The Intimate Papers of Colonel House Arranged as a Narrative by Charles Seymour [Volume One and Volume Two]

Previous owner's rubber name stamp "Robert Milligan". Dust-jackets with some tears and tape-repairs. Foxing to dust-jackets. Dust-jackets protected in archival cover.; Uncommon with dust-jackets. Volumes One and Two only, of four volumes. Volume One: Behind the Political Curtain 1912-1915. Volume Two: From Neutrality to War 1915-1917. Volume One: xxiii, [3], 474, [2 (blank)] pages + frontispiece. Volume Two: viii, [2], 502, [2 (blank)] pages + frontispiece. Both volumes: green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spines. Small gilt circular illustration on front boards. Page dimensions: 236 x 153mm. "Charles Seymour (January 1, 1885 — August 11, 1963) was an American academic, historian and the 15th President of Yale University from 1937 to 1951. As an academic administrator, he was instrumental in establishing Yale's residential college system. His writing focused on the diplomatic history of World War I." - Wikipedia entry on Charles Seymour, accessed January 2025. "Edward Mandell House (July 26, 1858 — March 28, 1938) was an American diplomat, and an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson. He was known as Colonel House, although his title was honorary and he had performed no military service. He was a highly influential backroom politician in Texas before becoming a key supporter of the presidential bid of Wilson in 1912 by managing his campaign, beginning in July 1911. Having a self-effacing manner, he did not hold office but was an "executive agent", Wilson's chief adviser on European politics and diplomacy during World War I (1914—1918). He became a government official as one of the five American commissioners to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.[4] In 1919, Wilson broke with House and many other top advisers, believing they had deceived him at Paris." - Wikipedia article on Edwin M. House, accessed January 2025.…