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Features: Chess Sets; Watercolours for under 50 pounds; Parian Ware; Mediterranean Furniture; The Art Critic; Cuff Links; African figures in Sculpture;.Naive Painting; How to Sell at Auction; Dogs in Pottery and Porcelain; Rose Diamonds; Goodbye Mentmore - Mentmore Towers and its contents, the extraordinary collection of the Baron Meyer de Rothschild, are to be sold to pay death taxes; Silver Salts and Peper Dredgers; Chinese Mother-of-Pearl Card Counters; Antique Collecting in America; Under 10 pounds in Camden Passage. Average wear. Book
140 pages. Bibliography. "...The first careful study of the Federal Reserve System... Includes a careful presentation of the origins, purposes, and activities of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. The reader will find for the first time the actual mechanism of this powerful organization, which has wielded such a tremendous influence on America in the twentieth-century." - from back cover. Contents unmarked. Incidental half-inch pen mark to front cover. Two ink stamps on back cover, one of which is smudged over publisher's information. Binding intact. Average wear. A rare first edition copy of this momentous work which remains timely over fifty years since its publication. [SINGERMAN 0865] Book
Signed and inscribed by author to George Stimpson upon title page. Signed by Mr. Stimpson inside front cover. Subsequent printings of this work were dedicated to "Two of the finest scholars of the twentieth century, George Stimpson and Ezra Pound, who generously gave of their vast knowledge to a young writer to guide him in a field which he could not have managed alone... The research (for this work) at the Library of Congress was directed and reviewed daily by George Stimpson, founder of the National Press Club in Washington, whom the New York Times on September 28, 1952 called 'A highly regarded reference source in the capital... Government officials, Congressman, and reporters went to him for information on any subject'... This work was the first nationally circulated revelation of the secret meetings of the international bankers at Jekyll Island, Georgia, 1907-1910, at which place the draft of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was written." - from Foreword to 1991 reprint. Average wear and soiling. Binding intact. An important piece of Americana. [SINGERMAN 0865] Book