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  • Fuddlehead [Forbes, William Cameron]

    Language: English

    Published by S.N., 1935

    Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.

    Association Member: ABAA ILAB IOBA

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    Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Boards foxed, rear endpaper removed, rear hinge weakening, inscribed and signed by author on front endpaper ('The Streets, from Grandfather Fuddlehead, at tea, June 27th 1935'). This volume was acquired along with a number of other books owned by the family of Julian Street, Jr., who was appointed Secretary to the American Economic Mission to the Orient, which was headed by William Cameron Forbes (AKA Fuddlehead). 48 pp. Yellow cloth with gilt Chinese dragon devices on boards, maroon titles. A lighthearted pseudonymous memoir by the grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who made his living as a banker and a diplomat. Fuddlehead was the pen name of William Cameron Forbes - a member of the influential Boston family that made its fortune in the opium and tea trade - who served as Governor-General of the Philippines. Signed by author.