From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft
Sir Winston Churchill
The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, second state, 8vo (231 x 153 mm.), 2 volumes, numerous illustrations, plans and maps, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, leaves uncut, housed in navy blue half morocco collector's case, volume 2, pp.473-480 with closed tears at upper margin, front free endpaper of volume 2 loose, extremities slightly rubbed
Churchill’s second book, in which the young war correspondent delivers a brilliant history of British involvement in the Sudan, and an account of the fierce campaign for its reconquest that Churchill himself participated in and, in many significant ways, disapproved of.
LITERATURE:Cohen A2.1.a; Woods A2a
From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft
Sir Winston Churchill
The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, second state, 8vo (231 x 153 mm.), 2 volumes, numerous illustrations, plans and maps, original blue pictorial cloth gilt, leaves uncut, housed in navy blue half morocco collector's case, volume 2, pp.473-480 with closed tears at upper margin, front free endpaper of volume 2 loose, extremities slightly rubbed
Churchill’s second book, in which the young war correspondent delivers a brilliant history of British involvement in the Sudan, and an account of the fierce campaign for its reconquest that Churchill himself participated in and, in many significant ways, disapproved of.
LITERATURE:Cohen A2.1.a; Woods A2a
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