Some Neglected Aspects of War (Signed) Cloth over boards. octavo. xxii, [2], 193 pages [+1 page ad] - 1907

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907. First edition. Cloth over boards. Octavo. xxii, [2], 193 pages [+1 page ad]. Bound in dark blue publisher's cloth over boards with gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, dark blue-black coated endpapers. A few shallow bumps to extremities, a few slight rubs, and a small rectangular numeric label at top fore corner of front pastedown. There is a faint splitting to front endpaper along hinge, but still sound. A beautiful, near fine copy overall.. Text includes articles and an address by Capt. Mahan, plus two articles by other authors. The pieces by Mahan are: <br /> - The Moral Aspect of War<br /> - The Practical Aspect of War<br /> - The Hague Conference of 1907, and the Question of Immunity for Belligerent Merchant Shipping<br /> - War from a Christian Standpoint (an address in 1900 to the Church Congress in Providence, RI) <br /> <br /> The other two pieces included herein are: <br /> - The Power that Makes for Peace, by Henry S. Pritchett<br /> - The Capture of Private Property at Sea, by Julian S. Corbett<br /> <br /> This copy bears a lengthy inscription by Mahan, signed and dated by him May 14, 1909. He closely paraphrases himself from page 51, and writes "The great danger of the / indiscriminating advocacy of / arbitration is that it may lead / men to tamper with conscience, / soothing it with the belief that / War is so entirely wrong that / beside it no other tolerated / evil is wrong."<br /> <br /> Signed copies of Mahan's books are very scarce, and this is a nice example in one of his first editions. <br /> <br /> Ref. HATTENDORF A14a.