Chadwick admiral f e (2 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. 493 pages. Some wear to the edges of the blue covers and spine. Pages yellowed; very good otherwise. Illustrated. Large heavy book. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inventory No: 195304.

Five volumes. Thick 8vo. [8], xxx, 388; xxii, [2], 494; xx, 500; xxii, 508; xvii, [1], 498 pp. With tipped-in presentation leaf in red & black, titles in red & black, photogravure frontispieces, maps (some large folding), tipped-in colour plates, photo plates, illustrations. Uniformly bound in Deluxe full dark-green publisher's morocco, gilt decorations & rulings on covers, 5 raised bands on gilt decorated spines, brown & gilt spine labels, gilt inner dentelles, t.e.g. (minor shelfwear, slight scuffing, very minor bumping to head of spine vol. 5), still an excellent set from the library of Captain Alexander Henry Higginson (1876-1958), noted expert on foxhounds, equitation, and author on steeplechase and fox hunting who spent the war in the US Army Remount service training and securing vast amounts of horses for the Allied forces, and training them, and his wife Jeanne Calducci Higginson (1886-1925), former stage actress who married Higginson in 1907 w/ her Egyptian revival bookplates mounted on front pastedowns of all 5 volumes. A magnificent deluxe presentation edition of this monumental history of World War I, written and issued contemporaneously by several of the participants, and including introduction by former President Taft, and later Supreme Court Justice. Included are photos, personal & first-hand accounts of European military campaigns, naval & air campaigns, trench warfare, along with technological and political upheavals. There are also extensive sections on the war in Africa, Asia, Palestine and the Middle East, Submarine warfare, the Armenian Massacre, the Russian Revolution, and finally the protracted problems of crafting a peace treaty.…