12mo. Original gilt-lettered green leather over flexible boards (minor darkening to extremities). Provenance: M. Brugmire (inscription on half-title); E. S. Handy, Wilson Genethnic Study (presentation stamp from Lee Curtice on front free endpaper, and his? inscription “E and E Handy 1964 from CBLC” on front pastedown, and his? ballpoint underlinings and marginal notations on first five pages of text). 

 

DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST GERMANY, SIGNED BY WOODROW WILSON (“Woodrow Wilson”) on front free endpaper. The text of Wilson's historic speech asking Congress for a declaration of war against Germany, memorably stating: “We are now about to accept gauge of battle with this natural foe to liberty and shall, if necessary, spend the whole force of the nation to check and nullify its pretensions and its power. We are glad…to fight thus for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German peoples included: for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy…”