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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria.
New Impression.
First edition, second printing. This copy signed on the blank following the front free endpaper. A title infrequently encountered signed. "The volume essentially consists of 27 letters and telegrams to the Morning Post written between 26 October 1899 and 10 March 1900 … It is, as Churchill said in his Introductory Note, 'mainly a personal record of my adventures and impressions during the first five months of the African War. It may also be found to give a tolerably coherent account of the operations conducted by Sir Redvers Buller for the Relief of Ladysmith."(Cohen)
Octavo, original tan cloth, illustration and titles to spine in red and gilt, illustration and titles to upper cover in red and black. Folding coloured map as frontispiece, 2 further folding maps, and 5 maps and plans to the text. Somewhat rubbed, wear at corners, some restoration to the joints and head and tail of the spine, browning particularly to the catalogue, overall a very good copy. Gift inscription dated in August 1900 to the front pastedown, almost imperceptible on black surface-paper endpapers, bookplate of Coleridge A House Library, Christ's Hospital, recording the presentation of the book by B.M. Sullivan in 1956.
