Rare book: My African Journey by Winston Churchill. First edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908. Custom leatherbound hardcover, 5.5 x 7.5, 226 pages. Book condition: VG/None, with minor scuffing to exterior and light foxing to textblock. Published in December 1908, this wonderful travelogue chronicles Churchill's journey through Britain's East African possessions in 1907. It features 61 illustrations from photographs on 47 plates, three maps, and has the original illustrated cloth cover bound in the rear. A superb and important volume—Churchill would go on to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 'for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.'
