CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). The River War. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. 2 volumes, 8° (226 x 116mm). 7 photogravure portraits, 24 maps, most folding, almost all partly coloured, several other illustrations and maps in text, 32 pp. of advertisements at end of vol. I. (Spotting to text occasionally affecting maps.) Original dark blue pictorial cloth gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, vol. II with heavier rubbing to spine and inner hinges cracked). Provenance: Graham Hamilton Greenwell (book label). FIRST EDITION of Churchill's second book. Woods A2(a).

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CHURCHILL, Winston S. (1874-1965). The River War. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. 2 volumes, 8° (226 x 116mm). 7 photogravure portraits, 24 maps, most folding, almost all partly coloured, several other illustrations and maps in text, 32 pp. of advertisements at end of vol. I. (Spotting to text occasionally affecting maps.) Original dark blue pictorial cloth gilt (extremities lightly rubbed, vol. II with heavier rubbing to spine and inner hinges cracked). Provenance: Graham Hamilton Greenwell (book label). FIRST EDITION of Churchill's second book. Woods A2(a).

Together with 2 other works by Churchill: The World Crisis. London: 1923-1931. Vols I, II, III (parts 1 and 2) only. Inscribed. -- My Early Life. London: 1958. Inscribed. (7)

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