LISTENING FOR THE DRUMS
1944
First English Edition
Faber & Faber Ltd. [London]
Biblio: (Cohen F62) (Zb158)
8vo (280 pages, illustrated with 12 pages of photographs and facsimile documents, map endpapers)
Hardcover (without Dust Jacket) [Red cloth]
Item Number: 14853
$100.00
Description
This is a very good First English edition copy, without dust jacket, a discreet ink gift inscription on the front free endpaper verso, else fine. Two personal letters from Winston Churchill are reproduced, one written from India in 1898, the other written in the train after the Battle of Omduran, along with excerpts from THE WORLD CRISIS and the text of a 1941 telegram and a 1943 letter.