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The Big Four; And Others of the Peace Conference
by Lansing, Robert
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/good
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1921. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/good. First edition of The Big Four by Secretary of State Robert Lansing, inscribed to fellow American diplomat and Under Secretary of State, Hon. Henry P. Fletcher.. Octavo, 213pp. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover. Solid text block, light toning to endpapers. Residual dust along top edge of text block. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, loss to spine, archival reinforcement to verso, an exceptionally scarce dust jacket, but in distressed condition. Signed on the front free endpaper: "To Honorable Henry P. Fletcher, with the personal regard of Robert Lansing. Oct. 1921." A unique association copy to Henry P. Fletcher, the Under Secretary of State and former United States Ambassador to Mexico and Chile, who would later serve as ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy. Robert Lansing (1864-1928) served as the United States Secretary of State in the Wilson Administration, from 1915-1920. He was an important member of the American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, but privately opposed many points of the Treaty of Versailles, and soon fell out of favor with President Wilson. He opposed the creation of the League of Nations, believing it was not important to maintaining international peace. After President Wilson suffered a stroke, he called together the cabinet and openly discussed Vice President Thomas Marshall assuming the presidency. He was asked to resign by Edith Wilson and returned to his law practice in New York.
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- Bookseller
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 11981
- Title
- The Big Four; And Others of the Peace Conference
- Author
- Lansing, Robert
- Illustrator
- First edition of The Big Four by Secretary of State Robert Lansing, inscribed to fellow American diplomat and Under Secretary of
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1921
- Keywords
- Robert Lansing signed book, The Big Four and Others at the Peace Conference, The Peace Negotiations Robert Lansing, first edition Robert Lansing, Government: Its Origin, Growth, and Form in the United States
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
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- New
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- Jacket
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- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Cloth
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
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