There is a 10% Buyer's Premium charged

1. [CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST] Edward Ellis Carr [b. 1866] he organized the Christian Socialist Fellowship. TLS, The Christian Socialist, 1912, 1p, 4to. To Rev. Roland D. Sawyer [he ran as Socialist for Gov. of Mass.] Re: publishing Sawyer article as pamphlet.......50-75

See above

2. Nathan Lewis Miller (1868-1953) was an American lawyer and politician who was the 43rd Governor of New York from 1921 to 1922. Document Signed, bank check dated 1921. $100 from the Adjutant General's Office, State of New York. Fine example...........40-60

3. [NASA] William H. Pickering (1910-2004) was a New Zealand born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..............50-75

4. [MUSIC] Leonardo Balada [b. 1933] American composer. AMQS from his 1986 Opera "Christopher Columbus. Very nice. Approx. 8 x 7. Inscribed to a collector. VG..........75-100

See AMQS

5. [FILM] William Cagney (1905-1988) American Producer/ Actor. He was the brother of actor James Cagney, and began his career in the film industry as an assistant producer at Warners as part of his brother's contract. Later he went on to head William Cagney Productions, a studio designed to promote James' career and give him more artistic opportunities. During the 1930s, William tried his hand at acting, and in 1950, played James's brother in "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye." Offered here is a typed Agreement with Samuel Goldwyn Productions concerning use of facilities for the filming of "A Lion Is In The Streets.'' On Cagney Productions stationary, dtd September 30, 1952 1p. This movie was released in 1953, with James Cagney, Barbara Hale, Anne Francis, Jeanne Cagney, Lon Chaney Jr. VG and Rare!.............75-100

6. Larry McMurtry (b.1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and Academy Award winning screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas. He is known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1985 novel Lonesome Dove. Brief ALS, 2000, on 6-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. card. Signed with intials.............40-60

7. [FRANCE] Jacques Marie de Caritat de Condorcet (1703-1783) French prelate, Bishop of Auxerre , of Gap and Lisieux 1761–1783. Jacques-Marie de Condorcet's vicar-general of the Bishop of Rodez , Yse Saléon his uncle. He then became the headquarters of Gap in 1742 and transferred to the diocese of Auxerre in 1754.  It shows a declared enemy of Jansenism and raises a formidable opposition. Its own chapter seeks and obtains an order from the king into exile in the convent of Bernardine of Vauluisant near Villeneuve-Archbishop . It gives him the bishopric of Lisieux in 1761. The famous Marquis de Condorcet , who is his nephew, was raised by his care. [translated].  ALS, 1764, 2pp, approx. 5-1/2 x 7-1/4". Fine.............100-150

Page 1
Page 2

8. [FRANCE] Geoffroy Brossais Saint-Marc  (1803-1878) Bishop of Rennes from 1841 until his death. Document Signed, 1847, 1p., approx. 8 x 10-1/2". VG...............100-150

See above

9. [FRANCE] 1747 French Mystery Document on paper, 2pp, with about 18 signatures on page 2. Approx. 8-1/2 x 13".  Piece missing right edge causing loss of a few words.  Speaks of Duche de Bowrgogne.  Great revenue woodcut stamp at head. From a municipality...........100-150

Page 1
Page 2

10. [FRANCE] Louis Desprez  (1861-1885) French author who died so young.  Offered here are 2 ALSs, 1883 & 1884, total 5 lengthy pages, speaks of Mallarme, etc.  Emile Zola wrote a long and eloquent text about him.  One is repaired with archival paper..............100-150

11. [FRANCE] Adolphe Perraud (71828-1906)  French Cardinal and academician.  Three ALSs, 1878, 1894, and 1904, total 11 pages........150-200

12. [NEWSPAPER] JEFF. DAVIS IN PETTICOATS. WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, Madison, Wis., June 13, 1865, VOL. XIII, No. 39. 8 pages, FILLED with Civil War news. Includes: on the front page, a half column poem by L.J.Bates, "JEFF DAVIS IN PETTICOATS."; "Sherman's Armistice"; "THE ASSASSINATION TRIAL. The Suppressed Testimony. MORE STARTLING REVELATIONS. Complicity of Jeff Davis in the President's Murder." Illustrated advertisements, including a full column illustrated advertisement on the last page for an amusement show called "The Equesqurriculum" tin three "Gigantic Circuses".) Fascinating reading. .........75-100

13. [FRANCE] ANTOINE-ALEXANDRE  BARBIER (1765-1825) Prior to the Revolution, Barbier was a maths and physics teacher, and in 1789, he was the vicar at Dammartin. He accepted the "constitution civile du clergé" and became priest at La Ferté-sous-Jouarre. In 1794 he was given the job of itemising and safeguarding the huge number of books and papers that had been confiscated by the revolutionaries on behalf of the Nation. These books, many of which were falling apart due to insects and poor conservation conditions, were also taking up offices that were required by the local authorities. Having constructed proper shelving for the books and introduced air-flow systems to allow ventilation between the shelves, the monumental task of cataloguing the confiscated works remained. This task required the assistance of specialists: archivists, curators, bibliophiles and librarians were called in to sort through the books, destroy any considered "seditious", sell any that were no longer needed and replace any considered important enough in the public libraries. A large of number of public libraries benefitted from this process, in particular the Bibliothèque Nationale. In 1795, Barbier was seconded to Gaspard Michel Leblond with the task of reducing the huge book depots in Paris and in Versailles, sorting, cataloguing and selling the books stored on these sites. Barbier was also heavily involved in the creation of provincial public libraries and the cataloguing of the books stored therein.  In 1798, Barbier created the bibliothèque du ministère de l'Intérieur, which was designed to hold the collections that formerly belonged to the Académie Française and the Académie  des Inscriptions et Belle-Lettres, as well as any works considered worthwhile that had been seized from libraries belonging to émigrés or those condemned to death. This library became the Conseil D'Etat's library in 1799, shortly after 18 Brumaire, and Barbier became its librarian. Putting together a catalogue for the library, he abandoned the traditional alphabetical classification, instead opting for classification by subject-matter.  In 1807, Barbier replaced Louis-Madeleine Ripault and was put in charge of Napoleon's personal libraries at Compiègne, Rambouillet and Trianon as well as the travel libraries that Napoleon took with him whilst on campaign. The first travel library, conceived in July 1808, included texts on a variety of different subjects: novels, history, poetry, and theatre. Barbier was also asked to write numerous reports regarding the history, geography and religious issues of various regions and countries which Napoleon used in his political and military planning.  Barbier was also expected to keep the French Emperor constantly supplied with reading material, along with reports, analyses and commentaries regarding each publication. Napoleon, known to be a voracious reader, complained on a number of occasions about the lack of reading material at his disposal, which led to letters being dispatched to Barbier, reminding him of his duties regarding this matter. In his role as "conseiller littéraire", he was also expected to brief Napoleon when the Emperor was back in Paris. He also served the Empress Josephine in a similar manner, and managed her libraries at the Tuileries, Compiègne, Saint-Cloud, Fontainebleau, Trianon, Rambouillet and at her other residences. Between 1808 and 1810, he published his Nouvelle bibliothèque d'un homme de goût, which was based on Louis-Mayeul Chaudon's Bibliothèque d'un homme de goût. This catalogue gathered together various critical and analytical extracts from works and periodicals dedicated to literary criticism, adding to and correcting the original work of Chaudon. The goal of this catalogue was to examine both modern and classical literature and separate the "wheat from the chaff", rewrite any critiques that were unmerited, and ensure that books which did not deserve to be forgotten were not, whilst books that were unworthy of remembrance were removed. The catalogue included entries for both French and foreign literature, as well as offering notes on the best editions and most accurate translations, where necessary.  Despite his work for Napoleon, Barbier remained principled and incurred the wrath of the Emperor on a number of occasions: as well as being reluctant to forward any works that he considered mediocre (despite the Emperor's continuous desire for new reading material), he also refused to catalogue a number of books dedicated to or concerning Napoleon and his numerous successes. Works that were omitted from the libraries that Barbier curated included Relation de la bataille de Marengo, Vies de Bonaparte, and Histoires de l'Empereur Napoléon, which he argued were written by "second-rate writers", driven by greed and a desire to flatter the Emperor. Napoleon nevertheless insisted that Relation... be inserted into all of his libraries, despite his librarian's reluctance. During the Restoration, Barbier was put in charge of the royal libraries, but was dismissed from the King's service in 1822, for reasons not listed in his biographies (although Muriel Brot hypothesises that this may have been simply due to his prolonged service for Napoleon). Barbier was severely affected by the dismissal and fell ill shortly afterwards, dying in 1825. Offered here is a Autograph Letter Signed, 1807, one page, approx. 6-1/2 x 9-1/4".  Appears to be about Certificate of Pension.  We are unable to find any prices for documents signed by Barbier however some of the books he authored have sold at auction for as high as $11,400.  Very good condition........200-300

See document

14. John Dos Passos (1896-1970) radical American novelist and artist active in the first half of the twentieth century.  Signed & inscribed 4 x 6" picture. VG............80-120

See above

15. John Patrick (1905-1995)  American playwright and screenwriter. Puliyzer Prize winning dramatist.  Signed 1p. typescript from THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST NOON. VG............50-75

See above

16. [FILM]  Gene Autry (1907-1998)  American performer who gained fame as a singing cowboy on the radio, in movies, and on television for more than three decades beginning in the early 1930s. Autry was also owner of a television station, several radio stations in Southern California, and the Los Angeles/California/Anaheim Angels Major League Baseball team from 1961 to 1997.  Nice signed & inscribed 8x10 photo, dated 4-30-85. VG.........150-200

20. [PHOTOGRAPHY]  Original vintage photograph taken by Oliver Baker. The photo is of a painting by Walt Kuhn, Portrait of Brenda, 1927. The photo is 8x10 and has Baker blindstamp of the verso.  This particular photograph was from the Kuhn Estate and used for the Walt Kuhn exhibition at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Today this painting is in the collection of the Ogunquit Art Museum, in Maine.   Slight top right corner creasing. VG for its age.  Oliver Baker was known for the photos he took of many of America's top artists during the 1950s & 60s.............100-150

See photo
See verso

21.  [ACTORS] mixed lot. [1] Ruth Gordon [1896-1985] actress. Signed [in haste] 3x5 card. [2] Jonathan Silverman - Am. actor. Sig. 3x5 card. [3] Constance Booth [b.1944] Am. writer, actress; wife of John Cleese. Signature. [4] Cyril Ritchard (1897-1977) actor. Signature on lined paper. [5] Dorothy Malone [b.1925] OSCAR winning actress. Sig. 3x5 card. [6] Eileen Heckart [1919-2001] OSCAR winning actress. Sig. card [lined side]. [7] Josh Hartnett - actor. Signed 3x5 card..........60-80

22. [FRANCE] 1810 Manuscript Document Signed, identified as "Marquise d'Anhalt. Our research identifies this person as Favras Caroline Hedwig of Anhalt-Schauenbourg (Marquise de) ( 1759-1841). Approx. 6-3/4 x 4-1/4" with very nice red wax seal still intact. See both side's below. Certainly worthy of research. Excellent condition.........100-150

Front side

Back side   

23. [FRANCE] c. 1840 Manuscript document - identified as "To Delegate of Peace Society - speaks about two big nations [France & Germany?", unsigned, 2pp, approx. 8 x 11-1/2". VG..............100-150

24. [CARDINAL] Charles Erskine (b. at Rome, 13 February 1739; d. at Paris, 20 March 1811) was an Italian-Scottish papal diplomat and cardinal.  In October 1793, Erskine was sent as papal envoy to Great Britain. By his tact Erskine established excellent relations with the Court of St. James and the ministry, diminished the dissensions among Catholics, and avoided stirring up any anti-Catholic demonstration against himself. During his stay in London the pope named him a full auditor, and in 1795 gave him additional powers as envoy extraordinary. He left London in 1801 and returned to Rome, where in 1803, he was installed as a Cardinal Deacon, it being revealed that he had been elevated to this office in pectore in the Consistory of February 1801. He was then assigned the Church of Santa Maria in Campitelli as his titular church. As a member of the Sacred Congregation of Propaganda Fide, he was still useful to English Catholics, and was made Cardinal Protector of Scotland.  He was ordained a deacon the following January.  On the French invasion of Rome in 1808 Erskine was made pro-Secretary of Briefs, and was confined in the Quirinal with the pope. When Pope Pius VII was taken prisoner Erskine was allowed to go free, but his property was now lost and he would have been reduced to poverty if his Protestant relations in Scotland had not granted him an allowance. In 1809 Napoleon ordered him to Paris and though ill he was forced from Rome in January 1810.  Shortly after his arrival in Paris, Erskine fell into a gradual decline and soon died. He was buried in the Church of Saint-Genevieve, now the Panthéon.  Offered here is a ALS, his signmature appearing in the first line, dated 1801 [?], 1p, approx. 8-1/4 x 8-1/4".  Accompanied by a manuscript page identified as "Funeral inscription of Erskine from ther handf of Carolo Colini......120-180

See letter
See Colini page

25. [CINEMA] Melanie Griffith (b. 1957) Golden Globe-award winning and Oscar-nominated American film actress. DOCUMENT SIGNED, Oct. 6, 1980, 1p. Contract with International Creative Management. ..............50-75

26. [FILM] Hume Cronyn (1911-2003) Canadian-born actor who was married to Jessica Tandy. TLS, 1957, 1p. Mentions the play "The Man In The Dog Suit" not yet finished. To M. Abbott Van Nostrand, the publisher of plays. VG...........40-60

27. [FILM] Mickey Rooney  (1920-2014) American actor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG............75-100

28. [FILM] Walter Newman (1916-1993)  American radio writer and screenwriter active from the late 1940s to the early 1990s. He was nominated three times for Academy Awards (Ace in the Hole, Cat Ballou, and Bloodbrothers), but he may be best known for a work that never made it to the screen: his unproduced original script Harrow Alley.  Newman's radio writing included scripts for Escape, Suspense, and The Halls of Ivy as well as the first broadcast episode of Gunsmoke. He is not officially credited for his screenplays for The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape, having renounced credit after sharp disagreements with the director, John Sturges in both cases, over changes made during shooting. Document Signed, his pay check from Warner Bros., 1984, endorsed on verso by Newman.  Fine. Scarce!..............50-75

29. [FRANCE] 2-page letter, 1857, to General Trezel.  Unable to identify the send/signature. Speaks partly of slaves in the United States and Egypt.  Says "What do you think of our Politico?"  Of de Brese's affair? Of Algeria and God Bless Egypt's Pacha - no more slaves in Egypt! but in US. White should turn red, barring what happens. Small corner piece missing affects nothing. Needs research. VG.............100-150

Page 1
Page 2
Address leaf with 2 Napoleon stamps

30. [MUSIC] Johnny Mathis (b. 1935) American singer of popular music.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG........40-60

See Mathis photo

See Cotten photo

32.  (ART) MICHAEL KNOEDLER (1823-1878) Bavarian born American Art Dealer.  He was one of the first to establish a major "art dealer" company in the United States. He established Knoedler & Company 1846. He then opened galleries in London and Paris. He was a champion of American Art talent and promoted American artists  to his clientele. His Knoedler gallery was still in business until it closed in 2011.  Knoedler dates its origin to 1846, when French dealers Goupil & Cie opened a branch in New York. Michel (later Michael) Knoedler (1823-1878), born in Kapf near Gaildorf in Baden Wuerttemberg, Germany, started to work for Goupil & Cie in Paris in 1844, and moved to New York in 1852 to take charge of the New York branch. He purchased the U.S. arm of the business in 1857, and was later joined by his sons Roland (1856-1932), Edmond and Charles, with Roland taking the lead. With dealer Charles Carstairs, Knoedler opened branches in London and Paris, and developed a reputation as a leading dealer of Old Master paintings, with customers including collectors such as Collis P. Huntington, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Henry O. Havemeyer, William Rockefeller, John Jacob Astor, Andrew Mellon, J. P. Morgan, and Henry Clay Frick, and institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre, and the Tate Gallery. Knoedler developed a fruitful relationship with London gallery Colnaghi, with Colnaghi finding suitable paintings in Europe for Knoedler to sell to wealthy collectors in the US. Knoedler and Conlaghi were involved in the secret sales by the Soviet government of works from the Russian Imperial collection in the Hermitage in the 1920s and 1930s, along with Matthiesen in Berlin. The firm was sold to industrialist and collector Armand Hammer for $2.5 million in 1971. A RARE DOCUMENT SIGNED (1863),  8-1/4 x 7". Signed as an employee of Goupil and Co, which he later bought and changed to Knoedler. VG........150-250

See above

33. Brian Blessed (1936 - ) is an English actor, known for his sonorous voice and "hearty, king-sized portrayals".  Signed 3x5 photo. VG.........25-35

See Blessed photo

34. [WW II] Love letters - group of 10 letters written by Marjorie to her sweetheart Gunner Jeahes, who is in the British military. Lengthy but unread by us. Each with envelope.....50-75

See Love Letters

35. [NOBEL] Gertrude B. Elion (1918- 1999) American biochemist and pharmacologist, and a 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Working alone as well as with George H. Hitchings, Elion developed a multitude of new drugs, using innovative research methods that would later lead to the development of THE AIDS DRUG AZT. SIGNED 3 X 5 PHOTO. Fine.........40-60

36. George Plimpton (1927-2003) American journalist, writer, editor, and actor. He is best-remembered for his sports writing and for founding The Paris Review. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.......25-35

37.  [FT. KNOX, KENTUCKY]  13 letters from soldier Alvin O. Crook, to his mother and father at Frankport, S.D. All with envelope marked "Free".  Sent while he was stationed at Ft. Knox, 1942. He was member of Co. H, 43rd Regt. Unread.........50-75


38. [ENTERTAINMENT]  Edward "Eddie" Rubin (1912-1999) was a Los Angeles-based entertainment lawyer, who represented such clients as Steve McQueen, Goldie Hawn, Warren Beatty and Howard Hughes.  As a partner at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Eddie chaired the firm's entertainment practice, during which time he represented several major film studios.  During his career, he served as president of the California Bar Association, the largest state bar association in the United States, and as a trustee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.  TLS, 1963, 1p, to Milton Ebbins, c/o Chrislaw Productions, about employing a composer. VG........25-35

39. [FRANCE] BULLETIN DES LOIS DE LA REPUBLIQUE, dated Year IX [1801], 16 pages., approx. 5.5 x 8.5".  Many pages on how to split up captured ships [detailed]; also article on CORSAIRS [pirates]; etc. Signed Bonaparte in print. VG............100-150

See document

41. John Dos Passos (1896-1970) was a radical American novelist and artist active in the first half of the twentieth century. Signature sending holiday greetings dated 1965. At some period in time this was laid against something else causing off-set on the card.......75-100

See above

See his portrait

42. [MAINE] Henry S. Burrage (1837-1926) he was the First State Historian [Maine 1907-1926]. Henry Sweetser Burrage was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, the son of Jonathan Burrage and Mary Upton Burrage. He prepared for college at Pierce Academy and graduated from Brown University in 1861. After a year at Newton Theological Seminary, he enlisted as a private in the 36th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry and rose to the rank of major. Wounded in the shoulder at Cold Harbor, he was captured at Petersburg and spent time in Libby Prison. At the end of the Civil War, Henry Burrage resumed his studies at Newton, graduating in 1867. His first and only pastorate was at the First Baptist Church in Waterville, Maine from 1869 to 1873. For the next thirty-two years, he was the editor of Zion's Advocate, a statewide weekly Baptist newspaper which was based in Portland. Highly respected in education circles, he was a trustee of Colby College from 1881 to 1906, Newton Theological Seminary from 1881 to 1906, and Brown University from 1889 to 1901. Active in veterans organizations, he served as chaplain of the National Soldiers Home at Togus from 1905 to 1912. Burrage excelled in the research and writing of Maine's Colonial history, as is reflected in his publications. He was a member of the Standing Committee as well as vice-president and president of the Maine Historical Society. In 1907 Governor William T. Cobb appointed him as State Historian, which he held until his death on March 9, 1926, at the age of 89. Offered here is a partly-printed Document Signed, Military Order, Loyal Legion, United States - Commandery of the State of Maine, Portland, 1903, 1p, 8-1/2 x 6 in. Dues receipt for Edward W. Heath. VG............50-75

43. [TV] Robert Urich (1946-2002) American film, television and stage actor and television producer. Over the course of his 30-year career, Urich starred in a record 15 television series.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG...........40-60

44. [TV] Milton Berle (1908- 2002)  American comedian and actor. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948–55), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television" during TV's golden age. Boldly signed but in the dark area. VG..........35-45

45. [TV] Dale  Robertson (1923- 2013)  American actor best known for his starring roles on television. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo.....35-45

46. William E. Bridges (1933-2013) American author, speaker, and organizational consultant  whose pioneering work on transition transformed the way people think about change.  He emphasized the importance of understanding transitions as a key for organizations to succeed in making changes. He says that transition the psychological process of adapting to change. Transition consists of three phases; letting go of the past, the "neutral zone" where the past is gone but the new isn't fully present, and making the new beginning. Document Signed, 1960 bank check made out by his mother to William who signed on the back. VG.............40-60



47. Rene Auberjonois (b. 1940) American film, television, and theater actor. He is well known for portraying Father Mulcahy in the film version of M*A*S*H. Signed, inscribed 5x7 photo. VG.......25-35

See above

48. [FILM] Sir John Mills (1908-2005) popular Academy Award winning English actor.  Signed postcard photo, 3-1/2 x 5-3/8". VG......40-60

See above

49. [FILM] Cesar Romero (1907-1994) American actor. Signed, inscribed 5x7 photo. VG......40-60

See Romero photo

50. [FILM] Jessica Tandy (1909-1994) actress. Signed 3x5 card. Fine........20-30

51. [TV] Sid Caesar (1922-2014) Emmy award winning American comic actor and writer known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour. Signed 3x5 card. Fine.........25-35

52. [FRANCE] LETTRES PATENTES Du Roi, 1764, 12-pages, approx. 7x9".  From the old Royal regime on Jesuits. Rare! Superb condition for any age................100-150

See above

53. [AMERICAN SCIENCE] a special cover from Japan postmarked 1959 signed by:  John H. Northrop (1891-1987) Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Selman Waksman (1888-1973) Nobel Prize; coined the  antibiotics;  promoted the discovery of Streptomycin, and several other antibiotics. B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher.  VG...........100-150

See cover

54. James Dickey (1923-1997) American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.  He also received the Order of the South award. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........60-80

55. (FRENCH LITERATURE) PIERRE DESCAVES - 3 to 4 pages of autograph notes unsigned and approx. 36 news clippings on Henri Troyat [French author]. Including a program from "Le Vieux Colombier." Descaves' file on Troyat....................50-75

56. HENRY VAN BRUNT (1832-1903) This Boston architect served on the Admiral's staff, North Atlantic squadron [civil war]; designed numerous buildings at Harvard, plus others throughout the U.S. ALS, 1875, 2pp, 8vo. Re: the Harvard book................50-75

57. [FRANCE] Claude-Marie-Paul Tharin ( 1787-1843 ) was the 95th bishop of Strasbourg.  Scarce ALS,  1839, 1p, approx. 7 x 9".  Address leaf still intact with large red wax seal. VG.............80-120

58. [FRANCE] Jean Soanen (1647–1740)  French Oratorian and bishop of Senez. He was a convinced Jansenist.  In opposition to the papal bull Unigenitus, he with Charles-Joachim Colbert, bishop of Montpellier, Pierre de la Broue who was bishop of Mirepoix, and Pierre de Langle who was bishop of Boulogne, appealed against it in 1717 to a general council.  This group and their followers were known as Appellants; the council was though entirely hypothetical as an idea.  Later, he sent out a pastoral letter to his congregation, urging the reading of Pasquier Quesnel. Pierre Guérin de Tencin, the archbishop of Embrun, then in 1727 had him exiled from his diocese. But Jean Soanen of Senez, a small mountain diocese in Provence, issued in 1726 a Pastoral instruction to his diocese, in which, at the age of 80, he reviewed his whole position in the controversy. He regretted that he had ever signed the Formulary of 1665, withdrew his adhesion to the Bull "Vineam Domini Sabaoth", blamed himself for prohibiting, against his real convictions, the moral Reflexions, and promised never to accept the Unigenitus. Soanen was deprived of his see by the Provincial Synoid of Embrun, which on carious canonical grounds he refused to recognize, and was banished to the abbey of Chaise Dieu in Auvergne, where he remained imprisoned till his death in 1740, at the age of 95.  Autograph Document Signed, unsure if dated, different later handwriting below, approx. 6-1/4 x 4-1/4".  Accompanied by 3 small pages of handwritten notes from  circa 1880. VG.............150-250

59. [FRANCE] Antoine de Montazet (1713 - 1788)  French theologian, of Jansenist tendencies, who became bishop of Autun and archbishop of Lyon. He was elected to the Académie française in 1756, but did not produce significant literary works.  He had published for his seminary by the Oratorian Joseph Valla, six volumes of "Institutiones theologicæ". These were known as "Théologie de Lyon", and were spread throughout Italy by Scipio de’ Ricci, bishop of Pistoia and Prato, until condemned by the Index in 1792. Contrary to the papal bull of Pope Pius V on the Breviary, Montazet changed the text of the Breviary and the Missal. The later efforts of Pope Pius IX and Cardinal Bonald to suppress the innovations of Montazet provoked resistance on the part of the canons, who defended the traditional Lyonnese ceremonies. Document Signed, 1759, written on both sides, about 7-1/4 x 8-3/4". Top right coner missing affecting a few words................100-150

See document

60. [FRANCE] Year VI  (1798 ) printed document "Coneil des 500", creation of income tax, 24-pages, approx. 7.5 x 10".  Edge toning o/w VG..........100-150
See above

61.  Edward Albee [b. 1928] American playwright. Signed 10 x 8 photo. VG............50-75

ARCHIVE LETTERS TO LOUIS ALIBERT

63. [FRANCE] Gustave Lannes de Montebello  (1838-1907)  French diplomat. After studying law, he embraced a career diplomat, first under the orders of his father, the 2nd Duke of Montebello , Ambassador of France to Saint Petersburg. In 1886 , he was appointed ambassador of France to Constantinople, then to St. Petersburg in 1891. He contributed to the preparation of the exhibition horse and ethnographic Russian in Paris ( 1895 ).  Become an intimate Romanov , Gustave de Montebello plays an essential role in the consolidation of the Franco-Russian alliance . It welcomes President Félix Faure , at the laying of the first stone of Trinity Bridge in St. Petersburg on 24 August 1897, a symbol of the alliance. The Comtesse de Montebello was a benefactor of the French colony of capital of the Russian Empire, including providing funding to the French Asylum Benevolent Society of Saint Petersburg and its new hospital. On 28 August 1899 , the Marquis de Montebello is made ​​Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor.  Rare ALS [c. 1891], St. Ptersburg [Russia], 3pp, approx. 5-1/8 x 7-1/8". Slightly toned but VG..........100-150

See page 1
See pages 2 & 3

64. [TV] Stacey Keach (b. 1941) American actor.  Signed 5x7 photo. VG..........25-35

65. [FILM] Olympia Dukakis (b. 1931) American actress. Signed 8x10 printed photo. VG............25-35

66. [FILM] Colleen Dewhurst (1924-1991) Sanadian-American actress. Signed 8x10 photo, 1989. VG.............25-35

67. [FRANCE] Mystery Document 1770 signed, 12 x 8-3/4 in. on paper. Certainly worthy of further research...........100-150

Click to see above

68. TED KENNEDY (1932-2009) US senator from Mass. Signed & inscribed color 8x10 photo.............50-75

69. [ART] Leonard Volk (1828-1895) American sculptor. Most famous for making a life mask of American President Abraham Lincoln. In the early part of spring in 1860, during Abraham Lincoln's visit to Chicago, Volk asked him to sit for a bust. When Lincoln agreed, the artist decided to start by doing a life mask. Lincoln found the process of letting wet plaster dry on his face, followed by a skin-stretching removal process, "anything but agreeable." But he endured it with good humor, and when he saw the final bust, he was quite pleased, declaring it "the animal himself." Volk later used the life mask and bust of 1860 as the basis for other editions, including a full-length statue of Lincoln. In 1848 he opened a studio at St Louis, Missouri, and in 1855 was sent by his wife's cousin, politician Stephen A. Douglas, to Rome to study. Returning to America in 1857, he settled in Chicago, where he helped to establish an Academy of Design and was for eight years its head. Among his principal works: the Douglas monument at Chicago, Illinois; AND statues of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Illinois State Capitol at Springfield, Illinois. Offered here are 22 signed bank checks by Leonard Volk, 1893-1895. These were culled from Leonard Volk's checks because they're in less perfect condition. One is separated & held together with pin; others may have a somewhat smudged area of his signature; cancel stamp competes with signature; stained etc. A DEALER HAS A LEONARD VOLK signed card listed on ebay at $699. We believe the value his signature to be much less even though his autograph seldom appears on the market except when we offer one. For the lot our estimate is................1000-1500

70. [FRANCE] 1758 French document on paper concerning the Marquise de Breteuil, identified as signed with initials [upper left corner]; whose initials? One page, 6-3/4 x 8-3/4". VG...........100-150

See front

71. (SPORTS LOT) MICHAEL SPINKS (1956- ) Boxer, Heavyweight Champion, SIGNED, 8x10 photograph, with sentiment.  DARRELL ROYAL (1924-2012) Football Player, coach - TLS, 1971.  TOM WEISKOPF (1942- ) American Golfer - SIGNED 8x10 color photograph, inscribed.  NANCY LOPEZ (1957-  ) American Golfer - SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph.   HAZEL HOTCHKISS WRIGHTMAN (1886-1974) American Tennis Star - ANS, no date,  sending birthday greetings.   STANLEY DANCER (1927-2005) American harness racing driver and trainer. He was the only horsemen to drive and train three Triple Crowns in horse racing. In total, he drove 23 Triple Crown winners. TLS, ny, nd with SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 reprint of cover of Sports Illustrated with him on cover.  ROD LAVER, MBE (1938- )  Australian former professional tennis player who holds the record for most singles titles won in the history of tennis, with 200 career titles. SIGNED 6x8 print of him playing tennis, with titles............100-150

72. [FRANCE]  Pierre-Augustin-Bernardin de Rosset de Fleury  (1717-1780)  French prelate.  Bishop of Chartres from 1746-1780.  Born in Castle Pérignan ( Aude ), is the second son of John Hercules Rosset of Rocozels Fleury and Marie de Rey, and grand-son of Bernardin de Rosset of Rocozels and Marie Fleury (sister of Cardinal Fleury ). Was educated at the Collège de la Marche in Paris, and the Sorbonne , where he obtained the cap doctorate in theology in 1742. Appointed Bishop of Chartres by royal patent, and confirmed in this position by Pope Benedict XIV in 1746, he took the name of Peter VI. First chaplain Leszczyńska Marie (1743) and Grand Chaplain Marie-Antoinette (1774), he was made ​​Commander of the Order of the Holy Spirit in the royal chapel of the castle of Versailles (1777). During the harsh winter of 1751-1752, he gave his silver at the Mint for the relief of the destitute. At Chartres Bishop rebuilt the episcopal palace. He died on January 13, 1780 the palace of the Tuileries , where he had an apartment, and was buried in Saint-Louis-du-Louvre in the family tomb.  Manuscript Document Signed, 1767, written by him, approx. 5-1/4 x 3". VG...........100-150

73. [FRANCE] multiple lot of French autographs:  [1] Lahaye, Louis-Marie de. Viscount de Cormenin [1788-1868] French lawyer and political writer. Member of Chamber of Deputies (1828-46, 1848); opposed to Louis-Philippe; appointed councilor of state (after 1848). Author of Droit administratif (1821), Les Entretiens de village (1846), etc. ALS, no date, 1p, 5 x 7.5 in.   [2] Berthelot, Philippe-Joseph-Louis [1866-1934]. French diplomat. Son of Marcelin Berthelot. Entered diplomatic service (1889); adviser to Briand and active in Allied liaison during World War I; secretary general of ministry of foreign affairs (1920-21, 1925-32). TLS, 1925, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. To the poet Aime Giron.  [3] GUSTAV SIMON - Paris dramatist. ALS, 1911, 2pp. Blue pencil word underlined on front.  [4] LEON RIOTOR - FR. AUTHOR. ALS, 1928, 1p. re: about adapting novel for film.  [5] Pierre Girault de Nolhac (1859-1936) French historian, art historian and poet. ALS, no yr., 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". Fine.  [6] Séverin Faust (1872-1945), better known by his pseudonym Camille Mauclair, was a French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic. ALS written on back of picture postcard, not postmarked VG   [7] Alfred-Henri-Marie Cardinal Baudrillart (1859-1942), French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris from 1907 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. ALS, 1920, 2pp, 4 x 5-1/4 in.  [8] Pierre François Hercule de Serre (1776-1824) Minister of Justice [1818-21]. ALS, Paris, no date, 1p. 4-1/4 x 7 in. VG.  [9] Paul Ferrier (1843-1928) French dramatist. He had already produced several comedies when in 1873 he secured real success with two short pieces, Chez l'avocat and Les Incendies de Massoulard. Others of his numerous plays are Les Compensations (1876); L'Art de tramper les femmes (1890), with M. Najac. One of Ferrier's biggest successes was the production with Fabrice Carré of Josephine vendue par ses sÏurs (1886), an opera bouffée with music by Victor Roger. His opera libretti include La Marocaine (1879), music of Jacques Offenbach; Le Chevalier d'Harmental (1896) after the play of Alexandre Dumas, père, for the music of A Messager; La Fille de Tabarin (1901), with Victorien Sardou, music of Gabriel Pierné. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4. Only minor faults.  [10] Fortuné du Boisgobey (1821-1891) French novelist. His novels deal with crime, the police, and Parisian life. They had a high circulation, and the greater part of them have been translated into English. ALS, 1880, 1p. Moderate foxing throughout.......200-300

74. [FILM] Warren Berlinger (b. 1937)  American character actor, with Broadway runs, movie and television credits, and much work in commercials.  His signed contract for the film "BILLIE", starring Patty Duke. Also signed by Milt Ebbins [see lot 58 in this auction].  Includes 3 additional Rider pages, each signed with the initials of Berlinger and Ebbins. VG..........100-150

See contract
Portrait of Berlinger

75. [FILM] Richard Deacon (1921-1984) American television and motion picture actor. The tall, bald and usually bespectacled character actor often portrayed pompous, prissy, or imperious figures. He played PRINCIPAL WILSON in the Patty Duke film "BILLIE".  Offered here is Deacon's signed 1965 contract for that film. Accompanied by a 2-page Rider also signed in full. VG........100-150

76. [FILM] Charles Lane (1905-2007) American character actor whose career spanned 64 years. Lane turned in his last performance at the age of 90. Lane appeared in many Frank Capra films, including You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). He was a favored supporting actor of Lucille Ball, who often used him as a no-nonsense authority figure and comedic foe of her scatterbrained TV character on her TV series I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour and The Lucy Show. His first film of more than 250 movies was as a hotel clerk in Smart Money (1931) starring Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney.  His signed contract for the film "BILLIE", starring Patty Duke. Also signed by Milt Ebbins.   Includes 2 additional Rider pages, each signed with the initials of Lane and Ebbins. VG..........100-150

77. Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959), American poet, born in Birmingham, England. He went to the U.S. in 1891 and became a citizen in 1902. Starting in 1895 Guest wrote a column in the Detroit Free Press, and his verse and sketches of a simple, colloquial quality won him a wide audience. The verse, "Home," beginning "It takes a heap o' livin' in a house t' make it home," was one of his earliest successes. His books include A Heap o' Livin' (1916), Over Here (1918), When Day Is Done (1921), Rhymes of Childhood (1924), All in a Lifetime (1938), and Living Years (1949). TLS, 1933, 1p, turning down a request..............50-75

78. [SIGNATURES OF WRITERS] Mixed lot: [1] Hervey Allen [1889-1949] Am. author. Signature. [2] [THEATRE] Joseph Anthony (1912-1993) American playwright and director. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Anthony's first Broadway credit was as the author of the 1934 play A Ship Comes In. Three years later he debuted as an actor and appeared in Lady in the Dark, Peer Gynt, and Camino Real, among others. He ultimately directed numerous Broadway productions, including The Rainmaker, The Most Happy Fella, The Best Man, Rhinoceros, Mary, Mary, 110 in the Shade, and the infamously ill-fated David Merrick-produced musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's. He was nominated for a Best Director Tony Award five times but never won. GREAT SIGNATURE ON HIS MONOGRAMMED CARD. Fine. [3] Edmund Clarence Stedman [1833-1908] Am. poet. Signature 1892 [4] Richard Aldington [1892-1962] Brit. writer. Signature 1921. [5] Irving Bacheller (1859-1950) American journalist and writer who founded the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States. Brief ANS on 3.5 x 2 in. card. [6] Dorothy Canfield Fisher [1879-1958] reformer, writer. Signature. [7] Edwin Markham [1852-1940] Am. poet. Sig. (mount. trace show thru). [8] Alice Hegan Rice (1870-1942) Am. novelist. Clip signature. [9] Frederick Palmer (1873-1958) American journalist and writer. He was born in Pleasantville, Pennsylvania. He attended Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The New York Press hired Palmer in 1895 as its London correspondent; and this opportunity evolved into a long career. General John Pershing persuaded him to take on the task of press accreditation for the American Expeditionary Force (AEF). In this period, he was accorded the rank of Colonel. ANS, 1920. [10] Max O'Rell was the pen name of Léon Paul Blouet (1848-1903) French author and journalist. Max O'Rell was a ready and amusing speaker, and his easy manner and his humorous gift made him very successful on the platform. He lectured often in the United Kingdom and still more often in America. Signature on card dated 1890, with sentiment..........100-150

79. [FRANCE] 1595 French Mystery document on vellum, signed, approx. 11-1/2 x 4-1/4".  Identified as "Fouchane." Fresh condition............150-200

See above

80.  [ART] Charles Meryon (1821-1868) French artist, who worked almost entirely in etching, as he suffered from color-blindness.  He is generally recognised as the most significant etcher of 19th century France. He also suffered from mental illness, dying in an asylum. His most famous work is a series of views of Paris. Offered here "Le Ministère de la Marine" (The Admiralty, Paris), photogravure 1926 of his etching [1865].  These superb photogravures, there were 20 printed in 1926, are often sold as etchings. You see them all the time offered at around $400 to $800 each. The sellers, obviously are not aware of what they are offering. The original 1865 etching retailed at $1500. Plate size approx. 6-1/2 x 5-1/2" plus wide clean margins. A superb example of the original..............100-150

81. [FRANCE]  Alfred-Casimir-Alexis Williez  (1836-1911) Bishop of Arras 1892-1911.  ALS, 1904, 2 pages, approx. 5 x 8-1/4".  Speaks of preparation for the great Catholic Youth Congress. Fine............80-120

84. [FRANCE] Guillaume-René Meignan (1817-1896) French Catholic apologist and scriptural exegete, Archbishop of Tours and Cardinal. ALS, 1887, 1-1/5 pp, 8vo. Not translated. VG........100-150

85. [FRANCE] offered here are 2 documents from France: one dated 1783, signed by Jean Francois Joly De Fleury [1718-1802] State councillor who was fired in 1783, the year of this letter which speaks of Countess of La Rochefoucault. 1-page, about 6-3/4 x 8-1/4". PLUS another document 1701, 4pp, about 8.5 x 12. Identified as being about the grandfather of de Fleury..........100-150

See 1783 document

1701 page 1

86. [FRANCE] Marquis Dupuy De La Mothe - ALS, 1769, 1p, 8-1/4 x 12-3/4". VG.....100-150

See letter

Back side

87.  [ART] Christo (b. 1935) Contemporary artist. Signed 11 x 14 repro. print of his famous work "The Umbrellas." He has also signed the name of his late wife/artist on the print. VG.........80-120

See Christo print
 

88. 18th century engraving of the Monument of King William Rufus, plate size 14-3/4 x 9" plus slim margins. Excellent condition, esp. for its age.........100-150

See above

89. [MUSIC] The Bee Gees - a musical group which originally comprised three brothers: Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb. The trio were successful for most of their 40-plus years of recording music, but they had two distinct periods of exceptional success: as a pop act in the late 1960s and early 1970s and as prominent performers of the disco music era in the late 1970s. Offered here is an original album cover "Best of Bee Gees", signed by Barry, Robin and Maurice [1949-2003] who died from complications resulting from a twisted intestine. The original album record is included but we have no idea about its condition therefore do not consider the record when bidding............200-300

See Bee Gees album

90. Glenway Wescott (1901-1987) was a major American novelist during the 1920-1940 period and a figure in the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s. Signed presentation/edition page removed from the book "GOODBYE WISCONSIN". Fine......25-35

91. BETTY WHITE (1918- ) American Actress. By early 1950 she was one of the stars of the daily, five-hour series Hollywood on Television. titled "Life With Elizabeth," which when committed to film and syndicated nationally in 1953 became White's first starring TV sitcom. She went on to headline her own network variety series in 1954, then co-starred with Bill Williams in the weekly TV domestic comedy Date With the Angels (1957), which without Williams was retitled The Betty White Show in early 1958. Two years after hosting the 1971 syndicated informational series The Pet Set, she guest-starred as libidinous "Happy Homemaker" Sue Ann Nivens on the fourth season opener of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. This Emmy-winning episode led to White being cast as an MTM regular In 1985, she joined the cast of TV's The Golden Girls as middle-aged grief counselor Rose Nyland. This top-rated program lasted seven seasons. SIGNED/inscribed 5x7 photograph..........20-30

92. [FRANCE] Jacques Raillon (1762-1835) Bishop of Orleans; also of Dijon; also Archbishop of Aix.  Letter Signed, Paris, 1813, 1p, approx. 8x10". To Monseigneur.  This churchman lived through the troubling history of France's Catholicism Revolution; Napoleon's problems with Pius VII; return of the monarchy, etc.  He made a famous funeral speech at Notre-Dame for Marshall Lannes. VG...........100-150

See letter

93. [FRANCE] Charles Prudent Becdelièvre (1705 - 1784 )  French prelate, Bishop of Nîmes.  Ordained in 1729, he became abbot of Vierzen in 1730, then the Caignotte in 1731.  Becdelèvre was appointed vicar of Périgueux in 1736.  He was Bishop of Nîmes from 1737 to 1784. He was also adviser to the king in all his advice. Letter Signed, 1750, 1p, approx. 7 x 8.5". Damp stain top edge............100-150

See above

94. [FRANCE] Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard (1742-1822)  French abbé and instructor of the deaf. Born at Le Fousseret, in the ancient Province of Languedoc (now the Department of Haute-Garonne), and educated as a priest, Sicard was made principal of a school for the deaf at Bordeaux in 1786, and in 1789, on the death of the Abbé de l'Épée, succeeded him at a leading school for the deaf which Épée had founded in Paris. He later met Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet while traveling in England, and invited him to visit the school. Sicard's chief works were his Eléments de grammaire générale (1799), Cours d'instruction d'un sourd-muet de naissance (1800) and Traité des signes pour l'instruction des sourds-muets (1808). The Abbé Sicard managed to escape any serious harm in the political troubles of 1792, and became a member of the Institute in 1795, but the value of his educational work was hardly recognized till shortly before his death at Paris. In 1803 Sicard became a member of the Académie française, occupying Seat 3 as the successor to the François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, who was a diplomat. Offered here is either a manuscript or a letter written by Sicard, doesn't appear signed but his name appears on the text at bottom of page 3. No date that we can see. Approx. 4-1/2 x 7-1/4". VG.............100-150

Page 1
Pages 2 & 3
See his portrait

95. [FRANCE]  Alexander Raymond Devie (1767-1852 )  French ecclesiastic. He was bishop of the diocese of Belley from 1823 to his death. He was the first bishop of the diocese reconstituted after its removal by the Concordat of 1801.  He led a major action for the renewal of the Catholic Church in his diocese. Many churches in the department of Ain ​​were built or rebuilt under his leadership: it is at the origin of the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Belley Cathedral.  ALS, 1844, 1-1/2 pages, approx. 5-3/4 x 7-3/4". VG...........100-150

Page 1
Page 2

96. [FRANCE] Felix Dupanloup  (1802-1878) French ecclesiastic.  In 1825 he was ordained priest, and was appointed vicar of the Madeleine at Paris. For a time he was tutor to the Orléans princes. He became the founder of the celebrated academy at St Hyacinthe, and received a letter from Gregory XVI eulogizing his work there, and calling him Apostolus juventutis.  He was elected to the Académie française in 1854, occupying the thirty-eighth chair, becoming leader of the Academy’s "religious party", in which capacity he opposed the election of agnostic intellectuals. His imposing height, his noble features, his brilliant eloquence, as well as his renown for zeal and charity, made him a prominent feature in French life for many years. Crowds of persons attended his addresses, on whom his energy, command of language, powerful voice and impassioned gestures made a profound impression. When made bishop of Orléans in 1849, he pronounced a fervid panegyric on Joan of Arc, which attracted attention in England as well as France. Joan of Arc would later be canonized, due partly to Dupanloup's efforts. Before this, he had been sent by Archbishop Aifre to Rome, and had been appointed Roman prelate and protonotary apostolic.  For thirty years he remained a notable figure in France, doing his utmost to arouse his countrymen from religious indifference. He was a distinguished educationist who fought for the retention of the Latin classics in the schools and instituted the celebrated catechetical method of St Sulpice. Among his publications are De l'éducation (1850), De la haute éducation intellectuelle (3 vols., 1866), Œuvres choisies (1861, 4 vols.); Histoire de Jésus (1872), a counterblast to Renan's Vie de Jésus.  ALS, no date, 1p, plus cdv photo, plus 1862 pamphlet............100-150

97. [SILENT FILM] Leatrice Joy (1893-1985) American actress most prolific during the early silent film era. Leatrice Joy married John Gilbert in 1922. ALS, no yr, 2pp. Says it was a "real joy to work with Mr. de Mille." Signed Leatrice Joy Gilbert. VG.............40-60

98. HENRY FORD II (1917-1987) He was the son of Edsel Ford and oldest grandson of Henry Ford. He was president of the Ford Motor Company from (1945-1960), CEO from (1960-1979).  TLS, (1979) 1p...........40-60

99. [FILM-THEATRE] Anne Revere [19-3-1990] American stage, film, and television actress. Revere worked steadily as a character actress in films, appearing in nearly three dozen between 1934 and 1951. She frequently was cast in the role of a matriarch and played mother to Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Jones, Gregory Peck, John Garfield, and Montgomery Clift, among others. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress three times and won for her performance in National Velvet. SIGNED 8X10 PHOTO. COA sticker on verso affects nothing. VG.........50-75

100. [FILM] Greer Garson (1904-1996) British-born actress who was very popular during World War II, being listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America's top ten box office draws in 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, and 1946. As one of MGM's major stars of the 1940s, Garson received seven Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Actress award for Mrs. Miniver (1942). ANS, 1972, sends autograph.........40-60

101. [MEDICINE] Jonas Salk (1914-1995)  American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed the first successful inactivated polio vaccine.  Signed 3x5 card. VG...........40-60

See Dr. Salk signature

102. [FILM] Joanne Woodward  (b. 1930) American actress and producer. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-winning role in The Three Faces of Eve (1957).  Signed movie still photo from the film "Winning" pictured with her husband Paul Newman.  Fair contrast........35-45

See above

104. [BOXING] Floyd Patterson (1935-2006)  at 21, Patterson became the youngest man to win the world heavyweight title. He was also the first heavyweight boxer to regain the title. He had a record of 55 wins, 8 losses and 1 draw, with 40 wins by knockout. He won the gold medal at the 1952 Olympic Games as a middleweight. An 8x10 photo to which is affixed his signature and address. Mounting traces on verso............50-75

See Floyd Patterson

105.  ( BRITISH ARTISTS/PAINTERS LOT)   SIGNATURES in various forms - Reginald Rex Vicat Cole (1870-1940) landscape painter.  He exhibited landscapes at the Royal Academy.   Frederick Henry Townsend (1868–1920 best remembered for his satirical illustrations in The Illustrated London News, The Graphic, The Tatler, The Sphere, and Punch. He was also a prolific and eclectic book illustrator. In addition to popular adventure fiction such as H. Rider Haggard and Sir Frederick Marryat, he also illustrated new editions of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1896) and Shirley (1897) Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1897), and Sir Walter Scott’s Rob Roy (1897).  Thomas Roberts (1748 – 1778) Irish landscape painter. He was present at the Dublin Society's School in 1763 and went on to exhibit at the Society of Artists from 1766 to 1777. That year he left Ireland for Lisbon where he died the following year. Andrew Carrick Gow RA (1848 –1920) painted scenes from British and European history as well as portraits. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, became a full Royal Academician in 1890. In 1900, he visited Egypt and he used his sketches to compose a scene representing the death of the Mahdi soon after the defeat of his troops by Colonel Wingate in 1898. The artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a close friend. In later life, he became Keeper of the Royal Academy.  Charles Landseer R.A. (1799-1879) painter, mostly of historical subjects.  SIGNATURE from ALS.   Leonard Campbell Taylor (1874 –1969) of mainly portraits and interiors in a traditional style.  He served as an official war artist with the infantry and later the Royal Navy during the First World War. ANS............75-100

106. [FILM] Lucien Hubbard (1888-1971)  film producer and screenwriter. He is best known for producing Wings, for which he received the first Academy Award for Best Picture. Lucien produced and or wrote ninety-two films over the course of his career. He lived in the same house in Beverly Hills until the day he died; he was an avid polo player and would frequently ride out of the stables located, in those days, at the rear of his Hillcrest Road property, to Will Rogers' house in the Palisades; he also occasionally rode his horse to Paramount Studios where he had been elevated to president shortly after the Academy Award winning Wings which he produced, was released. This film helped director William A. Wellman's rise into major studio films.  Before coming to Los Angeles, he was night editor of The New York Times. He had written five screenplays on the side and decided one day to travel to Hollywood to see if he could sell any of them; he sold three and in 1923, his career was launched. A film he loved was entitled The Vanishing American and it was the first film to portray the Indian in a favorable light; he received an award from the Cherokee nation for this film. He discovered and mentored many talents over the life of his career and was known as a very generous man with a sharp eye for good writers.   TLS, on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer letterhead, 1935, to John C. Brownell (1877-1961) the writer and actor, known for Three Wise Crooks (1925), The Nut Farm (1935) and Bad Company (1925).  Signed "Lucien". VG.......100-150

See above



107. [FILM] Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. (b.1926)  American film producer. He is the son of actress Frances Howard and the pioneer motion picture mogul Samuel Goldwyn. He followed in his father's footsteps and founded the motion picture production companies The Samuel Goldwyn Company and Samuel Goldwyn Films. TLS, 1989, 1p, to a collector.  VG.......60-80

See above


108. [FILM] Elizabeth McGovern  (b. 1961) American actress.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 movie still from "Ragtime", with ANS on verso describing the scene. One ling soft crease which shows when held at an angle o/w VG.  Unusual...........35-45

See above
See verso


109. [FILM] Kitty Carlisle (1910-2007) American singer, actress, married to Moss Hart.  Signed & inscribed music sheet of "Love Is Just Around the Corner", from the film "Here Is My Heart".  She is pictured with Bing Crosby. Signs of some wear but pretty good condition.........50-75

See above


110. [FILM] Tony Randall (1920-2004) American actor in film and TV.  ALS, 1989, on his personal note card. Fine..........35-45

See above


111. Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965),  Polish-born American business magnate. A cosmetics entrepreneur she was the founder and eponym of company Helena Rubinstein, Incorporated, which made her one of the world's richest women.  TLS, 1964, 1p, signed H. Gourielli as she usually did with friends and business associates. Boldly signed........100-150

See above

112. [MEDICINE] Edward L. Keyes [1843-1924] SURGEON and one of the pioneers in America in male genito-urinary surgery. He was a pivotal early specialist. ALS, 1901, 1p. Sends check..................40-60

113. [BOSTON] DORUS CLARKE - student philosopher. ALS, Boston, 1870, 12 pages, 8vo. To Rev. William Reed Huntington, Worcester, Mass. With envelope. VG...................35-45

114. Paul Caruso (1920-2001) was a well-known criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles. He represented war hero and actor Audie Murphy on a charge of trying to kill a Burbank dog trainer; also represented Charles Manson follower Susan Atkins, Eddie Nash. Fine TLS signed Paul, on his stationery, 1969, to the entertainer Rudy Vallee. Good content..............30-40

115.   (AMERICAN FILM STARS LOT)     John Phillip Law (1937-2008)  SIGNED 5x7 photograph – Betty FURNESS (1916-1994). TLS dated May 16, 1990 - Richard Maximillian Ney (1916- 2004) ALS  1992, with SIGNED, inscribed 4x4 photograph - Eddie Mayehoff (1909 –1992)  TLS, 1990, with SIGNED print stock photograph, inscribed (folds)  - Peter Lind Hayes (1915-1998-) &. Mary Healy (1918-  ) ANS, by both on postcard, with Norman Rockwell portraits of them on front - Harold John Russell (1914  2002) SIGNED, inscribed 5x7 photograph (signed in dark area in red ink)  - Nina Foch (1924- 2008). Signed, inscribed 8x10 photograph............80-120

116.  [FRANCE] group of French autographs:  [1] Victor Ambroise, vicomte de Lanjuinais (1802-1869) FRENCH politician, becoming a deputy in 1838. His interests lay chiefly in financial questions and in 1849 he became minister of commerce and agriculture in the cabinet of Odilon Barrot. He wrote a Notice historique sur la vie et les ouvrages du comte de Lanjuinais, which was prefixed to an edition of his fathers Îuvres (4 vols., 1832). 7 LINES IN HIS HAND, SIGNED.  [2] MARIE LECONTE [1869-1947] Fr. actress. ALS, no year on both sides of black bordered card.  [3] Jean Marie Pardessus (1772-1853) French lawyer. His Traité des servitudes (1806) went through eight editions, and his Traité du contrat et des lettres de change (1809) pointed him out as fitted for the chair of commercial law recently formed at the faculty of law at Paris. ALS, no date, 1p, 6 x 7-3/4 in. VG. [4] Charles Wagner (1852-1916) French reformed pastor whose inspirational writings were influential in shaping reformed theology. ALS, 1905, 3pp., 4-1/8 x 5-1/8". VG.  [5] Aurelien Scholl (1833-1902) French author and journalist, was born in Bordeaux. He was successively editor of the Voltaire and of the Echo de Paris. He wrote largely for the theatre, and also a number of novels dealing with Parisian life. ALS, nd, 1p. Wants to sue Paul Boiteau. Moderate stain bottom corner; wrinkled.  [6] Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent (1839-1908) French geologist. ALS, 1890, 1p, 4-3/8 x 5-1/2".  [7] Félix Antoine Philibert Dupanloup (January 3, 1802-1878) was a French ecclesiastic. ALS, appears to be undated, 1p, 8 x 9-1/4". VG.  [8] Olivier Émile Ollivier (1825-1913) French statesman. Although a republican, he served as a cabinet minister under Emperor Napoleon III and led the process of turning his regime into a "liberal Empire". Brief ALS, no date, 1p, 4 x 5-1/4". VG.  [9] LEON BERNARD [1877-1935] Fr. actor. ALS, no year, on both sides. To Tania Fedor - "Do whatever possible for that." [10] Émile Faguet (1847-1916) French literary critic and author. Clip Signature..........150-200

117. (CIVIL WAR) SAMUEL SHEBLE - American Manufacturer. Prior to the Civil War, Samuel Sheble had a factory in Frankford, Pennsylvania, that manufactured farm implements such as iron hay forks. By 1862 he was listed as being in military goods and in 1863 he was manufacturing swords, bayonets, non-commissioned officers swords, artillery swords and Model 1840 and Model 1860 cavalry swords, and a few officer swords. He had a small U.S.Government contract during the war but the number and type of swords are not exactly known. He produced swords only during the civil war. Signed document, an Indenture This nice document on heavy parchment is signed by Samuel Sheble and others and is dated April 4,1851, approx. 19.5 x 14.5", conveys a lot in Philadelphia to Robert S. Caldwell. In fine condition. Folded..............60-80

118. [ART] George Cooke [1781-1834] Well-known English engraver; he was the father of Edward William Cooke [1811-1880], the noted painter. ALS, 1825, 1p, 4-3/8 x 7-1/4 in. In part "....The Plate will be ready in one month - will that do?..." VG............60-80

Click to see Cooke letter

119. E.G. LAPHAM (1814-1890) U.S. Senator from NY;  manager to conduct impeachment proceedings against former Sec. of War William W. Belknap [1876]. ALS, House of Rep., 1881, 2pp, 4to. Replies to Francis E. Spinner's letter of congratulations...................50-75

120. Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889-1967) American archbishop of the Catholic Church. He was the sixth Archbishop of New York from 1939 to 1967, having previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston (1932–39). He was named a cardinal in 1946.  TLS, 1956, 1p.............40-60

See above

121. [MEDICINE] John Rock (1890-1984) American obstetrician and gynecologist. He is best known for the major role he played in the development of the first hormonal contraceptive, colloquially called "the pill".  TLS, 1976, brief 1-page. VG..........75-100

See above

122.  Chet Huntley  (1911-1974) American television newscaster, best known for co-anchoring NBC's evening news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, for 14 years beginning in 1956.  Signed 1950 bank check.  See scan for condition..........40-60

123. John Reed, Jr. (1781-1860)  Representative from Massachusetts.  He was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); elected to the Seventeenth through Twenty-third Congresses; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-fourth Congress, and elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1841). He was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Twenty-second Congress). He declined to be candidate for reelection in 1840.  He was the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1845–1851). ALS,  Yarmouth Port, Mass., 1844, 1p., plus address leaf. He writes to Franklin Dexter, a District Attorney for Mass., about the character of two men he knows.  Concerns a trial concerning a schooner called the Scituate.  VG............50-75

See letter
See address leaf

124. [NOBEL PRIZE] Linus Pauling  (1901-1994) American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists of the 20th century.  Pauling was one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology.  For his scientific work, Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. In 1962, for his peace activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This makes him the only person to be awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes. Brief RLS, 1973, 1p. 8.5 x 7". VG............100-150

See above

125. [FRANCE] 1735 French Mystery Document on vellum, signed, 1p, approx. 9-3/4 x 6".   A cover page identifies as duc d'Orleans - Thomas de Lescornay Dumont.  A few spots near top edge............100-150

126. [NOBEL] J. MICHAEL BISHOP - American Microbiologist. Awarded 1989 NOBEL PRIZE for Physiology and Medicine for his research on cancer -causing genes called oncogenes. SIGNED 5x7 color photograph...........35-45

127. [ART] Willem Frederik de Haas (1830-1880)  Dutch-born American painter. He studied at the Art Academy of his native city, and at The Hague under Johannes Bosboom. He went in 1859 to New York City, where he became known as a painter of coast scenery.  Clip Signature,  4-1/4 x 1".  VG.........30-40

128. [ART] Eric Pape (1870-1938) Called “the Master of the Pageant,” Eric Pape was a painter of historical and archaeological subjects, a landscape painter, art teacher, and illustrator.  Fine ink signature dated 99, on 3-3/4 x 3-3/4" slip........30-40

129. [ART] Frank A. Bicknell  (1866-1943} American artist. Signed card, 3-1/2 x 2-1/4". VG.........30-40

130. [FILM] Jimmy Lydon  (b. 1923) American movie actor and television producer, whose career in the entertainment industry began as a teenage actor in the 1930s. One of his first starring roles was the title character in the 1940 movie Tom Brown's School Days, also starring Cedric Hardwicke and Freddie Bartholomew. Between 1941–1944, Lydon starred as the screechy-voiced, adolescent Henry Aldrich in the movie series of that title. ALS, 2001, 2pp. Very nice letter about his career. VG.............60-80

See letter

131. [TV] Jane Wyatt (1910-2006) American actress. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG........25-35

132. [TV] Imogene  Coca (1908-2001) American comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........50-75

133.  [BASEBALL] Charles Ruffing - This is a Baseball Magazine Company Premium Photo. Designated M113 or M114 by collectors, Baseball Magazine began issuing these photos around 1920 through 1950. Baseball Magazine Premium Photos are blank-backed sepia tone photos printed on semi-gloss heavy paper stock. You had to send away for the photos. The bottom center has the players name, the lower left reads "Published by the Baseball Magazine Company, New York" and the lower right reads "Enlarged from an original photograph by C.M. Conlon, NY".  From the beginning, the posters offered collectors a chance to obtain high-quality reproductions of photos taken by such legends as Charles Conlon. Conlon was the alpha photographer for the sport of baseball, beginning a little after the turn of the century, through his retirement shortly before World War II. A substantial percentage of the posters issued during that span featured his images. Approx. 9-1/2 x 12.  Superb condition when compared to the usual found. Often these were trimmed down in size, this one is full size.............40-60

See above

134. [FILM]  Horst Buchholz  (1933-2003) German actor, remembered for The Magnificent Seven, in which he played the role of Chico,[1] and One, Two, Three and Nine Hours to Rama. He appeared in over sixty films during his acting career from 1952 to 2002.  Signed 4x6 postcard picture. VG............35-45

See above

135. [FILM]  Sam Waterston  (b. 1940)  American actor, producer and director. Among other roles, he is noted for his Academy Award-nominated portrayal of Sydney Schanberg in The Killing Fields (1984), and his Golden Globe-nominated and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning portrayal of Jack McCoy on the NBC television series Law & Order.  Signed 8x10 photo. VG..........30-40

See above

136. [TV]  Edd Byrnes  (b. 1933)  American actor known for his starring role in the television series 77 Sunset Strip. He also was featured in the 1978 film Grease as television teen-dance show host, Vince Fontaine, and a single-charted recording artist with "Kookie, Kookie -- Lend Me Your Comb" (with Connie Stevens).  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........25-35

See above

137. [NOBEL PRIZE] Arthur L. Schawlow (1921-1999) American physicist. He is best remembered for his work on lasers, for which he was awarded a 1981 Nobel Prize. HIS STATIONERY SIGNED, 1982, inscribed in type to collector..............25-35

138. [NOBEL PRIZE] Tjalling Charles Koopmans (1910-1985) was the joint winner, with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Economics. SIGNATURE on slip.......25-35

139. [NOBEL PRIZE] ROSALYN S. YALOW (1921- ), American medical physicist and Nobel laureate, who helped to develop the testing technique known as the radioimmunoassay. Signed/inscribed 3x5 card.....20-30

140. [TEXAS] A.S. Burleson (1863-1937) US Postmaster General and Congressman. SIGNED BOOKPLATE.......25-35

141. [FILM] Patricia Neal  (1926-2010) American actress of stage and screen. She was best known for her film roles as World War II widow Helen Benson in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and middle-aged housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud (1963), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also played Olivia Walton in the 1971 made-for-television film The Homecoming: A Christmas Story, a role played in the regular series by actress Michael Learned.  Signed 8x10 photo. VG..........40-60

See above

142. Henry Van Dyke [1852-1933]. American clergyman and writer. Pastor, Brick Presbyterian Church, New York (1883-99); professor, Princeton (1899-1913, 1919-23). U.S. minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg (1913-16). Author of The Reality of Religion (1884), Little Rivers (1895), The Story of the Other Wise Man (1896), The Builders, and Other Poems (1897), Fisherman' s Luck (1899), The Ruling Passion (1901), The Blue Flower (1902), Music, and Other Poems (1904), The Unknown Quantity (1912), The Valley of Vision (1919), The Golden Key (1926), Gratitude (1930), etc. TLS, 1929, 1p. ..............40-60

143. H.G. (Helena Rubinstein. 1870-1965) Polish cosmetics industrialist, founder and eponym of Helena Rubinstein, Incorporated, which made her one of the world's richest women. ALS on postcard from Paris to friends. She has signed "H.G." for Helena Gourielli, which she often used for friends and business personnel. VG. Postmarked Dec. 12, 1957...........80-120

144. [MUSIC] Judy Collins (b. 1939)  American singer and songwriter known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk, show tunes, pop, rock and roll and standards) and for her social activism.  Signed 8x10 photo. VG............25-35

See above

145. [MUSIC]  Andy Williams (1927-2012)  American popular music singer.  Signed 8x10 photo. VG.........50-75

See above

146. [TV] Will Hutchins (b. 1930) American actor most noted for playing the lead role of the young lawyer from Oklahoma, Tom Brewster, in the Warner Brothers Western television series Sugarfoot, which aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo as "Sugarfoot."  VG................25-35

See above

147.  Charles Rollin Buckalew (1821-1899) American lawyer and Democratic party politician from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Buckalew was the most influential early advocate of proportional representation in the United States. His proposals for a type of voting system known as cumulative voting gained significant support in Congress, and he played a central role in the adoption of cumulative voting in several places, including Illinois for state legislative elections in 1870, a system that lasted in that state until 1980. Letter Signed, Washington, 1867, 3pp, approx. 7-3/4 x 9-3/4" To Col. N.E. Piollet. Good political content. Just starting at a couple of folds.......75-100

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

148. [ART] Ignaz Michael Marcel Gaugengigl (1853-1932)  German-American painter and engraver who worked primarily in the United States. He specialized in portraits and historical paintings. He was known as the "Meissonier of Boston", because of his many portraits of the "Boston Brahmins" and their families, and was one of the founders of the Guild of Boston Artists. Most of his works are in private collections.  Signature on 3.5 x 2.5" slip.  Fine example.........50-75

149. [ART] Beatrice Wood (1893-1998) American artist and studio potter, who late in life was dubbed the "Mama of Dada," and served as a partial inspiration for the character of Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron's 1997 film, Titanic. Wood was introduced to Marcel Duchamp, who in turn introduced her to her first great love, Henri-Pierre Roché, a man fourteen years her senior. She worked with Duchamp and Roché in the 1910s to create The Blind Man, a magazine that was one of the earliest manifestations of the Dada art movement in New York City. ALS, 1990, 1p, 8.5 x 11". About her biography "I Shock Myself." .............100-150

See letter

Portrait of Wood

150. [FRANCE] Mlle Cécile Charlotte Furtado (1821-1896) was a daughter of Elie Furtado, the chief rabbi of Bayonne, and Rose Fould, a daughter of Beer Léon Fould, banker and the mayor of Rocquencourt. She married in 1838 Charles Heine (1810-1865), a scion of a rich banking dynasty and first cousin of the poet Heinrich (Henri) Heine (1797-1856).  Mme Furtado-Heine was chiefly known for her philanthropy in the areas of medicine, education, and religion. During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1871, she supported the Red Cross and the ambulance services; and in 1895 she bequeathed her villa in Nice as a hospital and sanatorium for wounded and convalescent soldiers. In 1884 she founded and endowed an orphanage in the 14th Arrondissement on the street which was renamed Rue Furtado-Heine in her honour after her death, as well as similar children’s establishments in Bayone and Montrouge.  She was a generous donor to the Institut Pasteur, and her commemorative bust still adorns the halls of the Institute. Mme Furtado-Heine also generously contributed to numerous Jewish charities and benevolent organisations; and financially supported the building of new synagogues in France and Belgium.  Her charitable and philanthropic endeavours were recognised by the Government of France, and in 1896 she became the Officer of the Legion d’Honneur, a distinction very rare for a woman in the nineteenth century. ALS, no date, 1p, approx. 4 x 6". Fine.............75-100

See letter

151. [RELIGION] Benoit-Marie Card. Langénieux (1824-1905) French Archbishop of Reims and Cardinal. Langénieux enjoyed the friendship of Pope Leo XIII , who consulted him on all matters concerning the Church in France. The universal esteem in which he was held was abundantly proved by the many decorations which European rulers bestowed on him and by the vast concourse of bishops, priests, and people at his two jubilees and at his funeral. ALS, 1897, 1p, 4-3/4 x 6-3/4 in. Fine.........100-150

Page 1
Pages 2 & 3

154. [FRANCE] 1780 French Mystery Document on paper,  Senechal d'Auvergne, 3 different signatures, nice woodcut revenue stamp at head, 3 pages, approx. 7 x 9-3/4".  VG............100-150

Page 1
Last page

155. [ART] James Gillray (1756-1815) British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. Original etching, not colored, PLATE 444 from the c. 1850 Bohn edition, it's title "GERMAN LUXURY; OR, REPOS A L'ALLEMAND.",  image size approx. 9.5 x 12" plus margins. Published  Jan. 22nd, 1800  by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s Street. Described as "A satirical print, said to have been intended to tell upon the German Legion, at this time brought into England. " As usual there is another etching on the verso............100-150

See front
See verso

156. [ART] James Gillray (1756-1815) British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. Original etching, not colored, PLATES 185, 186, 187, 188 from the c. 1850 Bohn edition, plus 4 other etchings on the opther side. Each about 10 x 7-1/2"........200-300

See front
See verso

157. [ART] James Gillray (1756-1815) British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. Original etching, not colored, PLATES 437 and 438 from the c. 1850 Bohn edition, it's title "STAGGERING BOBS, A TALE FOR SCOTCHMEN; OR, MUNCHAUSEN DRIVING HIS CALVES TO MARKET",  each  image size approx. 14.5 x 10" plus margins. Published  December 1, 1796  by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s Street. Described as "GEOBGE HAKGEB. A caricature on Colonel Hanger, afterwards Lord Coleraine. The noble Scot alluded to is said to have been Lord Galloway.  " As usual there are other etchings on the verso............200-300

See front
See verso

158. [ART] James Gillray (1756-1815) British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. Original etching, not colored, PLATES 392, 393, and 394 from the c. 1850 Bohn edition, #394  title "A VESTAL OP —93, TRYINQ ON THE CESTUS OF VENUS",  various sizes. Published  April 29, 1793  by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s Street. Described as "Upon her fragrant breast tho tone was brac'd ; In it was every art, and every charm To win the wisest, and the coldest warm." LADY CECILIA JOHNSTON. Lady Henrietta Cecilia (whose maiden name was West), was the daughter of the Earl of Delawarr by his wife, the Lady Charlotte Macarty. She was bom January 25, 1727, and married May 4, 1762, to Lieut.-General James Johnston. "  As usual there are other etchings on the verso............200-300

See front
See verso

159. [ART] James Gillray (1756-1815) British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. Original etching, not colored, PLATE 78 from the c. 1850 Bohn edition, it's title "ANTISACCHAEITES ; OR, JOHN BULL AND HIS FAMILY LEAVING OFF THE USE OF SUGAR.",  image size approx. 12-1/2 x 15-3/4" plus margins. Published  March 27, 1792 by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s Street. Described as "QEORQE III. THE QUEEN. THE PRINCESSES.  The Royal Pair sotting an example of economy, which appears by no means agreeable to all the family. Peter Pindar is said to have composed a poem on this subject, which ho destroyed before it was printed." As usual there are other etchings on the verso............200-300

See front
See verso

160. [ART] James Gillray (1756-1815) British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires. Original etching, not colored, PLATE 129 from the c. 1850 Bohn edition, it's title "A KEEN-SIGHTED POLITICIAN WARMING HIS IMAGINATION.",  image size approx. 13.5 x 9.5" plus margins. Published  June I5th, 1795  by H. Humphrey 27 St. James’s Street. Described as "LORD ORSNYILLE. This is a satirical picture of Lord Grenville, who at a later period joined in the celebrated Broad Bottom Ministry. The position with regard to the fire appears to have been a favourite one with his Lordship". As usual there is another etching on the verso............100-150

See front
See verso

161. [ENGLAND] Henry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey (1802-1894), known as Viscount Howick from 1807 until 1845, was an English statesman.  He was the eldest son of Prime Minister Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey. ALS, Whitehall, 1855, 1p, folio. To Lord Fortescue. "My Lord. I have the honor to lay before the Queen your Lordships letter of 23rd inst. and I am to inform you that Her Majesty does not disapprove of the undenucutioned [?] promotion & appointment in the 1st ___? Devon ____?  Cavalry....."  Fine.........50-75

See letter
Reverse side

162. Anais Nin (1903 – 1977) was an author born to Spanish-Cuban parents in France, where she was also raised. She spent some time in Spain and Cuba but lived most of her life in the United States where she became an established author. She published journals (which span more than 60 years, beginning when she was 11 years old and ending shortly before her death), novels, critical studies, essays, short stories, and erotica. A great deal of her work, including Delta of Venus and Little Birds, was published posthumously.  ALS written on the back of a 1976 postal card. VG.......100-150

See above

163. Tex Ritter (1905-1974) American country music singer and movie actor popular from the mid-1930s into the 1960s, and the patriarch of the Ritter family in acting (son John and grandson Jason). He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.  Signed program page, 8.5 x 11", plus vintage collectible card............80-120

See above

164. [MUSIC] Ann Sheppard Mounsey, becoming Mounsey Bartholomew on marriage, (1811–1891)  English pianist, organist and composer. She was born in London and studied with Johann Bernhard Logier. After 1828 she became the organist at various London churches, serving at St Vedast Foster Lane for nearly fifty years. She also performed at concerts and as an accompanist.  In 1845 she performed as accompanist at the premiere of Hear My Prayer, the anthem by Felix Mendelssohn for soprano solo, chorus and organ, and in 1853 married its librettist, William Bartholomew (1793–1867). After her marriage she taught music in London and worked as a composer.  ALS, no date, 1p, approx. 4.5 x 7". Mounting traces on verso at corners; soft crease.............75-100

See above

165. [MUSIC]  SONS OF THE PIONEERS - signed color 10x8 picture. Signed by all 6members. VG.........100-150

See above

166. Lee Meriwether (b. 1935)  American actress, former model, and the winner of the 1955 Miss America pageant. She is perhaps best known for her role as Betty Jones, Buddy Ebsen's secretary and daughter-in-law in the long-running 1970s crime drama, Barnaby Jones. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG...........25-35

See above

167. FRED de CORDOVA (1910-2001) American Director/Producer. He started his career as a director in the 1940s, directing B-movies including Here Come the Nelsons, with Ozzie, Harriet and sons, and Bedtime for Bonzo, with Ronald Reagan. But during the television boom in the '50s and '60s, he began directing and producing television programs, including My Three Sons and variety shows with Jack Benny, George Gobel, Burns and Allen, and the Smothers Brothers. Mr. De Cordova began producing The Tonight Show in 1970, eight years after Carson became the show's star, and became executive producer in 1984. ANS dtd 3/6/89................20-30

168. [THEATRE-FILM] Eric Portman [1901-1969] distinguished English stage and film actor. He is probably best remembered for his roles in several films for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger during the 1940s. Signed 3-1/2 x 4-1/2 1940s photo. Minor creasing. Signed in dark area so contrast is good...........30-40

169. [MAINE] John S.C. Abbott (1805-1877) American historian, pastor, and writer, from Brunswick, Maine. He was a brother of Jacob Abbott, and was associated with him in the management of Abbott's Institute, New York City, and in the preparation of his series of brief historical biographies. ALS, Brunswick, Me., Nov. 23, 1852, 1p, 4to. Re: his fee for lecturing. VG.........50-75

170. [ENGLAND] Sir Edward Hay Drummond-Hay (1815-1884) British naval officer, diplomat and colonial administrator. He was born in England and was a Colonel of the 5th West India Regiment from 1854 to 1863. From 1839 to 1850 he was the President of the British Virgin Islands From 1850 to 1855 he was the Governor of Saint Kitts. From 1856 to 3 July 1863 he was the Governor of Saint Helena. In September 1860, the governor received a visit from His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, who was an officer in the Royal Navy serving on the H.M.S. Euralus. ALS, St. Helena, 29 Jan. 1861, 4pp, 4-1/2 x 7-1/4". To John Bell. Mentions, in this letter, the visit of Prince Alfred. Fine..............60-80

171. [NOBEL PRIZE] K. ALEX MULLER (1929- ) Swiss Physicist - Nobel Prize Winner 1987. The search for ceramic superconductors has begun in 1986. K. Alex Mueller and J. Georg Bednorz, researchers at IBM Zurich laboratory, discovered that ceramics from a class of materials called perovskite were superconductors at a temperature of about 35 Kelvin. This event sparked great excitement in the world of physics and the discovery of the first of the superconducting ceramics won the 2 men a Nobel Prize the following year. At the time Bednorz and Mueller began their work, the idea of a high-temperature ceramic superconductor was considered to be so crazy that they did their research quietly--not even telling their colleagues what they were doing. They tried more than two hundred combinations of ceramic oxides before achieving success. SIGNED 7x5 photograph...............35-45

172. US Senators - 5 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Homer E. Capehart [Ind]; John Marshall Butler [Md]; Wallace F. Bennett [Ut]; Quentin N. Burdick [ND]; Styles Bridges [NH]...........35-45

173. [FILM - MUSIC] Frank Ramsey Adams (1883-1963) American author, screenwriter, composer. Adams wrote plays, musical comedies, and lyrics for popular songs, such as "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now". He composed the stage scores for the musicals "The Time, the Place, and the Girl", "The Girl Question", "A Stubborn Cinderella", "The Goddess of Liberty", and "The Price of Tonight". His chief musical collaborators included Joe Howard, Harold Orlob and Will Hough. TLS, 1934, 1p. Written on Paramount Pictures letterhead he says he is no longer running the theatre in Whitehall, Mich., "I still keep a finger in the motion picture pie. Maybe you will be in the business yourself one of these days." VG.......50-75

174. [FRANCE] Charles de Bourbon, Count of Charolais (1700-1760) French noble. As a member of the reigni prince of the Blood. A son of Louis III, Prince of Condé, he was made governor of Touraine in 1720. He fought in Hungary in the war against the Ottoman Turks and won distinction at the battle of Belgrade. He was governor of his nephew Louis Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé. In 1728 he became one of the candidates to the hand of wealthy Maria Zofia Sieniawska supported by Louis XV in attempt to gain a strong position in Poland before the Royal Election. He secretly married Jeanne de Valois-Saint Remy, a descendent of Henri II via an illegitimate branch. Their son was Louis-Thomas [1718-1799], who was not legitimated by the king, later was exiled to England. Document Signed, 1744, 1p, approx. 9-1/4 x 13-1/2 in. One middle fold................150-250

Click to see document

175. [MIXED LOT OF AUTOGRAPHS] Comprised of: [1] Edward Martin (1879-1967) Gov. Pennsylvania & US Senator. Signature. [2] Alexandra Danilova (1903-1997) Russian-born prima ballerina who became an American citizen. She had a long intimate relationship with George Balanchine although they never officially married. Signed, inscribed 3x5 card. Fine. [3] Hiram Walbridge (1821-1870) U.S. Rep. from NY. Signature. [4] Peter W. Strader (1818-1881) U.S. Rep. from Ohio. Signature. [5] Charles Stewart (1840-1907) English zoologist and comparative anatomist. Stewart was born in Plymouth and studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, receiving his MRCS in 1862. He was Conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1884 to 1900, in succession to William Henry Flower. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 4 June 1896, and he was the president of the Linnean Society from 1890 to 1894. Brief ALS, 1901, 1p. "Dear Sir, I have arranged for the visit of your party on Oct. 5th. Yours truly C. Stewart. VG. [6] Sir Thomas Brooke-Pechell, 2nd Baronet (1753-1826) Major General. Signed address panel postmarked 1833. [7] Moses Norris, Jr. (1799-1855) United States Representative and Senator from New Hampshire. Clip Signature. Click to see signature [8] G. MONOD [Monod, Gabriel-Jean-Jacques. 1844-1912]. French historian. Founder and director of Revue historique (1875); lectured at École des Hautes Études, École Normale Supérieure; professor, Collège de France (1905). Author of Allemands et Français (1872), Études critiques sur les sources de l' histoire mérovingienne (1872-85), etc. ANS, in English. Clipped from a letter but complete in itself. Mounted. No year. [9] Jonathan Chace (1829-1917) US Representative and Senator from Rhode Island. He was also the nephew of famed 19th century abolitionist Elizabeth Buffum Chace and had himself been active in the Underground Railroad during his time in Philadelphia, where he operated a dry goods store. CLIP SIGNATURE. [10] Alan Dershowitz (b. 1938) American lawyer, and political commentator. He is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He is known for his career as an attorney in several high-profile law cases. SIGNED 3x5 card.............100-150

176. [AMERICANA] mixed lot: [1] Floyd Gibbons (1887-1939) was the war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune during World War I. One of radio's first news reporter and commentators he was famous for a fast talking delivery style. Floyd Gibbons lived a life of danger of which he often wrote and spoke. Signed 3x5 card. VG. [2] 1839 Bill of Lading - shipped by I.P. Hazard from Providence, Rhode Island to Charleston. Partly-printed, approx. 8-1/8 x 2-3/8 in. [3] HENRY B.F. MacFARLAND [1861-1921] President Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia [1900-1910]. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1920. [4] Charles Grenfill Washburn (1857-1928) U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 3rd District, 1906-11. ALS, n.d., 3pp. To Judge Dewey. [5] Montville, Ohio, John V. Whitney's Farmer's Records account book, 1843-1851. Some notes regarding town activities. Mostly financial matters. 70+ pages, 6 c 7-1/2. [6] Jackson Orr (1832-1926) Civil War officer, businessman, and two-term Republican U.S. Representative from western Iowa. Continuing westward, he spent the last five decades of his life in Colorado. From 1861 to 1863, he served in the Union Army as captain of Company H, 10th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment. CLIP SIGNATURE mounted to large slip. [7] BENJAMIN ALTMAN (1840-1913) American merchant, art collector, and philanthropist, born in New York City. After a public school education, he worked in the small store established by his father on the Lower East Side. Altman worked in small stores after the death of his father, but in 1865 he opened a dry goods store of his own in New York City. His business steadily increased in scale and became one of the largest department store enterprises in the world; in 1913 it was incorporated under the name of B. Altman & Co. Altman's art collection, valued by experts at $15 million at the time of his death, was bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Signed 1905 Chemical National Bank check. Nice clear signature. [8] Henry Clay Hansbrough (1848-1933) politician who served as the first United States Representative from North Dakota, as well as a Senator from North Dakota. CLIP SIGNATURE mounted to slip. [9] Jefferson Davis as Secretary of War - printed government document, EX. Doc. No. 15, REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR - A statement of the expenditures at the national armories. Signed IN TYPE Jefferson Davis. Jan. 6, 1854, 3pp. 33d Congress, 1st Session, US Senate. [10] Gerry Spence (b. 1929) is a trial lawyer in the United States. He has had more multi-million dollar verdicts without an intervening loss than any other lawyer in the US. In 2008, he announced he would retire, at age 79, at the end of the Geoffrey Fieger trial in Detroit, MI. Spence did not lose a criminal case in the over 50 years he practiced law. Signed, inscribed 10x8 photo. Spence first gained national attention and is most well known for the Karen Silkwood case. Fine. [11] Charles Benjamin Farwell (1823-1903) U.S. Representative and Senator from Illinois. Nice SIGNATURE. [12] James Kerr Kelly (1819-1903) American politician born in Pennsylvania. He was a United States Senator for Oregon from 1871 to 1877, and later Chief Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. Prior to his election to the Senate he had been elected to both houses of the local legislature, serving in the Territorial House and State Senate, and was a member of the Oregon Constitutional Convention in 1857. Clip Signature. [13] John Bach McMaster (1852-1932) American historian. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the college of the City of New York in 1872, worked as a civil engineer in 1873-1877, was instructor in civil engineering at Princeton University in 1877-1883, and in 1883 became professor of American history in the university of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War (1883 sqq.), a valuable supplement to the more purely political writings of Schouler, Von Hoist and Henry Adams. His A School History of the United States (1897) was an extremely popular textbook for many years. MOUNTED SIGNATURE. BOLD.............100-150

177. LONG'S PEAK, FROM ESTE'S PARK - after Thomas Moran. Nice full page scene. Image approx. 6-1/8 x 9-1/4" plus margins.........40-60

See print

178. [FRED THOMPSON] Group of 4 beautiful color hand-tinted outdoor scenes plus 2 smaller hand-tinted scenes, one of which is full-masted sailing ship. which is 3x2. The larger photos are 7x5. All VG...........80-120

179. [FRED THOMPSON] Group of 8 b/w vintage photos of outdoor country & woods scenes. One is a dam and two are snow scenes. Approx. 9 x 6.75 to 9.75 x 7.5. All VG...............100-150

180. [FRED THOMPSON] Group of 5 outdoor scenes not color tinted. From 6.5 x 4.5 to 9.5 x 5......80-120

182. CALIFORNIA - group of 6 views including: San Francisco shore, Cliff House Sacramento Valley, Coast Scene at Marin County, etc. Various sizes.........60-80

183. [ART] James McGarrell [b. 1930] is one of the most influential figural painters of the 1980's and 90's postmodern movement. His work is in many museum collections, including: the Centre Georges Pompidou, France; Hamburg Museum of Art, Germany; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; and the Museum of Modern Art, also in New York City. McGarrell has won countless honors for his intricately detailed figurative paintings, based upon a myriad of fictive and literary sources. He is an elected member of both the National Academy of Design in New York and the Academie des Beaux-Art de l'Institute de France. In 1995, he was awarded the prestigious Jimmy Ernst Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and has been featured in five Whitney annuals and biennials as well as in the 1968 Venice Biennale. His work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Hamburg Museum of Art in Germany, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Original b/w lithograph, pencil signed & titled "Elephant Bathers II", 22-1/2 x 30" flush, Printer's proof. VG.......400-600

184. James Steranko (b.1938) American graphic artist, comic book writer-artist-historian, publisher and film production illustrator. His most famous comic-book work was with the 1960s superspy feature "Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D." in Marvel Comics' Strange Tales and in the subsequent eponymous series. Steranko earned lasting acclaim for his innovations in sequential art during the Silver Age of comic books, particularly his infusion of surrealism, op art, and graphic design into the medium. His work has been published in many countries and his influence on the field has remained strong since his comics heyday. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006. For the movie industry, Steranko has produced a number of posters for various films, and was a conceptual artist on Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), doing production designs for the film and designing the character of Indiana Jones. He also served in a similar capacity as project conceptualist on Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) and wrote the episode "The Ties That Bind" of the DC Comics animated TV series Justice League Unlimited. He has "amassed an enormous portfolio of more than sixty projects (which he called the "Theater of Concepts") designed to be seen in multimedia form, drew the comic-book adaptation of the 1981 film Outland, which was serialized in Heavy Metal magazine. The lighthearted spy movie If Looks Could Kill (1991) features Roger Rees as the villain, Augustus Steranko, and director Brad Bird has stated that Steranko's work was his main comic-book influence on Pixar's The Incredibles. ALS, or ANS, SIGNED "JS". He sends a check for 2 items and says he'll pass on Tarkington letter; "...Keep me posted on your new acquisitions.Till next time, stay well." Steranko's autograph is quite scarce! VG..............75-100

See Steranko above

186. [THEATRE] Wilson Barrett [1846-1904] Brit. actor. AQS Hamlet 1896.....20-30

187. [THEATRE] Robert Woodruff Anderson (b. 1917) is an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known as the author of Tea and Sympathy, which made its Broadway debut in 1953 and was made into an MGM film in 1956. Both versions starred Deborah Kerr and John Kerr. Anderson wrote the screenplays for 1959's The Nun's Story and 1966's The Sand Pebbles. He was Oscar-nominated for the The Nun's Story as well as the 1970 screen version of his play I Never Sang for My Father. SIGNED & INSCRIBED 6.5 x 10" photo. He also signs & describes this particular photo. Dated 2000................25-35

188. Jarmila Novotna [1907-1994] Czech soprano. Signature in return address clipped from envelope........20-30

189.  [MIXED LOT] contains: [1] Elisha Phelps (1779-1847) US Representative from Connecticut. ALS, 1885, 1p. Laid to another sheet. [2] John A. Rockwell (1803- 1861) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut. CLIP SIGNATURE. [3] Chauncey F. Cleveland (1799-1887) US Representative and the 31st Governor of Connecticut. CLIP SIGNATURE [2 mounting stains]. [4] Philip Philbin - US congressman from Mass. ALS, 1949, 1p. [5] 1856 printed Gov. Doc. from Sec. of Treas., James Guthrie. [6] 1914 SONS OF VETERANS application card to Camp George A. Custer. [7] 1838 Bill of Lading document - NY bound for Charleston, SC. [8] R. H. Duell (1824 - 1891) US congressman from NY. Clip signature. [9] Moses G. Leonard (1809-1899) US congressman from NY. Clip Free Frank signature. [10] C.H. Calkin (1828-1913) US congressman from NY. Clip signature [half toned]. [11] Unidentified signature of congressman or senator from Hartford, Ct. [11] Royal Cleaves Johnson (1882-1939) Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota and a highly decorated veteran of World War I. Signature. [12] Frederick Haskell Dominick (1877-1960) U.S. congressman from South Carolina. He served for eight terms from 1917 to 1933. Signed card........50-75

190. [MUSIC] Kate Smith (1907-1986) American singer known professionally as The First Lady of Radio,  best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America".  Smith had a radio, television, and recording career spanning five decades, which reached its pinnacle in the 1940s. Kate Smith became known as The Songbird of the South after her enduring popularity during World War II and contribution to American Culture and patriotism.  Signed 8x10 photo PLUS vintage sheet music for God Bless America.  VG...............50-75

See photo
Sheet music

194. Lloyd Morris (1893-1954) American teacher, critic, and man of letters, best known for his biography of Hawthorne "The Rebellious Puritan. He was one of the foremost social historians of his generation. Lengthy TLS, NY, 1944, 2pp., regarding life at the famous Mac Dowell Colony in the 1920's; and being with the poet Edward Arlington Robinson. A remarkable letter about the generosity of Robinson and another writer there, who was not wanted there, and the relationship of Robinson and this writer. Lightly toned in parts..........50-75

195. Elliot Richardson (1920-1999) American lawyer and politician who was a member of the cabinet of Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. As U.S. Attorney General, he was a prominent figure in the Watergate Scandal, and resigned rather than obey President Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. TLS, 1984, 1p..........25-35

196. John Watson - Pseudonym Ian Maclaren [1850-1907]. Scottish clergyman and author. Presbyterian minister, Liverpool (1880-1905); won reputation with Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1894), followed by other "kailyard school" portrayals of humble Scottish life as Days of Auld Lang Syne (1895), Kate Carnegie (1896); also wrote religious works, including The Upper Room (1896), Children of the Resurrection (1912). ALS, 1899, 2pp. ...............40-60

197. [NOBEL PRIZE] FREDERICK C. ROBBINS (1916-2003) American Physiologist -He shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with John F. Enders, Ph.D., and Thomas H. Weller, M.D., for discovering a method of growing poliovirus in a test tube; up until that time, the virus had to be studied in monkeys, which were expensive to use and difficult to handle. Their achievement resulted in the development of effective poliomyelitis vaccines and also paved the way for the ultimately successful development of vaccines for other major scourges of childhood, particularly measles and German measles, a major cause of birth defects. ANS on 3x5 card........................20-30

198. Minnie Pearl (1912-1996) Country comedian. Sig. FDC honoring Jimmie Rodgers.....20-30

199 . [FRANCE] Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944) French statesman and historian. ALS, 1905, 3 pages. VG............75-100

Portrait of Hanotaux

200. [FILM] Lois Moran (1909-1990) American film actress. Her career began in 1921, and Moran appeared in a couple of silent movies in the early 1920s. She is probably best known for her role, as Laurel Dallas, daughter of the title role in the 1925 film Stella Dallas. She appeared in early sound movies such as Behind That Curtain (1929), and some musical movies, such as A Song of Kentucky (1929), Words and Music (1929), and Mammy (1930). Like many actors and actresses from the silent film era, she did not make a successful transition to the talkies. She also had a brief affair with writer F. Scott Fitzgerald while he was married to Zelda Fitzgeral. He once remarked that she was "The most beautiful girl in Hollywood". She was also an inspiration for the character of Rosemary Hoyt in Fitzgerald's novel Tender is the Night (1934). In 1935, she married Clarence M. Young, Secretary of Commerce, and retired from Hollywood. Really nice letter talking about her career; mentions Lillian Gish, Betty Davis, Henry King the director of Stella, Colleen Moore, etc. ALS, Arizona, 1988, filling both sides of 7-1/4 x 10-1/2 stationery. Fine.............50-75

See picture of Moran

201. [CIVIL WAR] DREW, GEORGE A., Detroit. Captain Sixth Cavalry, Oct. 13, 1862. Major, July 17,1863. Lieutenant Colonel, June 6, 1864. Declined promotion. Brevet Lieutenant Colonel U. S. Volunteers, March 13, 1865, '"for highly distinguished and meritorious services in the Shenandoah Valley." Brevet Colonel U. S. Volunteers, April 9, 1865. "for highly distinguished and meritorious services in the campaign against Richmond, Va." Mustered out on expiration of term of service, Oct. 11,1865. Second Lieutenant Tenth U. S. Infantry, May 15,1866. First Lieutenant, March 26.1868. Assigned to Third U. S. Cavalry, January 1st, 1871. Captain, March 20, 1879.  Signature with rank "Capt. 3rd US Cav" on album page. VG...........25-35

202. David Selden was born in Chatham, Connecticut, June 4, 1785, the son of the Congregational minister of Middle Haddam Church, David Selden (1761-1825), and his wife, Cynthia May (1761-1850). Selden sailed to Liverpool, England, in 1811, in order to make his fortune in the international mercantile trade. During the War of 1812, he was a prisoner on parole, and in 1818, he filed for bankruptcy. Afterwards, he returned briefly to the United States, where he married Gertrude Richards in 1820. The pair had 11 children. In 1822, he returned to England and with his business partner, William Hynde, became an important cotton importer. He also traded coffee, and in 1831, received a patent for a coffee-grinding mill. He died February 23, 1861. ALS [stampless folded letter - no postal markings], New York, 1820, 2 pages + address leaf addressed to his father Rev. David Seldon.  He talks about family members, Methodists and the church. VG...............75-100

203. [PORTRAIT] Patrick Henry (1736-1799) American attorney, planter and politician who became known as an orator during the movement for independence in Virginia in the 1770s. A Founding Father, he served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia, from 1776 to 1779 and from 1784 to 1786. Original antique engraved portrait, image approx. 4-1/2 x 3-7/8" plus margins. Very slight foxing........25-35

See portrait

204. Bobby Bass  (1936- 2001)  American actor, stunt performer, and stunt coordinator. Bass made a career in movies and television in a variety of genres working with Burt Reynolds, Sylvester Stallone, and John Wayne. He taught martial arts and weapons handling to Geena Davis, Michael Douglas, Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Susan Sarandon, and Kathleen Turner. Bass appeared in TV commercials and TV series such as Fantasy Island, McGyver, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek: The Original Series, The A-Team, and The Twilight Zone. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30

205. Paul Monash (1917-2003) American producer and screenwriter. Monash won early acclaim for his writing for television, including his work on the pioneer anthology series Studio One, Suspense and Playhouse 90. Monash wrote and produced the pilot for the TV series The Untouchables (1959). After the success of The Untouchables, Monash was asked to create Peyton Place (1964–1969), an ABC-TV series that was the first prime-time serialized drama on American television. His film production credits include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), The Front Page (1974) and Carrie (1976). Monash produced the feature film The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973), a dark, critically acclaimed crime drama starring Robert Mitchum, and also adapted the George V. Higgins novel for the screen.  Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30

206. Dick O'Neill (1928-1998) American stage, film and television character actor best known for playing Irish cops, fathers, judges and army generals. He began his acting career as an original company member of Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.
Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30

207. Joel Siegel (1943-2007)  American film critic for the ABC morning news show Good Morning America for over twenty-five years.  Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30

208. Arthur A. Ross (1920-2008)  American film and television screenwriter, best known for co-writing The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30

209. [ART] William Roxby Beverly  (1811-1889) noted English artist. ALS on his embossed stationery. He agrees to attending a meeting. Fine.........60-80

210. [BASEBALL] "Jocko" Conlan (1899-1989) was an American Hall of Fame umpire who worked in the National League (NL) from 1941 to 1965. He had a brief career as an outfielder with the Chicago White Sox before entering umpiring.  ANS [1988], brief about photos. Signed Jocko..........25-35

211. [ART]  John W. Casilear   (1811-1893)  American landscape artist belonging to the Hudson River School.  Casilear was born in New York City. His first professional training was under prominent New York engraver Peter Maverick in the 1820s, then with Asher Durand, himself an engraver at the time. Casilear and Durand became friends, and both worked as engravers in New York through the 1830s.  By the middle 1830s Durand had become interested in landscape painting through his friendship with Thomas Cole. Durand, in turn, drew Casilear's attention to painting. By 1840 Casilear's interest in art was sufficiently strong to accompany Durand, John Frederick Kensett, and artist Thomas P. Rossiter on a European trip during which they sketched scenes, visited art museums, and fostered their interest in painting.   Casilear gradually developed his talent in landscape art, painting in the style that was later to become known as the Hudson River School. By the middle 1850s he had entirely ceased his engraving career in favor of painting full-time. He was elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1851, having been an associate member since 1831, and exhibited his works there for over fifty years.  Casilear died in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1893. Today examples of his art are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, and Ringwood Manor, Ringwood, NJ. Original engraving, title  "A SIBYL". Engraved  in 1847 for the American Art-Union; after a painting by Daniel Huntington. The American Art Union was a major force in the development and promotion of American art. The print was reissued in 1880 by The American Art Review, the leading art publication of the 1880s, and a devoted supporter of the Etching Revival.  This is the 1880 edition. Image approx. 9 7/8" x 7 5/8".  VG..............100-150

See Casilear engraving

212. [ART] Ross Turner (1847-1915) American artist.  Ross Sterling Turner was born in Westport, New York, and after a brief career as a draftsman traveled to Europe where he studied painting under Frank Duveneck and William Merritt Chase in Germany and Venice Italy.  Turner returned to America after seven years abroad and settled in Salem, Mass.  shortly after his marriage to Louise Blaney in 1885.  He taught in the architecture department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for 30 years and also in the Massachusetts Normal Art School. Turner also offered private instruction in his Boston studio and during the summers in Gloucester or Salem.  He wrote a number of books  and frequently exhibited with the American Watercolor Society. An article about the artist in the Boston Transcript in 1888 claimed that "probably there is no one in the locality that knows more about the manipulation of watercolors, their scope, properties, and legitimate place."  The Peabody Essex Museum owns a wonderful watercolor of a Salem garden by Turner and also many of his sketch books and personal papers. Original etching, plate signed, plate mark approx. 2-3/4 x 3" plus margins. VG...........40-60

214. [ART] William Grainger - British engraver who was active 1784-1793. Original engraving, c, 1790s, plate size 3 x 3-7/8" plus margins. Image area is clean; light foxing in outer margins.......40-60

215.  [ART] William Bradley - original 19th century etching, unsigned as was the custom at this time, 6.5 x 10 in. plus margins. From Magazine of Art. Title CADER IDRIS FROM THE DOLGELLY ROAD. Wonderful detailed vista with cows in forefront and mountains in background. VG.............40-60 Bradley etching

216. [ART] Boris Artzybasheff (1899-1965)  American artist, illustrator, notable for his strongly worked and often surreal designs. Born in Russia he is said to have fought as a White Russian. During 1919 he arrived in New York City, where he worked in an engraving shop. Over the course of his career, he illustrated some 50 books, several of which he wrote, most notably As I See.  During his lifetime, however, Artzybasheff was probably known best for his magazine art. He illustrated the major American magazines Life, Fortune, and Time (including more than 200 Time Magazine covers over a 24-year span between 1941 and 1965.[1]) During World War II, he also served an expert advisor to the U.S. Department of State, Psychological Warfare Branch. Original wood-engraving, not signed, c. 1930, image approx. 7.5 x 5 plus margins. VG.............50-75

See engraving
His portrait

217. [ART] Walter Shirlaw (1838-1909) Scottish-American artist. Shirlaw was born in Paisley, Scotland, and moved to the United States with his parents in 1840. He worked as a bank-note engraver, and his work was first exhibited at the National Academy in 1861. He was elected an academician of the Chicago Academy of Design in 1868. Among his pupils there was Frederick Stuart Church. From 1870 to 1877 he studied in Munich, under J. L. Raab, Alexander von Wagner, Arthur George von Ramberg, and Wilhelm Lindenschmidt. His first work of importance was the Toning of the Bell (1874), which was followed by Sheep-shearing in the Bavarian Highlands (1876) which received honorable mention at the Paris exposition in 1878. Other notable works from his easel are Good Morning (1878), in the Buffalo Academy; Indian Girl and Very Old (1880); Gossip (1884); and Jealousy (1886), owned by the Academy of Design, New York. His largest work is the frieze for the dining-room in the house of Darius O. Mills in New York. Shirlaw has also earned an excellent reputation as an illustrator. He was one of the founders of the Society of American Artists, and was its first president. On his return from Europe he took charge of the Art Students League of New York, and for several years taught in the composition class. He became an associate of the National Academy in 1887, and an academician the following year. Today his art will be found in the collections of such major institutions as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Yale University Art Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Smithsonian American Art Institution, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, National Academy of Design Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Historical Society. Original etching, plate signed [monogram lower right of image], approx. 5 x 3-1/4" plus margins. The title: unknown. Fine.........75-100

 See etching

Portrait of the artist

218. [ART] Isao Mizutani (1922-2005) Japanese artist. He was born in Nagoya. He was the recipient of the Shell art prize in 1958; exhibited Museum of Art, Tokyo, "History of Surrealism" 1960; Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1961; Won the Maruzen Second Pan Pacific....etc.  Original tempera paint on stretched canvas, approx. 13 x 9.5". Contained in simple wood lattice frame. Signed. This was done c. 1967. VG..............1400-1800

See painting

219. [ART] Stow Wengenroth (1906-1978) American artist and lithographer, born in 1906 in Brooklyn, New York. Wengenroth was once called "America's greatest living artist working in black and white" by the American realist painter Andrew Wyeth, and he is generally considered to be one of the finest American lithographers of the twentieth century. He studied at the Art Students League of New York under George Brant Bridgeman and John Carlson from 1923 to 1927, then at the Grand Central School of Art under Wayman Adams. Wengenroth was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters (renamed the American Academy of Arts and Letters) in 1942 and was also a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and the Prairie Printmakers. He was elected an Associate of the prestigious National Academy of Design in 1938, and a full Academician in 1941. Wengenroth was also the author of several influential books on lithography. Wengenroth's lithographs are found in most major American collections, including the Library of Congress, Whitney Museum of American Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. During his career, Wengenroth became well-known for his detailed depictions of the seascapes and landscapes of New England and, particularly, Maine . As an artist, he eschewed colour in his lithographs but rather focused on shadow, light, and form to transmit detail and dimension. While his urban scenes of Manhattan and the New York City environs are especially coveted by the current market, Wengenroth was most adept at creating sincere yet vivid simulacra of the New England littoral and interior. Offered here is an unsigned 2-sided watercolor. Sand dunes on one side and a most unusual abstraction watercolor on the other. This is the last of our Wengenroths that we bought at the Bruce Collins auction in Kennebunk, Maine. These were consigned to Collins from the estate of Wengenroth. Youngs Fine Arts sold our companion piece to this in their 7/12/97 sale, lot 52. It was 1-sided, signed, almost identical scene, a little smaller, and brought $660. We saved this one because it was nicer but mainly because of the unusual abstraction on the one side. This is guaranteed, without a time limit, to be by Stow Wengenroth and we will send along a letter of guarantee to the winning bidder. This piece is approx. 14-3/4 x 19-3/4 in. Pin holes in the corners caused by Wengenroth. His watercolors & drawings are quite uncommon. CLICK BELOW TO SEE BOTH SIDES............1000-1500

https://merv2.tripod.com/wengenroth-1.jpeg

https://merv2.tripod.com/wengenroth-2.jpeg

220. [ART] Alexander Liberman (1912-1999) Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications. When his father took a post advising the Soviet government, the family moved to Moscow. Life there became difficult, and his father secured permission from Lenin and the Politburo to take his son to London in 1921. Young Liberman was educated in Russia, England, and France, where he took up life as a "White Émigré" in Paris.  He began his publishing career in Paris with the early pictorial magazine Vu, where he worked under Lucien Vogel and with photographers such as Brassaï, André Kertész, and Robert Capa. After emigrating to New York in 1941, he began working for Condé Nast Publications, rising to the position of editorial director, which he held from 1962-1994. Only in the 1950s did Liberman take up painting and, later, metal sculpture. His highly recognizable sculptures are assembled from industrial objects (segments of steel I-beams, pipes, drums, and such), often painted in uniform bright colors. Prominent examples of his work are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Storm King Art Center, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park, Tate Gallery, and the Guggenheim Museum. His massive work "The Way", a 65 feet x 102 feet x 100 feet  structure, is made of eighteen salvaged steel oil tanks, and became a signature piece of Laumeier Sculpture Park, and a major landmark of St. Louis, Missouri. Offered here is a large back & white lithograph, Signed A. Liberman 65, edition 7/35, approx. 35 x 24 in. flush, very good condition except for a tiny 1/4 in. tear into the upper left edge, only noticeable with close examination.............600-800

See Liberman lithograph
See Liberman sculpture

221.  [ART] Jacques Villon (1875 - 1963) A painter and printmaker, Villon was known for his Cubist-style works, and is especially noted by art historians for "his creation of a purely graphic language for Cubism. He first came to the attention of the American public when his work was included in the 1913 New York Armory Show, which introduced modernism to the United Sates. All of his work sold at this exhibition. He was from a cultured family in the Normandy region of France, and was much influenced by his maternal grandfather, Emile Nicolle, who gave him early artistic training. Villon was born with the name of Gaston Emile Duchamp, and was the older brother of artists Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp and Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti. Honoring the French medieval poet, François Villon, and so as not to be confused artistically with his siblings, he changed his name to Jacques Villon. Jacques Villon died in his studio on June 9, 1963, and three years later, Marcel Duchamp, his last surviving brother, organized an exhibition of his work, which was held at the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris. In 1922 Villon was commissioned by the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune to produce a series of color aquatints after 38 major 19th and 20th century paintings. These included works after Braque, Matisse, Renoir, Manet, Picasso, Cezanne, Dufy, Modigliani, Bonnard and numerous others. Villon collaborated with these master artists and signed these prints so that they provided the public with access to works which otherwise would not be available. Color aquatint, signed in the plate (not pencil signed), 1923, title "NATURE MORTE", after Georges Braque, mat opening size 25-1/2 x 9 in. Framed. Not examined out of frame but appears to be without faults...............1000-1500

Click links below to see

https://merv2.tripod.com/villon-2-1.jpeg

https://merv2.tripod.com/villon-2-2.jpeg

https://merv2.tripod.com/villon-2-3.jpeg

222. [ART REFERENCE] Benezit, E., ed DICTIONNAIRE CRITIQUE ET DOCUMENTAIRE DES PEINTRES, SCULPTEURS, DESSINATEURS ET GRAVEURS De tous les temps et de tous le pays par un groupe d'ecrivains specialistes francais et etrangers.Paris: Librairie Grund, 1976. 10 vols. n. Each approx.. 700 pages. Text in French - many illustrations of signatures & monograms. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering. Extremities very good. Interiors and exteriors clean; all quite sound. An impressive set. Very good+/No dust jacket. A MUST HAVE set for the serious art collector or dealer....................Minimum Bid..........$250

223. [ART] Ricardo de los Ríos (1846-1929) this artist was born in Spain. He did a lot of work while he lived in Paris, France. Original etching, title: The Secret Tribunal, image approx. 5.5 x 3.5" plus margins. Original tissue guard still attached. VG..............40-60

See etching

224.  [ART] Robert Walker Macbeth (1848-1910) Scottish painter, etcher and watercolourist, specialising in pastoral landscape and the rustic genre. His The Cast Shoewas bought by the Chantrey Bequest in 1890, and is now at Tate Britain. From 1871 Macbeth exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery and the Fine Art Society in London. There were also exhibitions in the regions at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists in Birmingham, the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and Manchester City Art Gallery. In the same year (1871) Macbeth was made an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) becoming a full member in 1901. He became a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (RE) in 1880, and an honorary member in 1909. In 1882 he was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours (RI) and in 1883 was elected to be a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (ROI). In 1883 he was elected an associate of the Royal Academy (RA), becoming a full member in 1903. Original etching, signed in the plate [lower right], approx. 3-1/2 x 5-5/8" plus clean margins. Still has tissue guard showing title "Die Vernon at Judge Inglewood's." Of Macbeth's own design and etched by him. Fine.............50-75

See etching above

225. [ART] George Cruikshank (1792-1878) British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience. Original Etching - title "MEG DODS AND CAPTAIN MAC TURK". Image is approx. 3-1/8 x 5" plus clean margins. Tissue guard still attached. Fine condition......50-75

226. Large original etching, portrait of Abraham Lincoln, unsigned, artist is James S. King [1852-1925] who specialized in portraits, image approx. 18 x 14 in. plus margins. The image and the area surrounding the image, the portion that would show after being matted & framed, is very good. There are numerous faults along edges that will not show. Striking image. James S. King was born in New York City in 1852 and studied at the Art Student's League, National Academy of Design, Ecole Des Beaux-Arts, Paris with Gerome and Bonnat. He belonged to the Salmagundi Club and the Allied Artists of America. King was active in exhibiting at the Parrish Art Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; Boston Art Club; National Academy of Design; Art Institute of Chicago; the Corcoran Gallery; and the Society of Independent Artists.............300-400

Lincoln 1

227. [ART] Peggy Bacon, one of America's most famous women artists. An ORIGINAL painting by the famous American artist, Peggy Bacon. Done in mixed media, she used ink and what appears to be a combination of watercolor and thinned oil paint. She has signed and dated this work 1971, and titled it THE BABES IN THE WOODS. The mat opening is 14 x 22.5 in. Executed on paper and in fine condition. Prints by Peggy Bacon are fairly common in the market, although expensive, and her paintings are quite scarce as the small number of auction records would indicate. This is a superb example of Bacon's work and should be considered important. Obviously its dark because the bear cubs are in the woods. This is guaranteed authentic and to have been painted and signed by Peggy Bacon, and we will send along a letter stating this. PEGGY BACON [1895-1987] A printmaker, illustrator, and author of children's books, Peggy Bacon later turned exclusively to fine art painting in watercolor, pastel, and oil. Her 1934 book of caricatures, "Off With Their Heads," established her as a leading satirist. Much of her work is satirical and lighthearted and frequently a commentary on the New York art world. She also chose many ordinary events in the lives of city people, giving these pieces a wry twist. She was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut to artist parents and studied at the Art Student's League. There in her drypoints, first completed in 1919, she was especially influenced by the realistic prints of John Sloan and George Bellows, but her style, with flattened forms and hardened contours, was more modern and abstract. In 1920, she married artist Alexander Brook, and during the next decade they were prominent figures in the Woodstock art colony. During the 1920s, she had two one-woman shows in New York and also illustrated and wrote numerous children's books. A satirical work on thirty-nine well known fellow artists, written in 1934 and called "Off With Their Heads," was funded by the Guggenheim Foundation. The book was greatly successful and stirred a demand for her caricatures, but she shied away from those subjects because they were hurtful to the subjects. In the late 1920s, she had began to explore lithographs, etchings, and pastel, but drypoint remained her favorite medium until the 1950s when she concentrated on oil painting. She was financially successful, selling her work well in New York, and she and her husband were part of the group of artists promoted by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. In 1940, she and her husband were divorced, and she continued to paint and also wrote novels. Her 1953 mystery, "The Inward Eye," earned the Edgar Allen Poe Mystery Award for best novel of the year. She lived to age ninety-two, spending the later years of her life at Cape Porpoise, Maine..............5000-7000

http://home.gwi.net/~ecbart/bacon-1.jpeg

http://home.gwi.net/~ecbart/bacon-2.jpeg

http://home.gwi.net/~ecbart/bacon-3.jpeg

http://home.gwi.net/~ecbart/bacon-4.jpeg

228. [ART] Henry William (H.W.) Burgess was a landscape painter based in London. He came from the Burgess family of British artists, the son of portraitist William (d. 1812) and grandson of Thomas (fl. 1766-1786), and his own son John-Bagnold (1830-1897) also became a painter. Between 1809 and 1844, Burgess exhibited a large number of works at the Royal Academy, the British Institution, Suffolk Street and the New Water-Colour Society in London. He also served as landscape painter to William IV beginning in 1826. Offered here is an original lithograph titled "Thorn Trees, in Bushy Park, Middlesex", image approx. 15.5 x 11" plus margins. This lithograph was published by the firm of Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789-1850), the famous English draftsman, lithographer and printer. He worked mainly in London, although he had trained in Paris as a painter and travelled extensively in Europe making topographical drawings. In 1817, on a visit to Munich, he was introduced to lithography by the pioneering lithographer Alois Senefelder. The following year he produced Twenty-four Views of Italy, a set of images he had drawn and lithographed. Dissatisfied with the way his work had been printed, Hullmandel set up his own lithographic press. The quality of work he published by himself and other artists such as Giovanni Belzoni helped popularize the topographical lithograph among British artists. This is contained in old blue mat & shrink-wrapped. Not examined out of shrink-wrap.............300-600

See lithograph

229. Art Box #2, produced at ECBART, 2004. Contains 11 objects: original drawings, photo-lithographs, autographs & ephemera. Contents: ¥ H.C. Westermann [1922-1981] photo-lithographed drawing sent to the artist Bill Copley. From SMS published 1968 ¥ Bruce Conner [1933-] American painter, collagist, and draughtsman. Legal Tender. A photo-lithographed 'dollar bill' printed recto and verso with Conner's intricate abstract pattern drawings of the time on each side. From SMS published 1968 ¥ Merv Slotnick [1941-] American conceptualist & abstract artist. Sketchbook containing 20 original signed drawings ¥ Walt Kuhn [1877-1949] American painter. Autograph Letter Signed "W", 1943, written on postcard addressed to his wife, Vera. ¥ Invitation to Walt Kuhn Exhibition, 1987, at the Whitney Museum of American Art ¥ 1948 Walt Kuhn Exhibition brochure, Durand-Ruel Gallery, NYC ¥ Tom Wesselman autograph ¥Invitation from Elizabeth Taylor [actress] to attend Roddy McDowall Party for his photographic book DOUBLE EXPOSURE ¥ Ralph Bakshi original drawing ¥ 1965 Chess Magazine once owned by chess player Bobby Fischer [part of his own personal library] ¥ Richard Hamilton(1922-) British Pop Artist. A Postal Card For Mother. A sepia picture postcard depicting a crowded British beach, the middle of which opens out to reveal eight accordion- folded black and white photographs of the same scene as it gets progressively blown up from a long shot to a close-up blur of a beach ball. From SMS published 1968 ¥ All items contained in distressed looking hand-painted box by Slotnick. The box was made to purposely look distressed. This is the second in series of Art Boxes which will contain related, as well as unrelated objects and original art............1200-1800

Westermann

Hamilton

Slotnick, Conner and Wesselmann

Liz Taylor and Bakshi

Walt Kuhn

Chess [Bobby Fischer] & Kuhn

Box

230. [ART] Paul Le Rat [1849-1892] French etcher, born in Paris, and studied under Lecoq de Boisbaudran and L. Gaucherel. He exhibited at the Solon from 1869 - on. Original etching, "JEUNE PECHEUR DE SCHEVENINGUE", done after a work by Frans Hals. Image size 7-1/2 x 9-1/4 in. plus slim margins. VG........50-75

Click to see Le Rat etching

231. [ART] STEFAN HIRSCH [1899-1964] "Modern" artist closely aligned with the Precisionists, born in Nurnberg, Germany, to American parents. Growing up in Europe, he frequently visited museums and galleries, where he was introduced to the Old Masters and also became familiar with the innovations of contemporary painters. After studying law and art at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, Hirsch settled in New York in 1919. During the 1920s, he painted images of industrial subjects that show an attention to detail, clean, dry outlines, and harmonious colors. While his highly structured early works reveal his debt to Cezanne, Hirsch favored the urban rather than the natural landscape. Like Demuth and Sheeler, Hirsch was attracted to the man made world, the American machine aesthetic, and his works typically depict the skyline of Lower Manhattan in a Precisionist-influenced, hard-edged geometric style. When Duncan Phillips's included works by Hirsch in his 1926 exhibition, the collector stated: "The steady progress of young Stefan Hirsch may be followed here through influences to invention. The Farmyard is quaintly seen in its tempera colors "a la Fra Angelico." The Mill Town is as infallibly decorative as a Japanese print and yet oh how American! The canvas entitled New York is a symbolical decoration&emdash;a concept of the great city rearing its fabulous towers and its walls without windows above the menace of a black river under the purity of a pellucid sky. The grim battlements of Industry are all beautiful in a strange harmony of subtly orchestrated tones." Throughout the 1920s Hirsch's works won wide acclaim, and he continued to paint while experimenting with printmaking, various subjects, and styles. His works were exhibited frequently and collected by many prestigious American museums. In 1929, he traveled to Mexico, where he was befriended by muralists David Siqueiros and Diego Rivera. Their influence can be seen in Hirsch's Social Realist paintings of the 1930s, works that increasingly became more painterly and luminous. He executed a series of murals in this vein for Federal buildings. During the 1930s and 1940s he focused his energies on teaching, notably at Bennington College in Vermont [1934-1940] and the Art Students League [1940-1946]. In 1942 he joined the faculty at Bard College, where he was chairman of the Art Department for seventeen years before he retired in 1961. Hirsch&emdash;painter, printmaker, and educator&emdash;died in New York in 1964. [credit: from The Phillips Collection, founded by Duncan Phillips]. Offered here is a colored chalk, or pastel, of a wild turkey. It is signed "S.H." in the lower right corner although you can hardly make it out. It is identified on the verso. Proenance: Collection of the noted sculptor, Robert Laurent [1890-1970], Ogunquit, Maine. Stefan Hirsch was a close friend of Laurent. Laurent was born in Concarneau, Brittany France. There, at the age of 12 his artistic talents were recognized by art connoisseur Hamilton Easter Field who then brought him to the United States. Field opened an art school in Ogunquit, Maine. In 1908 he travelled to Rome with Field and there studied with Maurice Sterne as well as with wood carver Giuseppe Doratori at the British Academy. Condition: very good with small tear at top left corner. Contained in old mat [needs to be re-matted] and simply wood frame. Mat opening is 9-1/8 x 12". An oil painting of factory buildings in Portsmouth, NH, sold at auction [Christies] in 2005, 17 x 27". for $100,000 on an estimate of 25-35,000. In 2001 Swann Galleries auctioned a 1921 Hirsch lithograph for $1500. Work available by Hirsch is not that common...........600-800

See Hirsch pastel

232. [ART] Gustave Fraipont (1849-1923, Paris) was a painter, sculptor, illustrator and poster-designer. Born in Belgium, he later became a naturalised French citizen. Original etching, plate signed, c.1885, image approx. 6 x 3-7/8" plus margins. VG...........80-120

See etching

233.  Leonard Andrew Scheele (1907-1993)  American physician and public servant. He was appointed the seventh Surgeon General of the United States from 1948 to 1956. TLS, Federal Security Agency, 1949, 1p, as Surgeon General, to  Philip J. Philbin, US congressman from Mass. Accompanied by TLS by Vlado A. Getting MD, and 4 telegrams. VG............50-75

234. [LINCOLN] LEONARD W. VOLK (1828-1895) American sculptor. Most famous for making a life mask of American President Abraham Lincoln. Signed 1893 bank check. VG.........100-200

235. "Barnard" Hughes (1915- 2006) American actor of theater and film. Hughes became famous for a variety of roles; his most-notable roles came after middle age, and he was often cast as a dithering authority figure or grandfatherly elder. Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30

236. Paul Zindel Jr. (1936-2003) American playwright, novelist.  Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30

238. 1876 Centennial Reprint of the classic July 8, 1776 issue of DUNLAP'S PENNSYLVANIA PACKET OR THE GENERAL ADVERTISER containing the Declaration of Independence 16.5" x 11," as expected small tears, partial separation at one fold, all iwell away from the Declaration printing. Published by J.V. Vondersmith and printed in Philadelphia in 1876 by the Saturday Evening Mirror. A fun and historic souvenir piece.............150-200

See Dunlap's

239. [ART] Gustave Marie Greux [1838-1919] French etcher. Original etching, classic Barbizon scene, signed in the plate, image about 3-3/4 x 6-3/4" plus margins. Printed text on verso. VG............50-75

See Greux etching

241. [PHOTOGRAPHY - NASA] WILLENE WHISENHANT - one of the important photographers at NASA at the beginning. ORIGINAL vintage color 10x8 photo showing Alan Shepard lying down in space suit with technicians around him. Whisenhant has written caption in ink below "MA-9 - Backup - Shepard." NASA S-63-3888. VG. Provenance: Ex-collection of the photographer.........100-200

243.  [OLD SHEET MUSIC] Stephen Foster's song "Old Dog Tray", dates to mid-19th century, 5-pages, approx. 9.5 x 12.5"...........40-60

See sheet music

244.  [FILM - TV] Bonnie Bartlett (1929 - ) is an American television and film actress. Her career spans over 50 years, with her first major role being on a 1950s daytime drama, Love of Life. She is best known for her role as Ellen Craig on the medical drama series St. Elsewhere. She and her husband, actor William Daniels, who played her fictional husband Dr. Mark Craig, won 1986 Emmy Awards on the same night, becoming the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965. Warners Bros. paycheck, 1984, endorsed by her on verso. VG.............20-30

245. Alvin Sargent (b.1927)  American screenwriter. He has won two Academy Awards(R) in 1978 and 1981 for his screenplays of Julia and Ordinary People. He has been involved in the writing of all the movies to date in the Spider-Man film series.  Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30

246. Terrence  Malick (b. 1943)  American film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning over four decades he has directed six feature films. He made his directorial debut with the drama Badlands in 1973. Malick released his second film, Days of Heaven, in 1978, after which he took a long hiatus from directing films. His third film, the World War 2 drama The Thin Red Line, was released in 1998.  Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30

247. [ART] David Jagger  (1891 – 1958)  English portrait painter. A prolific painter, he is renowned for his 1929 painting of Robert Baden-Powell.  Jagger produced portraits of illustrious people, such Queen Mary, exhibited in the Royal Academy exhibition of 1930,  and Winston Churchill.  ALS, no yr., 3 pages. VG..........50-75

248. [FRANCE] Nestor Roqueplan (1805-1870) French writer, journalist, and theatre director. Roqueplan was considered a dandy, and witty and caustic as a writer.  On 20 November 1857 Roqueplan succeeded Émile Perrin as director of the Opéra-Comique, and held the position until 19 June 1860, when he was replaced by Alfred Beaumont.  The first new work to be presented under Roqueplan was Ambroise Thomas's 3-act Le carnaval de Venise on 9 December.  At the beginning of 1859 Roqueplan brought suit against Le Figaro for harassment regarding his directorship. According to The Literary Gazette of London, the Figaro had described Roqueplan as "a species of Pasha, lolling upon a couch, smoking a cigar, and desirous only of escaping from all the details of his administration." Not long thereafter came the triumphant premiere of Meyerbeer's Le pardon de Ploërmel, but despite its success, his financial difficulties increased. Eventually the constant money problems caused him to retire from opera management.  ALS, not dated, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". VG.........50-75

See his portrait

250. [FRANCE] Pierre Wolff (1864-1944)   successful  French playwright. He wrote many pieces of theater and was also librettist several operettas and musicals. He also gave lectures on the history of the song ( Marie Dubas there began his singing career varieties by interpreting the themes of folklore).  His personal calling card on which he pens a few lines [unsigned ??]. VG..............25-35

252. [RADIO] Amos n' Andy - signed, inscribed photo, 8x10, likely signed c. 1934. Amos n' Andy was Radio's most popular series, 1926-1958.  Photograph inscribed and signed: "To/Mrs. F.B. Prentice/Sincerely/'Amos 'n' Andy.    Amos FREEMAN F. GOSDEN and "'Andy'"  CHARLES J. CORRELL.  Amos n' Andy, originally titled Sam n' Henry, debuted on Chicago's WGN on January 12, 1926. The show switched over to WMAQ on March 19, 1928. Although the title characters were played by white men, the storyline was about two Atlanta Black men who came to Chicago to find their fortunes. They were members of the Mystic Knights of the Sea Lodge instead of the Jewels of the Crown. Everything else remained the same. Amos n' Andy premiered on the NBC radio network on Thursday night, August 19, 1929 at 11:00 P.M. EST. The show was broadcast an unprecedented six days a week. It was so popular that it was moved to 7:00 P.M. EST to reach a broader audience. There were protests on the west coast because it would be aired there at 4 P.M. so, for the first time in radio history, NBC did a repeat broadcast for its west coast affiliates. Amos n' Andy hit its peak of popularity in the 1930s, but the show remained on radio until 1958. Lightly soiled at margins. Mounting remnants and copyright stamp on verso (no show through). Overall, very good condition. We have done a great deal of research on this photo, trying to determine who actually signed, one of both.  We can say that the handwriting on this photo matches those of the same period, whether on photos or album pages.  Since no one ever said otherwise, it is assumed that Gosden signed Amos and Charles signed Andy.........300-400

See above

253. FILM] Michael York (b. 1942) British born American actor. Nice ALS, 1982, 1p.........25-35

255. [FILM] Ernest Borgnine [1917-2012] American actor. Academy Award winner. Signed, inscribed 5x7 color photo. VG............35-45

See photo above

256. [SCIENCE] James Van Allen (1914-2006) American space scientist at the University of Iowa. He was instrumental in establishing the field of magnetospheric research in space. The Van Allen radiation belts were named after him. Signed 17 page article. Signed on the first page. VG............75-100

See above

257. [MUSIC] Baroness Jacqueline Fontyn [b. 1930] contemporary Belgian composer, pianist and music educator. She was born in Antwerp, and has received the title of baroness from the King of Belgium in recognition of her many artistic contributions. AMQS on 6x4 card. VG.......35-45

See AMQS above

258. [FILM] MAX VON SYDOW (b.1919) Swedish, Actor, stage and film.  ALS, no date, brief 1p. VG..........25-35

259. [PORTRAIT] Edward Shippen (1703-1781) was a wealthy merchant and government official in colonial Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Original antique engraved portrait, image approx. 4-1/2 x 3-3/4" plus margins. VG........25-35

See portrait

260. [SPY] Marion Miller - The frightening single-mindedness of Communist Party workers really comes across in this true account of a Los Angeles suburban housewife and mother who spent five years within the Party as a double-agent for the F.B.I. Marion Miller's husband Paul had himself been a double-agent when he was in the Merchant Marine from 1939 to 1943, and so when she received an invitation in 1950 to join what Paul spotted as a ""front"" organization, it was he that suggested that she contact the F.B.I. From, that time until she collapsed with ulcers in 1955, Mrs. Miller's life was a nightmare of surreptitious note-taking at meetings, copying and photographing correspondence entrusted to her, attending meetings and parties for the Communist cause, and narrow escapes from discovery. At the end of all this, Marion Miller testified in public for the Government, and was rewarded by a series of Communist smears that prevented her life from returning to normal. This is not a closely reasoned, theoretical attack on Communism. Its value lies in the immediacy of the picture it presents of a woman of conventional background who found the strength to take action against a group of people whose actions and ideals she found intolerable.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..........30-40

See above

261. [FILM] Marsha Mason (b. 1942) American actress. SIGNED 8X10 PHOTO........25-35

262.  Brent Scowcroft (b. 1925) US National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush and a Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force. He also served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He also served as Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph with sentiment. VG...........25-35 

263. John Gunther (1901-1970)  American journalist and author whose success came primarily in the 1940s and 1950s with a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the "Inside" books. He is best known today for the memoir Death Be Not Proud about the death of his teenage son, Johnny Gunther, from a brain tumor.  Signed album page, approx. 6 x 4.5". VG............25-35

See Gunther autograph

264. Amalia Fleming (1912-1986)  Greek doctor, activist and politician. Fleming was born in Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1912. She moved to Greece and, during the Axis occupation, took part in the National Resistance, for which she was jailed by the Italians. She married Sir Alexander Fleming in 1953, but with his death in March 1955 she was widowed less than two years later.  Signed 3-1/2 x 4-1/8" photo. VG..........40-60

See Fleming

265. [THEATRE] David Belasco (1853-1931) American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright. Signed card, 3-1/8 x 2-1/4". Fine..........30-40

266. [US POLITICIANS] TLSs by US senators: Wm. Spong,  Harold E. Hughes, William Proxmire,  Ernest Hollings,  Birch Bayh. ALSO congressmen Carl Albert, and 7 others.  These date 1969-1972.............100-150

267. [FILM] Kim Novak  (b. 1933)  American actress. Signed, inscribed 4.5 x 7 photo. VG...............25-35

See photograph

269. SIR JOHN MORTIMER [1923-2009] British Barrister, Author, Playwright. Mortimer's most famous creation is a character named Horace Rumpole. SIGNED/inscribed 7x5 photograph............40-60

270. [MUSIC] Robert Ward (b.1917) American composer. Signed brochure about him.....20-30

271. [MUSIC] Phillip Lambro - American composer. Sig. brochure...........20-30

272. [MUSIC] EUBIE BLAKE [1887-1983] American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. SIGNED 3X5 CARD..........40-60

273. [MUSIC] John Mellencamp (b. 1951) American rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter and occasional actor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG...........25-35

274. [FRANCE] Pierre-Antoine Lebrun (1785-1873)  French poet.   Lebrun was born in Paris. An Ode à la grande armée, mistaken at the time for the work of Écouchard Lebrun, attracted Napoleon's attention, and secured for the author a pension of 1200 francs. Lebrun's plays, once famous, are now forgotten. They are: Ulysse (1814), Marie Stuart (1820), which obtained a great success, and Le Cid d'Andalousie (1825).  Lebrun visited Greece in 1820, and on his return to Paris he published in 1822 an ode on the death of Napoleon, which cost him his pension. In 1825 he was the guest of Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford. The coronation of Charles X in that year inspired the verses entitled La Vallée de Champrosay, which have, perhaps, done more to secure his fame than his more ambitious attempts.  In 1828 appeared his most important poem, Le Voyage en Grèce, and in the same year he was elected to the Academy. The revolution of 1830 opened up for him a public career; in 1831 he was made director of the Imprimerie Royale, and subsequently filled with distinction other public offices, becoming senator in 1853.  ALS, Paris, 1832, 2pp, approx. 5 x 7.5". Fine..............75-100

Page 1
Page 2
See his portrait

275. [FRANCE]  Jules Lemaitre  (1853-1914)  French critic and dramatist.  Lemaître was born in Vennecy, Loiret. He became a professor at the University of Grenoble in 1883, but was already well known for his literary criticism, and in 1884 he resigned his position to devote his time to literature. He succeeded Jean-Jacques Weiss as drama critic of the Journal des Débats, and subsequently filled the same office on the Revue des Deux Mondes. His literary studies were collected under the title of Les Contemporains (7 series, 1886-1899), and his dramatic feuilletons as impressions de théàtre (10 series, 1888-1898).  His sketches of modern authors show great insight and unexpected judgment as well as gaiety and originality of expression. He published two volumes of poetry: Les Médaillons (1880) and Petites orientales (1883); also some volumes of contes, among them En marge des vieux livres (1905).  Three brief ALSs, written on 4.5 x 3.5" cards...............75-100

276. Havelock Ellis [1859-1939] British physician and psychologist, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality. Clip signature..........35-45

277. Lowell Thomas [1892-1981] Am. writer/broadcaster. Clip signature.........20-30

278. Peter Benchley [1940-2006] author "JAWS". ANS ON 3X5 CARD.....25-35

279. Josephine Miles (1911-1985) American poet.  Signed typescript of her poem "Warning."  Inscribed for L.L. VG............50-75

See above
See her portrait

280. FRANCE] Antoinette Henriette Clémence Robert (1797-1872) French writer of historical fiction, poetry, non-fiction, stage plays, and short stories. She published much of her work as Clémence Robert. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8". To Paul Foucher. VG............50-75

See Robert letter

281. Robert Culp (1930-2010) American actor who earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on "I Spy" [1965-68], the espionage series in which he and co-star Bill Cosby played a pair of secret agents. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. Attractive shot, 2002. VG.............30-40

282. [FRANCE]  Jules Lemaitre  (1853-1914)  French critic and dramatist.  Lemaître was born in Vennecy, Loiret. He became a professor at the University of Grenoble in 1883, but was already well known for his literary criticism, and in 1884 he resigned his position to devote his time to literature. He succeeded Jean-Jacques Weiss as drama critic of the Journal des Débats, and subsequently filled the same office on the Revue des Deux Mondes. His literary studies were collected under the title of Les Contemporains (7 series, 1886-1899), and his dramatic feuilletons as impressions de théàtre (10 series, 1888-1898).  His sketches of modern authors show great insight and unexpected judgment as well as gaiety and originality of expression. He published two volumes of poetry: Les Médaillons (1880) and Petites orientales (1883); also some volumes of contes, among them En marge des vieux livres (1905).  Two brief ALSs, written on 4.25 x 3.25" cards plus signature with 2 lines on small slip................60-80

283. [FRANCE] Letter identified as written by J.M. Perisse, Ampere's brother-in-law. Not dated and doesn't appear to be signed.  André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836)  French physicist and mathematician who is generally regarded as one of the main founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". The SI unit of measurement of electric current, the ampere, is named after him. Written in Frencn, not translated. Approx. 8 x 11".  VG.............75-100

Front side
back side

284.  (20th CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE LOT) [1]  Michael Francis Gilbert, CBE (1912-2006) British writer of both fictional mysteries and thrillers, ALS, 1992, 2pp [2] Geoffrey Edward West Household (1900-1988) prolific British novelist who specialized in thrillers. He is best known for his novel Rogue Male (1939).   ALS,  1973, with small signed photograph   [3]  Anthony Armstrong (1897-1976) Anglo-Canadian writer, dramatist and essayist.  SIGNATURE on stationary  [4]  A. J. P. Taylor FBA (1906-1990) English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his television lectures. His combination of academic rigour and popular appeal led the historian Richard Overy to describe him as "the Macaulay of our age”.  TLS 1982   [5] John Arden (1930-2012) English Marxist playwright who at his death was lauded as "one of the most significant British playwrights of the late 1950s and early 60s”.  SIGNATURE  [6]   Pamela  Snow (1912 –1981) English novelist, playwright, poet, literary and social critic, wife of Lord Charles Percy Snow. TLS,  1972...........75-100

285. [ENGLAND] Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, KG (1661-1724)  British politician and statesman of the late Stuart and early Georgian periods. He began his career as a Whig, before defecting to a new Tory Ministry. Between 1711 and 1714 he served as First Lord of the Treasury, effectively Queen Anne's chief minister. He has been called a Prime Minister, though it is generally accepted that the position was first held by Sir Robert Walpole in 1721. Harley's government agreed to the Treaty of Utrecht with France in 1713, bringing an end to twelve years of British involvement in the War of the Spanish Succession. In 1714 he fell from favour following the accession of the first monarch of the House of Hanover, George I and was for a time imprisoned in the Tower of London by his political enemies.  Autograph signature as the Earl of Oxford on part of a treasury document. Whitehall Chambers, dated 4th May 1714. The document is to "Lord Halifax" and relates to the payment of the Vicars of the Cathedral Church of Litchfield.  Approx. 9x6". Accompanied by an 1834 engraved portrait. Lower right corner missing - lose to signature............200-300

See document
See portrait engraving

286. Small collection: includes: Ira Allen Haynes [1859-1955] American General who served in Hawaii in 1899. He commanded the 64th F.A. Brigade, Camp Beauregard, Alexandria, La. [1917]; served in France [1918-1919]; later commanded 9th Coast Artillery District, San Francisco. Signed Riggs Nationa Bank check dated 1920. ¥ Gordon G. Heiner [1869-1943] American General who commanded coast defenses Honolulu, Hawaii [1923-26]. Signed Rigs bank check, 1900. Plus 5 color lithographed stereocards showing life in Hawaii [c. 1905]...............50-75

287. [US SENATORS] Lot of 7 signed photos & one TLS. US Senators are: Daniel Inouye; Jeremiah Denton - inscribed to F.W. Britton on his 100th birthday; Gary Hart; Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson; with Jackson TLS; Hiram Fong - inscribed; PLUS Margaret M. Heckler (inscribed) Ambassador & congresswoman from Mass.; and James E. Allen Jr. [1911-1971] Commissioner of Education under President Nixon. As with all contemporary politicians, some could be autopen and there are no returns on MULTIPLE LOT offerings............50-75

288.  Earl Wilson (1907-1987) American journalist, gossip columnist and author, perhaps best known for his nationally syndicated newspaper column, It Happened Last Night.  Nice vintage 8x10 photo signed and inscribed. One  corner crack line o/w VG..............40-60

289.  [GREAT BRITAIN] Collection of 10 British signatures of prominent men: [1] Henry Charles Howard, 13th Duke of Norfolk, KG, PC [1791-1856] styled Earl of Surrey between 1815 and 1842, was a British Whig politician. [2] Sir William Edward Rouse Boughton (1788-1856) was a baronet and a member of the British House of Commons representing Evesham. [3] John Arthur Roebuck [1802-1879] British politician, was born at Madras, in India. [4] Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham PC [1872-1950] British lawyer and Conservative politician. [5] John Francis Stanley Russell, 2nd Earl Russell known as Frank Russell, [1865-1931] was the elder surviving son of Viscount Amberley and his wife the Honourable Katharine (Kate) Stanley, and was raised by his paternal grandparents after his non-conventional parents both died young. He was the grandson of former prime minister, John Russell, 1st Earl Russell and elder brother of philosopher Bertrand Russell. He was married three times, lastly to Elizabeth von Arnim, who is said to have caricatured him in her novel Vera. Despite his landmark achievements in other respects, this Earl Russell is most famous for being tried for bigamy in 1901. Thenceforth, he was known to Edwardian society as the "Wicked Earl". [6] William Henry Lyttleton, 3rd Baron Lyttleton (1782-1837) British politician, Orator. [7] William Irby, 1st Baron Boston [1707-1775] British peer and Member of Parliament. Irby was the son of Sir Edward Irby, 1st Baronet and inherited his father's baronetcy in 1718. On 26 August 1746, he married Albinia Selwyn and they had three children. Irby had been a Page of Honour to King George I and King George II in the final and first few years of their reigns, respectively. He was also an equerry to Frederick, Prince of Wales from 1728 to 1736, Vice-Chamberlain to the Prince's wife, Augusta from 1736 to 1751 and her Lord Chamberlain from 1751 to 1772. Irby had also been MP for Launceston from 1735 to 1747 and for Bodmin from 1747 to 1761. In 1761 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Boston, of Boston in the County of Lincoln, and became Lord of the Manor of Hedsor in 1764. He died in 1775, aged 68 and was buried in Whiston, Northamptonshire. [8] Lawrence Dundas, 1st Earl of Zetland [1766-1839] British politician and nobleman. [9] George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, KG, GCSI, GCIE, PC [1859-1925] known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman who was Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary. The Curzon Line, now the eastern boundary of Poland, is named after him. [10] Christopher Wyvill (1740-1822) was an English political reformer who inspired the formation of the Yorkshire Association movement in 1779. Signatures are in various forms............100-150

290. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of Charles Sumner, 5-1/4 x 8-1/2".  VG.......20-30

See above

291. [PORTRAIT] Antique engraved portrait of John C. Fremont, 5-1/2 x 7-1/2" image.  VG.......20-30

See above

292.    [PRIME MINISTERS OF ENGLAND]  JOHN RUSSELL, 1st Earl Russell 1793-1878) Prime Minister 3 times. CLIP SIGNATURE.   HENRY J. TEMPLE, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784-1865)  CLIP SIGNATURE. Both are mounted.........75-100

293. [MUSIC] Walter Ross [b. 1936] American composer. His works have been performed in over 40 countries. He is perhaps best known for his compositions featuring brass and woodwinds. AMQS on 3x5 card. VG..............25-35

See AMQS above

294. [MUSIC] Barbara Kolb (b. 1939) American composer. Her music uses sound masses and often creates vertical structures through simultaneous rhythmic or melodic units (motifs or figures). She was the first American woman composer to win the Prix de Rome. AMQS from her "APPELLO" written on 6x4" card. VG.........30-40

See AMQS above

295. [GOLF] Ben Crenshaw (b. 1952) American professional golfer. In 1973, Crenshaw became the second player in Tour history to win the first event of his career. SIGNED & INSCRIBED 8x10 color photo. Fine..........20-30

296. Ella Wheeler Wilcox [1850-1919]. American journalist and poet, b. Johnstown Center, Wis. For many years wrote a daily poem for a syndicate of newspapers; published over twenty volumes of verse, including Drops of Water (1872), Poems of Passion (1883), Poems of Pleasure (1888), Poems of Sentiment (1906), Pastels (1909), Gems (1912), Cameos (1914); also wrote fiction, essays, and works on spiritualism. Signed poem, not dated, 1p.............60-80

See above

297.  [AVIATION] Giuseppe Mario Bellanca (1886-1960) Italian-American airplane designer and builder who created the first enclosed cabin monoplane in the United States in 1922. This aircraft is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Closely cropped clip signature mounted to card.........40-60

See signature

298. [MUSIC] DELLA REESE (1932- ) American Singer/Actress. SIGNED Document - A contract for her to appear on the Rosey Grier Show, for $57.00.........................40-60

299. [FILM - MUSIC] Nelson Eddy [1901-1967] American singer and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage, radio, television, and in nightclubs. Signature on 3 x 2-3/4" slip.............40-60

300   . [MUSIC] Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (b.1923) classical conductor best known for his work with the Minnesota Orchestra. AMQS from his composition "Symphony for Strings." 7-3/4 x 7". Very nice.......75-100

301. [TV] Robert Horton (b. 1924), American television actor, was most noted for the role of Flint McCullough in the TV series Wagon Train (1957-1962). ANS, 1991, on back of postcard picturing him......20-30

302. Lewis B. Hershey [1893-1977] Am. general. Signed card.........20-30

303. [THEATRE] Harriett Vernon [1851-1923] British actress. Clip signature.........20-30

304. Jack Mulhall [1887-1979] actor; in 430 films. Sig/inscribed......15-20

305. Kate Terry [1844-1924] Brit. actress; sister of Ellen Terry. Clip signature......15-20

306. Camille Darville [1863-?] Dutch actress, singer. Signed card........15-20

317. (INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE LOT)   HANS KUNG (1928- ) Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author.  Like his colleague Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI), in 1962 he was appointed peritus by Pope John XXIII, serving as an expert theological advisor to members of the Second Vatican Council until its conclusion in 1965.  TLS 1989.    Hilaire  Belloc (1873-1953) French born British writer but kept his French citizenship (double citizenship). He was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. SIGNATURE, 1923 (mounting traces on verso).   Dominique Lapierre (1931- ) French Author.   His most famous work  "Is Paris Burning" in collaboration with Larry Collins, in which they wrote 5 other works. ALS. 2000.     HUBBARD KEAVY (1903-?) American Writer and Journalist famous for his coming up with the word "SMOG".   SIGNATURE the end of a TLS.     St. John Greer Ervine (1883 - 1971) Irish author, writer, critic and dramatist. He wrote the plays Anthony and Anna in 1926 and The First Mrs. Fraser in 1929. His 1956 biography George Bernard Shaw was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize .   SIGNATURE, with sentiment.     Thomas Michael Keneally (1935-) Australian novelist, playwright. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 later Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. SIGNATURE.     Sir Victor S. Pritchett (1900 –1997) British writer and critic. His most famous nonfiction works are the memoirs A Cab at the Door (1968) and Midnight Oil (1971). SIGNATURE  mounted on card.    Felix Adler (1851 –1933) German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, popular lecturer, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement and is often considered one of the main influences on modern Humanistic Judaism. SIGNED CARD ..................80-120