angus mcneill (13 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good-. Presumed First. 8vo. interior front hinge splitting, contents page loose. rough cut pages. heavy edge wear to boards, cloth surface splitting on front hine, chipping to base of backstrip. pages clean and bright. Book.

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Zustand: Good. 1925. New Edition. 200 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Text block edge is moderately foxed. End-papers are more notably tanned. Ex Libris plate to front paste-down. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering has become dull. Book has a slight forward lean.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. KlappentextThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the origina.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. McNEILL Angus (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first issue, two volumes in the original publishers gilt pictorial blue cloth. Spines, gilt tooling & titles, edges lightly bumped. Internally: Vol 1, half title, frontis, [7], (viii-xxii), [2], [1], 2-462 pp, 33 illustrations, 18 maps & plans (some folding), bound without the advert catalogue. Vol 2, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-x), [3], [1], 2-499 pp, 25 illustrations, 16 maps & plans. Some pages uncut, light spotting to endpages, evidence of removed bookplates to fpds. un-restored. With coloured maps and illustrations, not present in the abridged versions issued later, and regarded by many critics as one of the finest books Churchill ever wrote. (229*153 mm). (Cohen. Woods). The River War is a detailed account of the re-conquest of the Soudan from 1896-1898 by a mixed contingent of British and Egyptian troops under the command of Major-General Sir Herbert Kitchener. In writing the River War, Churchill records that he "affected a combination of the styles of Macaulay and Gibbon" and later wrote that "nothing like the battle of Omdurman will ever be seen again. It was the last link in the long chain of those spectacular conflicts whose vivid and majestic splendour has done so much to invest war with glamour".

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, Two volumes. In Good condition. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth, with gilt text and decoration to front boards and spines. Boards have significant tears to spine head ends, bumping and fraying to corners, scuff marks and wear to surfaces. Textblocks have significant splitting to hinges, resulting in loose boards. Textblocks have detached front fly leaves, slight splitting to gutter throughout, and light age toning to edges. Shelved in Room F. CONTENTS: VOL I: (xxii, [2], 462 pages)-- VOL II: (x, [4], 499 pages). 1410904. Special Collections - Upstairs.

First Edition. Two vols, 8vo, I: pp.xxii, [2], 462, [2 (blank)], II: pp.[2 (blank)], x, [4], 499, [1(blank)], with 2 photogravure frontispiece portraits, 5 further photogravure portraits (each with tissue guard), and 23 coloured maps (of which 20 folding); 61 halftone illustrations and maps (of which several full-page) printed in-text; scattered spotting throughout, short marginal tears to vol.I C2 and vol.II map 6, but a good set; bound in publisher's navy blue cloth gilt, black endpapers; corners and endcaps slightly bumped, a little rubbed, spines slightly skewed.First edition of Churchill's second book, a history of Lord Kitchener's conquest of Sudan in 1896-99 informed by his own service as both a cavalry officer and a war correspondent on the campaign, profusely illustrated with drawings and maps. Eager to make his name in an active campaign, the young Winston Churchill (18741965) was transferred from India to Sudan in August1898 after an extended campaign of lobbying, including an unsuccessful enquiry to Lord Kitchener from the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, to whom the book is dedicated. While in Sudan he complemented his duties as an officer by working as a war correspondent, writing fifteen articles for the Morning Post and one, never published, for the Times. 'Arguably the most aesthetically beautiful of original trade editions of Churchill's books, TheRiverWar is a brilliant history of British involvement in the Sudan and the campaign for its reconquest: arresting, insightful, with tremendous narrative and descriptive power [The] features of that now distant campaign Churchill impressively captures in precise detail and exciting narrative, including his own role in the last great cavalry charge of British history. Finely written chapters trace the history of the Sudan, the rise of the Mahdi, the martyr's death of Gordon and, apparently not much exaggerated, the author's adventures' (Langworth). Despite his undoubted enthusiasm for British imperialism, he offers a remarkably sympathetic account of the Sudanese people and the reasons for their rebellion, as well as criticizing Lord Kitchener and the desecration of the Mahdi's tomb in Omdurman and opposing the British vilification of the Sudanese. The majority of the criticisms, however, were subsequently removed from the abridged single-volume edition of 1902, published after Churchill's election to Parliament. Langworth, pp.27-30. Language: English.