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The Century Co, 1912. Hardcover. Good. Red with black cloth boards with gilt lettering. Gilt on top edge of pages. Unmarked with the exception of a penciled in name on the top right corner of the front flyleaf. Yellowing around the edges of pages but textblock is clean. No dust jacket. Cover has some splitting along the edge of spine and some wear on corners and along the long side of the spine.

Brand: Mage Publishers, 0000-00-00. hardcover. Used: Good.

New York: The Century Co, 1912. Hardcover. Octavo; Fair+; Hardcover; Spine, red with gold print on brown banner; Boards in red cloth with gold print, lightly cocked spine, light wear to spine caps and corners, else clean and strong; Text block has has gilt top edge, spotting to endpapers, embossed name stamp on front flyleaf, spine cracks pp. 251 and 334, else clean and tight; lxiii, 423 pages, frontispiece (port.), illustrated (b&w plates, color map). 1368728. FP New Rockville Stock.

Brand: Mage Publishers, 0000-00-00. hardcover. Used:Good.

HATFIELD BOOK AND MEMORABILIA, a five-star seller, presents a FIRST EDITION THUS of THE STRANGLING OF PERSIA ("Story of the European Diplomacy and Oriental Intrigue that resulted in the denationalization of twelve million Mohammedans, by W. MORGAN SHUSTER, ex-Treasurer General of Persia. New York: The Century Company, June, 1912. 5 5/8" x 8 5/16", 423 pages, including 85 b & w photos, one tri-color fold-out map. FIRST US EDITION THUS. Overall condition Very Good/no dust jacket. Ex-library with appurtenances thereto. Pages (rough cut with gold gilt top edges) = moderate tanning, no marks of any kind (except library), tight, sharp corners, few liquid stains to upper corners, light bump to bottom edges. Cover (cloth boards with particulars and middle eastern border design in gold) = tight, slightly worn corners, former library appurtenances, top and bottom/spine folded.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York NY: The Century Co., 1920. Pp. lxiv+423 [numerous plates+1 map bound in]. Red cloth. Condition: Very good- with cut edges browning lightly. No annotation.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Washington: Mage Publishers, 1987. 1st ed. thus. As New. octavo. hardback in decorated cloth lxiii + 423pp., frontis., b/w pls., appends., index, Shuster served as treasurer general to the government of the Persian Empire in 1911. In 1910, the Persian government asked U.S. president William Howard Taft for technical assistance in reorganising its financial system. Taft chose William Morgan Shuster (1877 1960) to head a mission of American experts to Tehran. Shuster clashed repeatedly with Russian and British officials, until his mission was forced to withdraw in early 1912. This is an account of his experiences. [from Wikipedia]