Albert Ballin
Description:
Gerhard Stalling,
1922,
Berlin.
Book Condition: Good+.
In German script.
1857-1918. Biography. Head of the Hamburg-American Steamship Lines, largest shipping line in Germany with a fleet of 400 vessels. Advisor to Kaiser Wilhelm II. Politician, responsible for American-German shipping agreement of 1912. Committed suicide after Germany's military collapse in WWI. Boards covered with marbled paper. Corners bumped.
Top of spine pulled; edges chipped.
407 pp.
Item ID: 014208
$20.00
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