Churchill's first book

First edition, first issue of Churchill's first published work. It gives a detailed account of the 1897 military campaign on the North-West Frontier of colonial British India, showcasing Churchill's views on military strategy, colonialism, and his budding political ideology. This copy is in the first state without the errata slip.

'While I was attached to the Malakand Field Force, I wrote a series of letters from the London Daily Telegraph. The favourable manner in which these letters were received, encouraged me to attempt a more substantial work.'

First edition, first issue; 8vo (200 x 135 mm); frontispiece portrait, 6 maps or plans, 2 folding and printed in black & red, 32-pages ads at end dated 12/97, occasional spotting; publisher's apple green cloth lettered in gilt, remnants of a bookplate(?) removal to verso of upper free endpaper, light discolouration and darkening to spine, otherwise a good copy.

Cohen A1.1.a; Woods A1a.