Nov 25, 2014 - Sale 2368

Sale 2368 - Lot 209

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(NEW YORK.) [Harrison, Constance Cary.] Fads and Fancies of Representative Americans. Profusely illustrated in the text. [225] pages. Folio, publisher's green morocco gilt pictorial with silk endpapers, in wonderful condition; facsimile signatures of each subject in the table of contents, each page printed in red, gold, and black, all edges gilt, #19 of a limited edition. In its original velvet-lined heavy wooden latched case. New York: Town Topics Publishing, 1905

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A lavishly produced tribute to the pastimes and lifestyles of 86 affluent and prominent American men from the New York area. Among the notables are John Jacob Astor, William Kissam Vanderbilt, Stanford White, Perry Belmont, Charles M. Schwab, Theodore Roosevelt, and J. Pierpont Morgan.