Leonard Wood: A Biography by [WOOD, Leonard] HAGERDORN, Hermann - 1931

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931. First Edition. Two volumes; large octavos (24.5cm.); publisher's cloth in uniform white photo-illustrated dust jackets, Vol. I retaining original price ($10), Vol. II price-clipped, grey topstain; xii,[2],436; viii,[2],524pp.; portrait frontispieces, fourteen leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light wear to cloth extremities, jackets a bit chipped and worn at margins including a few small losses and occasional closed tears touching text without loss of meaning, general dust-soil, else a Very Good, sound set overall. Massive biography of American colonial administrator General Leonard Wood (1860-1927), a key player in the governance of the Philippines following the Spanish-American War.