Churchill, Sir Winston S.

8vo (231 x 152mm.), 2 volumes, first edition, second state with correction of typographical error in the second line of the divisional half-title on p.459 of volume 2, frontispieces, folding maps and plans, line drawings by Angus McNeill, photogravure portraits, original blackish blue cloth, illustration in gilt of gunboat on the Nile on upper covers, spines with illustration of the Madhi's tomb, coated black endpapers, partially unopened, binding slightly loose, upper hinge of volume 1 repaired, some very minor occasional spotting

Robert Grant, armorial bookplate (motto "stand sure"); Katharine Mary Hinchliff, bookplate (dated in pencil 1934)

Cohen A2.1.b; Woods A2(a)

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing where appropriate.
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First edition of Churchill's second book, drawn from the subject matter of the fifteen letters the author wrote to the Morning Post as war correspondent attached to the 21st Lancers during Kitchener's campaign to reconquer the Sudan.