GERMANY'S ECONOMIC PROGRESS AND NATIONAL WEALTH 1888-1913 by HELFFERICH, Karl, Dr - 1914

Georg Stilke, Berlin, 1915. 5th edition.. Hardback. Cloth, VG. xviii+142pp, b/w tables, spine sunned & page margins a little tanned. A study of Germany's Economic prosperity during the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Paris: Le Matin, éditeur, 1917. Broché. Mauvais état. in-8. 103 pp. Manques sur dos, couverture Roussie, piquée et cornée. Intérieur roussi. Cote et tampons.

1919. HELFFERICH, Dr. Karl. DAS GELD. Vierte Aufalge. Leipzig: Verlag Von C.L. Hirschfeld, 1919. Small 4to., black pebbled quarter-morocco leather and marbled boards. Later Printing. Very Good (bright, some wear edges). $50.00.

Leipzig: C.L. Hirschfeld, 1919. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Good-VG. Half marbled boards and black leather; corners bumped, edges rubbed, 3 cm long narrow strip of paper loss to lower fr. edge, v. slight rubbing to spine ends and panel ridges, otherwise clean and firm. series t.p. + t.p. + xii + 614 (but pagination inclusive of t.p.s) + (2, pub.list); main fault is edge-tanning throughout which renders edge fragile, this typical of German and French publications especially of this date due to low grade wood-pulp paper, bottom outer tips of fr. end-paper and next leaf chipped, otherwise clean, tight and unmarked. First two editions issued in 1903 and 1910. Scarce in UK and not 17.5 cm x 24 cmlisted in COPAC/JISC.

New York: The Fatherland Corporation, 1915. Book. Fair. Stapled Booklet. First Edition Thus. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. [4]-46 pp. "The governments of England, Russia, and France thought through the publication of the exchange of diplomatic writings of the days before the beginning of [WWI], they could furnish a proof in the eyes of their own peoples and of the entire civilized world that the blame for the most gigantic shedding of blood which the world has ever experienced falls only upon 'war-lusting Germany,' and that they for their part did all in their power to avoid the catastrophe. England has published a 'Blue Book,' Russia an 'Orange Book,' and France a 'Yellow Book.'" - p.5. "Dr. Karl Helfferich, German Secretary of the Treasury, reviews the 'White,' 'Yellow,' and 'Orange' papers, and reaches a different conclusion from that of James M. Beck [author of the 1914 book 'The Evidence in the… Read More