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Publication Date: 1923
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
Condition: Near Fine. NY 1923 1st Putnam. Channing is pseudonym of Christian C. Gross. Hardcover. Large octavo. 475pp., 15 maps, photo illustrations, green cloth. Nerhood No. 732.Owner signed. Near Fine, no DJ.
Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1923
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. Octavo. Deep green textured cloth over boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; xxv,476pp; frontispiece and 73 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones) and 15 inserted maps (one folding); one text illus. A straight, tight, Very Good or better copy in the original publisher's cloth; a few pages of pencil marginalia, mostly to TOC. All plates and maps present. A thorough account of the AEF in Siberia, where the author served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Infantry, winning the Distinguished Service Cross for heroism in battle. The book's final third is an enthusiastic description of Siberia's untapped economic potential. Channing aka Gross entered the Diplomatic Service following his discharge from the Army, serving as the U.S. Charges d'Affaires in Haiti until his death in a car accident in 1933. A somewhat hard-to-find account; this a quite nice copy.