By Winston Spencer Churchill
London   Longmans, Green, and Co.
7.5" by 5" xii, [2], 409, [6], 32pp.
The second edition of Winston Churchill's personal account depicting his experiences during the Second Boer War.
By Winston Spencer Churchill

1900 Ian Hamilton's March

London   Longmans, Green, and Co.
7.5" by 5" xii, [2], 409, [6], 32pp.
The second edition of Winston Churchill's personal account depicting his experiences during the Second Boer War.
£330.00
: 1kgs / : 935Q11

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Description

Early Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

The second edition, published the same year as the first.

Only 1,700 copies of this second edition were printed.

Bound in the publisher's cloth.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and ten maps, one of which is folding. Collated, complete. 

Presenting Churchill's experiences accompanying the British army during the Second Boer War, including the capture of Pretoria and the triumphant freeing of prisoners at the Staats Model Schools. With extracts from the diary of Lieutenant H. Frankland, a prisoner of war at Pretoria.

This autobiographical work continues after the events described in his previous book, 'London to Ladysmith via Pretoria'.

With thirty two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.

Condition

Bound in the publisher's cloth. Externally, very good, with light bumping to the extremities and the odd mark to cloth. Light rubbing to joints and extremities, causing a few small tears to cloth.A little fading to backstrip. Subscription bookplate to front paste down. Hinges are strained, particularly to the rear, with cords visible. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright with a few spots, mainly to the first few pages.

Very Good

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