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Edited by James W. Muller with a foreward by Churchill's daughter Lady Mary Soames. A new edition, the first complete one since it was originally published 120 years ago. Photographs and many maps, most fold-out. Carefully edited with more than 250 pages of comments by the editor and many footnotes. 2 volumes in dust jackets.

THOMAS NELSON & SONS, LONDON CIRCA 1910 HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, FRONTIS + SEVERAL FULL PAGE MAPS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 6 x 4 INCHES WITH 357 PAGES + PUBLISHERS CATALOGUE . SOME VERY MINOR COVER WEAR, ENDPAPERS BROWNED & SPOTTED, SLIGHT PLAY TO FRONT HINGE BUT OVERALL A LOVELY COPY WITH CLOTH CLEAN & BRIGHT. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. , c.1933.. Binding: contemporary full cloth over board, title on spine.Dust jacket worn., Notes: The River War An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (1899), by Winston Churchill, concerning his experiences as a British Army officer, during the Mahdist War (1881–99) in the Sudan. The River War is a history of the British imperial involvement in the Sudan, and the Mahdi War between the British forces, led by Lord Kitchener, and the Dervish forces, led by Khalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, "The Mahdi”, heir to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad who had embarked on a campaign to conquer Egypt, to drive out the Ottomans.The River War was Churchill's second published book after The Story of the Malakand Field Force, and originally filled two volumes with over 1000 pages in 1899. The River War was subsequently abridged to one volume in 1902.Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (1874 – 1965) was a British politician, army… Read More

Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1902. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 2nd Edition: 1st one-volume edition of Churchill's second book. With frontispiece portrait of Kitchener of Khartoum and 22 maps and plans, of which 14 are color and 11 folding. [xiv], 381 pages. Shelf wear, split to hinge, spine slightly sunned, bumping and mark to front cover, age toning and some spotting but overall in very good original condition. The River War was originally published as a two-volume edition in 1899. In 1902 Churchill (by then a new member of Parliament) revised and abridged his text, excising much of the criticism of Kitchener for political reasons. There is also a new Preface. For the next 120 years, every one of the many subsequent editions of The River War was based on this 1902 text. This first one-volume edition had only a single printing of just 1,003 copies and so is considerably scarcer than the first edition. This edition has the same distinctive gilt decoration of the… Read More

Longmans, Green & Co 1899. SCARCE FIRST EDITION 2 VOLS, ALL PLATES MAPS PRESENT, EX-LIBRARY, super octavo, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering & tooling to spines & front boards, frontispieces with tissue guards, vol 1- xxii + 462pp & x + 499pp, scruffy (heavy cracking/separation to spine of vol 1, some ex-library markings- some to boards, moderate scuffing & chafing to boards with some fraying to cloth, light to moderate foxing & tanning to page edges & prelims/terminals, light foxing to pages of both vols, light water staining to top corner of pgs to vol 1, heavy cracking to gutters of both vols, boards shaky)

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1902. Second, new and revised edition, and the first one volume edition. Only 1000 copies printed. With frontispiece portrait of Kitchener of Khartoum and 22 maps and plans, of which 14 are color and 11 folding. [xiv], 381 pp. Thick 8vo. Original red cloth, stamped in gilt. Rubbing to cloth, but an attractive copy nevertheless. Second, new and revised edition, and the first one volume edition. Only 1000 copies printed. With frontispiece portrait of Kitchener of Khartoum and 22 maps and plans, of which 14 are color and 11 folding. [xiv], 381 pp. Thick 8vo. The second edition of Churchill's second book, which originally appeared in two volumes in 1899. The text has been revised and a new chapter on the Destruction of Khalifa and the denouement of the war have been added. Cohen A2.2

London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899. Book. Good. Blue Cloth. First Edition. xxii, 462; x, 499 pages. Frontispieces, b/w plates, text illustrations and maps (some coloured. All present. Old name stamps on a few preliminary pages, shelf wear, one map in vol. I slightly chipped at the bottom. A sound set. .

39 Paternoster Row, London New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1899. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. McNEILL Angus. First edition, first issue, two volumes in the original publishers gilt pictorial blue cloth. Spines, gilt tooling & titles, edges lightly bumped. Internally: Vol 1, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xxii), [2], [1], 2-462 pp, 33 illustrations, 18 maps & plans (some folding), bound without the advert catalogue. Vol 2, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-x), [3], [1], 2-499 pp, 25 illustrations, 16 maps & plans. Some pages uncut, light spotting to endpages, evidence of removed bookplates to fpds. un-restored. With coloured maps and illustrations, not present in the abridged versions issued later, and regarded by many critics as one of the finest books Churchill ever wrote. (229*153 mm). (Cohen. Woods). The River War is a detailed account of the re-conquest of the Soudan from 1896-1898 by a mixed contingent of British… Read More

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1899. First edition, first printing, second state with single quotation mark on p. 459. 57 illustrations, many especially drawn by Angus McNeill of the Seaforth Highlanders, 34 maps and plans many colored and folding. xxiii, 462; xiv, 499 pp. 2 vols. Thick 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth, stamped in gilt. Minor rubbing to boards, hinges almost imperceptibly repaired. Very good copy. Bookplate. In half-morocco slipcase with chemises for each volume. First edition, first printing, second state with single quotation mark on p. 459. 57 illustrations, many especially drawn by Angus McNeill of the Seaforth Highlanders, 34 maps and plans many colored and folding. xxiii, 462; xiv, 499 pp. 2 vols. Thick 8vo. Cohen A2.1.b

Longmans, Green, London., 1899. First edition. Octavo. Two volumes. pp xxii, 462 + x, 499. Illustrated with drawings by Angus McNeill of the Seaforth Highlanders; 7 photogravure portraits; numerous maps and plans. Original black gilt pictorial cloth lettered in gilt. The author's second book. 2003 copies were printed. Rubber ownership stamp on half-title of each volume. Cover edges just a little bumped. Sporadic foxing. Very good set indeed and scarce in such bright condition.