New York: Longmans, Green, and Company, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Very Good+. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper board and spine. Spine lightly toned. Cloth scuffed, though mainly at the rear cover, and lightly rubbed at the tips. Previous owner name to front free end paper and small clipping tipped in at half-title page causing offsetting to the adjacent page. A very nice copy of Winston Churchill's only novel; this American edition preceded the British publication.