IAN HAMILTON’S MARCH
-First Canadian Hardcover Edition-
1900
First Canadian Hardcover Edition
The Copp, Clark Company, Ltd. [Toronto]
Biblio: (Cohen A8.3) (Woods A5)
8vo (424 pages, with frontis portrait of Ian Hamilton, 1 three-color folding map.)
Hardcover [Yellowish-brown pictorial cloth]
Item Number: 14433
$2,500.00
Collector's Guide
Ian Hamilton’s March concluded Churchill’s Boer War narrative begun with London to Ladysmith. It features the triumphant liberation of his former-POW campmates in Pretoria, South Africa. The English and American editions were both bound in red cloth but the American edition is a match to the American edition of London to Ladysmith.
Description
Far scarcer than either the English or American First editions, this is a very good copy of the rare First Canadian edition, which, like the Canadian LONDON TO LADYSMITH, was produced using American first edition plates, then bound in a coarser, more ochre-colored cloth ornamented with a full-color crossed flags cover motif and a red fleur-de-lis on the spine.
The cloth here has darkened with age, particularly along the spine, with some faint stains and scattered spotting on the cover and the lower fore-edge. The binding is crisp and square, and the contents are fine, with a front hinge that is just beginning to give. The pastedowns and free endpapers, front and rear, are ink-stamped: “Training School For Nurses, Toronto General Hospital.”