London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria
by CHURCHILL, WINSTON SPENCER
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Longmans, Green and Co 1900. FIRST EDITION- NEW EPS, REBACKED & MUSTY! 3 FOLDING MAPS (ALL PRESENT), octavo, brown heavy boards, black lettering to spine, black & red lettering with rail illus to front board, folding map frontis, xiv + 498pp + 32pp ads to rear, VG- (heavy bruising & scuffing to board corners & edges, heavy soiling & staining to boards from original coverings- new binding is sound & tidy, moderate tanning & soiling to page edges, moderate soiling to rear eps, moderate tanning & foxing to some pages throughout, maps are delicate with some closed tearing & discreet tape repairs)
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- Title
- London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria
- Author
- CHURCHILL, WINSTON SPENCER
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans, Green and Co 1900
- Keywords
- Winston Churchill history travel literature military war late 19th nineteenth century first edition
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