Buy this book on-line The Gift Book Committee of the Militia of Mercy (Editor) et al : President's Edition; Defender's of Democracy: Contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own countryJohn Lane Company, New York, 1918
Original publisher's gray cloth binding. Original full-page color plate tipped in on front cover. The plate shows a nurse overseeing two men holding a sword in unison, the latter of whom represent the United States Army and Navy. 7" x 10." xxvi, [1]-324, complete. Many black-and-white plates, complete. List of Illustrations in the front. Former owner's black and yellow illustrated bookplate tipped in on front pastedown: "This Book Belongs to Brooke." Former owner's signed inscription in black ink on front free endpaper: "To L[--?] [T--?], All good things to her--the best that we can wish. Jean S[--?], December 22nd, 191[--?]." Pages are virtually pristine and intact except for light age toning and minuscule wear to extremities. Covers are clean and intact except for light rubbing to front and back, faint smudges, slight wear to extremities, and bumping to upper corner of fore-edge on back. A Fine copy. A compendium of essays, messages, songs, poetry, and the like dedicated to the servicemen and servicewomen of the United States and its allies serving during World War I. The contributions are written by a number of authors from the U.S. and other countries. The following are the contributors: President Woodrow Wilson, Vice Admiral William Sowden, General John J. Pershing, Lord Northcliffe, Theodore Roosevelt, William Dean Howells, Hermann Hagedorn, Gaston de Leval, Emile Cammaerts, Tsa Yuan-Pei, George Sterling, George A. Birmingham, John Galsworthy, William J. Locke, Henry van Dyke, Harriet Monroe, Daniel Frohman, J. Hartley Manners, Frederick Coudert, Anatole France, Rupert Hughes, James M. Beck, Lord Bryce, Robert Hichens, Stephen McKenna, Lady Aberdeen, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Ralph Connor, Stephen Leacock, May Sinclair, Eleutherios Venizelos, William Roscoe Thayer, Gabriele d'Annunzio, C. H. Grangent, Amy Bernardy, Viscount K. Ishii, Salomon de la Selva, Lilian E. Elliott, Henrique Lopes de Mendonca, Edgar Prestage, Achmed Abdullah, Ivan Narodny, Sergey Makowsky, M. Boich, Mary Austin, Maurice Hewlitt, Charles W. Eliot, James Cardinal Gibbons, John Lewis Griffith, J. H. Jowett, Owen Johnson, Melville E. Stone, Robert W. Chambers, Arthur Guy Empey, Edna Ferber, Theodosia Garrison, Louise Closser Hale, Louis Untermeyer, Fannie Hurst, Robert Underwood Johnson, Amy Lowell, Mrs. John Lane, George Barr McCutcheon, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gouverneur Morris, James Oppenheim, James F. Pryor, Evaleen Stein, Alice Woods, Myron T. Herrick, and Amelie Rives. Printed text on copyright page: "The net proceeds of the sale of this book will be used in aiding the needy families of the men of the Naval Militia who have been called to the defense of liberty.". Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of The Gift Book Committee of the Militia of Mercy (Editor) et al : President's Edition; Defender's of Democracy: Contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including collectables, first editions, livres illustrées, libri antichi and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |