A Journal of the Great War - In Two Volumes

Dawes, Charles G.

Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company / Riverside Press - Boston / Cambridge, 1921

About this Item

Two volumes of the two volume set - conditions for both books the same unless noted: Dark green books with bright gilt lettering to spine and blind stamped bust of author on front. Frontispieces with tissue guard in each volume and top edges gilt - books are tight, square, particularly sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings - books are Near Fine. Illustrated and with warm inscription from author to prior owner - "For my friend and comrade in effort in France - George Rothwell Brown, from Charles Dawes, Sept. 2nd, 1921." Dawes served as Brigadier General - Engineers in Europe during WWI. After the war he led the effort to resolve the issue of the reparations Germany had been forced to pay by the Treaty of Versailles, for which he shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. He subsequently became Vice President of the United States (1925-1929) under Calvin Coolidge. Book was purchased from the Rothwell Brown summer home in Maine. From his Obituary of 1960: "George Rothwell Brown's long career as a newspaperman ended in Chicago last night on the terms he had set for himself. The 80-year-old political writer died while still active, covering the Republican National Convention. Long one of the most respected members of the Washington press corps, Mr. Brown had been writing for the Hearst newspapers since 1929. He had covered every national political convention since 1908 except the 1932 Democratic convention. A native Washingtonian, Mr. Brown was a member of a family that had been prominent in newspapering here since 1800 when a great-great-great-uncle, John Borrows, moved his family from Philadelphia to the new Capital to cover the political scene. He was also a descendant of Joseph Tate, founder of The Star. The son of Dr. Andrew Rothwell Brown, a physician and patent attorney, and Sarah Thompson Brown, Mr. Brown was educated in the District public schools. He was graduated in the class of 1898.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Journal of the Great War - In Two Volumes
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin and Company / Riverside Press - Boston / Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • World War 1
  • American History