The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative
by Robert Lansing
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1921. First Edition. Good copy. No jacket. Unmarked claen copy. Still relatively tight. NAvy blue cloth cievrs with faded title and author on front cover. Bumping of head and tail of spine Moderate shelf rubbing. Dust soiled edges.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
From the book:While we were still in Paris, I felt, and have felt increasingly ever since, that you accepted my guidance and direction on questions with regard to which I had to instruct you only with increasing reluctance.… "... I must say that it would relieve me of embarrassment, Mr. Secretary, the embarrassment of feeling your reluctance and divergence of judgment, if you would give your present office up and afford me an opportunity to select some one whose mind would more willingly go along with mine." These words are taken from the letter which President Wilson wrote to me on February 11, 1920. On the following day I tendered my resignation as Secretary of State by a letter, in which I said:
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- Bookseller
- Quaker House Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000838
- Title
- The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative
- Author
- Robert Lansing
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1921
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- HISTORY, WORLD WAR I
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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Quaker House Books
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Catawissa, Pennsylvania
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