The Gun-Runner

A Tale of Zululand


THE GUN RUNNER  was first published in London in 1893 by Chatto & Windus with only a frontispiece illustration.

First published in New York in 1898 by R.F. Fenno

Either first edition is rare today

My copy of the 1893 Chatto & Windus first British edition of THE GUN-RUNNER

Ads for prior Mitford novels at the front of the Chatto & Windus first edition

Frontispiece for the British first edition

Title-page of the British first edition

Ads at the end of the British first edition are dated April 1893

Below: My copy of the 1898 Fenno first American edition first printing

Below: Brian Stringer's copy of the 1898 Fenno first American edition in variant binding

The title-page in my copy of the American first edition

Variant title-page of the American first edition that I found on eBay (not mine)

Copyright page in the Fenno American first edition

Brian Stringer owns a copy of the Canadian first edition with the same pagination as the Fenno edition

Below: a copy of the September 1893 reprint, not mine

Brian Stringer owns a copy of the 1893 reprint edition with July 1893 ads at the back of the book

He also owns 2 copies of the 1899 New Edition, but with ads dated September 1899 in one, and January 1900 in the other

Below: one of Brian Stringer's copies of the 1899 New Edition

An ad for THE GUN-RUNNER  that appears at the front of the first edition of THE LUCK OF GERARD RIDGELEY

An ad for the second edition (more likely a second printing) of THE GUN-RUNNER that appears at the front of the first edition of THE KING'S ASSEGAI

Brian Stringer owns 1907 and 1914 paperback editions

Brian Stringer owns a 1922 T. Fisher Unwin reprint