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ADDRESSES IN RESPONSE TO TOASTS AT A DINNER TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY at the Metropolitan Club, November the Twenty-third, Nineteen Hundred and Nine.
by Davies, Julien T.; Shevlin, Thomas H.; Lindabury, Richard V.; Morton, Paul; Aldrich, Nelson W.; McGibbon, D. Lorne; Stetson, Francis Lynde; Colt, LeBaron B.; Colt, Samuel P
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- Condition
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About This Item
[New York: The Barnes Printing Company], 1909., 1909.. Very good. - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed cream wrappers decorated with a prancing horse and a green rubber tree leaf, in the original glassine dust wrapper. The edges of the glassine are slighly chipped. 48 deckle-edged pages with a photographic frontispiece picturing the guests at the dinner seated around a large table decorated with candles and plants. There is a rust stain to the top of the first page from the paper clip which held the toastmaster Samuel P. Colt's card. Very good.
First (only) edition.
Laid in is the Metropolitan Club card of Samuel P. Colt who served as the toastmaster at the dinner. Colt (1852-1921) formed the United States Rubber Company. Among the toasts given at the event was "Insurance and Banking" by Paul Morton (1857-1911), the 36th Secretary of the Navy, "Tariff and Currency" by Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich (1841-1915), "Law and Business" by Francis Lynde Stetson (1846-1920), President of the New York State Bar Association, "Rubber and Canada" by Douglas Lorne McGibbon, the chief benefactor of a tuberculosis sanatorium in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, Quebec, and "Judiciary and Commerce" by LeBaron Bradford Colt (1846-1924), a Rhode Island senator.
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- Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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- 98467
- Title
- ADDRESSES IN RESPONSE TO TOASTS AT A DINNER TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY at the Metropolitan Club, November the Twenty-third, Nineteen Hundred and Nine.
- Author
- Davies, Julien T.; Shevlin, Thomas H.; Lindabury, Richard V.; Morton, Paul; Aldrich, Nelson W.; McGibbon, D. Lorne; Stetson, Francis Lynde; Colt, LeBaron B.; Colt, Samuel P
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- [New York: The Barnes Printing Company], 1909.
- Date Published
- 1909.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ECONOMICS; BUSINESS; ADDRESSES IN RESPONSE TO TOASTS AT A DINNER TO THE DIRECTORS OF THE UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY; UNITED STATES RUBBER COMPANY; TOASTS; SAMUEL P. COLT; METROPOLITAN CLUB; PAUL MORTON; SECRETARY OF THE NAVY; US SENATOR; NELSON W. ALDRI
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Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Cadyville, New York
About Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd. (incorporated 1989) is a general antiquarian book store which buys and sells collections and individual items of significance. Booksellers Ric Zank and Daniel Meunier each bring to the business over 18 years of experience in seeking out and offering for sale unusual, uncommon and rare books, autographs, and ephemera in all fields. Our office is open 7 days a week from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and frequently later. An answering machine will take your message after hours and when we are out of the office.
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