Winston [L. Spencer] Churchill | The Story of the Malakand Field Force... London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898

Winston [L. Spencer] Churchill

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898

8vo. Frontispiece with tissue guard, 6 maps, illustrations, 32-page publisher’s catalogue dated 12/97 at end; tissue guard browned, as usual. Original green cloth, cover and spine gilt-lettered; spine lightly sunned.

5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches.

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, FIRST STATE, OF WINSTON CHURCHILL’S FIRST BOOK

A very good copy of Churchill's first book, which brings together true-life military adventures drawn from newspaper dispatches filed by the 22-year-old correspondent while serving on India's Afghanistan-bordering Northwest Frontier under Major-General Sir Bindon Blood.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE:

Cohen A1.1.a; Woods A1a