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Robert Macfarlane deemed The Peregrine to be "a masterpiece of twentieth-century non-fiction" in his introduction to the New York Review Books edition of the book. [3] On the back jacket cover of the same edition, James Dickey states that the book "transcends any 'nature writing' of our time," while Barry Lopez declares the book to be "one of the most beautifully written, carefully observed ...
A book sale in progress at Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge of Wellington Street, London, 1888 Sotheby's was established on 11 March 1744 in London by Samuel Baker, a bookseller. In 1767 the firm became Baker & Leigh, [ 6 ] [ 12 ] after Samuel Baker auctioned several hundred valuable books from the library of The Rt Hon Sir John Stanley, 1st ...
Earlier, in July 1919, Baker and his wife, Edith Kane Baker (1884–1977), bought the Henry Brevoort Mansion (Edith Baker was Brevoort's great-granddaughter), built in 1834 on lower Fifth Avenue to the designs of architects Ithiel Town and Alexander Jackson Davis. [6] The couple intended to renovate the house for their own use but sold it in 1925.
In 1985, J.T. Baker and its parent company Richardson-Vicks were sold to Procter & Gamble, and subsequently sold to Mallinckrodt in 1995. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In 2010, investment firm New Mountain Capital purchased Mallinckrodt Baker Inc., which then changed its name to Avantor. [ 8 ]
James Addison Baker Jr. (November 3, 1892 – May 21, 1973) was an American attorney, banker, real estate developer, and United States Army officer from Houston, Texas. He was the third in a succession of men named James Addison Baker, all of whom were attorneys for Baker Botts or its antecedents.
The estate was bequeathed to his son Richard Harold Russell on his death on 13 June 1896. [29] The house was advertised for sale in May 1899, [30] and the contents of the house were auctioned in August. [31] Adolph Fass, maternal grandfather of Robert Morley, purchased the estate in 1900, [32] and lived there until his death on 30 April 1905. [33]
Baker's estate identifies vaudeville drummer Eddie Carson as her natural father despite evidence to the contrary. [16] In 1993, Josephine Baker's foster son Jean-Claude Baker published a biography titled Josephine: The hungry Heart, which was the culmination of decades of exhaustive research into Baker's life and career. In the book, he ...
Baker also recognized the money-making potential in helping to sell them. She flew to Los Angeles to meet Nichols and Gomez, who immediately hired her as a "National Finder" — a professional sales manager who could also set up a central office for operations. Baker then quit her job at Primerica and opened an office in Memphis. She worked ...