Word: kern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, however. Inventor Bosch found himself legally excluded from his U. S. markets. During 1917 hysteria Bosch Magneto Co. of New York was one of the many "enemy owned" companies which were sold at public auction by the U. S. Alien Property Custodian. One Martin Kern purchased it for $4,500,000,* resold it soon after to American Bosch Magneto Corp. which had incorporated for the purpose of buying Kern's Bosch stock. In 1921 Inventor Bosch initiated a new attack on U. S. markets and incorporated the Robert Bosch Magneto Co. to sell German-made Bosch products. Hence...
Jerome David Kern, composer of Who, Kalua, Old Man River, etc. etc., and publisher of many another lip-to-lip tune, is a wealthy man who lives comfortably in Bronxville, N. Y. But not until last week was he a free man. Mr. Kern's 44th birthday fell last week...
...that was not what freed him. He made his "escape" by selling his collection of rare books, worth more than $1,000,000, a notable trove of the 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...
...much is this book worth?" The gestures tell how much it is worth to famed Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach, Harry Marks, Gabriel Wells or some other gentleman who collects books for profit or passion. Dr. Rosenbach (Alice In Wonderland inan) raised his hand vertically many times at the Kern sale* but three times he kept it in his pocket. Three times he refused to go on with the bidding, lost a coveted book to a braver bibliophile. Some top prices brought by Kern-collected editions and manuscripts: Shelley's Queen Mob, $68,000; Lamb's contribution to Hone...
...sales value of rare books is far more than an alibi. This was never more startlingly demonstrated than last week at the Manhattan auction of the books collected by famed songwriter Jerome David Kern (Kalua, Raggedy Ann, Who, Old Man River} of Bronxville, N.Y. At that sale Dickens' Pickwick Papers (perfect copy, first edition) sold for $28,000. Fielding's Tom Jones (first edition, uncut, original binding) brought $29,000. Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (original manuscript of twelve chapters) topped the sale at $34,000. A total of 748 items brought...