The American Emperor. A Novel

New York: The Tabard Inn Press, 1913. Hardcover. 398p., hardbound in 7.5x5 inch spinach-green cloth boards with white titling, in dust jacket. A rather pretty book slightly worn along bottom edge of boards (minute spots of card show at corner-tips) with crimping to tail rim, top rim also crimped but very lightly, cloth bright and lettering very sound with no sign of erosion, top edge dust-soiled, front hinge cracked with an inch of fabric showing, the ffep bears an odd gash one inch long, titlepage is marked in blind with a nice old blindstamp. Textblock and casing are not exactly tight but item sits quite squarely. The dust jacket panels are intact but the matte paperstock is dirty, chipped and edgeworn and reinforced inside and out with old document tape (see below for publisher's comment on dj). A good copy: relatively sound, internally clean. From text, at p.392: "..we are indebted to the German mind for this most stupendous and at the same time most practical dream in human history. It is also wonderful that Germany, which gave us the Reformation, and modern Judaism, and the best of modern science, and the greatest of the pessimistic philosophers, has now given Carl Marx and Socialism to the world." - From jacket: "In the form of new fiction a fascinating narrative beginning in the era before the Civil War, and coming down to the present day. The style is virile, dramatic, poetic, realistic, the greatest book of its kind since 'Vanity Fair.' It is, in fact, a modern 'Satires of Juvenal' in prose.