Churchill's first book
[MILITARY]. CHURCHILL, Winston.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War.
London, Longmans, 1898.
'While I was attached to the Malakand Field Force, I wrote a series of letters from the London Daily Telegraph. The favourable manner in which these letters were received, encouraged me to attempt a more substantial work.'
First edition, first issue; 8vo (200 x 135 mm); frontispiece portrait, 6 maps or plans, 2 folding and printed in black & red, 32-pages ads at end dated 12/97, occasional spotting; publisher's apple green cloth lettered in gilt, remnants of a bookplate(?) removal to verso of upper free endpaper, light discolouration and darkening to spine, otherwise a good copy.
Cohen A1.1.a; Woods A1a.
Stock code 113155
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The Story of the Malakand Field Force.
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1947.
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