Mr. Brodrick's Army

102 pp. 8 3/4 x 6 3/8. Original beige cloth boards, burgundy cloth spine, gilt lettering. A well-done facsimile reprint of one of Churchill's scarcest works, originally released in 1903. Reproductions of original covers precede and follow text. From the preface: "Of the thousands of public and private collections of the works of Sir Winston Churchill pitifully few boast a copy of either Mr. Brodrick's Army or For Free Trade. These, the first and second published collections of Churchill speeches, were published in relatively small quantity, bound only in matt cards and were the remarks of a very young politician on issues that were soon passe. It is not surprising that one hears estimates that there are less than a dozen Mr. Brodrick's Army and hardly more For Free Trade in existence. Today, on the rare occasion that either is offered, they are priced far beyond the means of all but the wealthy. So it is that almost all collections have at least two gaps and the owners must resign themselves to never filling either." Not in Woods (released after its publication).