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You're not likely to find a book more rare. There is certainly no other copy for sale on the Internet. I'm fairly certain it was privately published and gifted to the various subjects of what the New York Times called the author's 'doggerel'. The subjects were, in the main, members of Mr. Warburg's family, but there are quite a few outside the family as well. One of these is John J. McCloy. This copy came from the library in his home. It's in terrific condition. I'm comfortable asserting that it likely looks very nearly the way it looked when it was originally produced. You can see the textured blue leather (I assume) covers in the photos. They are exceptionally clean and they are free of wear. The gilt lettering on the front is very bright. The gold ribbon is without issue. The book is square and very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout. The covers are nicely, tightly bound as well. The pages are very clean. Both sides of one page have a few light spots, all the other pages are immaculate. There's one small amber spot off the top edge of the rear inside cover. Each page has a blue decorative border. I don't see any creasing on the pages. The middle page edge looks great, it is deckled or rough-cut. There are no markings in the book. There are no attachments. And no one has written their name or anything else anywhere. Frederick M. Warburg was an investment banker, sportsman and philanthropist. From 1931 until his death in 1975 he was a partner in Kuhn, Loeb & Co, one of the country's most powerful banking firms. (In 1924, McCloy was hired by Paul Cravath, the leading firm for Kuhn, Loeb & Co., becoming partner in July of 1929. McCloy and Frederick Warburg were next-door neighbors in Cos Cob, Connecticut, according to McCloy's biographer Kai Bird. Frederick Warburg, the eldest of four sons of Felix M. Warburg, was a direct descendant of one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb. He was editorial chairman of The Harvard Crimson and captain in the Reserve Officers Training Corps. At his graduation in 1919 he delivered the Ivy Oration (which begins this book). 'Among his friends and on Wall Street Mr. Warburg was known both for his shrewdness as a banker and his gregariousness. 'He was the foreign minister for Kuhn, Loeb,' an associate said. 'He helped see to it that the firm made friends and carried out its civic responsibilities.' He was also esteemed for his sense of humor and his ability to turn out doggerel for almost any occasion.' John J. McCloy was the former Assistant Secretary Of War and High Commissioner of Postwar Germany. He was also a banker and an advisor to every president beginning with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. According to Mr. Warburg: 'When Jack McCloy saw the light of day/He sent his doctor right away/Slapped himself upon the fanny/Had no truck with nurse or nanny/Thanked his mother for all she'd done/Disdained to walk, began to run/Without Miss Wilson or Colonel Tate/Wired McKinley for a date/And at the early age of three/Decided to set Cuba free/And ever since he's been alive/He's kept this energy and drive/Which have led to close relations/With the heads of many nations/ (Next Stanza). Though our boy was quite a thinker/He had the makings of a stinker/Mayhem, arson, drink and pillage/Much too tough for Children's Village/But when the cops were good and ready/They locked him up at dear old Peddie/Where his career he did begin/By kicking the principal in the shin/And when they'd cauterize that hole/He graduated,-- on parole. There are two more stanzas (see photo). Names of some other targets: Frieda Schiff Warburg, Felix M. Warburg (from 1930), Paul Warburg, Mary and Edward Warburg, Max M. Warburg, Carola W. Rothschild, Edith and John Schiff, Carol and Amory Bradford, Virginia and Walter N. Rothschild, Eric M. Warburg, Lili and Cass Canfield, Thomas Lamont, Franklin Parker, George Brownell, Bernard F. Gimbel, Oliver Iselin, William C. Langley, and others. Seller Inventory # 003181
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