IAN HAMILTON'S MARCH: Together with extracts from the diary of Lieutenant H. Frankland a prisoner of war at Pretoria.
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]. Item #132228
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