The Second World War Published: Cassell, London, all volumes 1st editions Binding: cloth, dust jackets Dimensions: 21,5 x 14,5 cm Condition: books very good. The first four volumes have a bookplate on the front pastedown (see photograph). Dust jackets are poor. Each book has a frontispiece and 8 other plates (printed on both sides) Volume 1 The Gathering Storm published: 1948 pages: xvi, 640 + tipped-in author’s note between pages viii and ix + unnumbered errata and corrigenda (full page and half page) between pages 610 and 611 Volume 2 Their Finest Hour published: 1949 pages: xviii, 684 + 3 folding plates (printed on one side) Volume 3 The Grand Alliance published: 1950 pages: xviii, 818 + 3 folding plates (printed on one side) Volume 4 The Hinge of Fate published: 1951 pages: xviii, 917 + 4 folding plates (printed on one side) Volume 5 Closing the Ring published: 1952 pages: xviii, 673 + 3 folding plates (printed on one side) Volume 6 Triumph and Tragedy published: 1952 pages: xviii, 716 + 11 folding plates (printed on one side)