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Author : Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:171313135
Author : Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015026835945
Author : Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:171313161
Author : Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:171313102
Author : Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015026835929
Author : Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:171612905
Author : Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:171642306
Author : Michael Vinson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780806157108
An unlikely bookseller in New York City became the leading dealer in rare Western Americana for most of the twentieth century. After working in western-U.S. and South American gold mines at the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Eberstadt (1883–1958) returned to his home in New York City in 1907. Through luck and happenstance, he purchased an old book for fifty cents that turned out to be a rare sixteenth-century Mexican imprint. From this bit of serendipity, Eberstadt quickly became one of the leading western Americana rare book dealers. In this book Michael Vinson tells the story of how Edward Eberstadt & Sons developed its legendary book collection, which formed the backbone of many of today’s top western Americana archives. Although the firm’s business records have not survived, Edward and his sons, Charles and Lindley, were all prodigious letter writers, and nearly every collector kept his or her correspondence. Drawing upon these letters and on his own extensive experience in the rare book trade, Vinson gives the reader a vivid sense of how the commerce in rare books and manuscripts unfolded during the era of the Eberstadts, particularly in the relationships between dealers and customers. He explores the backstory that scholars of art history and museology have pursued in recent decades: the assembling of cultural treasures, their organization for use, and the establishment of institutions to support that use. His work describes the important role this key bookselling firm played in the western Americana trade from the early 1900s to Eberstadt & Sons’ dissolution in 1975. From Yale University and the American Antiquarian Society to the Newberry Library and the Huntington Library, the firm of Edward Eberstadt & Sons has left its mark in western Americana repositories across the nation. Told here for the first time, the Eberstadt story reveals how one family’s business and legacy have shaped the study of the American West.
Author : Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015026835937
Author : Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:171642304
Author : Michael Vinson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806166230
In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body. Her “catch” was the corpse of Johnny Jenkins, shot in the head. His death was as dramatic as the rare book dealer’s life, which read, as the Austin American-Statesman declared, “like a bestseller.” In 1975 Jenkins had staged the largest rare book coup of the twentieth century—the purchase, for more than two million dollars, of the legendary Eberstadt inventory of rare Americana, a feat noted in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His undercover work for the FBI, recovering rare books stolen by mafia figures, had also earned him headlines coast to coast, as had his exploits as “Austin Squatty,” playing high stakes poker in Las Vegas. But beneath such public triumphs lay darker secrets. At the time of his death, Jenkins was about to be indicted by the ATF for the arson of his rare books, warehouse, and offices. Another investigation implicated Jenkins in forgeries of historical documents, including the Texas Declaration of Independence. Rumors of million-dollar gambling debts at mob-connected casinos circulated, along with the rumblings of irate mafia figures he’d fingered and eccentric Texas collectors he’d cheated. Had he been murdered? Or was his death a suicide, staged to look like a murder? How Jenkins, a onetime president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, came to such an unseemly end is one of the mysteries Michael Vinson pursues in this spirited account of a tragic American life. Entrepreneur, con man, connoisseur, forger, and self-made hero, Jenkins was a Texan who knew how to bluff but not when to fold.
Author : Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1775
Category : Art
ISBN : UCAL:$B221813
Author : Parke-Bernet Galleries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015026835911
Author : Sidney E. Berger
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781538151334
This edition adds more than 700 new entries and many new illustrations; corrects and brings up to date the entries of the work of others; and brings the vocabulary and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial and academic world, which has been forced to adjust to a new reality thanks to worldwide medical and economic concerns
Author : David W. Forbes
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0824825039
Compiled and annotated by David W. Forbes Volume 3 comprises entries recording the last years of the rule of Kamehameha III, the reigns of Kamehameha IV, Kamehameha V, and Lunalilo, and the first seven years of the Kalakaua era. During this period government was firmly established as a constitutional monarchy; the 1864 constitution of Kamehameha V increased the power of the monarch and remained in effect until 1887. Following the successful negotiation by the Kalakaua government of a reciprocity treaty with the United States in 1875, Hawai'i experienced great prosperity. At the same time, however, it came under increasing economic and social domination by American interests. As in the first two volumes, all books, pamphlets, single-sheet publications, and significant periodical articles have been included. Extensive annotations describe the more than 1,200 works listed, and the exact title, date of publication, size of the volume, collation of pages, number and type of plates and maps, references, and location of copies are given for each publication.