First Keystone edition, first impression. Frontispiece, six further plates and nine folding maps with numerous in-text maps and diagrams throughout, large folding coloured map at rear. 8vo. Recent half blue morocco with marbled paper covered boards, spine with five single raised bands, lettered and ruled in gilt with gilt stamped rampant lions, top edge in gilt. London, Thornton Butterworth Ltd, 1937.
An attractively bound copy of the rare 'Keystone Library' edition of Churchill's history of the Eastern theatre or the First World War, originally published in 1931 as the sixth and final supplementary to the World Crisis, Churchill's famous account of the First World War. The 'Keystone Library' was intended by the publisher Thornton Butterworth as a series of lower priced editions of their popular works and included various titles by Churchill.
A few neat pencilled marginal annotations to p. 346, otherwise internally clean, a very handsome copy.
