Tuttle charles henry (6 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 94 pages. Red cloth with gilt lettering on cover & spine. Contains personal writings & letters.

Zustand: like_new.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Some rubbing and bumping to wrappers. A copy in very good condition, free of internal markings.

Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering. 176pp. Frontispiece, illustrations, map and decorative endpapers. Near fine. Handsome, tight first edition of these laid back recollections and anecdotes prepared (to cite title page) "on his Ninetieth Birthday April 21, 1969" from the hard-hitting lawyer, civic activist and New York states attorney (1879-1971) who also ran as Republican for governor of that state in 1930, losing to Franklin D. Roosevelt. He boldly inscribes and signs the half-title page (on his 90th birthday!) in blue ballpoint "To my very dear / friend and colleague, / Thomas A Shaw, Jr., and / to his lovely wife / Charles H Tuttle / April 21, 1969." Shaw was an attorney with Breed, Abbott & Morgan in New York, and in later years Tuttle served as counsel emeritus there; he and Shaw served as co-counsel on many high-level cases together. Tuttle kept a summer home at Lake George, New York, and named Halcyon Press after this home.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Pages 310-374. Printed on glossy stock. Numerous black and white photos. Features: Nice Prescott Pianos ad inside front cover; Some "Lake City" Men and Industries - great feature article on Laconia with many excellent photos; Life-s Path (poem); An Old House and its traditions; Gramma's Hollyhocks (poem); The Dana Meeting-House - article with photos, Hew Hampton; Goodman Keyzar (poem); Count Rumford; Truth (poem); The Old Meeting-House at South Sunapee; Melinda Rankin; Nice full-page photo-ad for the First National Bank of Concord, N.H.; New Hampshire Necrology. Peripheral chipping. Contents in quality condition. A worthy vintage copy.…

176p. with Supplement 94p. The first volume inscribed: "to my ever faithful Secretary, Claire Liske, from Charles H. Tuttle, April 21, 1969." From his appointment by President Coolidge to become a US Attorney for Southern New York to his crusades against corruption he ran for the governorship of New York in 1930 but was defeated by F.D.R. who was using it as a springboard to the Presidency. His later life he fought aginst racial discrimination and served as General Counsel for the National Council of Churches for two decades. He also was an early supporter of Billy Graham in the New York crusade of 1954. His latter chapters of the supplemental volume provide an update of his sharpness of mind and civic and spiritual interests even as he reached age 91. A remarkable person whose obituary appeared in the New York Times. A printed card by him is laid in within which appear several newspaper clippings.…