Item #36778 London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Winston S. Churchill.
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria
London to Ladysmith via Pretoria

London to Ladysmith via Pretoria

Copp, Clark, & Co., Toronto, 1900, hardcover. First Canadian edition, produced from American plates or sheets, but bound in a similar but not identical style to the English first. A coarser more ochre-brown colour, retaining the armoured train on cover, but with a red fleur-de-lys on spine instead of the two flags. Far scarcer than English or American firsts. 496 pages, same 8 maps and plans. Issued without catalogue at rear. Cohen A4.3.a, Woods A4bb. Original cloth has very clean and bright covers, byt spine is darkened and stained. Owner name and purchase details in 1900 on free endpaper and his bookplate on the pastedown. Contents unmarked, binding tight, page edges even, free of spots but a little off-white. Note that this copy has the 28th June inscription mentioned in Cohen. (A4bb). Item #36778
ISBN: B009Y8IKR4

Price: $150.00

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