Word: collector
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...printer's and publisher's art. While the sale was in progress, Mr. Kern explained: "As my collection has grown, books have not only fascinated me, they have enslaved me. As rare books became rarer I battled for them, treasured them, and so became a collector. . . . Somehow I could not think of my books ever being sold by anyone else, even after my death, and in a flash I saw an escape from my slavery." At book auctions, a finger of light points silently to the item up for sale...
...throw away old books. In Manhattan last week it was discovered that a pile of old books hastily sold (or, perhaps, cunningly bought) contained a first-edition copy of Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders of the Rue Morgue-the third such copy known to exist. An anonymous collector, presumably Tycoon Owen D. Young, immediately snatched the find...
...result, probably, of the avoidance of expense, the collection was also almost wholly devoid of descriptive labels. By estimation, about 90 percent of the specimens were unlabelled, except as each set of specimens was marked with the name of the collector or donor. In this condition, a collection, no matter how valuable, is extremely difficult of comprehension by students, and indeed the interest which the intelligent public can take in it is greatly diminished. Again, the many duplicates, indestructible, and other objects, which for one reason or another are not on display, are, for lack of proper storage facilities, tucked...
...that he went to Washington last week to attend a meeting of the United States Commission for the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of George Washington, of which he is one of the seven presidential commissioners. While there he was invited by Henry Woodhouse, a collector of Washington materials, to accompany him to Mt. Vernon where the old trunk was at the home of one of Betty Lewis's descendants. On the way back to Washington Porfessor Hart looked at one of the packages and found in it about 90 memorandums by Washing- ton's sister...
Died. Benjamin Newton Duke, 73, last of the famed Duke tobacco tycoons & philanthropists (Duke University), of Durham, N. C.; of acute bronchitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Duke was a son of the founder of American Tobacco Co.. (Lucky Strike,Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall), art collector, financier (water power, real estate, railroads, banking). To his daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, wife of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., socialite & televisionist of Philadelphia and Manhattan, Mr. Duke left a substantial share of his $60.000,000 fortune...