THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE
-Easton Press Edition-
2006
The Easton Press Edition
The Easton Press [Norwalk,CT]
Biblio: (Cohen A1) (Woods A1)
8vo (236 pages, illustrated, with maps)
Hardcover [Green leather]
Item Number: 200962
$175.00
Collector's Guide
The Story of the Malakand Field Force was Winston Churchill’s first book, a chronicle of true-life military adventures drawn from newspaper dispatches filed by the then-22-year-old correspondent while serving on India’s Afghanistan-bordering Northwest Frontier under Major-General Sir Bindon Blood. Wrenching to read how little has changed in this region since Churchill’s time. The First Edition is easily distinguished by its apple-green cloth binding but Malakand is prized by collectors in almost any edition.
Description
This characteristically elaborate Easton Press reprint is bound in full green leather ornately tooled in gold, printed on archival paper with gilded fore-edges, moire satin endpapers, and a silk ribbon page marker. A mint copy, still in the publisher’s original shrinkwrap.