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First edition, The Hogarth Press, 1931, paper jacket by Vanessa Bell.

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Macaulay's Two Essays on the Earl of Chatham, London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1901.

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E. H. Butler & Co., Philadephia, 1867.

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William P. Nimmo, Edinburgh, 1873.

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by John Bunyan, Sheldon & Company, New York.

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Partial series - eleven leatherbound volumes, 1870's copyright.

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Partial series - eighteen leatherbound volumes, ca. 1870's.

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By Sir Thomas Malory, published by Jonathan Cape and the Medici Society Ltd., London, 1927.

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Three-ring binder containing approximately 61 photographs, stamped on reverse Wallace Nutting, Framingham, Mass., each with title and Nutting's identification number.  Plus a gang print of birches.

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From the home of Sarah Leeds Ash we have a wide selection of paper goods from the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth century.  Sarah's father, Samuel Leeds, was a co-owner of the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall hotel and a mover and shaker in the city. Sarah was born at the turn-of-the-century to Quaker parents. She never cooked a meal until her marriage to Dickson Ash, such is the life of a hotel denizen.

The first photograph was taken in 1913, the year Mary Pickford starred in Caprice. It is a boardwalk parade with Sarah's pony cart part of the procession. She sits on the left holding the reins.   11"  x  16".

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Not all the ephemera is strictly Atlantic City. Some of the most unusual items are appearing. This photograph includes many handwritten notes detailing the race course starting in Camden. 

Bicyclists are posing at the Westville Toll Gate along the Gloucester-Woodbury Turnpike.  10"  x  13 3/4"

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Atlantic City abounded in them. The first, in plated silver, commemorates the 1915 Atlantic City Carnival Naval Pageant...Beauty of Decoration Open Boat 20 Feet or Over - - First Prize.

Then we have the key to Atlantic City no doubt awarded to Samuel Leeds. Next to the key is Mr. Leeds' Inter City Beauty ribbon where he served on the Finance Committee.

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...for the American Hotel Association. A wonderful paper and medal trail is left to us through a scrapbook covering his sojourn(s). In addition, pamphlets, e.g., Folies Bergere have also survived. The medals illustrated include a 1919 Republique Francaise bronze Mission Francaise aux Etats Unis for a trip from the continent to the states, a 1926 Conte Biancamano medal from Italy's Greatest Floating Hotel, and his 1934 International Hotel Alliance New York ribbon.

This section is a wonderful feast in itself.

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Airfield. Several surviving images beg us to better identify them. Bader airport is now closed but was once an active airstrip. At this period of time it was still a sand runway that attracted many of the great aviators. In this photo, the dignitaries are posing in front of a Glenn Curtiss single engine flying boat. First produced before World War I, they were later improved and used, post war, to fly the Atlantic in the race to cross the Atlantic Ocean first.

Samuel Leeds stands under the airplane engine. On the far left is most likely Augustus Post, Secretary of the Aero Club of America. The flyers themselves have very much British and French attributes, one wears several flying medals awarded to aviators from World War I by the French government.

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Again, the aviators are not the only ones with wings. The ephemera we are sorting reaches far beyond Atlantic City and crosses many flight paths along its way.

In a letter written by Ellis Gimbel, a Philadelphia attorney, to Samuel Leeds, he is forwarding a replica of the Amelia Earhart Gimbel Award she was given in Philadelphia following her solo flight across the Atlantic in 1932.

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Horton Hatches the Egg was published in 1940. Somewhere along the line, Sarah met Dr. Seuss and he autographed the first edition to her. It is truly amazing how some families just continually cross the right paths at the right time.