A Signed Limited Edition of Woodrow Wilson's A History of the American People

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Woodrow Wilson. A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1902. (5) volumes (complete). Alumni edition. Limited edition; no. 162 of an edition limited to 350 copies. Signed by Woodrow Wilson in blue pen on the limitation in Vol. I. Half white cloth over blue-gray paper-covered boards, with spine labels and deckle edges. Large 8vo; Vol. I "The Swarming of the English," xxv, [3], 349, [1]pp.; Vol. II "Colonies and Nation," xviii, [4], 368, [2]pp; Vol. III "The Founding of the Government," xv, [3], 347, [1]pp; Vol. IV "Critical Changes and Civil War," xiv, [4], 343, [1]pp.; Vol. V "Reunion and Nationalization," xi, [3], 337, [1]pp. Each volume with frontispiece, and the set "Illustrated with portraits, maps, plans, facsimiles, rare prints, contemporary views, etc."

Each 10 3/8 x 7 in.

From the Collection of Piroska Szabo, a Member of the Wake Audubon Society and the Raleigh Garden Club

Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, was born in Virginia and spent his childhood in several southern states, eventually settling in Wilmington, North Carolina. He graduated from Princeton University, and later earned his PhD from Johns Hopkins University. Wilson worked as a professor at several colleges and universities, teaching courses on history, law, and political economy. In 1902, the year this five-volume set was published, he was appointed the 13th President of Princeton after teaching there for more than a decade and writing several books.

Boards with soiling, foxing to cloth, edge toning, and a few volumes with damp stains; spines darkened, with wear especially at ends (heaviest on Vol. II), and labels with creasing, chipping, and rubbing; sturdy volumes but with occasional gutter cracking and a couple of volumes with hinge cracking; interiors with toning at end papers and page edges, and general age and handling wear such as occasional foxing and spotting, and wear to corners and edges; most tissue guards in place, pages overall clean and bright, and a few leaves partially unopened; good plus condition.