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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Abraham Lincoln currently command top market prices-$125 and up-for holograph letters by U.S. Presidents, the weekly Antiquarian Bookman announced. A Herbert Hoover draws about the same as a George Washington ($100 up). Calvin Coolidge and Woodrow Wilson rate around $35 each; Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt, $10. A genuine pre-1945 Harry Truman goes at around $50 the holograph, neck & neck with a genuine Warren G. Harding...
...offering price of the stock has not been decided. But on the basis of B.O.M.C.'s excellent earnings, and the well-earned reputation of Harry Scherman as a shrewd bookman, the public will probably be willing to pay a good price. Two-thirds of the cash received will go to B.O.M.C.'s present stockholders (Harry Scherman & wife will sell 121,500 shares), will be taxable as a capital gain up to 25%. The remainder will be added to B.O.M.C.'s working capital. And as a happy ending to this book financing of the month, Harry Scherman & friends...
...Carroll Wonderland manuscript, whose sale at public auction in 1928 set a new manuscript high ($75,259), will be auctioned for the second time next fortnight in Manhattan. Alice lived for 65 years with the real-life Alice (the late Alice Pleasance Har-greaves), then went at auction to Bookman Dr. Abraham S. W. Rosenbach, who shortly sold her to Victor Talking Machine Co. Founder Eldridge R. Johnson, who died last November...
...Charles Dana Gibson blossomed on college study walls; bicycling scorchers menaced pedestrians; and rural free delivery was about to be established by law. The year was 1895. The same year, the late, great, tragic scholar and editor Harry Thurston Peck (Twenty Years of the Republic) began publishing in the Bookman the first U.S. best-seller lists, compiled on the basis of sales in the nation's 30 or 40 leading bookstores...
From 50 annual lists published by the Bookman, by Books of the Month (now Bowker Book Guides), and by her own Publishers' Weekly, Associate Editor Alice Payne Hackett has compiled a record of U.S. literary taste from 1895 to the present. Titles like Charles Major's When Knighthood Was in Flower. (1899), John Fox Jr.'s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Michael Arlen's The Green Hat (1925) awake as many memories as old tunes. Winston Churchill was a name on everybody's lips in the first years of the century. It meant...