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Face To Face With Kaiserism
by Gerard, James W
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7. Type: Hardback First Printing George Doran Co., 1918. Publisher's device on title page. Hardcover Book in Fair Condition. The author was Ambassador to the German Imperial Court when he wrote this chronicle of the build up to and in the midst of World War I. He chronicles activities and personality of Kaiser Wilhelm, the background of the times, events, politics, etc., leading to WW I. Interesting period photos, including frontis. showing the Kaiser and Von Treutler accompanied by dachshunds in the Norwegian town of Odde in 1910. Also reproductions of documents of great interest and miscellany such as postage stamps and paper money used in prison camps, the Kaiser's visiting card, page of Maximilian Harden's "Die Zukunft, " commemorative medals and programs. In publisher's original full red cloth with debossed gilt titles on front and spine. Worn, generally clean with a line on front lower left corner, indentation on fore edge, spine sunned, cloth at spine head cracked; corners/edges rubbed, upper front corner lightly scuffed. Inner hinge partially cracked. Sewn binding is tight and solid. All pages intact. Frontispiece: b/w illustration of the Kaiser and Von Treutler-1910, and 14 more b/w illustrations. Reproductions of German paper money and stamps on paste down, and of the Visiting Cards of the Kaiser and the Crown Prince on the endpapers. Formerowner tasteful bookplate and name on paste-down. Fore edge and bottom edge rough cut. Smudge on p 17 otherwise pages very clean, no markings of any kind. Binding is very worn, but Internals are in good condition. Very readable book. 380 pages. 6 x 8.5 inches. George H Doran Company, New York, 1918.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020797
- Title
- Face To Face With Kaiserism
- Author
- Gerard, James W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- George H. Doran Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1918
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- WORLD WAR I; KAISER WILHELM; LUSITANIA; GERMAN DIPLOMACY; THE KAISER; AUSTRIA-HUNGARY; SWITZERLAND; FRANCE; GERMANY; PRESIDENT WILSON;
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