Word: rosenbach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the sesquicentennial was marked by two more events: 1) rich Bibliophile A. S. W. Rosenbach of Philadelphia revealed that he had obtained, for an undisclosed sum from an undisclosed source, the original draft of the Bill of Rights; 2) Massachusetts got around at last to ratifying it.* Explained Governor Saltonstall as he signed in the presence of uniformed cadets: his State's delay was due to the liberty-loving fathers of Massachusetts having sought to protect the people's rights by "even more inclusive definitions...
...years ago last week a tall, grave man with chin whiskers entered Ford's Theatre in Washington to see a performance of Our American Cousin. Eleven hours later he was dead. Last week on the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's assassination famed Collector Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach exhibited in his cluttered Philadelphia office a collection of Lincolniana which he values at more than $1,000,000. An important item was the notes of Dr. Charles S. Taft, the army surgeon who attended Lincoln's last hours...
...Fiction A BOOK HUNTER'S HOLIDAY-A. S. W. Rosenbach-Honghton Mifflin ($4). Rich, rosy-cheeked Bibliophile Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach writes in a breezy after-dinner way on the romantic sidelights of book collecting in general, his own famed collection in particular, including such bargains as the Button Gwinnett letter at $51,000, five pages of the Pickwick Papers...
...inherited a sizeable fortune and because he was willing to spend large chunks of it to buy what he wanted, he has one of the world's best collections of 18th Century English literature. Like other collectors he had heard of the Malahide papers. Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia's famed dealer, had cabled a bid of $250,000 for them. Lord Talbot had appeared at the U. S. Consulate in Dublin carrying the cable like a soiled handkerchief, had sniffed: "Who is this person? Please ask him not to correspond with me. We have not been...
Exhibit A and largest item of the total value is the first edition of the folio, printed by Jaggard and Blount in London, 1623. This volume, part of Harry Widener's private collection, is the most costly book in the Harvard University Library. Only recently Abraham S. W. Rosenbach paid in the neighborhood of $70,000 for one like it, remarking at the time that he was getting the bargain of his book buying experience...