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CHURCHILL, WINSTON SPENCER. London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria. Longmans, Green and Co 1900, 1900.
Price: US$73.48 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION- NEW EPS, REBACKED & MUSTY! 3 FOLDING MAPS (ALL PRESENT), octavo, brown heavy boards, black lettering to spine, black & red lettering with rail illus to front board, folding map frontis, xiv + 498pp + 32pp ads to rear, VG- (heavy bruising & scuffing to board corners & edges, heavy soiling & staining to boards from original coverings- new binding is sound & tidy, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate soiling to rear eps, moderate tanning & foxing to some pages throughout, maps are delicate with some closed tearing & discreet tape repairs)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$89.84 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: New impression, 9 preliminary pages, 345 pages, (publisher's advertisement leaf: The River War and The Malakand Field Force), fair condition in publisher's cloth, boards slightly stained, corners of boards and top and bottom of spine worn, edges of spine rubbed with repaired tear at the top of the left edge, edges of pages slightly spotted, pages spotted, preliminary pages and title page stained, hinges cracked.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.93 + 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
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.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Second impression, same content and appearance as first, but title page states "New Impression" Good with lightly rubbed and bumped edges, lightly soiled extremities, and yellowing. Front hinge is nearly detached.
Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 496 pp. 8vo. Publisher's gilt-decorated red cloth. No dust jacket. First American edition. Very good; a tight copy. The spine is soiled; lettering still legible; tiny chip to half-title. With maps and plans as called for in Contents page.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Winston Spencer Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$154.02 + 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$160.44 + 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
Price: US$192.52 + shipping
Description: New Impression. Very Good Crown 8vo. Hardback in original dark green cloth (with a corner bump and rub to lower front cover) 345pps. + (ii)pps. ads. (Foxing to foredge and text)
Seller: HALEWOOD AND SONS ABA ILAB Est. 1867., PRESTON, United Kingdom
Churchill (Winston Spencer) ;-. IAN HAMILTON'S MARCH.. London ;- Longmans Green and Co, 1900.
Price: US$198.94 + 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$200.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA, decorated front cover and spine, cover showing a troop train moving down the tracks, 498 pages plus 32 pages of book ads at the rear of book, book accompanied by folding maps and four illustrations, book states new impression on title page, (second issue) a bit of foxing to the first few pages in the front and minor foxing to page edges and top, otherwise inside is clean, complete, and tight, spine is a bit faded with its stamped gold flags, still a very nice piece.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$212.10 + shipping
Description: New Impression; 8vo; pp. xiv, 498 plus 32 pages of advertisements at rear; 30cmX25cm colour folding map frontispiece, 4 plans, 3 maps 2 of which are folding; original illustrated cream cloth browned, spine cocked, chipping to edges, minor pen marks to half and title pages, pages browned, spine browned, marks to cloth, a good copy. A personal record of Winston Churchill's adventures and impressions during the first five months of the African War. It also gives an account of the operations conducted by Sir Redvers Buller for the Relief of Ladysmith.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Winston Spencer Churchill. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Longmans Green, and Co, London, 1900.
Price: US$224.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first edition of Winston Churchill's account of his personal experiences during the Second Boer War, illustrated with folding maps, and in the publisher's original cloth. The first edition, first impression of Winston Churchill's account of his adventures and impressions during the first five months of the African War. This is the first of two books written by Churchill regarding his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa during the Second Boer War.Illustrated with four maps, three of which are folding and one in colour, and four illustrated plans, one full page. Collated, complete.Retaining the original half title, and with two pages of advertisements, followed by a thirty-two page publisher's catalogue, to the rear.This work recounts Churchill's story of being captured by the Boers and his daring escape which gave him celebrity status assisting in launching his political career. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Front joint and head of rear joint, starting, with significant fraying to the cloth. Discolouration to back strip, with losses to the cloth at back strip head and tail. Tide mark to head of front board. Front hinge starting, with board slightly tender. Front endpaper detached but present. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with some significant spotting to first few leaves. Tape repairs and reinforcements to reverse of folding map frontispiece. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$231.03 + 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$243.29 + 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 SPENCER. London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria. Longmans, Green & Co 1900, 1900.
Price: US$244.93 + shipping
Description: FIRST UK EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, octavo, tan cloth boards with armoured train illus to cover, 3 folding maps present, xiv + 498pp + 32pp ads to rear, VG- (heavy cracking to spine/hinges, moderate discolouration to spine, moderate bruising to spine & extrems with sl surface loss, light chafing & soiling to boards, moderate tanning & foxing to page edges, light cracking to gutters, 1cm closed tear to front folding map, pgs 497 + some ads completely detached but present)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
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$250.00 + shipping
Description: 496 pp. 8vo. Publisher's gilt-decorated red cloth. No dust jacket. First American edition. Very good; a tight copy with slight rubbing to extremities. Bookplate and 1900 ink gift inscription. With maps and plans as called for in Contents page.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
CHURCHILL, WINSTON.. London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria. New York: Longmans, Green, 1900, 1900.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition. Bookplate; contemporary owner's inscription; a very good copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston Spencer.. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria.. London: Longmans Green & Co, 1900.
Price: US$260.55 + shipping
Description: xiv, 498 pp, numerous maps including multifodling coloured frontis map, occasional plans as called for. Contemporary red calf gilt sides, rebacked in matching modern red calf, marbled endpapers & leaf edges. Netherthorpe Grammar School Book Prize plate to front paste down endpaper. 19 cm x 13 cm. Minor markings to sides, wear to folding map fore-edge margin, contents lightly age browned with some random foxing. Lacks the publishers catalogue to the rear.
Seller: John Turton, Crook, United Kingdom
Price: US$274.17 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, second issue without the date on verso of title page. A good + copy in publisher's cloth. The cloth is a bit rubbed and frayed at the head and food of spine, 3 " split to lower joint, slight lean, with some light browning to the prelims. Small booksellers blind stamp to front end paper.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Winston S. Churchill. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: This is a first edition, first printing of Churchill's fourth published book. 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. The British first edition is striking, bound in tan cloth with an illustration of an armoured train on the front cover accompanied by the author's facsimile signature and with the Union flag and Transvaal flag in gilt on the spine beneath a red subtitle. The binding is visually arresting, but the first edition proved notoriously fragile and prone to wear, soiling, and spotting. Truly fine copies are virtually a chimera.This first edition, first printing is a sound and complete survivor, but nonetheless only in good condition, showing both its age and the various depredations to which the edition proved susceptible. The striking illustrated binding is tight, though soiled and stained, spine toned, showing some wear to hinges and extremities, and with a pronounced forward lean. The contents show typical spotting, heaviest to the prelims, intermittent throughout. We find no previous ownership marks. The original black endpapers are intact with no sign of cracking at the gutters. All maps and plans are present, with the folding maps at the title page and p.366 fully intact. The contents 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.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$282.37 + 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.
Price: US$320.87 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No dustwrapper, some bumping and minor shelf-wear to spine ends and corners of blue cloth-covered boards, binding just starting to split at the page between the black free front endpaper and the half-title, which has a previous owner's name in pencil. Minor foxing to outer pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles on spine and front board all still bright, of this hard-cover book. A tale of revolution in a (fictitious) Mediterranean country, this was Churchill's only novel. This is the first UK edition, one of 1500 copies, published by Longman, Green & Co on 30th January 1900 (a larger {4000 copies} edition was published earlier in the US in November 1899). 345pp, 2pp adverts. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Jim's Old Books, Kirkwall, United Kingdom
CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.. London to Ladysmith. Longmans Green, London, 1900.
Price: US$336.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Tan cloth with lettering in gilt black and red. All maps and ads present. Foxing to prelims and title but only to edges after. Some invisible restoration to spine head and gutters. Collectible copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
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. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Longmans Green, and Co, London, 1900.
Price: US$372.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The first edition of Winston Churchill's account of his personal experiences during the Second Boer War, illustrated with folding maps, and in the publisher's original cloth. The first edition, first impression of Winston Churchill's account of his adventures and impressions during the first five months of the African War. This is the first of two books written by Churchill regarding his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa during the Second Boer War.Illustrated with four maps, three of which are folding and one in colour, and four illustrated plans, one full page. Collated, complete.Retaining the original half title, and with two pages of advertisements, followed by a thirty-two pages publisher's catalogue, to the rear.Subscription Library bookplate to front pastedown, with no further library markings.This work recounts Churchill's story of being captured by the Boers and his daring escape which gave him celebrity status assisting in launching his political career. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail. Front and rear hinges starting, with cloth fraying. Discolouration to cloth, with rubbing to rear board. Front hinge strained, with board slightly tender. Library bookplate to front pastedown. 'Introductory Note' leaf detached from binding, loosely inserted, otherwise, Internally, firmly bound. Significant closed tear to folding map frontispiece. handling marks to first few leaves, most concentrated to list of plates. Pages clean and bright. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Old name on endpaper, bookstore stamp, light rubbing on cloth; Red cloth, to edge gilt, 3 foldout maps, one in color ; Red cloth, teg, 3 foldout maps, one in color ; 3 foldout maps; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 496 pages
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition. Original red cloth, now a little darkened on spine, lettered and ruled in gilt; lightly rubbed at spine ends and along bottom edge. Lacks frontis map (no evidence that it was ever bound in). Apart from missing map, a fine, bright, tight copy.
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
Winston Spencer Churchill. Ian Hamilton's March. Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$378.63 + 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$449.22 + 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
CHURCHILL, Winston. London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria. Longmans Green, New York, 1900.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Folding maps. 8vo, red cloth. New York: Longmans Green, 1900. First American Edition. Ownership signature on end-paper; upper corners loosely bent on some of the text block. but a clean solid copy of a book which is scarcer than the English edition of the same title.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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.
Churchill, Winston S.. LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA. Longmans, Green, 1900.
Price: US$464.00 + shipping
Description: LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA, Longmans, Green, 1900, first American edition, spine lettering dulled, else a very good to very good plus copy with all maps and illustrations present and in fine condition. 1/3,000 copies.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, 1900.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: This is a quite respectable copy of the U.S. first edition of Churchill's fourth published book. 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 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 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, where he won his first seat in Parliament on 1 October 1900 in the so-called "khaki election". The American edition offered here is both distinctly different in appearance and more scarce than its British first edition counterpart. The U.S. first edition saw just a single printing of which no more than an estimated 1,850 copies were sold. As opposed to the illustrated khaki cloth of the British first edition, this U.S. edition is bound in pebble grain red cloth that proved quite susceptible to blotchy wear and soiling, particularly on the spine. This is an atypically bright and respectable copy in very good condition. The binding is square, clean, and tight with mild superficial scuffing and light wear to extremities, but is nonetheless quite bright for the edition, with no discernible color shift between the covers and spine and quite good shelf presentation for the edition. The contents are notably bright with no previous ownership marks. All maps and plans are intact, including the folding maps, which remain properly folded. The top edge gilt is bright. Trivial spotting is confined to the fore and bottom edges. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A4.2, Woods/ICS A4(b), Langworth p.55.
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
CHURCHILL, Sir Winston. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900.
Price: US$481.31 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. xiv, 498, (2), 32 catalogue pp. Publisher's beige pictorial cloth with detailing in gilt, black and red, an early ownership inscription to the front flyleaf. 4 maps, of which 3 are folding, plus 4 plans in the text. Darkening to the covers, the spine more so, a faint pale patch to the upper board, some rubbing and bumping, some foxing to the early leaves. Wood, A4. Langworth, pp.53-4.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a good to very good copy of the First English edition. The cloth has darkened considerably but the binding is square, with some fading to the spine type. An early-former-owner has scrawled his name in ink across the front face, though the ink is fading. The original black endpapers are present, with a tiny W.H. Smith Bookseller blindstamp on the front free endpaper. The contents are fine, with toning to the half-title, light foxing to the prelims and a front hinge that is beginning to give. Still, not a bad copy at all. First English Edition [1 of 10,000 copies] (Cohen A4.1.a) (Woods A4a). 8vo (516 pages with 3 folding maps, 5 other plans and maps, 32-page rear publisher?s catalogue.)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good copy of the First American edition. The binding is tight and the gilt topstain is quite bright, but the red cloth and gilt stamping have faded a bit, more significantly along the spine. The contents are fine and unfoxed, with a former owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. First American Edition [1 of less than 3,000 copies] (Cohen A4.2.a) (Woods A4ba). 8vo (510 pages, 3 folding maps, 5 other plans and maps.)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
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.
Churchill, Winston S.. London To Ladysmith, Via Pretoria. Longmans, Green & Co. London 1900, 1900.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 2nd imp. orig. dec. cloth Very Good small octavo xiv + 498pp., (32pp. ads.), fldg, maps & plans, Second impression. Some foxing but generally VG
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$500.24 + 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$506.98 + 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$524.01 + 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$524.01 + 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
Winston S. Churchill. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: This is the first edition, first printing of Churchill's fourth published book. 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. The British first edition is striking, bound in tan cloth with an illustration of an armoured train on the front cover accompanied by the author's facsimile signature and with the Union flag and Transvaal flag in gilt on the spine beneath a red subtitle. The binding is visually arresting, but the first edition proved notoriously fragile and prone to wear, soiling, and spotting. Truly fine copies are virtually a chimera.This first edition, first printing is in good plus condition, original, complete, sound, unrestored with notably clean contents. The binding remains square and tight, the illustrated front cover quite presentable, the gilt and red subtitle print still clearly legible on the only lightly toned spine. We note general wear to extremities, modest overall soiling, some small stains to the blank rear cover, and some fraying along the joints. Shelf presentation is quite decent for the edition. The contents are not only bright, but retain a crisp feel, with minimal spotting confined to the prelims and page edges. The original black endpapers are intact with no sign of cracking at the gutters. All maps and plans are present, with the folding maps at the title page and p.366 fully intact. The contents are bound with the early issue of the original publishers catalogue dated "10/99". The sole previous ownership mark is contemporary, five weeks after publication: a brief gift inscription and date of "June 23 1900" inked on the upper recto of the blank preceding the half title. 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$561.43 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. xiv,498pp. + 32pp. adspp. Octavo. Three folding maps (including frontispiece in colour) and illustrations in text (maps and plans). In original decorated brown cloth with occasional foxing to a few pages. Original black endpapers. Text a bit browned as usual. Edges a bit soiled. Spine slightly dull and a bit soiled. Signature of A M Pirie dated 1901 on first blank. good to very good Woods A4 (1st English Edition). A personal record of the author's experiences in the first five months of the African war originally published in the 'Morning Post.' 10,000 copies were published for the first edition and another 500 copies were printed a few days later.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, 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. SAVROLA -First English Edition-. Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good copy of the First English edition. The green cloth has uniformly darkened and there is light edgewear. The gilt has faded somewhat. The binding is square and the contents are fine, with very scattered, light foxing throughout, more pronounced on the prelims. A former-owner's name in ink has been partially erased on the half-title. Overall, a solid example that does reveal its age. First English Edition [1 of 1500 copies] (Cohen A3.2.a) (Woods A3ba). 8vo (345 pages, including two pages of advertisements for ?Malakand Field Force? and ?The River War.? Dated 1900 on title page but copyright date [on verso] is 1899.)
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.
Price: US$609.66 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: THE SECOND STATE WITHOUT THE PUBLISHED DATE TO REVERSE OF TITLE PAGE, PUBLISHED IN THE SAME YEAR AS THE FIRST IMPRESSION, HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, HALF TITLE PRESENT. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 X 5 INCHES WITH 9 + 345 PAGES + PUBLISHERS CATALOGUE. SOME FLECKS TO CLOTH BOARDS WITH SMALL AREAS OF FADING TO CLOTH SPINE & BOARDS, FEW FAINT CREASES TO CLOTH SPINE, ENDPAPERS BROWNED WITH LIGHT FOXING, VERY OCCASIONAL LIGHT FOXING OR MINOR CREASE TO PAGES, PENCIL INSCRIPTION TO FRONT ENDPAPER. OVERALL A VERY GOOD ACCEPTABLE COPY WITH BOARDS FIRMLY ATTACHED & MAJORITY OF PAGES CLEAN. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE BOOK HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT DOES SHOW SOME REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$641.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First UK edition, first state of the author's third book and only novel, printed from the sheets of the US edition which preceded it (following a delay caused by the serialisation of the story in 'Macmillan's Magazine'), and with the year of that US edition (1899) printed to the reverse of the title page (the second state omits this date). 8vo. 345pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements (for Churchill's 'The River War', second impression, and 'The Story of the Malakand Field Force', seventh thousand). Blue cloth with gold lettering to the spine and upper board. A little rubbing and wear to the edges, and some quite light chafing to the board margins. A trace of wear and fraying to the outer hinges. Some fox spotting throughout. A good bright copy of his only novel, depicting unrest and revolution in a fictional European state (in later life Churchill was less impressed with these early literary efforts, writing in his 1930 autobiography 'My Early Life' "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it".
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good copy of the First English edition. The cloth has darkened significantly, particularly along the spine, which is unfrayed, but a bit undulated. The binding is firm, if just a touch cocked, and the corners are turned. The contents are fine and unfoxed, with all maps present. Overall, a very healthy survivor that does show its age but is in better shape than most. First English Edition [1 of 10,000 copies] (Cohen A4.1.a) (Woods A4a). 8vo (516 pages with 3 folding maps, 5 other plans and maps, 32-page rear publisher?s 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$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.
CHURCHILL Winston S.. Savrola. A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. , 1900.
Price: US$673.83 + shipping
Description: First English edition. 8vo., original green cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt. London, Longmans Green and Co. Second British issue from American plates, first printing, second state. ?Distinguished from first-state copies only by the presence of a title page cancellans on which the verso is blank? (Cohen). The American edition, in a printing of 4,000 copies, was published ten days earlier at a price of $1.25. Neatly recased, corners lightly rubbed, heavy foxing to the half title, title page, and preliminaries, with occasional minor foxing throughout. Cohen, A3.2.b.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
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$700.00 + shipping
Description: Spine just a bit faded. Front cover vignette and red lettering are bright. Small brown spot rear cover. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, dated 20/6/00. Three folding maps, one in color, five maps and plans in text. Thirty-two page catalogue dated 10/99 at rear. The work is Churchill's account of the early months of the Second Boer War. Ladysmith is a city in South Africa. 498pp. Size: Crown Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston S.. London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria. Longmans, Green & Co, 1900.
Price: US$705.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition published by Longmans, Green and Co in 1900. This is a very good copy. The boards have light marks. There is a scratch about 3 inches long on the back board. There are three pin holes on the spine. The spine has cracked on the inside board however the book is well bound. There is a previous owners name on the front free end paper. There is the odd foxing mark throughout the book with moderate foxing to the first couple of pages. Overall a very good copy and complete with all fold out maps. A very good copy of this first edition. This is Churchill's account of his time served in the second Boer war including his capture and unlikely escape from a prison camp. His recollections were first published in The Morning Post and then collectively in book form here. [Woods A4]
Seller: The Plantagenet King ABA / ILAB, Birchington, KENT, United Kingdom
Churchill, Winston S.. London To Ladysmith, Via Pretoria. Longmans, Green & Co. London 1900, 1900.
Price: US$710.00 + shipping
Description: new impression full leather Very Good small octavo xiv + 498pp., (32pp. ads.), fldg, maps & plans, Some foxing to prelims. o/w a nice, tight, clean copy. Bound in full burgundy leather with spine-label & raised bands on spine. On upper board is gilt device of Sydney Grammar School, still bright & clear. There is a Sydney Grammar School prize label dated 1900 on front paste-down. Some slight scuffing to boards but generally a very presentable copy
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Churchill, Winston S.. London to Ladysmith, Via Pretoria. Longmans, Green London 1900, 1900.
Price: US$710.00 + shipping
Description: 1st edition or. dec. cloth Very Good small octavo xiv + 498pp., (32pp. ads.), fldg, maps & plans, Scarce 1st ed. lacks ffep. o/w VG
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good copy of the First English edition, with cloth that has darkened far less than is common for this book. The spine is just a touch ruffled and frayed. The binding is firm, the boards fresh, with sharp corners. The contents are fine and unfoxed, with all maps present and folded correctly. There is a large vintage bookplate on the front pastedown and the hinges, front and rear, are just beginning to give. Else fine. First English Edition [1 of 10,000 copies] (Cohen A4.1.a) (Woods A4a). 8vo (516 pages with 3 folding maps, 5 other plans and maps, 32-page rear publisher?s catalogue.)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Savrola. Longmans, Green, and Company, London, 1900.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is Churchill's third book and only novel. A very young Churchill was exuberant about publication at the time. Even though Savrola was his third published book, it was actually the first book he undertook and the second he completed. He would later make deprecating comments about the work. In his 1930 autobiography he wrote, "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it [Savrola]." However, his mixed feelings about his only novel did not keep Churchill from writing a foreword to a new edition in 1956, in which he said: "The preface to the first edition in 1900 submitted the book 'with considerable trepidation to the judgment or the clemency of the public.' The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled though certainly not changed my sentiments on this point." Irrespective of Churchill's feelings about his book and his limitations as a novelist, this novel certainly provides insight into the early perspective and sentiment of the then very young Churchill. Only 1,500 copies of the first British impression were printed and the survival rate is low, making this a great rarity and considerably more scarce than the U.S. first edition. Here is a first British edition, first printing. This is an honest first edition that shows some wear and age, but is original and unrestored. The binding is tight and unfaded with bright gilt, but slightly cocked. The green cloth boards are sound, but show a little wear, particularly at the corners. The spine shows light wear along the hinges, as well as some wear at head and tail with just a little fraying at the head. There is a small .25 inch tear above the title on spine. The original black endpapers are intact. The webbing shows a bit at the rear hinge, but the binding is still snug and sound. There is minor spotting throughout, as is common with this edition. The spotting is heavier at the endpapers. There are no bookplates or inscriptions. But interestingly, the ffep is signed "W. Churchill R.H." With a little hope and imagination, one could imagine that "R.H." is a young Churchill, recently elected to Parliament, pompously putting the abbreviation for "Right Honourable" after his name - However, this signature does not look to us like an authentic author signature. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A3.2.a, Woods/ICS A3(ba.1), Langworth p.41
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. Savrola. Longmans, Green, and Company, London, 1900.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is Churchill's third book and only novel. A very young Churchill was exuberant about publication at the time. Even though Savrola was his third published book, it was actually the first book he undertook and the second he completed. He would later make deprecating comments about the work. In his 1930 autobiography he wrote, "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it [Savrola]." However, his mixed feelings about his only novel did not keep Churchill from writing a foreword to a new edition in 1956, in which he said: "The preface to the first edition in 1900 submitted the book 'with considerable trepidation to the judgment or the clemency of the public.' The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled though certainly not changed my sentiments on this point." Irrespective of Churchill's feelings about his book and his limitations as a novelist, this novel certainly provides insight into the early perspective and sentiment of the then very young Churchill. Only 1,500 copies of the first British impression were printed and the survival rate is low, making this considerably more scarce than the U.S. first edition. Here is a first British edition, first printing. This is a respectable, very good overall copy with some flaws. On the positive side, the green cloth binding is bright and unfaded, showing only light wear at the corners and spine extremities. Of particular note is the unfaded spine color. Detracting from the external appearance, the binding is slightly cocked - as are nearly all copies of this edition - and the texture of the spine cloth is slightly mottled. The contents are tight and retain the original black endpapers with no splits or gutter breaks, but there is intermittent spotting throughout and a previous owner name inked on the ffep. The fore edge of the text block also bears a small burn scar (likely an errant cigarette) affecting a .25 inch portion of the edges of pages 321 through 334. Bibliographic reference: Cohen A3.2.a, Woods/ICS A3(ba.1), Langworth p.41.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston Spencer. London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria.. Longmans, Green, London, 1900.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: FirstÂedition of Churchillâs fourth book and personal record of his impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War. Octavo, in original cloth, with three folding maps (one printed in color). In very good condition. When the Boer settlers in South Africa rebelled against British authority, Churchill joined with the 21st Lancers and "secured an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post⦠He had scarcely arrived [in South Africa] before he was involved in a skirmish which found him 'in durance vile': a prisoner of war in Pretoria, unable to talk himself out of prison by claiming to be a reporter, and nearly mad over the lack of action. Typically, he made a daring escape⦠The true-life adventure story of his successful escapade dominates this book, one of the most gripping in the canon, making this one of his most popular books" (Langworth).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$834.27 + shipping
Description: First British edition, first impression, of Churchill's only novel, a melodramatic tale of liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediterranean state. This copy is from the collection of Churchill's bibliographer Ronald Cohen. Savrola was the first book Churchill undertook to write and his third publication overall. "Whether they deem it a key indication of Churchill's innermost philosophy and political morality or just a yarn, Savrola continues to exert a grip on devotees of the canon" (Langworth, p. 39). Churchill's tale was originally serialized in Macmillan's Magazine between May and December 1899. It was first published in book form in New York on 1 February 1900; the British edition appeared on 12 February. This copy is in the second state, with the title page verso blank. Provenance: Ronald Cohen, with his ownership inscription in pencil on the initial blank. Cohen's Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill, published in three volumes in 2006, is the authoritative source for collectors, librarians, and dealers. Cohen A3.2.b; Woods A3(b). Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, title and facsimile signature in gilt to front cover within blind frame, black endpapers. Ownership inscription to initial blank of Herbert Lloyd (1842-1914) of Eastbourne, dated 28 February 1900, soon after publication; book label to front pastedown of the Faulkner scholar James B. Meriwether (1928-2007). Slight lean to spine, light rubbing at extremities, front inner hinge repaired, rear inner hinge a little tender, contents toned. A good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$866.35 + 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
Churchill, Winston. Savrola. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, London, Bombay, 1900.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: Edition : First Edition, Full publisher?s decorative cloth, with gilt titles and ruling on upper board. Flat spine with gilt title. , Signature of previous owner in a neat hand on title. Savrola is a significant curiosity among the works of Churchill, as it was his only published fiction. It it therefore unique among his other works, which amount generally to memoirs and histories. Savrola was first published as a serial in Macmillan?s Magazine, and Churchill later resolved to put it out in in complete form. Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British Prime Minister in history to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States. , Size : 8vo (189x129mm) Very good condition, text clean.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$895.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Longmans, Green, and Co, London. This is a first edition copy of London to Ladysmith via Pretoria by future British Prime Minister Winston Spencer Churchill. The book is based on dispatches sent from South Africa and includes two fold-out maps, one in color, showing the areas of the events described within. The cover shows an armored train, and the spine is engraved with a British flag, though both are worn from shelf wear with some fading. The cover also has some spotting that we suspect are stains (see images). The interior and spine are both in excellent condition with very minor spotting from age. One of the maps does have some damage from folding. The front page shows that this copy was a gift to "Inez from Harry 1900", though who those people are is unknown. There are also some handwritten notes on a few of the pages.
Seller: Antiquarian Book Company, Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Winston Churchill. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1900.
Price: US$898.44 + shipping
Description: The first edition of Winston Churchill's volume recounting his personal experiences during the Second Boer War, illustrated with folding maps. The first edition of this work.Half-title is present.Illustrated with a colour folding map to the frontispiece, two folding maps, one map, and four plans.Collated, complete.Thirty-two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.Rebacked with the original boards and spine restored.'London to Ladysmith via Pretoria' recounts Churchill's impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War, a personal record of his time.This work include Churchill's account of the Relief of Ladysmith, as well as his capture and escape from the Boers, a dramatic event. In the original publisher's cloth binding, rebacked with the original boards and spine restored. A touch of discolouration and some marks to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the extremities. Evidence of a small patch of former loss to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very lightly age-toned with a few light spots. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Churchill, Winston Spencer. London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria.. Longmans, Green, London, 1900.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: FirstÂedition of Churchillâs fourth book and personal record of his impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War. Octavo, in original cloth, with three folding maps (one printed in color). In near fine condition. When the Boer settlers in South Africa rebelled against British authority, Churchill joined with the 21st Lancers and "secured an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post⦠He had scarcely arrived [in South Africa] before he was involved in a skirmish which found him 'in durance vile': a prisoner of war in Pretoria, unable to talk himself out of prison by claiming to be a reporter, and nearly mad over the lack of action. Typically, he made a daring escape⦠The true-life adventure story of his successful escapade dominates this book, one of the most gripping in the canon, making this one of his most popular books" (Langworth).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston Spencer. Savrola. Longmans, London, 1900.
Price: US$943.36 + shipping
Description: (London: Longmans Green & Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London, New York and Bombay. 1900). First UK Edition, First Printing, First State (integral title page with the print history and date on the title page verso thereof). 345 p[ages + 2 pages of ads at the rear. Publisher's blue-green cloth with gilt lettering to the front board and spine; Churchill's signature in gilt to the front board. Black end-papers. A VG (or better) copy with a few slight marks to the front boards, softening to the spine tips and just a touch of rubbing to the edges. The page block has sporadic foxing particularly to the early/late pages of the book (a common fault with this title). The binding is straight, firm and intact and the gilt lettering bright and there are no inscriptions or book-plates and no splits to the binding. A totally honest, unrestored copy in nice shelvable condition and a nicer copy than normally seen of Churchill's only novel. The UK first is considerably scarcer than its US counterpart and was issued in only 1,500 copies on February 13, 1900. Note this is the first state of the first edition. [The second state is different in that it has a title page cancellans with a blank verso]. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Imagine it is November 1961. Winston S. Churchill is almost 87 years old. You write a long and earnest letter to him, seeking his signature. "Amongst books written by you, I am the proud possessor of your "LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA" To me it is the best book relating to the Boer War or any war that I have read I would very much like to have your autograph on my copy. I hesitate to trouble you, still I make bold to request you to autograph LONDON TO LADYSMITH Shall I send it to you, for that purpose?" The happy ending of the story would be to find this copy with Churchills signature. Instead, within we found a copy of the letter sent to Churchill and an envelope in reply from Kensington, indicating it was sent from Churchills Hyde Park Gate home in London just nine days later. In the envelope we found a printed card from "The Private Secretary to the Rt. Hon. Sir Winston Churchill " that reads "Sir Winston Churchill wishes to thank you for your letter and to express his regret that, owing to the large number of similar requests he receives, it is not possible to do as you ask."Sigh. One can imagine the recipients disappointment. Still, we have not previously encountered such a card and the original envelope in which it was posted. Additionally, laid in we found both 1949 and 1961 receipts for the book, as well as six English and Irish newspaper clippings contemporary to the correspondence with Churchill, spanning 1959 to 1972 specifically regarding Churchills Boer War experience.The book itself is the first edition, first printing, of Churchills fourth published book. 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, where his capture, captivity, and daring escape made him a celebrity and helped launch his political career. The British first edition is striking, bound in tan cloth with an illustration of an armoured train on the front cover accompanied by the author's facsimile signature and with the Union flag and Transvaal flag in gilt on the spine beneath a red subtitle. The binding is visually arresting, but the first edition proved notoriously fragile and prone to wear, soiling, toning, and spotting. This copy is in good plus condition, sound, complete, unrestored, though with some modest aesthetic flaws. The illustrated cloth binding is square and tight and shelf presentation is quite good for the edition, only mildly toned with the red and gilt spine print and decoration still distinct. The corners remain sharp, despite some shelf wear to hinges and extremities. A faded previous owner name ("Evans") and address ("20. Apsley Rd.") are inked on a blank portion of the upper front cover. The blank rear cover shows considerable soiling. The contents are bright and retain a crisp feel and all maps and plans are intact, as are the original black endpapers. Spotting is reasonable for the edition, primarily confined to prelims and page edges. The sole previous ownership mark within is the tiny booksellers ink stamp of "GEORGES, Park Street, Bristol" on the front free endpaper verso. "Wm. Georges Sons" is the name on the 1961 receipt laid in.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.
Winston S. Churchill. Savrola. Longmans Green & Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: This well-worn survivor is a rare prize the first edition, first printing, Colonial issue of Winston Churchills only novel, far rarer than its U.S. or British first edition counterparts. Only 1,670 Colonial editions were issued in this illustrated hardcover binding - and this small number includes the second and third printings. The survival rate was poor given the tropical climates in much of the colonies. Those few examples that do survive are often quite worn and re-backed or re-bound.This is an original, unrestored copy, sound and complete though in poor condition, clearly having endured customary depredations of age and use. First printing is confirmed by the absence of the words "NEW IMPRESSION" on the title page. The binding is square and tight, though quite considerably worn, the cloth frayed along the hinges and extremities, the strikingly illustrated front cover scuffed, the blank rear cover scuffed and soiled, and with shallow loss of the cloth at the spine ends. The original swan and ship endpapers are intact, as are the original publishers advertisements for The River War and The Story of the Malakand Field Force following the text. The contents show only light, intermittent spotting. The colonial provenance is unequivocal; the sole previous ownership mark, inked on the dedication page, reads "Morabool Reading Society | No. 121, Aug. 1900". The Shire ofMooraboolis a local government area in Victoria, Australia. Light moisture staining is evident on the upper half of the dedication page and the succeeding blank right margins through page 49. The damage is modest and only cosmetic; there is no warping or other damage to the pages apart from the moisture staining. When Savrola was first published in February 1900, a very young Churchill was exuberant. Even though Savrola was his third published book, it was actually the first book he undertook and the second he completed. His "Tale of the Revolution in Laurania" is a melodramatic tale of political intrigue in a fictional Mediterranean state. He would later make deprecating comments about his novel and it is perhaps instructive that he never wrote another. In his 1930 autobiography he wrote, "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it [Savrola]." However, his mixed feelings about his only novel did not keep Churchill from writing a foreword to a new edition in 1956: "The preface to the first edition in 1900 submitted the book 'with considerable trepidation to the judgment or the clemency of the public.' The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled though certainly not changed my sentiments on this point."It has been argued that, as a literary effort, Savrola gave "dramatic voice to Churchills mature philosophical reflections about his fundamental political and ethical principles at the very moment when he settled on them for the rest of his life." (Powers, Finest Hour #74) Irrespective of Churchill's feelings about his book or the literary merit thereof, the novel certainly provides an interesting insight into the early political perspective and sentiment of the then very young Churchill.Reference: Cohen A3.3.a, Woods/ICS A3(bb), Langworth p.42 Colonial issue of the first edition, first printing.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$962.62 + shipping
Description: First British edition in book form, first impression, first state. Savrola was Churchill's only novel, the first book he undertook to write, and his third publication overall. "Whether they deem it a key indication of Churchill's innermost philosophy and political morality or just a yarn, Savrola continues to exert a grip on devotees of the canon" (Langworth, p. 39). Churchill's melodramatic tale of liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediterranean state was originally serialised in Macmillan's Magazine between May and December 1899. It was first published in book form in New York on 1 February 1900, possibly as US law required a books with foreign authors to be manufactured in America to ensure copyright protection. The British edition appeared on 13 February, with 1,500 copies printed, including 650 sets of sheets transferred from the Colonial Library issue, which were consequently given a cancel title with the verso blank. This copy is in the first state, retaining the copyright notice on the title verso. Cohen A3.2.a; Woods A3(b). Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, title and facsimile signature in gilt to front cover within blind frame, black endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown of Claude Churchill & Ethel Chidell, designed by G. M. McCall and dated 1909. Rubbed, light foxing to contents, still a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$962.62 + shipping
Description: First US edition, first printing, of Churchill's account of his experiences as a war correspondent in the Second Boer War. This copy is from the collection of Churchill's bibliographer Ronald Cohen. "The volume essentially consists of 27 letters and telegrams to the Morning Post written between 26 October 1899 and 10 March 1900. It is, as Churchill said in his Introductory Note, 'mainly a personal record of my adventures and impressions during the first five months of the African War. It may also be found to give a tolerably coherent account of the operations conducted by Sir Redvers Buller for the Relief of Ladysmith'"(Cohen). A major component is Churchill's internment in a prisoner-of-war camp and his daring escape, which enthralled readers at the time and helped to cement his reputation as a man of action and character. The US edition was published in June, following the British edition in May. "It is almost always in better condition than the English edition, thanks to the drier American climate and a superior cloth binding. It is also printed on better quality paper which is less inclined towards spotting" (Langworth, p. 55). Provenance: Ronald Cohen, with his ownership inscription in pencil on the front free endpaper. Cohen's Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill, published in three volumes in 2006, is the authoritative source for collectors, librarians, and dealers. Cohen A4.2. Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. With 3 folding maps including frontispiece, plans in text. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
CHURCHILL Winston Spenser. Savrola, A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania. , 1900.
Price: US$962.62 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 8vo., original green cloth, lettered in gilt. London, Longmans Green and Co. 1500 copies were published on February 13th., 1900. Neat bookplate on front pastedown, the cloth pulled on spine in a couple of places, otherwise a very good copy.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$962.62 + shipping
Description: [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.ix; [1]; 345; [3]. Elegantly hand-bound in half dark green oasis morocco over publisher's original gilt-titled cloth covers. Some light spotting, exterior as new. Near fine. Churchill's first and only novel. WOODS, Frederick, 'A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill', A3(b). Langworth.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$962.62 + 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
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Forward edge of front cover shows some a bit of rubbing of the green cloth, one small area front joint as well. Original black endpapers, intact. Some light foxong of half-title and title-pages, with occasional foxing through the text, usually peripheral. This novel was Churchill's only endeavor into fiction. 345pp. + 2 pages of adverts. Woods !3(b). Please see photos. Size: Crown Octav
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: This is Volume II only of the first edition, third and final printing, a particularly clean and bright copy. The River War is Churchill's second published book, issued in two volumes, the lengthiest from his time as an itinerant cavalry officer and war correspondent during the waning days of Queen Victorias reign. This first edition is not only compellingly written, but also physically beautiful. The two large, lavish volumes are decorated with gilt representations of the Mahdi's tomb on the spines and a gunboat on the front covers. Each volume is printed on heavy paper with a profusion of illustrations, maps, and plans. This third and final printing is not only the scarcest issue of the first edition, but also the last unabridged issue to be published until 2020. All three printings of the first edition (2,646 copies total) are virtually identical, issued respectively in November 1899, February 1900, and June 1900. Only 151 third printing copies were bound. This copy of the second volume is not only scarce, but particularly so thus, in very good plus condition, fully intact and unrestored. The illustrated cloth binding is square, clean, tight, and uncommonly bright. Shelf presentation is compelling, with no discernible color shift between the covers and spine, both of which retain rich navy hue and vivid gilt. Wear is minimal for the edition, trivial shelf wear substantially confined to the bottom edges, incidental hinge wear, and some wrinkling to the spine ends. The only reportable blemishes are a few tiny spots adjacent to the volume number on the spine. Overall, this is an externally gorgeous copy. The contents remain bright and complete; we confirm presence of all of the extensive maps and plans, as well as the frontispiece, tissue guard, and original black endpapers. The sole previous ownership mark is the armorial bookplate of "John Nicholl Hampson" affixed to the front pastedown. Spotting is comparatively moderate for the edition, conspicuous only to the first and final leaves and page edges, otherwise only occasionally intruding into the blank inner margins.The Mahdi, Mohammed Ahmed, was a messianic Islamic leader in central and northern Sudan in the final decades of the 19th century. In 1885, General Gordon famously lost his life in a doomed defense of the capitol, Khartoum. Though the Mahdi died that same year, his theocracy continued until 1898, when General Kitchener reoccupied the Sudan. With Kitchener to his vexation was a very young Winston Churchill, who participated in "the last great British cavalry charge" during the battle of Omdurman in September 1898, where the Mahdist forces were decisively defeated. On that battlefield Churchill both killed and witnessed the death of comrades. Writing about the British campaign in the Sudan, Churchill - a young officer in a colonial British army - is unusually sympathetic to the Mahdist forces and critical of Imperial cynicism and cruelty. This work offers us the candid perspective of the future 20th century icon from the distinctly 19th century battlefields where Churchill learned to write and earned his early fame. The text is arresting, insightful, powerfully descriptive, and of enduring relevance.Reference; Cohen A2.1.d, Woods/ICS A2(a.3), Langworth p.29.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, 1900.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: This is an exceptional copy of the U.S. first edition of Churchill's fourth published book, the best-preserved copy we have encountered. 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.The American edition is both distinctly different in appearance and significantly fewer in number than its British first edition counterpart; the U.S. first edition saw just a single printing of which no more than an estimated 1,850 copies were sold. As opposed to the illustrated khaki cloth of the British first edition, this U.S. edition is bound in pebble grain red cloth that proved quite susceptible to blotchy wear and soiling, particularly on the spine. This is a remarkably bright and clean copy, approaching near fine condition, almost a chimera thus. The binding is square, clean, and tight with sharp corners, vivid spine and front cover gilt, and striking, unfaded red hue on both the covers and spine. We note only mild, superficial scuffing. The contents are notably bright with no previous ownership marks and no spotting. All maps and plans are intact, including the folding maps, which remain properly folded. The top edge gilt is bright. We note only a strip of browning along the lower edge of the front pastedown, possibly transfer from the pastedown glue, and a few faint, tiny instances of soling to the otherwise bright fore and bottom edges.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 A4.2, Woods/ICS A4(b), Langworth p.55.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.48 + 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
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.
Winston Churchill. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$1020.37 + shipping
Description: The first edition of Sir Winston Churchill's firsthand account of his time during the African War. A personal record of Churchill's adventures and impressions during the first five months of the African War. This is the first of two books written by Churchill regarding his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa.Collated, complete with 3 folding maps, 5 maps and plans in addition to two pages of advertisements and the 32 page publisher's catalogue to the rear. With the folding maps in a very bright condition with no tears.Bookplate to the front pastedown, with the motto 'Esse Quam Videri'. Former owner's inscription to the recto of front endpaper dated 1900. Second inscription to the dedication leaf dated 1900, R C Jones.This work recounts Churchill's story of being captured by the Boers and his daring escape which gave him celebrity status assisting in launching his political career. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart with small split to the cloth at the joints and to the head of spine. Minor bumping to the head and tail of spine. A few light marks to boards. Bookplate to the front pastedown, with the motto 'Esse Quam Videri'. Former owner's inscription to the recto of front endpaper dated 1900. Second inscription to the dedication leaf dated 1900, R C Jones. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Scattered spots to the fore-edge affecting the occasional page. Spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Winston Spencer Churchill. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1900.
Price: US$1020.37 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A handsome first edition copy of Sir Winston Churchill's firsthand account of the Second Boer War, bound in beautiful half morocco by Maltbys. The first edition. Rebound in a beautiful contemporary half morocco binding by Maltbys of Oxford. With the half title page, folding map frontispiece, three maps, two of which are fold-out, and four plans. In addition to two pages of advertisements for other Churchill publications, followed by thirty-two pages of the publisher's catalogue to the rear of the book. Collated complete. Winston Churchill's first-hand personal record of his adventures and impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War in Southern Africa. On the outbreak of war, Churchill travelled to South Africa as a war correspondent and journalist for the Morning Post. Including an account of the Siege of Ladysmith and of Churchill's capture and dramatic escape from the Boers. With a bookplate for one, 'Peter M. Scott', to the front paste-down. In half morocco binding. Externally, excellent with minor shelf wear. Bookplate to the front paste-down. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting throughout, however the text is still very bright and clear. Light spotting to the fold out maps. Spotting to the fore-edge. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1026.79 + 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
Price: US$1090.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition, first state of Winston Churchill's only major fictional work, Savrola A first edition, first state of Winston Churchill's only major fictional work. With speeches of agitators and scenes of street fighting, the story follows the eponymous character as he attempts to lead a revolution against the dictatorial government of Laurania, a fictional European state. Described by Churchill himself as 'a thorough-going rip-roaring melodrama', the novel combines romance with scenes of political action. This is the first edition, first state of the novel, with the print history and date to the verso of the title page. Two pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. Prior owners ink inscription to the half title, 'G. G. G. Glefonclan 10/7/00'. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Lightly rubbed to the boards and the spine, with some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, generally firmly bound. The front endpaper is a little loose. Foxed to the front and rear of the book, and to the fore edge of the text block, but pages are otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: Front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Gilt rule front cover. Armorial book-plate signed in neat old hand, front free endpaper. Spine extremities very lightly frayed. Evidence of old newspaper off-setting rear endpapers. 1" x 1/2" tear top of pages 243-245. The true first edition of Churchill's only novel, preceding the Englisg edition by 3 1/2 months. 345pp. + 24-page catalogue at the end. A very clean copy through the text. Woods A3(a). Size: Crown Octavo
Seller: Glenn Books, ABAA, ILAB, Prairie Village, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$1123.05 + shipping
Description: [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.ix; [1]; 345; [3]. Elegantly hand-bound in full navy blue oasis morocco, with marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, publisher's original gilt-titled cloth covers bound in at rear. Some light marking to pp.335, 345 else contents very clean, bindings as new. A fine copy. Churchill's only novel. WOODS, Frederick, 'A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill', A3(b). Langworth.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Churchill, Winston Spencer. London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria.. Longmans, Green, London, 1900.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Description: FirstÂedition of Churchillâs fourth book and personal record of his impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War. Octavo, bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, with three folding maps (one printed in color). In near fine condition. When the Boer settlers in South Africa rebelled against British authority, Churchill joined with the 21st Lancers and "secured an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post⦠He had scarcely arrived [in South Africa] before he was involved in a skirmish which found him 'in durance vile': a prisoner of war in Pretoria, unable to talk himself out of prison by claiming to be a reporter, and nearly mad over the lack of action. Typically, he made a daring escape⦠The true-life adventure story of his successful escapade dominates this book, one of the most gripping in the canon, making this one of his most popular books" (Langworth).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
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.. LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA. Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1900.
Price: US$1167.23 + shipping
Description: Pp. xiv+498+[2](advertisements)+32(publisher's catalogue, dated 10/99), coloured frontispiece map, plus 3 black & white maps (2 folding, one full page), 4 plans (one full page), black endpapers; cr. 8vo; pictorial fawn cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, red, and black, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed, the fore-corners a trifle frayed, spine slightly creased, with light damp stain at foot and a couple of tiny splits to extremities; bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper free endpaper, light damp stain to top edge of several leaves, short closed tear to inner edge of frontispiece map, hinges starting at a couple of points, scattered foxing, occasional slight soiling and browning; Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1900. First edition. Cohen A4.1.a; Woods A4. *Churchill described this book, which is based on despatches he sent to the Morning Post, as 'a personal record of my adventures and impressions during the first five months of the African War . [including] a tolerably coherent account of the operations conducted by Sir Redvers Buller for the Relief of Ladysmith' [Introductory Note].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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$1251.40 + shipping
Description: First edition, third impression, published a year after the first. The publishers printed 503 copies but wasted most of them to not compete with the upcoming abridged edition: "The result is that only 140 copies of the third printing were ever made available and that it is far and away the scarcest of the first-edition printings" (Cohen). Churchill's second book was based on his own role as a war reporter in the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of Sudan. "Arguably the most aesthetically beautiful of original trade editions of Churchill's books, The River War is a brilliant history of British involvement in the Sudan and the campaign for its reconquest: arresting, insightful, with tremendous narrative and descriptive power. [the] features of that now distant campaign Churchill impressively captures in precise detail and exciting narrative, including his own role in the last great cavalry charge of British history. Finely written chapters trace the history of the Sudan, the rise of the Mahdi, the martyr's death of Gordon and, apparently not much exaggerated, the author's adventures" (Langworth, p. 27). Churchill himself calls it, in the first sentence, "a tale of blood and war". Provenance: the collection of Steve Forbes. Cohen A2.1.d. Richard M. Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. 2 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration gilt to spines and front covers, black endpapers. Photogravure portrait frontispiece to each volume and 5 similar plates (further photogravure in text), 23 colour maps and battles plans of which 20 folding, other maps and illustrations to the text. With 32-pp. publisher's catalogue at rear dated "7/00" (also found dated "5/00"). Cloth a little rubbed and soiled, some spotting to contents, rear hinge of vol. II cracked, light stain to early leaves of vol. I and towards end of vol. II, chip to fore edge of vol. I pp. 187/8 (not into text). A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1283.49 + shipping
Description: First British edition in book form, first impression, second state. Savrola was Churchill's only novel, the first book he undertook to write, and his third publication overall. "Whether they deem it a key indication of Churchill's innermost philosophy and political morality or just a yarn, Savrola continues to exert a grip on devotees of the canon" (Langworth, p. 39). Churchill's melodramatic tale of liberal revolution in an autocratic Mediterranean state was originally serialised in Macmillan's Magazine between May and December 1899. It was first published in book form in New York on 1 February 1900, possibly as US law required a books with foreign authors to be manufactured in America to ensure copyright protection. The UK edition appeared on 13 February, with 1,500 copies printed, including 650 sets of sheets transferred from the Colonial Library issue, which were consequently given a cancel title with the verso blank. This copy is in the second state; copies in the first state retain the copyright notice "Copyright, 1899, by Longmans, Green, and Co." on the title verso. The ownership signature dated February 1900 concurs with Woods' assertion that the first and second states are "simultaneous states of the first issue". Cohen A3.2.b; Woods A3(b). Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, title and facsimile signature in gilt to front cover within blind frame, black endpapers. W. H. Smith blind stamp to front free endpaper, pencilled ownership signature to front free endpaper dated month of publication. Light rubbing at extremities, foxing to edges and contents, short closed tear at fore edge of pp. 291/2: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1283.49 + 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$1283.49 + 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
Churchill, Winston Spencer. London To Ladysmith Via Pretoria.. Longmans, Green, London, 1900.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Description: FirstÂedition of Churchillâs fourth book and personal record of his impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War. Octavo, in original cloth, with three folding maps (one printed in color). In very good condition, owner's small name. A nice example. When the Boer settlers in South Africa rebelled against British authority, Churchill joined with the 21st Lancers and "secured an assignment as press correspondent to the Morning Post⦠He had scarcely arrived [in South Africa] before he was involved in a skirmish which found him 'in durance vile': a prisoner of war in Pretoria, unable to talk himself out of prison by claiming to be a reporter, and nearly mad over the lack of action. Typically, he made a daring escape⦠The true-life adventure story of his successful escapade dominates this book, one of the most gripping in the canon, making this one of his most popular books" (Langworth).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
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.
Churchill, Winston. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Longmans, Green & Co, London, 1900.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Finely bound in three-quarter morocco over marbled boards, plain endpapers. A Near Fine copy with a previous owner's gift inscription on the half-title and minor foxing, illustrated and with maps throughout. An early work by the young Churchill, London to Ladysmith recounts his experiences as a soldier in the Second Boer War. These experiences would prepare Churchill to follow in the footsteps of other distinguished family members, becoming a renowned military leader and statesman best known for his role in World War II and as Prime Minister. Near Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Churchill Winston. LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA. London Longmans, Green, and Co 1900, 1900.
Price: US$1595.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition with the early ads dated 1899. With a large folding map at front in colour, a second smaller folding map and a number of other maps and plans throughout the text. 8vo, publisher's original fawn cloth, lettered and pictorially decorated in black, red and gilt on the spine and in red and black on the upper cover. xiv, 498, (32) ads. A handsome copy of a book rarely found so, quite fresh and clean with the normative foxing limited to a few of the prelims only, the hinges strong, minimal mellowing to the susceptible fawn cloth and only minimal evidence of use or age SCARCE FIRST EDITION. A personal record of the first five months of the Boer War includes an account of Sir Redvers Buller's campaign for the relief of Ladysmith along with Churchills capture and escape from the Afrikaners. In a daring escape reminiscent of the exploits of Indiana Jones, Churchill climbed a ten-foot fence and passed a sentry at less than five yards. He had to reach Delagoa Bay, almost three hundred miles away. Finding a railway, he hurled himself aboard a moving train and jumped off later to find water. After a five-day walk, he came to a village where he happened to knock on the door of the only Englishman within a twenty mile radius. (The help Churchill received from this man had to be omitted from the book because the Boer War was still being fought at the time of publication). Eventually, Churchill reached Delagoa Bay. "I realised with awful force that no exercise of my own feeble wit and strength could save me from my enemies, and that without the assistance of that High Power . I could never succeed. My prayer . was swiftly and wonderfully answered."
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.. Savrola. Longmans Green & Co, London, 1900.
Price: US$1684.30 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Dark green cloth with gilt lettering and facsimile signature to front board. Minor bumping to head and tail of spine. Book slightly cocked. Ink markings to verso of FFEP. Small WH Smith & Son sticker on rear pastedown. First UK edition of Churchill's only novel, preceeded by the US edition. One of only 1500 copies An attractive copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
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.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the date 1900 printed on the title page. An attractive copy with light wear to the spine and edges. The book is bound in the original publisher's blue cloth. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A nice copy of this First Edition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Description: First British edition of Churchill's singular attempt at full-length fiction, one of only 1,500 copies. Octavo, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles. In near fine condition, names. Housed in a custom slipcase. Churchill's only major work of fiction, Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania describes events in the capital of Laurania, a fictional European state, as unrest against the dictatorial government of president Antonio Molara turns to violent revolution. Savrola is in many respects a traditional example of the "Ruritanian" genre, being published just four years after Anthony Hope's classic adventure novel, The Prisoner of Zenda. The politics and institutions of Laurania reflect the values of England as Churchill experienced them; he began work on the novel on his voyage from England to India to take part in the Malakand campaign in August 1897.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, 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$1925.23 + 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
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Description: This is the British first edition of Churchill's third published book and only novel in a magnificent fine binding commissioned by one of the worlds oldest bookshops. The elegant, red, Morocco goatskin binding features a hubbed spine with blind-ruled compartments, gilt-decorated bands, and gilt lion rampant in each unprinted compartment. The covers feature gilt rule borders, the front cover stamped with Churchills facsimile signature in gilt. The cover edges are gilt tooled and the spine ends gilt hatched. The contents are bound with all edges gilt, red and white silk head and tail bands, and striking marbled endpapers framed by generous gilt ruled and tooled turn-ins. This compellingly handsome example of the fine binders craft is a reminder to collectors that not all fine bindings are created equal.Gilt print on the lower front pastedown turn-in attributes this binding to "HENRY SOTHERAN, LTD." Founded in York in 1761 and established in London in 1815, Sotherans is one of the worlds oldest bookshops. Condition approaches near fine. The bright and clean binding shows only a few negligible scuffs and indentations. The British first edition, first printing contents are well-suited to the binding uncommonly clean and bright with only light, intermittent spotting and no previous ownership marks. The original publishers advertisement is retained following the text, offering the "Second Impression" of The River War and the "Seventh Thousand" of The Story of the Malakand Field Force.A very young Churchill was exuberant about publication at the time. Even though Savrola was his third published book, it was actually the first book he undertook and the second he completed. His "Tale of the Revolution in Laurania" is a melodramatic tale of political intrigue in a fictional Mediterranean state. He would later make deprecating comments about his novel and it is perhaps instructive that he never wrote another. In his 1930 autobiography he wrote, "I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it [Savrola]." However, his mixed feelings about his only novel did not keep Churchill from writing a foreword to a new edition in 1956: "The preface to the first edition in 1900 submitted the book 'with considerable trepidation to the judgment or the clemency of the public.' The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled though certainly not changed my sentiments on this point."It has been argued that, as a literary effort, Savrola gave "dramatic voice to Churchills mature philosophical reflections about his fundamental political and ethical principles at the very moment when he settled on them for the rest of his life." (Powers, Finest Hour #74) Irrespective of Churchill's feelings about his book or the literary merit thereof, the novel certainly provides an interesting insight into the early political perspective and sentiment of the then very young Churchill.Reference: Cohen A3.2.b, Woods/ICS A3(a.1), Langworth p.39.
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$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$2566.98 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of Churchill's account of his experiences as a war correspondent in the Second Boer War; "a splendid book both aesthetically and from a literary standpoint, the Ladysmith is one of the most sought-after titles in the canon" (Langworth, p. 54). "The volume essentially consists of 27 letters and telegrams to the Morning Post written between 26 October 1899 and 10 March 1900 It is, as Churchill said in his Introductory Note, 'mainly a personal record of my adventures and impressions during the first five months of the African War. It may also be found to give a tolerably coherent account of the operations conducted by Sir Redvers Buller for the Relief of Ladysmith'"(Cohen). A major component is Churchill's internment in a prisoner-of-war camp and his daring escape, which enthralled readers at the time and helped to cement his reputation as a man of action and character. Cohen A4.1.a. Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo (187 x 120 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. Folding coloured map, 3 further folding maps, 4 plans in text. Loss to lower outer corner of folding map supplied in skilful facsimile. Bound without initial blank. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2566.98 + 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
Churchill, Winston Spencer. London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria. Longmans, Green and Co, London, 1900.
Price: US$2575.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. Half-title, folding color frontispiece map, 498pp., 32pp. publisher's ads, with all maps and plans present, original cloth cover bound in at the rear. Churchill writes "This small book is mainly a personal record of my adventures and impressions during the first five months of the African War". A lovely fresh copy handsomely bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full red morocco, boards ruled in gilt with gilt stamp of Winston S. Churchill, raised bands, two compartments lettered in gilt, other compartments stamped with a gilt rampant lion within a gilt frame, all edges gilt, red morocco turn-ins double ruled with corner flourishes gilt. A bright, fine copy with no names, bookplates, or foxing.
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$2600.00 + shipping
Description: This is the first edition, second printing of Churchill's second published work, an unrestored, fully intact set in the striking, original bindings. This second printing is readily distinguished from the first printing only by the words "Second Impression" on the title page and a 1900 date replacing 1899. Condition approaches very good. The dark blue cloth bindings are intact and unfaded, with quite respectable shelf presentation, the spines notably unfaded. We note modest wear to extremities, including wrinkling to the spine ends and some overall spine creasing, including some concavity to the upper Volume II spine a typical toll of the massive text blocks. The illustrated cloth bindings are substantially clean, showing only minor blemishes. The contents are complete - all of the extensive Illustrations, Maps, and Plans are present, as are the frontispiece portraits and tissue guards. A noteworthy oddity is that the Vol. II frontispiece was mis-bound by one leaf, preceding the half-title, rather than opposite the title page. The original black endpapers are likewise present; partial cosmetic splits to the gutters do not affect binding integrity, the mull beneath intact. Spotting, endemic to the edition, is present intermittently throughout, but generally light. The sole previous ownership mark in each volume is a vintage personal library bookplate affixed to each front pastedown that of "Edward Alan Reed" with the Latin motto "Solus Cum Illis Nunquam" a lovely inscription for a library translating roughly as "alone with them never". Each lower rear pastedown features the same silver New York City bookshop sticker.Published in two massive volumes, this edition is compelling in every respect. The text is arresting, insightful, powerfully descriptive, and enduringly relevant. Mohammed Ahmed, the Mahdi, was a messianic Islamic leader in central and northern Sudan in the final decades of the 19th century. In 1883 Mahdists overwhelmed the Egyptian army of British commander William Hicks and Great Britain ordered withdrawal of Egyptian troops and officials from the Sudan. In 1885, General Gordon famously lost his life in a doomed defense of the capitol, Khartoum. Though Ahmed died that same year, his theocracy continued until 1898, when General Kitchener reoccupied the Sudan. With Kitchener was a young Winston Churchill, who participated in decisive defeat of the Mahdist forces and the last "genuine" cavalry charge of the British army during the battle of Omdurman in September 1898. In this book, Churchill - a young officer in a colonial British army - is unusually sympathetic to the Mahdist forces and critical of Imperial cynicism and cruelty. This work offers the young Churchills candid perspective from the distinctly 19th century battlefields where he learned to write and earned his early fame long before he became a 20th century icon.This first edition is not only compellingly written, but also beautiful and bibliographically important. The two large, lavish volumes are decorated with gilt representations of the Mahdi's tomb on the spines and a gunboat on the front covers. Each volume is printed on heavy paper with a profusion of illustrations, maps, and plans. This is one of the few Churchill books for which there was no concurrent U.S. first edition. And the first edition is scarce. There were just three printings of the first edition (2,646 copies total). All three printings are virtually identical, issued respectively in November 1899, February 1900 (503 copies), and June 1900 (140 copies). Bibliographically it is notable that the first edition was the only unabridged edition for well over a century. In 1902 Churchill (then a new Member of Parliament) revised and abridged his text, excising much of his criticism of Kitchener for political reasons.All subsequent editions of The River War, until 2020, were based on this 1902 abridged and revised text.Reference: Cohen A2.1.c, Woods/ICS A2(a.2), Langworth p.29.
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3208.72 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of Churchill's account of his experiences as a war correspondent in the Second Boer War; "a splendid book both aesthetically and from a literary standpoint, the Ladysmith is one of the most sought-after titles in the canon" (Langworth, p. 54). "The volume essentially consists of 27 letters and telegrams to the Morning Post written between 26 October 1899 and 10 March 1900 It is, as Churchill said in his Introductory Note, 'mainly a personal record of my adventures and impressions during the first five months of the African War. It may also be found to give a tolerably coherent account of the operations conducted by Sir Redvers Buller for the Relief of Ladysmith'"(Cohen). A major component is Churchill's internment in a prisoner-of-war camp and his daring escape, which enthralled readers at the time and helped to cement his reputation as a man of action and character. Cohen A4.1.a. Richard Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in burgundy morocco, spine lettered and decorated with lion centre tool in gilt, rule to boards gilt, signature blocked to front board gilt, twin rule to turn-ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Folding colour map, 3 further maps, and 4 plans. Some occasional light foxing, an excellent copy in a fine binding.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is an original, unrestored, virtually mint copy of the exceedingly rare First Printing of the Colonial edition. It is significantly rarer than either the American or English first editions of SAVROLA. Bibliographer, Ronald Cohen states that no more than 1,500 Colonial SAVROLAs were produced for both the hardcover and the softcover issues combined. Moreover, the survival rate for these editions was quite poor due to colonial climate conditions. This miraculous survivor, in its original decorated cloth binding, is virtually free of wear, retaining vivid color and just a faint reddish tinge to the rear face, no doubt picked up from an adjacently shelved book. The spine is only moderately faded, with very bright gilt type. The binding is extraordinarily tight and crisp. The original decorated endpapers are undimmed, and the contents are clean and unfoxed. Truly unique thus. First Colonial Library Edition (Cohen A3.3.a) (Woods A3bb).
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$22461.05 + 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
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Description: On 12 August 1900, during his first successful campaign for Parliament, Winston Churchill inscribed and dated this remarkable presentation copy of the first edition, first printing to the recipient. It was a highly relevant gift. First, the book Churchills fourth recounts the daring, dramatic escape that made Churchill a war hero and propelled his first election victory a month and a half after he inscribed this copy. Second, it was gifted in thanks for the recipients help on a Sunday with the young candidates overwhelming accumulation of correspondence. This inscribed presentation copy is accompanied by a typed, signed presentation letter from Churchill specifically explaining the gift of this book. Signed, first edition copies of Churchills early works are quite scarce. A copy thus inscribed, dated, contemporary, to a known recipient, and with definitive provenance is a compellingly rare prize.Churchill inscribed this book in four lines on the half-title recto: "To John Mansfield Esq. | from | Winston S. Churchill | August 12th 1900"The accompanying hand-emended and signed presentation letter is typed on a single sheet of laid, watermarked paper measuring 8 x 10 inches and printed with Churchills mothers address, "35 A, GREAT CUMBERLAND PLACE, | W." The typed date is "August 14th, 1900. In three paragraphs, the letter reads:"Dear Mr. Mansfield, The Letters are all right. It is very kind of you to have taken so much trouble to have written them for me. I dont know what I should have done if the accumulation had run on for two or three more days. I fear I was the thoughtless cause of spoiling your fine Sunday. Will you accept, as a small recognition of the assistance you have been to me, a copy of my book about the Boer War, which I forward with this letter?"The word "for" in the second paragraph, as well as the question mark at the end of the third paragraph, are both hand-emended.The valediction and signature are likewise in Churchills hand: "Yours vy truly | Winston S. Churchill"The recipient, John Henry Mansfield (1865-1932), was the estate agent for Howick Hall, home of Churchills host, Earl Grey.This inscribed presentation copy approaches very good condition. The binding is square, tight, and clean. The binding is lightly soiled, though only appreciably on the blank rear cover, and the spine is not toned, with both the gilt and red subtitle distinct. The binding shows light wear to extremities, some fraying along the front joint, and a little wrinkling to the spine cloth. The contents are particularly bright and clean for the edition and retain a crisp feel. We find no previous ownership marks other than the authors inscription. Especially impressive for the edition, there is no spotting. The original black endpapers are intact with no sign of cracking at the gutters. All maps and plans are present, including the folding maps at the title page and p.366. The rear catalogue is dated "10/99" (rather than "7/00"), indicating this is one of the earlier bound copies.The book is housed in a full red Morocco goatskin Solander case featuring a 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, blemishes, or fading.The typed, hand-emended, and signed letter from Churchill is complete, with no loss or tears, despite significant soiling and staining, particularly to the upper and right edges. The letter has three horizontal creases and one vertical crease, ostensibly from original posting.The letter is housed in a clear, removable, archival sleeve within a rigid, crimson cloth folder.While the letter and book together provide self-evident provenance, we can also share that the book and letter were sold by the great grandchild of the recipient, John Mansfield.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.