My African Journey.

First Edition, First Impression. With the author’s signed presentation inscription dated 1st Dec. 1908 – a few days pre-publication – on the front free endpaper. Presentation copies of Churchill’s early works are decidedly uncommon.

8vo. Original pictorial red cloth, titles to spine gilt, decoration to upper board in blue, grey and black. Illustrated from photographs, drawings and maps. Light browning throughout, free endpapers browned, but overall very good, rebacked with the original slightly sunned spine laid down, cloth a little rubbed and mottled with some fairly amateurish restoration to the image, but not entirely unprepossessing, now presented in a handsome midnight blue plush-lined black morocco-backed book-style box, raised bands, lion devices gilt in the compartments.