WORLDWAR FOREIGN DEBT COMMISSION
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HOOVER, HERBERT. Group Photograph Signed, by each member of the World
War Foreign Debt Commission and each member of the Belgian Commission, full-length
portrait showing the members of both Commissions standing on the steps of a neoclassical
building. Signed in the blank lower margin, most vertically, most below the relevant por-
trait. 6x9 inches (image), 8x9
3
/
4
inches overall; faint scattered soiling. (TFC)
Np, circa 1925
[1,500/2,500]
Debt Commission: Herbert Hoover * AndrewW. Mellon * Frank B. Kellogg * Reed Smoot *
Theodore E. Burton * Charles R. Crisp * Richard Olney * Edward N. Hurley * Garrard B.
Winston * Arthur N.Young * F.G. Blair.
Belgian Commission: Emile de Cartier * Emile Francqui * Felicien Cattier * Georges
Theunis * Robert Silvercruys * Andre Terlinden.
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HOOVER, HERBERT. Typed Document Signed, book contract for
The Basis of
Lasting Peace
, between him—with Hugh Gibson—and publisher D.Van Nostrand, describ-
ing publication rights and royalties. Signed on terminal page. Additionally signed, on
terminal page, by Gibson, D. Van Nostrand President Edward M. Crane, and three wit-
nesses. 3 pages, folio, written on two separate sheets; horizontal folds. (TFC)
Np, 10 April 1945
[300/400]
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HOOVER, HERBERT. Two books, Signed or Signed and Inscribed:
On Growing
Up
*
American Individualism
. The first: “To my good friend / James A Healy / and Merry
Christmas / From Herbert Hoover,” on the half-title. With his bookplate, dated in print
Christmas 1962, laid in. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, rubbed; dustjacket price clipped. The sec-
ond, signed on the front free endpaper, green ink. Small 8vo, publisher’s cloth, worn,
cocked.
NewYork, 1962; Garden City, 1928; both inscriptions: Np, nd
[300/400]
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