Intimate Papers Colonel Volume by House Edward Seymour Charles (3 results)

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 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. signed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Previous owner's rubber name stamp "Robert Milligan". Dust-jackets with some tears and tape-repairs. Foxing to dust-jackets. Dust-jackets protected in archival cover.; Uncommon with dust-jackets. Volumes One and Two only, of four volumes. Volume One: Behind the Political Curtain 1912-1915. Volume Two: From Neutrality to War 1915-1917. Volume One: xxiii, [3], 474, [2 (blank)] pages + frontispiece. Volume Two: viii, [2], 502, [2 (blank)] pages + frontispiece. Both volumes: green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spines. Small gilt circular illustration on front boards. Page dimensions: 236 x 153mm. "Charles Seymour (January 1, 1885 August 11, 1963) was an American academic, historian and the 15th President of Yale University from 1937 to 1951. As an academic administrator, he was instrumental in establishing Yale's residential college system. His writing focused on the diplomatic history of World War I." - Wikipedia entry on Charles Seymour, accessed January 2025. "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 title was honorary and he had performed no military service. He was a highly influential backroom politician in Texas before becoming a key supporter of the presidential bid of Wilson in 1912 by managing his campaign, beginning in July 1911. 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 (19141918). He became a government official as one of the five American commissioners to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.[4] In 1919, Wilson broke with House and many other top advisers, believing they had deceived him at Paris." - Wikipedia article on Edwin M. House, accessed January 2025.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. xxi, 471; viii, 508; xviii, 453; xii, 551 pp. Complete four volume set. Red cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to spines; top edges gilt. Very minimal sunning to spines, with some rubbing and light bumping to spine ends. Light rubbing and some light bumps to corners of boards. Light toning to endpapers. A few small spots to overlay of frontispiece in Volume I, with some offset transfer to title page. Small 8 mm closed tear to head of first page of preface. Yellowed 5 cm piece of transparent tape on front free endpaper of Volume 4. Interiors otherwise clean and unmarked. Bindings sound. Due to the size and weight of this set, additional shipping will be required for expedited and international orders. . Hard Cover. Very Good.