corroborating what the bright binding already testifies that this copy has spent life jacketed. The jacket is bright, unfaded with no color shift between the spine and front face. Fractional loss is confined to the spine head and adjacent upper rear panel, with light wear to extremities and some soiling to the white rear panel. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.In the Balance includes 58 speeches and broadcasts delivered between 26 January 1949 and 14 December 1950. Having done so much to win the Second World War, Churchill faced frustration of his postwar plans when his wartime government fell to Labour in the General Election of July 1945. In the Balance was published on 18 October 1951, just a week before the Conservatives won the General Election, returning Churchill to Downing Street on 26 October 1951 at the age of 76. Befitting a Leader of the Opposition, Churchill's speeches address a wide range of domestic and foreign issues, including devaluation of the British Pound, the General Election of February 1950, the Korean War, and establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. By this time, the political experience that underpinned Churchill's postwar oratory was unrivaled. Member of Parliament for half a century, Churchill was beginning his sixth consecutive decade serving in a British Cabinet. Perhaps nothing better speaks to Churchill's truly singular experience than his 31 March 1949 speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (at pages 40-51), where he gave a tour de force survey of the period 1900-1945 that is - characteristic of Churchill - both incisive and lyrical: "In 1900 a sense of moving hopefully forward to brighter, broader, easier days predominated. Little did we guess that what has been called the Century of the Common Man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries put together in the history of the world. but it is not in the power of material forces in any period. to alter the main elements in human nature or restrict the infinite variety of forms in which the soul and genius of the human race can and will express itself." Fittingly, in 1953, Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, in part "…for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.". N° de ref. del artículo 007554

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