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CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. 8° (192 x 127mm). Frontispiece portrait of General Sir Bindon Blood and 6 maps and plans, 2 coloured and folding, publisher's ads at end. (Occasional very light spotting.) Original light green cloth gilt, black endpapers (front inner hinge cracked, extremities lightly rubbed and covers lightly soiled). Provenance: James Henry Hugo (ink signature to title dated 1898, annotations in ink and pencil, complete with a list of errata and corrections in his hand) -- later signature of Winston Churchill -- Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 355.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. 8° (192 x 127mm). Frontispiece portrait of General Sir Bindon Blood and 6 maps and plans, 2 coloured and folding, publisher's ads at end. (Occasional very light spotting.) Original light green cloth gilt, black endpapers (front inner hinge cracked, extremities lightly rubbed and covers lightly soiled). Provenance: James Henry Hugo (ink signature to title dated 1898, annotations in ink and pencil, complete with a list of errata and corrections in his hand) -- later signature of Winston Churchill -- Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 355.

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CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. 8° (192 x 127mm). Frontispiece portrait of General Sir Bindon Blood and 6 maps and plans, 2 coloured and folding, publisher's ads at end. (Occasional very light spotting.) Original light green cloth gilt, black endpapers (front inner hinge cracked, extremities lightly rubbed and covers lightly soiled). Provenance: James Henry Hugo (ink signature to title dated 1898, annotations in ink and pencil, complete with a list of errata and corrections in his hand) -- later signature of Winston Churchill -- Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 355.

AN EXCEPTIONAL ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION OF CHURCHILL'S FIRST BOOK. James Henry Hugo (1870-1943) was Surgeon-Lieutenant in the expedition. '[He] greatly distinguished himself in the siege of Malakand and with an expedition into Upper Swat in 1897-8, winning the D.S.O. and the Frontier medal with two clasps' (BMJ obituary, 20th March 1943). Issue without the errata slip inserted before first map. Woods A1(a).