AUTHOR: WILSON, Woodrow
TITLE: A History of the American People.
PUBLISHER: NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1902.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 5 vols., 9-1/8" x 6-1/2", profusely illustrated with portraits, maps, plans, facsimiles and views, title-pages printed in red and black, bound in 1/2 olive green morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, top edges gilt, others uncut.
CONDITION: Inner and outer hinges fine, head and foot of spines fine, spine uniformly faded to brown, overall a VERY GOOD set.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Wilson's monumental narrative history of the United States from settlement to 1900, which he completed at Princeton in the early summer of 1902, a few months before he was sworn in as President of the University by a unanimous vote.