Die Lebensgeschichte von Wm. McKinley, Unser Martyrer=President (cover title)

German-first canvassing dummy for the popular biography Our Martyred President: Memorial Life of William McKinley, by G. W. Townsend (Unser Märtyrer-präsident... Die Lebensgeschichte von Wm. McKinley... and Vår martyr-president... en minnesteckning öfver William McKinleys lif).

Cloth 8vo with photographic portrait mounted to cover. Very Good with light soil and rubbing to extremities, quarter-inch gouge to the cloth at the upper rear board, repaired tear to rfep. Tidemard along the edges of the English-language title page only. 8 blank ruled pages for subscribers at rear. With 16 pages of text in German, 46 in English, and 16 in Swedish, with 64 pages of illustrations interspersed. Sample "texoderm" faux-morocco spine (in German) mounted to rear pastedown. The book was offered in all three languages in the same binding styles and prices. Arbour records 8 canvassing dummies for Our Martyred President, 3 that include specimen pages in German and Swedish, but none with a non-English binding (nor any under this title, nor in OCLC).