THE RIVER WAR: An Account of the Re-conquest of the Sudan
[First English Abridged One-Volume "Cheap" Edition in the Rare Dust Jacket]
1933
First English Abridged One-Volume "Cheap" Edition (First Printing)
Eyre & Spottiswoode [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A2.4.a) (Woods A2d)
8vo (381 pages, 22 maps, many folding, some two-color.)
Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Greyish-purple cloth]
Item Number: 14314
$850.00
Collector's Guide
The River War was Winston Churchill’s second book, a brilliant history of British involvement in the Sudan and an account of the fierce campaign for its reconquest that Churchill himself participated in and, in many significant ways, disapproved of. Originally published in two large, lavish and, today, extremely rare volumes, THE RIVER WAR was abridged by Churchill himself for a 1902 one-volume edition. All subsequent editions have been versions of Churchill’s abridgement.
Description
This is a very good copy in the very rare dust jacket of the First Printing of the so-called “Cheap Edition,” which was printed from the original plates for the first 1902 abridged edition, and remains important bibliographically for the new Introduction that Churchill wrote for it. The dust jacket here is in very good condition, edge-chipped, with closed tears and scratches on the front face, and a rubbed area in the lower left corner of the Churchill cover photograph.
The book is in very good condition, the cloth darkened slightly with age, the corners a bit turned, the contents fine and unfoxed.