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WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL (1874-1965)
The River War; An Historical Account of the Reconquest of Sudan, Longmans, Green and Co., 1899, 8°, 2 volumes, FIRST EDITION, plates and illustrations, 20 folding lithographed maps, half titles (tear to upper margin of frontispiece in vol. I, final leaf of vol. I and one index leaf with repair to upper margin, occasional light marginal soiling), full crimson morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere, Churchill's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on upper covers, spines lettered in gilt and decorated with lion rampant, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (fore-edge to vol. I slightly damaged). [Woods A2a: 2000 copies published on 6 November 1899, price 36/-] Provenance: Henry Sotheran, stamp to front free endpaper. (2)
The River War; An Historical Account of the Reconquest of Sudan, Longmans, Green and Co., 1899, 8°, 2 volumes, FIRST EDITION, plates and illustrations, 20 folding lithographed maps, half titles (tear to upper margin of frontispiece in vol. I, final leaf of vol. I and one index leaf with repair to upper margin, occasional light marginal soiling), full crimson morocco gilt by Bayntun Riviere, Churchill's facsimile signature stamped in gilt on upper covers, spines lettered in gilt and decorated with lion rampant, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (fore-edge to vol. I slightly damaged). [Woods A2a: 2000 copies published on 6 November 1899, price 36/-] Provenance: Henry Sotheran, stamp to front free endpaper. (2)