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Hurst & Company, New York. No publish date, but is circa 1900. Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No dust jacket. Shelfwear to spine and corners. 240 pp. Text is yellowed typical of age and materials used. Some darker spots in text, but does not impair readability. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Ink markings on rear free endpaper. B/W engravings and frontispiece portrait by August Hoppin. Good+ condition considering age.

Grolier Incorporated, New York, 1954. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Fine, like new. No dust jacket issued. 857 pp. Text is clean, white and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Part of Grollier's Treasury Series in presentation bindings. This volume "depicts the crises and cruxes of history" as orated by: Theodore Roosevelt, Sun Yat-sen, Georges Clemenceau, Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Trotsky, Hitler, Mussolini, Gandhi, Nehru, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Sir Winston Churchill, and many others. "Each speech prefaced with its dramatic and biographical setting and placed in the full historical perspective."

Grolier Incorporated, New York, 1965. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Fine, like new. No dust jacket issued. 2086 pp. in two volumes. Text is clean, white and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Part of Grollier's Treasury Series in presentation bindings. These two volumes are described by the authors as: "A new college anthology of American literature, with which is integrated a comprehensive historical and critical survey, must be designed to meet the needs of students whose perspectives are growing with our complex times."