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[003242] [Churchill, Winston S. (Ed)]. The British Gazette. London: H.M.S.O., 1926. First Edition. Atlas Folio. Unbound. Newspaper. Fair. Each 4pp. Eight issues (complete) of the government’s newspaper during the British General Strike, edited by Winston Churchill.

All browned with some minor chipping and tears, old folds, occasional light foxing. Number one torn and chipped with small amount of loss to text with some loss of sense, heavily repaired to inner blanks along central fold, number six chipped and torn to spine, number eight foxed to upper cover with old stamp adhered towards title.

Numbers one and two are blank in the middle, first number as issued, second issue presumably an early issue (there is another issue of the second number with news on the middle pages).

Woods, Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill, (2nd ed.), page 382; Smith, Remember 1926: 6