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Winston Churchill. My African Journey. Easton Press, 1992.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Special Collector's Edition bound in full burgundy red leather with gilt on cover, spine and all around pages. Moire endpapers with gold satin marker. Black and white illustration, map of the journey and photographs. This copy appears to be unread, unused. 6.25"w x 9.5"h.
Seller: PSBooks, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston. My African Journey. Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1992.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 24 x 15.5 cm. Octavo. 134pp. Bound into full red leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 3 raised bands to spine, moire endpapers and ribbon. Unused Easton Press bookplate laid-in. Two small bumps to foredge side of the boards.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Churchill, Winston. My African Journey. Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1992.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: When Churchill was 31 and serving as the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, he went to Africa - partly as a fact finding mission and partly for fun. He visitied what is today Kenya, Uganda, Somalia, Sudan, and Egypt. This book is his account of those travels. Bound in full dark red leather with real gold decorations. Luxury features include gilded page edges, acid neutral paper that is sewn (not glued) into the binding, raised bands on the spine, moire endpapers, and a sewn-in leather bookmark. I bought this book (and 89 other Eastons) from a wealthy Easton Press subscriber. Near Fine due to a very faint shadow of a removed bookplate on the front pastedown and a very minor blemish to the side page edge. Ships same or next business day very well protected in a box. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 134 pages
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$169.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True Collector?s Edition published by The Easton Press in 22KT gold and blood red leather, silk moire end pages, satin ribbon, hub-bed spine, and archival quality paper. Book appears unread and looks pristine. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding is tight. See picture of the actual book.
Seller: Dungeness Books, ABAA, Sequim, WA, U.S.A.
winston churchill. My African Journey. Easton Press January 1992, 1992.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Beautiful red leather cover with gold embellishments and gold page edges. Very little wear to the cover and pages. Easton press blank personal library sticker inside. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.
Seller: The Book Garden, Bountiful, UT, U.S.A.
Winston Churchill. My African Journey ( FULL LEATHER, Collector's Edition ). Easton Press, 1992.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: fine, fresh, pristine copy, burgundy FULL LEATHER with silk ribbon marker and elaborate gilt overall decoration. To access more of our signed, limited edition or leatherbound books, use keywords SIGNEDBX, LTHRBX, LTHRBX OR ESTNBX. Language: eng
Seller: Barbers Book Store Online, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Winston S. Churchill. My African Journey. Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1992.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Description: This is the Easton Press leather bound edition. My African Journey is Churchill's travelogue on Britain's possessions in East Africa, written while he was serving as Undersecretary of State for the Colonies. This edition features a full red leather binding with hubbed spine, and elaborate gilt decoration. The contents are printed on acid-neutral archival quality paper and are bound with all edges gilt, gold satin ribbon page marker, sewn pages, and moire silk endsheets. The 1908 first edition was notable, among other things, for being the only one of Churchills many books to contain photographs apparently taken by the author. This 1992 edition reproduces a number of the photographic illustrations from the first edition. Condition is as new. The binding is square, tight, and immaculately clean with sharp corners and no discernible wear. The contents are crisp, bright, and immaculately clean. In the summer of 1907 Churchill left England for five months, making his way after working stops in southern Europe to Africa for "a tour of the east African domains." Churchill enjoyed a proper 19th Century bwana experience, traveling by special train provided by the Uganda Railway, receiving tribute from various chiefs, and shooting all manner of things. On 6 November Churchill wrote to his mother that at Simba "the first day I killed I Zebra, I wildebeeste, two hartebeeste, I gazelle, I bustard (a giant bird)." On the third day Churchill would kill a rhinoceros, the basis of the striking illustration on the front cover of the British first edition of his eventual book. Happily, there are more insightful and enduringly interesting experiences recounted in the book than just a catalogue of culled fauna.From Aden and then to Mombassa, Churchill traveled up-country. Churchill's trip included stops at Nairobi, Lake Victoria, Kampala, the Ripon Falls, Gondokoro, and, after a journey by both train and steamer, Khartoum, followed by Wadi Halfa, Aswan, Cairo, and thence home.By now a seasoned and financially shrewd author, Churchill arranged to profit doubly from the trip, first by serializing articles and then by publishing a book based substantially upon them. Nine articles on his African journey were published in Strand Magazine from March to November 1908. In November 1908 Hodder and Stoughton published My African Journey as a book. While Churchill's Strand articles make up the bulk of the book, the last two chapters plus an additional paragraph in Chapter X did not appear in Strand and the book is a substantial 10,000 words longer than the serialized articles.Reference: Cohen A27.16
Seller: Churchill Book Collector ABAA/ILAB/IOBA, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.