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Thomas Jefferson, on the Eve of the Vice Presidency, Arranges to Collect Dividends from Stock Issued Under Alexander Hamilton's Fiscal Plan by Thomas Jefferson

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Title: Thomas Jefferson, on the Eve of the Vice Presidency, Arranges to Collect Dividends from Stock Issued Under Alexander Hamilton's Fiscal Plan
Author: Thomas Jefferson
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 28/01/1797. One of the last acts of Jefferson’s private life before resuming high national elective office A window into the practical administration of Hamilton’s funded debt and also signed by the Chief US Comptroller at the Reserve in Philadelphia This extensive document last sold in 1976, when it was sold by legendary dealer Ralph NewmanFollowing the Revolutionary War, the new nation, its member states, and a great many of its citizens were deeply in debt. By 1790 the national debt stood at $54 million, and collectively the state governments owed creditors $25 million. Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton estimated the combined state and federal debt to international investors at almost $12 million. In January of 1790, he published his “Report on the Public Credit”, in which he argued that the financial health of the nation was essential to its prosperity; and to achieve this end, he proposed that all debts were to be paid at face value, and the Federal government would assume all of the war debts owed by the 13 states and the state debts would be paid out of the federal treasury. But rather than just pay the debt load off, he recommended the consolidation of the debts into new securities (stocks, or what we would today consider bonds) with public revenues specifically pledged to pay their interest. States received these certificates of federal debt from the U.S. Treasury, and subscribers could obtain and trade these securities also. Holders received a 6% stock issue, interest starting in 1791 and payable quarterly, equal to 2/3 the principal due. The final 1/3 came in the form of another 6% certificate of deferred interest that would start in 1801. Another stock certificate of 3% covered the interest due from December 31, 1789 to December 31, 1794. Hamilton’s plan proved to be a great success, wiping out a huge debt without a crippling lump sum payment, establishing the credit of the United States both domestically and internationally, encouraging American business, and tying the wealthy class to U.S. government investments. Many people believe that Hamilton essentially established the American financial system, a remarkable achievement.With incumbent President George Washington having refused a third term in office, the 1796 election became the first U.S. presidential election in which political parties competed for the presidency. The Federalists coalesced behind John Adams and the Democratic-Republicans supported Thomas Jefferson. The campaign was a bitter one, with Federalists attempting to identify the Democratic-Republicans with the violence of the French Revolution and the Democratic-Republicans accusing the Federalists of favoring monarchism and aristocracy. Republicans sought to associate Adams with the policies developed by fellow Federalist Alexander Hamilton, which they declaimed were too much in favor of Great Britain and a centralized national government. In foreign policy, Republicans denounced the Federalists over the Jay Treaty, which had established a peace with Great Britain, though one that proved temporary. Adams supporters also accused Jefferson of being too pro-France. Adams was elected president, but under the rules in place at that time, Jefferson, receiving the second most votes, became his vice president. It was the first contested American presidential election, the first presidential election in which political parties played a dominant role, and the only presidential election in which a president and vice president were elected from opposing tickets.William Short, a Virginia-born lawyer who disagreed with slavery, became an American diplomat during the first two decades of his country's existence, before moving to Philadelphia and becoming a successful financier and philanthropist. Short also served as Jefferson's protégé, and Jefferson was a strong supporter of his career. Jefferson considered Short his ""adoptive son”, as well as being his Short’s mentor and friend. Short served as Jefferson's private secretary when the latter was a peace commissioner in France, and remained in Europe to take on several other diplomatic posts, including as the U.S.'s chargé d'affaires in France during the French Revolution (1789–92), America's fiscal agent in Europe (1790-1794), as America's Minister to the Netherlands (1792), as a treaty commissioner to Spain (1794 to 1795), and others.Short held significant investments in the new federal funded debt created under Alexander Hamilton’s Funding Act of 1790. These included substantial holdings of 6% stock originally subscribed through the Loan Office of Virginia, part of the national program that refinanced Revolutionary War obligations into consolidated U.S. securities. Because Short remained overseas, the certificates representing his claims, including Certificate No. 2424 for $15,342.18, bearing 6% interest from October 1, 1793, were physically lodged at the Treasury Office in Philadelphia, as required for absentee holders.But Short’s power of attorney of April 2, 1793 empowered Jefferson to act fully in his stead. With Short still abroad and interest continuing to accrue, Jefferson now took the further step of appointing John Barnes of Philadelphia—a respected merchant and Jefferson’s own financial factotum—as Short’s substitute attorney for receiving dividends and giving the required receipts. It is likely he did so either because of his soon-to-be busy schedule upon taking office as Vice President, which was imminent, or because he felt it a conflict to be acting in both capacities.John Steele was a North Carolina statesman and financial administrator who became one of the early federal government’s most respected fiscal officers. Born in Salisbury, he served in the state legislature and the North Carolina conventions that debated the U.S. Constitution, before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the early 1790s, where he aligned with the Federalists on fiscal policy. In 1796 George Washington appointed him Comptroller of the Treasury, making Steele the nation’s chief accounting officer responsible for supervising revenue collection, settling government accounts, and overseeing fiscal compliance across all departments. He served in that powerful role through the administrations of Washington, Adams, and early Jefferson, earning a reputation for integrity, precision, and political moderation.This document stands at a pivotal moment: Jefferson had just returned from Monticello and would assume the vice presidency in early March. His financial stewardship for Short represents:- one of the last acts of Jefferson’s private life before resuming high elective national office;- a window into the practical administration of Hamilton’s funded debt;- a rare glimpse of Jefferson’s trusted circle, especially Barnes, who would later handle Jefferson’s finances during Jefferson's presidency.Surviving examples of Jefferson’s legally executed financial instruments involving federal debt, local acknowledgment, and Treasury endorsement on the same document, are scarce.In this document, Jefferson names Barnes to act as Jefferson’s substitute under the power of attorney given Jefferson by Short. Autograph document signed, January 28 and 29, 1797, signed two times, once in the first person and once in the third. ""Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Jefferson named in a certain letter of attorney from William Short of the state of Virginia late one of the Ministers of the U. S. abroad, bearing date the 2d day of April 1793, and now lodged in the bank of the U. S., hereby constituting me his attorney with full power to act for him in all cases as validly as he could do himself were he personally present, by virtue of the power thereby given me do make, constitute, and appoint John Barnes of Philadelphia as well my own as the true and lawful attorney & substitute of the said William Short, to receive the dividends which were payable according to law on a certain certificate No. 2424 for 15,342 dollars 18 cents bearing an interest of six per cent from the 1st of Octob. 1793 and standing in the name of the said William Short registered in the proper office of the U. S. at the seat of government in Philadelphia on the 1st day of this present month of January, or at any time passed all times preceeding that, and to do all lawful acts requisite for effecting the same, hereby ratifying & confirming the payment so to me made to the said John Barnes, and the discharge which he shall give for the same as done by virtue of the power of attorney aforesaid. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 28th day of January in the year one thousand seven hundred & ninety seven."" It is signed “Th. Jefferson,” and sealed and delivered in presence of Justice of the Peace Thomas Bell, who has also signed.On the verso:Also in Jefferson's hand, with his full signature in the text: ""Be it known that on the 29th day of January 1797, before me personally came Thomas Jefferson, within named & acknowledged the within letter of attorney to be his act & deed, my hand & affixed my seal the day & year above said.” It is signed by Thomas Bell.Also in Jefferson's hand: ""Virginia, Albemarle county to wit. I hereby certify that Thomas Bell who hath subscribed the above certificate is a justice of the peace for the said county of Albemarle & that all due faith & credence ought to be given to his acts & proceedings as such in witness whereof I have herunto affixed the seal of the said county, this 29th day of January 1797.” This is signed by Clerk of Court John Nicholas, C.A.C.In February 1797, this document is endorsed and signed in the hand of Henry Kuhl, who had been Hamilton’s assistant at the Treasury Department, noting that the policy is to not allow this authority for Jefferson to sub-designate Barnes, but allowing it, at least in part: ""The power from Mr. Short to Mr. Jefferson is a general power but does not admit substitution. Treas. Comptrollers have however allowed the payment of interest & of two fifth principal on Mr. Jefferson's substitutions."" Signed by Kuhl.Final endorsement by the US Comptroller, Jonathan Steele of North Carolina, appointed in 1796 by George Washington, who notes that it was ""Admitted.""This last sold in 1976, through Robert Batchelder and Ralph Newman at the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop. It has remained with the same family since that time.Jefferson must have struggled with these transactions because during this stretch there are a handful of such efforts to delegate this responsibility. A previous example, pre-dating this by a month or so, is in the Massachusetts Historical Society.

Epic Lyndon Johnson at the Height of His Great Society: He Congratulates Union Titan John L. Lewis on the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act by Lyndon B. Johnson

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Title: Epic Lyndon Johnson at the Height of His Great Society: He Congratulates Union Titan John L. Lewis on the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
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Description: 11/9/68. ""A grateful President salutes you.”John L. Lewis was President of the United Mine Workers union from 1920-1960. Coal miners for 40 years hailed him as the man whose efforts brought higher wages, pensions and medical benefits. He was named by FDR a member of the Labor Advisory Board and the National Labor Board of the NRA, and was also the driving force behind the founding of the CIO, a federation of unions that organized industrial workers. In 1952, Lewis commenced the long struggle for a Federal Mine Safety Act, one that would take 17 years to pass. On September 14, 1964, four years after his retirement from the UMWA, Lewis was awarded the President Medal of Freedom, with President Johnson saying at the award ceremony that Lewis was an “eloquent spokesman of labor [and] has given voice to the aspirations of the industrial workers of the country and led the cause of free trade unions within a healthy system of free enterprise.""In 1968, Johnson sent to Congress the comprehensive and stringent Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, which brought an entirely new degree of health and safety regulation to the mining industry. It was what the law miners had been hoping and waiting for decades. The Act required two annual inspections of every surface coal mine and four at every underground coal mine, and dramatically increased federal enforcement powers in the mines. It also provided for monetary penalties for violations, and established criminal penalties for knowing and willful violations. The safety standards for all coal mines were strengthened, and health standards were adopted. There were also specific procedures for the development of improved mandatory health and safety standards, and compensation was provided for miners who were disabled by the respiratory “black lung” disease.Johnson felt that Lewis, who had spent his whole life fighting for unions and for these reforms, and had helped make them possible, should share in the credit for their forthcoming enactment. He wrote Lewis crediting him, but just as importantly, associating himself with the labor cause and expressing his own solidarity with labor in its struggle for health and safety. This was epic Lyndon Johnson at the height of his Great Society.Typed letter signed, on White House letterhead, Washington, September 11, 1968, to Lewis. “I am today sending to the Congress a comprehensive new Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. I have always shared with you a concern for the physical well-being of the brave men who mine America’s coal - and now we are determined to take a giant step toward giving them the protection they deserve. The route toward this goal has been long and torturous. But millions of Americans know we wouldn’t have come this far if it hadn’t been for the dedication and compassion of John L Lewis. Now we are building on the foundation that you began. A grateful President salutes you.”Lewis died in June 1969, while the measure was before Congress. The Coal Mine Health and Safety Act passed Congress and was signed by President Nixon on December 30, 1969. It was a triumph for both Johnson and Lewis.

TO THE ELECTORS OF NORTH-WEST MANCHESTER: the extravagantly rare publication of Winston S. Churchill's campaign address from the first election he contested as a Liberal, including the only copy known to us of the accompanying perforated canvassing leaf soliciting supporters by Winston S. Churchill

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Title: TO THE ELECTORS OF NORTH-WEST MANCHESTER: the extravagantly rare publication of Winston S. Churchill's campaign address from the first election he contested as a Liberal, including the only copy known to us of the accompanying perforated canvassing leaf soliciting supporters
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Seller: Churchill Book Collector (United States)
Description: 2, Swan Court, Market Street, Manchester: William Hough & Sons, 1 January 1906. First edition, only printing. Leaflet. This extravagantly rare leaflet publication potentially unique thus is the first edition, only printing, of Winston S. Churchills Address to the Electors of North-West Manchester, published on 1 January 1906 in the run up to the first election he contested as a Liberal. Of the three copies known to us, this is the only privately-held copy and the sole example to retain the canvassing leaf insertion inviting the undersigned to declare intention to support the candidature of Mr. WINSTON S. CHURCHILL at the forthcoming General Election. The leaflet consists of a single 16.5 x 10.625 inch (41.91 cm x 26.99 cm) sheet folded once vertically to form four 8.25 x 10.625 inch (20.96 x 26.9 cm) panels. The upper left of the front panel features the same iconic image of a stern and earnest young Churchill later featured on the dust jacket for Liberalism and the Social Problem (1909) and the wraps edition of The People's Rights (1910). To the right of Churchills image is the statement NORTH-WEST MANCHESTER | PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION, 1906. and the titular TO THE ELECTORS OF NORTH-WEST MANCHESTER. Churchills address, with bolded sub-headings, fills the lower half of the front panel, two inner panels, and two-thirds of the rear panel, terminating in his printed name and Colonial Office, New Years Day, 1906. The single-sheet, perforated leaflet insert is clearly meant to accompany Churchills message. The upper two thirds is a message from the local Liberal committee introducing Churchill as a Free Trade and Liberal Candidate, urging support for him, and stating Mr. Churchills views will be found in the accompanying Address The bottom 2.75 inch (6.99 cm) portion is perforated, meant for detachment, signature, and submittal in declaration of support for Churchills candidacy. Both the leaflet and insert state Printed and published by Wm. Hough & Sons of Swan Court, Market Street, Manchester. The rarity of these two items rather eclipses normal considerations of condition. Nonetheless, condition is quite good. Both leaflets are complete, with faint horizontal and vertical creases from having been previously folded and some light wear and soiling. They are protected within a clear, removable mylar sleeve and housed in a rigid crimson cloth folder. On 31 May, 1904, Churchill left his fathers Conservative Party, crossing the aisle to become a Liberal, beginning a dynamic chapter in his political career that saw him champion progressive causes and branded a traitor to his class. On 2 January 1906 he published his two-volume biography of his father. Immediately thereafter, he campaigned for eight days in North-West Manchester, hoping to win his first election as a Liberal. Churchills party defection was on the minds of the voters. His fathers history was much on his own mind. I have changed my Party I am proud of it. When I think of all Lord Randolph Churchill gave to the Conservative Party and the ungrateful way he was treated I am delighted that circumstances have enabled me to break with them Churchill arrived at Manchester on 4 January 1906 to campaign; this election address had already been published on 1 January. It was a sober and realistic statement of the Government case and of the general failure of the Tories in the previous Parliament. His strongest arguments turned on the case for Free Trade. (RS, Vol. II, pp.114-5) Manchester had been a Conservative Party stronghold for nearly fifty years. Nonetheless, on 13 January 1906 Churchill, at the age of 31, won the traditionally Conservative seat with 5,639 votes out of a total of 10,037 votes cast with 89 percent of the electorate voting. His efforts helped other Liberal candidates to overturn Conservative seats in what became a Liberal landslide. Churchills Address was published the same day in The Times and the Manchester Guardian, but this is the only stand-alone publication. Reference: Cohen A16, Woods A9/2

Last Year at Marienbad (Original photograph of Alain Resnais and Delphine Seyrig on the set of the 1961 French film) by Alain Resnais (director); Alain Robbe-Grillet (screenwriter); Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff (starring)

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Title: Last Year at Marienbad (Original photograph of Alain Resnais and Delphine Seyrig on the set of the 1961 French film)
Author: Alain Resnais (director); Alain Robbe-Grillet (screenwriter); Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff (starring)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: N.p.: N.p., 1961. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director Alain Resnais and actress Delphine Seyrig on the set of the 1961 French film. Stamp specific to the film's French release on the verso, along with two "Photofest" stamps. alexander An enigmatic, dreamlike film, about an unnamed man and woman who meet at a party, where he insists they have met before, and she that they haven't. Shot on location in Germany and France. 7 x 9.25 inches, with a wide bottom margin. Near Fine. Criterion Collection 478. Ebert I. Godard, Histoire(s) du cinema. Rosenbaum 1000. Schrader 25. Vogel, Film as Subversive Art.

PHOTOGRAPHIC GROUPS OF EMINENT PERSONAGES [title taken from the cover

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Title: PHOTOGRAPHIC GROUPS OF EMINENT PERSONAGES [title taken from the cover
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Description: N.p. , N.d. [1890’s]. Folio (13 x 10 5/8 inches), publisher's red grained cloth, worn, faded and stained, with the title and some design in gilt on the upper cover, repeated in blind on the lower cover. The anonymous publishers (who never bothered putting their name on the cover, much less print a title-page) offer up SEVEN LARGE COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHS of famous people along with seven companion "outline" plates that "key" the images to numbered captions below; viz.: I. Celebrities in the Church, Science, Literature, and Art; II. Modern Celebrities. Political, Legal, &c.; III. Military and Naval Celebrities; IV. & V. Musical, Operatic, and Dramatic Celebrities; VI. Historical Celebrities [in which they use a composite photograph of painted portraits]; and VII. Eminent Women. Literary and Historical [a combination of painted and photographic images]. The list of celebrities runs to about 700, and includes such figures as: Cardinal Newman, Sir H. M. Stanley, Kipling, Savonarola, Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Miss Jenny Lee, Herr Joachim (Violinist), Alfred the Great, et. al. An unusual photographic album (and perhaps a forerunner of People magazine). 7 LARGE COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHS FAMOUS PEOPLE

Notes as Vice President 1928-1929 by DAWES, Charles G.

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Title: Notes as Vice President 1928-1929
Author: DAWES, Charles G.
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Description: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1935. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue linen with gilt lettering. 329pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good. Would grade higher but for mild abrasion near top of front board, mainly near the right, but otherwise it's tight and bright throughout; lacks dust jacket. Attractive first edition, boldly inscribed and signed by Dawes in black ink on front flyleaf: "Ernest M. Oswalt / from / Charles G. Dawes." Dawes (1865-1951) was an astonishing polymath who went from Comptroller of the Currency under McKinley (1989-1901) to first director of the Bureau of the Budget under Harding (1921-22) to Vice President of the U.S. under Coolidge (1925-29) to U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom under Hoover (1929-31), filling in the gaps as a high-level banker, general, composer and musician-- and, oh yes, picking up the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925 for creating the Dawes Plan for World War One reparations. Recipient Oswalt (1887-1955) was an Illinois business executive -- he lived in Batavia and Dawes in Evanston -- and president of beauty products firm Campana Corporation, well-known enough in the 1930s to appear as endorser in full-page magazine advertisements for Pullman train cars. Sharp copy of a title seldom found signed.

Seven 5" x 7" Photograph Prints of a Nude Male Model in a Time-Lapse Series from the Mid-20th-Century "Beefcake" Era of Photography

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Title: Seven 5" x 7" Photograph Prints of a Nude Male Model in a Time-Lapse Series from the Mid-20th-Century "Beefcake" Era of Photography
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (United States)
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Description: Photographic Image. Very Good. No Binding. Collection of seven photograph prints of an unknown male model in a time-lapse series of poses of the movements in throwing a ball in front of a white background. Taken by an unknown photographer, likely during the mid-century beefcake era of photography. In the 1950s-70s, there was a rise in published homoerotic photographs, which became pioneer visualizations of suppressed gay desire. For many of these mid-century male physique photographers, a way of loopholing pornography allegations was to use specific poses in order to claim their photography for students to study human anatomy rather than for pornographic purposes, which is likely what is being displayed in this series of images. Aside from curling at the edges, these photos are in very good condition. .

RARE AMERICANA INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE A.R. TURNER, JR. AND SELECTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE CHARLES A. MUNN by American Art Association

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Title: RARE AMERICANA INCLUDING THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE A.R. TURNER, JR. AND SELECTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE CHARLES A. MUNN
Author: American Art Association
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: New York: [Douglas McMurtrie], 1926. Original printed and decorated wrappers [nearly detached, old tape at spine ends]. Unpaginated, but a thick catalogue. 550 items, some illustrations. Thorough descriptions of the lots. Very Good. Turner was a wealthy businessman, a principal of the Standard Rope & Twine Co., and a discerning collector. Munn, an 1881 Princeton graduate, was a successful New York lawyer. The items auctioned include rare early and western Americana, and a substantial amount of valuable George Washington material.

DINTEL 7. REVISTA DE ARTE Y LITERATURA; Año 1, No. 7

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Title: DINTEL 7. REVISTA DE ARTE Y LITERATURA; Año 1, No. 7
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Description: México: (Libraria Universitaria), 1954. illus., plus fldg. plate, wrps. Contents: Nocturna Carta, Margarita Paz Paredes / El Alba Vacía, A. Galvan Corona / Fantasía Vespertina, R. Loera y Chavez V. / Antonio Duerme, Alfonso Reyes. Illustrations by Salvador Ortega Salazar. Full pages folding plate on rice paper by Cuban artist: Carmelo González. No record in OCLC.

Out of Nowhere (Beat Poetry) by Warshawski, Morrie

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Title: Out of Nowhere (Beat Poetry)
Author: Warshawski, Morrie
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: No Place: Press-22, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Oblong 12mo. Unpaginated, Sharp First Limited Edition, #83 of only 200 copies designed by the poet and John Laursen and handbound. Square, tight and mostly clean throughout with just a faint erasure on the front end-paper. No interior toning or spotting. Light edge-wear and some staining spots and light soiling. Still solid with no chipping, creases or tears. This copy inscribed, signed and dated by Warshawski on the title page, "To Lorrie as a gift from Paul Brekke & with best wishes. Morrie 08/29/80 A very pretty collectable copy of a quite uncommon item.

1926 Carnegie Hall Programs: Song Recital by Mme. Maria Kurenko on January 16th; Oratorio Society of New York's Elijah (Mendelssohn) on February 12th; Song Recital by Mary Lewis on February 28th; Song Recital by Dusolina Giannini on February 28th; violinist Fritz Kreisler on April 3rd; Oratorio Society of New York performing Bach's Mass in B Minor on April 17th [Six Programs from the year 1926 at Carnegie Hall]

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Title: 1926 Carnegie Hall Programs: Song Recital by Mme. Maria Kurenko on January 16th; Oratorio Society of New York's Elijah (Mendelssohn) on February 12th; Song Recital by Mary Lewis on February 28th; Song Recital by Dusolina Giannini on February 28th; violinist Fritz Kreisler on April 3rd; Oratorio Society of New York performing Bach's Mass in B Minor on April 17th [Six Programs from the year 1926 at Carnegie Hall]
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Description: New York: Carnegie Hall, 1926. Staplebound wraps. Good. Staplebound wraps. 11 3/4" X 9 3/8". 12pp each. Staplebound printed wraps. Moderate wear to programs, with creasing, bumping, age-toning, and light foxing. About 3/4" tears at heads and tails of spines to each program, with 5" long closed tear along spine up from tail to program for April 17th, Oratorio Society of New York performance of Bach, and both wraps of program for Dusolina Giannini completely separated. Worn but still complete, these Carnegie Hall programs for 1926 still carry the sophistication and glamor associated with the iconic venue founded in 1891.

English Music FRANKLIN LIBRARY SIGNED FIRST EDITION SOCIETY by Ackroyd, Peter

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Title: English Music FRANKLIN LIBRARY SIGNED FIRST EDITION SOCIETY
Author: Ackroyd, Peter
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Description: Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at front endpaper. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". 399pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of brown leather over boards. Three raised bands to spine with four gilt compartments. Dust-spotting to all-edges gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With letter from The Franklin Library laid in. A clean, handsome copy of this signed limited first edition novel by Peter Ackroyd. After the death of his mother, Timothy Harcombe is separated from his disreputable father and sent to live with his grandparents, where he becomes lost in the world of English literature(Publisher).

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