My African Journey.

First Edition in book form, first published in shorter form as a series of magazine articles. Churchill had set out in autumn 1907 on a tour of east Africa which began as a hunting expedition but turned into a semi-official inquiry into colonial affairs. In Kenya he went big-game hunting and investigated the conditions of African contract workers. In Uganda he visited Christian missions, took tea with Daudi Chewa, the 11-year-old kabaka of Buganda, and took up with great enthusiasm the project for a dam across the Ripon Falls.

8vo. Original pictorial red cloth, titles to spine gilt, titles and decoration to upper board in blue and black. Illustrated with photographic frontispieces and maps. Some light sporadic foxing, slight fading to spine, some detail missing from figure and palm trees and small water stain to front board, otherwise in very good condition. Ownership inscription in ink to front free endpaper.