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Winston Churchill | My African Journey, London, 1908, red pictorial cloth, inscribed to Liberal Association of Dundee

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December 12, 02:36 PM GMT

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Sir Winston Churchill


My African Journey, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908


PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "Presented to the Liberal Association of Dundee by Winston S. Churchill", 8vo (183 x 124mm.), 61 photographic illustrations, 3 maps, red pictorial cloth, spine lettered in gilt, maroon morocco gilt box, preliminaries foxed, minor foxing throughout


Churchill became Liberal MP for Dundee at a by-election on 9 May 1908, and held the seat until 1922. This book appears to have been a gift from the newly-elected MP to his constituency party association.


LITERATURE:

Cohen A27.1