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Churchill (Winston Spencer). The Story of the Malakand Field Force. An Episode of Frontier War, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1898, half-title, halftone portrait frontispiece, 6 maps of which 2 folding, 32 pp. publisher's advertisements to rear, black endpapers, front inner hinge tender, half-title browned, text-block toned and spotted, damp-stain to head of non-folding maps, occasional corrections to spellings of non-English names in purple pencil, further manuscript corrections in standard pencil to pp. 30, 119, 225, 239, original green cloth, rubbed and slightly marked, spine rolled, 8vo (Qty: 1 volume with folder) Provenance: From the Winston Churchill Collection of Major Alan Taylor-Smith (1928-2019). Langworth pp. 12-14; Woods A1a. First edition, home issue, first state (without the errata slip), one of 2,000 copies. With manuscript corrections attributed to Churchill by the Churchill Archives Centre in an accompanying typed note signed by Katharine Thomson, archivist, Churchil Archives Centre, 8 June 2004, reading: 'I have checked this copy of Winston Churchill's "The Story of the Malakand Field Force", and I think the annotations in ordinary lead (particularly on page 119) are probably in Churchill's own hand'. The book is also accompanied by a typed affidavit signed by one James Hugh Munro of Rondebosch, South Africa, dated 26 May 2004, reading: 'This book was given to me in the late 1950's by Mrs Gericke, the elderly widow of Dr O M Gericke. She told me that the corrections had been made personally by Churchill when [s]he and her husband were passengers together ona boat between India an England shortly after the publication of the book'. Other correspondence sold with this copy indicates that it was acquired by Alan Taylor-Smith from one Kate Philipson of Rondenbosch (of the neighbouring address to Munro's) in June 2005.