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The Great War. First volume: causes of and motives for. . . with an introduction by William Howard Taft; Second volume: the mobilization of the moral and physical forces; Third volume: the original German plan and its culmination; Fourth volume: the wavering balance of forces; Fifth volume: the triumph of democracy.

1519 · 64089 — Philadelphia PA: George Barrie’s Sons 1915-1921. 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. George Barrie’s Sons, hardcover