Ian Hamilton’s March
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Together with Extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant H Frankland, a Prisoner of War at Pretoria.
SPLENDID COPY IN SIGNED SOTHERAN BINDING
Published: Longmans Green & Co., 1900
Stock code: 46015
Price: £1,000.00
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.