Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 4604. Estimate $30.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Morgenthau, Henry. Ambassador Morgenthau's Story. (Garden City, 1918). xv, 407 pages, 56 photographs of contemporary Turkey. A first-hand account of Morgenthau's 1914-1916 stint as American ambassador to Istanbul, with fascinating descriptions of the byzantine political maneuvering in the capital during the early years of World War I. The last third of the book provides some of the earliest published reports of the increasingly violent assaults on the Armenian community by the Turks. Brown cloth covers with printed titles. Fine condition, corners bumped. ($30)