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Pied Piper of Hamelin

Pied Piper of Hamelin by RACKHAM (Arthur)

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Seller: BATTLEDORE LTD
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
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

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

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

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New Sheets! For McKesson & Robbins, Incorporated [McKesson & Robbins, Incorporated Liquor List, Oakland California]
Author
Anonymous
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Good
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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 business’ 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 company’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 “outsiders†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

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

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