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Malakand Field Force: Silver Library Edn

Churchill’s First Book

“The Silver Library” Edition
Second Edition (First Printing) [1 of 1,500 copies]
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Longmans, Green, & Co. Ltd. [London] 1899
340 pages, tissue guarded frontis photo, illustrated with 6 maps, including 2 foldout in color
Hardcover, dark red cloth,  8vo

A v.g.+ copy
Signature of previous owner, Reginald Bastard, in pencil on the back of the front free endpaper. Minor foxing to front endpapers, otherwise clean throughout.

An interesting note about Reginald Bastard: Bastard saw action in the second Boer War and became a Lt. Colonel in WWI in the 2nd Lincolns. He was one of ten soldiers that Martin Middlebrook followed in his book The First Day on the Somme.

Woods A1(b)
Cohen A1.3.a

Item #367

Price: $2000
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