The Story Of the Malakand Field Force

London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1899. Hardcover. This is the first printing of the Silver Library edition of Churchill's first book. The Story of the Malakand Field Force was based on Churchill's exploits with Sir Bindon Blood's expedition on the Northwest Frontier of India in 1897. While Churchill had previously applied his pen as a published correspondent, this… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is Churchill's first book, based on his exploits with Sir Bindon Blood's expedition on the Northwest Frontier of India in 1897. Offered here is a superior, collector worthy first edition, first state copy with interesting provenance. The sole previous owner name is "M. G. Cassels" in pencil… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898. First edition, Home Issue, Colonial Library binding. Hardcover. This is one of four known surviving copies of this extravagantly rare Colonial Library binding of first edition sheets of The Story of the Malakand Field Force. Churchill's first book was issued in two distinctively different “cased” (hardcover) forms. The Home Issue… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1899. Hardcover. This is the first printing of the Silver Library edition of Churchill's first book. The Story of the Malakand Field Force recounts Churchill's experiences while attached to Sir Bindon Blood's punitive expedition on the Northwest Frontier of India in 1897. Publication of the first edition of 1898 was arranged by Churchill's uncle… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901. Second edition, Colonial Library issue, second and final printing, wraps binding. Paperback. This humble, battered, paperback is an extravagantly rare “wraps” (paperback) Colonial issue of Winston Churchill’s first book and “the scarcest of all of the Malakand editions, issues, or printings.” Cased (hardcover) colonial issues were produced in small numbers simultaneously… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co.,, 1899 . First printing of the "Silver Library Edition", the second overall, of Churchill's first book, first published the previous year in a garbled edition, here much corrected, and with a new preface. Churchill was correspondent for the Daily Telegraph on Sir Bindon Blood's punitive 1897 expedition against the Afghan tribesmen of the north-west… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. “… the indiscriminating bullet settles everything.” This remarkable association copy of the first edition of Winston Churchill’s first published book belonged to the bereaved family of Lieutenant-Colonel James Loughnan O’Bryen, whose death Churchill eloquently mourns at pages 245-7. Noteworthy for condition alone, this book is not… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. Second edition, second printing. Hardcover. This second and final printing of the Silver Library edition of Churchill's first book is notable for being a scarce binding variant and for intriguing provenance. The Silver Library edition was the first to incorporate the author's corrections in the text, making this an important and highly… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. Second edition, final printing. Hardcover. This is the second and final printing of the Silver Library edition of Churchill's first book, notable for being a scarce binding variant. The Silver Library edition was the first to incorporate the author's corrections in the text, making this an important and highly collectable edition. Unfortunately, the… Read more about this item

New York: Barnes & Noble Books [1-56619-127-0] 1993. (Hardcover) 233pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Maps, tables, appendix. A previous owner's name and location on the front endpaper, and there is minor pencil underlining in the text, mostly pages 216-217. "The Story of the Malakand Field Force, Winston Churchill's first book, was… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. First edition. Hardcover. This attractive, well-preserved, ex-library copy of the British first edition features compelling provenance. The front pastedown features a decorative “Ex Libris” bookplate handwritten “FROM: Col: F.W. Blood 1941". The facing front free endpaper recto is inked in five lines: "Presented by / Col. F.W. Blood / To commemorate his 60… Read more about this item

London and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co.,, 1898. Colonial issue of Churchill's first book, from the library of his bibliographer First edition of Churchill's first book, a rare survival of the colonial issue in wrappers, blind-stamped "presented by the publisher" on the title and following leaf - the publisher's records show 122 copies were designated as "presentation copies". This… Read more about this item

London and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co.,, 1898. Colonial issue of Churchill's first book First edition, colonial issue in cloth, of Churchill's first book, with the bookplate of Edward Priaulx Tennant, 1st Baron Glenconner (1859-1920), Churchill's fellow Liberal Party MP from 1906 to 1910. Tipped in preceding the title page is an autograph note "with the author's compliments", not… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1901. Second edition, second printing. Hardcover. This second and final printing of the Silver Library edition of Churchill's first book is notable for being a scarce binding variant in superior condition with interesting provenance, including both Churchill's alma mater and the British embassy in Paris. This Silver Library edition was the first… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1899. Hardcover. This is the first printing of the Silver Library edition of Churchill's first book. The Story of the Malakand Field Force recounts Churchill's experiences while attached to Sir Bindon Blood's punitive expedition on the Northwest Frontier of India in 1897. Publication of the first edition of 1898 was arranged by Churchill's uncle… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is the first edition, only printing of Churchill's first book, based on his exploits with Sir Bindon Blood's expedition on the Northwest Frontier of India in 1897. Condition of this unrestored, original, and complete copy approaches very good. Though it is technically ex-library, there are… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is an exceptional copy of the first edition, only printing, first state of Churchill's first book, based on his exploits with Sir Bindon Blood's expedition on the Northwest Frontier of India in 1897. First state is confirmed by the lack of an errata slip and a… Read more about this item

London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. First edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is a double family association copy of the first edition, only printing, first state of Winston S. Churchill’s first published book. The enthusiastically proud inscription, inked on the half-title in four lines, reads “David Thomson | from the Author’s | Aunt! | April 98”. The date is… Read more about this item

London; Leo Cooper; 1989.. Med. 8vo; pp. xx, 233, (2); text illustrated with six sketch maps, extracts from official despatches, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket a little chipped on the edges, good copy.

London and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co.,, 1898. Colonial issue of Churchill's first book, from the library of his bibliographer First edition, colonial issue in cloth, of Churchill's first book, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Harry S. Garratt, 3rd Bo[mbay] L[ight] Inf[antr]y, Malakand May 1898"; an apt provenance, as in July 1891, Harry Sumner Garratt (1868-1939) was seconded… Read more about this item