Kaspare Cohn. A Commemorative Tribute to the Founder and First President of Union Bank. Printed for friends on its 50th Anniversary by Union Bank.
by [Plantin Press]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: [Plantin Press,] 1954 One of 100 special copies. A regular edition of 300 regular copies in gray paper wrappers was also released. . Blue paper-colored boards, quarter blue leather, with vellum tips. Folio. Text in blue and black. With a reproduction of a bronze plaque commemorating Kaspare Cohn on page [13]. Some very light foxing and toning to endpapers but otherwise a bright, fine copy with Lillian Marks' bookplate on front pastedown, in the original marbled paper slipcase. Kaspare Cohn (1893-1916) was a Prussian-born businessman who lived in Los Angeles for 55 years. Aside from founding the Union Bank, he was also a real estate investor, and the president of Congregation B'nai B'rith (now the Wilshire Boulevard Temple). The Kaspare Cohn Hospital, which he founded as a tuberculosis hospital in 1902, has since been incorporated into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
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- Bookseller
- Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16697
- Title
- Kaspare Cohn. A Commemorative Tribute to the Founder and First President of Union Bank. Printed for friends on its 50th Anniversary by Union Bank.
- Author
- [Plantin Press]
- Format/Binding
- Blue paper-colored boards, quarter blue leather, with vellum tips
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- One of 100 special copies. A regular edition of 300 regular copi
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- [Plantin Press,]
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles:
- Date Published
- 1954
- Pages
- 10] pp., pp. 15-23, [1] pp
- Size
- Folio
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About the Seller
Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
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Los Angeles, California
About Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB
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