The postmaster general (11 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. First Edition. 8vo. A good copy, 47pp. Blue paper covers stamped at top and tail by German and the Hague bookshops. Minor damp wrinkles to tail of front cover and crease to title page/index where printers' label stuck on after printing. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Paperback. Zustand: Good-. First Edition. 8vo. A very thin copy, only 6 pages, string binding loose, but assumed complete. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Paperback. Zustand: Good-. First Edition. 8vo. A good copy. 62pp. Blue paper covers stamped at top and tail by German and the Hague bookshops. Immediate despatch from the UK. Book.

Softcover. Zustand: Good. No edition state. December 1966, No.2. Publication of 276 pages. Ex-library, couple of stamp marks and library pocket rear of the book. Small code on the spine of the book. The hinges have been reinforced with tape. There are old tape residue marks on the end papers. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is strong. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Zustand: New.

Zustand: Good. Folded Memo, Letter-sized Page, Letterpress on Laid Paper, Good with tears, creasing, losses.

Zustand: Good. Blank Form. 8.5" x 14", Folded Printed Sheet, Good with minor losses, marginal tears, toning.

First Edition. 22nd publication. 242pp + 86pp of trades information (postal services, hackney chairs etc.). Disbound, with original leather front board, detached. Last 20pp of trades in=formation defaced where a triangular cut has been made with loss to the last few pages. Main directory is intact with the addresses and names preserved as a useful genealogical source Some marks throughout but a fair copy.…

Vellum. Zustand: Fine. Limited Edition. Octavo, [26pp]. Blue vellum covers, title in gilt on cover. Blue endpapers. Matching blue slipcase. This copy was personally dedicated to the Honorable Bryce Harlow, with his name appearing in gilt on the cover and dedication page. Signed by Postmaster General E.T. Klassen on dedication page. This piece was a gift from Postmaster General E.T. Klassen, with commemorative stamps of every president through Lyndon Johnson. Bryce N. Harlow (1916 - 1987) was a veteran of Washington DC, serving as an administrative assistant, speechwriter and deputy assistant for congressional affairs in the Eisenhower Administration. During the campaign of 1960, he was a speechwriter for Vice President Nixon's unsuccessful presidential campaign. With Nixon's election in 1968, Harlow was the first presidential appointment of the new administration, serving as a congressional liaison. Harlow was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981 by President Ronald Reagan. He died in 1987. Limited edition of the Universal Postal Union's One Hundredth Anniversary from Postmaster General E.T. Klassen, dedicated to Presidential Advisor Bryce Harlow. (illustrator). Signed.…

From the papers of Arthur George Liddon Rogers (1864-1944), son and editor of the economist Thorold Rogers [James Edwin Thorold Rogers] (1823-1890), for information regarding whom see his entry in the Oxford DNB. The three items in good condition, lightly aged. Each folded three times. All three signed 'Arnold Morley'. ONE: 5 November 1891. 3pp, 12mo. Begins: 'In confirmation of the conversation I had with you the other day, & after consultation with Mr Schandhorst on behalf of the National Liberal Federation, I now write to say that we appoint you Secretary of the Publication Department upon the terms of Mr. Schnadhorst's letter to you of April 9. 1891.' TWO: 10 August 1892. 3pp, 12mo. Following the General Election [which the Liberals won], he congratulates Rogers 'on the manner in which the duties of the post, & the work of the department have been carried out.' The department gave 'general satisfaction' during a 'period of great stress', and he is enclosing a cheque for £75 'as an acknowledgment of the extra labour' imposed on Rogers, and the 'Energy which you have displayed'. THREE: 27 May 1893. 2pp, 12mo. 'I have no very clear recollection of the occasion when I made the alleged statement with regard to the tactics of our opponents at the last General Election.' He thinks it is 'somewhat late in the day' for the Conservatives to be 'making enquiries about it; but the election petitions which followed in due course sufficiently justified any statement I may have made'.…

Zustand: Very good. - A 3-5/8 inch high by 6-1/2 inch wide envelope illustrated with vignettes of the First Air Mail Flight which took off from Mineola in 1911 and the 1931 equivalent. "Mineola Chamber of Commerce" and the date are stamped in green at the top left and three two cent U.S. postage stamps at right are postmarked with the date and canceled. Addressed to Seymour Halpern in type, the envelope is signed in ink vertically along the left edge "Frank Hitchock / P.M.G. 1911", indicating his position as Postmaster General when that first air mail flight took off in 1911. The envelope is opened and a return address is typed on the flap on the verso. Very good. Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1908 to 1909, Frank Harris Hitchcock (1867-1935) was Postmaster General of the United States under President Taft from 1909 to 1913. Hitchcock is credited with establishing the first U.S. airmail service and with cracking down on mail fraud.The recipient, Queens, New York Republican Congressman Seymour Halpern (1913-1997) started his political career as a campaign aide to New York's powerful mayor Fiorella La Guardia and first served in New York's State Senate for 14 years before seeking a seat in the U.S. Congress. In Albany Halpern sponsored 279 bills that became law, including measures on schools, housing, civil rights, nutrition and mental health. A Liberal, he was something of an anomaly as the lone Republican representative from New York City, and generally garnered support from Labor Unions and endorsement from the Liberal Party. Yet he never even considered switching parties as he considered membership in the Republican Party a family tradition and commitment. While he found ample time for his private pursuits, including painting and collecting autographs, he took his legislative duties very seriously. Of these, he was proudest of his co-sponsorship of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of the original 1965 Medicare legislation.…