Author: CHURCHILL Winston S.
Title: Ian Hamilton's March. Together with Extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant H Frankland, a Prisoner of War at Pretoria. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH
Description: Longmans, Green & Co.,, 1900. 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.

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