Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$121.86 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second Edition. LONGMANS, GREEN AND Co. London. November 1900.A fairly good, clean and sound copy in deep red cloth boards, spine backstrip is lightly faded, wornchippedtorn to upperlower edges and cloth is split along backfront edges of spine but still firmly attached, black endpapers, internally pages very lightly tanned throughout. Illustrated with bw portrait frontispiece with attached tissue protector and maps and plans within the text and a very good folding partly coloured Map of the March from Bloemfontein to Pretoria at end, has 40 pages of catalogue advertisements.
Seller: Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Churchill, Winston Spencer. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green, and Co., NY, 1900.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Missing half of the folded map at end of book, it's torn vertically down the center, and the outer half is missing, hinges starting, short tear to ffep along outer edge, previous owner's name, date in pencil on ffep. ; Maps, spine and front cover lettering bright; 409 pages
Seller: Old Army Books, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: In protective mylar Good with lightly rubbed extremities and gently bumped edges. Corners are gently bumped, and spine ends are slightly frayed. Pages are slightly yellowed. Binding is somewhat strained, with a partial split in the front endsheet at the hinge. Subtle smoky aroma Red cloth with gilt embossing and top edge
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Winston Spencer Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$153.93 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A second edition, illustrated copy of Ian Hamilton's March. A second edition copy, published in November 1900.Ian Hamilton's March is a description of Winston Churchill's experiences accompanying the British Army during the Second Boer War. With extracts from the dairy of Lieutenant T. H. C. Frankland.With a frontispiece, in-text illustrations and a folding map to the rear.Collated, complete.With adverts to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with fading to the spine and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and small split to the head of the spine, some marks to the boards. Previous owner pencil inscription to the page after the front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Churchill, Winston S.. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green & Co., London,, 1900.
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Second edition published one month after the first also in 1900 8vo, original red publisher's cloth gilt, slightly faded to spine, a few very light odd spots else a very good c25/09/2023opy.
Seller: Finecopy, Westbury, WILTS, United Kingdom
Churchill (Winston Spencer) ;-. IAN HAMILTON'S MARCH.. London ;- Longmans Green and Co, 1900.
Price: US$198.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 'Second Edition' (same year as the 1st) Very Good Crown 8vo. Original maroon cloth, lettered gilt. (rubbed) Portrait Frontis., folding Map and text maps. (xiii) + 409pps. + (vi)pps. Churchill ads. + 32pps. ads. Some mild foxing but a most acceptable early example of this classic !
Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$230.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition, November, 1900. Same year as the first edition which was published, October, 1900. Frontispiece, maps and a folding map at the end. First few pages and page edges foxed. Bookplate inside front cover. Publishers gilt lettered red cloth, front cover has a couple of light scuffs and the spine is very lightly creased. Some very light rubbing and marking. Generally a very good clean crisp copy. 409 p.
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
Price: US$245.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original red cloth hard covers. with gilt titles to spine and front. Professionally re-backed with original spine relaid. Covers darkened, and worn at corners and edges. Toning and staining to edges and endpapers; old owner's name to front flyleaf, and blindstamp to bottom title-page. Otherwise very neat -- a sound and h=still handsome copy. Portrait frontispiece, with tissue-guard, and 10 maps and plans including colour fold-out map at rear. Six pages of publisher's ads plus a 32-page catalogue at rear. xiv,309[+ads., cat.]pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: CARDINAL BOOKS ~~ ABAC/ILAB, London -- Birr, ON, Canada
Churchill, Winston. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green and Co, 1900.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Churchill's Account of the Second Boer War] Bound in publisher's red cloth. Hardcover. Minor shelf wear. Good binding and cover. XII, 409 p. Portrait frontispiece, folding color map, illustrations, advertisements at end. Name inside cover. New York binding.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Some foxing to page block edges, endpapers. Stamped "Natick Free Library" on title page ; Custom binding in black leather, red leather spine with raised bands and gilt title on black background; red marbled endpapers. Map is present. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 409 p.
Seller: Berkshire Books, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$282.21 + shipping
Description: Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front. Black endpapers. In very good condition. Cover is a little worn and darkened, some fading and soiled/faded patches to edges. Front endpaper partially cracked. Prelims tanned. Inside pages all very clean & tight throughout. Maps clean and bright. Else a very good clean and tight copy. Illustrated with a B&W Frontis portrait & 10 B&W maps & plans, (maps in text, with one fold-out coloured map at rear.) 409pp; Cat.32pp.(dated 7/00)
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: This is the British first edition, second and final printing, of Churchill's fifth published book. Ian Hamilton's March was the second of Churchill's two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa during the Boer War. The first edition, second printing was produced a month after the first printing and is nearly identical, the main differences being the addition of the words "Second Edition" to the title page and notation of the second printing on the copyright page, a boxed list of the authors preceding books on the half-title verso, and four small emendations to the text. This is an extremely nice, very good plus copy. How we wish it were a first printing! The good news is that it costs much less and looks identical on the shelf. The red cloth binding is far better than usually seen - clean and tight with sharp corners, no appreciable soiling, and bright gilt. Spine presentation is excellent. Wear is trivial, mostly confined to some wrinkling at the spine ends, and the spine retains almost the same color as the bright and clean covers, with only minor sunning. The contents are bright with a crisp, unread feel. All maps and plans are present and intact, as are the original black endpapers and the tissue guard at the frontispiece. We find no previous ownership marks. Spotting is primarily confined to the prelims through the dedication page, and the page edges. In October 1899, the second Boer War erupted between the descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa and the British. Churchill, an adventure-seeking young cavalry officer and war correspondent, swiftly found himself in South Africa with the 21st Lancers and an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post. Not long thereafter, on 15 November 1899, Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train. His daring escape less than a month later rendered him a celebrity and helped launch his political career. Churchill's first book of Boer War despatches, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, was published in England in mid-May 1900 and sold well. Ian Hamilton's March completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, publishing 17 letters to the Morning Post, spanning 31 March through 14 June 1900. The narrative in Ian Hamilton's March includes the liberation of the Pretoria prison camp where Churchill had been held. Though a companion and sequel to London to Ladysmith, it is notably different in appearance, content, and scarcity. The first printing saw only 5,000 copies - half as many copies as London to Ladysmith. Where Ladysmith bore a lavishly illustrated binding, Ian Hamilton's March was bound in red cloth matching the style of Churchill's first published book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force - fitting, as these were the first and last Churchill first editions published by Longmans, Green, and Co. While London to Ladysmith via Pretoria had swiftly published Churchill's dispatches in the wake of his capture and escape, for Ian Hamilton's March "the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form" (Cohen, A8.1.a, Vol. I, p.105). Churchill effected these revisions while on board the passenger and cargo steamer Dunottar Castle, which was requisitioned as a troop ship, en route home to England. Arriving home from South Africa in July 1900, Churchill spent the summer campaigning hard in Oldham, where he won his first seat in Parliament on 1 October 1900 in the so-called "khaki election". The British first edition of Ian Hamilton's March was published just a few weeks later, on 12 October, with this second and final printing following in November.Reference: Cohen A8.1.c, Woods/ICS A5(b), Langworth p.59.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston Spencer. IAN HAMILTON'S MARCH. London:Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York:Longmans, Green, and Co. 1900. 409pp + folded map. Ex-library copy. Hardcover. Covers are lightly worn with some sun-fading to the spine. Library number at the bottom of the spine. Binding is slightly cocked. Interior is clean and free of stray markings aside from library bookplate on the inside front board and stamp on the frontispiece, title page and map on page 48. This is Churchill's fifth book, second to be based on newspaper dispatches from the front in South Africa. This is one of 1533 issued American editions, compared to the 5003 copies of the British edition. Overall, this is a very good copy.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is the British first edition, first printing, first issue of Churchill's fifth published book. Ian Hamilton's March was the second of Churchill's two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa during the Boer War. In October 1899, the second Boer War erupted between the descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa and the British. Churchill, an adventure-seeking young cavalry officer and war correspondent, swiftly found himself in South Africa with the 21st Lancers and an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post. Not long thereafter, on 15 November 1899, Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train. His daring escape less than a month later rendered him a celebrity and helped launch his political career. Churchill's first book of Boer War despatches, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria was published in England in mid-May 1900 and sold well. Ian Hamilton's March completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, publishing 17 letters to the Morning Post, spanning 31 March through 14 June 1900. The narrative in Ian Hamilton's March includes the liberation of the Pretoria prison camp where Churchill had been held. Though a companion and sequel to London to Ladysmith, it is notably different in appearance, content, and scarcity. The first printing saw only 5,000 copies - half as many copies as London to Ladysmith. Where Ladysmith bore a lavishly illustrated binding, Ian Hamilton's March was bound in red cloth matching the style of Churchill's first published book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force - fitting, as these were the first and last Churchill first editions published by Longmans, Green, and Co. While London to Ladysmith via Pretoria had swiftly published Churchill's dispatches in the wake of his capture and escape, for Ian Hamilton's March "the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form" (Cohen, A8.1.a, Vol. I, p.105). Churchill effected these revisions while on board the passenger and cargo steamer Dunottar Castle, which was requisitioned as a troop ship, en route home to England. Arriving home from South Africa in July 1900, Churchill spent the summer campaigning hard in Oldham, where he won his first seat in Parliament on 1 October 1900 in the so-called "khaki election". This British first edition of Ian Hamilton's March was published just a few weeks later. Here is the first edition, first printing. This copy is in respectable, very good condition. The red cloth binding is square and sound, but bears the usual darkening to the spine, some wear at the hinges, spine ends and corners, and moderate soiling to the front and rear covers. Nonetheless, the spine and front cover gilt remains bright and clearly legible. The contents are bright and tight. The original black endpapers are intact, as are all maps and plans, including the tipped-in folding map at page 409. The frontispiece and protective tissue covering are likewise intact. Spotting is very light in the main body of the text, a bit heavier at the prelims. A single inked owner name appears on the ffep. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A8.1.a, Woods/ICS A5(a), Langworth p.59.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston Spencer Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$378.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A first edition copy of Winston Churchill's account of his experiences during the Second Boer War. A first edition, first impression copy of Ian Hamilton's March, written by Winston Churchill, which was Winston Churchill's first book.The book details his experiences accompanying the British army during the Second Boer War and continues after the events described in his previous book London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. This volume has extracts from the diary of Lieutenant H. Frankland, a prisoner of war at Pretoria. With nine maps and one folding map.With thirty two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. There are marks to the boards and fading to the spine and joints. Front hinge is starting but remains firm. Internally, generally firmly bound with bright pages with some scattered spots concentrated to the first few pages. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$448.97 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SECOND EDITION, published November 1900, the month after the October first edition. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.2 inches). xiv, 409pp. Portrait frontis, with tissue guard, and ten maps & plans throughout, including large fold-out colour map at end. A fine clean, bright copy, recently bound in half dark blue morocco. Spine with raised bands, decorated with gilt piping. Navy blue cloth to boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. A fine copy. The binding isn't signed but is certainly the work of a master bookbinder.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green, & Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: This is the British first edition, first printing, first issue of Churchill's fifth published book. Ian Hamilton's March was the second of Churchill's two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa during the Boer War. Condition of this copy is good plus. The red cloth binding is tight with sharp corners and retains good spine color, despite a faint moisture stain along the rear hinge and a modest forward lean to the binding. Wear is mostly mild scuffs and blemishes and a little fraying at the spine ends. The contents are crisp and complete. The original black endpapers, frontispiece and tissue guard, and all maps and plans remain intact. A gift inscription is inked on the recto of the blank leaf preceding the half title. Spotting is primarily confined to prelims and page edges, which are also a bit age-toned and dusty.In October 1899, the second Boer War erupted between the descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa and the British. Churchill, an adventure-seeking young cavalry officer and war correspondent, swiftly found himself in South Africa with the 21st Lancers and an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post. Not long thereafter, on 15 November 1899, Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train. His daring escape less than a month later rendered him a celebrity and helped launch his political career. Churchill's first book of Boer War despatches, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, was published in England in mid-May 1900 and sold well. Ian Hamilton's March completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, publishing 17 letters to the Morning Post, spanning 31 March through 14 June 1900. The narrative in Ian Hamilton's March includes the liberation of the Pretoria prison camp where Churchill had been held. Though a companion and sequel to London to Ladysmith, it is notably different in appearance, content, and scarcity. The first printing saw only 5,000 copies - half as many copies as London to Ladysmith. Where Ladysmith bore a lavishly illustrated binding, Ian Hamilton's March was bound in red cloth matching the style of Churchill's first published book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force - fitting, as these were the first and last Churchill first editions published by Longmans, Green, and Co.While London to Ladysmith via Pretoria had swiftly published Churchill's dispatches in the wake of his capture and escape, for Ian Hamilton's March "the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form" (Cohen, A8.1.a, Vol. I, p.105). Churchill effected these revisions while on board the passenger and cargo steamer Dunottar Castle, which was requisitioned as a troop ship, en route home to England. Arriving home from South Africa in July 1900, Churchill spent the summer campaigning hard in Oldham, where he won his first seat in Parliament on 1 October 1900 in the so-called "khaki election". The British first edition of Ian Hamilton's March was published just a few weeks later.Reference: Cohen A8.1.a, Woods/ICS A5(a), Langworth p.59
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston Churchill. Ian Hamiltons March.. Longmans Green, 1900.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "Ian Hamiltons March" by Winston Churchill. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First UK edition. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. Portrait frontispiece of Ian Hamilton. Foldout map and numerous in-text maps and plans; 36 pp. publishers advertisements. 8vo. Spotting to front board, scant concentration of foxing to front endpapers and title page.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition in a plastic sleeve that is a 1/2 inch taller than book. Red boards and black endpapers. Spine is faded. Spine tips and cover corners are bumped. Cover surfaces are mildly soiled with a small ink spot on back cover. Damp staining on edges of front and back fly leaves and at top corner of page edge. Two inch light damp stain on top page edge. Heavy foxing on half title page and on preceding blank pages. Some staining on page edges. 409 pages plus frontispiece, folding map, and 32 page publisher's catalog. Nine text illustrations.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston Spencer. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Very good only in finely woven red cloth stamped brightly in gilt on the front boards and on the spine. Worn at the top and bottom of the spine ends and at the corners. Black endpapers; hinges tight. With the frontispece of Ian Hamilton, protected by a tissue guard. With large folding map in the back after p. 409. With 32 pages of ads in the back. Only 1,700 copies of this second edition were printed. Ian Hamilton's March was the second of Churchill's two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa during the Boer War. In October 1899, the second Boer War erupted between the descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa and the British. Churchill, an adventure-seeking young cavalry officer and war correspondent, swiftly found himself in South Africa with the 21st Lancers and an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post. Not long thereafter, on 15 November 1899, Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train. His daring escape less than a month later rendered him a celebrity and helped launch his political career. Churchill's first book of Boer War despatches, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria was published in England in mid-May 1900 and sold well. Ian Hamilton's March completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, publishing 17 letters to the Morning Post, spanning 31 March through 14 June 1900. The narrative in Ian Hamilton's March includes the liberation of the Pretoria prison camp where Churchill had been held. Though a companion and sequel to London to Ladysmith, it is notably different in appearance, content, and scarcity. The first printing saw only 5,000 copies - half as many copies as London to Ladysmith. (Churchill Book Collector) Second Edition with "November, 1900" on the copyright page.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston Spencer. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Very good only in finely woven red cloth stamped brightly in gilt on the front boards and on the spine. Worn at the top and bottom of the spine ends and at the corners. Black endpapers; hinges tight. With the frontispece of Ian Hamilton, protected by a tissue guard. With large folding map in the back after p. 409. With 32 pages of ads in the back. Only 1,700 copies of this second edition were printed. Ian Hamilton's March was the second of Churchill's two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa during the Boer War. In October 1899, the second Boer War erupted between the descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa and the British. Churchill, an adventure-seeking young cavalry officer and war correspondent, swiftly found himself in South Africa with the 21st Lancers and an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post. Not long thereafter, on 15 November 1899, Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train. His daring escape less than a month later rendered him a celebrity and helped launch his political career. Churchill's first book of Boer War despatches, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria was published in England in mid-May 1900 and sold well. Ian Hamilton's March completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, publishing 17 letters to the Morning Post, spanning 31 March through 14 June 1900. The narrative in Ian Hamilton's March includes the liberation of the Pretoria prison camp where Churchill had been held. Though a companion and sequel to London to Ladysmith, it is notably different in appearance, content, and scarcity. The first printing saw only 5,000 copies - half as many copies as London to Ladysmith. (Churchill Book Collector) Second Edition with "November, 1900" on the copyright page.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green, & Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: This is the British first edition, first printing of Churchill's fifth published book. Ian Hamilton's March was the second of Churchill's two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa during the Boer War. It was during this conflict that Churchill was captured by the Boers. His daring escape made him a celebrity and helped launch his political career.Ian Hamilton's March completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, publishing 17 letters to the Morning Post, spanning 31 March through 14 June 1900, including four letters which had never appeared in periodical form. (Cohen, A8.1.a, Vol. I, p.105) The narrative in Ian Hamilton's March includes the liberation of the Pretoria prison camp where Churchill had been held. It was published in England in October, just a few weeks after Churchill's first election to Parliament.Though a companion and sequel to London to Ladysmith, it is notably different in appearance, content, and scarcity. The first printing saw only 5,000 copies - half as many copies as London to Ladysmith, with a second and final printing adding only 1,700 copies. Where Ladysmith bore a lavishly illustrated binding, Ian Hamilton's March was bound in red cloth matching the style of Churchill's first published book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force - fitting, as these were the first and last Churchill first editions published by Longmans, Green, and Co.This first edition, first printing is in good plus condition, sound and unrestored with some cosmetic detractions. The red cloth binding remains tight with bright boards. We note minor wear at corners and wrinkling at spine ends, modest spine toning and some concavity to the spine, a two inch moisture stain at the rear hinge, and a very slight forward lean to the binding. The contents remain bright with a crisp feel. All maps and plans are present, as well as the frontispiece and tissue guard, and the original black endpapers are intact. We find no previous ownership marks. Spotting is primarily confined to the page edges and first few leaves, only occasionally intruding slightly into the blank inner text margins. The page edges show mild age-toning, the top edge light dust soiling.Reference: Cohen A8.1.a, Woods/ICS A5(a), Langworth p.59
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$501.22 + shipping
Description: London: Longmans, Green, 1900. 8vo. Original cloth. Gilt. (xiv, 410, 38pp.). With frontisp. portr. by John Singer Sargent with tissue-guard and 10 maps, 1 of which is fold. 1st ed. (Woods A5). Some slight foxing on prelims, otherwise an excellent unsophisticated copy.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$506.69 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 9 maps in the text and large folding coloured map (original tissue guard present), free endpaper versos lightly browned, half-title faintly spotted; original red cloth gilt, gilt back, backstrip slightly faded (but all gilt legible) with faded 'pulls' at extreme head and tail else a very good, bright and internally remarkably clean and crisp copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end as called for, and neat personal bookplate on front free endpaper verso. Churchill's continuation of 'London to Ladysmith', completing the publication in book form of his letters to the 'Morning Post'. Four letters are published here for the first time. Chapter XVI, 'Held by the Enemy', is devoted to extracts from Frankland's diary. 5000 copies were published on 12 October 1900. Woods, A5.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1900.
Price: US$527.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Gilt lettered red cloth. Illustrated with maps and plans. Churchill's adventures during the Boer War. Foxing to prelims and outside edge. Cloth repaired at head and heel of spine. Inscription dated 1901 on first blank. Gilt worn on spine but still a solid copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans Green & Co, London, 1900.
Price: US$527.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Gilt lettered red cloth. 409 pp plus fold out map and 9 other maps. 4 pp ads and 32 pp Longmans catalogue. Cloth worn and faded especially on spine. interiors clean. Early Churchill title in pretty good nick.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy of the Second Printing of the First English edition, which the publisher designated as a "Second Edition" but which bibliographer Ronald Cohen argues is really more a second printing, with very modest changes made to the text and overall layout of the book. To the naked eye it appears identical to the First Edition, particularly in this attractive example, which is bright and tight, with rich red cloth and little perceptible spine fade. There is a hint of shelf wear and a few faint scuffs. The contents are fine and unfoxed. First English Edition (Second Printing) (Cohen A8.1.c) (Woods A5). 8vo (409 pages, with frontis portrait of Gen. Ian Hamilton, 1 three-color folding map, plus 9 other maps and plans, 32- page rear publishers catalogue.)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, 1900.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: This is the U.S. first edition, only printing, of Winston Churchill's fifth published book, the second and last of his two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa. The U.S. first edition saw only a single printing. The precise number sold is unknown, but seems to be fewer than 1,500, considerably fewer than the British first edition, of which more than 5,000 first printing copies were issued. Like the U.S. first edition of London to Ladysmith, the U.S. first edition of Ian Hamilton's March is bound in pebble grain red buckram quite susceptible to blotchy wear and soiling, particularly on the spine. This copy is in very good condition. The red cloth binding remains square and clean with sharp corners. Wear and blotchiness are minimal, with appreciable mottling only to the lower front cover, spine ends, and lower front joint. Although the spine and spine gilt are mildly dulled, the color remains uniformly strong, with minimal color shift between the covers and spine. The contents are notably clean. We find no spotting and no previous ownership marks. Mild age-toning is evident only at the otherwise clean fore and bottom edges. The gilt top edge remains bright, though modestly dust soiled. The frontispiece, tissue guard, and maps are all intact, including the folding map following the text. A cosmetic split starting at the half title gutter partially exposes the intact mull beneath but does not affect binding integrity; the text block remains firmly attached to the binding.In October 1899, the second Boer War erupted in South Africa between the descendants of Dutch settlers and the British. As an adventure-seeking young cavalry officer and war correspondent, Churchill swiftly found himself in South Africa with the 21st Lancers and an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post. Not long thereafter - on 18 November 1899, Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train. His daring escape less than a month later made him a celebrity and helped launch his political career. Churchill's first Boer War book, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, contained 27 letters and telegrams to the Morning Post written between 26 October 1899 and 10 March 1900 and was published in England in mid-May. Ian Hamilton's March completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, comprising 17 letters to the Morning Post, spanning 31 March through 14 June 1900. While London to Ladysmith via Pretoria had swiftly published Churchill's dispatches in the wake of his capture and escape, for Ian Hamilton's March "the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form" (Cohen, A8.1.a, Vol. I, p.105). Churchill effected these revisions while on board the passenger and cargo steamer Dunottar Castle, which was requisitioned as a troop ship, en route home to England. Churchill arrived on 20 July 1900 and spent the summer campaigning hard in Oldham, capitalizing on his war status and winning his first seat in Parliament on 1 October 1900 in the so-called "khaki election." The narrative in Ian Hamilton's March includes the liberation of the Pretoria prison camp where Churchill had been held and from which he had famously escaped. The title takes its name from General Sir Ian Hamilton's campaign from Bloemfontein to Johannesburg and Pretoria. Churchill would maintain a life-long friendship with Hamilton, who would be involved in the Gallipoli landings and to whom Churchill would sell his first country home. Published on 26 November 1900, the U.S. first edition was thus available for sale when Churchill arrived in New York on 8 December 1900 for his first North American lecture tour. Reference: Cohen A8.2, Woods/ICS A5(ca), Langworth p.61.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans Green and Co, 1900.
Price: US$640.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: first US edition Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Winston S. Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, 1900.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: This is the U.S. first edition, only printing, of Winston Churchill's fifth published book, the second and last of his two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa. The U.S. first edition saw only a single printing. The precise number sold is unknown, but seems to be fewer than 1,500, considerably fewer than the British first edition, of which more than 5,000 first printing copies were issued. Like the U.S. first edition of London to Ladysmith, the U.S. first edition of Ian Hamilton's March is bound in pebble grain red buckram quite susceptible to blotchy wear and soiling, particularly on the spine. This copy is in very good condition. The red cloth binding remains square, tight, bright and clean with no appreciable color shift between the covers and spine. The chief defect is typical overall scuffing as well as moderate wear to the spine ends and corners. The contents are notably clean, with mild age-toning evident only at the otherwise clean fore and bottom edges. We find no spotting. The sole previous ownership mark is an ink-stamped name to the front free endpaper recto. The gilt top edge remains bright. The frontispiece, tissue guard, and maps are all intact, including the folding map following the text. In October 1899, the second Boer War erupted in South Africa between the descendants of Dutch settlers and the British. As an adventure-seeking young cavalry officer and war correspondent, Churchill swiftly found himself in South Africa with the 21st Lancers and an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post. Not long thereafter - on 18 November 1899, Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train. His daring escape less than a month later made him a celebrity and helped launch his political career. Churchill's first Boer War book, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, contained 27 letters and telegrams to the Morning Post written between 26 October 1899 and 10 March 1900 and was published in England in mid-May. Ian Hamilton's March completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, comprising 17 letters to the Morning Post, spanning 31 March through 14 June 1900. While London to Ladysmith via Pretoria had swiftly published Churchill's dispatches in the wake of his capture and escape, for Ian Hamilton's March "the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form" (Cohen, A8.1.a, Vol. I, p.105). Churchill effected these revisions while on board the passenger and cargo steamer Dunottar Castle, which was requisitioned as a troop ship, en route home to England. Churchill arrived on 20 July 1900 and spent the summer campaigning hard in Oldham, capitalizing on his war status and winning his first seat in Parliament on 1 October 1900 in the so-called "khaki election." The narrative in Ian Hamilton's March includes the liberation of the Pretoria prison camp where Churchill had been held and from which he had famously escaped. The title takes its name from General Sir Ian Hamilton's campaign from Bloemfontein to Johannesburg and Pretoria. Churchill would maintain a life-long friendship with Hamilton, who would be involved in the Gallipoli landings and to whom Churchill would sell his first country home. Published on 26 November 1900, the U.S. first edition was thus available for sale when Churchill arrived in New York on 8 December 1900 for his first North American lecture tour. Reference: Cohen A8.2, Woods/ICS A5(ca), Langworth p.61.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green, & Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Description: This is the British first edition, first printing of Churchill's fifth published book. Ian Hamilton's March was the second of Churchill's two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa during the Boer War. In October 1899, the second Boer War erupted between the descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa and the British. Churchill, an adventure-seeking young cavalry officer and war correspondent, swiftly found himself in South Africa with the 21st Lancers and an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post. Not long thereafter, on 15 November 1899, Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train. His daring escape less than a month later rendered him a celebrity and helped launch his political career. Churchill's first book of Boer War despatches, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria was published in England in mid-May 1900 and sold well. Ian Hamilton's March completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, publishing 17 letters to the Morning Post, spanning 31 March through 14 June 1900. The narrative in Ian Hamilton's March includes the liberation of the Pretoria prison camp where Churchill had been held. Though a companion and sequel to London to Ladysmith, it is notably different in appearance, content, and scarcity. The first printing saw only 5,000 copies - half as many copies as London to Ladysmith. Where Ladysmith bore a lavishly illustrated binding, Ian Hamilton's March was bound in red cloth matching the style of Churchill's first published book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force - fitting, as these were the first and last Churchill first editions published by Longmans, Green, and Co. While London to Ladysmith via Pretoria had swiftly published Churchill's dispatches in the wake of his capture and escape, for Ian Hamilton's March "the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form" (Cohen, A8.1.a, Vol. I, p.105). Churchill effected these revisions while on board the passenger and cargo steamer Dunottar Castle which was requisitioned as a troop ship, en route home to England. Arriving home from South Africa in July 1900, Churchill spent the summer campaigning hard in Oldham, where he won his first seat in Parliament on 1 October 1900 in the so-called "khaki election". This British first edition of Ian Hamilton's March was published just a few weeks later. This first edition, first printing is in very good condition. The tight and square binding is unusually bright and clean for the edition, with vivid color and gilt, superior spine presentation, and only minor wear to extremities. The cosmetic flaw that prevents our grading - and pricing - this copy higher is faint evidence that something was once taped across the lower spine. The discoloration is barely discernible on the spine and rear cover, only readily noticeable as a 2 x .75 inch strip of mild discoloration to the lower front cover. This would be consistent with an ex-library spine label, except for the fact that there are absolutely no ex-library markings. The only previous ownership marks are the decorative bookplate of "Aubrey P. Taylor" affixed to the front pastedown and the same name ("A. P. Taylor") inked to the half title with the date "1900". The contents remain bright with a crisp feel. All maps and plans are intact, as is the original frontispiece and tissue guard, as well as the original black endpapers. Moderate spotting appears substantially confined to the prelims and page edges. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A8.1.a, Woods/ICS A5(a), Langworth p.59
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$865.86 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp xiv, 409, [iv] (adverts) + 32-page publishers' catalogue (dated 10/99). Four page Preface by the author. Frontispiece portrait and ten maps and plans, including one extending map at the rear.Cloth a little rubbed and faintly creased at spine. Very good.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good copy of the First American edition. The binding is tight, the gilt topstain and gilt stamping are quite bright, but the spine has faded considerably. There is a spot fading on the front face and with uneven hints of fade to both faces. The contents are fine, with a former owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. First American Edition (1 of 1,533 copies) (Cohen A8.2) (Woods A5ca). 8vo (424 pages, with frontis portrait of Ian Hamilton, 1 three-color folding map.)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.3 inches). Portrait frontis. Ten maps and plans(one folding). 32pp of publishers adverts dated 10/99 at end of book. Some light spotting to front blank endpaper and half title otherwise this is a tight, bright copy. Black coated endpapers with no cracking at all. Book feels firm and square. Publishers deep red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. Spine with some minor bumping to extremities and light uniform fading but overall a much better copy than usually found. 5000 copies published 12th October 1900.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Churchill, Winston fx. IAN HAMILTON'S MARCH. Longmans Green, NY, London, Bombay., 1900.
Price: US$1001.00 + shipping
Description: FINE book. Bright as new gilt lettering on ribbed red cloth. Flawless cover BUT: tips & spine corners rubbed the tiniest bit. AS NEW inside other than a bkplt. In addition to the bookplate, three minor flaws. (1) Cover tips & spine corners & spine lower edge rubbed a minute amount. No actual wear or the tiniest bit of fraying. (Tips perfectly flat and square) (2) Light stain on text block upper fore edge. Only the surface so effected. (3). The fold out map has a 1/4" tear in the inner fold and the outer fold has been incorrectly folded so 1/8" stands proud of the text block top edge. Flaws clearly shown in pix. (For three more pix go to BIBLIO) Gilt top edge bright & shiny as new. Internally AS NEW. No trace of aging or foxing. Lastly, book stays tightly closed when stood on its spine. FINE book. 1st Am ed. 7.5"x5", 409pp.
Seller: Quiet Friends IOBA, Lyndonville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1002.45 + shipping
Description: With portrait, maps and plans. Pp. xiv+410(last blank)+[6](advertisements, last blank)+32(publisher's catalogue), frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, text maps & plans, plus large folding map at end printed in red, brown & black; cr. 8vo; bound by Bayntun-Riviere in half red morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, red cloth boards, a trifle marked, the spine faded; t.e.g.; marbled endpapers; a little pale foxing; Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1900. First edition. Cohen A8.1.a.; Woods A5. *'A continuation of London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, completing the publication in book form of Churchill's letters to the Morning Post. Four letters, not finished while the author was with the troops because of the long marches, were published here for the first time' [Woods, p. 32].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$1026.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A sequel to 'London to Ladysmith'? First edition, first issue. Original red cloth, gilt stamped front board and spine, with blind double-rule border around gilt on front. Head and tail caps of cloth are moderately bumped, spine is somewhat faded, as well as gilt on front, and a minor stain is also on the front. Internally, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xii), [2], [1], 2-409 pp, [1], [4] adverts, [2] blank, (32) adverts (7/00), 1 pl (portrait with tissue guard), 10 maps (including 1 folding), lacks ffep & corner of folding map, front joint a little weak, removed bookplate marks to fpd, some light browning to feps. First Edition. VG+ (192*128 mm). (Woods A5). Together with extracts from the diary of Lt H Frankland. “The principal event which this series deals with is the march of Lt. General Hamilton’s column on the flank of Lord Roberts’s main army”.
Seller: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, 1900.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Description: Here is a superior copy for collectors of the U.S. first edition of Churchill's fifth book. Ian Hamilton's March is the second and last of his two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa. The U.S. first edition saw only a single printing. The number sold is unclear, but seems to be fewer than 1,500. This American edition is thus considerably scarcer than the British first edition, of which more than 5,000 first printing copies were issued. Like the U.S. first edition of Ladysmith, the U.S. first edition of Ian Hamilton's March is bound in pebble grain red buckram which proved quite susceptible to blotchy wear and soiling, particularly on the spine. This copy is a noteworthy exception in near fine condition. The red cloth binding remains square, tight, and atypically clean and bright, with both the red cloth and gilt retaining vivid hues with no fading or toning to the spine. We note only light wear to the spine ends and corners and a trivial amount of the usual scuffing to the pebble grain cloth. Likewise, the contents are notably bright. We find no spotting. We note no appreciable age-toning. Even the fore and bottom edges remain clean and the top edge gilt quite bright. The frontispiece, tissue guard, and all maps and plans remain present and pristine. The sole previous ownership mark is a tiny, .75 inch (2.5 cm) oval sticker of a Portland, Oregon bookseller affixed to the lower rear endpaper verso. In October 1899, the second Boer War erupted in South Africa between the descendants of Dutch settlers and the British. As an adventure-seeking young cavalry officer and war correspondent, Churchill swiftly found himself in South Africa with the 21st Lancers and an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post. Not long thereafter - on 18 November 1899, Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train. His daring escape less than a month later made him a celebrity and helped launch his political career. Churchill's first Boer War book, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, contained 27 letters and telegrams to the Morning Post written between 26 October 1899 and 10 March 1900 and was published in England in mid-May. Ian Hamilton's March completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, comprising 17 letters to the Morning Post, spanning 31 March through 14 June 1900. While London to Ladysmith via Pretoria had swiftly published Churchill's dispatches in the wake of his capture and escape, for Ian Hamilton's March "the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form" (Cohen, A8.1.a, Vol. I, p.105). Churchill effected these revisions while on board the passenger and cargo steamer Dunottar Castle which was requisitioned as a troop ship, en route home to England. Churchill arrived on 20 July 1900 and spent the summer campaigning hard in Oldham, capitalizing on his war status and winning his first seat in Parliament on 1 October 1900 in the so-called "khaki election." The narrative in Ian Hamilton's March includes the liberation of the Pretoria prison camp where Churchill had been held and from which he had famously escaped. The title takes its name from General Sir Ian Hamilton's campaign from Bloemfontein to Johannesburg and Pretoria. Churchill would maintain a life-long friendship with Hamilton, who would be involved in the Gallipoli landings and to whom Churchill would sell his first country home. Published on 26 November 1900, the U.S. first edition was thus available for sale when Churchill arrived in New York on 8 December 1900 for his first North American lecture tour. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A8.2, Woods/ICS A5(ca), Langworth p.61.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston S. Ian Hamilton's March.. Longman's, Green, and Co, London, 1900.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Churchill's fifth book, a continuation of his coverage of the Boer War which he began in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, engraved frontispiece portrait of Ian Hamilton, folding map in color and 4 pages of advertisements for Churchill's works at rear. In near fine condition. A sharp example. The sequel to Churchill's popular London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, Ian Hamilton's March "describes the fighting march of Ian Hamilton's mounted division from Bloemfontein to Johannesburg (Churchill rode a bicycle into 'Jo'burg' a day before the army arrived) and on to Pretoria, where the author was able to help liberate his former fellow prisoners" (Langworth, 58). The work consists of 17 letters Churchill published as a Morning Post correspondent; "in contrast to London to Ladysmith, the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form" (Cohen A8.1.a).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1900. First edition. 8vo. 409pp with 32pp. of advertisements. Frontispiece portrait of Ian Hamilton from a picture by John S. Sargent. 9 maps, folding colour map at end. Dark russet cloth, gilt. Black endpapers. A near fine copy with the spine lettering bright. Ian Hamilton's March describes Winston Churchill's experiences accompanying the British army during the Second Boer War, continuing with the events described in "London to Ladysmith via Pretoria". The principal event deals with the march of Lt. General Hamilton's column on the flank of Lord Robert's main army on the way to Pretoria. Churchill had officially resigned from the British army in order to pursue a political career, but on hearing of the outbreak of war in South Africa between the British colonies and the free Boer states of Transvaal and Orange Free State, immediately made arrangements to take part. He arranged to act as correspondent for The Morning Post, and by playing them off against the rival newspaper, the Daily Mail, obtained a salary of £250 per month. The book is an edited collection of reports originally published in a newspaper. Returning from the war, Churchill arranged to publish them as a collection and the book appeared in May 1900 published by Longmans and eventually sold 8,000 copies. In 1930 Churchill produced an autobiography, "My Early Life", which also had several chapters devoted to his Boer War experiences.
Seller: Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is an extremely attractive copy of the First English edition. The cloth retains rich red color. The spine is well-rounded and unfrayed spine, with just a hint of very faint fading and darkening. The binding is square and tight, the corners sharp. The original black endpapers are intact. The contents are fine, with very scattered foxing to the prelims only. Quite nice. First English Edition [1 of 5,000 copies] (Cohen A8.1.a) (Woods A5). 8vo (409 pages, with tissue-protected frontis portrait of Gen. Ian Hamilton,1 three-color folding map, plus 9 other maps and plans, 32- page rear publishers catalogue.)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a fine copy of the First American edition. The cloth color is exceedingly bright, the binding is crisp and tight, the gilt topstain and gilt stamping sparkle. The spine has perhaps dimmed ever so modestly. The contents are fine and unfoxed. First American Edition (1 of 1,533 copies) (Cohen A8.2) (Woods A5ca). 8vo (424 pages, with frontis portrait of Ian Hamilton, 1 three-color folding map.)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1282.76 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, 9 maps in the text and folding coloured map; attractively bound in navy half morocco BY SOTHERAN, blue cloth sides ruled in gilt, back with raised bands with gilt fillets, second and third compartments with red leather labels framed and lettered in gilt, all other compartments framed in gilt, gilt top, marbled endpapers, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or presentation. THE BINDING IS SIGNED ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER VERSO. Churchill's continuation of 'London to Ladysmith', completing the publication in book form of his letters to the 'Morning Post'. Four letters are published here for the first time. Chapter XVI, 'Held by the Enemy', is devoted to extracts from Frankland's diary. 5000 copies were published on 12 October 1900. Woods, A5.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$1282.76 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.3 inches). Portrait frontis. Ten maps and plans (one folding). 32pp of publishers adverts dated 7/00 at end of book. Previous owners neat ink name written on the blank front free endpaper and some browning to the blank endpapers otherwise this is a tight, bright, and clean copy. Black coated endpapers with no cracking at all. Book feels firm and square. Publishers deep red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. Spine with just a hint of fading but overall a much better copy than usually found. 5000 copies published 12th October 1900.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Winston Spencer Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$1495.00 + shipping
Description: Hard cover. 8vo. 1st Edition. Clean, crisp as NEW condition. Great addition to any collection. With protrait, maps and plans. 409pp.
Seller: History Bound LLC, Mendota, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very handsome copy of the First English edition. The cloth retains rich red color, with some fading to the gilt lettering. The spine is unfrayed or ruffled. The binding is square and tight, the corners sharp, if a trifle turned. The original black endpapers are crisp and intact. The contents are fine, with very scattered foxing to the prelims only. Laid-in is the original bill of sale, dated September 17th, 1964, from E. Joseph Bookseller, 48A Charing Cross Road, a shop that Winston Churchill frequented. First English Edition [1 of 5,000 copies] (Cohen A8.1.a) (Woods A5). 8vo (409 pages, with tissue-protected frontis portrait of Gen. Ian Hamilton,1 three-color folding map, plus 9 other maps and plans, 32- page rear publishers catalogue.)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1900.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Finely bound in three-quarters morocco over marbled boards, plain endpapers. A Near Fine copy with minor offsetting to first and last leaves and a few stains internally. An edited collection of newspaper reports tracking General Ian Standish Montieth Hamilton's Boer War campaign from Bloemfontein to Pretoria, which included ten major battles. Churchill, a rising political and military star, arranged to have the reports published in a single volume in 1900. Near Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a stunning copy of the First English edition leatherbound in three-quarter crimson morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with marbled endpapers, all edges gilded, the spine giltstamped in six compartments with raised bands. There is a vintage bookplate on the front pastedown. The contents are fine and unfoxed. Laid-in is the original paper invoice from legendary London bookseller Charles Sawyer, dated 1960, at a price of $42. First English Edition [1 of 5,000 copies] (Cohen A8.1.a) (Woods A5). 8vo (409 pages, with tissue-protected frontis portrait of Gen. Ian Hamilton,1 three-color folding map, plus 9 other maps and plans, 32- page rear publishers catalogue.)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston S. Ian Hamilton's March.. Longman's, Green, and Co, London, 1900.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Churchill's fifth book, a continuation of his coverage of the Boer War which he began in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to the front panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt,engraved frontispiece portrait of Ian Hamilton, folding map in color and 4 pages of advertisements for Churchill's works at rear. In fine condition. The sequel to Churchill's popular London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, Ian Hamilton's March "describes the fighting march of Ian Hamilton's mounted division from Bloemfontein to Johannesburg (Churchill rode a bicycle into 'Jo'burg' a day before the army arrived) and on to Pretoria, where the author was able to help liberate his former fellow prisoners" (Langworth, 58). The work consists of 17 letters Churchill published as a Morning Post correspondent; "in contrast to London to Ladysmith, the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form" (Cohen A8.1.a).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1924.14 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, first issue. Ian Hamilton's March is a sequel to London to Ladysmith, and completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, describing the liberation of the Boer prison camp where Churchill had been held captive, and the march of Ian Hamilton's mounted division from Bloemfontein to Johannesburg. "The volume consists of 17 letters to the Morning Post, beginning with that of 31 March 1900 and concluding with that of 14 June. in contrast to London to Ladysmith, the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form" (Cohen, pp. 103-4). "It is, of course, indispensable to any Churchill library, and it has long been canonised among the more collectible Churchill books" (Langworth, p. 58). The first issue can be distinguished from the second, which has textual alterations. Cohen A8.1.a; Woods A5. Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo (183 x 122 mm). Contemporary red calf by Howell of Liverpool, black morocco label, gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers and edges. Frontispiece portrait of Hamilton after John Singer Sargent, 9 wood-engraved maps and plans in text, 1 folding map in partial colour to rear. Bound without terminal advertisements. Light rubbing, slight running creasing to pages. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Winston S. Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green, & Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: This is an exceptionally bright and tight example of the British first edition, first printing, first issue of Churchill's fifth published book. Ian Hamilton's March is the second of Churchill's two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa during the Boer War. Condition of this copy is better than very good. The red cloth binding is square and tight with sharp corners. Most impressively for the edition, the spine retains rich, unfaded red hue, with no discernible color shift between the covers and spine quite unusual. We note light shelf wear to extremities, wrinkling at the spine ends, and minimal soiling. The contents are unusually bright with a pleasingly crisp, unread feel. The original black endpapers, frontispiece, tissue guard, and all maps and plans remain intact. We find no previous owners marks. Modest spotting appears Trivial spotting appears confined to the first few leaves and the page edges, with only occasional, trivial incursions onto blank inner margins. The top edge shows light shelf dust. The book is housed in a full red Morocco goatskin Solander case featuring rounded, hubbed spine, the spine bands gilt rule framed and gilt decorated, the covers with gilt rule borders, the interior lined with red velvet. Condition of the case is as-new, with no reportable wear, soiling, fading, or blemishes.In October 1899, the second Boer War erupted between the descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa and the British. Churchill, an adventure-seeking young cavalry officer and war correspondent, swiftly found himself in South Africa with the 21st Lancers and an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post. Not long thereafter, on 15 November 1899, Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train. His daring escape less than a month later rendered him a celebrity and helped launch his political career. Churchill's first book of Boer War despatches, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, was published in England in mid-May 1900 and sold well. Ian Hamilton's March completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, publishing 17 letters to the Morning Post, spanning 31 March through 14 June 1900. The narrative in Ian Hamilton's March includes the liberation of the Pretoria prison camp where Churchill had been held. Though a companion and sequel to London to Ladysmith, it is notably different in appearance, content, and scarcity. The first printing saw only 5,000 copies - half as many copies as London to Ladysmith. Where Ladysmith bore a lavishly illustrated binding, Ian Hamilton's March was bound in red cloth matching the style of Churchill's first published book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force - fitting, as these were the first and last Churchill first editions published by Longmans, Green, and Co.While London to Ladysmith via Pretoria had swiftly published Churchill's dispatches in the wake of his capture and escape, for Ian Hamilton's March "the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form" (Cohen, A8.1.a, Vol. I, p.105). Churchill effected these revisions while on board the passenger and cargo steamer Dunottar Castle, which was requisitioned as a troop ship, en route home to England. Arriving home from South Africa in July 1900, Churchill spent the summer campaigning hard in Oldham, where he won his first seat in Parliament on 1 October 1900 in the so-called "khaki election". The British first edition of Ian Hamilton's March was published just a few weeks later.Reference: Cohen A8.1.a, Woods/ICS A5(a), Langworth p.59
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: This is a finely bound British first edition, first printing of Churchills fourth published book. Ian Hamiltons March is the second of Churchills two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa. This book and its preceding companion, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, are Churchill's final literary effort as an itinerant soldier and war correspondent before embarking on his storied political career. This is a compellingly handsome example of the fine binders craft, in full red Morocco by Bayntun-Rivière. The binding features hubbed spines with gilt-ruled compartments, gilt-decorated bands, and gilt-hatched spine ends. The spine features the title, author, and publication date, with a gilt lion rampant in each unprinted compartment. The covers feature gilt rule borders and gilt-decorated edges, the front cover gilt-stamped with Churchills facsimile signature. The contents are bound with all edges gilt, silk head and foot bands, and combed pattern marbled endpapers framed by generous, double gilt-ruled turn-ins with decorative corner devices. The publishers original front cover cloth is bound in at the rear."BAYNTUN RIVIERE BATH" is gilt-stamped on the lower rear turn-in. In 1939, the year the Second World War began, the firm of George Bayntun acquired the Rivière Bindery. The Bindery has been in residence on Manvers Street in Bath ever since. Condition approaches fine. The binding shows no reportable wear or blemishes. The contents are well-suited to the binding atypically clean with no appreciable age-toning and a pleasingly crisp feel. Spotting endemic to this edition is minimal, with only trivial, intermittent instances. The contents are bound with the original publishers catalogue dated "7/00". The frontispiece and tissue guard, as well as all maps and plans, including the folding map following the text, remain intact.In October 1899, the second Boer War erupted between the descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa and the British. Churchill, an itinerant, adventure-seeking young cavalry officer and war correspondent, swiftly found himself in South Africa with the 21st Lancers and an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post. Not long thereafter, on 15 November 1899, Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train. His daring and dramatic escape less than a month later made him a celebrity and helped launch his political career.Churchill's first book of Boer War despatches, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, was published in England in mid-May 1900 and sold well. Ian Hamilton's March completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, publishing 17 letters to the Morning Post, spanning 31 March through 14 June 1900. The narrative in Ian Hamilton's March includes the liberation of the Pretoria prison camp where Churchill had been held. While London to Ladysmith via Pretoria had swiftly published Churchill's dispatches in the wake of his capture and escape, for Ian Hamilton's March "the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form" (Cohen, A8.1.a, Vol. I, p.105). Churchill effected these revisions while on board the passenger and cargo steamer Dunottar Castle, which was requisitioned as a troop ship, en route home to England. Arriving home from South Africa in July 1900, Churchill spent the summer campaigning hard in Oldham, where he won his first seat in Parliament on 1 October 1900 in the so-called "khaki election". The British first edition of Ian Hamilton's March was published just a few weeks later.Reference: Cohen A8.1.a, Woods/ICS A5(a), Langworth p.59
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: This is a finely bound British first edition, first printing of Churchills third published book. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria is the first of Churchills two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa. This book and its companion, Ian Hamiltons March, are Churchill's final literary effort as an itinerant soldier and war correspondent before embarking on his storied political career. This is a compellingly handsome example of the fine binders craft, in full red Morocco by Bayntun-Rivière. The binding features hubbed spines with gilt-ruled compartments, gilt-decorated bands, and gilt-hatched spine ends. The spine features the title, author, and publication date, with a gilt lion rampant in each unprinted compartment. The covers feature gilt rule borders and gilt-decorated edges, the front cover gilt-stamped with Churchills facsimile signature. The contents are bound with all edges gilt, silk head and foot bands, and combed pattern marbled endpapers framed by generous, double gilt-ruled turn-ins with decorative corner devices. The publishers original illustrated front cover cloth is bound in at the rear."BAYNTUN RIVIERE BATH" is gilt-stamped on the lower front turn-in. In 1939, the year the Second World War began, the firm of George Bayntun acquired the Rivière Bindery. The Bindery has been in residence on Manvers Street in Bath ever since. Condition approaches fine. The binding shows no reportable wear or blemishes. The first printing contents are well-suited to the binding atypically clean with no appreciable age-toning and a pleasingly crisp feel. Notably, the contents are entirely free of spotting and are bound with the early issue of the original publishers catalogue dated "10/99". All maps and plans are present, with the folding maps at the title page and p.366 fully intact and properly folded. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria is the first of Churchill's two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa. In October 1899, the second Boer War erupted between the descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa and the British. Churchill, an itinerant, adventure-seeking young cavalry officer and war correspondent, swiftly found himself in South Africa with the 21st Lancers and an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post. Not long thereafter, on 15 November 1899, Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train. His daring and dramatic escape less than a month later made him a celebrity and helped launch his political career.London to Ladysmith via Pretoria contains 27 letters and telegrams to the Morning Post written between 26 October 1899 and 10 March 1900. It was published in England in mid-May 1900 and sold well. Churchill returned from South Africa in July 1900 and spent the summer campaigning hard in Oldham. Churchill had lost the Oldham by-election his first attempt at Parliament in July 1899. Since then, as Arthur Balfour (who became Prime Minister in 1902) put it in a 30 August 1900 letter, the young Churchill had had "fresh opportunities - admirably taken advantage of for shewing the public of what stuff you are made." Indeed; Churchill won his first seat in Parliament on 1 October 1900 in the so-called "khaki election".Reference: Cohen A4.1.a, Woods/ICS A4(a.1), Langworth p.53.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2565.52 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, first issue, very handsomely bound. Ian Hamilton's March is a sequel to London to Ladysmith, and completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, describing the liberation of the Boer prison camp where Churchill had been held captive, and the march of Ian Hamilton's mounted division from Bloemfontein to Johannesburg. "The volume consists of 17 letters to the Morning Post, beginning with that of 31 March 1900 and concluding with that of 14 June. in contrast to London to Ladysmith, the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form" (Cohen, pp. 103-4). "It is, of course, indispensable to any Churchill library, and it has long been canonised among the more collectible Churchill books" (Langworth, p. 58). The first issue can be distinguished from the second, which has corrections to the text. Cohen A8.1.a; Woods A5. Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo (185 x 119 mm). Recent red morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine lettered in gilt with rampant lion ornaments in compartments, gilt rule to covers enclosing Churchill's facsimile signature in gilt on front, gilt ruled turn-ins with rose cornerpieces, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Original cloth front cover bound at rear. Frontispiece portrait of Hamilton after John Singer Sargent, 9 wood-engraved maps and plans in text, 1 folding map in partial colour to rear. Bound without initial blank. Some very light foxing, else a fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2886.21 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, first issue. Ian Hamilton's March is a sequel to London to Ladysmith, and completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, describing the liberation of the Boer prison camp where Churchill had been held captive, and the march of Ian Hamilton's mounted division from Bloemfontein to Johannesburg. "The volume consists of 17 letters to the Morning Post, beginning with that of 31 March 1900 and concluding with that of 14 June. in contrast to London to Ladysmith, the texts of the originally published letters were more extensively revised and four letters were included which had never appeared in periodical form" (Cohen, pp. 103-4). "It is, of course, indispensable to any Churchill library, and it has long been canonised among the more collectible Churchill books" (Langworth, p. 58). The first issue can be distinguished from the second, which has textual alterations. Cohen A8.1.a; Woods A5. Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo ( 185 x 115 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in burgundy morocco, spine lettered and decorated with lion centre tool in compartments, single rule to boards gilt, signature block to front board gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. With Portrait, Maps and Plans. Prelims slightly spotted, an excellent copy in a fine binding.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Description: This is a signed U.S. first edition, only printing of Winston Churchill's fifth book his final book chronicling his adventures as an itinerant soldier and war correspondent. The young Churchill almost certainly signed this copy in late 1900 or early 1901 during his first North American Lecture tour before he returned to England to take his first seat in Parliament. Condition of this signed copy is good plus sound, original, and complete despite some typical wear and defects. The red cloth binding remains square and tight with bright gilt and no appreciable color shift between the covers and spine. Overall scuffing is most pronounced to the extremities, and there is a small, dark stain on the front cover. A single, faint, jagged vertical line one on both the front and rear covers seem to indicate that the boards were once a bit creased, but the boards nonetheless remain rigid and straight, with no fragility or warping. The contents are respectably clean and complete. The frontispiece, tissue guard, and maps are all intact, including the folding map following the text, though the map was previously mis-folded, as is typical, resulting in some fraying to the edges. The contents show moderate age-toning and the frontispiece was previously creased. Spotting is trivial, primarily confined to the first and final leaves and the fore edges. The gilt top edge is a bit dulled and scuffed, but still distinctly gilt. The outer corners of the front free endpaper recto and final free endpaper verso show tape stains. This copy came to us from a private collection, where it long resided. The tape stains result from a well-intentioned but ill-conceived effort to protect the book. The book was long ago fitted with a homemade glassine wrapper, the inner flaps of which were secured by tape which of course was not archival and stained the pages against which it lay. The glassine was on the book long enough to have toned and brittled with age and the tape as evidenced by the stains to have toned, stiffened, and lost adhesion. We find no previous ownership marks only the authors signature. Churchills signature, "Winston S. Churchill" in black ink on the upper front free endpaper recto, is consonant in location, style, and characteristics with other Churchill signatures in books signed during his first North American Lecture tour. The ink remains distinct, with no significant age-spreading or toning.In October 1899, the second Boer War erupted in South Africa between descendants of Dutch settlers and the British. As an adventure-seeking young cavalry officer and war correspondent, Churchill swiftly found himself in South Africa with the 21st Lancers and an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post. Soon thereafter, on 15 November 1899, Churchill was captured during a Boer ambush of an armored train. His daring escape less than a month later made him a celebrity and helped launch his political career.Churchill returned from South Africa in July 1900 and spent the summer campaigning hard in Oldham, winning his first seat in Parliament on 1 October 1900. His first North American lecture tour swiftly followed. Churchill's lecture tour of the United States and Canada was intended to improve his finances at a time when MPs received no salary.Churchill arrived in New York on board the Lucania on December 8, 1900. Ian Hamiltons March, Churchill's second and final Boer War book, published in the U.S. on 26 November 1900, was perfectly suited to his lectures. This U.S. first edition had the further advantage of being available for sale in the United States concurrent with Churchills tour. Nonetheless, this is only the second signed copy of the U.S. first edition of Ian Hamiltons March we have encountered, perhaps owing to the small print run.PLEASE NOTE THAT A CONSIDERABLY MORE DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Reference: Cohen A8.2, Woods/ICS A5(ca), Langworth p.61.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20000.00 + shipping
Description: This is an inscribed U.S. first edition, only printing of Winston Churchill's fifth book, the second of two books based on his despatches sent from the front in South Africa during the Boer War. This was the final book from Churchills early career as an itinerant calvary officer and war correspondent. This copy was inscribed by then-twenty-six-year-old Churchill in Chicago on 10 January 1901 during Churchill's first lecture tour of North America. The signature, in black ink in four lines on the upper half-title, reads: "Winston S. Churchill | to | F. Wight Neuman Esq. | 10.1.1901". Such early signatures in first editions of Churchill's early works are quite scarce, even more so for U.S. first editions.The U.S. first edition saw only a single printing bound in pebble grain red buckram which proved susceptible to blotchy wear and discoloration, particularly on the spine. The number sold is unclear, but seems to be fewer than 1,500. Condition of this copy would render it collector-worthy, independent of the author's signature. The red cloth binding remains unusually clean and tight, with sharp corners, and bright gilt and only trivial wear to extremities. The spine toning and uneven coloration endemic to this edition is mild. The spine retains excellent color and vivid gilt, with only a barely discernible hint of uniform toning and modest instances of the typical discoloration. The contents remain uncommonly bright and crisp. A trace of spotting is confined to the frontispiece tissue guard and the fore edge. The top edge gilt remains bright. Other than the author's inscription, the sole previous ownership mark we find is a half dozen illegible, tiny pencil script letters at the upper left rear pastedown that we have refrained from erasing just in case some future owner may be able to decipher them. The inscription remains clear and bright, with minimal age spreading on a bright and otherwise unmarked half title page. The date is written with European, rather than U.S. precedence, with the month "1" following the day "10" making the date of inscription 10 January 1901. It is interesting to note that Churchill omits the second "n" at the end of Neumann's name and it appears as if he initially misspelled the name as "Newman, with a bit of extra ink at the "um" transition seeming a possible attempt to correct the spelling error as it was being inked.Unlike so many signed copies, we have provenance going back to the time of signing; the book remained in Neumann's family until 2003, when ownership transferred from Neumann's grandson, Sterling E. Selz, to his friend and fellow collector John Patrick Ford (1927-2018), from whom it was in turn acquired by the present owner.In October 1900, Churchill had won his first seat in Parliament partly on the strength of his celebrity as a Boer War hero, having been captured and made a daring escape. Churchill's lecture tour of the United States and Canada was intended to improve his finances at a time when MPs received no salary.Churchill arrived in New York on board the Lucania on December 8, 1900. German-born F. Wight Neumann (1851-1924) was a Chicago-based impresario, "one of the most noted impresarios in America" and "friend of virtually every prominent musician in the country" who "brought all of the great artists of the world to Chicago."(Chicago Daily Tribune, 23 October 1924 Obituary) Also appearing under his management in Chicago were select authors, among them the young Winston Churchill. Arriving in Chicago on the morning of 10 January 1901, Churchill lectured that evening on "The Boer War as I Saw It" at Central Music Hall and was entertained after his lecture by "forty members of the University Club at an informal reception in the club grillroom."Churchill's second and final Boer War book, published in the U.S. on 26 November 1900, would have been both available at the time and perfectly suited to his lecture.Reference: Cohen A8.2, Woods/ICS A5(ca), Langworth p.61.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$22448.33 + shipping
Description: First US edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the initial blank to his political aide at the Colonial Office, "To Eliot Crawshay Williams with every good wish from Winston S. Churchill 4 July 1908". From 1906 to 1908 Churchill, then Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, employed Crawshay-Williams (1879-1962) as his assistant private secretary. Crawshay-Williams recalled this role: "My duties were not of statesmanlike magnitude, being mainly, as Winston put it, to keep the flies off him. But the opportunities of coming into close touch with the machinery and personnel of government, with the questions of the day, and, more important than all else, with a brilliant and commanding political personality, were precious and unique" (Crawshay-Williams, p. 58). He became a Liberal MP for Leicester in 1910 and served as parliamentary private secretary to David Lloyd George, but his political career was cut short in 1913 when he became embroiled in a divorce scandal. He afterwards served in the First World War and published poetry and plays. He and Churchill remained in touch for many years. In 1940, he sent a letter to Churchill appealing for him to make peace with Hitler; Churchill responded that he was ashamed of him and told him to burn the letter (Roberts, p. 569). Ian Hamilton's March is a sequel to London to Ladysmith and completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, describing the liberation of the Boer prison camp where Churchill had been held captive and the march of Ian Hamilton's mounted division from Bloemfontein to Johannesburg. "It is, of course, indispensable to any Churchill library, and it has long been canonised among the more collectible Churchill books" (Langworth, p. 58). This US edition was published on 26 November 1900, following the British release of 12 October. Provenance: Crawshay-Williams (inscribed to by Churchill, his bookplate on the front pastedown); the collection of Steve Forbes. Cohen A8.2. Eliot Crawshay-Williams, Simple Story: An Accidental Autobiography, 1935; Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998; Andrew Roberts, Churchill, 2019. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt. Housed in custom red quarter morocco slipcase and cloth chemise. Frontispiece portrait of Hamilton after John Singer Sargent, 9 wood-engraved maps and plans in text, folding map in partial colour at rear. Slight stain at cover edges, otherwise tight with clean contents: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom