France: A Short History of its Politics, Literature, and Art from Earliest Times to the Present

Sedgwick, Henry Dwight

Verlag: Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929

Beschreibung

Octavo, red cloth lettered in black; slightly soiled. First edition, first printing. A presentation copy, inscribed: "Lois Kellogg Jessup, with regards and affection, Henry D. Sedgwick," on the front endpaper; with Jessup's notes on the rear pastedown. Lois Jessup worked tirelessly for the American Friends Service Committee, the U.S. Children's Bureau (preparing reports on children in Europe during Second World War, and the United Nations, advocating for women's rights around the world. She married Philip C. Jessup, a judge on the International Court of Justice and veteran U. S. diplomat, credited with playing a major role in ending the Soviet blockade of West Berlin. The Jessups lived in northwestern Connecticut, a short distance from Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where Sedgwick resided. A handsome copy with a distinguished provenance. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-17188054653

Bibliografische Details

Titel: France: A Short History of its Politics, ...

Verlag: Boston: Little, Brown, and Company

Erscheinungsdatum: 1929

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Signiert: Inscribed by Author(s)