THE RIVER WAR: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
-Abridged One-Volume "Cheap" Edition (Fifth Printing) in Dust Jacket-
1951
English Abridged One-Volume "Cheap" Edition (Fifth Printing)
Eyre & Spottiswoode [London]
Biblio: (Cohen A2.4.e) (Woods A2d)
8vo (381 pages, 22 maps, many folding, some two-color.)
Hardcover (with Dust Jacket) [Tan cloth]
Item Number: 14318
$275.00
Collector's Guide
The River War was Winston Churchill’s second book, a brilliant history of British involvement in the Sudan and an account of the fierce campaign for its reconquest that Churchill himself participated in and, in many significant ways, disapproved of. Originally published in two large, lavish and, today, extremely rare volumes, THE RIVER WAR was abridged by Churchill himself for a 1902 one-volume edition. All subsequent editions have been versions of Churchill’s abridgement.
Description
This is a virtually mint copy in an unclipped dust jacket of the 1951 reprint of the abridged one-volume, so-called “Cheap Edition” of 1933. Produced from the original plates for the first 1902 abridged edition, this “edition remains important bibliographically for the new Introduction that Churchill wrote for it.
The book and dust jacket are immaculate.