[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED copy of the First Book to win the Pulitzer Prize in History, INSCRIBED to Edmund Gosse

[Charles Agvent]

JUSSERAND, J. J. WITH AMERICANS OF PAST AND PRESENT DAYS. New York: 
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. First Edition. Fourth Printing of the 
first book to win the Pulitzer Prize for History. This copy is INSCRIBED 
and SIGNED by the author "to/my friend of many years/Edmund Gosse,/owing 
to whom France, in/these great days, is better known/in England, and 
England in/France,/with best souvenirs/Jusserand." Gosse was a critic of 
literature and sculpture who befriended many authors and artists of his 
time including Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and John Singer 
Sargent who painted his portrait in 1886. Jusserand was the French 
ambassador to the United States during World War I and also a perceptive 
critic of English literature. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown 
and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of 
coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched 
from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in the summer of 
1999. Near Fine, lacking the dustwrapper. (#015101)        $150.00

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