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CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan ... new and revised edition . London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902. 8° (221 x 142mm). Photogravure portrait frontispiece of Kitchener, 14 maps, all but 3 folding, almost all partly coloured, 8 maps in the text, without the 40pp. (Occasional very insignificant spotting, one folding map with very small marginal adhesion mark.) Original red pictorial cloth gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, spine slightly faded, head of spine slightly defective, hinges cracked).
CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan ... new and revised edition . London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902. 8° (221 x 142mm). Photogravure portrait frontispiece of Kitchener, 14 maps, all but 3 folding, almost all partly coloured, 8 maps in the text, without the 40pp. (Occasional very insignificant spotting, one folding map with very small marginal adhesion mark.) Original red pictorial cloth gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, spine slightly faded, head of spine slightly defective, hinges cracked). PRESENTATION COPY SIGNED TWICE BY CHURCHILL, once on verso of frontispiece, and also on half-title (here bound after preface). This single-volume edition was 'reduced by the omission of some personal impressions and revised considerably. A new chapter has been added describing the ultimate destruction of the Khalifa and the end of the war'. Woods A2(b).