Item #90603 Vignettes and Trivia or a New Tassel in Gold. [cover title]. Garo Willard Ray.
Vignettes and Trivia or a New Tassel in Gold. [cover title]

Vignettes and Trivia or a New Tassel in Gold. [cover title]

n.p. Ray credits the printing to Roy Cant, his son-in-law, n.d. [Inscribed in 1981]. Paperback. 198p. Softcover in original wrapper. 28 cm. Modest soiling and some yellowing. Inscribed (by "Garo"). Armenian American memoir. Ray, born in Izmit (Turkey) was originally named Garabed Roupen Abrahamian. The Willard in his adopted name honored Gordon Willard Allport, one of Ray's teachers at Robert College in Constantinople. Ray, talented in technology but academically indifferent, is awarded a special scholarship which enables him to emigrate to America in 1922 where he gets works in radio, lives Connecticut and, late in life, enjoys rebuilding complex pipe organs. Not listed in OCLC. Very Good. Item #90603

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