WILSON, Woodrow. A History of the American People. (FIRST EDITION - 5 VOLUMES - 1902)

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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.