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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 21, frontis. Original publisher's marbled papers with printed title label on front. A biography of Stanley Collins, a society entertainer and magic collector, with a bibliography, limited to 115 copies. Loosely inserted is a long signed letter from the printer and designer Kenneth Buffum about the making of the book, with a signed presentation on the front enpaper 'To Mel Kavin, Thank you very much with thanks for his help on binding this, my first.Kenneth Buffum. Printer/designer November 1984 ISBN: 0934542023 Very good indeed.

4to, in ink, approx. 55 lines, approx. 300 words, on integral sheets, with docket, postmark, and address panel on verso of the second sheet; very good. Seal with small triangle cut out, no loss. Very legible. Written in the Quaker style, Thomas Buffum of Thos & Arnold Buffum, importers and hat manufacturers, writes to his dealer in Boston: "When we first made thee a Consignment of hats thou proposed to give us a guarantee from thy Uncle James Stearns for the amount thou might Sell if thou canst now give us his guarantee we would make an arrangement to supply thee with a good aportment of Fur & Cotton hats both for wholesale & retail on much more favorable terms . for all sold at wholesale we would still allow a Commission we wish the guarantee to run to Richard M. Smith Agent of the Beaver Hat Company Providence." Buffum notes "We are making very handsome Napped hats finished in best New York Style . at $2.50 a piece." He includes a list of various other types of hats he makes including "beaver hats, mens cotton ditto, youths ditto . full trimmed Yorkies at 1.25," etc. Arnold Buffum (1782-1859), father of Elizabeth Buffum Chace, was also known for his abolitionist sympathies and was the first New England Anti-Slavery Society agent. An article was written on his work in William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator on Sept, 8, 1832. Horace Stearns was one of the furrier and merchant family in business since 1810 and in 1821 was at 22 Cornhill Street under the name of Thomas Stearns & Company (Horace S.), hat manufactory, Brattle Street.