Word: folios
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young but already portly bartender of Denver's brand new Windsor Hotel was there to see the printer about a folio of World's Fair views he wanted to peddle on the crowded Midway. A swarthy young hellion happened in to see the same printer. This youth was a professional gambler who had played the Mississippi River boats for all they were worth and only lately slipped out of Kansas City, Kan., after the highly profitable operation of a Little Louisiana Lottery. The two men introduced themselves and went off for lunch together. Great exploits were in the air. Neither...
...Last week it was a collection of the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, and her son, James I of England. Other items have announced that this Mr. Huntington bought Gainsborough's "Blue Boy," and the best Gutenberg Bible in existence, and that very rare object, a first folio of Shakespeare, and a first edition of Hamlet, and . . . But the "Blue Boy" and the Bible aside, what sort of man, people have wondered, is Mr. Huntington...
...advertisement in the leading papers throughout the U. S. heralded the LETTERS OF A SELF MADE DIPLOMAT TO HIS PRESIDENT. A Collection of the Intimate Papers and Letters That is Changing Hands during these Perilous Times of Peace between Our President and his Ambassador - Without P o r t-folio-Will Rogers...
...books were on the lookout for collections such as these; they, like Leverhulme, cared little for literature, and so it came about that first editions of Thackeray were knocked down for $6 or so, while Lawrence Gomme paid $3,200 for a collection of 5,000 caricatures in 24 folio volumes, including original drawings by Dowland, Cruikshank, Aiken, and Leech; M. J. Swanson paid $190 for a book on corpulency by one William Wadd, which contains an autograph of Daniel Lambert (his weight was 739 pounds); Maurice Hoog, dealer, paid $1,800 for a collection of 1,200 engraved trade...
...most prized bibliographical treasures in the world is a Gutenberg Bible. The first edition is four times as rare as a first folio of Shakespeare. Last week in Manhattan a perfect copy of this Bible was auctioned off for $106,000 to Dr. Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach...