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Guide
to Books written by Sir Winston Churchill
MY
AFRICAN JOURNEY |
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AFRICAN JOURNEY is a tale of Churchill's visit to East
Africa as Under-secretary of State for the Colonies. The
first
edition is bound in bright red cloth with an
illustrated front board having a picture in black, grey,
and blue. of Churchill standing over a dead rhino. The
cloth is very thin and very prone to wear and fading.
Truly fine copies are almost never seen. The first edition
includes many photos taken by Churchill which do not appear
in later editions. The American
first edition used the same setting but was
bound in plain ugly brick red cloth which proved very
prone to fading. Hodder & Stoughton issued a pulp
softcover edition in 1909 with a colourful
illustrated cover. The titel was then out of print for
50 years until the Holland
Press edition in 1962, which did retain a selection
of the orignal photos. Paperbacks were issued by ICON
in 1962, NEL
in 1972 and Mandarin in 1991. Heron
books released a small, but nicely bound in
red leather, edition in 1965. The best hardback reprint
is probably the new Leo
Cooper edition in 1989, with a US version from
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