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THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Edition of Churchill’s First Book-

By: Winston [L. Spencer] Churchill

3/14/1898 | Register to View Price

This is a very attractive copy of the First State of the First English edition. The rear publisher’s catalogue is dated 12/97 and there is no Errata slip. The cloth is fresh and only modestly and evenly faded, including the spine, which is physically robust and unruffled. The binding is crisp and the corners are […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Edition of Churchill’s First Book-

By: Winston [L. Spencer] Churchill

1898 | Register to View Price

This is a very attractive copy of the First State of the First English edition. The rear publisher’s catalogue is dated 12/97 and there is no Errata slip. The cloth is fresh and only modestly and evenly faded, including the spine, which is physically robust and unruffled. The binding is crisp and the corners are […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Edition of Churchill’s First Book-

By: Winston [L. Spencer] Churchill

1898 | $2,500.00

This could have been an exceptionally good copy of the First State of the First English edition, with the rear publisher’s catalogue dated 12/97 and the Eratta slip present. The cloth is still bright but the original owner elected to write his name: “E.D. Miller” in fountain pen across the front cover. He also prominently […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Edition of Churchill's First Book-

By: Winston L. Spencer Churchill

1898 | Register to View Price

This is an exceptionally good copy. The green cloth is vibrantly bright and unfaded, including the fade-prone spine. The binding is crisp and the corners are sharp. This is the Second State binding for the First English edition, per Cohen. The rear publisher’s catalogue is present, dated 3/98, and an Errata slip is present after […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Colonial Library Hardcover Edition-

By: Winston [W. Spencer] Churchill

1898 | Register to View Price

This is an astonishingly fresh, virtually mint copy of the rare First Colonial Library hardcover edition, which was “intended for circulation only in India and the British colonies.” Harsher climate conditions in the colonies generally resulted in low survival rates for these volumes. Thus, the freshness of this example is so striking. Typographically, the front […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First Printing of the "Silver Library" Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1899 | $450.00

A very good copy of the First Printing of the “Silver Library” Edition. The cloth and gilt are moderately sheflworn with a faint circular cup shadow on the front board and sunfading to the spine. The binding is strong and nearly square. There is a vintage former-owner name in ink on the Silver Library swan […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-Silver Library Edition ("New Impression") VARIANT BINDING-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1901 | $1,000.00

Responding to numerous proofing errors in the First English edition of MALAKAND, Winston Churchill quickly prepared a new revised edition that restored the correct text as he’d originally intended it. Issued January 1899 in publisher Longmans’ low-priced “Silver Library” series, this Second Edition constituted the book’s definitive rendering. This is a very good copy of […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-First American Edition-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1990 | $115.00

This 1990 reprint, now out-of-print, in fact constituted MALAKAND’s first-ever American edition. The text was photographically reproduced from the 1974 “Collected Works” edition. This is a very good copy, in an unclipped dust jacket. There is a bookplate on the front pastedown, else fine.

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-Second Colonial Library Edition-

By: Winston [W.L. Spencer] Churchill

1899 | Register to View Price

This is a beautiful copy of the Second Colonial Library edition, bound in a vivid blue-green cloth, fascinatingly different from the standard Colonial Library gray-green cloth. The Second Colonial Library edition was bound from “Silver Library” sheets for export to the colonies. Only 360 copies of this Second Printing were bound in cloth, according to […]

THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-Rebound Second Colonial Library Edition-

By: Winston [W.L. Spencer] Churchill

1899 | $1,750.00

This is the Second Edition (First printing) of the Colonial Library issue, which was bound from “Silver Library” sheets for export to the colonies. Only 360 copies of this printing were issued in cloth, according to bibliographer Ronald Cohen (another 130 were bound in softcover). The harsher climate conditions in the colonies generally resulted in […]

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THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE

-American Hardcover Library Reprint-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1990 | $75.00

This is a mint copy of a recent contemporary Library binding reprint edition, still in the publisher’s original shrinkwrap.

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-Signed First Colonial Library Edition in Fine Leather Binding-

By: Winston [W.L. Spencer] Churchill

1898 | Register to View Price

This First Colonial Library edition is inscribed and signed in ink on the half-title to: “E.J. Turner from the Author,” a form of inscription that we have only once before encountered in a book purportedly signed by Winston Churchill. The inscription is secretarial, though Churchill rarely bestowed books without signing them himself. He was still […]

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-Leatherbound Presentation Edition Signed and Inscribed by Winston Churchill-

By: Winston S. Churchill

1916 | Register to View Price

This very good leatherbound copy is SIGNED and inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper: ”For Frank Clarke from Winston S. Churchill 1946.” COLONEL FRANK CLARKE famously hosted Winston and Clementine Churchill at his Miami Beach home in January and February 1946, prior to Churchill’s March appearance at Fulton College, Missouri to deliver what […]