8vo. iv, [1], 6-128pp. With a portrait frontispiece. Handsome contemporary gilt-tooled red calf prize binding (High School for Girls, Wells, Somerset), contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and sunned. Marbled endpapers, prize inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, light spotting to title.

A handsomely bound copy of this popular biography of Major-General Charles George Gordon (1833-1885), styled the 'Hero of Khartoum', having proved himself during the Mahdist revolt in which he met his end.