Description
First edition of Under Other Flags: Travels, Lectures, Speeches, signed by William Jennings Bryan. Octavo, 397pp. Red cloth, title printed on spine, but worn. Bumped corners and edge wear. Frontispiece portrait opposite title page, depicting Bryan and Count Tolstoy. First editions were printed in blue and red cloth. Signed on title page by author William Jennings Bryan: “To Dr. J.H. Girclon, New York. With Compliments of W. Jr. Bryan.”
Comments: William Jennings Bryan was a three time nominee for President of the United States of the democratic party, Secretary of State for Woodrow Wilson and member of the House of Representatives. He is remembered as one of the most influential voices of the Progressive Era, often the vocal opponent to President Theodore Roosevelt.
