The People's Rights. Selected from his Lancashire and other recent speeches. CHURCHILL, Winston S.

First edition, cloth issue. Owing to the low quality of the materials and the clumsy method of production, the book ranks among the most difficult Churchill titles to obtain: Langworth declares it "the third rarest Churchill book after Mr. Brodrick's Army and For Free Trade" (p. 99). After the Conservative-dominated House of Lords rejected the Liberal government's budget, Prime Minister Asquith dissolved parliament and took the case to the country, advocating higher taxes on the wealthy to fund an expanded welfare state. Churchill, as President of the Board of Trade, campaigned with a series of stirring speeches delivered between 3 and 11 December 1909. Hodder & Stoughton hastily published them ahead of election day, in both cloth and wrappers: this cloth issue preceded the wrappers issue by approximately two weeks. Cohen A31.1.b (second state, with p. 71 correctly paginated) & A31.3; Woods A16. Richard M. Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Housed in custom red morocco solander box. Spine a little sunned, light rubbing at extremities, inner hinges split but holding, contents browned as usual, minor chipping to half-title: a good copy.