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Alfred James of The Churchill Centre Australia loaned us something we had not seen before: a miniature edition of the British Gazette, edited by and with contributions by Winston Churchill during the 1926 General Strike.
This edition carries no publisher imprint but was apparently printed in Luton. A cover note says it was reproduced “from the ‘Luton News’ and associated journals which, following the general permission to newspapers to reproduce from the ‘British Gazette,’ photographically made facsimile blocks of the third day’s issue in miniature and thereafter, day by day, REPRODUCED ALL FOUR PAGES of the ‘Gazette’ ON ONE of its news pages.”
The Luton edition is bound in grey card wrappers printed light blue and navy. The eight numbers of the British Gazette are standard editions, not “3 A.M. Editions” which contain slightly different articles. But reducing the size to a fourth that of the original renders the columns almost illegible. We thought bibliophiles would be interested in seeing one of these oddities.
I acquired five bound volumes: the first four volumes of Life magazine’s abridgement of The Second World War. They appear to have belonged to Time Inc. Where can I find the individual publication dates for each of these segments? They are not listed in Woods. And didn’t the magazine parts appear prior to the Houghton-Mifflin books? —Christopher Sterling
Yes, Life brought out the abridgement before the hardbound books, which was an amusing coup for his representative to Life, Emery Reves. (See our review of Winston Churchill and Emery Reves in Finest Hour 96, page 34.) Here are the individual issues:
19Apr: War Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, CH, MP, pp. 28/114
26Apr: The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill, pp. 48/80
3May: The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill, pp. 72/92
10May: The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill, pp. 60/75
17May: The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill, pp. 66/88
24May: The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill, pp. 64/75
7Feb: The War Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, CH, OM, MP, pp. 58/83
14Feb: The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill, pp. 38/62
21Feb: The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill, pp. 48/64
28Feb: The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill, pp. 42/65
7Mar: The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill, pp. 48/66
14Mar: The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill, pp. 82/100
21Mar: The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill, pp. 54/66
6Feb: Winston Churchill’s War Memoirs, pp. 46/64
20Feb: The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill, pp. 66/82
27Feb: The War Memoirs of Winston Churchill, pp. 62/76
23Oct: How Our Russian Troubles Began, pp. 90/111
30Oct: Face to Face with Stalin, pp. 80/106
6Nov: The Great Offensive Begins in Africa, pp. 90/106
13Nov: The End of the Beginning, pp. 92/110
8Oct: Allied Discords on the Road to D-Day, pp. 108/128
22Oct: The Controversies of Teheran, pp. 86/110
29Oct: Mounting History’s Greatest Invasion, pp. 74/100
26Oct: Triumph and Tragedy, pp. 80/104
2Nov: Triumph and Tragedy, pp. 54/74
9Nov: Triumph and Tragedy, pp. 70/94
16Nov: Triumph and Tragedy, pp. 92/116
23Nov: Triumph and Tragedy, pp. 74/100
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Woods Corner is named in memory of Frederick Woods, the first bibliographer of Winston Spencer Churchill.
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