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Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. , RARE & HARD TO FIND,HBDJ, Stated 1st edition, 1971, 1st Printing,8vo -,VG/VG-, AS-IS Nice clean LIGHT gray cloth bold gold letters on cover/spine BRIGHT. Interior pages very clean and tight light FOX, Wear. Dust Jacket intact - age related darkening top/lower edge of inner/outer flaps -Tiny small chips top of spine DJ and slight edge wear & Tears Edges , 182 pgs, Back DJ top edge Small Tear , FOX , Memoir of author who sprinkled Stardust all way to box Office, JEAN HARLOW Front of DJ in Pink Dress , Author was a press agent and represented such Hollywood stars as Jean Harlow, Lon Chaney, Tom Mix, W. C. Fields, Mae West, Clark Gable and tons of others. Outside the Hollywood scene he was an agent for Babe Ruth, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Jack Dempsey. Zeltner was a super-salesman of the product he loved - he had the complete confidence of all his clients including Judy Garland whom he considered his greatest discovery. Their stories, as well as dozens more are here.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. HBDJ, Stated 1st edition, 1971, 1st Printing,8vo -,VG/VG-, AS-IS Nice clean LIGHT gray cloth bold gold letters on cover/spine BRIGHT. Interior pages very clean and tight. Dust Jacket intact - age related darkening top/lower edge of inner/outer flaps - small chip top of spine DJ and slight edge wear & Tears Edges , 182 pgs, .RARE & HARD TO FIND, Memoir of author who Sprinkled Stardust all way to box Office.

First edition, signed by the author on the half-title, of this collection of tales of Hetty Green, 'The Witch of Wall Street', and her eccentric son Colonel Ned Green. "The extraordinary Green family was very closely associated with my law office for so many years that I have absorbed many interesting anecdotes about them, besides having had considerable personal contact. As I have told stories about them from time to time, many have said they wished I would write them down. The recent publication of the best seller The Day they shook the Plum Tree. has brought this to a head, and I have finally decided to give it a try; so here goes" (author's introduction in chapter I). Octavo. 21 illustrations to the text, most full-page. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine and front board. With the pictorial dust jacket. Gift inscription to front free endpaper. Very good in slightly rubbed jacket, sunned at the spine.

Rare Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway Company stock certificate signed by the 'Queen of Wall Street.' Octavo, one page, the certificate is dated October 6, 1902 and grants Hetty H. R. Green 4 shares in the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company. Signed by Green on the verso, "Hetty H. R. Green." In near fine condition with light diagonal creasing to the lower right corner and signature cancellation hole punches to the left and bottom edges. Matted and framed with a portrait of Green and an informational placard. The piece measures 16 inches by 26.7 inches. Exceptionally rare and desirable. Hetty Green was the most successful American woman financier of the 19th century and a pioneer of early value investing. Born into a wealthy whaling family, she learned the art of good investment from her father and grandfather. Her admirers referred to her as the "Queen of Wall Street," while her detractors labeled her the "Witch of Wall Street," a cut at her widowhood habit of wearing a single black dress until it was worn out. Even though her inheritance was locked away in a trust fund, she managed to amass a significant fortune through wise investing strategy, and was less vulnerable to the buffeting of the marketplace because her expenses were so few. As a testament to her success and understanding of investment, her willingness to make low-rate loans (with her well-tended reserves of currency) in place of the failing banks during the Panic of 1907 helped bail out Wall Street, New York City, and the United States economy (Will Daniel, Fortune). When she died in 1916, her fortune was estimated between $100 and $200 million, making her the world's richest woman at the time.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 4 letters, 21 pp., plus 5 stock certificates, and 2 stock purchase receipts, dated 13 December 1890 to 9 February 1923. Hetty Green (1834-1916) and the Howland Family Born Henrietta Howland Robinson in 1834, she later married Edward Henry Green in 1867 and became known as Hetty Green. Her father was Edward Mott Robinson and her mother Abby Howland. Her family became wealthy in the whaling industry and the China Trade. Her mother died in 1860, her father died, five years later, in 1865. Hetty inherited about $5 million from the death of her parents and launched her career as a thrifty business woman and investor, eventually amassing a fortune of over $100 million by the time she died in 1916. She was the richest woman in America. Her estate was left mainly to her two children Edward Howland Robinson "Ned" Green and Harriet "Sylvia" Ann Howland Green Wilks. Hetty Green became notorious for her wealth and thriftiness and became known as the "Witch of Wall Street." Of the four letters in this collection, three were written by cousins of Hetty Green, the other by a presumed friend. Two of these were written by Benjamin "Franklin" Howland (1877-?) and the other by Franklin's brother John "Hastings" Howland (1870-?). Franklin and Hastings were the sons of Reuben R. Howland (1839-1884), second cousin to Hetty Green. Franklin and Hastings were both heirs to the famous will of Sylvia Ann Howland (1806-1865) Hetty Green's aunt. Sylvia Ann Howland died in 1865, leaving roughly half her fortune of some 2 million dollars (over $30 million in today's money) to various legatees, with the residue to be held in trust for the benefit of Robinson (Hetty Green), Howland's niece. The remaining principal was to be distributed to various beneficiaries on Robinson's death, which at the time of Hetty's death amounted to over four hundred people, Franklin and Hastings included. It was her Aunt Sylvia's will that Hetty went to court over in a famous case Robinson v. Mandell. Hetty produced an earlier will, which left her aunt's whole estate outright to her. To this will was attached a second and separate page, putatively seeking to invalidate any subsequent wills. Sylvia Ann Howland's executor, Thomas Mandell, rejected Robinson's claim, insisting that the second page was a forgery, and Hetty sued. The case became famous for the forensic use of mathematics by Benjamin Peirce, a Harvard professor, as an expert witness, which showed the mathematical likelihood of the handwriting of this other "will" when compared to various known samples of Sylvia Ann Howland's handwriting was astronomical, and thus this other will was a forgery. This evidence was able to be kept out of the decision of the court and the case was settled and Hetty received the original interest on the estate during her lifetime as well as several hundred thousand dollars. Hastings and Benjamin Franklin Howland Reuben R. Howland (1839-1884), was born in New Bedford, he was connected with the office of John Hastings, oil merchant. He married Martha Yeomans Brightman (1843-1881). Together the couple had several children, including: Major John Hastings Howland; Benjamin Franklin Howland; Katherine Howland Walker; and Anna Howland Bartlett. Reuben R. Howland and Hetty Green were second cousins; their grandfathers (Gideon Howland, Jr. and Pardon Howland) were brothers, the sons of Gideon Howland and Sarah Hicks. Reuben Howland's oldest son was Major John Hastings Howland, who was born 21 August 1870 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He was a civil engineer. From 1887 to 1891 he was an assistant in the New Bedford Water Works department and subsequently went to Honolulu where he was connected with the installation of a new water works system. Later he was a member of the committee on fire prevention of the National Board of Fire Underwriters, making his home at Upper Montclair, New Jersey. He volunteered for services in World War One and held the rank of Major in the engineering. Handwritten.