Description
First edition of In Our First Year of War, signed by President Woodrow Wilson in 1918. Includes the publisher’s scarce dust jacket.
Small octavo, [10], 166pp. Publisher’s light blue cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover. Uncut. Light sunning to spine, dust remnant along top edge of text block. Solid text block, internally clean. Frontispiece from a drawing by Wilfrid Muir Evans.
(Martin / Goehlert 7764) Housed in custom blue cloth clamshell case, title in gilt over black leather spine label.
In the publisher’s exceptionally rare dust jacket, closed tears, light soiling to panels. The only known example of this jacket to reach the public market.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Mrs. Charles W. Dunn / With the compliments of Woodrow Wilson / 13 March, 1918.”
This book is inscribed to Mrs. Alice Hafner Dunn, wife of Charles Wesley Dunn. While attending Princeton University, Charles W. Dunn (1885-1959) was a student of President Woodrow Wilson, and Wilson had “a great influence on his intellectual development.” Dunn later became a corporate attorney, specializing in food, drug, and antitrust law. As a professor at New York University, he founded the Food and Drug Law Institute.
