Octavo. Original light brown cloth, spine lettered in red and gilt with gilt flagstaff motif, front board lettered in red and black, with black line-drawing of the armoured train, black surface-paper endpapers. Housed in a custom red morocco solander box.
First edition, first impression. “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). One of 10,002 copies printed
