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Pied Piper of Hamelin by RACKHAM (Arthur)

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Title: Pied Piper of Hamelin
Author: RACKHAM (Arthur)
Seller: BATTLEDORE LTD (United States)
Description: RACKHAM (Arthur) [1867–1939] "The wonderful music with shouting and laughter", 1934 Original ink and watercolor on paper mounted on board Frontispiece for Robert Browning: The Pied Piper of Hamelin (London: George G Harrap, 1934) Measures 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches Signed in full at bottom left

A Presidential Rarity: An Autograph of William Henry Harrison Signed During His One-Month Presidency by William Henry Harrison|Daniel Webster

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Title: A Presidential Rarity: An Autograph of William Henry Harrison Signed During His One-Month Presidency
Author: William Henry Harrison|Daniel Webster
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 03/1841. https://vimeo.com/1048137478?share=copy The Jacksonian era was one of adversity for Harrison, the military hero who had been a supporter of Henry Clay and former President John Quincy Adams, and opposed President Andrew Jackson. Having aspirations for the presidency, he promoted his candidacy by touring the country during 1835-6. This was the first time a person had campaigned for president himself, rather than through his friends. Anniversary celebrations of the battles of Tippecanoe and the Thames glorified his military career, friendly editors publicized his political availability, and local Whig conventions in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kentucky, and Indiana pledged their support.The Whig Party was formed in 1833 in opposition to the policies of President Jackson and the Democratic Party, and was composed of supporters of Clay, Adams, Webster, and others who favored favored a strong national government and a program of modernization and economic protectionism. It absorbed the old National Republican Party and even brought in some anti-Jackson southerners like John Tyler. In 1836, the Whigs had not yet coalesced as a party and could not agree on a standard bearer. So Whig state conventions nominated a number of persons for president. These included Daniel Webster, Sen. Hugh L. White, and Harrison. President Jackson's hand-picked successor, Martin van Buren, won the election, with the disorganized Whig candidates splitting the anti-Democratic vote. Of these, Harrison performed the best, picking up 73 electoral votes.The Whigs were determined not to repeat their mistake of 1836, and for the 1840 election planned a national convention in December 1839 to select a single nominee, As 1839 dawned, Harrison was again in campaign mode, lining up support and maneuvering to be that nominee. This time his main opponent would be Henry Clay, the foremost Whig in the nation. One of Harrison’s allies was prominent Pennsylvania Whig Charles Macalester, a partner in the banking firm of Gaw, Macalester and Company, director of the Second Bank of the United States, and an active philanthropist who donated the land in Minneapolis on which Macalester College is situated.At the national Whig convention in Harrisburg on December 4, the delegates rejected their acknowledged leaders, Webster and Henry Clay, and nominated Harrison. In Harrison the Whigs believed they had found a new Jackson attractive as a war hero and a frontiersman. No platform was adopted, and advisers told Harrison to keep his lips ""hermetically sealed"" on the issues of slavery, the tariff, and the U. S. Bank. To gain support in the South, the Whigs nominated John Tyler, a former senator from Virginia, for the vice presidency. Northern and Southern Whigs were urged to rally behind ""Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too."" This was the famous Log Cabin Campaign, the first modern presidential campaign, and it brought victory to the Whigs.Strong campaigning by the Whigs led to an overwhelming victory for Harrison. With the highest voter turnout to date, Harrison won 234 electoral votes to Van Buren’s 60. He was the oldest man, at age 67, ever elected president up to that time. Harrison allowed Secretary of State-designate Daniel Webster to edit his inauguration speech, but he nevertheless spoke for an hour and 45 minutes, setting a record that still stands. As the public was not excluded from the White House, there was no relief from the swarms of office seekers even after March 4, and relations with Clay broke down to such an extent President Harrison banned him from the White House. Clay left town, never to see the President again. Harrison delivered his inaugural address, which lasted nearly two hours, in a cold drizzle, wearing no gloves or overcoat. He contracted a cold that later developed into pneumonia, and, after one month’s service, on April 4, 1841, he became the first president to die in office. Thus were the Whig hopes dashed.Being ill for weeks after the inauguration, and then dying April 4, Harrison had very little time to sign letters and documents. The ones he did sign are great rarities.Partial document signed by Harrison as President and Daniel Webster as Secretary of State, Washington, likely March 1841. Being signed also by Webster, the document could have been a diplomatic appointment. This is the only signature of Harrison as President that we have ever had.

The Fly-Fisher's Entomology: with directions for making the artificial representations of each fly; and a few observations and instructions on Trout and Grayling Fishing by Ronalds, Alfred

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Title: The Fly-Fisher's Entomology: with directions for making the artificial representations of each fly; and a few observations and instructions on Trout and Grayling Fishing
Author: Ronalds, Alfred
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Handsomely bound in full green crushed morocco, gilt rules on upper and lower covers, gilt panelled spine with emblematic device
Description: Liverpool: Henry Young, 1913. Limited Edition, No. 159 of 270 copies, signed by the publisher. Illustrated with 7 photogravure and 13 hand-colored etched plates; Vol. II contains 48 flies in 9 thick card mounts. 2 vols. 4to. Handsomely bound in full green crushed morocco, gilt rules on upper and lower covers, gilt panelled spine with emblematic devices, inner dentelles, t.e.g., by Birdsall. Spines uniformly faded to brown, a few tiny nicks, else fine, with ownership inscriptions and bookplates of the Mahraja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar; bookpaltes of Daniel Webster Evans and another. Custom half morocco slipcase and chemise. Limited Edition, No. 159 of 270 copies, signed by the publisher. Illustrated with 7 photogravure and 13 hand-colored etched plates; Vol. II contains 48 flies in 9 thick card mounts. 2 vols. 4to. A beautiful book, in a deluxe binding. It was this book (first published in 1836) which initially taught Frederic Halford the basic elements of fly-tying, as he acknowledges in his Floating Flies and How to Tie Them.

The World of Sex (w/author's corrections) by MILLER, Henry

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Title: The World of Sex (w/author's corrections)
Author: MILLER, Henry
Seller: abookshop (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Chicago: J.H.N. (John Henry Nash), 1940. This is the scarce limited edition of the first edition of this early work by Miller, limited to 250 copies in the first edition. The thing that makes this book so interesting is that besides being inscribed and signed by Miller to the NYC literary agent, Henry Volkening, there is a whole page of Errata notes (10 total) in the author's neat hand. It is signed and dated 11/16/41. My thought is that Volkening was a go-between to the editor for the later NYC printing of the book -- and this is Miller's notes to him prior to that publication. A one-of-a-kind Miller signed collectable.. Inscribed and Signed By Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/VG++.

New Sheets! For McKesson & Robbins, Incorporated [McKesson & Robbins, Incorporated Liquor List, Oakland California] by Anonymous

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Title: New Sheets! For McKesson & Robbins, Incorporated [McKesson & Robbins, Incorporated Liquor List, Oakland California]
Author: Anonymous
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: S. l. (New York): McKesson & Robbins, Incorporated, 1939. Softcover. Good. First edition thus; 9 x 6 1/4; pp. A-D, 1-91, recto only; black, three-ring, textured paper-over-card stock binder; chipping and wear along spine and edges; pages mostly very clean, with a few occasional pencilled notations; metal brackets of the binder loose; good to very good condition.An interesting and curious piece of Americana, the liquor list was issued by McKesson & Robbins to their wholesale supplier in Oakland, California, just months after the company was in the middle of, arguably, the biggest financial scandal of the 20th century. Founded in 1833 in New York by John McKesson and Charles Olcott as an importer and wholesaler of therapeutic drugs, by 1855 it became one of the first wholesale firms to manufacture drugs and by the early 1900s it had several well-established subsidiaries, forming a national drug wholesaling company. In 1925, a former bootlegger and felon Philip Musica, under the assumed name of F. Donald Coster, M.D., Ph.D., bought McKesson & Robbins, expanding it and distributing various pharmaceuticals and alcohol (after the Prohibition). In order to inflate the businessâ€™ reported assets and skim money, Musica enlisted his three brothers and established several fictitious sales agencies, to which he paid "Commissions" and pocketed them. Just in 1937, the company's financial statements showed $1.8 million gross profit on fake sales of $18 million. The scam was discovered in late 1938, when the company's treasurer became suspicious and started digging through financial documents and credit reports. The SEC opened an investigation and the New York Stock Exchange suspended trading of the companyâ€™s shares. Coster (Musica) was arrested, fingerprinted, and released on bond. His fingerprints revealed his true identity, agents were sent to arrest him again, but before they reached him, he took his own life with a gun. The publicity in the wake of this sordid fraud was the first public scrutiny of accounting practices. The SEC began requiring that public companies have audit committees of â€œoutsidersâ€ and that the appointment of auditors has to be approved by the shareholders. The American Institute of Accountants appointed its first standing committee on auditing procedures and made observing inventory and confirming accounts receivable standard audit ones.The price book contained tables of wholesale prices for various alcohols and quantities, including whiskies, gin, wines, rum, and more.

Sentinel in the East: A Biography of Thomas L. Kane by Zobell, Albert L.

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Title: Sentinel in the East: A Biography of Thomas L. Kane
Author: Zobell, Albert L.
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Salt Lake City: Nicholas G. Morgan, Sr, 1965. First Edition. 260pp. Octavo [22.5 cm] Burgundy cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Although never Mormon himself, Thomas L. Kane (1822-1883) nonetheless was a friend and confidante of Brigham Young. While still a young man he become interested in the Mormon cause, and gave up his practice of law to make a trip west in 1847. During President Buchanan's administration serious trouble arose between the federal government and the Mormons, and in 1857 Kane was appointed special agent to the Mormons. He came west by way of the Isthmus of Panama, and arrived in Salt Lake City on February 25, 1858. Through his efforts at mediation, peace was declared on April 24, 1858. His diaries contain "confidential entries for my dear wife," all jotted down on the journey, and consist for the most part of descriptions of things seen on the way, and on the mission to the Mormons. A rich and scarce work. OCLC notes two holdings.

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