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THE RIVER WAR: A Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan

-Rebacked First Edition Set-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1899 | $5,000.00

This very good First English edition set has been rebacked, with new endpapers. The cloth is quite fresh, save for a miniscule circular stain on the front board of Volume I, and some mild denting to the edges of both volumes. The gilt titles and cover illustrations remain bright and the spines are only nominally […]

THE RIVER WAR: An Account of the Re-conquest of the Sudan

By: Winston S. Churchill

1933 | $2,000.00

This is a very good copy in the very rare dust jacket of the First Printing of the “Cheap Edition,” as designated by the publisher. It was printed in 1933 from the original plates for the first abridged edition published in 1902. This edition remains especially important for the new Introduction that Churchill wrote for […]

THE RIVER WAR: An Account of the Re-conquest of the Sudan

-English Abridged One-Volume "Cheap" Edition (Third "Wartime" Printing) in the Rare Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1940 [1941] | $1,850.00

This is a very good copy, in the rare dust jacket, of the Third, and by far the rarest printing of the so-called “Cheap Edition,” issued on February 28, 1941, according to bibliographer Ronald Cohen, despite the publisher’s indicated 1940 publication date. Produced using the original plates from the first abridged edition of 1902, the […]

THE RIVER WAR: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

-Abridged One-Volume "Cheap" Edition (Fourth Printing) in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1949 | $295.00

This is a very good copy of a 1949 reprint of the one-volume, abridged, so-called “Cheap Edition” of 1933. Printed from the original plates for the first 1902 abridged edition, this edition remains important bibliographically for the new Introduction that Churchill wrote for it. The unclipped dust jacket here has darkened somewhat with age, else […]

THE RIVER WAR: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

-Abridged One-Volume "Cheap" Edition (Fifth Printing) in Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1951 | $275.00

This is a virtually mint copy in an unclipped dust jacket of the 1951 reprint of the abridged one-volume, so-called “Cheap Edition” of 1933. Produced from the original plates for the first 1902 abridged edition, this “edition remains important bibliographically for the new Introduction that Churchill wrote for it. The book and dust jacket are […]

THE RIVER WAR: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

-Later Abridged One-Volume "Cheap" Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1951 [1965] | $450.00

This is an exceptionally fresh copy of the final reprint of the abridged one-volume, so-called “Cheap Edition” of 1933. Printed from the original plates for the first 1902 abridged edition, this edition remains important bibliographically for the new Introduction that Churchill wrote for it. This is the binding variant that Cohen describes as dating from […]

THE RIVER WAR: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

-First American Abridged One-Volume "Cheap" Edition in the Rare Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1933 | $950.00

This is an impressively fresh copy of the First American so-called “Cheap Edition” of 1933, in the rare dust jacket, which is not price-clipped. Produced from the original plates for the first 1902 abridged edition, this edition remains important bibliographically for the new Introduction that Churchill wrote for it. The dust jacket has a short […]

THE RIVER WAR: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan

-New Unabridged Annotated Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

2021 | $250.00

Thirty-one years in the making, and 120 years after its original publication, a complete, unabridged, two-volume reissue, superbly annotated by historian James W. Muller, with a posthumous Introduction by Lady Mary Soames.

THE RIVER WAR

-Rebound From the Centenary Collected Works-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1973-1975 [Bound 1994] | $400.00

This is a virtually mint copy extracted from the legendary 34-volume “Centenary Edition” of Churchill’s Collected Works, which was published on the occasion of what would have been Churchill’s 100th birthday. A deluxe limited edition reprinting of every book-length title, the set was issued initially in full white vellum bindings. Only 1750 of the intended […]

THE RIVER WAR: A Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan

-First Edition Set-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1899 | Register to View Price

This is an exemplary First English edition set with lustrous blue-black cloth, bright gilt and unfaded spines that are well-rounded and unfrayed. The binding is crisp and tight and the corners are all sharp. There are two discreet vintage bookplates, one loosely laid-into each volume from an unknown collector and one affixed to the front […]

THE RIVER WAR: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan

-First Edition Set in Fine Leather Binding-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1899 | Register to View Price

This First English edition set has been rebound spectacularly in full crimson levant by Bayntun Riviere of Bath, with Churchill’s signature in gilt on each face, the spines gilt-tooled and lettered with rampant lion ornaments in six compartments, raised bands, all edges gilded and leather-edged marbled endpapers. The books have been trimmed for binding. All […]

THE RIVER WAR

-Nelson “Shilling Library”Abridged Edition in the Rare Dust Jacket-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1915 | $4,500.00

This is a singular copy of the first so-called “Cheap Edition” in the extravagantly rare original dust jacket, which has lost approximately one-inch at the spine head and bears a vintage Canadian price sticker (”45c”) affixed to the spine, but is otherwise in spectacular condition. The book is too; just about mint, bright and fresh […]

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THE RIVER WAR: A Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan

-First Edition Set in Rare Leather Binding-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1899 | Register to View Price

An extravagantly ornate leatherbound First English edition set bound by the illustrious, and today little remembered, turn-of-the-century, New York City-based master binder Frank J. Pfister and his bindery Pfister Co. The full-green leather binding has faded to brown on the spines, which are elaborately gilt-tooled in six compartments with raised bands and a repeating motif […]

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THE RIVER WAR: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan

[SIGNED First One-Volume Abridged Edition]

By: Winston S. Churchill

1902 | Register to View Price

This is a very good copy of the rare First Abridged One-Volume English edition. It has been neatly signed in ink on the half-title: ”From Winston S. Churchill.” Due to the small print run of 1,000 copies, the Abridged Edition is actually much rarer than the two-volume First Edition of THE RIVER WAR. (Ronald Cohen, […]