Winston Churchill | The River War…, 1899, first editions, 2 volumes, modern red half morocco by Bayntun

Sir Winston Churchill

The River War, An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899

FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, second state, 2 volumes, 8vo (223 x 144mm), vol.1: 32 illustrations, 18 maps and plans; vol.2: 25 illustrations, 16 maps and plans, modern red half morocco by Bayntun, fold-out maps browned, some marks to boards.

Churchill's second book, in which the young war correspondent delivers 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.

PROVENANCE:

Roscoe O. Bonisteel, attorney (1888-1972); printed bookplate to upper pastedowns

LITERATURE:

Cohen A2.1.b; Woods A2a