LATIN AMERICA AND THE UNITED STATES, ADDRESSES BY ELIHU ROOT

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1917. First Edition. Hardcover, no jacket. xvi+302pp. Black cloth covers with gilt titling and decoration to spine. Top edge gilt. Ex-library (American Antiquarian Society) with a small card glued to front pastedown and extending slightly above the cover, small pencil notes to pastedown and ffep, and embossed stamp to title page. Overall Very Good condition. Boards are lightly worn/bumped. Contents are clean, bright, and unmarked, with no foxing. Binding is square and tight.  A very nice copy of "The collected addresses and state papers of Elihu Root, of which this is one of several volumes, cover the period of his service as Secretary of War, as Secretary of State, and as Senator of the United States, during which time, to use his own expression, his only client was his country". (cfm)