The Persian Problem; An Examination of the Rival Positions of Russia and Great Britain in Persia

Henry James WHIGHAM

New York, C. Scribner's Sons, 1903

[The Great Game] 1st American ed. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1903. Bound in publisher's cloth.  Small tear at head of spine. Top edge gilt. Binding shaken. Collated: xvi, 424 pages. 23 photographic plates; 5 maps, including folding frontispiece.  End pages foxed, otherwise, generally clean internally. Ghani, page 394.  Wilson p 243. Whigham was a Scottish author and journalist who wrote this book at the request of Lord Curzon.  

Book plate and signature of Jeremiah Whipple Jenks (1856–1929).  Jenks was an American economist and important governmental advisor.  He was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as an expert in Asia for the U.S. Treasury Department in 1899.  He represented the US in financial matters in the near east and later served on the U.S. Commission on International Exchange.  Jenks is best known for his work on U.S. immigration and his advocacy of relatively less exclusion of immigrants from Asian countries.