GEORGE A. ZABRISKIE 2 Books WILLIAM PHIPS, FATHER GAUCHER'S ELIXIR, Scarsdale NY

Description: GEORGE A. ZABRISKIE 2 Privately Printed Books WILLIAM PHIPS, FATHER GAUCHER'S ELIXIR, to Noteworthy Scarsdale NY Resident CLEVELAND A. DUNN Lot includes: WILLIAM PHIPS: AN UNCOMMON MAN by George A. Zabriskie. Hardcover cloth. Privately printed 1944, first edition. Light grey-green cloth with gilt printing and small ship design on cover. Hand sewn, limited edition with a printed gift inscription, and handwritten name of recipient on page 2, "Mr. Dunn." Text begins on page 3 with a hand colored illuminated letter. Each page of text is bordered by wide margins defined by a red line. Brief biography of Phips' adventurous life at sea, hunting treasure on sunken ships in the West Indies. He later became Governor of Massachusetts, and was instrumental in suppressing the Salem witchcraft persecutions. No dust jacket, 9 pages, about 8 x 5-1/2 inches. Condition is good, with some light foxing and sunning to covers, a few foxing spots inside back cover, else quite nice. FATHER GAUCHER'S ELIXIR by Alphonse Daudet. Hardcover cloth. Privately printed 1937, first edition. Translation of "L'Elixir du R.P. Gaucher" by Genieve Robinson. Hand-colored illustrations and drop caps by Don Emery. A "Christmas Book" published by George Zabriskie, then CEO of Pillsbury and issued from, "The Doldrums," his 1925 ocean front estate known as "The Spanish House,'' an estate of historical importance. Inscribed twice to the Dunn's - once on the pre-printed holiday greetings page, and also more personally on the front free endpaper, "Cleveland A. Dunn, Scarsdale NY, Dec/37, from Geo. A. Zabriskie, 222 Cent. Pk. South NY City." Cover has author, title, and drink classes gold stamped on front cover. No dust jacket, as published. 38 pages, about 7-1/4 x 5 inches. Condition is near fine, with some small foxing spots inside covers and first couple pages, slight cover wear. GEORGE A. ZABRISKIE: George Albert Zabriskie (1868-1954) was the son of John Albert and Martha Lyon (Knox) Zabriskie, and a descendent of Albert Zabriskie who came from Poland in 1662 to settle in New Amsterdam. He was associated with the Pillsbury Flour Mills Co. and served as a director of the Columbia Baking Co. He became a life member of The New-York Historical Society in 1920, was elected treasurer in 1929, and ten years later was chosen president, an office he held until 1947. He was known for his summer and winter residences: "The Doldrums" at 201 Ocean South Blvd Ormand Beach, FL (now on the National Register of Historic Places); and “Cliffdale,” a big 1911 estate on the Palisades in Alpine NJ, whose two-story foundation ruins still intrigue hikers who come upon them along the Long Path. He also maintained an address on Central Park South in NYC. Some of the most unique bindings in the New-York Historical Society Library can be found among the books donated by former Historical Society president George Albert Zabriskie (1868-1954). A man with a number of hobbies and a fascinating architectural legacy, Zabriskie’s books are an incredible example of bookbinding as its own exceptional art form. (Click here for more on Zabriskie’s home, Cliff Dale.) Having been an executive for the Pillsbury Flour Mills Co. and the Columbia Baking Co., as well as the sugar and flour administrator during World War I, it is Zabriskie’s personal interests and talent that is of pique interest here. Zabriskie was an avid book and art collector, who extended his passion for collecting books into creating them, by being binding finisher and sometimes author. As president of the Historical Society, he donated many of his own personal books with these exceptional bindings to the Library. CLEVELAND A. DUNN 1956B OBITUARY: Cleveland Arthur Dunn of the Northgate, a Scarsdale elder statesman, one of the founders in 1913 of Scarsdale’s selective non-partisan government system, and the recipient in 1944 of the village's highest honor, "The Scarsdale Bowl," died on July 22 at his summer home in Haines Falls after a brief illness. Mr. Dunn, who was 83 years old, had retired in 1942 as vice president, treasurer, and chief executive officer of Graff, Washbourne & Dunn, a firm of silversmiths which he had organized in NYC in 1899. Born on Dec. 5, 1872 in New York, Mr. Dunn was the son of Gen. N. Gano and Amelia Sillick Dunn, both of American ancestry dating back to 1629. He was married in 1896 to Jennie E. Haines of Haines Falls, who died several years ago. A resident of Scarsdale for more than half a century, he was a life member and twice president of the Town Club here, and a member of the Church of St. James the Less. An early member, and president, of Scarsdale Fire Co. No. 1, Mr. Dunn was instrumental in the incorporation of the fire department, and later of the police department, into the village government. He was also active in the formation of the village’s first zoning laws and was chairman of a committee which negotiated the contract with the Westchester Lighting Co. which first brought gas to Scarsdale. In New York, Mr. Dunn a former trustee, was active in the affairs of the Park Avenue Methodist Church. He served for 30 years as a director of the General Board of the New York YMCA, An (organizer of the modern work of the Bowery Branch of the YMCA lin the city, he was for 16 years Chairman of its building and management committees. He helped (organize the Silversmith Ass'n (now the Silversmith's Guild, and became its vice-president. Long active in the affairs of the Sons of the Revolution Mr. Dunn had served for many years on that group’s board of governors, as a vice-president, and, at his death, was registrar and one of the five honorary members of the organization. Other organizations iw ; th which he had been affiliated were The Quill, Transportation City, Union League, Scarsdale Golf and Sleepy Hollow Country Clubs, the New England Society, and the Society of Colonial Wars. In recent years he had withdrawn from all of his clubs except the Town | Club of Scarsdale and the Sons of the Revolution. The achievements from which he received most personal satisfaction were the Bowery Branch of the YMCA in New York, and his share in the establishment of Scarsdale’s selective non-partisan government system. Also, as chairman of the Town Club’s committee on local history, he collected (much data which he honed would (be used in a published volume, and which did become some of the (background material for the Town j Club’s publication of the history (of the village written by Harry Hansen. Surviving are a son. Rogers C Dunn of Greenwich. Conn.; three daughters. Miss Marjorie Dunn who was director of the Windward School in White Plains, Miss Esther H. Dunn, an editorial writer (on a New York magazine, and Mrs. Samuel Abernethy of New Canaan, Conn.; a brother, Harris A. Dunn, vice-president of the board of directors of the Bowery [savings Bank, NYC; and five grandchildren. Mr. and Mrs. Dunn had two other sons, one who died in childhood, and the other, the late Cleveland A. Dunn. Jr., born m Scarsdale, who died at 19 while a senior at Groton School. Another brother of Mr. Dunn was the late Gano Dunn, internationally known engineer and president of the J. G. 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