GREATER AMERICA, 1898, Spanish American War, Philippines, Cuba, Photographs

Greater America: Heroes, Battles, Camps; Dewey Islands, Cuba, Porto Rico. New York and London: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898. Oblong octavo. Publisher’s brown cloth stamped in black and white with patriotic shield on front board. Photographic halftone illustrations throughout depicting military personnel, encampments, and scenes in Cuba and the Philippines, from photographs collected by Gilson Willets and Margherita Arlina Hamm.

Moderately worn; front inner hinge cracked with exposed webbing; text block detached or loosening at gutter; corners bumped; edge rubbing and light surface soiling to cloth boards; faint spotting to preliminary blank.