Fuddlehead Autobiography (2 results)
Language: English
Published by S.N. 1935
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, U.S.A.Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA
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Add to basketHard 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 a…ppointed 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.
More imagesPublished by Peking, China 1935
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA, Conshohocken, U.S.A.Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
Contact seller5-star sellerHard Cover. Condition: near Very Good binding. Octavo. [4], 3, [1], 48 pp., plate. Inscription on the front free endpaper. First edition. As issued, in decorative silk over flexible covers. Covers and contents are a trifle soiled; one dog-eared leaf with small closed tear to the fore-edge margin. An uncommon, humorous autobiogra…phy of the American banker and diplomat from the influential Boston family. Fairly rare in commerce, it's hard to imagine the print run of this was anything but small. This copy inscribed: "'Henty' / from his / Grandfather Fuddlehead / July 24 / 1935.".
