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Description:
Autograph Book, mid-1920s, Winston Churchill, Rudyard Kipling, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, and Others. Commercially produced folio-format scrapbook, with a variety of material mounted on the pages, including mostly signed cards, and other signed paper, with eight index pages at the beginning, including signatures of the following: Calvin Coolidge, Rudyard Kipling, Herbert Hoover, Elihu Root, Charles Dana Gibson, Thomas Edison, James Montgomery Flagg, William Howard Taft, Will Rogers, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Philip Sousa, Zane Grey, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Lauder, Admiral Byrd, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Irving Berlin, Andrew Mellon, and others; pages of the album shorn off at the binding and detached, 15 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.
Estimate $1,800-2,000
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Keywords
Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, Winston Churchill, Zane Grey, William Howard Taft, Admiral, Andrew Mellon, Byrd, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Dana Gibson, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Elihu Root, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, Harry Lauder, Herbert Hoover, Irving Berlin, James Montgomery Flagg, John Philip Sousa
John Dorfman
Director, Books & Manuscripts
508-970-3293
Fine Books & Manuscripts
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