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THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Edition of Churchill’s First Book-

By: Winston [L. Spencer] Churchill

3/14/1898 | Register to View Price

This is a very attractive copy of the First State of the First English edition. The rear publisher’s catalogue is dated 12/97 and there is no Errata slip. The cloth is fresh and only modestly and evenly faded, including the spine, which is physically robust and unruffled. The binding is crisp and the corners are […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Edition of Churchill’s First Book-

By: Winston [L. Spencer] Churchill

1898 | $2,500.00

This could have been an exceptionally good copy of the First State of the First English edition, with the rear publisher’s catalogue dated 12/97 and the Eratta slip present. The cloth is still bright but the original owner elected to write his name: “E.D. Miller” in fountain pen across the front cover. He also prominently […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Edition of Churchill's First Book-

By: Winston [L. Spencer] Churchill

1898 | Register to View Price

This is a very attractive copy of the First State of the First English edition. The rear publisher’s catalogue is dated 12/97 and there is no Errata slip. The cloth is fresh and only modestly and evenly faded, including the spine, which is physically robust and unruffled. The binding is crisp and the corners are […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Edition of Churchill's First Book in Fine Leather Binding with Tipped-In Typed Letter Signed by Churchill-

By: Winston [L. Spencer] Churchill

1898 | Register to View Price

A very fine leatherbound copy of the First State of the First English edition, with the rear publisher’s catalogue dated 12/97. Tipped-in at the second front free endpaper is a typed letter signed by Winston Churchill on 28 Hyde Park Gate notepaper, dated October 29, 1947, to H.A. Nutting, MP: Dear Nutting, I am asking […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Edition of Churchill's First Book-

By: Winston L. Spencer Churchill

1898 | Register to View Price

This is an exceptionally good copy of the First English edtion. The green cloth is vibrantly bright and unfaded, including the fade-prone spine. The binding is crisp and the corners are sharp. This is the Second State binding for the First English edition, per Cohen. The rear publisher’s catalogue is present, dated 3/98, and an […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Colonial Library Hardcover Edition-

By: Winston [W. Spencer] Churchill

1898 | Register to View Price

This is an astonishingly fresh, virtually mint copy of the rare First Colonial Library hardcover edition, which was “intended for circulation only in India and the British colonies.” Harsher climate conditions in the colonies generally resulted in low survival rates for these volumes. Thus, the freshness of this example is so striking. Typographically, the front […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-Rebound First Colonial Library Edition-

By: Winston [W.L. Spencer] Churchill

1898 | $950.00

This is a very good rebound copy of the rare First Colonial Library edition, “intended for circulation only in India and the British colonies.” The harsher climate conditions in the colonies generally resulted in low survival rates for these volumes. This copy has been tidily trimmed and rebound in simple black cloth with a hand-lettered […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Colonial Library Hardcover Edition-

By: Winston [W. Spencer] Churchill

1898 | Register to View Price

A very good copy of the rare First Colonial Library hardcover edition, which was “intended for circulation only in India and the British colonies.” Harsher climate conditions in the colonies generally resulted in low survival rates for these volumes. This copy has weathered unusually well. The spine has faded moderately, as per usual, but the […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Colonial Library Hardcover Edition-

By: Winston [W. Spencer] Churchill

1898 | $1,500.00

A good-very good copy of the rare First Colonial Library hardcover edition, which was “intended for circulation only in India and the British colonies.” Harsher climate conditions in the colonies generally resulted in low survival rates for these volumes. This copy is a survivor with character. The spine has darkened and there is fractional loss […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-Silver Library Edition ("New Impression")-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1901 | $1,000.00

A very good copy of the Second Printing, which is, in fact, considerably rarer than the first. The title page states “NEW IMPRESSION.” It also adds the byline initial “L.” to Churchill’s name on the title page, and the publishing date: 1901. The Silver Library ship logo is transferred in larger format to the third […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-Silver Library Edition ("New Impression") VARIANT BINDING-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1901 | $1,000.00

A very good copy of the Second Printing of this edition, which is, in fact, considerably rarer than the first printing. The title page states: “NEW IMPRESSION” (rather than “NEW EDITION”). It also adds the byline initial “L.” to Churchill’s name on the title page, and the publishing date: 1901. The Silver Library ship logo […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-Second Colonial Library Edition-

By: Winston [W.L. Spencer] Churchill

1899 | Register to View Price

This is a beautiful copy of the Second Colonial Library edition, bound in a vivid blue-green cloth, fascinatingly different from the standard Colonial Library gray-green cloth. The Second Colonial Library edition was bound from “Silver Library” sheets for export to the colonies. Only 360 copies of this Second Printing were bound in cloth, according to […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-Rebound Second Colonial Library Edition-

By: Winston [W.L. Spencer] Churchill

1899 | $1,750.00

This is the Second Edition (First printing) of the Colonial Library issue, which was bound from “Silver Library” sheets for export to the colonies. Only 360 copies of this printing were issued in cloth, according to bibliographer Ronald Cohen (another 130 were bound in softcover). The harsher climate conditions in the colonies generally resulted in […]

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THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Edition of Churchill's First Book-

By: Winston [L. Spencer] Churchill

1898

This is a very good copy of the First English edition in the scarce mottled-green cloth binding variant that Cohen suggests may only have been employed for the second state. The rear publisher’s catalogue, however is dated 12/97, and there are no errata slips. The cloth color is quite fresh and bright, though there is […]

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THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-Signed First Colonial Library Edition in Fine Leather Binding-

By: Winston [W.L. Spencer] Churchill

1898

This First Colonial Library edition is inscribed and signed in ink on the half-title to: “E.J. Turner from the Author,” a form of inscription that we have only once before encountered in a book purportedly signed by Winston Churchill. The inscription is secretarial, though Churchill rarely bestowed books without signing them himself. He was still […]

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THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-Leatherbound Presentation Edition Signed and Inscribed by Winston Churchill-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1916

This very good leatherbound copy is SIGNED and inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper: ”For Frank Clarke from Winston S. Churchill 1946.” COLONEL FRANK CLARKE famously hosted Winston and Clementine Churchill at his Miami Beach home in January and February 1946, prior to Churchill’s March appearance at Fulton College, Missouri to deliver what […]