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DOYLE, Arthur Conan (1859-1930). The German War. London, New York, Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914.
8vo. (Ownership signature and sticker on front free endpaper). Original gilt-lettered black cloth (light spotting to lower cover and spine); ORIGINAL DUST JACKET (extremities chipped, light soiling, few small stains to spine).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, AMERICAN ISSUE, with the original title-page with the Hodder and Stoughton imprint but bound by George H. Doran Company (a sub-agent for Hodder and Stoughton) with their imprint stamped on the spine and their name printed on the dust jacket. “The creator of Sherlock Holmes has long watched the German peril, and since the outbreak of war has studied first-hand the German ideals as sung out in blood and iron. With all his power of dramatic utterance and a world of inside facts, he declares that the Germans have been to blame, and explains the British position” (from the dust jacket). In the RARE DUST JACKET, unseen by Green and Gibson. Green and Gibson B16b.