The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War

by Winston S. Churchill

$10,500 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. “… the indiscriminating bullet settles everything.” This remarkable association copy of the first edition of Winston Churchill’s first published book belonged to the bereaved family of Lieutenant-Colonel James Loughnan O’Bryen, whose death Churchill eloquently mourns at pages 245-7. Noteworthy for condition

• Binding: Hardcover

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