MY AFRICAN JOURNEY
-Rare Contemporary Reprint-
1962
Third English Edition (First Thus)
The Holland Press - Neville Spearman, Ltd. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A27.9)(Woods A12c)
8vo (150 pages, illustrated with four pages of black & white plates retained from the original edition)
Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Brick Red cloth]
Item Number: 17916
$85.00
Collector's Guide
My African Journey is Winston Churchill’s travelogue account of his whirlwind tour of Britain’s East-Africa territories as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies; his first official government office. The book features eloquent and perceptive observations about Africa, and much big-game hunting, with young Churchill as guide. The first English edition is particularly coveted for its handsome cover woodcut of the author posed beside a trophy rhinoceros. The more plainly-bound American edition, which utilized English first edition sheets, has no woodcut on its brownish-red buckram cover, yet it is the rarer volume.
Description
A rare 1960s reprint hat retains five of the original photographs from the first edition. A very good copy in an unclipped dust jacket.