LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA.
Pp. xiv+498+[2](advertisements)+32(publisher's catalogue, dated 10/99), coloured frontispiece map, plus 3 black & white maps (2 folding, one full page), 4 plans (one full page), black endpapers; cr. 8vo; pictorial fawn cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, red, and black, slightly soiled, edges lightly rubbed, the fore-corners a trifle frayed, spine slightly creased, with light damp stain at foot and a couple of tiny splits to extremities; bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, bookplate of David Levine, Sydney, on upper free endpaper, light damp stain to top edge of several leaves, short closed tear to inner edge of frontispiece map, hinges starting at a couple of points, scattered foxing, occasional slight soiling and browning; Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1900. First edition. Cohen A4.1.a; Woods A4. *Churchill described this book, which is based on despatches he sent to the Morning Post, as 'a personal record of my adventures and impressions during the first five months of the African War ... [including] a tolerably coherent account of the operations conducted by Sir Redvers Buller for the Relief of Ladysmith' [Introductory Note]. Item #161335
Price: $1,750.00