Octavo. Original dark pink cloth, titles to spine and front board gilt, publisher’s device and broad single rules to covers in blind, bottom edge untrimmed. First edition, first impression, first state of the text (without the cancel half-title), second state of binding as usual. “In all 11,000 copies of the full-priced British edition were sold” (Cohen).
Churchill’s first volume of sustained biography is a highly entertaining account of his childhood, schooldays at Harrow, military training at Sandhurst, experiences as a war correspondent in Cuba, and service attached to the Malakand field force on the northwest frontier of India, charging with the 21st lancers at Omdurman, and as a POW in South Africa during the Boer War.
