My African Journey, the exceptionally rare first edition colonial issue bound in illustrated card covers

by Winston S. Churchill

$3,600 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. First edition. Paperback. This elusive prize is the visually striking and exceptionally rare wraps binding of the colonial issue of the first edition, only printing. Internally identical to the hardbound first edition, it is bound instead in tan card wrappers featuring the same color illustration on the front cover in blue and black as the hardcover first edition. Churchill’s

• Binding: Paperback

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