CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. The River War, an Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan… edited by Col. F. Rhodes. London: Longman, Green and Co., 1899. 2 vols., first edition, first impression, second state, 8vo (228 x 143mm.) Half-titles, 7 photogravure portraits with tissue-guards, including 2 frontispieces, 24 maps (20 folding), numerous illustrations by Angus McNeill in the text, 30pp. publisher's advertisements to rear of volume 1. (Moderate spotting to front and rear leaves and intermittent throughout, and to fore-edge, small marginal loss to pp.313-316 of volume 1, toning.) Original black cloth, gilt design of a gunboat to upper covers, and the Mahdi's tomb in gilt to the spines (rubbed to extremities) Note: Churchill's second book, of which only 2000 copies were printed. Second state, having the 'missing' quotation mark on p.459 of volume 2 (2).