THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE -Silver Library Edition ("New Impression") VARIANT BINDING-

Winston S. Churchill

Published by Longmans, Green, & Co. Ltd., London, 1901

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Churchill's first book: True-life military adventures drawn from newspaper despatches filed by the 22-year-old correspondent while serving on India's Afghanistan-bordering Northwest Frontier under Major-General Sir Bindon Blood. A very good copy of the Second Printing of this edition, which is, in fact, considerably rarer than the first printing. The title page states: "NEW IMPRESSION" (rather than "NEW EDITION"). It also adds the byline initial "L." to Churchill's name on the title page, and the publishing date: 1901. The Silver Library ship logo is transferred in larger format to the third free endpaper, with a revised "Bibliographical Note" on the verso containing the full reprint date (February, 1901) and a boxed advertisement for Churchill's four subsequent books. The binding here is the variant red-ish brown cloth. It is clean, square and tight. The spine is moderately faded, the gilt type is not. The endpapers are white and un-watermarked, without the swan decorative motif. The contents are fine and unfoxed. Responding to numerous proofing errors in the First English edition of MALAKAND, Winston Churchill quickly prepared a new revised edition that restored the correct text as he'd originally intended it. Issued January 1899 in publisher Longmans' low-priced "Silver Library" series, this Second Edition constituted the book's definitive rendering.A handsome example and a bit of a hybrid that blends elements of the standard and variant bindings. The Silver Library Edition (?New Impression?) VARIANT BINDING [1 of 1,000 copies]. 8vo (340 pages, frontis photo, illustrated, with 6 maps, including 2 foldout in color) (Cohen A1.3.c) (Woods A1bb.2). Seller Inventory # 140718

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Bibliographic Details

Title: THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE -...
Publisher: Longmans, Green, & Co. Ltd., London
Publication Date: 1901
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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