John Reed — The War in Eastern Europe

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition copy of this illustrated account of American journalist John Reed's  second trip after the first World War began, in the very scarce original unclipped dust wrapper.   The first edition.In the publisher's original beige cloth binding. In the very scarce unclipped original dust wrapper.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and 47 plates by Boardman Robinson. Collated, complete.A work by John Reed, an American journalist, poet, and communist activist. Reed first gained prominence as a war correspondent during the Mexican Revolution for Metropolitan and World War I for The Masses.This work describes John Reed's second trip after the first World War broke out. In the publisher's original cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste down. Dust wrapper is in three pieces. Split to front joint, with significant loss to spine and edges, lacking the front fly leaf. Rear fly leaf split by joint but present. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Boardman Robinson. Near Fine/Poor.