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Lot 371
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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600
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$438
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CHURCHILL, Winston L. S., Sir (1874-1965). London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900.
8vo. 3 folding maps. Original illustrated tan cloth printed in black and red, spine lettered in red and gilt (scuffing, slightly leaned, light spotting to fore and top edge).
FIRST EDITION of Churchill's personal memoirs of the first five months of the Second Boer War, including accounts of the Relief of Ladysmith and his own capture and dramatic escape from the Boers. Woods A4.