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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good ; No jacket. 1926 Houghton Mifflin Company. Volume 1 only, titled "Behind the Political Curtain 1912-1915". SIGNED by the editor, Charles Seymour, on half-title page. Not personalized. First Edition. This is NOT the limited edition. First printing. Date on title page matches copyright on verso. No additional printings listed. Includes a signed note on Yale Univ. History Department letterhead, dated 1926, from Mr. Seymour regarding books that were sent to him to be signed, including this one. Note is laid in at front. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering. Top page edges are gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Black and white frontispiece with tissue guard. Black and white illustrations. Black and white plates. 471 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Covers have light surface and edge wear. Top front corner bumped. Spine slightly darkened. Pages clean and unmarked. Some pages are uncut (unopened) along fore edge. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
Seller: SmarterRat Books, Chagrin Falls, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Volume II only of the original 4 Volume Set. Red cloth on board with bright gilt facs signature to front and titling to spine. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of markings or flaws inside and out - near fine. Nice frontispiece portrait with an additional facs signature and tissue guard. This Volume is titled "Neutrality to War 1915-1917." Most importantly, signed by House on the FFEP and dated, June 1937, right at the end of his life. Edward Mandell House (July 26, 1858 March 28, 1938) was an American diplomat, and an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson. He was known as Colonel House although his rank was honorary and he had performed no military service. He was a highly influential back-stage politician in Texas before becoming a key supporter of the presidential bid of Wilson in 1912. Having a self-effacing manner, he did not hold office but was an "executive agent", Wilson's chief adviser on European politics and diplomacy during World War I (1914 1918). He became a government official as one of the five American commissioners to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. In 1919 Wilson broke with House and many other top advisers, believing they had deceived him at Paris.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume 1: Behind the Political Curtain, 1912-1915, 471 pages. Inscribed and SIGNED by House on the half-title page. Volume 2: From Neutrality to War, 1915-1917, 508 pages. Pages are in very good, clean condition. Volume 1 has a yellowed fore-edge and stains at the corners of the endpapers. Top edges gilt. Both volumes illustrated. Red cloth with gilt titles. Spines are a little darkened and stained. Volume 1 shows more wear, with stains on the upper cover and wear on the corners and edges. GOOD+. Volume 2 shows very little wear. VG+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$116.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited edition. SIGNED by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. #103 of an edition of 750. Signed by Colonel House and Charles Seymour, bound with uncut edges. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.01
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Two Volume set, complete as issued in 1926. (later 2 more volumes were published)Signed on the limitation page by Colonel House and by Seymour. Illustrated with photos. Leather spines with blue boards.469 + 508 pages indexed. Bottom edge of spine to volume one with 1/2 inch chip, chipping to edges of leather spine label. Very good.Colonel House was an advisor to President Woodrow Wilson.
Seller: The Bookstall, Richmond, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, #522 of 750 signed by House and Seymour. Illus. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. Quarter calf and boards. Some minor rubbing, else fine First edition, #522 of 750 signed by House and Seymour.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Association copy, Robert Lansing, SOS. 2 volume set. Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Some underlining/notes from previous owners. Vol. 1 Behind the political curtain 1912 - 1915. Vol. 2 From neutrality to war 1915 - 1917. Provenance: Originally owned by Robert Lansing, United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson from 1915 to 1920. The set contains many hand written notes and underlining from Lansing. Ex: "I will someday tell the true story why Bernstroff backed down, House never knew," p. 33. Many of Lansing's notes are critical, but insightful and unique. They offer an intimate view of the foreign policy concerns of the United States in World War I. Later from the library of Robert Smith Simpson. Simpson was a noted career foreign service officer in the US State Department and professor at the Edward Walsh school of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Lansing's other papers are currently at held at Princeton University's Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.