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...latest list of collectors' items from the rare book department of Charles Scribner's Sons in Manhattan included a copy of the declaration which launched the Franco-Prussian War, signed by Kaiser Wilhelm, and priced at $2,750. It was a gift from Rudolph Hess to his good friend Adolf Hitler and inscribed in gold: "To the Führer, Christmas, 1938, in which year he twice overran borders in order to bring back German territory into the Reich." Among half a dozen other books from the Führer's personal library: autographed first editions...
GEORGE WASHINGTON (Vols. Ill & IV, 1,336 pp.)-Douglas Southall Freeman -Scribner...
Since the death of Scribner's Maxwell Perkins, many people considered Cameron the foremost U.S. book editor. But Cameron had never been bashful about his politics, and Schlesinger had no trouble discovering that Cameron belonged to many pro-Communist organizations...
...FOUNDLING (304 pp.) - Francis Cardinal Spellman-Scribner...
...wealth, we lack the essential ethical currency for its use, and so we are threatened with cultural bankruptcy." The challenger was Henry P. Van Dusen, president of the faculty of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Last week, in a tightly reasoned "tract for the times"-God in Education (Scribner; $2)-Van Dusen sounded a call for a fundamental reversal in the whole philosophy of U.S. education...