Helena marmolada London: Henry Bohn

London: Henry Bohn

Mary Soames was the youngest of the five children of Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine

Three quarto volumes in hard cloth with the excellent dust-jackets and pictorial slipcase

With much additional matter by Mrs A

Helena marmolada London: Henry BohnLondon: Chapman & Hall, 1950. First Edition, first impression. Original blue cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust jacket with Daily Mail Book of the Month wraparound band, also excellent. Light soiling to backstrip of jacket, else fine. Waugh's historical novel on the quest of Helena of Constantinople to find the relics of the cross on which Christ was crucified. Helena, a Christian, was the mother of the Roman emperor Constantine I.