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1. [ART] CHRISTO (1935
- ) artist who with his wife, Jeanne-Claude, created
environmental works of art around the world. Signed 11 x 14-1/4" color
print of their "Valley Curtain, Grand Hogback, Rifle,
Colorado", 1970-72. Signed by Christo. He also signs
the name of his late wife Jeanne-Claude.
VG...........100-150
2. [NASA] Collection of 28 covers related to
the space program, 1976 & 1981. All clean.....120-180
3. [FRANCE] 2 French Document identified as
"Revolution Year 7 from Chalons - 2 strange documents with
signatures". Each is 3 pages and in very fine condition.
6.5 x 8.5 and 7 x 9.25 in.................100-150
4. [US NAVAL] Ellsworth
"Dave" Davis [1892-1946] American naval
officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer,
official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S.
occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a
company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building.
In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served
in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the
Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS
Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. Collection of approx. 25 letters with
envelopes, 5 without, 2 signed Easter cards, dated
1913-1933. Most of the letters are to his mother, Mrs.
Frederick W. Davis, and one to his brother Roger. There is
a large archive of Davis's letter at the Nimitz Library, United
States Naval Academy.............200-300
5. [ART] A major drawing by Albert
Sterner. A large study done for his
lithograph called Wilderness, done in
1923. ALBERT STERNER (1863-1946) American artist. STERNER'S
influence is seen in the works of both Rockwell Kent and
George Bellows; he introduced each of them to the technique of
lithography and put them in touch with the master
printer/artist Bolton Brown. In 1915, Sterner rallied a group
of printmakers together to raise the general quality of
American prints. The founders of the Painter-Gravers of
America included, along with Sterner, Childe Hassam, Bellows,
& George Elmer Brown. He became a member of the National
Academy, won a bronze medal at the Paris Exposition of 1900;
gold medal at Munich in 1905, a bronze at Buffalo Exposition
in 1901, and Carnegie Prize in 1941. He was President of Soc.
of Illustrators, 1907-09. This was one of Sterner's
larger works, also seems imbued with symbolism. It would be fair
to intyerpret it as an experiment, using the theme Adam and Eve.
The scene is literally that of "The Fall," as suggested by the
abyss between the towering cliffs. Though Eve (?) is looking
skyward, she is not, apparently, seeking help from the
Lord; her gaze is directed toward the upper right to the
Garden of Eden (?) from which she and Adam have been
expelled. As Sterner said, he was fond of "symbolic
goings-on." Here, vigorous crayon strokes and the radiant
light on the female's body combine to produce a work of great
strength. This is how Harry A. Broadd described Sterner's
lithograh in his article ALBERT STERNER: Printmaker with Ideas,
which appeared in Print Review 14, Pratt Graphic Center 1982.
The drawing offered here, a working study for his lithograph, is
not signed, and approx. 18 x 13 in. plus margins.
Provenance: the Albert Sterner Estate.
VG...............1200-1800
See drawing
See copy of
page from article
6. [ART]
WALT
KUHN
(1877-1949), American
painter. After
studying in many
European countries, he
helped organize the
famous Armory Show
(International
Exhibition of Modern
Art, New York City,
1913). He is noted
chiefly for his
vigorous studies of
circus performers,
chorines, and trapeze
athletes. His Blue
Clown (1931, Whitney
Museum, New York City)
is the most popular
example of his work.
He also did a number
of brilliant still
lifes, as well as
designs for musical
reviews. Kuhn helped
introduce the
techniques and
theories of modern art
to the American public
and to many American
artists. Offered here
are twenty-seven
handwritten
letters-
twenty-five [25]
letters are from
1943, one is
1940 & the last is
1948, the year before
Walt died. Most are
two pages on 8 x 11
in. sheets. The
majority of the
letters were written
from Ogunquit,
Maine where the Kuhn's
owned a home with a
studio. At the end of
1948 he had a nervous
breakdown. In some of
his letters he starts
to wonder about his
mental abilities.
Walts' letters run the
gamut of
town gossip to art
gossip mentioning
names of artists who
summered in Ogunquit,
war activity near
Ogunquit off Boone
Island, descriptions
of the areas where he
paints, his feelings
about tourists, how
his painting is going,
his art patrons and
dealers. A Colliers
article about Walts'
paintings is mentioned
in a few letters and a
copy of the article
goes with the group.
One letter is
answering a question
from a Chicago woman
about a version of the
1913 Armory Show held
there. The only
archive of Kuhn's
letters still in
private
hands......12,000-18,000
7. (KUHN) original photograph of WALT KUHN PAINTING - Peaches on Blue Cloth, done in 1944. Durand-Ruel blindstamp on verso. 8 x 10, b/w.........40-60
8. (KUHN) original photograph
of WALT KUHN PAINTING -Dominique Clown, done in 1947.
Durand-Ruel blindstamp on verso. 10 x 8, b/w.........40-60
9. [KUHN] Joseph
S. Trovato ( 1912-1983) American artist and
museum curator. TLS, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute,
TLS, 1962, 1p., to Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the American artist
Walt Kuhn. Re: preview of the Arthur B. davies Centennial
Exhibition; and interest in showing the Armory Show - 50th
Anniversary Exhibition. Includes a signed TLS [her signed
retained copy] from Brenda Kuhn to Trovato, 1962, 1p. reply to
his letter of May 11th. Two letters.
VG.............100-150
10. [VERMONT] An archive of approx. 330
pieces including deeds, documents, letters, receipts,
ephemera. These are from the papers of Dr. D.W. Blanchard
of Coventry, Vermont. Looks like mostly 1870s-80s running into
the early 1900s. Mixed conditions.........150-200
11. Joseph
Nourse (1754-1841) was the first United
States Register of the Treasury whose career spanned forty years
and six presidential administrations. He played a key role in
administering the finances of the new Republic. Nourse
first served during the American Revolution as military
secretary to General Charles Lee. He returned for a short time
to his family's farm in Berkeley County, Virginia (now West
Virginia). He settled in Philadelphia in 1779, where he served
as Assistant Auditor General for the Board of Treasury. He was
elected Register in 1781, where he assumed responsibility for
keeping the financial records and accounts of the new
government. He also authenticated each piece of Continental
currency by personally signing it. In 1800, he moved with
the federal government from Philadelphia to the City of
Washington. He purchased a residence in the Georgetown area,
first at 3101 P Street and later acquired Cedar Hill (as
Dumbarton House was historically named) in 1804. As Register of
the Treasury, he worked closely with four administrations and
early political leaders of the new nations. When Andrew
Jackson was elected President in 1829, Joseph Nourse was forced
from office. Signature removed from a 1792 document. Approx.
4 x 3-3/8 in.............60-80
12. [MAINE] Benjamin Lincoln (1802-1835) graduated from Bowdoin College in 1822 and studied medicine for five years before practicing in Boston, Massachusetts, and Burlington, Vermont. He also lectured in medicine for the University of Vermont and the University of Maryland. He returned home to Dennysville before his death on February 26, 1835. ALS, folded stampless letter, Bowdoin College [Maine], 1821, 1p, plus manuscript address leaf. To John R. Parker in Boston. He sends $3 membership fee in behalf of the Pan-Harmonic Society. VG...............75-100
13. [GOLF] 2 golf covers, one signed by
Billy Casper, Tom Watson, Ray Floyd & Tom Weiskoph.
The other signed by Jose Maria Olazabal. Both
VG.............50-75
14. [GOLF] "Fuzzy" Zoeller, Jr. (b.1951) American professional golfer who has won ten PGA Tour events including two major championships. He is one of three golfers to have won the Masters Tournament in his first appearance in the event. He also won the 1984 U.S. Open, which earned him the 1985 Bob Jones Award. Signed color page on the inside of a 1987 Pebble Beach National Pro-Am program. VG............50-75
15. Mark Hatfield (1922-2011) a Republican, he served for 30 years as a United States Senator from Oregon. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo dated 1984. VG.............25-35
16. LORD JOHN MANNERS (1818-1906) 7th duke (1888); a Conservative leader in Parliament (1841-88); a leader of Young England party (1843-47); held offices in Conservative ministries (between 1852 and 1892); postmaster general (1874-80, 1885-86); advocate of factory reform, general system of allotments, Irish disestablishment. Author of England' s Trust and other Poems (1841), English Ballads and other Poems (1850), and notes on Irish and Scottish tours (1848-49). Autograph Letter Signed, nd, written in the 3rd person. Begins with "Lord John Manners presents his compliments...."................25-35
17.
[FILM & THEATRE] 4 SIGNED vintage photos [postcard size] of
British actors: [1] Leslie Lincoln Henson [1891-1957] comedian. [2] Raiph Lynn [1882-1962] stage & screen. Signature
possibly facsimilie. [3] Harry Welchman [1886-1966] early silent screen. [4] Edward
O'Connor Terry [1844-1912] one of the most influential actors of
the Victorian era. Signed photo dated 1907. Superb photo
although signed in dark area...........75-100 See
photos
18. [FILM] Sidney Blackmer [1895-1973]
American actor. He was a major character actor in more than 120
films. He won the 1950 Tony Award for Best Actor (Drama) for his
role in the Broadway play, Come Back, Little Sheba. In film,
Blackmer is remembered for his more than a dozen portrayals of
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and for his role in the
Academy Award-winning 1968 Roman Polanski film about urban New
York witches, Rosemary's Baby, in which he played an
over-solicitous neighbor. Brief ALS written on bottom of a fan's
form letter, no date........40-60
See Blackmer
19. [POET] Paul
Hamilton Hayne [1830-1886]. American poet, b.
Charleston, S.C. ANS, 1881, on 4 x 3-1/4
slip............100-150
See above
LOT 20. Offered here is an
archive of materials, approximately 95 items,
consisting of 46 letters (personal and business)
and receipts, billheads, memoranda, envelopes, all relating
to the family of John W. Park. JOHN
W.PARK (b. 1832) was, for some fifty
years, the foremost lawyer in Coweta Circuit, Georgia. He
was one of the organizers of the Georgia Bar Association,
later becoming its president. During the Civil War, Park was
a major in the 1st Georgia Regiment of Reserves, serving
until Lee's surrender at Appomattox.. Two letters here were
written by Park himself, and some ten envelopes bear his
notations and initials (JWP). A number of letters from
family members, including his son ORVILLE AUGUSTUS PARK (b.
1872), who graduated from Vanderbilt College Law Department
in 1893, opened practice in Macon, Georgia, and who, for
many years partnered with Andrew W. Lane; in 1898 Orville
was elected Secretary of the Georgia Bar Association and
taught at Mercer College, plus otherletters to him
concerning legal matters, etc. A nice lot from this
Confederate officer. Condition of the material varies from
excellent to fair (majority quite good), with expected
folds, some soiling/ spotting, occasional edge tears/ small
paper losses, etc................200-300
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LOT 21. Offered here is a
fine, small archive of (12) 19th century letters, dated from
1823 to 1846, all letters sent to Eli Beatty at the
Hagerstown, MD Bank, with various postal cancels (including
Georgetown, DC, Chambersburg [3], Baltimore [7], and
Frederick), with all letters being brief 1p. ALS's or
partly-printed LS's, and all with financial content.
The sizes of the letters vary some, but generally around 8"
x 10", with the expected folds and seal tears/ hole (none
effects the content of letter), a few with partial panel cut
away, some light toning-- overall in very good
condition. ELIE BEATTY (d. 1859), the institution's
cashier and president, was a prominent citizen of
Hagerstown, Maryland, having served as assistant postmaster,
bank president, and a member of the Hagerstown Academy's
board of directors. Founded on March 12, 1807, the
Hagerstown Bank was originally a business association headed
by Colonel Nathaniel Rochester. During its early years, the
Hagerstown Bank operated from Colonel Rochester's home,
which had been modified to house the institution. The bank's
capital stock was limited to $500,000, divided into 10,000
shares valued at $50 each. One-tenth of the original stock
was "reserved for the use and benefit of the State of
Maryland," while the remaining 9,000 shares were divided
between Hagerstown (5,000 shares), Baltimore (2,000 shares),
and Frederick (1,000 shares). The bank flourished throughout
the antebellum decades, surviving numerous financial panics
and depressions. In May 1810, the Bank's stock commanded a
twenty-five percent premium and shares were in great demand.
While the Williamsport Bank suspended payment during the
1837 Banking Panic, and Mineral Bank in Cumberland failed in
1858, the Hagerstown Bank continued to expand. In 1837, the
bank had $126,127 on deposit, $45,500 of which was in
specie. The bank also owned real estate valued at $11,500
and had $214,000 in circulation.
Among the original officers were Nathaniel
Rochester, President, and Elie Beatty, Cashier. Beatty, who
also served as clerk and teller, received an annual salary
of $500. Before accepting his position with the bank, Beatty
served as Hagerstown's assistant postmaster under Colonel
Rochester. In 1810, Rochester moved to western New York,
where he founded the city of Rochester. William Heyser
succeeded Rochester as president of the Hagerstown Bank,
while Beatty retained his position as cashier, teller, and
clerk. Upon Heyser's death in 1831, Elie Beatty became
president of the bank, with Daniel Sprigg serving as
cashier. Beatty's tenure as president of the Hagerstown Bank
was brief. In 1833, Otho Lawrence was elected president, and
Beatty resumed his position as cashier. Beatty resigned his
position on April 23, 1859, citing "feeble health and the
infirmities of age." Beatty died on May 5, 1859 at the age
of eighty-three.
Beatty's death prompted an outpouring of
sympathy from his friends and business associates. The
Hagerstown Bank's Board of Directors ordered that "the Bank
will be closed and suitably draped in mourning during the
present week" and praised their late cashier's "unblemished
official reputation." At the Hagerstown Academy, where
Beatty served as a trustee, students pledged to "accompany,
in a body, the remains of our deceased friend to his final
resting place and wear the usual badge of mourning." Beatty
was interred at the Hagerstown Episcopal Church on Saturday,
May 7, 1859, his body accompanied by the directors and
officers of the bank, students from the Hagerstown Academy,
and "a large number of citizens of the town." The
Hagerstown Bank remains in operation as the Hagerstown Bank
and Trust Company.........150-200
22.
JAMES HASELL
(d. 1785) was the acting governor of North Carolina in the
summer of 1771 (and again in 1774) after William Tryon
departed for his new post in New York and while Josiah
Martin was delayed due to illness. He served as president of
the Council from 1760 to 1775, and in that capacity
performed the duties of acting governor of North Carolina on
several occasions. Son of merchant James Hasell, the younger
Hasell was originally from Bristol, England. He immigrated
to the American colonies where he lived briefly in
Philadelphia before settling in New Hanover County, North
Carolina prior to 1735. Hasell married twice, first to
Susannah (or Sarah) Sampson and second to Ann Sophia Von
Blade Durlace. He and his first wife had a son,
James. Acquiring over 2,000 acres and three
Wilmington town lots by the 1740’s, James Hasell was one of
the largest landowners in New Hanover County. Having served
as a justice of the peace since 1739 and having risen to
social prominence, Hasell caught the attention of Governor
Gabriel Johnston. In 1747 Johnston nominated Hasell to the
royal Council; he was seated October 2, 1749, upon the death
of Edward Moseley. Although he had no formal legal
training, much of Hasell's career in the colony was tied to
the higher courts—those above the county level. He served as
chief justice of the General Court (and its later offshoots,
both supreme and superior courts) from 1750 to 1755, 1758,
to 1759, and 1766 to 1767. In September 1753 he was named
chief baron of the Exchequer Court, a largely honorary
function that paid a salary of £40 a year. He retained this
office until the American Revolution, resigning it
temporarily in 1758 and 1766 during his brief service as
chief justice. Governor Arthur Dobbs, who criticized his
lack of formal training in 1754, saw fit to appoint Hasell
chief justice again in 1758 on the death of Peter Henly,
while Governor William Tryon praised Hasell as chief justice
in 1767.
Despite his distinguished service on the bench, it was as a
royal councillor that Hasell performed his major services.
His work in the Council was commended by governors Dobbs,
Tryon, and Josiah Martin, all of whom frequently sought his
counsel, and his loyalty to the Crown was steadfast. Hasell
served on the Council until it was abolished in 1775 and was
its most dominant member during its final fifteen years.
Martin even tried to have him made lieutenant governor in
1771. Whereas some councillors vacillated during the Stamp
Act agitation in 1765, Hasell openly supported Crown policy.
During the critical years just before the Revolution, he
remained the only councillor on whom Governor Martin felt he
could rely consistently. Hasell was president of the Council
from early 1760 to 1775, and as such sometimes acted as
chief executive during the governor's absence from the
colony, serving, for example, after Tryon departed in 1771
and before Martin arrived. When Martin was in New York on
business in January 1775, Hasell prorogued the Assembly
because of the revolutionary fervor building there. In April
he urged the governor to disrupt the Provincial Congress
when every other councillor advised caution. As a long-time
member of the executive council, Hasell held the distinction
of having been present at more meetings than any other
member, attending 368 meetings, just over 80 percent of the
meetings for which he was responsible. In addition to his
dependability, Hasell had a distinguished career on the
council, serving several governors who relied upon him and
commended him for his advice and unwavering loyalty to the
crown. Josiah Martin, in particular, found Hasell to be his
most trusted confidant and tried to have him appointed
lieutenant governor. Hasell was not timid in his leadership.
As acting governor in January 1775, he terminated the
Assembly due to its perceived revolutionary spirit.
James Hasell’s hobby was book collecting, and during his
lifetime he accumulated one of the largest libraries in
North Carolina. Many of his books are now in the North
Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill. In his will, probated in 1785, Hasell left to
his son James twenty pounds sterling with which to purchase
mourning clothes, his own clothing, a gold watch, his riding
horse, and the family “pictures.” He left his stepdaughter
Ann the same amount of money designated for mourning
clothes. To his wife, Sophia, he left the rest of his
estate, including over 12,000 acres of land. The property
was confiscated after his death, but returned to the heirs
in 1802.
Offered here is a 1p. partly-printed DS, 7 3/4" x 12 1/2",
dated May 31, 1758 (w/ two 7 1/4" x 6" sheets attached to it
by string, one MD(unsigned) of Court costs and a 1p.
partly-printed DS, signed Jas. Hasell), all documents being
State of North Carolina legal documents to the Sheriff of
Anson County, notifying him that Samuel McGiliviney(?) "...
lately in our Supreme Court of Justice, Oyer and Terminer,
and General Goal Delivery, to be held for our Counties of
Orange Rowan and Anson recovered against James Armour of the
County of Anson Planter the sum of thirty six pound money in
a Certain Action on the Case...," signed Jas. Hasell.
Folds (small central breaks/ holes), some edge wear,
toning-- overall very good.........500-750
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23. [NORTH CAROLINA] MONTFORT STOKES
(1762-1842) was a distinguished citizen from North
Carolina. At the age of 13, Stokes enlisted in the
U.S. Merchant Marine, and during the Revolutionary War was
captured by the British and confined on board the British
prison ship "Jersey" for seven months. After the War,
Stokes would hold the rank of major general in the state
militia (1804-1816). In 1816, Stokes would become U.S
Senator and serve until 1823. Later, he would serve as
Governor of North Carolina (1830-1832). In 1832,
President Andrew Jackson appointed Stokes to head the
Federal Indian Commission where he oversaw the relocation
and resettlement of tribes in the American southeast
(Cherokee, Seneca, Shawnee, and Quapaw). In order to
perform his duties, Stokes moved to Fort Gibson in Oklahoma,
serving until his death in 1842. He is believed to be
the only soldier of the American Revolutionary War to be
buried in Oklahoma. Offered here is a 1p.
partly-printed DS, 8" x 7", dated September 28, 1799, A
State of North Carolina Sheriff's summons commanding him"...
that of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of
Alexander Fate heretofore Alexander Joyce if to be found in
your bailiwick you cause to be made the sum of Sixteen
pounds Eight Shillings & six pence Current
money...[which] in Salisbury, Samuel French recovered
against him...," signed M. Stokes, and on verso signed John
Fields (Dept. Sheriff), Will Bushell (Clerk) and Jn. Matlock
(Sheriff). JOHN MATLOCK
(c.1753-1838) served in the Revolutionary War, in Nelson's
Company of the 1st Regiment (1776-1779). He
participated in a number of major battles, including:
Brandywine, Germantown, Sandy Hook, Stony Point, and
Whitesell's Mills, being discharged in 1779 with the rank of
sergeant. Matlock was given 428 acres for his military
service. From 1798 to 1799 he served as High
Sheriff. VG...............150-250
24.
FINE Pension Archive CIVIL WAR Vet PETER HANYAN Badly Burned
MOH Winner J. BLACK - Offered here is a large lot of (18)
documents/ ALS's/and TLS's [some 35pp. total] pertaining to the
pension case of Civil War veteran Peter Hanyan, who served in Co
"B" Battalion Engineers, United States Army. Hanyan enlisted
Feb. 1864 and was discharged Feb. 1867. Prior to his discharge,
Hanyan was severely injured when a lamp in the Post billiard
room exploded , setting fire to his clothes, Nov. 1866. He
inhaled the flames and was in poor health until he died in
1873. The pension case instituted by his widow was handled
by attorney Darwin W. Esmond of Newburgh, NY. These
documents range in date from 1882 to 1890, with sizes varying
from 5 3/4" x 3" to 8" x 12 1/2", with many either from Esmond
or directed to him. Some highlights of this lot
include: (1) an 1882 LS on Department of the Interior
Pension Office stationery from Commissioner Wm. W. Dudley,
notifying Esmond "... medical evidence is required showing the
physical condition of the soldier from his discharge until his
death..."; (2) an 1882 Memorandum to Judge Avery (1821-1899)
from Esmond, asking "... Can you not hurry up the affidavit
which I sent you some time ago, in the 'Estella Hanyan' case..."
[with Avery's reply written on the verso of the
Memorandum: "...I have tried hard to obtain what you
want. I think Doct. Monroe of this place attended to ( ? )
some but for the life of me I cant get him to look up his
case..."]; (3) TWO letters from General John Charles Black,
Civil War Medal of Honor winner, as Department of Interior
Commissioner, one with an ink signature and dated 1886, sent to
Lewis Beach [a member of the House of Representatives],
informing Beach that "... I have caused the evidence in the
claim No. 282,766, of the Guardian of the Minor child of Peter
Hanyan, late of Co. 'B', U.S. Engr. Battn. to be carefully
examined and have personally directed that the claim be
disallowed on the ground that the soldier was not in the line of
duty when he incurred the injuries alleged to have resulted in
his death..." and another lengthy 8pp. review [after another
appeal], dated Feb. 14, 1887, with a STAMPED signature of Black,
sent to Esmond and ruling again against the appeal: "...
It appears that the soldier on whose account pension is claimed,
enlisted on the 24th day of Feb. 1864, and was assigned to Co.
B, Battalion United States Engineers, and discharged Feb. 24,
1867, an artificer... The rolls of the above named company show
this soldier sick from Nov. 4, 1866, to date of his discharge,
Feb. 24, 1867... The present company commander... reports as
follows: 'enlisted men now present with the company and
who knew Hanyan at the time he was a member, state that on the
evening of Nov. 3, 1866, when he was in the Post billiard room,
a lamp under which he was sitting exploded, setting fire to his
clothing, from which he sustained injuries sufficient to
disqualify him from performing duty... The claim was rejected
Jany. 21, 1886, on the grounds that the soldier was not in line
of duty when he received the injuries alleged to have resulted
in his death..."; and (4) a 2pp.ALS, dated 1889, sent to Esmond
by Estella Hanyan [Peter's wife], stating: "... I have
been waiting for the last two years and I have not heard
anything from you yet about them [pension papers]. I would
like to have my Papers. I have a friend who is going to
send Washington to a lawyer for me..." And in a typed, retained
copy reply dated Aug. 25, 1890, Esmond wrote to Estella:
"... I am still using every means to get your claim granted and
shall never give it up as long as I live..." So sad, that
17 years after the soldier's death, the widow's lawyer was still
trying to obtain a few dollars in pension claim-- being denied
because the death was not the result from LINE OF DUTY.
JOHN CHARLES BLACK (January 27, 1839 – August 17, 1915) was a
Democratic U.S. Congressman and received the Medal of Honor for
his actions as a Union Army lieutenant colonel and regimental
commander at the Battle of Prairie Grove during the American
Civil War. On April 14, 1861, Black (along with his
brother, William P. Black) entered the Union Army as a private
in the 11th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment on April 14,
1861. He became sergeant major on April 25, 1861.
After three months of service, the brothers were mustered out of
the volunteers and organized Company "K" of the 37th Illinois
Volunteer Infantry Regiment. John Black became major of
the regiment on September 5, 1861 He was wounded in the
right arm at the Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas, on March 7,
1862. In July 12, 1862, John Black was promoted to the
rank of lieutenant colonel and became commander of the 37th
Illinois Infantry. Black led his regiment against a
fortified Confederate position during the Battle of Prairie
Grove, Arkansas on December 7, 1862. The unit suffered heavy
casualties and was eventually forced to retreat. Black himself
was seriously wounded. An 1896 review of numerous actions
during the war resulted in John Black being awarded the Medal of
Honor for his actions at Prairie Grove. Black's brother
William also received the medal, making them the first of five
pairs of brothers to both receive the Medal of Honor as of 2005.
On December 31, 1862, Black was promoted to colonel of the 37th
Illinois Infantry Regiment. He was given temporary command
of Brigade 1, Division 2, XIII Corps, Department of the Gulf,
between November 11, 1863 and February 11, 1864, of Brigade 3,
Division 2, Reserve Corps of the Department of the Gulf between
February 3, 1865 and February 18, 1865. and of Brigade 3
Division 2, XIII Corps, Department of the Gulf, between February
18, 1865 and March 5, 1865.
Black resigned his commission in the volunteer service on August
15, 1865. On January 13, 1866, President Andrew Johnson
nominated Black for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier
general of volunteers to rank from April 9, 1865, for gallant
services in the assault on Fort Blakeley, Alabama on that date,
and the U.S. Senate confirmed the appointment on March 12, 1866.
WILLIAM WADE DUDLEY (1842–1909), born in Weathersfield Bow,
Vermont, started life as a soldier in the American Civil War,
then became a lawyer, a government official and a Republican
campaigner. After studying at Phillips Academy, Danville
in Vermont, and at Russell Military Academy in New Haven,
Connecticut, he joined the army as captain of the Richmond City
Greys in the 19th Indiana Volunteers of the famed Iron Brigade.
After losing 79 percent of his men at the Battle of Gettysburg,
and having his right leg amputated on the field, he served as an
army inspector and judge advocate.
Following the end of the war he became a civilian lawyer in
1870, then the U.S. marshal for Indiana in 1879, commissioner of
pensions under appointment of Presidents James Garfield and
Chester A. Arthur in 1881. In 1888 he was appointed Treasurer of
the Republican National Committee. He returned to practicing law
in 1887.
The documents here are in overall excellent condition, with the
expected folds, some minor edge wear/ occasional bent corner,
light toning issues..................400-600
25. [FRANCE] MYSTERY
DOCUMENT DATED 1699 from France, signed 1page on paper. Comes
with pages in French that describes this document. Neither are
translated. VG..............100-150
See above
Description
26. [ART] DOUGLAS VOLK [1856-1935] AMERICAN ARTIST. Douglas was born to be an artist. His father was the famous sculptor Leonard Wells Volk and his mother Emily Barlow Volk was counsin to Senator Steven Douglas. At a young age Douglas showed an ability to draw and was taken seriously later studying with George Inness, and at age 14 took classes at the Accademia San Luca in Italy. In 1873 Volk went to Paris to study at Ecole des Beaux Arts with the Master Jean-Leon Gerome. When he returned to the U.S. he began teaching at The Cooper Institute in New York and in 1886 was founder of the Minneapolis School Of Fine Art. In 1893 Volk was chosen for the selection committee at the Columbian Expo where he exhibited three paintings and the the gold medal, his first major award. In 1899 the National Academy granted him membership. His paintings hang in many important collections including the Metropolitan Museum in NY. Douglas Volk first ventured into Lincoln portraiture in 1908, and that canvas, reworked in 1917, eventually found its way into the National Gallery of Art. It also achieved a kind of anonymous familiarity between 1954 and 1968, when it was featured on the regular four-cent U.S. postage stamp. When in 1860, Lincoln sat in Leonard Volk's studio, a liittle child was running in and out. The great man took him on his knee and asked his name. It was Douglas. It was this boy, long grown to manhood who was the paint one of the most famous portraits of Lincoln. One of his Lincoln portraits hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom in The White House. Collection of 15 signed bank checks, dating 1906-1921...........200-300
See above
28. James Truslow
Adams (1878-1949) American writer
and historian. He was not related to the famous Adams family
(though he wrote a book about the family in 1930). He was not an
academic, but a freelance author who helped to popularize the
latest scholarship about American history and his 3-volume
history of New England is well regarded by scholars. Brief
TLS, 1949, approx. 5-1/4 x 6-1/2 in.
Fine..............60-80
See above
29. [FILM] Milton Ebbins -
original retained copy of a memo sent by Ebbins to Peter
Lawford regarding Patty Duke for "Ginger" or "The Fastest
Girl in Town." Unusual behind-the-scenes.
VG..........50-75
See above
30. [FILM] MILTON EBBINS
(1912-2008) talent manager of jazz greats and a
Kennedy administration and Rat Pack insider,
composer. Ebbins started his career in the early
1930s as a trumpet player and bandleader. He left his
career as bandleader and became a talent manager,
rising to become one of Hollywood’s top personal
managers, guiding the careers of Count Basie, Sarah
Vaughn, Billy Eckstine and singer Vic Damone. Because
of Ebbins’ musical background and his adeptness at
arranging scores, he had a knack for picking hit songs
for his clients. He also represented actresses
Elizabeth Montgomery and Patty Duke, comedian Mort
Sahl and actor Peter Lawford, who Ebbins managed for
35 years. Ebbins’ partnership with Lawford — who was
married to President Kennedy’s sister, Patricia—
brought him into close association with The Rat Pack
and the Kennedy Clan. Ebbins produced many of
his clients’ film and television projects and was
partnered in a company with Lawford that produced TV
series, “The Patty Duke Show.” He associate produced
the 1950s TV series’ “The Thin Man” starring Lawford
and Phyllis Kirk. He also produced two films starring
Rat Packers Lawford and Sammy Davis Jr. — “Salt and
Pepper” (1968) and “One More Time” (1970). He helped
set up the original Rat Packer film, “Ocean’s Eleven”
and subsequently “Sergeants 3.” He was also involved
in the production of “The Longest Day.” Ebbins
helped produce JFK’s 1961 Inaugural Ball and the
subsequent 1962 JFK Anniversary Gala. In May of 1962,
Ebbins escorted a very late Marilyn Monroe to Madison
Square Garden where she famously — and breathlessly —
sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President.” He was also the
man that Lawford called after speaking to Monroe the
night of her death in August of 1962. Ebbins was one
of the few allowed inside the White House after the
JFK assassination. As the link between Washington and
Hollywood, Ebbins helped Kennedy family patriarch and
former ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy navigate through
the movie business, not only keeping him apprised of
his son-in-law’s career moves but at one point
advising him against purchasing United Artists’ movie
studio. At the time of his death, Ebbins was working
with his friend, actor Bill Paxton, on an HBO project
about the Kennedy assassination.
Offered here is a page of handwritten notes
written by Ebbins, not signed, approx. 5 x
7-1/4 in. Mentions Roman Polanski, the
writer-Director, including his phone number;
a small picture deal Jerzy Skolomowski - Dir.
during 1968 $250,000 per picture etc.
VG..............50-75
31. MYSTERY LOT of about 93 pieces from 19th & 20th century. Includes: letters; documents; a few autographs; 5 bank checks signed by the noted artist, Douglas Volk, known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, one used on postage stamp, and various ephemera. Oldest item in this lot is 1838. There is also an 1842 document signed by R.G. Hazard [look him up], and a 1945 TLS by Commodore Badt. Good lot for eBay sellers or those who like researching items.....125-225
32.
[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 is
a 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
33. [MYSTERY LOT]
includes: Warner Bros. pay check, 1985, signed on verso by
Mildred Natwick (1905-1994)
Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American stage,
film and television actress. Also includes: 1826
Providence, RI, document signed by R.G.
Hazard [cancel hole over signature. Roland
G. hazard (1801-1888) was an American industrialist, politician,
and social reformer. Also a signature of Samuel
Griswold Goodrich (1793-1860) was an
American author, better known under the pseudonym Peter Parley.
Also: H.G. Neville -
clip signature with cdv; a 4-page handout on
Socialism; Max Gebhard SECKENDORFF (1852-1911).
American journalist; chief, Washington bureau of the "New York
Tribune" (1883-1911); a very influential journalist between
the time of President Chester Arthur and President William
Howard Taft. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1911; 1921 bank checks
signed by the noted artist, Douglas Volk, known for his
portraits of Abraham Lincoln. 9
Limerick National Bank checks [Maine]; antique
engraved port of Philip Syng Physick; TLS, 1946
signed by Commander F.T. Williamson, to congressman Phlip J.
Philbin; plus various other pieces. Approx. 85 pieces. Good lot for eBay sellers or those
who like researching items............80-120
34.
[FRANCE]
Two French Mystery
Documents, identified as being from
the Burgundy region - one possibly a Birth
Certificate. Small documented is dated 1753,
the larger one has several dates but appears to be
from 1726. As you can see there a piece missing at
edge on 1753 document..............100-150
Front
sides
Back
sides
35. [ENTERTAINERS] group of 4 signed
items: Amy Grant - signed & inscribed 8x10
photo; Debbie Reynolds - signed & inscribed 4x5
photo; Della [Reese] signed 3x5 card; Juliet Mills -
signed 3x5 card. All VG............40-60
37. [SPACE PHOTOGRAPHY] WILLENE WHISENHANT - early NASA photographer. Offered here is an original b/w vintage photograph of astronaut Gordon Cooper strapped in centrifuge at Naval Air Development Center, Johnsville, Pa. NASA S-63-3978. The photographer writes "Gordo Cooper in Centrifuse" below image. Provenance: from the personal files of Willene Whisenhant, the photographer. Fine.........60-80
See Photograph
39. [NAVAL] Richmond
Pearson Hobson (1870-1937) was a United
States Navy Rear Admiral who served from 1907–1915 as a U.S.
Representative from Alabama. A veteran of the Spanish–American
War, he received the Medal of Honor years later for his part in
that conflict. SIGNATURE. VG................50-75
See above
40. [AMERICANA MIXED LOT] [1] an 1852 engraving of the Indiana Institute for the Education of the Blind. [2] R.C. Winthrop (1809-1894) Am. lawyer and philanthropist and one time Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Clip signature. Mounting trace show thru. [3] Richard Salter Storrs (1821-1900)American Congregational clergyman of considerable note. He was pastor of the Harvard Congregational church of Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1845-1846, and of the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, New York, from 1846 until shortly before his death. He was a conservative in theology, and an historical writer of considerable ability. From 1848 to 1861, he was associate editor of the New York Independent , which he had helped to establish; from 1887 to 1897 he was president of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions, and he was prominent in the Long Island Historical Society. Brief ALS, Brookyn [NY], May 14, no yr. Re: Sunday School meeting. Letter appears to have been cropped along left edge, although no loss of text.. [4] Rose Eytinge (1838 - 1911) was an American actress and author, born in Philadelphia. From 1862 to 1869 she played in various theatres in New York City and then went abroad with her second husband, Col. George H. Butler, Consul General to Egypt. SIGNED CARD, 4 x 2-7/8". [5] [MICHIGAN] STRICKLAND, Randolph, a Representative from Michigan; born in Dansville, N.Y., February 4, 1823; attended the common schools; moved to Michigan in 1844 and taught school in Ingham County; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1849 and commenced practice in De Witt, Clinton County, Mich.; moved to St. Johns, Clinton County, and continued the practice of law; elected prosecuting attorney for Clinton County in 1852, 1854, 1856, 1858, and 1862; member of the State senate in 1861 and 1862; provost marshal of the Sixth Congressional District 1863-1865; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1856 and 1868; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1870; resumed the practice of law; died in Battle Creek, Mich., May 5, 1880; interment in De Witt Cemetery, De Witt, Mich. SIGNED album page. Large signature, St. Johns, Mich. [6] [PENN] John Heinz [1938-1991] US Senator from Penn. He died in a tragic plane crash. TLS, 1986, 1p. Routine content [sending autograph]. [7] 1839 wood-engraving - View of Lowell, Mass. [8] John Sherman Cooper - US senator from Ky. Clip signature. [9] Alexander Wiley (1884-1967) was a member of the Republican Party who served four terms in the United States Senate for the state of Wisconsin from 1939 to 1963. Signed 1948 FDC honoring Wisc. Statehood............80-120
LOT 41. (AMERICAN LITERATURE LOT
Christopher Morley
(1890 – 1957) American journalist, novelist, essayist and
poet. SIGNATURE from Return Address Label. Comer Vann Woodward (1908
–1999) preeminent American historian focusing primarily on the
American South and race relations. ANS, 1982. Richard Wilbur (1921)
American poet. Twice received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry,
Poet Laureate. ANS 1973. AUSTINE M. HEARST
(1919-1991) In 1946, she became a reporter at The
Washington Times-Herald. She wrote a sociey column, "Under My
Hat," and later wrote a syndicated column, "From the Capital."
She was also a commentator for the Columbia Broadcasting
System. SIGNED 7x9 photograph (fold in middle). John Patrick ( 1905
–1995) American playwright and screenwriter. His play “The
Teahouse of the August Moon” won the Pulitzer Prize. ANS,
quoting a line from “Teahouse”. Frank
Jenners Wilstach (1865-1933) American
theatrical business manager, press agent, author, and compiler
of A Dictionary of Similes. In addition to the dictionary, which
was first published in 1916, he wrote a book and articles about
Wild Bill Hickok. Collection consists of correspondence,
writings and other papers of Frank J. Wilstach and his father,
John A. Wilstach. General correspondence, 1873-1933. RARE
SIGNED 8x11 matte finish photograph with lengthy inscription
1929. (top edge very faulty, corners missing) portrait
photograph. Michael Gedaliah
Kammen (1936 –2013) professor of American
cultural history in the Department of History at Cornell
University, Author and writer. ALS, 1973. And another Comer Vann Woodward (1908
–1999) TNS 1984.................80-120
LOT 42 (BRITISH
ARTISTS/PAINTERS/SCULPTORS) WILLIAM
HOLMAN HUNT (1827-1910) Painter, one of the
founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Clipped SIGNATURE.
ALGERNON NEWTON
(1880-1945) SIGNED 4x7 book print (1928). SIR FRANCIS GRANT (1838-1878)
Artist and Portrait painter. He painted a most noted early young
portrait of Queen Victoria, he was President of the Royal
Academy. Clipped SIGNATURE MARY
THORNYCROFT (1814-1895) Sculptor,
grandmother of Siegfried Sassoon She made notable busts of
Queen Victoria’s Children. SIGNATURE. HERBERT G. C. S. CARMICHAEL
(1856-1935) Painter noted for his classical and exotic history
paintings. SIGNATURE with sentiment. HENRY W. BANKS DAVIS (1833-1914)
Painter noted for his pastoral scenes and landscapes.
ALS,1p. no year...............80-120
LOT 43 (BRITISH ARTISTS/PAINTERS/SCULPTORS) HENRY HUGH ARMSTEAD (1828-1905) Sculptor/Illustrator. SIGNATURE (1902). WILLIAM B. E. RANKEN (1881-1941) Portrait painter. SIGNED 4x6 print of his portrait of Queen Mary. OLIVER HALL (1869-1957) Landscape Painter. ANS, (1894). ROBERT EURICH 1903-1992) Painter Known for his being a War Artist. SIGNED card. JOHN SARGENT NOBLE (1848-1896) Painter known for his Dog Paintings which were hugely popular. ALS (1891) 3pp. JAMES DRUMMOND (1816-1877) Scottish Painter. SIGNATURE sentiment from ALS. PETER TURNERELLIS (1774-1839) Irish Sculptor Royal Sculptor to King George III. SIGNATURE from ALS. SAMUEL LOVER (1797-1868) Scottish songwriter, novelist and portrait painter. Clipped SIGNATURE............80-120
LOT
44. (AMERICAN LITERATURE LOT) Richard Wilbur
(b. 1921) American poet and literary translator. He
was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry
to the Library of Congress in 1987, and twice received the
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, in 1957 and again in 1989.
SIGNATURE, inscribed 2000. Theodore
Russell Weiss (1916-2003) American
poet, and literary magazine editor. He edited (with his
wife, Renee Karol Weiss) Quarterly Review of Literature,
which published William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, E.
E. Cummings, and Ezra Pound.In 1987, he was the subject of a
documentary, Living Poetry: A Year in the Life of a Poem,
made by Harvey Edwards. ALS, 1973. Eleanor Clark Warren (1913
–1996) American writer. She was married to Robert Penn
Warren. TLS,1990. Paul
Henry de Kruif 1890 -1971) American
microbiologist and author. He is most noted for his 1926
book, Microbe Hunters. This book was not only a bestseller
for a lengthy period after publication, it has remained high
on lists of recommended reading for science and has been an
inspiration for many aspiring physicians and scientists.
TLS, 1957. George
Herbert Palmer (1842 –1933) American
scholar and author. ALS, 1908, 2pp. William Babcock Weeden
(1834-1912) American Historian, author. ALS,1910, 2pp.
James Russell Wiggins
(1903 –2000) managing editor of The Washington Post and
United States Ambassador to the United Nations. After his
tenure as ambassador, Wiggins moved to Brooklin, Maine where
he became editor and publisher of the The Ellsworth American
of Ellsworth, Maine. SIGNED 8x10 photograph; signed in
dark area [poor contrast]..............70-90
45.
[FRANCE] Aime Giron
(1836-1907) French poet, writer, lawyer. Aimé Giron began
his literary career by publishing poems which appeared in the
Revue de Paris, while continuing his legal career in his
hometown, where he was secretary of the Academic society. In
1863 he published The Christmas Sabot (with illustrations by
Léopold Flameng) who met a great success and was translated into
several languages. He then published the poetry collection
The Strange Loves, and Three girls in 1864 and Mysterious new in
1866. In 1870 he abandoned as a lawyer to defend the
invaded territory. He moved to Bois-Colombes and becomes a
contributor to Figaro, the Gauls and France Illustrated.
In 1873 he published a new collection of poems Les Cordes de Fer
who obtained a warm welcome. He was one of the most prolific
writers of his time, finding his inspiration in history and
legends of the Velay. He described the most beautiful sites, he
has told the captions so that gave rise to the desire to know
the Haute-Loire, with warm enthusiasm that gives the love of
native soil. He was distinguished on numerous occasions
and in particular by the Academy of Floral Games and the French
Academy. It is decorated in July 1899 by the Spanish Queen
Regent of the Order of Charles III on behalf of King Alfonso
XIII, in return for pro-Spanish articles he published during the
Spanish-American War in 1898. Aimé Giron is the brother of
the painter Léon Giron and the father of the Egyptologist
Christmas Giron (Giron-loved Christmas). A street in the
Puy-en-Velay bears his name. Offered here is a handwritten
poem written on 4 sides of a approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4
in. pages. No signature or date. VG................100-150
46. [FILM] Catherine Deneuve (b.
1943) French actress who gained recognition for her
portrayal of aloof, mysterious beauties. She has
appeared in more than 120 films. A 14-time César Award
nominee, she won for her performances in François Truffaut's
The Last Metro (1980) and Régis Wargnier's Indochine
(1992). Signed photo, 3.5 x 5 in.
VG................40-60
47.
[FILM] Catherine Deneuve (b.
1943) French actress who gained recognition for her
portrayal of aloof, mysterious beauties. She has
appeared in more than 120 films. A 14-time César Award
nominee, she won for her performances in François Truffaut's
The Last Metro (1980) and Régis Wargnier's Indochine
(1992). Signed photo, 5-1/4 x 4-1/4 in.
VG................40-60
48. [FILM] Jane Russell (1921-2011) American film actress, and was one of Hollywood's leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s. TLS, 1989, 1p, signed Jane. Fine..............40-60
See above
49. [ART] Walt Kuhn
(1877-1949) Original metal etching plate, title unknown, c.
1920s , 5-3/4 x 4-5/8 in. Walt Kuhn was born in Brooklyn,
and after a period of study art in Europe, he returned to the US
to work as a cartoonist; illustrator, and developing artist.
Aware of the great surge of modernist artistic activity in
Europe, he joined with others to encourage Arthur B. Davies to
get behind the idea of bringing a great European modernist art
show to the US, and traveled with Davies to Europe to select art
for the occasion (which became the 1913 Armory Show).
Negligee was probably done c. 1920 when Kuhn, Davies, and a few
others in the US were experimenting with modernism as they
developed their printmaking skills. Kuhn successfully
continued printmaking and painting in a modernist mode for the
next 30 or so years. The picture of Kuhn was
borrowed and not offered for sale here. You are bidding on
the original plate only. ...............2500-3500
50. [FRANCE] Louis
Bourdeau
(1824–1900) French author of various scientific, technical
and academic subjects. Coinage of the word praxeology
is often credited to Louis Bourdeau, author of a
classification of the sciences, which he published in his
Théorie des sciences: Plan de Science intégrale in 1882.
However, the term was used at least once previously (with a
slight spelling difference), as far back as 1608, by Clemens
Timpler in his Philosophiae practicae systema
methodicum. ALS, 1893, 2pp. Blue pencil
notations and 2 file punch holes.....50-75
51. [RELIGION]
Étienne-Hubert de Cambacérès
(1756-1818) Archbishop of Rouen in 1802, cardinal in 1803 and
senator from 1805. He was younger brother of the jurist, Jean
Jacques Régis de Cambacérès the Duke of Parma. DOCUMENT
SIGNED, no year showing, 1p, 7-3/4 x 10". VG.........80-120
52. [ART] Walt Kuhn (1877-1949)
Original metal etching plate, title Vaudville, 3 Women, c. 1920s
, 7-1/2 x 5-3/4 in. Walt Kuhn was born in Brooklyn, and
after a period of study art in Europe, he returned to the US to
work as a cartoonist; illustrator, and developing artist. Aware
of the great surge of modernist artistic activity in Europe, he
joined with others to encourage Arthur B. Davies to get behind
the idea of bringing a great European modernist art show to the
US, and traveled with Davies to Europe to select art for the
occasion (which became the 1913 Armory Show). Negligee was
probably done c. 1920 when Kuhn, Davies, and a few others in the
US were experimenting with modernism as they developed their
printmaking skills. Kuhn successfully continued
printmaking and painting in a modernist mode for the next 30 or
so years. The picture of Kuhn was borrowed and not
offered for sale here. You are bidding on the original
plate only.......2500-3500
See etching plate
See
portrait of the artist
53. [ART] Walt Kuhn at the Marie Harriman
Gallery 1934 - Original exhibition catalog of work by
Walt Kuhn at the Marie Harriman Gallery, 61-63 East 57 Street,
New York, 8 pages, plus cover. There were 14 paintings in this
show, all are illustrated in this catalog. Staples are rusted.
Included is a signed 1965 bank check, signed by Brenda Kuhn, the
daughter of the artist. Provenance: Directly out of the Kuhn
Estate.............75-100
54. [ACTORS & ACTRESSES] multiple lot comprised of: [1] [THEATRE] Willis P. Sweatnam (1854-1930) Broadway actor. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio, died at the Lambs Club in NYC. The New York Times, November 26, 1930 said, " One of the Best End-Men Who Ever Cracked Jokes in a Minstrel Show. Organized Several Companies. Created a Score of Negro Characters in Comedies." Clip Signature mounted to blank page from autograph catalog. Has sentiment plus "St. James Hotel, New York." [2] [TV]Debbie Watson, (b. 1949) American movie and television actress. Born in Culver City, Los Angeles, she got her start on television, starring as the boy-struck teenage girl Karen Scott in the 1964 sitcom TV series Karen. She then went on to star in the 1965 rural themed sitcom TV series Tammy. Perhaps her best known film appearance was when she portrayed Marilyn Munster in Munster Go Home 1966. Signed [on lined side] 3x5 card. Fine. [3] [FILM] Virginia Madsen (b.1961) American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, having appeared in several films aimed at a teenage audience. Several decades later, she once again became known after an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated role in the 2004 film Sideways. SIGNED, inscribed "To John" 8x10 photo. VG. [4] [THEATRE] Wilson Barrett (1846-1904) English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodrama, an instance being his production of The Silver King (1882) at the Princess's Theatre of London. The historical tragedy The Sign of the Cross (1895) was Barrett's most successful play, both in England and in the United States. He writes on 4-7/8 x 3" slip "I am very Virginius Wilson Barrett." [5] [THEATRE] Marshall P. Wilder - vaudeville performer. Signature. [6] [THEATRE] Daniel Frohman (1851-1940) American theatrical producer and manager and an early film producer. CLIP SIGNATURE. [7] [FILM] Nick Stuart[1904-1973] serial star of THE LOST PLANET, THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN KIDD, etc. Signature, inscribed. Scarce!. [8] [FILM] PATRICIA NEAL - actress. Her signature on imprinted 3 x 5 card. [9] [CINEMA] Leo Chalzel [1901-1953] actor. In Ida Lipino's film "Men In White." Small clipping about him signed in ink, 1938........80-120
55. MYSTERY LOT of about 74 pieces from 19th & 20th century. Includes: letters; documents; and various ephemera. Oldest item in this lot is 1815. Good lot for eBay sellers or those who like researching items.....80-120
56. "Chuck" Jones (1912-2002) American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig and a slew of other Warner characters. Signed , inscribed 6x8 in. color print of various cartoon characters he developed. Dated 1985. VG...............80-120
See above
57. Frederic William Farrar (1831-1903)
was a cleric of the Church of England (Anglican), schoolteacher
and author. He was a pallbearer at the funeral of Charles Darwin
in 1882. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles secret
society. ALS, Westminster, April 9 [1877], 3pp. Mounting
traces on back of blank page; edge. Both affect
nothing.............50-75
58.
[FRANCE] Rare National Assembly Decret
dated August 16, 1792. Unusual way of
marking the year: Year 4 of Liberty {but not of Republic, as the
Republican calendar has not started yet. One month before
Abolition of Royalty, and the day before creation of the
Criminal Tribunal. Contains accusation of Louis Hardouin Tarbé,
senior French official. He was very attached to the king, he
managed to hide and subsequently refused any job. Signed
Danton in print, also signed Arrien & Marun in
ink. Approx. 7.5 x 9.5 in., 3pp. VG.........200-300
Offered here is a pioneer Kentucky document
from the Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky area, the
birthplace of the future United States President, Abraham
Lincoln. The provenance - originally from the Christopher
Bush Sr. (step-grandfather to Abraham Lincoln). These then
found their way into the collection of noted
59. [PIONEER KENTUCKY] Christopher
Bush and Isaac Bush -
and manuscript document signed by Isaac, Hardin Co., Ky, 1804,
approx. 7-1/2 x 12-3/4 in. We know that Christopher
Bush Jr. would have been 14 years old in 1804, and that
Christopher Bush Sr. could not write and signed with his X
mark. The body of this document is most certainly
written in the hand of Ben Helm [1767-1858]
Kentucky pioneer, born in Fairfax county, Va. Son of Capt.
Thomas Helm, a pioneer settler of Kentucky, who moved from
Virginia to the Falls of the Ohio in the fall of 1779. In the
spring of 1780 Capt. Helm, Col. Andrew Haynes and Samuel
Haycraft located where Elizabethtown now stands and built three
forts and blockhouses, locating them in a triangle one mile
apart, and they were known as Helm’s Station, Haynes’s Station,
and Haycraft’s Station. In 1801-03 Capt. Helm erected the first
brick house built there. Benjamin became a surveyor; was state
senator [1796-1800]; clerk of Hardin County courts [1800-17]; an
officer with the rank of major in the War of 1812; filed various
other offices of honor and trust in Kentucky; purchased the farm
owned by Christopher Bush, father of Mrs. Sallie [Sarah] Bush
Johnston Lincoln, step-mother of Abraham Lincoln; and was a
partner in the general store with Duff Green. He was one of the
most important men in Elizabethtown during its early
history. This is a court document concerning Christopher
Bush to answer to George Tobin. Two years after this
document was signed, in 1806, Thomas Lincoln [Abe's
father] loaned Isaac Bush fifteen pounds in gold, and two
days later Isaac ordered a new suit of clothes. There are
numerous entries of Isaac Bush in the Bleakley and Montgomery
store book. Thomas Lincoln's major transaction with Isaac,
however, was the purchase from him on December 12, 1808 of the
farm in Larue County where Abraham Lincoln was born the
following February. This farm later was in litigation and both
Lincoln and Bush had some difficulties in trying to clear their
titles. It is doubtful if either one of them came out of
the deal without suffering some loss in the venture. Very
good condition. Kentucky pioneer documents are fairly rare
and more so when there is a Lincoln connection..........400-600
See above
61. [KENTUCKY]
SAML. PATTON (b.
1757) was a sergeant in the American revolution; served under
General Anthony Wayne [1776-78] in Penn. Regiment and fought
at Battle of Brandywine. Document Signed, Hardin Co.,
Kentuckym 1805, 1p, 11-1/2 x 12-1/4 in. Difficult to see
but also signed Wm. Bush [below Patton signature] although we
believe that Patton signed for both. Never the
less, William Bush is mentioned along with Patton.
WILLIAM BUSH [born 1763] the eldest son of Christopher and
Hannah Bush, built a large 2-story house on his farm located
near what is today known as the Tunnel Hill Road, off present
Bardstown Road; it still stands, with the Bush family burial
ground nearby, where over 70 members of the Bush family are
buried. His sister, Sarah, married Thomas Lincoln after the
death of Nancy Hanks Lincoln. He grew up and worked at various
jobs and acquired land like his parents. In 1794 he married
Elizabeth Rhodes. Kentucky became a state in 1792, but the
legal problems of William Bush began much earlier. Although
prosperous, he was frequently entangled in lawsuits. His
reputation was guarded and he did not enjoy the respect
accorded other members of the Bush family. Bush didn’t
hesitate to charge others - and was accused himself of
criminal trespass. Thomas Lincoln was known to be
anti-slavery, and as a young boy Abraham probably observed
slaves being taken in chains to Southern markets, on the road
beside his home. In October of 1798, William Bush filed suit
against J. McCreey for uncollected debt after the delivery of
four slaves sold to him by Bush. History books have not dwelt
on the cantankerous nature of the President’s uncle by
marriage, William Bush, let alone the fact that there
was a slave-trader in the family. Excellent
condition..............300-400
62. [KENTUCKY] JACOB
VANMATER Jr. [1752-1838] Pioneer who
came from Virginia, by way of the Muddy Creek settlement in
southwestern Penn, to Seven’s Valley. Since there was then 3
Jacob Vanmaters [Van Meter] living in the valley then he was
known as “Miller Jake.” Best remembered for his services during
the Northwest Campaign as Captain of Militia under General
George Rogers Clark. There is pictured on page 198 in McClure’s
Elizabethtown & Hardin County, Kentucky 1776-1976, a picture
of his commission signed by the then Gov. of Virginia, Thomas
Jefferson. Jacob Vanmetre [Vanmater] has written a brief
signed docket on the verso. The document dates to circa
1811-13. Partial separation at fold lines. Court document
from Hardin Co., Ky concerning a debt...............200-300
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63. (KENTUCKY PIONEER) ROBERT BLEAKLEY - about
1801 Bleakley and Wm. Montgomery, two very interesting young
Irishmen, came to Elizabethtown and opened a dry goods store
with a stock of goods, and soon became very popular. The store
was opened in a log house at the corner of the Public
Square. Bleakley was engaged in the rebellion in Ireland
in 1798. He evaded Government officers by concealing himself in
a vessel and thus made his escape to the United States. Bleakley
remained some years after Montgomery left town, and acted as
sheriff for several years, and then settled on a farm and died
about 1850, leaving a large family. There is something
romantic and interesting in the history of these two men. Born
on the same island, engaged in the same rebellion, both
compelled to leave to save their lives; emigrating to the same
country, finding employment in the same establishment in
Baltimore, partners in merchandising in Elizabethtown,
Kentucky, marrying sisters, and then living and dying on
adjacent farms. It was in their general store that Tom
Lincoln [Abe Lincoln's father] purchased many items when he was
courting Nancy Hanks [mother of the
future president]. Offered here is a 1811 manuscript
document written and signed by
Front side
Back side
64. [KENTUCKY]
future president]. A court summons for Edward
Rawlings and Thomas Swan to answer a plea of debt owed
to John Geoghegan - son of Amrose, he inherited Hynes
Station, one of the original three forts from which
Elizabethtown sprang up.
Back
side
66. [FRANCE] Armand Seguin
(1767–1835) was a French chemist and
physiologist. In 1802, Bernard Courtois
worked with Armand Séguin at the École Polytechnique on
the study of opium. In conjunction with Séguin, Courtois
isolated morphine, the first known alkaloid, from opium.
Séguin presented his first memoir on opium to the French
Institute in 1804. Séguin's and Courtois' opium research
came to an end at the École Polytechnique in 1804. ALS,
no date, 1p, approx. 7-1/4 x 9". Not translated. VG
except for one short edge tear middle left border.
Rare!................150-200
See
Seguin letter
67. [FRANCE] DECRET De La Convention
Nationale, 28 July 1791, 2-pages, signed inprint Duport for
the King, 6-1/2 x 8-1/2". Concerns Principaute de Sedan. Very
fresh condition..........80-120 See
front
68. [FRANCE] Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux
(1853-1944) French statesman and historian. ALS, 1905, 3 pages.
VG............75-100
69.
LEMONNIER, (Antoine Louis) Camille (1844-1913), Belgian
novelist and art critic, founder of the Belgian literary
renaissance. Most of his fiction was influenced by the work
of the French writer Émile Zola, and is frank and
naturalistic in its descriptions of characters and analysis
of their behavior. His first successful novel was Un mâle
(1881), a vivid description of a rural setting; Le petit
homme de Dieu (The Little Man of God, 1902) is considered
one of his best works. Among his writings on Belgian art is
Histoire des beaux-arts en Belgique (1887). ALS [APPEARS TO
BE ONLY THE LAST PAGE SIGNED]............50-75
Page 1
Pages 2 & 3
Portrait of
Loew
72. Yellow album page signed by 4 congressmen
from Penn. ANTHONY, Joseph Biles, (1795 - 1851); CHAMBERS, George, (1786 - 1866); HARPER, James, (1780 - 1873); INGERSOLL, Joseph Reed,
(1786 - 1868). VG............30-40
73. Henry Hallam [1777-1859] English historian. OFFERED HERE: Handwritten note signed, approx. 4.5 x 3.5 in., invitation to meet Lady Morgan [probably Syndey Morgan celebrated author & intellectual]. Horizontal middle fold, very good condition.Chief works of Hallam - Europe during middle ages, Constitutional History England from Henry VII to George II, Intro to literature of Europe................40-60
74. (PAMPHLET) SPEECH of MR. GOGGIN, OF VIRGINIA, ON THE WAR WITH MEXICO, Delivered in the House of Rep., Feb. 1, 1848, 16pp, 8vo. VG........40-60
76. [MASS] Emory Washburn (1800-1877) American political figure. Born in Leicester, Massachusetts, Washburn was the 22nd Governor of Massachusetts from 1854 to 1855. He was elected as a member of the United States Whig Party defeating Henry W. Bishop (Democrat) and Henry Wilson (Free Soil) with 46% of the vote. A majority requirement being in effect, he became the last governor elected by the state senate in this fashion; as well as the last Whig. Along with distant cousin Ichabod Washburn, he helped found Worcester Polytechnic Institute. ALS, Cambridge [MA], July 8, 1861, 2pp. VG.........50-75
77. Julian Street (1879-1947) American author, born in Chicago. He was a reporter on the New York Mail and Express (later Evening Mail ) in 1899 and had charge of its dramatic department in 1900-01. His writings, characterized by a rather obvious but yet a genuine sense of humor. He made contributions to magazines. In 1915 he published a book on Theodore Roosevelt, called The Most Interesting American. He is credited with being the art critic who wrote that the painting exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show by Marcel Duchamp called Nude Descending a Staircase, resembled "an explosion in a shingle factory." Street moved to Princeton in the 1920s. The university houses his manuscript collection and a library is named after him there. Brief ALS, 1919, on 5 x 3-5/8" card. Accompanied by small vintage photo of Street [one crack lines across]............40-60
78. MYSTERY LOT of about
81 pieces from 19th & 20th century. Includes: letters;
documents; a few autographs; 5 bank checks signed by the noted
artist, Douglas Volk, known for his portraits of Abraham
Lincoln, one used on postage stamp, and various ephemera.
Oldest item in this lot is 1820. Good lot for eBay sellers or
those who like researching items.....100-150
79. [ART] Richard Huntington (b. 1936) American painter,
printmaker, and writer, is Critic Emeritus at The Buffalo News
and has written for High Performance magazine, ARTnews, and
Art New England. Most recently, he was a catalog essayist for
the exhibition Artpark: 1974–1984 at UB Art Gallery, Center
for the Arts; Forty: The Sabres and the NHL at the
Albright-Knox Art Gallery; and Duayne Hatchett, Form, Pattern,
and Invention, the catalogue for a retrospective exhibition at
the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo (2009). In
2007, Huntington won the Associated Press First Award for
Criticism and earlier, among a number of residencies, served
as visiting critic at the Kennedy Center for the Arts,
Washington, D.C. From 1982 to 1985, he was Visual Arts
Director at Artpark in Lewiston, New York. He has shown his
art nationally and internationally, with recent solo
exhibitions at the Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University,
New York (2008–2009); the Albright-Knox Collectors Gallery,
Buffalo (2008); and the JR Konsthallen, Linköping, Sweden
(2007). In 2010, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery included his
work in the international biennial Beyond/In Western New York
2010: Alternating Currents. In 2009, The Carey Berkus Studio
in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, included his work in a group
show representing Mexican and American artists.
Huntington holds a BFA from Syracuse University and a Master
of Art and Humanities from the University at Buffalo. He
divides his time between Buffalo and the town of San Miguel de
Allende in central Mexico. Original pastel and watercolor,
pencil signed and dated 1957, image 9 x 7 in. plus
margins..............100-150
See Huntington
80. [ART] Robert
Frederick Blum (1857-1903) American
artist born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was one of the youngest
members of the National Academy of Design, was President of the
Painters in Pastel, a member of the Society of American Artists,
and the American Watercolor Society. Original etching, titled A
LONDON SUBURB, in excellent condition with original tissue
paper cover still attached. Plate size 3-3/4 x 5-1/4 in.
VG................50-75
81. [BOXING] Chuck Wepner (b.
1939) as a world ranked contender he went fifteen rounds with
world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in a 1975 title fight.
Wepner claimed that he was the inspiration for the movie Rocky.
Signed newspaper clipping; also Joe Louis Jr. signed 3x5
card.................25-35
82. [MUSIC] circa 1820 printed broadside, LOW BACK'D CAR, approx. 5-3/4 x 9-3/4 in. Single sheet, four 13 line stanzas published in New York by T.M. Scroggy, ca. 1820. This is a Love Ballad. Condition is very good except for two light stains at the bottom...............60-80
83. [NAVAL] Robert F. Bradford
(1836-1892) Commander of the Navy. Bradford had served on
the “flying squadron” and blockading squadrons during the Civil
War, and retired as commandant of Portsmouth Naval Yard. ALS,
US Navy Yard, Portsmouth, NH, Commandant's Office, May 28,
1889, 1p, 7-3/4 x 10 in. Written to Henry R. Billings,
Kittery Point, Maine, appointing Billings a watchman at the navy
yard. VG.........60-80
84. Richard
Gordon Hatcher (b. 1933, Michigan City,
Indiana) became on January 1, 1968, the first African-American
Mayor of Gary, Indiana. He was the first Black candidate elected
mayor of a U.S. city larger than 100,000 people and the first
elected Black mayor in the state of Indiana. Carl Stokes was
elected days later as the mayor of Cleveland, and was sworn into
office prior to Hatcher's inauguration. Signed 8x10 photo
as Mayor. VG..............25-35
85. Maynard Holbrook Jackson,
Jr. (1938-2003) was an American politician, a member of the
Democratic Party, and the first African American mayor of
Atlanta, Georgia, serving three terms (1974–82, 1990–94).
Signed 8x10 photo, 1978. VG.............25-35
86. Barbara Jordan
(1936-1996) was a lawyer, educator, an American politician, and
a leader of the Civil Rights movement. A Democrat, she was the
first African American elected to the Texas Senate after
Reconstruction, the first southern black female elected to the
United States House of Representatives, and the first
African-American woman to deliver a keynote address at a
Democratic National Convention. She received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom, among numerous other honors. TLS, 1973 +
an unsigned photo. VG............25-35
87. Roy Innis
(b.1934) is an American activist and politician. He has been
National Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
since his election to the position in 1968. Signed &
inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........25-35
88. [ART] Original etching by Gaston-Louis Rodriguez, after a painting by Publio De Tommasi, titled GOLDEN DREAMS. The following is printed on the tissue guard: "This is a painter's picture, to which any one of a half dozen titles might be tacked, from the somewhat worn "Dolce far Niente" upwards. The artist has simply posed his model, this dark-haired, smiling Italian beauty, in a convenient dishabille, in a picturesque attitude, with an appropriate arrangement of flowers, draperies, etc., and painted her as a very superior article of studio bric-a-brac. The title of this no-subject comes afterwards, and can be most anything you please. The justification of the work lies, of course, in the artistic rendering of an excellent bit of color and texture, and the etcher gives us his word, in this very good translation, that the painter has done justice to his theme." The image is approx. 7-3/4 x 11-3/4" plus margins. Only faults at outer edges, well away from image area.............100-150
89. (MUSIC) G. BICKHAM [artist] - original engraved sheet of music. sheet size 14 x 8-1/2 in. At top of page is a handcolored engraving by Bickham. Slightly soiled from age. Slight chipping & small tears at top & bottom edges. Dates to 1737. Fine for framing. The Bickhams, George Sr. and George Jr., practiced their art and published their books in London in the late 1730s and 1740s, the period in which such people as William Hogarth and John Gay flourished. This fine print is from George Bickham Jr.'s "Musical Entertainer", a beautifully illustrated collection of songs set for amateur musicians. Little is known of the Bickhams' private lives. George Bickham Jr. (who did this print) died in 1758. Although George Jr. engraved the plates for The Musical Entertainer, the first editions were published and sold by his father. These musical prints are considered his finest work. This information was taken from Joan D. Dolmetsch's book "Eighteenth-Century Prints in Colonial America." Evidently these were some of the prints that were used to decorate the homes of our Colonial forefathers. This IS NOT a later copy..............100-150
90. [Theatre: Drury Lane] ALS of Samuel Spring to the Duke of Sussex, submitting a bill for two private boxes, together with the receited bill itself. Each 1p, 1816............80-120
91. Ornate Victorian Marriage Certificate, dated
1879, 11-1/2 x 15-1/2,
H.M. Crider Lithographer, York, Pa. Never used, has space for pictures of the bride
& groom, spaces to be filled in including witness
signatures. Printed partly in gold ink. Many possibilities. This
is old and not a recent printing. VG condition. Would look great
framed with old photos. Actually in superb
condition..........50-75
94. [STOCK
CERTIFICATE] Australian Royal
Mail Steam Navigation Co, stock certificate for
one share, 1852, approx. 9-1/4 x 7". VG..............200-300
95. [FRANCE] Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845-1904) French astronomer. Some sources give his middle name as Athanase. In his early career, he and Guillaume Bigourdan were assistants of Félix Tisserand at Toulouse Observatory. Later, he was the director of the Nice Observatory in Nice, France from 1884 until his death. He made observations of Mars and attempted to determine the rotation period of Venus. He also calculated perturbations in the orbit of 4 Vesta. Perrotin crater on Mars named in his honor. In the literature, he is sometimes referred to as Henri Perrotin and sometimes as Joseph Perrotin (this is indeed one and the same person). His asteroid discoveries are credited by the Minor Planet Center to "J. Perrotin". He won the Prix Lalande in 1875 and 1883.[1] Perrotin crater on Mars has been named in his honor, as has asteroid 1515 Perrotin. ALS, 1891, 2pp, approx. 5x8 in. Not translated. Fine................80-120
96. [FILM] Jean Hersholt [1886-1956] noted actor who played Shirley Temple's grandfather in Heidi. He appeared in 140 films and directed four. Signed & inscribed 5x7 photo, he adds 1942. VG............50-75
97. [SWINDLER] Horatio William Bottomley [1860-1933]. English journalist and financier. Made fortune floating speculative stocks; established weekly John Bull (1906), vehicle of rabid patriotism during World War I; M.P. (1906-12, 1918-22). Bankrupt (1911); regained fortune in lotteries, etc.; finally convicted of misappropriation of funds held in trust (1922), and imprisoned for 5 years. Brief TLS, 1918, 1p. "I am obliged for your letter. The message I send you is my earnest wish for a speedy and triumphant conclusion of the War." Rust mark from paperclip top edge...........50-75
98. [ENTERTAINMENT] LITTLE LORD ROBERT (Robert
Kantor) LITTLE LORD ROBERT was the stage name of English dwarf
Robert Kantor, who performed with the Ringling Bros. circus,
circa 1909, and later appeared in the film The Wizard of Oz
(1939). The New York Times stated his age in 1909 as 23, when it
announced his engagement to female dwarf Coretta (Ruby Richoff).
This turned out to be a Ringling Bros. publicity stunt, however,
and Lord Robert may have been as young as 10. A card dated
1/11/13 signed and inscribed to Geo. Bancroft.
VG...............50-75
100.
[MUSIC] Jane Laurie Borthwick
(1813-1897) Scottish Composer and translator. In 1855, she
and her sister Sarah Findlater co-produced a book of
translations of German hymns titled Hymns from the Land of
Luther (1854, 1855, 1858 & 1862). In 1875, while living in
Switzerland, she produced another book of translations
called Alpine Lyrics. Borthwick was also active with the
Edinburgh House of Refuge, the Moravian Mission in
Labrador, and other mission work. AMQS from her
composition "Come, Labor On", approx. 10.5 x 5".......75-100
101. [FILM] Lew Ayres (1908 1996) American actor, best known for starring as Paul in All Quiet on the Western Front and for playing Dr. Kildare in several movies. Signed 3x5 card..........2O-30
103. [FRANCE] Jean-François Constant Mocquard ( 1791 - 1864 ) French lawyer , diplomat , sub-prefect and French politician , Chief of Staff of Napoleon III ( 1848 - 1864 ) and senator ( 1 863 - 1864 ). ALS, 1853, 1p. Approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". VG.........50-75
See letter
See
portrait of Mocquard
104. [THEATRE] Elisabeth (Bessy) Marbury (1856-1933) pioneering
American theatrical and literary agent and producer who
represented prominent theatrical performers and writers in the
late 19th and early 20th centuries and helped shape business
methods of the modern commercial theater. She was the longtime
companion of Elsie de Wolfe (later known as Lady Mendl), a
prominent socialite and famous interior decorator. Marbury, for
many remains a bundle of contradictions. Although she herself
was the embodiment of female independence in almost every way,
she initially opposed suffrage. She made a bold reversal once
women in the USA did receive the right to vote. Bessy Marbury's
clients ranged from the French Academy of Letters, to
playwrights Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, to the dance
team of Vernon and Irene Castle, as well as being an early
promoter of African American writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
She also played an instrumental role in developing the modern
"Book Musical" that audiences came to know as defining
"Broadway" in the twentieth century, notably of Cole Porter's
first musical, See America First,and Jerome Kern (Nobody Home
(1915), Very Good, Eddie (1915), and Love o' Mike (1916)). Who
she represented just goes on and on. Offered here are 3 TLSs,
ALL 1912 [in French], 1p. each., to M. Marcel Ballot regarding
the play La Princesse Lointaine. Plus 3 others TLSs signed by
others. All have pencil notations by the recipient. A small but
certainly important theatrical archive of a significant person
in her field...............100-150
105.
Isabelle de Montolieu (1751-1832) was a Swiss novelist and
translator. She wrote in and translated to the French
language. Montolieu penned a few original novels and over 100
volumes of translations. She wrote the first French
translation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (Raison et
Sensibilité, ou Les Deux Manières d'Aimer) and Persuasion (La
Famille Elliot, ou L'Ancienne Inclination). One of her
translations to French - Johann David Wyss's German-language
The Swiss Family Robinson (Le Robinson suisse, ou, Journal
d'un père de famille, naufragé avec ses enfans ) - was adapted
and expanded by her with original episodes more than once.
Montolieu's French version is the literal source of still
frequently reprinted English translations - for example
William H. G. Kingston's 1879 version, one of the most popular
in English over the years, is actually a translation of
Montolieu's French adaptation.Her first novel, Caroline de
Lichtfield, ou Mémoires d'une Famille Prussienne, was an
influential instant best-seller in the 1780s and stayed in
print until the mid-19th century. ALS (1814), 1p...........50-75
106. [BASEBALL] group of signed pictures of "Whitey" Wietelmann, Pedro Guerrero, Bill McCool, Steve Howe, Bobby Castilo, Gary Redus, Bob Welch, Steve Yeager, Steve Garvey, Dusty Baker, Ron Cey, & Joe Black. None larger than 5x7 in. Condition mostly very good..............100-150
108. [FRANCE] Albert Delpit [1849-1893] Fr. writer. ALS, no yr., 2-1/2 pp, 5x8 in. VG. Speaks of his novel and play..........75-100
109. [WATERLOO] Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham (1794-1870) British soldier, peer and long-standing Conservative Member of Parliament. Hotham fought at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and later achieved the rank of General. Signed address panel postmarked 1829. Attractive example.........40-60
110.
[MUSIC] Sir Geraint Evans
(1922-1992) Welsh baritone or bass-baritone noted for
operatic roles including Figaro in Le nozze di Figaro,
Papageno in Die Zauberflöte, and the title roles in Falstaff
and Wozzeck. He sang more than 70 different roles in a
career that lasted from his first appearance at Covent
Garden in 1948 to his farewell there in 1984. TLS,
1990, 1p. Mentions his autobiography.
VG............50-75
111. DAN T. MOORE -
Lt. Col., aide to Theodore Roosevelt during his first term of
office. Died in Texas. It was not until October, 1917, when he
was World War I commander of the 310th Field Artillery at Camp
Meade, Md., that Colonel Moore learned that a blow struck by him
in a friendly sparring bout with President Theodore Roosevelt in
1905 had caused blindness in one of his opponent's eyes.
Distressed at the news, he said, in part: "But could you ask for
any better proof of the man's sportsmanship than the fact that
he never told me what I had done to him, never told anybody else
that I know of - at least, it never got around to me till I saw
in the papers the other day that he had said that he lost the
sight of his eye while boxing with a captain of artillery who
was his aide. He didn't name anybody then, but I knew that he
must have meant me, for I happen to have been the only boxing
aide he had who was in the artillery." Signed 1919 Riggs
National Bank check.............75-100
112.
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
113. (LORD
CHANCELLORS OF ENGLAND LOT) SIGNATURES
in Various Forms - Edward
Burtenshaw Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards
PC (1781 –1875). Rounell
Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne PC
(1812–1895) He served twice as Lord Chancellor of Great
Britain. Clipped SIGNATURE - Charles
Pratt, 1st Earl Camden (1714 –1794)
English lawyer, judge and Whig politician who was first to
hold the title of Earl of Camden. Richard
Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury PC, QC (1800
– 1873) Charles
Christopher Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham
PC KC (1781 –1851) He was twice Lord Chancellor. Thomas Erskine, 1st
Baron Erskine ( 1750 - 1823) He served as Lord
Chancellor of the United Kingdom between 1806 and 1807. Richard Burdon Haldane,
1st Viscount Haldane (1856 –1928), was an influential Liberal
Imperialist and later Labour politician, lawyer and
philosopher. He was Secretary of State for War between 1905
and 1912 during which time the "Haldane Reforms" were
implemented. Raised to the peerage as Viscount Haldane in
1911, he was Lord Chancellor between 1912 and 1915, when he
was forced to resign because of his supposed and unproven
German sympathies..............80-120
114.
[FRANCE] Jacques Vallée, Sieur Des
Barreaux (1599-1673) French poet. His
great-uncle, Geoffroy Vallée, had been hanged in 1574 for the
authorship of a book called Le Flau de la Joy. His nephew
appears to have inherited his scepticism, which on one occasion
nearly cost him his life; the peasants of Touraine attributed to
the presence of the unbeliever an untimely frost that damaged
the vines, and proposed to stone him. His authorship of the
sonnet on "Penitence", by which he is generally known, has
been disputed, notably by Voltaire. Des Barreaux was
apparently bisexual. Although he was later known as one of the
lovers of Marion Delorme, a famous courtesan, he also was the
lover of the freethinking poet Théophile de Viau, called the
"King of Libertines" by Jesuit prosecutors. During his
imprisonment in 1623–25 on charges of writing atheistic poems
with homosexual allusions, de Viau addressed a poem to Vallée,
"The Complaint of Théophile to his friend Tircis", reproaching
Des Barreaux for doing little to help him. After de Viau's
death in 1626, a contemporary biographer of high society,
Tallement des Réaux, referred to Des Barreaux as de Viau's
widow, "thus indicating that their physical relationship was
common knowledge at the time." Subsequently, Des Barreaux was a
lover of the libertine poet Denis Sanguin de Saint-Pavin, the
so-called "King of Sodom", "a consummate gentleman" whose
aristocratic rank and social connections protected him from
prosecution for his witty, homosexually themed writings.
In his Pensées, Pascal refers to him in a passage about those
who renounce reason and "become brute beasts". A
French mystery document on vellum, either written and signed
"Vallee" or about him. Approx. 7-3/4 x
1-3/4". Right edge affixed to back of an 1809 showing 3
signatures not identified. Worthy of research.
VG............200-300
115. [MUSIC - FRANCE] Philippe Gaubert
(1879-1941) French musician who was a distinguished
performer on the flute, a respected conductor, and a composer,
primarily for the flute. ALS, 1930, 1p, 8-1/4 x
10-1/2 in. VG..........50-75
116. [FILM-MUSIC] Gertrude Niesen [1911-1975] American singer and actress who achieved her greatest success during the Big Band Era. Signed, inscribed 5x7 photo. Very nice and in fine condition...........40-60
117. [ART - OLDMASTER] Pierre-Etienne MOITTE (1722, Paris, 1780, Paris) French engraver, part of a family of artists. He studied in Paris with Jacques-Firmin Beauvarlet and Pierre-François Beaumont (1719-1769). He was accepted in 1771 by the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and subsequently signed his prints 'Graveur du Roi'. Between c. 1747 and 1754 he was one of the principal engravers commissioned to work for the 'Cabinet de S.E.M. Le Comte de Brühl,' a collection published in Dresden in 1754 and consisting of 50 plates after selected paintings from the celebrated collection owned by Heinrich von Brühl. In addition to the Mystic Marriage of St Catherine after Correggio and three history subjects after Jean-Baptiste Corneille, Moitte contributed 11 masterly pieces after Dutch and Flemish paintings, including the Dutch Merchant and the Flemish Cook after Gerrit Dou; the Broken Egg, after Frans van Mieris the Elder; the Judgement of Paris after Rubens; four landscapes after Jacob van Ruisdael and Guillam Dubois (c. 1610-80); and Travellers' Rest and Horses at the Watering Trough after Philips Wouwerman. Moitte enjoyed a successful career in Paris by reproducing works after 18th-century French painters such as Nicolas Lancret, François Boucher and Pierre-Antoine Baudouin. Above all, he popularised sentimental genre paintings by Greuze, producing such prints as the Wrathful Mother, Repentance and the Idle Woman. Like most reproductive printmakers of the period, Moitte also engraved designs for book illustrations; thus he provided 17 plates after drawings by Jean-Baptiste Oudry for the four-volume folio edition of Jean de La Fontaine's Fables published between 1755 and 1759. Original engraving, from the 18th century, approx. 11-1/4 x 8-1/4". Wide margins. Old damp stains in bottom margin..............100-150
See above118. [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
119. [FRANCE]
Louis-Antoine-François de
Marchangy (1782-1826)
Lawyer and writer. He rose to fame as both a literary figure
and a prominent prosecutor for the Restoration government.
His most famous case was his prosecution of the four
sergeants of La Rochelle who were executed in 1822 for their
part in a Carbonari plot to overthrow the government. His
summary for the prosecution lasted five hours and was
published as a 196-page book. In numerous other cases, he
supported the repressive conservative government against the
liberal opposition. Offered here is a very lengthy 4 page
ALS, Paris, 1824, to his brother. Content unknown.
Fine............100-200
121. [FILM] Marsha Mason (b. 1942) American actress. SIGNED 8X10 PHOTO........25-35
122.
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
123. (Nobel Prize Lot) Melvin Schwartz
(1932-2009) Physics 1988 signed biographical sketch PLUS
signature in return address on envelope, Paul
Samuelson (1915-2009), Econonics 1970,
signed 3x5 paper, Glenn Seaborg
(1912-1999), Chemistry 1951signed card. VG..............60-80
124. [FRANCE]
Madame de VONNOZ [1775-1851] Fr. poet. Signed [?]
handwritten poem dedicated to the Duke of Angouline, 1820,
1p. Pencil notations on face above and below poem o/w
VG..................60-80
125. [FRANCE] Gustave François Xavier Delacroix de Ravignan (1795- 1858) French Jesuit preacher and author. Educated in Paris, he resigned his army commission to study law. Auditor of the royal court. Deputy attorney-general by 1821. Entering a Sulpician monastery, and later joining the Society of Jesus, he was ordained in 1828, and after several years as professor and retreat preacher at Montrouge, he went to Notre Dame, where his logic, serenity, and zeal won souls by the hundreds. Superior of his brethren at Bordeaux from 1837 to 1842, and at Paris from 1848 to 1851. He preached throughout France and in Rome, Belgium, and London. His calm, eloquent De l'Existence et de l'Institut des Jesuites of 1844, vindicating the Society, sold 25,000 copies in one year. However, the Jesuits' strife continued until they were forced to disband for a time in France. Despite painful controversy with his superiors and imputations from other quarters, he remained loyal to his order. In 1854 he brought out Clement XIII et Clement XIV, a dispassionate treatise, of no great literary merit, on the defender and the suppressor of the Jesuits. He steadfastly refused preferment, even the archbishopric of Paris, devoting himself to other works. He died a saintly death, and thousands followed the remains of the "Apostle of Paris" to his grave. ALS, 1857, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4. VG..............80-120
See above126. [FRANCE]
DECLARATION DU ROY
- dated
November 1704, approx. 7 x
9", 8-pages. Very fresh
condition..........100-150
See front page
127. [BRITISH NAVAL] Admiral
George Anson Byron, 7th Baron Byron (1789-1868) British naval
officer, and the seventh Baron Byron, in 1824 succeeding his
cousin the poet George Gordon Byron in that peerage. As a career
naval officer, he was notable for being his predecessor's
opposite in temperament and lifestyle. Byron joined the Royal
Navy as a volunteer in December 1800, serving in the Napoleonic
Wars, and attaining the rank of captain in 1814. In 1824 Byron
was chosen to accompany homewards the bodies of Hawaiian
monarchs Liholiho (known as King Kamehameha II) and Queen
Kama-malu, who had died of measles during a state visit to
England. He sailed on the HMS Blonde in September 1824,
accompanied by several naturalists and, amongst his lieutenants,
Edward Belcher. He toured the islands and recorded his
observations. With the consent of Christian missionaries to the
islands, he also removed wooden carvings and other artifacts of
the chiefs of ancient Hawaii from the temple ruins. On his
return journey in 1825, Lord Byron discovered and charted Malden
Island, which he named after his surveying officer, Mauke, and
Starbuck Island. Starbuck was named in honour of Capt. Valentine
Starbuck , an American whaler. OFFERED HERE is a signed address
panel, postmarked 1835. Very good example, signed "Byron."
Admiral Byron's signature is often confused with Lord Byron's
[poet] as they are quite similar in
appearance..............50-75
128. [MUSIC] Kenny Ascher [b. 1944] American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger who is active in jazz, rock, classical, and musical theater genres; in live venues, recording studios, and cinema production. He is widely known for co-writing, with Paul Williams, The Rainbow Connection; music from The Muppet Movie. AMQS, inscribed, from "Rainbow Connection. Approx. 10-1/4 x 4-1/4". VG.............35-45
129. (Politicians/Public Servants
- James William Fulbright
(1905 –1995) Senator representing Arkansas from 1945 to
1975. TLS, 1960. John
McClellan (1896 –1977) Senator (1943–1977)
from Arkansas. The longest-serving Senator in Arkansas history.
TLS, 1963. Sol
Bloom (1870 –1949) politician from New York
who began his career as an entertainment impresario and sheet
music publisher. He served fourteen terms in the United States
House of Representatives from 1922 until his death in 1949.
TLS, 1932. Robert
C. Winthrop (1809—1894) Speaker
of the United States House of Representatives. SIGNED
card, 1889. Herman E.
Talmadge, Sr. (1913 –2002) Governor of
Georgia, U.S. Senate. –TLS, 1960. Mark Hatfield (1922
– 2011) he served 30 years as a United States Senator from
Oregon. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 color portrait photograph
dated 7/25/01. L.G. Derthick, US
Commissioner of Education, 1958 TLS. Mostly good to
VG...........50-75
LOT
130. (19th/20th CENTURY
ARTISTS/ILLUSTRATORS) DOUGLAS
VOLK (1856-1935) DS,
a check dated 1908, made out by him and endorsed by him.
JULES
GUERIN (1866-1946)
Muralist, Painter, Illustrator. CLIPPED SIGNATURE in
pencil. ARTHUR
IGNATIUS KELLER (1866-1924) Artist, Illustrator He was
illustrator of over 150 books by authors such as Charles
Dickens, Washington Irving, Bret Harte, Owen Wister
SIGNATURE in pencil. SPENCER
BAIR NICHOLS (1875-1950) Landscape Painter, Illustrator,
Muralist. SIGNED return address on envelope
(1930). THOMAS
LeCLEAR (1818-1882) Genre and Portrait Painter on of his
most famous portraits was of President Grant which
hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. SIGNATURE with
sentiment from ALS (1879). WILLIAM
HENRY HILLARD (1836-1905) American Artist/illustrator. His
most famous works are noted for the New England area, White
Mountains. SIGNATURE on card. Varied
conditions............75-100
131. [FRANCE] Auguste
Joseph Alphonse Gratry (usually known as Joseph Gratry) (1805-1872) French author and
theologian. Gratry was born at Lille and educated at the École
Polytechnique of Paris. After a period of mental struggle which
he has described in Souvenirs de ma jeunesse, he was ordained
priest in 1832. After a stay at Strasbourg as professor of the
Petit Séminaire, he was appointed director of the Collège
Stanislas in Paris in 1842 and, in 1847, chaplain of the École
Normale Supérieure. He became vicar-general of Orleans in 1861,
professor of ethics at the Sorbonne in 1862, and, on the death
of Barante, a member of the French Academy in 1867, where he
occupied the seat formerly held by Voltaire. Together with
others (abbé Pétitot, curé of Saint Roch, and Hyacinthe de
Valroger) he reconstituted the Oratory of Jesus and of Mary
Immaculate, a society of priests mainly devoted to education.
Gratry was one of the principal opponents of the definition of
the dogma of papal infallibility, but in this respect he
submitted to the authority of the First Vatican Council. Offered
here are 4 ALSs, total of 10 pages, one letter dated 1869.
VG.......100-150
132. [MUSIC] Arthur Butterworth (1923-2010) English composer, conductor. AMQS, inscribed, from his third movement of "Symphony No. 4", approx. 10-1/2 x 4-1/2". Two mail fold-lines o/w VG. An especially nice example.........100-150
See AMQS above
LOT
133. (AMERICAN THEATER LOT) Georgia Caine (1876
–1964) who performed both on Broadway and in over 80 films
in her 51 year career. SIGNED large Card. Arthur Hiller Penn
(1922 –2010) American director and producer of film,
television and theater. Penn directed critically acclaimed
films throughout the 1960s such as The Chase and Bonnie and
Clyde. SIGNED, inscribed 4x5 photograph. Wilson Barrett
(1846 –1904) English manager, actor, and playwright. He
presented and acted many works in America. With his
company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest
crowds of English theatregoers ever. A Quote SIGNED, with
unsigned postcard portrait photograph. Selma TAMBER (1907-1991)
Producer - produced several Broadway and Off Broadway shows,
including "Boccaccio 70" and "Viva Madison Avenue." She also
managed artists like Hanya Holm, the choreographer of "Kiss
Me, Kate," "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot," and helped further
the careers of the composers and lyricists Richard Adler and
Stephen Sondheim. Tamber was born in New York City. In the
1930's, she supervised various Broadway musicals as the head
of the department of composers and arrangers for the music
publisher Chappell-T. B. Harms, where she worked with
composers like George Gershwin and Cole Porter. . ALS, 1982.
William Jermyn Conlin (1831 –1891) better known by
his stage name William J.
Florence, actor, songwriter, and
playwright. A QUOTE SIGNED February 1879. Jean Dalrymple (1902
–1998) theater producer, manager, publicist, author and
playwright who was instrumental in the founding of New York
City Center and is best known for her productions
there. SIGNATURE 1960................80-120
134.
[ART] Clinton King
(1901-1979) American artist, born in Fort Worth, Texas and
received his formal education at the University of Texas and
Princeton. He studied painting from Randall Davey and Robert
Reid and gained early recognition in Texas at the Annual Texas
Artists Exhibitions. He is generally associated with the
regional art of Texas and the Santa Fe Art Colony of New Mexico
until 1940. After 1940 and in to the 1960s, he exhibited often
in Chicago, New York and Paris. King painted genre scenes,
landscapes, portraits and still life. His early modernist
portraits and genre were often compared to Diego Rivera. King
was a modernist, and a Renaissance man of the art world, whose
styles included Realism, Impressionism, and Abstract
Expressionism at various periods in his 40 years of artistic
activity. During his lifetime, King's paintings won many prizes
and are held in many public collections, including: the Library
of Congress; National Collection of Fine Art; New York Public
Library; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; Philadelphia Museum of
Fine Art; and the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris. Offered
here is his engraving with aquatint titled HELLAS, done in
1974, image approx. 17-1/2 x 21-3/4 in. plus margins.
This is an artist proof numbered XXV over XXV. Still
contained in its original mat. The image area is very
fine; there are a few light spots in the margin close to the
image, and just below the signature area. See scan
below. This is a major intaglio and one of the largest
we have ever offered. An important print............400-600
135. [ENGLAND] William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam PC (1748-1833), styled Viscount Milton until 1756, was a British Whig statesman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1782 he inherited his uncle Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham's estates, making him one of the richest people in Britain. He played a leading part in Whig politics until the 1820s. ALS, no year, 1p. PLUS engraved portrait suitable for framing with this letter.......50-75
136. [GREAT BRITAIN] mixed
lot: [1] Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham (1794-1870) British soldier,
peer and long-standing Conservative Member of Parliament.
Hotham was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Beaumont Hotham and
Philadelphia Dyke. His father died when he was five years old.
Hotham fought at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and later
achieved the rank of General. In 1814 he had succeeded his
grandfather as third Baron Hotham, but as this was an Irish
peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of
Lords. SIGNED ADDRESS PANEL postmarked 1834. [2] Thos. R. Macquoid [1820-1912] Brit. artist. Clip signature. [3] Caroline Norton (1808-1877) Brit. society beauty, author. Clip
signature. [4] Henry Moore (1831-1895) English marine and
landscape painter. In rendering of wave movement, in veracity
of color and texture, and in subtle atmospheric effects he has
few rivals. He was elected an academician in 1893. CLIP
SIGNATURE. Very good example. [5] Alfred Austin (1835-1913) English poet, who was appointed
Poet Laureate in 1896 upon the death of Tennyson. SIGNATURE
with sentiment, 1908. VG. [6] James Archibald
Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Wharncliffe (1776-1845) English statesman.
He was commissioned into the 48th Foot in 1790, transferred to
the 7th Foot in 1791, and purchased a Captaincy in the 72nd
Foot in 1793. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in 1797 and
became Colonel of the 12th Foot six months later. In 1797 he
transferred to the Grenadier Guards, but resigned his
commission in 1801. He then devoted himself to politics,
sitting in parliament as a Tory. His attitude on various
questions became gradually more Liberal, and his support of
Catholic emancipation lost him his seat in 1826. He was then
raised to the peerage as Baron Wharncliffe of Wortley, a
recognition both of his previous parliamentary activity and of
his high position among the country gentlemen. At first
opposing the Reform Bill , he gradually came to see the
undesirability of a popular conflict, and he separated himself
from the Tories and took an important part in modifying the
attitude of the peers and helping to pass the bill. SIGNED
ADDRESS PANEL dated 1826. [7] Edwin Long [1829-1891] Brit. painter. Sig. w/ sentiment.
[8] Thomas
Wakley [1795-1862].
English surgeon. Founder (1823) of The Lancet, weekly medical
paper in which he campaigned for various medical and public
health reforms; M.P. (1835-52). Signed ADDRESS PANEL
postmarked 1835. Mounted. [9] Henry Fawcett [1833-1884] Eng. statesman. CLIP SIGNATURE. [10] C. Napier Hemy [1841-1917] Brit. artist. Signature,
1910............100-150
138. [WORLD WAR II] Hans Baur (1897-1993)
was Adolf Hitler's pilot during his political campaigns of the
1920s and 1930s. He later became Hitler's personal pilot and
leader of the Reichsregierung squadron. Captured by the
Soviets at the end of World War II in Europe, he endured ten
years of imprisonment in the USSR before being released on 10
October 1955 to the French, who then imprisoned him until 1957.
ANS, 1983, written on back of postcard. Not translated.
VG...........100-150
LOT 139. (BRITISH
NOTABLES IN SCIENCE/MEDICNE LOT)
WILLIAM
SPOTTISWOODE (1825-1883)
Mathematician and Physicist buried in Westminster
Abbey. SIGNATURE. SIR GEORGE NICHOLLS
(1781-1865) Poor Reformer and Administrator.
ALS, 2pp. ARTHUR
CECIL ALPORT (1880-1959)
Physician who first identified the “Alport
Syndrome”. ALS, 1924, 2pp. GEORGE RICHARDSON PORTER
(1792-1852) Early Statistician, and Economist,
Civil Servant. ANS, ordering a book (1832).
GEORGE PEACOCK
(1791-1858) Mathematician, wrote books on the
subject, also Trigonometry. SIGNATURE from
ALS. SIR JOSEPH
DE COURCY LAFFAN
(1786-1848) Noated physician who treated troops
and was the personal physician to Queen
Victoria. ALS, 1843, written in 3rd
person.............80-120
LOT 140.
(CARTOONIST/ILLUSTRATORS) includes: PERCY CROSBY
(1891-1963) Cartoonist/Illustrator. Signature. GARY BROOKINS (1947)
Editorial Cartoonist/illustrator. SIGNED
inscribed 3x5 card with his printed portrait. MIIKE PETERS
(1943) Cartoonist, (2) SIGNED inscribed stationary
sheets. DEAN YOUNG
(b.1938) Cartoonist. SIGNED inscribed 4x6
Blondie Print (1980). CHARLES
PLUMB (1899-1982)
Cartoonist/Illustrator “Ella Cinders”. SIGNATURE
mounted to larger card . JOHN
CULLEN MURPHY (1919-2004)
Cartoonist/Illustrator “Prince Valiant”. SIGNED
card inscribed with his portrait affixed. ROBERT
F. “Bo” BROWN
(1906-1996) Cartoonist, in The New Yorker, Saturday
Evening Post others. ALS (1990) on verso of
letter received. GARY
PATTERSON – Cartoonist. ALS
(2001) on one of his greeting cards of his famous
“Cat”................80-120
142. [OPERA] Tito Schipa
(1888-1965) Italian tenore. In 1919, Schipa traveled to
the United States, joining the Chicago Opera Company. He
remained with the Chicago company until 1932, whereupon he
appeared at the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1932 to 1935,
and again in 1941. He also sang at the San Francisco Opera,
beginning in 1924. From 1929 to 1949 he performed
regularly in Italy, including at La Scala, Milan and the Rome
Opera. He returned to Buenos Aires to sing in 1954. In 1957,
he toured the Soviet Union. Vintage signed album
page, dated 1926. On the verso is the signature of Anna Kaskas (1897-1988), Opera
Contralto, Met star from 1936-1950. Her signature is
dated 1935, the year she started at the Met.
VG...............60-80
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. [BASEBALL GREATS] signed
cards or notes of: Bobby Doerr - HOF [2], Allie Reynolds
(1917-1994), Bullet Bob Turnley, Jim Carfish Hunter (1946-1999)
HOF, Enos Slaughter (1916-2002) HOF, Charles Gehringer
(1903-1993) HOF, Eddie Matthews (1931-2001) HOF, Whit Wyantt
(1907-1999), and Tommy Henrich (1913-2009). All
VG..............80-120
145. Francis Grover
Cleveland (1903-1995)
son of US President Grover
Cleveland. Brief TLS saying he has
nothing of his father's that could be
sent. VG............25-35
146. Richard
Folsom Cleveland
(1897-1974) son of US
President Grover
Cleveland.
ALS, 1968, 1p.,
regretting that he
has none of his
father's signatures
left.
VG...........25-35
147. WILLIAM W. CAMPBELL [1806-1881] American Party congressman from New York 1845-47; State Supreme Ct. Justice; author & historian. Document Signed, 1851, 5+pp., all handwritten, concerning the settlement of a law suit arising from an estate. 8x13 in. Philip R. Yonge of Darien, George, one of the Executors of the Last Will and Testament of John Fraser late of East Florida. The suit is against Thomas Napier of the City of New York. VG............40-60
148. LEVANDER, HAROLD. Gov. of Minnesota 1967-71. Letter as governor dated Nov. 28, 1987 sending photo and expressing warm sentiments concerning addressee's ill son. Vertical fold at right, not affecting the text...........20-30
149. BRODIE, ALEXANDER O. Gov of Arizona Territory 1902-05 (predating statehood). LS March 24, 1903 to the President endorsing the "good character, ability and moral qualities" of a job-seeker. Small marginal tears not affecting text. (This is probably a retained copy)............20-30
150. [FILM] Binnie Barnes (1903-1998) English-American actress. She began her acting career in films in 1923, appearing in a short film made by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process. Her film career continued in Great Britain, most notably in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) as Katherine Howard, Henry's misfortunate fifth wife. Later her career continued in Hollywood, until 1973, when she appeared in the comedy 40 Carats, her last acting role. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..........25-35
151.
[TV] Polly Holliday
(b. 1937) is an American actress. She has appeared on
stage, television and in film. She is best known for her
portrayal of sassy waitress "Flo" on the hit 1970s
sitcom Alice, and her starring role in its short-lived
spinoff, Flo. Flo's signature line was "Kiss my
grits!". Warner Bors. paycheck, 1985, endorsed by
her on verso. VG...........20-30
152. Sir Max
Pemberton [1863-1950] was
a popular British novelist, working mainly in the adventure and
mystery genres. Brief ALS, no date, 1p. Multiple small foxing
spots.......25-35
153. George Anthony Weller [1907-2002]
American novelist, playwright, and Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist for The New York Times and Chicago Daily News. He was
a native of Boston and a former editorial chair of The Harvard
Crimson. Weller's reports from Nagasaki after the nuclear
bombing were censored by the United States military but appeared
in a book in 2002. Signed 2-page questionaire, which he has
filled out for the Contemporary Journalists. Quite detailed with
a lot of his handwriting. The latest date appearing in entries
is 1972. He signs while in Rome, Italy. Late in life he received
Italy's Premio Internazionale di Giornalismo. He also provided
the inspiration for longtime friend Sean O'Faolain's 1974 short
story Something, Everything, Anything, Nothing........50-75
154. [FRANCE] Pierre-François-Adolphe Chesnel
(1791-1862) French historian and encyclopedist. He began
his career in the army, left in 1820 as lieutenant
colonel, and then moved to Montpellier where he launched an
ephemeral newspaper The Conciliator du Midi, literary
collection, commercial, agricultural . He also founded in 1836
Women, the century newspaper and collaborates with various other
newspapers. He published under different pseudonyms ,
poems, historical works, idle naturalist observations and
several dictionaries under the aegis of theological encyclopedia
or dictionary series on all parts of religious science led by
the Abbe Migne. ALS, 1858, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8 in.
VG........50-75
155. [FRANCE] Jacques Bardoux
(1874-1959) French politician and writer. In 1936-1937,
under the government of the Popular Front , he published several
pamphlets accusing the French Communist Party of planning
a coup and interpreting the June 1936 strikes as an attempted
insurrection commissioned from Moscow. He also accused the PCF
to pushing France into the war against Nazi Germany for
the benefit of the USSR. Elected senator independent
radical of Puy-de-Dôme in 1938, he voted in favor of the return
of powers to Marshal Pétain 10 July 1940, which earned him being
declared ineligible for the Liberation. Under the
Occupation, he is a member of the National Council established
by Vichy, but do not otherwise involved in the
cooperation. His grandson, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing,
became Prime Minister. TLS, Paris, 1955,
1p, 8-1/4 x 10-1/2 in. VG.............80-120
156. [FRANCE] Maurice Herzog
(1919-2012) French mountaineer and administrator who was
born in Lyon, France. He led the expedition that first climbed a
peak over 8000m, Annapurna, in 1950, and reached the summit with
Louis Lachenal. Upon his return, he wrote a best-selling book
about the expedition. TLS, Paris, 1960, 1p, 8-1/4
x 10-1/2 in. VG..........80-120
157. [WEST VIRGINIA] John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (b.1937) is a Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia since 1985. He was the 29th Governor of West Virginia from 1977 to 1985. As a great-grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, he is the only current politician of the prominent six-generation Rockefeller family and the only Democrat in what has been a traditionally progressive Republican dynasty. Document signed, 1969, 2pp, 8.5 x 13 in. He signs as the Sec. of State for West Virginia, a Certificate, a finance company...............50-75
158. [SCIENCE] DANIEL I. ARNON (1910-1994) American Plant Physiologist - one of the 20th century's leaders in the field of photosynthesis. ALS dtd 8/22/89.......35-45
162. John (Gibbs) Gilbert (1810 -
1889) American comedian. AQS, NY, 1888......30-40
163. [FRANCE] Edmond Desbonnet (1867 - 1953) French academic and photographer who championed physical culture. He made physical education fashionable in belle époque France through the publication of fitness journals and by opening a chain of exercise clubs. BRIEF ALS, 1927 [?], 1P. To the autograph collector and writer, Felix Bonafe. Edge toned............25-35
164. [FRANCE] Georges-François-Xavier-Marie Grente (1872- 1959) French Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Le Mans from 1918 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII. His personal calling card on which he writes about 10 lines on both sides about the poet Kemp, signed "G." VG.....40-60
165. [FRANCE] Hugues Le Roux
(1860-1925) French journalist, writer, Senator in the Third
Republic. ALS, 1909, 2 full pages. VG..........50-75
See
above
166. [FRANCE] Claude Vasconi (b. 1940) French architect. After designing two key projects as a young architect, Les Halles in the centre of Paris and the building of the Préfecture in Cergy-Pontoise, he became one of the most sought-after architects in France, with major projects in Montpellier, Strasbourg and Saint-Nazaire. Signed card postmarked with stamp he designed..............40-60
167. [SCIENCE] George
Ferdinand Becker (1847-1919)
American geologist. His most important work was in
connection with the origin and mode of occurrence of ore
deposits, especially those of the western United States.
He was a leader in mining geology and geophysics, and
for many years was the chief of the Division of Chemical
and Physical Research in the United States Geological
Survey. The investigations under his direction led to
the establishment of the Geophysical Laboratory of the
Carnegie Institution of Washington. In 1896 he
examined the gold mines of South Africa and at the time
of the Spanish-American War was detailed to serve as
geologist on the staff of General Bell with the army in
the Philippine Islands. He died on 20 April 1919 in
Washington, D.C. ALS, 1908, written in the 3rd
person, accepting invitation. Not mentioned
but this was sent to Robert S. Woodward in regards to invitation to meet members of the
National Academy of Sciences. Fine..........100-150
168. [FRANCE] Pauline Marie Armande Craven née de La Ferronnays (1808-1891) French author. Mrs. Craven's family life was depicted in the Le Récit d'une Soeur as especially tender and intimate. She suffered several severe bereavements in the years following her marriage. The Cravens lived abroad until 1851. In the same year Keppel Richard Craven died. His son's diplomatic career appeared unsuccessful. He stood unsuccessfully for election to Parliament for Dublin in 1852 after which he retired to private life. The family went to live in Naples in 1853. Mrs. Craven then began to write the history of the family life of the la Ferronays between 1830 and 1836. Its focus was the love story of her brother Albert and his wife Alexandrine. This book, the Le Récit d'une Soeur (1866, Eng. trans. 1868), was enthusiastically received and was awarded a prize by the French Academy. Strained circumstances made it vital that Mrs. Craven earn money by writing. Anne Sivrin appeared in 1868, Fleurange in 1871, Le Mot d'énigme in 1874, Le Valbriant (Eng. trans., Lucia) in 1886. Among her miscellaneous works are La Sceur Natalie Narischkin (1876), Deux Incidents de la question catholique en Angleterre (1875), Lady Georgiana Fullerton, sa vie et ses ceuvres (1888). Mrs Cravens charming personality won her many friends. She was a frequent guest of Lord Palmerston, Lord Ellesmere and Lord Granville. Before his death in 1884, her husband translated her correspondence with Lord Palmerston and her correspondence with the Prince Consort into French. She died in Paris on April 1, 1891. Two ALSs, no dates, brief 1p. written in 3rd person & a brief 4-page ALS. Two Letters..........50-75
171. [SCIENCE] Mathias-Marie Duval [1844-1907] French professor of
anatomy and histology born in Grasse. He was the son of botanist
Joseph Duval-Jouve (1810-1883). Duval is remembered for research
involving placental development in mice and rats, and was the
first to identify trophoblast invasion in rodents. With
Austrian-American gynecologist Walter Schiller (1887-1960),
Schiller Duval bodies are named, which are structures found in
endodermal sinus tumors. ALS, 1889, 1p, about 5 x 8". Fine............50-75
174. [FRANCE] Paul Ginisty (1855-1932
) French writer, journalist. Regular columnist for the magazine
Gil Blas. Two ALSs, neither has date year, 1-page & 2-pages.
Speaks of "Crime & Punishment". Both VG...........75-100
175. [FRANCE] Émile Auguste
Étienne Martin Deschanel (1819-1904) French author and politician, the
father of Paul Deschanel, the 11th President of the French
Republic. His works include: Études sur Aristophane (1867), Le
Romantisme des classiques (1882), and the controversial
Catholicisme et socialisme (1850). As a result, Napoleon III
forced him into exile between 1851 and 1859. He later became a
professor at the Collège de France and in 1881 became a lifetime
member of the French senate. A street bearing his name is
located in Paris's VIIe arrondissement bordering the Champs de
Mars. ALS, 1869, 2pp, 5-1/4 x 8". Not translated.
One soiled corner.........50-75
176. James Truslow Adams [1878-1949] American writer. TLS, 1941, 1p, recommendation for his wife's cousin's daughter. Quite lengthy.........40-60
177. Hezekiah Butterworth [1839-1905] American writer of books for young people, and a poet. Signed quote of Don Jose de San Martin, the great Spanish General. Written in Spanish with English translation on verso [in another hand]...........35-45
178. Ira McL. Barton - Union Lt. Col. from New Hampshire. Document Signed, Pine Bluff, Ark., Dec. 31, 1867, 1p, 8-1/2 x 14 in. For wood purchased for 28th NH Infantry. Folds o/w very fresh condition.............50-75
179. [ART] Stepan Dmitrievich Erzia (Nefyodov) (1876 - 1959) was a Mordvin sculptor who lived in Russia and Argentina. Erzia chose his pseudonym after the native ethnic group, the Erzya Mordvins. Stepan became an apprentice of various icon-painting studios. In 1893-1897 he lived in Kazan, previously at the joiner's shop, later he worked at P. A. Kovalinski's icon-painting studio in Kazan. That time Erzia decorated churches in the various cities and villages of the Volga area and attended Kazan Art School. In 1902-1906 he studied at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1906-1914 he lived in Italy and France. He took part in the exhibitions in Venice and Milan in 1909, in Paris in 1912. In 1914 he returned to Russia and in 1918 he moved to Yekaterinburg where he created his monumental works of art. In 1921 he moved to Novorossiysk, then to Batumi. Living there, he created portraits of Lenin, Marx and Engels, many cultural workers of Georgia. In 1923 he lived in Baku, where he created in monumental genre. In 1926 the Soviet government made a decision to send Stepan Erzia abroad "to spread the knowledge of the Soviet art". He came to Paris again and his one-man shows received positive response in the Western press. In 1927-1950 he worked in Buenos Aires, creating portraits there of Lenin, Moses, Tolstoy, and Beethoven. In 1950 he returned to the Soviet Union. In 1957 he was decorated with the Order of the Red Banner of Labour. Stepan Erzya died in 1959 in Moscow and was buried in Saransk, the capital of Mordovia. Offered here is a rare pre-printed card, signed in ink, Paris, postmarked [1910 or 1911?]. VG...........75-100
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180. [SPAIN] Juan Antonio Llorente (1756-1823) Spanish historian. He studied at the University of Zaragoza, and, having been ordained priest, became vicar-general to the bishop of Calahorra in 1782. In 1785, he became commissary of the Holy Office (Inquisition) at Logroño and, in 1789, its general secretary at Madrid. In the crisis of 1808, Llorente identified himself with the Bonaparte regime and was engaged for a few years in superintending the execution of the decree for the suppression of the monastic orders, in examining the archives of the Spanish Inquisition and in arguing for the submission of the Spanish church to the Bonaparte monarch. His 1810 project for a division of Spain in prefectures and subprefectures (under the French revolutionary inspiration) was never brought into practice because of the war. On the return of King Ferdinand VII to Spain in 1814, he retreated to France, where he published his great work, Histoire critique de l'Inquisition espagnole (Paris, 1817-1818). Translated into English, German, Dutch and Italian, it attracted much attention in Europe and involved its author in considerable persecution. After the coup of Rafael de Riego (1820), he supported the new Liberal government. The discovery of his Carbonarian activities and the publication of his Portraits politiques des papes in 1822 culminated in a peremptory order to leave France. Both the personal character and the literary accuracy of Llorente have been assailed, but, although he was not an exact historian, there is no doubt that he made an honest use of documents relating to the Inquisition which are no longer extant. ALS, Paris, 1822, 1p. In French - not translated. Fine..........100-150
181. [FRANCE] Alfred de Tarde [1880-1925] Right wing economist. ALS, no yr., 4 full pages. To a graphologist about his articles on graphology. Tarde was an Anti-Dreyfus. Could letter refer to the writings of Dreyfus proving he was a spy - but they were forged??? ..............75-100
182 [FRANCE] Jeanne Galzy
[1883-1977] Fr. novelist. ALS, 1915, 1p., congratulating Robert
Kemp on his nomination to the French Academy. VG..........60-80
183. [ART] Bernie Fuchs [b.1932] Am. illustrator. Signature in pencil............20-30
184. [THEATRE] Tom Ewell (1909-1994) American actor. TLS, 1957, to Theatre Guild approving cast of a show............40-60
185. [THEATRE] Benoît-Constant Coquelin (1841-1909), known as Coquelin aîné ("Coquelin the Eldest"), was a French actor, "one of the greatest theatrical figures of the age." Signed card dated 28 Dec. 88. Approx. 3-1/2 x 2-1/4". Fine................40-60
186. [DANCE] mixed lot: [1] Jacques d'Amboise [b. 1934] a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, where ballets were especially created for him by famous choreographer George Balanchine. He has also choreographed ballets for the New York City Ballet. ALS, 1973, 2pp, concerning the pay of employee, her illness, etc. [2] Nora Kaye [1920-1987] American ballerina called the Duse of Dance after acclaimed actress Eleonora Duse. She also worked in films as a choreographer and producer. Signed 8-1/2 x 12" book page portrait. [3] Dame Alicia Markova [1910-2004] English ballerina and a choreographer, she was widely considered to be one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of the 20th century. She was the first British dancer to become the principal dancer of a ballet company and, with Dame Margot Fonteyn, is one of only two English dancers to be recognised as a prima ballerina assoluta. TLS, 1982, 1p. [4] Janet Collins [1917-2003] ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She performed on Broadway, in films, and appeared frequently on television. Signature, inscribed. [5] Dame Marie Rambert [1888-1982] Polish-Jewish dancer and dance pedagogue who exerted a great influence on British ballet, both as a dancer and teacher. Signature dated 1975. [6] Donald Saddler [b. 1918] American choreographer, dancer, and theatre director. Signed 1977 cover honoring American music............100-150
187. [FILM] Eddie Foy Jr. (1905-1983) American character actor. Signed & inscribed 5x7 photo. VG..........25-35
188. [FILM] Jean Hersholt (1886-1956) was a Danish actor who lived in the United States where he was a leading film and radio talent, best known for his 17 years starring on radio in Dr. Christian and for playing Shirley Temple's grandfather in Heidi. He appeared in 140 films and directed four. In his honor the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award was named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. TLS, 1943, 1p. Re: Motion Picture Country House. VG.............40-60
189. Zbigniew Brzezinski (b. 1928, Warsaw, Poland) Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. SIGNED/inscribed 10x8 color photo.............25-35
190. [THEATRE] Signed theatre program from "Milk and Honey", date unknown. Signed inside by their pictures by Mimi Benzell [1924-1970] and Molly Picon [1898-1992]. 19 pages, 9 x 12 in. VG.............40-60
191. [TV] Linda Evans (b.1942) American actress known primarily for her roles on television. She rose to fame playing Audra Barkley, the daughter of Barbara Stanwyck's Victoria Barkley, on the 1960s Western TV series, The Big Valley (1965 -1969). Evans' most prominent role was that of longsuffering heroine Krystle Carrington on the 1980s ABC prime time television soap opera Dynasty, a role she played from 1981 to 1989. SIGNED, INSCRIBED 5x7 photo. VG...........20-30
192. [BRITISH WRITERS] Misc. lot: [1] Horace Annesley Vachell (1861-1955) TLS, 1933, 1p. [2] John Gibson Lockart (1794-1854) Scottish writer best known for his "Life of Sir Walter Scott." Clip signature with engraved portrait. [3] Sir Henry John Newbolt (1862-1938) poet. Signature with sentiment 1934. [4] Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton (1809-1885) poet. Brief ALS, 1p. [5] Cecil Woodham-Smith (1896-1977] historian. Signed 1974 FDC. [6] William Davenport Adams (1828-1891) journalist & author. ALS, 1876, 1p. [soiled]. [7] Sir Owen Seaman (1861-1936) writer & poet. Signed card [foxing spots]. [8] Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856-1934) novelist. Signed card 1910. Each accompanied by biographical sheet......100-150
193. Louisa Murray [1818-1894] British born,
Canadian author & poet. ALS, 1863, 1p, regarding receiving
money on account from having poems published. VG.........40-60
201. (Author Signed Page) JOHN BOYNTON PRIESTLEY (1894-1985) British novelist and dramatist, ROBERT PETER FLEMING (1907-1971) British adventer and travel writer, GARSON KANIN (1912-1999) American writer, director, PATRICIA MORISON (1915) American signer and actress. ALL signed album page also one unidentified signature..........40-60
206. [SHOW BIZ] Mixed Lot: [1] Dame Edith Evans [1888-1976] Eng. actress. Signature. [2] Mary Healey - actress. Sig. 3x5 card. [3] Sylvia Sidney [1910-1999] actress. Sig 3x5 card w/note. [4] Olga San Juan - signed album page [1947]. [5] CRAIG STEVENS (1918-2000) American Actor - He was well showcased as a soft-hearted gangster in At the Stroke of Twelve, a 1941 two-reel adaptation of Damon Runyon's The Old Doll's House, but his feature film roles were merely adequate at best. By 1950, Stevens was reduced to playing a standard mustachioed villain in the Bowery Boys epic Blues Busters. His saving turnaround came about when Stevens was cast in the title role of the 1958 Blake Edwards-produced TV private eye series Peter Gunn. Though obviously imitating Cary Grant in the early episodes of this three-season hit, Stevens eventually developed a hard-edged acting style all his own. He later re-created his TV role in the 1967 theatrical feature Gunn. Subsequent TV-series assignments for Stevens included the British-filmed weekly Man of the World (1962) and CBS' Mr. Broadway (1964). SIGNED 3x5 card with sentiment. SLIGHT SMEAR TO 1st letter. [6] (Hortense) Rhea [1844-1899] Belgium actress. Sig. card, w/sentiment, 1894. [7] Stuart Robson [1836-1903] stage actor. Signature w/sentiment. [8] Henry Wilcoxon (1905-1984) was an actor born in Roseau, Dominica, British West Indies, and best known as a leading man in many of Cecil B. DeMille's films, also serving as DeMille's associate producer on his later films. VINTAGE SIGNATURE WITH SENTIMENT ON ALBUM PAPER. [9] Gladys Walton [1896-1993] Am. actress of the silent screen. Signature, inscribed. [10] Lillian Gish [1893-1993] Am. actress. Signed 3x5 card............100-150
207. [MUSIC] Eleanor Steber (1914-1990) American operatic soprano. Steber is noted as one of the first major opera stars to have achieved the highest success with training and a career based in the United States. TLS, 1953, 1p..........35-45
208. [MUSIC] Amanda McBroom (b. 1947) American singer, songwriter actress and cabaret performer. Notable among the songs she has written is "The Rose", which Bette Midler sang in the film of the same name , and which has been covered by many other recording artists. McBroom is also known for her collaborations as lyricist with songwriter Michele Brourman, including some of the songs in the The Land Before Time film series, Balto II: Wolf Quest, and the musical Dangerous Beauty based on the film of the same name, which was scheduled to have its world premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse in February 2011. Signed 8x10 photo. VG........25-35
209. [DANCE] Ruth St. Denis (1879-1968) was a modern dance pioneer, introducing eastern ideas into the art. She was co-founder of the American Denishawn School of Dance and the teacher of several notable performers. Signed collectors card, dated 1921. VG.........40-60
210. [MUSIC] Jarmila Novotna (1907-1994) was a celebrated Czech soprano and actress and, from 1940 to 1956, a star of the Metropolitan Opera. ALS, 1993, 1p............35-45
211. [NOBEL PRIZE] Sir Aaron Klug , OM, PRS (b.1926) British chemist and biophysicist, and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes. His scientific biography is currently being written by former colleague Kenneth Holmes. SIGNED 6.5 x 8.5" photo. VG............25-35
212. Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. (1924- 2010) Army general who served as the United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Signed color 8x10 photo in uniform. VG.........40-60
213. [MUSIC] Keely Smith (b. 1928) American jazz and popular music singer who enjoyed popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. She collaborated with, among other, Louis Prima and Frank Sinatra. SIGNED, INSCRIBED 8 X 10 PHOTO. VG...........25-35
214. [MUSIC] Adolph Green (1914-2002) American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at MGM , during the genre's heyday. Many people thought the pair were married; they were not, but they shared a unique comic genius and sophisticated wit that enabled them to forge a six-decade-long partnership that produced some of Hollywood and Broadway's greatest hits. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.................30-40
215. [BRITISH] Henry Manners Cavendish, 3rd Baron Waterpark (1793-1863) British Whig politician. Waterpark was the son of Richard Cavendish, 2nd Baron Waterpark, and his wife Juliana (née Cooper). He succeeded his father in the barony in 1830 but as this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to an automatic seat in the House of Lords. The same year he was instead elected to the House of Commons as one of two representatives for Knaresborough, a seat he held until 1832, and then sat for Derbyshire South from 1832 to 1835. He remained out of the House of Commons for nearly twenty years but returned in 1854 when he was elected for Lichfield, and sat for this constituency until 1856. Apart from his political career he was also a Colonel in the Derbyshire Militia. SIGNED "WATERPARK" ADDRESS PANEL DATED JUNE 30, 1831....20-30
219. [OPERA] Geraldine Farrar [1882-1967] opera singer and film actress whose stage presence earned her a fanatic following of Gerryflappers in the early 20th century. TLS, 1958, 1p, regarding a Bill in congress that she isn't interested in making a comment about.........60-80
220. [TV] Ed McMahon (1923 - 2009) most famous for his work on television as Johnny Carson's announcer and sidekick on The Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992. Signed, inscribed color picture portrait. VG.............25-35
221. Edgar Fawcett (1847-1904) American novelist and poet. ALS, Dec. 1, no yr, 2 separate pages. "Dear Dana, I have just come in, found your message, and afterward your gloves. You didn't leave them on the mantel, by the way, but on my magnificent marble-topped arrangement under the right mirror - right, that is, from the grand main staircase way, as one ascends from the street." VG............75-100
222. Laura Spencer Porter - American short story writer. Very popular in Harper's Magazine and the New England Magazine at turn of century into 1920s. ALS, NY, 1901, 2pp. VG...........40-60
223. [OPERA] Emma Eames [1865-1952] soprano. Signature...........20-30
224. [MUSIC] Ray
Conniff (1916-
2002) American bandleader and arranger. AMQS - bar from
"Somehere My Love" on 3x5 card. Fine..........50-75
225. [FRANCE] Clement
Duvernois [1836-1879] noted French
journalist. ALS, Paris, 1872, 1p, 5 x 8 in. VG.............50-75
226. [FRANCE] MARY MARQUET [b. Russia 1895; died France 1979] actress who was encouraged by Sarah Bernhardt to become an actress. She made her stage debut in "La cathédrale" by the dramatist Eugène Morand. Her real triumph soon followed with "L'Aiglon" by Edmond Rostand . She joined the Comédie Française in 1923 and was one of its most revered actress for over twenty years before being fired. In 1944, she was arrested and sent to Fresne prison , near Paris: she was accused of collaborating with the Germans during the war as well as being instrumental to her son's arrest by the Gestapo. During her trial, she admitted contacting the Vichy police in 1943 and asking them to prevent her son François from joining the Resistance. Despite a severe warning by the police, he still managed to flee to Spain but was arrested and deported to Buchenwald where he died in January 1944. Mary Marquet was acquitted in January 1945 but was not allowed to return to the Comédie Française. She resumed her career on stage and appeared in light comédies, or 'comédies de boulevard' as they are called in French. She had to wait until 1949 to appear on screen again in the very mediocre 'Le 84 prend des vacances (1950). After the mid-sixties, she almost exclusively appeared in TV movies or series. Six handwritten lines signed, no date. Not translated........50-75
227. [FRANCE] MAURICE BAQUET [1911-2005] Fr. actor. Interesting lot. Includes: signed picture of him playing a musical instrument with NYC skyline in background; plus 4 signed sketch drawings. VG............75-100
228. [FRANCE - THEATRE] ARIANE MNOUCHKINE [b.1939] world-renowned French stage director. She founded the Parisian avant-garde stage ensemble Theatre du Soleil in 1964. Her movie "1789", which dealt with the French Revolution, brought her international fame in 1974. In 1978 she wrote and directed "Molière", a biography of the famous French playwright for which she received an [Oscar] nomination. Signed/inscribed postcard............50-75
229. [THEATRE] Frank Corsaro (b. 1924) is one of America's foremost stage directors of opera and theatre. His Broadway productions include The Night of the Iguana (with Bette Davis, 1961). SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photo [Bill Swersey, photographer] PLUS ANS MENTIONING HIS BOOK "MAVERICK." Two pieces.........50-75
230. William Milligan [1821-1892] was a renowned Scottish theologian. He studied at the University of Halle in Germany, and eventually became a professor at the University of Aberdeen. He is best known for his commentary on the Revelation of St. John. He also wrote two other well known books that are classics: The Resurrection of our Lord and The Ascension of our Lord. ALS, 1868, 3pp, signed with his initials on page 4. Small loss affecting a word or two along edge.........50-75
231. WILLIAM
DANIELS (1927- ) American
Actor. He in the long-running Broadway play Life with Father in
1945, Daniels. His confidence eroded by several years of
relative inactivity, Daniels nearly turned down an opportunity
to play Brick in a road company production of Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof, but the play's author Tennessee Williams insisted upon
casting Daniels. In 1960, the actor was cast with George Maharis
in the Edward Albee play The Zoo Story, which won him the Obie
and Clarence Derwent Awards and led to such choice Broadway
assignments as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, On a Clear Day
You Can See Forever and A Thousand Clowns. Much to his own
amazement, Daniels found himself cast in a superhero-spoof
sitcom, Captain Nice, in 1967, which fortunately wasn't on long
enough to typecast him. The actor achieved recognition of a more
positive nature for his role as Dustin Hoffman's obtuse father
in The Graduate (1967) (he was all of ten years older than
Hoffman). Daniels' role as John Adams in the 1969 Broadway
musical 1776 resulted in another strong film showing when the
play was transferred to celluloid in 1972. Reportedly as
reserved and taciturn as his screen characters in real life,
Daniels was perhaps ideally cast as the abrasive Dr. Mark Craig
on the long-running (1982-88) TV drama St. Elsewhere.
SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 photograph.............20-30
232. [FRANCE] Michel Masson [1800-1883] author who co-wrote plays with Scribe. Nice ALS, 1850, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8 in. Speaks about rehearsals and writing end of play. VG........75-100
233. [FRANCE] Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as
Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944) French statesman and historian. ALS,
1940, 1p. PLUS 1-1/2 unsigned but in his hand [manuscript ??].
VG..............60-80
235. Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Viscount Eversley GCB, PC [1794-1888] British Whig politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1839 to 1857. He is the second-longest serving Speaker of the House of Commons, behind Arthur Onslow. ALS, no date, requesting that ticket be sent to a relative for the Exhibition at the Royal Botanic Gardens. About 7 x 4.5". Slightly soiled; fold lines............40-60
236. Sir Owen Seaman, 1st Baronet [1861-1936] British writer,
journalist and poet. He is best known as editor of Punch, from
1906 to 1932. ALS, 1933, 1p. VG..........50-75
237. Charles Diehl (1859-1944) French historian who was a native of Strasbourg. He was a leading authority on Byzantine art and history. He was member of the École française de Rome [1881-1883] and the École française d'Athènes. In 1910 he became a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. Diehl was the author of several influential books on Byzantine art and history. His treatise Byzance. Grandeur et décadence was translated into English by Naomi Walford and published in 1957 as "Byzantium: Greatness and Decline". ALS, not dated, 1p, 4.5 x 6.5". VG............40-60
238. [FRANCE] Jean-François Barrière (1786-1868) French historian. He wrote about the French revolution, most notably an annotated biography of Madame Roland entitled Memoirs de Madame Roland, Avec une Notice sur sa Vie, des Notes et des Eclaircissemens historiques par MM. Saint-Albin Berville et Jean-François Barrière, edited and published in 1827 by Honoré de Balzac. Barrière served 18 years in the Préfecture of Paris, rising through the ranks to become division chief. He was removed from office and forced to retire following the Revolution of 1848. ALS, no year, 3pp, 5-1/4 8-1/4". Long letter about history and someone who said that Louis XVI was Louis XV's son. VG............60-80
239. [FRANCE] François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787-1874) French historian, orator, and
statesman. Clip Signature on 4 x 2-1/4 slip..........35-45
240. [FRANCE] 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., 3-3/4 x 4-3/4 in. Small smudge.........50-75
241. [FRANCE] Pierre Émile Levasseur (1828-1911) French economist. He was born and educated in Paris, France. He began teaching in the lycée at Alençon in 1852, and in 1857 became professor of rhetoric at Besançon . He returned to Paris to become professor at the lycée Saint Louis, and in 1868 he was chosen a member of the academy of moral and political sciences, in 1872 he was appointed professor of geography, history and statistics in the College de France, and subsequently became also professor at the Conservatoire des arts et métiers and at the École libre des sciences politiques (which later became known as the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris or its widely known nickname of Sciences Po). Levasseur was one of the founders of the study of commercial geography, and became a member of the Council of Public Instruction, president of the French society of political economy and honorary president of the French geographical society. Levasseur was elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1894. ALS, 1897, 2 full pages, 4-3/8 x 6-7/8 in. "R" in blue pencil on page 1. VG.........50-75
242. [FRANCE] Henri Léon Emile Lavedan (1859-1940) French dramatist and man of letters, was born at Orléans, the son of Hubert Léon Lavedan, a well-known Catholic and liberal journalist. Lavedan contributed to various Parisian papers a series of witty tales and dialogues of Parisian life, many of which were collected in volume form. In 1891 he produced at the Théâtre Français Une Famille, followed at the Vaudeville in 1894 by Le Prince d'Aurec, a satire on the nobility, afterward re-named Les Descendants. ALS, 1890, 2pp, to the poet Giron. Not translated. Fine..........80-120
243. [FRANCE] Arthur Chuquet (1853&endash;1925) French historian and biographer. He was born in Rocroi, Ardennes. He is now best known for his Jeunesse de Napoléon appearing in three volumes from 1897 to 1899. He became a member of the Institut de France in 1900. Brief ALS, 1904, approx. 4 x 5-1/4 in. Fine..........50-75
244. 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. He was born in Belfast, Ireland but moved to London while in his teens. His 1956 biography George Bernard Shaw was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. TLS, 1932, 1p.........25-35
245. [THEATRE] Katharine C. Herne [1857-1943] American popular stage actress. ALS, 1902, 2pp. Slight show-thru stain on back of 1st page; stain is more prominent on last page but well below text.............25-35
246. [BALLET] David Lichine
(1910-1972) Russian/US ballet dancer. His wife was Tatiana
Riabouchinska, whom he was partnered with in most of his
ballets. In Walt Disney's Make Mine Music, Lichine and his wife
performed a live action dance together in the segment "Two
Sihouettes." ALS, not dated, 1p, 5.5 x 7.5. Late in sending
picture because he has been dancing...........25-35
247. SIR GERALD DURRELL
(1925-1995) British Naturalist/Zoologist/Author. In 1947 he
financed, organized, and led his first animal-collecting
expedition to the Cameroons. This was followed by a expeditions
in 1948 and 1949, this time to British Guiana. He has also made
expeditions to Paraguay, Argentina, Sierra Leone, Mauritius,
Assam, Mexico, and Madagascar. In 1962 he and his wife went to
New Zealand, Australia and Malaya to film a TV series, Two in
the Bush. In 1959 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park ,and in
1964 he founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. Author
of many books. 3x5 color photo SIGNED ON VERSO...........25-35
248. Sir Aston Webb (1849-1930) English architect, active in the late 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. He was President of the Royal Academy 1919-1924. TLS, 1921, 1p. To W.A. Menzies re: Conradi's Mother's portrait.................40-60
249. Sir Nathaniel Wm Wraxall,
1st Baronet (1751-1831), English author. He entered the
employment of the East India Company in 1769, and served as
judge-advocate and paymaster during the expeditions against
Gujarat and Baroche in 1771. He was knighted in 1813. ALS, 1801,
1p. Gives change of address for delivery of the
Herald..................50-75
250. [OPERA] Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861-1936) celebrated operatic contralto. SIGNATURE mounted to larger sheet..........25-35
251. [MUSIC] Gladys Swarthout [1900-1969] Am. opera star. Pencil signature.......20-30
253. Sydney Alexander Moseley [1888-1961] British journalist, author. ALS, 1917, 1p. Talks about American troops coming over for the war............25+35
254. [FILM] Forrest Orr (1899-1963) American actor who performed on stage from 1907-45. ALS, NY, no date, 2pp, Mentions "I played, with Katherine Hepburn in Philadelphia Story..." VG...........25-35
255. David E. Lilienthal (1899-1981) capable and controversial American public official. Appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as one of three directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933, Lilienthal served as the Authority's chairman from 1941 to 1946 and was known as "Mr. TVA." ALS, 1973, 1p......25-35
256. [MUSIC - FILM] Eddie Dean (1907-1999) American western singer and actor whom Roy Rogers and Gene Autry termed the best cowboy singer of all time. SIGNED 8X10 PHOTO. VG..........25-35
257. [SCIENCE] Steven A. Rosenberg (b. 1940) is a leading cancer researcher and surgeon. He is credited with developing the use of IL-2 and immune cells for the treatment of patients with melanoma . He has also shown that expanding immune cells (known as tumor infiltrating lymphocytes) in the lab can be used to treat patients with melanoma and has published two important studies describing their use. The first in 2002, demonstrated that some patients with advanced melanoma can be treated to complete remission with a combination of chemotherapy, immune cells and high doses of IL-2. The second, in 2006, demonstrated that the receptor of T cells can be transferred to immune cells and in combination with chemotherapy and high doses of IL-2 can be used to treat patients with melanoma. Although, this was the first time that the T cell receptor was used for gene therapy, it was not the first time that gene therapy was used in cancer. Tumor cells modified with a gene for immune growth factors such as GM-CSF, had been used many years previously and continue to be used as an effective form of gene therapy and immunotherapy for cancer. There has been some debate as to the role of the T cells in treating the cancer in these studies as high-dose IL-2 and chemotherapy have also been shown to have anti-cancer properties. Nevertheless, the combination of chemotherapy, T cells and high-dose IL-2 was shown to be effective even in patients who had previously failed high-dose IL-2 treatment. SIGNED 5x7 color photo........35-45
258. ELDON DEDINI (1921- ) American Cartoonist - Celebrated cartoonist of Playboy, The New Yorker, others. SIGNED/inscribed print of him as the devil..............25-35
260. Thomas Dundas, 2nd Earl of Zetland, KG (1795-1873) British nobleman and politician. ALS, 1866, 1p.................35-45
262. [NOBEL PRIZE] David M. Lee (b. 1931) physicist whose work on low-temperature helium-3 won him the Nobel Prize in 1996. Signed 3-1/2 x 5 in. photo...........35-45
263. [THEATRE] Henri Lavedan [1859-1940] Fr. dramatist. AQS on card from "le
Duel.".........25-35
265. Roger Ward Babson (1875-1967) remembered today largely for founding Babson College in Massachusetts, was an entrepreneur and business theorist in the first half of the 20th century. He also founded Webber College, now Webber International University, in Babson Park, Florida, and the defunct Utopia College, in Eureka, Kansas. TLS, 1957, 1p...........30-50
266. CHRISTINA CRAWFORD - American Actress/Author - The adopted daughter of Actress Joan Crawford, she appeared in TV and films. Her autobiography "Mommie Dearest" was turned into a successful movie. TLS dtd 10/1/84...........20-30
267. Albert-Auguste Cochon de Lapparent
[1839-1908]. French geologist and mining engineer. Professor
at Catholic Institute, Paris (from 1876); author of Traitéde
géologie (1882), Leçons de géographie physique (1896), etc.
ALS, Paris, 1891, written on both sides of 4-3/4 x 3-1/2 in.
card. About an article in a scientific magazine written by a
priest and which made him "Penaud" (crestfallen).
VG.........50-75
268. [MUSIC] Annie Louise Cary
(1842-1921) American singer. Signed card, 1899, with
envelope.......30-40
269. [REAGAN] ROBERT "Bud" MCFARLAND - Presidential Advisor TO PRESIDENT REAGAN. He was head of the National Security Agency, who came under heavy fire during the Iran-Contra scandal. Within hours after the story broke of the investigation, he took an overdose at an attempt of suicide. He later went on to testify. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 White House Photograph signed "Bud McFarland...............25-35
270. FREDERICK G. DUTTON - American Diplomat; executive secretary to Gov. Brown, 1959-60; secty. of cabinet, special asst. to Pres. Kennedy for intergovernmental and interdepartmental relations, 1961-62; Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for Congressional Relations, 1962-64; He was the Presidential Advisor to Pres. Diem of S.Vietnam. He was Executive Director of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial; Special Assistant to Robert F. Kennedy, Asst. Sec of State. TLS dtd 3/5/70 concerning the RFA Memorial........ 20-30
271. [FRANCE] Henri-Robert (1863-1936 French lawyer, historian, and member of the Académie française in 1923. In 1903 a Paris correspondent for the New York Times described him as "an exceptionally successful lawyer... the favorite advocate of the criminal classes (who) has already saved innumerable heads from the guillotine". Brief ALS, 1898, 1p. VG...........50-75
272. [SCIENCE] PHILLIP M. MORSE (1903-1985) American Physicist. Widely considered
to be the father of operations research in the U.S., he
organized the Anti-Submarine Warfare Operations Research Group
(ASWORG), later ORG, for the U.S. Navy early in 1942. "That
Morse's group was an important factor in winning the war is
fairly obvious to everyone who knows anything about the inside
of the war," wrote historian John Burchard. Dr. Morse
co-authored Methods of Operations Research, the first OR
textbook in the U.S., with George Kimball based on the Navy
work. His continuing interest in military OR led him to propose
the formation of the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group (WSEG) in
1949. The author of numerous books and articles some: Examples
of his contributions in physics are the textbooks Quantum
Mechanics (with Condon), Methods of Theoretical Physics (with
Feshbach), Vibration and Sound. SIGNED/inscribed 3x5 card with
sentiment......20-30
273. Horace Annesley Vachell [1861-1955]. English writer. Author of novels, including Romance of Judge Ketchum (1894), John Charity (1900), The Hill (1905), Her Son (1907, dramatized 1907), Quinney' s (1914, dramatized 1915), Whitewash (1920), Vicar' s Walk (1933), Quinneys for Quality (1938); plays, including Jelf' s (1912), Fishpingle (1916), Count X (1921), Plus Fours (1923); essays as My Vagabondage (1936), Little Tyrannies (1940); autobiographical Methuselah' s Diary (1949), More from Methuselah (1951). SIGNED CARD, 1922. Toned around edges.......20-30
274. [NOBEL PRIZE] BARUJ BENACERRAF - American Pathologist. 1980 Nobel Prize for
Medicine for his exploration of the genetic regulation of the
body's immune response. It showed that so called H antigens
(histocompatibility antigens) determine the interaction of the
multitude of different cells responsible for the body's
immunological reactions - including the combat of infections and
rejection of foreign matter. SIGNED/inscribed stationary with
sentiment.........25-35
275. Millicent Fawcett [1847-1929] Brit. suffragist. Signature, 1920......25-35
276. Cecil Brown [1907-1987] journalist
author. Signature........15-20
277. Sir Henry Newbolt [1862-1938] English poet. Clip signature from 1918 typed letter.....25-35
278. Leonard Alfred George Strong (1896 &endash; 1958) English writer, known as a novelist, journalist, poet and director of the publishers Methuen Ltd. ALS, no yr, 1p. VG........35-45
279. William John Locke [1863-1930] English novelist, playwright. ALS, 1909........25-35
280. Julian Pauncefote, 1st Baron Pauncefote GCB, GCMG, PC (1828 - 1902), known as Sir Julian Pauncefote between 1874 and 1899, was a British barrister, judge and diplomat. He was Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1882 and 1889 when he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States , an office that was upgraded to that of Ambassador to the United States in 1893. Elevated to the peerage as Baron Pauncefote in 1899, he died in office in 1902. ALS, dated Xmas 1901, 2-1/2pp, signed "P".........40-60
281. Marguerite Steen (1894-1975) British writer, most popular in the 1930s and 1940s. SIGNATURE..........20-30
282. [MUSIC] George Duffy [1908-1963] Am. band leader. SP 5x7..........25-35
283. [FRANCE] Paul Bastid [1892-1974] Minister of Commerce and important personality in the French liberature. Brief ALS, [1929?], 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. VG..........50-75
284. [MUSIC] Max Landow [1877-1960] German born American pianist. Signed picture removed from some publication. 2-1/2 x 3-5/8" plus card margins...........20-30
285. [FRANCE] Francois Debret [1777-1850] French architect. He designed the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique. He was a controversial and overzealous restorer of historic buildings. ALS, 1827, 2pp., plus address leaf. VG.........80-120
286. Grace S.
Richmond (died 1959) American writer. She wrote the "Red
Pepper Burns" series of popular novels. ALS, 1904, 1p.
VG....30-40
287. [THEATRE] Leon Volterra - larger-than-life theatre impressario from Paris. Known also for his stable of race horses and the Chateau Volterra in Saint-Tropez. The origins of Chateau Volterra are marvelously shrouded in mystery and touched with romance. It is generally accepted that construction of the Chateau began in 1906, took six years to build. In 1926, the property passed into the hands of Monsieur Leon Volterra, a larger-than-life theatre impressario from Paris who, during a visit to Saint-Tropez (already a gathering place for the stars of the day) was swept off his feet by Simone, a fisherman's daughter. They were married within the year. Monsieur Volterra was manager of four theatres in Paris: the Casino de Paris, the Theatre de Paris, the Theatre Marigny and the Lido. He also orchestrated the careers of stars Mistinguett and Maurice Chevalier, directed the Folies Bergere, created the Luna Park at Porte-Maillot and owned a stable of race horses. In its heyday the 1930s and early 1940s Chateau Volterra saw a constant flow of well-known actors and artists, several of whom were semi-resident, and a stream of spectacular-looking chorus girls. Among the celebrity guests were Raimu, Josphine Baker, Colette and Jean Cocteau. The war years brought frequent visits from prominent figures of the Resistance. Offered here is a TLS, Paris, 1920, 1p, 8-1/4 x 10-1/2". Interesting letter about how the theatre tickets control was done by Societe des Auteurs, a French professional association collecting payments of artists' rights and distributing the rights to the to the original songwriters, composers, and music publishers. Not translated. VG. Very scarce!.......75-100
288. [VERMONT] George D. Aiken (1892-1984) American politician from Vermont. A
Republican Party, he served as governor of Vermont from 1937 to
1941 and as a U.S. Senator from 1941 to 1975. At the time of his
retirement, Aiken was the most senior member of the Senate.
SIGNED postcard photo, dated Dec. 10, 1941 on verso.
VG........25-35
289. Roger Ward Babson (1875-1967) remembered today largely for founding Babson College in Massachusetts. TLS, 1958, 1p.........25-35
290. [BALLET] Dame Beryl Grey (b. 1927) British ballet dancer. ALS, 1982, 2pp. PLUS signed & inscribed 3.5 x 5.5 in. photo.........35-45
291. ROBERT L. SHAPIRO - noted defense attorney. ISP,
8x10................20-30
292. JONATHAN DANIELS - Press Sec. to FDR. TLS, 1977.........................20-30
293. LLOYD K. GARRISON - Pres. National Urban League. Short ALS, 1973.......20-30
295. [FRENCH THEATRE] MARC CAMOLETTI - playwright. Signed 1970 contract for L'AMOUR-PROPRE, also signed by the Belgian director Lucien Declercq. VG. ..........40-60
296. [FRANCE] Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853) neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in such close partnership with Charles Percier, originally his friend from student days. Starting from 1794, it is fruitless to disentangle artistic responsibilities in their work. Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major proponents of the rich and grand, consciously archaeological versions of neoclassicism we recognize as Directoire style and Empire style: see Charles Percier. ALS, 1801 [STAMPLESS COVER], 1p, approx. 6-1/4 x 8 in. About General Bernard. Seal removal has caused loss of paper on both sides affecting a few words............100-150
297. [FRANCE] Simon GANTILLON - FR. author. ALS, 1947, 1p. PLUS unsigned telegram re: his play MAYA [1927]. Not translated............50-75
298. HEDLEY DONOVAN
(1914-1990) American Editor - He was Henry R. Luce's handpicked
successor for all of TIME INC. From 1965 till 1979 He is best
remembered for toning down their polemical coverage particularly
of foreign affairs. After he left time, he spent a very
disappointing year as top advisor to Pres. Jimmy Carter. SIGNED
8x/10 portrait photograph..................25-35
299.
[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
300. [FRANCE] CHARLES MERE [b.
1883] Fr. writer & President of Author's Guild. ANS, 1937
plus signed 2 page contract & ANS written on TLS, 1943, by
A. Leclair. # pieces, all in French. VG.........60-80
303. (FRANCE) CH. FOLEY [1861-?] Fr. author of novels and plays. Two ALSs, 1909, 1p. each. 4 x 6. Not translated.........50-75
304. [ARCHEOLOGIST] Louis-Georges-Alfred de Martonne [b.1820] French archeologist and man-of-letters. ALS, Paris, 1872, 1p Speaks about his work on biography and his mentor Philarete Chasles [1798-1873] the French scholar and writer. Not translated. Fine..........50-75
305. [ARCHEOLOGIST] Bernard-Jacques-Joseph Maximilien de Ring [1799-1873] French archeologist. ALS, 1852, 2pp, speaks about articles in La Revue Contemporaire.......50-75
306. [NOBEL] Charles H. Townes (b.1915) American Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
Signed 1963 FDC honoring Academy of Sciences. Clean but with
very faint paperclip stain top edge [not bad at
all]..........25-35
307. [MUSIC] Joseph
Edgar Howard (1878-1961) Broadway
composer, lyricist, and librettist. A famed member of Tin Pan
Alley his credits, along with wife and composer Ida Emerson as
part of the song writing team of Howard and Emerson whose hits
include Hello Ma Baby, and Broadway tunes like The
District Leader. Clip Signature, 1944. Fair
condition......40-60
310. [LITERATURE] Sir Hall Caine [1853-1931]. English novelist. Secretary to Dante G. Rossetti (1881-82). Author of Shadow of a Crime (1885), Son of Hagar (1886), The Deemster (1887), The Bondman (1890), The Manxman (1894), The Christian (1897), Eternal City (1901), Prodigal Son (1904), The Woman Thou Gavest Me (1913), The Master of Man (1921), and Life of Christ (1938). Signed card.........25-35
311. [FILM] Samantha Eggar [b. 1939] English actress. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.....25-35
313. [RELIGION] ROBERT LAIRD COLLIER [1837-1890] He was originally an itinerant Methodist preacher, united with the Unitarian church in 1866, was pastor of large churches in Chicago and Boston, and at the same time became a popular lecturer and writer of magazine articles. His principal published works are "Every-Day Subjects in Sunday Sermons" (Boston, 1869)'" Meditations on the Essence of Christianity" (1876); and "English Home Life" (1885). ALS, 1869, 1p............50-75
314. WILLIAM WHITTY HALL (1810-1876) physician and pioneer editor of health magazines, was born in Paris, Kentucky. After graduating from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, with the intention of becoming a Presbyterian missionary, he studied theology and medicine at Transylvania University, where he received an M.D. in 1836, the same year he was ordained to the ministry. Intending to support himself as a missionary through his medical practice, he began work in Louisiana. But he subsequently came to Texas, met Sam Houston near Nacogdoches, and rode with him to the first presidential inauguration in Texas. Hall preached in Houston and the surrounding area and served as chaplain in both houses of the Texas Congress. He helped collect funds to build a Presbyterian church in Houston and was active in organizing an ecclesiastical vigilance committee to prevent imposters from posing as ministers. In 1837 Hall left the Republic in time to attend the Synod of Kentucky, which convened in October. There he urged the Presbvterian Church to become involved in missionary work in Texas. The General Assembly of the church adopted his recommendation in 1838. Hall gradually abandoned preaching for the practice of medicine and went first to New Orleans, then to Cincinnati, where he married Hannah Matlock. In 1851 he established a consultation practice in New York City, where he married Magdalene Matilda Robertson. While in Cincinnati, he had published several books on consumption and other lung ailments. In New York in 1854 he began the publication of Hall's Joumal of Health. In 1875 he started another periodical, Hall's Medical Adviser. Never weighing more than 125 pounds and working from five in the moming until ten at night, a violation of his own health rules, Hall fell in a fit on a street in New York and died aimost immediately on May 10, 1876. ALS, 2pp, dated June 30, 1857 giving health advice. VG..........100-150
315. George Ball (1909-1994) American diplomat. He was the Under Secretary of State for Economic and Agricultural Affairs in the administrations of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He is well known for his opposition to escalation in the Vietnam War. Ball also served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from June 26 to September 25, 1968. During the Nixon Administration, George Ball helped draft American policy proposals in the Persian Gulf. SIGNED & INSCRIBED 5 x 7 photo. VG...............25-35
316. [CINEMA] CARA WILLIAMS
(BARRYMORE) (1925- ) American Actress - At 17, Williams was
signed to a 20th Century Fox contract, but few of her subsequent
film roles were large enough to attract notice. Her fortunes
improved when she replaced Judy Holliday in the Broadway
production of Born Yesterday (1950); thereafter, her film and TV
roles increased in size and prominence. She was nominated for an
Academy Award for her portrayal of a sex-starved farm woman in
The Defiant Ones (1958). By virtue of her flaming red hair and
acute comic timing, Williams was touted as "the new Lucille
Ball" on the CBS sitcoms Pete and Gladys (1961) and The Cara
Williams Show (1964). She was married to John Barrymore, Jr. and
had a son. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 photograph with sentiment .
DIFFERENT POSE FROM ABOVE...............20-30
317. [NOBEL PRIZE] GEORGE OLAH (1927- ) Hungarian b. Chemist. He was awarded the chemistry prize in 1994 for illuminating basic chemical reactions that had never before been observed, and also for showing that carbon itself, the backbone of organic chemistry, could be cajoled into behaving in ways that scientists had not believed possible. SIGNED 4x6 photograph..........35-45
318. Kate Field
(1838-1896) American journalist, lecturer, and actress, of
eccentric talent. ALS, Feb. 22, no yr, 2pp. From Shoreham
Hotel in NYC. Sends payment for tickets received and
discussing distributing others, etc...........40-60
319. [ACTRESS] FLORENCE STANLEY (1924-2003)
American Actress. She launched her career on Broadway and
was a regular on television shows including "Barney Miller,"
She appeared on Broadway in "Fiddler on The Roof," "The
Prisoner of Second Avenue" and was in the Manhattan Theater
Club's "What's Wrong with This Picture?" before heading to
Hollywood. Her TV appearances include Judge Margaret Wilbur
on "My Two Dads" and Bernice Fish on "Barney Miller," as
well as numerous guest roles on shows including "Dharma
& Greg" in 2002. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 photograph with
sentiment.................20-30
320. Ted Key (1912-2008)American cartoonist and writer. He is best known as the creator of the cartoon series Hazel. ANS, no date........25-35
321. [FRANCE] Ernest Menault (1830-1903) French author and zoologist. He
wrote, principally Les Insectes nuisibles à l' Agriculture et à
la Viticulture, L'intelligence des animaux and L'amour maternel
chez les animaux. ALS, 1867, 1-1/2 pp. VG..........50-75
322. [THEATRE] Ernest Blum (1836-1907) French dramatist. Brief ALS, no date, 1p.......50-75
323. [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
324. John
Cameron Swayze [1906-1995]
popular news commentator. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo.
VG.........35-45
325. [FILM & TV] Macdonald Carey [1913-1994] American actor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG........40-60
327. [THEATRE] Henry de GORSSE [1868-1936] Fr. dramatist. ALS, no date, 1p.
Speaks about his play. Not translated. Fine................40-60
328. Don Hewitt (1922-2009) American television news producer and executive, best known for creating 60 Minutes, the CBS television news magazine in 1968, which at the time of his death, was the longest-running prime-time broadcast on American television. Under Hewitt's leadership, 60 Minutes was the only news program ever rated the nation's top-ranked television program, an achievement it accomplished five times. He also produced the first televised presidential debate in the 1960. Signed, inscribed color 8x10 photo. VG...........40-60
329. [LOUISIANA] ELAINE S. EDWARDS -
American Politician/ First Lady of Louisiana - a Senator from
Louisiana; appointed to the United States Senate by her much
controversial husband, Governor Edwin W. Edwards, August 1,
1972, as a Democrat to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Allen J. Ellender, and servered , until her resignation November
13, 1972. TLS dtd 10/4/72 with SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 portrait
dtd 1972 (2 items).................25-35
330.
Emily P.
Bissell (1861-1948)
American social worker and activist, best remembered for
introducing Christmas Seals to the United States. Her signature
on postcard postmarked 1944. Collector has written in pencil on
signed side. Accompanied by 2 FDCs honoring Bissell each Bissell
stamps......................50-75
331. [FILM] BETSY BLAIR - English Actress - Most casual film fans know one of two facts about stage and film actress Betsy Blair. (1): She was the first wife of musical comedy star Gene Kelly. (2): She played the homely blind date of Ernest Borgnine in Marty (1955)., in which she was Nominated for an Oscar . After Marty, relocated on the Continent, appearing in such Italian films as The Outcry (1957) and Senilita (1961).Also, has acted in many plays on the English stage. SIGNED/inscribed 3x5 photograph....................20-30
332. [THEATRE] Francesco Dall'Ongaro [1808-1873] Italian writer, poet and dramatist. He was educated for the priesthood, but abandoned his orders, and taking to political journalism founded the Favilla at Trieste in the Liberal interest. In 1848 he enlisted under Garibaldi, and next year was a member of the assembly which proclaimed the republic in Rome. On the downfall of the republic he fled to Switzerland, then to Belgium and later to France, taking a prominent part in revolutionary journalism; it was not till 1860 that he returned to Italy, where he was appointed professor of dramatic literature at Florence. Subsequently he was transferred to Naples, where he died on the in 1873. His patriotic poems, Stornelli, composed in early life, had a great popular success; and he produced a number of plays, notably Fornaretto, Bianca Cappello, Fasma and Il Tesoro. His collected Fantasie drammatiche e liriche were published in his lifetime. Rare ALS, no year, 2pp, 5-1/4 x 8". Not translated. Fine condition...........75-100
Portrait of Dall'Ongaro334. [FRANCE] Philippe
Berthelot (1866-1934) was an important
French diplomat, son of Marcellin Berthelot. He was a
republican (as opposed to monarchists and the Far-right
leagues at that time). He entered the French diplomatic
service in 1889 and joined the foreign office in 1904. In
1920, he became secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
with the rank of ambassador. After a violent campaign of
Far-right leagues he was forced to step aside from 1922-1925
because of his involvement in the scandal opposing Banque
Industrielle de Chine, controlled by his brother, and Banque
d'Indochine (linked to Paul Doumer). He was friends
with, and important in the diplomatic careers of, Paul Claudel
and Saint-John Perse. ALS, nd, 1-1/2 pages. Fine..............80-120
335. [CROATIA] Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić (b.1934) served as the second President of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before his ten-year presidential term, he held the posts of Speaker of the Croatian Parliament (1992–1994), Prime Minister of Croatia (1990), the last President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1991), Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement (1991), a judge in Našice and mayor of his home town of Orahovica. Color photograph mounted, signed on the mount, 6-3/4 x 9-1/2 in. VG.................50-75
336.
[SLOVAKIA] Ivan Gašparovič
(b.1941) President of Slovakia from 2004 to 2014. He
was also the first Slovak president to be re-elected.
Signed color photo, 4 x 8-1/2
in. VG...........50-75
337. [NOBEL PRIZE] Christian B. Anfinsen [1916-95] Signed 1p. bio. sketch.......20-30
338. JOSEPH MITCHELL CHAPPLE (1868-1950) American Author/Newspaperman -He was a most celebrated jounalsit who covered the Spansih-American War, to Spain in the 1930's. He was the author of a book on President Warren G. Harding and was author of numerous articles for over 60 years. ANS dtd 9/29/40............20-30
339. Dr. Julius Yemans Dewey (1801-1877) American
doctor of medicine and businessman in the state of Vermont
during the 19th century. He was a founder of and later
president of the National Life Insurance Company and he
personally delivered the remittance for the company's first
claim, prompting a public thank-you from the surviving
family. One of his sons was USN Admiral of the Navy and hero
of the Spanish-American War George Dewey. ALS, 1832, 2pp.
Small corner clip affects a word or two...........50-75
340 . [ART] Jacques
Onfray de Breville
[1858-1931] French artist, illustrator. He was best known under
his signature Job. ALS, 1917, 1p, with envelope...........50-75
341. ADLOLFO [b.1933] Cuban-American designer. Signature..........15-20
342. Henry Major Tomlinson [1873-1958] Brit. novelist. Fine signature......15-20
343. [BRITISH] Edmund Blunden, MC (1896-1974) English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong. He ended his career as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Signed Presentation page from his work "Near & Far." Fine condition.........40-60
344. WILLIAMS, JACK. Governor of Arizona 1967-75. Dated Nov. 20, 1967, Williams expresses sympathy and encloses an autographed photo. Vertical fold at right, not affecting the text. Some off-print from ink signature when folded..........20-30
345. William Rockefeller (1919-1990) American businessman. TLS, 1971, 1p., setting up a meeting with Jackson W. Moore from Nashville. VG......40-60
346. [FILM] Red Buttons (1919-2006}
Academy Award-winning American comedian and actor. Signed,
inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..........30-40
347. [FILM] Jane Withers (b. 1926) American actress best known for being one of the most popular child film stars of the 1930s and early 1940s. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo, showing her as a child star. Signed later in life. VG..........25-35
348. [MUSIC] Helen Traubel (1899-1972) American opera and concert singer. Signed program, 1943. About 5.5 x 8.5". VG..........25-35
349. DOCKING, ROBERT S. Governor of Kansas 1967-75. Letter dated Nov. 20, 1967, sending autographed photo and expressing regret for addressee's son's illness.....20-30
350. [MUSIC] Hans-Werner Janssen [1899-1990] American conductor of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores. ANS, 1979, on 3x5 card..........25-35
351. JOHN CHARLES DALY (1914-1991)
American Broadcaster/Journalist/TV Host - He was a celebrated
Reporter and Broadcaster of WW2. His sign off was always: Good
night, and have a good tomorrow" - ABC Broadcaster and known to
many TV audiences for his hosting of the popular "What's My
Line" TV show. SIGNATURE on card......20-30
352. [CARTOONS] Whitney Darrow
(1909-1999) prominent American cartoonist, who worked most of
his career for The New Yorker, with some 1,500 of his cartoons
printed in his nearly 50-year-long career with the magazine.
TLS, 1960, 1p..............35-45
353. [OREGON] John H. Mitchell (1835-1905) controversial American lawyer and politician, who served as a Republican United States Senator from Oregon on three occasions between 1872 and 1905. He also served as State Senate President, did the initial legal work involved in the dispute that led to the landmark Supreme Court case of Pennoyer v. Neff, and later was involved with the Oregon land fraud scandal, for which he was indicted and convicted while a sitting U.S. Senator, one of only eleven sitting U.S. Senators ever indicted, and one of only five ever convicted. The town of Mitchell, Oregon, was named after him. Signature.........25-35
354. [ARKANSAS] Stephen Wallace Dorsey (1842- 1916) Senator from Arkansas. Since Dorsey, no Republican has held the Senior Senator seat for Arkansas from that day to the present. Signature........25-35
355. [BOXING]
JOEY MAXIM
(1922-2001) Light Heavyweight Champion of the World. Signed
& inscribed photo, , dated 1992, 8x10.
VG................30-40
357. [THEATRE] Beatrice Herford (1868 -1952) American actress and vaudeville performer born in England. ALS, no date, 1p........20-30
359. [THEATRE] Cornelia Otis Skinner (1899-1979) American author and actress. Signed, inscribed postcard photo. VG..........35-45
360. [MUSIC] Janis Ian [b. 1951] American songwriter, singer, musician. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.............25-35
361. [MUSIC] Charlie Rich (1932-1995)American Country Music
Singer/Musician. A Grammy Award winner, his eclectic-style of
music was often hard to classify in a single genre, playing in
the rockabilly, jazz, blues, country, and gospel genres. Signed,
inscribed 10 x 8 photo. VG.........35-45
362. Collection of album pages signed on both
sides: Dennis
King (1897-1971) English actor
and singer/ Frank
Wilson[1885-1956] American
actor. Jane
Pickens (1908-1992) popular
singer on Broadway, radio and television/Jack Powell [?]. Gertrude Niesen/Mario ?. Myron McCormick
(1908-1962) American actor of stage, radio and film/ Murvyn Vye. Marjorie
Lord (b. 1918) American
television actress/ Miriam Seegar
(b. 1907) American silent film actress. John Boles (1895-1969) American actor/ Ray Middleton (1907-1984) American character actor. Jane Cowl (1883-1950) successful early American film and
stage actress and playwright/ Mary Healy (b.
1918) American actress, singer, and variety entertainer. Violet Heming - actress/Pierre van Passen. Morton
Downey (1901-1985) singer
popular in the United States, enjoying his greatest success in
the 1930s and 1940s. Downey was nicknamed "The Irish
Nightingale"/Jay
Wesley. Uta Hagen (1919-2004) actress. She originated the role of
Martha in the 1963 Broadway premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf/Alberta
Perkens. Rose Franken - actress/Tex Dabllery. Charlie Spivak (1907-1982) American trumpeter and bandleader,
best known for his big band in the 1940s/Stanley Phillips. Most are inscribed to Edna..............80-120
363.
[BASEBALL] Rudy York -
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.............25-35
364.
[BASEBALL] William Barney
McCosky - 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.............25-35
365.
[BASEBALL] Cecil Travis
- 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.............25-35
366.
[BASEBALL] Roy Weatherly -
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.............25-35
367.
[BASEBALL] Frank McCormick -
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.............25-35
368.
[BASEBALL] Terry Moore -
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.............25-35
369.
[BASEBALL] Tom Henrich -
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.............25-35
370.
[BASEBALL] James Tabor -
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.............25-35
371.
[BASEBALL] Stanley
Hack - 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.............25-35
372. (
DUKES OF BEAUFORT LOT) Duke of Beaufort
is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created by
Charles II in 1682 4 SIGNATURES
Henry Somerst
(1844-1803) 5th Duke - Master of the Horse to Queen
Charlotte, Lord Lt. of Leistershire and
Brecknockshire, CLIPPED SIGNATURE. HENRY CHARLES SOMERSET (1766-1835)
6th Duke Tory member of Parliment, Lord Lt. of Monmouthsire,
Gloucestershsire, HIgh Steward of Bristol CLIPPED SIGNATURE.
HENRY SOMERSET,
Maj. (1792-1853)7th Duke - British Military Soldier, Aide de
Camp to the DUKE of WELLINGTON in Portugal and Spain. Member
of Palrlimen, LORD OF the ADMIRALTY, HIgh Steward of Bristol
- SIGNED ADDRESS PANEL. Captain Henry Charles FitzRoy SOMERSET (1824-1899)
8th Duke- Briish Soldier and Politician-Aide de Camp to the
Duke of WELLINGTON and also Viscount HARDINGE, Member of
Parliment, Master of the horse to QUEEN VICTORIA, Privy
Counsellor. CLIPPED SIGNATURE, from
ALS...........75-100
373.
(AMERICAN JOURNALIST/BROADCASTERS) Lowell Thomas (1892
–1981) American writer, broadcaster, and traveler,
best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous,
TLS, 1932. Bernard Shaw
(1940) American journalist, news anchor for CNN from 1980.
SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph. Willard
Scott (1934) best known for his
TV work on The Today Show and as the creator and original
portrayer of Ronald McDonald, (two) SIGNED, inscribed
7x9 photographs.............60-80
375.
[ENGLAND] Joseph Parker
(1830-1902) English Nonconformist (Congregational) divine.
Age stains......20-30
376. [FILM] Ann Sothern [1909-2001] American actress. Signed, inscribed 10x8 photo. Accompanied by vintage sheet music from the film "let's Fall In Love" starring Edmund Lowe and Ann Sothern. Both VG............40-60
377.
[ENGLAND] Charles Wood,
1st Viscount Halifax, GCB, PC (1800-1885), known as Sir Charles
Wood, 3rd Bt between 1846 and 1866, was a British Whig
politician and Member of Parliament. He served as Chancellor of
the Exchequer from 1846 to 1852. Franking Signature on address panel
183[?]............25-35
378. [FILM] Dorothy Malone (b. 1925) Academy
Award-winning actress American. DOCUMENT SIGNED, a contract
dated April 23, 1979, 4pp., a one year contract with
Contemporary-Korman Ltd. Also signed by Tom Korman of the famous
agency. Signed on last page. VG...........75-100
379. James R. Roosevelt, known as "Rosey" [1854-1927] was the older half-brother of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He served as Secretary of the United States Legation in Vienna and as Secretary of the Embassy in London. RARE DOCUMENT FRAGMENT SIGNED, May 1, 1913. Also signed by Warren Delano. Approx. 7-1/2 x 3-1/4 in. VG...........60-80
380.
[FILM] Luis Trenker (1892-1990)
German-language South Tyrolean (Austrian-Italian) film
director, architect, and actor. The style he had developed
in the thirties was not limited to nationalistic,
folkloristic and heroic clichès, however; his impersonation
of a hungry, downtrodden immigrant in depression era New
York was regarded as one of the seminal scenes for future
Italian neorealism by the likes of Roberto Rossellini.
Signed vintage postcard photo. VG...............40-60
See photo
381. [SHOW BIZ] Judy Canova (1913-1983) American comedienne, actress, singer and radio personality. She appeared on Broadway and in films. She hosted her own network radio program, a popular series broadcast from 1943 to 1955. DOCUMENT SIGNED, CONTRACT, NOV. 1, 1957, 3PP, WITH THE WILLIAM MORRIS AGENCY. VG............50-75
382. [SCOTLAND] Archive of
approx. 70 letters & documents from a Law firm in
Scotland. Most, if not all, dated 1885. Unchecked for
autographs - and content. Mostly VG.......100-150
384. [MARYLAND] Thomas G. Pratt (1804- 1869) was a lawyer and politician from Annapolis, Maryland. He was the 27th Governor of Maryland from 1845 to 1848 and a U.S. Senator from 1850 to 1857. SIGNED PARTLY-PRINTED DOCUMENT, 1845, appointing Justices from Frederick, Md., 5th Election Commission. 15-3/4 x 10 in. Edge tattering & folds but in generally good condition.........50-75
385. [MINN] S.J.R. McMillan (1826-1897) American politician. He was a Republican U.S. Senator from Minnesota. McMillan served in the U.S. Senate in the 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, and 49th United States Congresses from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1887. He had also been a member of the Minnesota Supreme Court from 1864 to 1875 and served as Chief Justice from 1874-1875. He graduated from Western University of Pennsylvania in 1846, later studying the law on his own as was the custom of the day. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1879, 5X8 in. Signed receipt for Vol. One of the Official Register of the United States for 1879...........30-40
387. [FRANCE] Stephen-Jean-Marie Pichon
(1857-1933) French politician of the Third Republic.
The Avenue Stéphen-Pichon in Paris is named after him.
He served as French Minister to China (1897–1900), including
the period of the Boxer Uprising. An associate of Georges
Clemenceau, he served several times under Clemenceau and
others as Minister of Foreign Affairs, a role in which he
proved amiable, but not particularly effective. His most
notable service was under Clemenceau during the latter part of
the First World War and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919,
but, like most of the other foreign ministers at the
conference, Pichon was largely sidelined by the more forceful
figure of his head of government. ALS, 1907, 1p, 4-3/4
x 7 in. VG..............75-100
389. [FRANCE] Charles Étienne Louis Ganderax (
1855-1941) French journalist and theater critic, he was
co-director of the Literary Review of Paris with Henri Meilhac
, of the French Academy. He worked in Parliament,
Figaro, the Blue Book. ALS, 1917, PLUS a letter by his
daughter.................80-120
390. [BASEBALL] Joseph Moore - 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
391. [ART] Peter Grippe (1912 - 2002) American sculptor, printmaker, and painter. His "Monument to Hiroshima" series (1963) used found objects cast in bronze sculptures to evoke the chaotic humanity of the Japanese city after its incineration by atomic bomb. Other Grippe Surrealist sculptural works address less warlike themes, including that of city life. However, his expertise extended beyond sculpture to ink drawings, watercolor painting, and printmaking (intaglio). He joined and later directed Atelier 17, the intaglio studio founded in London and moved to New York at the beginning of World War II by its founder, Stanley William Hayter. Today, Grippe's 21 Etchings and Poems , a part of the permanent collection at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is available as part of the museum's virtual collection. ALS, 1992, 1p. Plus signed & inscribed gallery exhibition brochure from 1991. Two pieces. VG..........50-75
392. [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
393. [Signatures] mixed lot of signatures in various forms: [1] Josiah Flynt (1869-1907) Am. sociologist and author. Sig. card, 1901 [2] Charles P. Taft [1897-1983] Republican Party politician and the son of President William H. Taft. Signed card, 1936. Click to see Taft [3] Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey PC (1797-1869) styled Lord Paget 1812 and 1815 and Earl of Uxbridge between 1815 and 1854, was a British peer and Whig politician. He served as Lord Chamberlain of the Household between 1839 and 1841. CLIP SIGNATURE - soiled. [4] Delbert Mann [1920-2007] TV & film director. Sig/inscribed card. [5] George William Frederick Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon KG, GCB, PC (1800-1870) English diplomat and statesman. HE WAS BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY UNDER 4 PRIME MINISTERS. Signed card, 4 x 2.5 in. VG. [6] Admiral Maurice Frederick FitzHardinge Berkeley, 1st Baron FitzHardinge of Bristol, GCB PC, DL (1788-1867) was a former Royal Navy First Sea Lord and former First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria. CLOSELY CROPPED SIGNATURE. There is slight loss due to the crop. [7] Vincent Astor (1891-1959) businessman and philanthropist and a member of the prominent Astor family. He had a highly developed social conscience. He was 20 when his father died and having inherited a massive fortune, Vincent Astor dropped out of Harvard University . He set about to change the family image from that of miserly, aloof slum landlords who enjoyed the good life at the expense of others. CLIP SIGNATURE. [8] Andrew R. Forsyth [1858-1942] Scottish mathematician. Signature. [9] [BRITAIN] Graham Wallas [1858-1932]. English political scientist. Lecturer, London School of Economics (1895-1923); professor, U. of London (1914-23); member of Fabian Society (1886-1904); on London County Council (1904-07); known for contributions to development of empirical basis and scientific methods in social sciences. Author of Life of Francis Place (1898), Human Nature in Politics (1908), The Great Society (1914), The Art of Thought (1926). CLIP SIGNATURE. [10] 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. In 1835 he entered Lord Melbourne's cabinet as Secretary at War, and effected some valuable administrative reforms, especially by suppressing malpractices detrimental to the troops in India. Signed undated address panel "Grey.".........100-150
394. [FRANCE] Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue (1801-1872), French historian and biographer. The general catalogue of printed books for the Bibliothèque Nationale contains no fewer than seventy-seven works (145 volumes) published by Capefigue during forty years. ALS, no date, 1p. VG. Not translated...........50-75
395. [THEATRE] Clement Scott (1841-1904) was an influential English theatre critic for the Daily Telegraph, and a playwright and travel writer, in the final decades of the 1800s. Small signed photograph, 1-1/2 x 3 in. G-VG......25-35
397. [FRANCE] E. Legouve (Gabriel-Jean-Baptiste-Ernest-Wilfrid Legouve) (1807-1903) writer; author of novel Édith de Falsen (1840) and plays Louise de Lignerolles (1848), Adrienne Lecouvreur (with Scribe, 1849), Bataille de dames (1851), Un Jeune Homme qui ne fait rien (1861). ALS, no date, to the poet de Ratisbonne, 1p. Not translated...........75-100
398. [TV] Colleen Dewhurst (1924-1991) Canadian actress known for playing Marilla Cuthbert in the various Anne of Green Gables productions. She was twice married to actor George C. Scott. SIGNED 1961 contract to act in The Play of The Week: "No Exit." She was paid $650. 4 pages; signed on pg. 1 and pg. 4. Unique.......50-75
399. Albertus Christiaan van Raalte (1811-1876) 19th century pastor in the Reformed Church in America. He led the Dutch immigrants who founded the city of Holland, Michigan in 1846 and played an important role in establishing the school that would become Hope College. Signed Autograph Card, dated Chicago, 1872......25-35
Portrait of Raalte401. IRVIN S. COBB - writer.
Clip signature. [stains]............15-20
403. BARTLEY T. CAMPBELL (1843-1888) American writer. Signature.........20-30
404. ELLIS PARKER BUTLER (1869-1937) ANS on
correspondent's letter..........20-30
405. EDGAR FAWCETT (1847-1904)
American writer. Clip signature............20-30
406. LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON - American writer.
Signed card, 1875. Fair condition.............15-20
407. [ENGLAND] John Mason Good (1764-1827) English writer on medical, religious and classical subjects. In the autumn of 1784, he began to practise as a surgeon at Sudbury in Suffolk. There he was an acquaintance of Nathan Drake, a fellow writer and student of Shakespeare. n 1794 John Good became a member of the British Pharmaceutical Society, and in that connection, and especially by the publication of his work, A History of Medicine (1795), he did much to effect a greatly needed reform in the profession of the apothecary. OFFERED HERE is clip signature. Accompanied by a clip signature of Nathan Drake (1766-1836) English essayist and physician. Drake's works include several volumes of literary essays, and some papers contributed to medical periodicals, but his most important production was Shakespeare and his Times, including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on his Genius, and Writings; a new Chronology of his Plays; a Disquisition on the Object of his Sonnets; and a History of the Manners, Customs and Amusements, Superstitions, Poetry and Elegant Literature of his Age (2 vols., 1817). Click below to see portrait of Nathan Drake, which does NOT come with this lot. Two signatures..........40-60
408. [OPERA] John Dudley [1905-1994] Between December 1940, when he made his debut as a student in Louise , and May 1944, he appeared in 235 performances at the Metropolitan Opera House and elsewhere, taking 28 roles in 24 different operas. He may be heard on several recordings of live Met productions. SIGNED, inscribed [someone tried to erase name inscribed to], 8x10 vintage photo. Photograph by James Abresch, NYC...........35-45
409. [IOWA] HAROLD E. HUGHES - Senator from Iowa; born near Ida Grove, Ida County, Iowa, February 10, 1922; attended the public schools and the University of Iowa; Army combat rifleman in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy during the Second World War; engaged in motor transportation business; elected to Iowa State Commerce Commission 1959-1962; Governor of Iowa 1963-1968; executive committee, National Governors Conference 1965-1967; chairman Democratic Governors Conference 1966-1968; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1968 and served from January 3, 1969, to January 3, 1975; was not a candidate for reelection in 1974; briefly sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1971; served on the Commission on the Operation of the Senate 1975-1976; consultant to the Senate Judiciary Committee 1975-1976; president, The Hughes Foundation; chairman, Harold Hughes Centers for Alcoholism and Drug Treatment; was a resident of Des Moines, Iowa, before moving to his retirement home in Glendale, Ariz., where he died on October 23, 1996; remains were cremated. SIGNED 8X10 PHOTO AS SENATOR. Fine....................25-35
410. [EDGAR A. GUEST] Lot of 3 soft-cover books from his library, each signed & inscribed to Guest. Inludes: "Rainbow Ribbons" poems by Juanita Elliott; "Philosophic Phantasies" by William Wallace Ellis; "Recitations" by Zilla Vollmer Tietgen. 1946-1952. G-VG........50-75
411. [FILM] Fay Bainter (1893-1968) American film and stage actress. Bainter quickly achieved success, and in 1938 she became the first performer nominated in the same year for both the Academy Award for Best Actress, for White Banners (1938), and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for Jezebel (1938), winning for the latter. Signed, inscribed 4 x 2-3/4" slip..........30-40
412. Alice Muriel Williamson (1869 - 1933) British novelist. Born Alice Muriel Livingston, she married Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920) in 1894 and many of her books were jointly written with her husband. After her marriage she introduced herself as Mrs. C.N. Williamson. A number of their novels cover the early days of motoring and can also be read as travelogues. Under the pseydonym Alice Stuyvesant she wrote "The Hidden House" serialised in The Cavalier 1913-1914. Alice apparently said of her husband "Charlie Williamson could do anything in the world except write stories": she said of herself "I can't do anything else." She continued to write after her husband's death in 1920. ALS, no year, 3 full pages. To Miss Marshall [journalist]. Nice content............50-75
414. HELGA SANDBURG (1916- ) American Author/Poet; Carl Sandburg. SIGNED/inscribed stationary, March 1973, with sentiment........20-30
415. [OPERA] LAURENCE TIBBETT (1896-1960) Am. Opera Star. SIGNATURE/inscribed on album page,1939. On verso is Paramount Actress Jane Gilbert............20-30
416. 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
417. [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
418. [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
419. [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
420. [MASS] Henry Joseph Gardner [1819-1892] Governor of Massachusetts from 1855-58. Gardner was the candidate of the Know-Nothing movement, and was elected governor as part of the sweeping victory of Know-Nothing candidates in the Massachusetts elections of 1854. In line with the nativist and anti-Catholic politics of the Know-Nothing movement, Gardner proposed an amendment to the Massachusetts state constitution banning appropriations of tax funds to Catholic schools, which was passed by the state legislature and ratified after it was approved by referendum. During Gardner's term in office, Anthony Burns was arrested in Boston under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. Edward G. Loring, a Suffolk County probate judge who also as served U.S. commissioner of the Circuit Court in Massachusetts, ordered that Burns be forced back into slavery in Virginia, outraging abolitionists and the increasingly antislavery public in Massachusetts. Under the pressure of a public petition campaign spearheaded by William Lloyd Garrison , the legislature passed two Bills of Address calling for Judge Loring to be removed from his state office, in 1855 and 1856, but in both cases Gardner declined to remove Loring. (A third Bill of Address to remove Loring from office was later approved by Gardner's Republican successor, Nathaniel Prentice Banks.) SIGNATURE........20-30
421. [FILM] Martin Landau - American film and television actor. Landau began his career in the 1950s. His early films include a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). He played continuing roles in the television series Mission: Impossible (for which he received several Emmy Award nominations) and Space:1999. He received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture and his first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Tucker: The Man and His Dream, and was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989). His performance in the supporting role of Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood (1994) earned him the Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and a Golden Globe. He continues to perform in film and television and heads the Hollywood branch of the Actors Studio. Signature matted with portrait. Overall 12x16. Mat has bumped corners...........35-45
See Landau423. [NY] BEACH, Lewis, a Representative from New York; born in New York City March 30, 1835; was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New York; took up residence in Orange County, N.Y., in 1861; member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee 1877-1879; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses and served from March 4, 1881, until his death at his home, "Knoll View," Cornwall, Orange County, N.Y., August 10, 1886; chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Forty-ninth Congress); interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. CLIP SIGNATURE.........15-20
424. [BASEBALL] Masato Yoshii (b. 1965 in Aridagawa, Wakayama, Japan) retired baseball player who is currently a pitching coach for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in the Japanese Pacific League. He pitched in the Major Leagues from 1998-2002. Signed & inscribed 3x5 card........10-15
425. Beatrice (BOYD) TLS, May 31, 1979. To Charles "Buddy" Rogers. Written 2 days after Mary Pickford died. Well composed uplifting words: "rejoice for Mary's having achieved this life, in having run her course and completed all that God willed for her here......" With envelope...........20-30
426. [CAPTURE OF JEFF DAVIS - NEWSPAPER] Wisconsin State Journal, May 23, 1865, 8pp. Includes: THE TRIAL OF THE ASSASSINS; THE GUILT OF JEFF. DAVIS; European Comments on the Death of Mr. Lincoln; The Starving Of Our Prisoners; "...The disguise in female dress is fully confirmed..." VG...............75-100
427. Hiram Corson (1828-1911) American professor of literature. ALS, Utica, NY, 1907, 4 pages, 4to. To Miss Whiting. Begins by saying he has sent a photo of him taken by Frederick Robinson "It is regarded as the most artistic photograph taken of me..." Followed by good content. Two file holes o/w VG..............40-60
431. [MAINE] Burton M. Cross
[1902-1998] Maine's 61st and 63rd Governor. ALS. 1972, full
1-page. Fine letter about himself and his opinions about a
negative outlook for Maine and the Federal government.
VG...........40-60
432. [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
434. WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY [1925-2008]
Conservative author & conservative commentator. Buckley
was "arguably the most important public intellectual in the
United States in the past half century," according to George
H. Nash, a historian of the modern American conservative
movement. ISP, 5x7. VG.......35-45
435. [MARYLAND] Augustus Williamson Bradford (1806-1881)
he was the 32nd Governor of Maryland from 1862 to 1866. He
served as governor during the Civil War and paid a heavy price
for his devotion to the Union. In February 1861, Governor
Thomas H. Hicks appointed Bradford one of Maryland’s delegates
to the Washington Peace Conference, where he made a speech
supporting the Union. Following the conference, the Union Party
named Bradford as its candidate for governor, opposing the
Democratic candidate General Benjamin C. Howard. Bradford
defeated Howard by approximately 30,000 votes and took office on
January 8, 1862. During his term, he violently opposed the
Federal government’s interference in Maryland’s elections,
upheld the dignity of the State government and defied the harsh
and arbitrary military occupation, and went to great lengths to
keep the State in the Union. At the same time he upheld the
Federal government's authority although he differed with its
methods. In September 1862, he was one of the many
northern governors to attend the Loyal War Governors' Conference
in Altoona, Pennsylvania. During the Civil War, the Confederates
invaded Maryland three times. During the last of these, Bradley
T. Johnson’s raiders visited Bradford’s home in July 1864, and
during his absence, burned it to the ground together with all
his furniture, library, and papers. This action was partially in
retaliation for Union General David Hunter’s burning of the home
of Governor John Letcher of Virginia, and partially because of
Bradford’s "uncompromising spirit and strong leanings."
During his four years in office, Augustus Bradford released
Samuel Green (freedman) from jail on the condition he leave the
state. Green was an African-American slave and minister, who was
jailed in 1857 for possessing a copy of the novel Uncle Tom's
Cabin. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1865, Mechanics Bank,
approx. 7-1/8 x 2-3/4. Has the usual "slice cancel". VG
example.............50-75
436. Floyd Dell [1887-1969] Am. journalist, novelist. In 1908
Dell moved on to Chicago where he became editor of the
Friday Literary Review and a leader of the Chicago
Renaissance. In his position at FLR, Dell promoted the
work of Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Carl Sandburg
and other Chicago writers. Relocating to New York in 1913,
Dell became managing editor of Max Eastman's radical
magazine The Masses, and a leader of the pre-war bohemian
community in Greenwich Village. Nice CLIP
SIGNATURE.............40-60
437. [ART] Esther [Bensusan] Pissaro [1870-1951] British wood engraver & artist. She was married to Lucien Pissaro [1863-1944] artist and son of the famed artist, Camile Pissaro. ALS, 1923, 1p, concerning a certain work of art that her husband never did, but the recipient of letter would be welcomed if they came to England. Her letters are not common. One mail fold o/w excellent condition................50-75
438. [THEATRE] Aline MacMahon (1899-1991) American actress. Her career began on stage in 1921. She worked extensively in film and television until her retirement in 1975. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Dragon Seed (1944). Document Signed, The Theatre Guild Inc., NYC, 1945, 1p. Signed contract to act in radio performance of "Storm Over Patsy", for run of an hour, and she will be paid $750. VG............50-75
439. [ENGLAND] John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge (1820-97), British jurist, eldest son of the jurist Sir John Taylor Coleridge, born in Ottery Saint Mary, and educated at the University of Oxford. He began practicing law in 1846 and was elected to Parliament in 1865. Three years later he was appointed solicitor general and in 1871 became attorney general. He was appointed chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas in 1873, was raised to the peerage in 1874, and was chief justice of the Court of the Queen's Bench from 1880 to 1894. ANS, 1872......20-30
440. [SCIENCE] Thomas Wright (1711-1786) English astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker, architect and garden designer. Wright is best known for his publication An original theory or new hypothesis of the universe (1750), in which he explains the appearance of the Milky Way as "an optical effect due to our immersion in what locally approximates to a flat layer of stars." This idea was taken up and elaborated by Immanuel Kant in his Universal Natural History and Theory of Heaven. CLIP SIGNATURE mounted...........50-75
441. US Senators - 10 TLSs,
1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: McNamara [MI], Long [HI],
McClellan [Ark], McGee [WY], Miller [IA], Morse [OR], Moss
[UT], Pastore [RI], Prouty [VT], Morton [KY]. All have
mounting residue at top & bottom edge. Mostly on verso
but with some show-thru.............50-75
442. [OHIO] Wayne L. Hays (1911-1989), American politician whose strong rule of the House Administration Committee extended to even the smallest items; in the mid-1970s, lawmakers avoided crossing Hays for fear that he would shut off the air conditioning in their offices. [1][2] He resigned from Congress after a much publicized sex scandal in 1976. TLS, 1976, 1p..................20-30
443. [NOBEL PRIZE] MELVIN CALVIN [1911-1997] chemist most famed for discovering most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle (along with Andrew Benson), for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Signed multi-page printout titled "Intermediates in the photosynthetic cycle: a commentary by Melvin Calvin."............25-35
444.
[STOCK CERTIFICATES] group of 10 stock certificates for COMPAGNIE FERMIERE DE LUCHON,
all 1925, approx. 7-1/2 x 12-1/4". VG.
Farmer Company Luchon
Country: France
Date: 1925
Genre: Action de 500 Francs
Issue: 3000 action
Activity: Cures
State: UNC (Uncirculed) new document had almost never
circulated. No folds, trace or task.
Description section - Title from the Farmer Company Luchon,
dating from 1925 whose action was worth 500 francs.
Companies registered capital of 1.5 million francs.
Headquarters: Bagneres-de-Luchon. Established in 1924. Hotel
operations and Royal Majestic Bagneres-de-Luchon
All of these have these coupons still
attached. They all look alike. Fine
condition..............200-300 Reserve at $50
445. [MUSIC] Charles C. Knox [b. 1929] American composer. He is particularly noted for his music for brass instruments and chamber music, among his over 100 compositions to date. Some of his music includes: Sing We to Our God Above for chorus and organ (1970); Festival Procession for chorus, brass quartet and organ (1972); His Praises We'll Sing for treble chorus and organ (1991, later arranged for mixed voices), etc. ALS, 2011, 1p. Fine.......35-45
446. [ENGLAND] Herbert
Marsh (1757–1839) was a bishop in the
Church of England. CLIP SIGNATURE [1821] as the Bishop of
Peterborough. Mounted to large
paper. VG...........20-30
447. [MUSIC] Helen Pickens (1910-1984)
with her two sisters Patti Pickens and Jane Pickens a
popular radio and recording vocal trio in the
1930s. ALS, nd, on Pickens Sister
stationery, 2pp. VG...........25-35
449. Edna Bryner [1866-1967] American writer.
Signature, 1929............20-30
450. [ITALY] Cesare Mori [1871-1942] was a
prefect (prefetto) before and during the Fascist period in
Italy. He is known in Italy as the Iron Prefect (Prefetto di
Ferro) because of his iron-fisted campaigns against the Mafia on
Sicily in the second half of the 1920s. SIGNED CARD, Rone,
dated June 21, 1932. Approx. 4.5 x 3.5".........25-35
451. Clara
Louise Burnham [1854-1927] American writer.
Signature, 1890............20-30
452. (Colonial Philadelphia ) THOMAS P. COPE (1768-1854) American Merchant, Quaker, Philanthropist, Author, he was the son of Caleb Cope. He was originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He became one of Philadelphia's wealthiest citizens, and a politician. He authored "Passages from the Writings of William Penn", also his daughter wrote "Philadelphia Merchant, the Diary of Thomas P. Cope." - PAUL BECK (1760-1844) Revolutionary War Soldier, Wealthy Philadelphia Merchant and philanthropist. He joined the Revolutionary War and was an associate of General Thomas Miflin, and the Clymers. He protected the home of Declaration of Independence SIGNER James Wilson, and is mentioned in the summary of "The Lives of The Signers". He was one of Philadelphia's most eminent personalities and philanthropists. - EDWARD THOMSON (1810-1870) Prominent Philadelphia Bishop, Physician. He was against Methodism., but years later converted and in 1831 became a traveling preacher He was appointed President of Wesleyan University and was for 16 years. He later became Bishop. SIGNATURES of ALL THREE, mounted to a larger piece of very old paper.............50-75
453. [MUSIC] Cora de Wilhorst [b. 1835] Opera singer. Signature with sentiment dated 1858. VG...........20-30
455. [FILM] Heinz Woester (1901-1970) was a Swiss film and television actor. Signed, inscribed postcard photo. Condition very good; minor corner crack..........25-35
456. [THEATRE] Adelaide Ristori (1822-1906) distinguished Italian tragedienne, who
was often referred to as the Marquise. AQS, dated London July
16, 1873, written on 8x3 in. card. Fresh
condition..........30-40
457. William Farquhar Payson
[1876-1939] American writer. ANS, 1935............20-30
458. John Lubbock,
1st Baron Avebury PC, FRS (1834-1913) English banker,
biologist, archaeologist and Liberal politician. Signed
printed poscard accepting position as steward at Annual
Dinner, 1899...........20-30
459. [DELAWARE] Bill Roth (1921-2003) U.S. Senator from Delaware. Signed & inscribed color 8x10 photo.............25-35
460. [OKLAHOMA] Don Nickles (b. 1948) US Senator from Oklahoma from 1981-2005. SIGNED & INSCRIBED color 8x10 photo..........20-30
461. [KENTUCKY] Wendell Ford (b. 1924) the longest-serving US senator in Kentucky history. Signed & inscribed color 8x10 photo..........25-35
462. BEVERLY BAYNE [1894-1982] actress. Brief ALS, n.d.......35-45
463. Clifford Bax (1886-1962)
versatile English writer, known particularly as a playwright, a
journalist, critic and editor, and a poet, lyricist and hymn
writer. He also was a translator, for example of Goldoni. The
composer Arnold Bax was his brother, and set some of his words
to music. A fold open card signed...........20-30
464. Sir Francis Palgrave
[1788-1861] English historian. Clip signature mounted to
card.........20-30
465. Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-
1977) American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from
1925 to 1927, and director of the United States Mint from
1933-1953. She was the first woman to serve as governor of a
U.S. state. To date, she remains the only woman to have served
as governor of Wyoming. She was a staunch supporter of
prohibition during the 1920s. Clip signature.........20-30
467. George William Curtis (1824-1892)American writer
and public speaker, born in Providence, Rhode Island, of old New
England stock. CLIP SIGNATURE with sentiment...........20-30
468. William T. Moncrieff
[1794-1857] English dramatist. Signature in form of return
address............20-30
469. Quida [1839-1908]
British novelist. Clip signature. Ink is light............20-30
470.
New London, Connecticut document dated 1826,
concerning General William North. This is signed by Jeremiah
G. Brainard, Mayor of New London. The document states
that General North has appeared before him, that he is known
and respected. William North (1755-1836) was an
American soldier and politician, born at Pemaquid, Maine. He
entered the Continental Army in 1775, and served under
Benedict Arnold in the unfortunate expedition to Canada in
that year. He was appointed in May 1777 as captain in Henry
Jackson's 16th Massachusetts Regiment, with which he
participated in the Battle of Monmouth. In 1779 he became
aide-de-camp to Baron Steuben, whom he greatly aided in
introducing his system of discipline in the Continental Army.
Later he accompanied Steuben to Virginia, and was present at
the surrender of Cornwallis. North was appointed as a
Federalist to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of John Sloss Hobart and served from
May 5, 1798, to August 17, 1798. This document only concern
Gen. North and is not signedc by him. Approx. 8 x 12
in. There are newspaper clippings glued to back.
Some edge ware..............200-300
Scan 1
Scan 2
See
picture of North
471. [ART] Peter Blume (1906-1992)
American painter and sculptor. His first major recognition
came in 1934 with a first prize for South of Scranton at a
Carnegie Institute International Exhibition. Signed 3x5
card. VG.........20-30
472. Leonard Merrick
[1864-1939] British Playwright. Clip
signature..............20-30
473. Charles Doughty
[1843-1926] English poet. Clip signature..............20-30
476. [FRANCE] Louis-François Chamillart, Marquis de la Suze ( 1751
- 1833 ) was a French politician. He was allowed to sit at the
Chamber of Peers in 1815. ALS, 1791, written from Chateau
des Tuileries, to certified services of La Plasse "Marechal
des Logis des Rois." 1p, 7-3/4 x 12-1/4 in. VG...............100-150
479. [RELIGION] Pierre Simon de Dreux-Breze (1811-1893)
Priest since 1825 , Vicar General and Canon Emeritus of
Paris, he distinguished himself as a preacher, and
was appointed Bishop of Moulins October 28, 1849, by the
President of the Republic Called to Rome by Pope
Pius IX on 7 January 1850, it was dedicated to Our Lady
of Paris on 14 April and took possession of his see on 1 May.
Near Dom Prosper Gueranger, he established the Roman rite in
his diocese a pastoral letter by the 21 November 1853 and was
a promoter of the Gregorian chant. [internet
translation]. ALS, not dated, 3 full pages,
5-1/4 x 8-1/4". On the verso of page 3 is an ALS
by Xavier de Ravignan
(1795-1858) French Jesuit preacher and author. Educated in
Paris, he resigned his army commission to study law. Auditor
of the royal court. Deputy attorney-general by 1821. Entering
a Sulpician monastery, and later joining the Society of Jesus,
he was ordained in 1828, and after several years as professor
and retreat preacher at Montrouge, he went to Notre Dame,
where his logic, serenity, and zeal won souls by the hundreds.
Superior of his brethren at Bordeaux from 1837 to 1842, and at
Paris from 1848 to 1851. He preached throughout France and in
Rome, Belgium, and London. His calm, eloquent De l'Existence
et de l'Institut des Jesuites of 1844, vindicating the
Society, sold 25,000 copies in one year. However, the Jesuits'
strife continued until they were forced to disband for a time
in France. Despite painful controversy with his
superiors and imputations from other quarters, he remained
loyal to his order. In 1854 he brought out Clement XIII et
Clement XIV, a dispassionate treatise, of no great literary
merit, on the defender and the suppressor of the Jesuits. He
steadfastly refused preferment, even the archbishopric of
Paris, devoting himself to other works. He died a saintly
death, and thousands followed the remains of the "Apostle of
Paris" to his grave. VG..........200-300
487. [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
488. Sir Alexander Beresford Hope PC (1820-1887), known as Alexander Hope
until 1854 (and also known as A. J. B. Hope until 1854
and as A. J. B. Beresford Hope from 1854 onwards), was a
British author and Conservative politician. Brief ALS,
1878, 1p. Tear [1" top edge] & light stain
bottom............25-35
See above
489.
David Lawrence
(1888-1973) conservative
newspaperman and former
student of Woodrow Wilson
at Princeton University.
In 1916, he became the
Washington correspondent
of the New York Evening
Post. After his reelection
as U.S. President in 1916,
President Woodrow Wilson
fired Irish-American White
House secretary (chief of
staff) Joseph Patrick
Tumulty in 1916 to placate
anti-Catholic sentiment,
particularly from his wife
and his advisor Colonel
Edward M. House, after
which David Lawrence
successfully interceded on
his behalf to remain.
During the presidency of
Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
David Lawrence criticised
'The New Deal' in his 1932
book Beyond
the New Deal, in which
his observation of
economic activity led him
to distinguish between
free enterprise and
corporatism, writing that
"Theoretically,
corporations are creations
of the state." In 1926,
Lawrence founded United
States Daily, a weekly
newspaper devoted to
covering government, and
seven years later shut it
down to start United
States News for an
audience of community
leaders, business people
and politicians. In 1948,
United States News merged
with Lawrence's
two-year-old weekly
magazine, World
Report to form
the news magazine U.S.
News & World Report. At the
time of Lawrence's 1973
death, the magazine had a
circulation of two
million. On April 22,
1970, David Lawrence was
presented with the
Presidential Medal of
Freedom by President
Richard Nixon. Lengthy
TLS, 1927, 2 full pages,
to James T. William. Excellent
news paper content about
the United States Daily.
VG.............75-100
490. [CARDINAL] Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889-1967) American prelate of the Roman 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. Signed print that has postage stamp affixed. Also signed by James Francis Aloysius McIntyre (1886-1979) American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1948 to 1970, and was created a cardinal in 1953. Print size approx. 8 x 10"...........100-150
491. [CARDINAL] Francis Cardinal Spellman (1889-1967) American prelate of the Roman 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. Signed print that has postage stamp affixed. Also signed by James Francis Aloysius McIntyre (1886-1979) American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Los Angeles from 1948 to 1970, and was created a cardinal in 1953. Print size approx. 8 x 10"...........100-150
493. [ART] Original
antique wood-engraving - SCENES IN ST.
LOUIS, from Picturesque America, image approx. 10
x 7 plus margins. printed text on verso as usual.
VG.........40-60
From
the private collection of HENRI CORBIERE, the noted French art
critic. The following are original drawings sent to Corbiere
from friends. Approx. paper sizes. All are in very good
condition.
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on descriptions to see the drawings
495. DANIEL FERRARA (Algerian, born 1906) signed ink drawing, approx. 12 x 9 in.............75-100
496. ANDRE BOUEY (1898-1976) signed ink drawing, 1966, 12 x 8 in............75-100
497. JACQUES DEMOULIN (born 1905) signed ink drawing dated 1972, 12 x 9.5 in.............75-100
498. STEFAN WALLMARK (born 1912) signed pencil drawing dated 1972, 12 x 8.5 in..........75-100
499. ERIKA BUENTELLO (American) signed pencil drawing dated 1978, 8 x 10.5 in..............75-100
500. [FRANCE] PIERRE DESCAVES - believe he was
the French radio critic. Four [4] pages of notes [unsigned] in
the hand of Descaves referring to Jean Cocteau. PLUS 3 ephemeral
pieces related to Cocteau: 1930 1p. printed page by Cocteau on
Opium; small theatre program picturing him; 2-page flyer about
him.................50-75
501. [FILM & THEATRE] Colleen Dewhurst (1924-1991) actress. Brief Document Signed, 1961, 1p. Authorization "I HEREBY AUTHORIZE YOU TO MAKE PAYMENT (IN MY NAME) FOR MY EMPLOYMENT ON THE PLAY OF THE WEEK IN 'NO EXIT' TO MY AGENT JANE BRODER."...........40-60
502. [PORTRAIT] Benoît-Constant Coquelin (1841-1909) French actor, "one of the greatest theatrical figures of the age." Antique original wood-engraved portrait by R.G. Tietze. Approx. 7 x 5" plus wide margins. C. 1892 for The Century Magazine. VG..........25-35
504. [MUSIC] Wolfgang Wagner (1919-
2010) German opera director. He is best known as the
director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival, a
position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in
1951 until the latter's death in 1966. From then on, he
assumed total control until he retired in 2008. Signed 4-1/4 x
5-3/4", dated 1992. VG.......30-40
505. AMERICAN
EXPRESS - 3 stock certificates, 1960-63.
VG...........40-60
506. [FILM] David Lloyd Wolper
(b.1928) American television and film producer, responsible for
shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South, L.A.
Confidential, and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He
also produced numerous documentaries and documentary series like
Biography (TV series&emdash;1961-63), The Rise and Fall of
the Third Reich (TV), Appointment with Destiny (TV series), This
is Elvis, Three Days in November, Imagine: John Lennon, and
others. He directed the 1959 documentary The Race for Space,
which was nominated for an Academy Award. His 1971 film (as
executive producer)about the study of insects The Hellstrom
Chronicle won an Academy Award. TLS, 1968, 1p,, signed
"David."..............25-35
507. Helen Astor [1895-1965] Am. socialite. ANS, nd, re: her father....20-30
509. Samuel Merwin [1875-1936]
American writer. Signature 1907.........20-30
510. Sir James Black Baillie
[1872-1940] British philosopher and academic. ALS, 1931,
2pp..........40-60
511. [PORTRAIT] Philip H. Sheridan (1831-1888) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the American Civil War. His career was noted for his rapid rise to major general and his close association with Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. Antique original wood-engraved portrait by T. Johnson. Approx. 6 x 5-1/4" plus wide margins. C. 1892 for The Century Magazine. VG..........25-35
512. [PORTRAIT] Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st (1792- 1871) English mathematician, astronomer, chemist, and experimental photographer/inventor. Antique original wood-engraved portrait by T. Johnson. Approx. 6-1/2 x 5-1/4" plus wide margins. C. 1892 for The Century Magazine. VG..........25-35
513. [FRANCE] Marie-Louise Becomes a Regent - offered here is Bulletin Des
Lois No. 530, signed in type by Napoleon and Marie-Louise, 8pp,
5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. Empress Marie Louise of France [1791-1847] was
the second wife of Napoleon I. On 20 March 1811, Marie Louise
(as she was known in France) gave birth to a son, Napoléon
François Joseph Charles Bonaparte, styled King of Rome and later
Duke of Reichstadt. Marie Louise acted as Regent of France from
April to December 1812 during the Russian campaign and again
from April 1813 to January 1814 during her husband's absence in
the German campaign. After Napoléon was forced to abdicate his
throne in April 1814, he was exiled to the island of Elba. Marie
Louise returned to Austria, never to see her husband again.
VG............80-120
515. [ART] Albert Duvivier - Portrait of Edmond Hedouin,
plate signed and dated 1888, image 6-3/4 x 3-3/4". Wrinkles
should iron out. Hedouin was the noted artist [see lots 66 -
68 in this auction]. VG.............60-80
518. [THEATRE] GERALD SAVORY [1909-1996] English playwright and screenwriter specialising in comedies. His earliest work in the film industry was as a dialogue writer for director Alfred Hitchcock's Young and Innocent (1937). He spent some time in the United States in the 1940s writing for film and television and became an American citizen. From 1964 to 1965 he was writer, producer and production manager for Granada Television, producing five episodes of ITV Play of the Week; adapting Saki, J.B. Priestley, Noël Coward and Tennessee Williams for television. He then joined the BBC first as then Head of Serials, then Head of Plays. He notably produced five episodes of the thoroughly panned Churchill's People (1975–76) and six of the eight episodes of Love in a Cold Climate for Thames Television in 1980. TLS, San Francisco, c. 1930s, 1p, 8vo. Mentions two of his plays: UPPER BIRTH and LOVE WENT A-RIDING. To Roland Young, the noted actor who played Topper.............50-75
519. David
Derek Stacton (1923-1968) American
novelist, historian and poet. TLS, no date, 1p, to Mr. Silkin,
probably Jon Silkin (1930-1997) the British poet. Stacton was
born in San Francisco. In author profiles, however, he claimed
to have been born April 25, 1925 in Minden, Nevada (several of
his books are set in Nevada). Stacton attended Stanford
University from 1941–43. He served in the Civilian Public
Service as a conscientious objector, and wrote a letter as
“David Stacton” decrying the compliant American masses to Dwight
Macdonald’s Politics in 1945. He lived in Europe from 1951–1954,
1960–1962, and 1964–1965. Most of his books as David Stacton
were originally published in England. Stacton wrote under the
pseudonyms Carse Boyd, Bud Clifton, David Dereksen and David
West. He also ghosted Living Religions Of The World a 1956 work
accredited to Frederic Spiegelberg. VG........50-75
522. [FILM] Ben Lyon (1901-1979) American actor. TLS, 1967, 1p..............25-35
524. [FILM] Layte Bowden -
Pan-American Airlines stewardess who kept company with Peter
Lawford for the two years he and his ex-wife, Pat Kennedy, lived
at opposite ends of the country. She was a former beauty queen,
a one-time receptionist and secretary to then-Sen. George
Smathers (D-Fla.) who graced Roll Call’s pages in 1960 as part
of a double header baseball-themed shot, went on to join the jet
set — literally. After leaving the Hill in 1962, she, whom
Life Magazine once featured in an article about “pretty girls”
in Washington, joined the ranks of the Pucci-clad Pan Am
stewardesses. “We were treated like movie stars on Pan Am,” she
said. In her role at the airline, she also flew on White House
press charters as chief purser, accompanying Presidents John
Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon on official
trips. She was with JFK in Berlin when he gave his famous
“Ich bein ein Berliner” speech and in Dallas the day he was
shot. “I was on Air Force One when the word came in” that he had
died, she said. “I fainted in the aisle and somebody got brandy
and poured it down me.” Before she traded in her swinging-single
gal status to marry Butler Aviation CEO Paul Dopp in 1971, the
Floridian said she also dated a dizzying array of Congressmen,
movie stars, and other high-ranking officials, including
then-Rep. John Brademas (D-Ind.), Warren Beatty and Kennedy
brother-in-law and Rat Packer Peter Lawford. She had a small
role in the Lawford-produced film “Billie,” starring Patty Duke.
In the mid-1960s, Dopp and CBS News Anchor Dan Rather began
collaboration on a book based on their experiences traveling
with presidents but never completed it because she “was so busy
having a good time.” Rare ALS, 1966, 1p, to Milt
Ebbins, Peter Lawford's agent and business partner.........75-100
525. [LINCOLN] LEONARD W. VOLK (1828-1895) American sculptor. Most famous for making a life mask of American President Abraham Lincoln. In 1857, he settled in Chicago, where he helped to establish the Academy of Design and was for eight years its head. In 1860 he made a life mask of Lincoln, of whom only one other was ever made (by Clark Mills in 1865). 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. Signed 1893 bank check. VG.................100-200
526. [MIXED LOT OF AUTOGRAPHS] Comprised of: [1] Norman Zollinger - author. Sig. & inscribed page, 1981. [2] Henry William Herbert (pen name Frank Forester) (1807-1858) English novelist and writer on sport. CLIP SIGNATURE. [3] Ben Davies (1858-1943) was a popular tenor from Swansea, Wales. He performed in the first production of the Royal English Opera (now the Palace Theater), playing in the première of the opera Ivanhoe. Davies was noted for frequently singing with his eyes closed. SIGNED CARD, 1922. [4] Howard Crosby (1826-1891) American preacher and teacher. From 1870 to 1881 Crosby was chancellor of New York University. He was one of the American revisers of the English version of the New Testament. Crosby took a prominent part in politics. He urged to excise reform and opposed total abstinence. He was one of the founders and the first president of the New York Society for the Prevention of Crime, and pleaded for better management of Indian affairs and international copyright. CLIP SIGNATURE. Fine. [5] William H. Armstrong (1914-1999) Am. author, most noted for his Newbery Medal-winning novel, Sounder. Signed, inscribed 3x5 card. [6] Margaret Fitzhugh Browne [1884-1972] Am. artist. Signed card. [7] SirFrederic G. Kenyon (1863-1952) British paleographer, biblical and classical scholar. He was the director of the British Museum. He was also the president of the British Academy from 1917 to 1921 SIGNED CARD, 1922. Toned around edges. [8] Cyrus H.K. Curtis (1850-1933) was a significant American publisher. Curtis was born in Portland, Maine, and entered the publishing business there with a weekly newspaper. He founded the Philadelphia-based Curtis Publishing Company, which published the Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as several other magazines and newspapers. For a time he own the Public Ledger, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Evening Post. He was also known for his philanthropy to hospitals, museums, and schools. He obtained a pipe organ manufactured by the Austin Organ Company which had been displayed at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition of 1926 and donated it to the University of Pennsylvania. It was built into Irvine Auditorium when the building was constructed and is known to this day as the Curtis Organ. It is one of the largest pipe organs in the world. SIGNATURE on card. VG. [9] Benay Venuta (1911-1995) American actress, singer and dancer. CLIP SIGNATURE. [10] J. SCOPE [1662-1752] English Justice; Sec. of the Treasury [1724-1752]. Small mounted irregular slip of paper signed..........80-120
527. [TV] Sharon Gless (b. 1943)
is an American character actress of stage, film and
television, who is best known for her roles as Maggie Philbin
on Switch (1975–1978), as Sgt. Christine Cagney in the police
procedural drama series Cagney & Lacey (1982–1988), as
Debbie Novotny in the Showtime cable television series Queer
as Folk (2000–2005), and as Madeline Westen on Burn Notice
(2007–2013). Gless has won two Emmy Awards and has received 10
Emmy nominations, has been nominated seven times for the
Golden Globe (winning two in 1986 and 1991) and has received
her own Star on the Walk of Fame in 1995. Signed,
inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.............25-35
530. [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
1701 page 2536. [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
537. [US NAVAL] Ellsworth Davis [1892-1946] American naval officer. He served on the U.S.S. Florida as a signal officer, official uniform inspector and flag lieutenant. During the U.S. occupation of Vera Cruz, Mexico on April 1914, Davis led a company onshore and overtook the town's postal service building. In addition to his service on the U.S.S. Florida, Davis served in the Mediterranean and off of the U.S. Atlantic Coast on the Brooklyn and the Fairfax. He was commanding officer of the USS Fairfax from 1934 to 1936. The Fairfax was a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy during the World War I, later transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Richmond (G88), as a Town class destroyer. The Fairfax took part in the Presidential Review taken by Franklin D. Roosevelt in San Diego in March 1933, and then sailed for the East coast, where she continued her reserve training duty. She also patrolled in Cuban waters, and in the summers of 1935, 1937, 1938, 1939, and 1940 sailed out of Annapolis training midshipmen of the Naval Academy. Between October 1935 and March 1937, she served with the Special Service Squadron out of Coco Solo and Balboa, Canal Zone, operating primarily on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. Offered here is a signed 1934 bank check, The Annapolis Banking & Trust Co. He signs "E. Davis USN." VG........30-40
539. Edmund Blunden, MC [1896-1974] English poet, author and critic.
Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences
in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career,
Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an
academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong. He ended his career as
Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Signed in ink limited edition page [proof page] from the "hand-set edition of Near & Far," 6-1/4
x 9-1/2". Fine...........30-40
541.
[GOODYEAR COMPANY] Charles
Goodyear (1800-1860) American inventor who
developed a process to vulcanize rubber in 1839 — a method that
he perfected while living and working in Springfield,
Massachusetts in 1844, and for which he received patent number
3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844.
Offered here is a "copy" of 1849 letter from Charles Goodyear
requesting a patent for Goodyear Transparent Cement. Two
pages, contained in an elaborate mat with wooden inserts.
Provenance: Goodyear Family. Overall size approx. 25-1/2 x
19". Obviously a latter copy of the letter, probably circa
1900, possibly earlier. VG.........100-150
542. [MYSTERY LOT] includes: Warner Bros. pay check, 1984, signed on verso by Lawrence Roman (1921-2008) known for writing the hit Broadway play "Under the Yum-Yum Tree" and for adapting the farce into the 1963 movie version. Also includes CLIP SIGNATURE of Henry Martyn Scudder (1822-1895) missionary under American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church in America to Japan and South India—to American Madura Mission and American Madras Mission. He established American Arcot Mission, North Arcot of South India—then under Madras Presidency. Also includes Edward Fuller Witsell (1891- 1969) was an officer in the United States Army who served as Adjutant General from 1946 to 1951. General Witsell was a 1911 graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina and a World War I veteran. TLS, 1946, to congressman [Mas] Philip J. Philbin re: request for relief of active duty for Chaplain (1stn Lieut.) Donald B. Weymouth. Also 1881 Gov. doc from Sec. of War Alex. ramsey about Des Moines Rapids Canal; 1828 Norwich, Ct. document; 1839 document signed by I.P. hazard, Providence, RI; 4 checks signed by Brenda Kuhn; some items from the papers of congressman Philip J. Philbin; a calling card signed Mrs. Wainwright; card signed by Richardson K. Dilworth (1898-1974) American Democratic Party politician, born in the Pittsburgh area, who served as the 118th Mayor of Philadelphia from 1956 to 1962. Also card signed George W. Williams (naval officer); 1811 document from Kittery, Maine area [Spinney]; various bank checks, some small old prints, unidentified autograph signatures; documents, ephemera, etc. Approx. 82 pieces. Good lot for eBay sellers or those who like researching items............80-120
544. 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
545. John W. Forney (1817-1881) American journalist and politician. He was Clerk of the United States House of Representatives 1851-1856 and 1860-1861. He was Secretary of the United States Senate 1861-1868. Brief ALS, Dec. 27, no tr., 1p...........25-35
546. [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
548.
[MUSIC] Georgia
Hanni - Executive
Director, Composers and Lyricists Guild of
America. TLS, 1963, 1p., to Milt Ebbins, asking
for copies of contracts for the film Johnny
Cool. Mentions Billy May, Sammy Cahn, &
Jimmy Van Heusen............50-75
549. Frank
M. Cowles - signed document, 1899,
Suffolk Co., Mass., forming a corporation to be known by the name of Cowles Art Institute.
Approx. 8.5 x 14 in., 1-page. Also known as Cowles Art School (aka Cowles
School of Art) was a studio building on 148 Dartmouth Street,
Boston, Massachusetts, that was established in 1883 and
continued operation until 1900. It was one of the
largest art schools in the city, having several hundred
scholars. By the end of the 19th century, Boston had
become an important art center. A number of highly
respected artists were teaching in city. The rich environment
for art had been promoted at least in part by the
Massachusetts Drawing Act of 1870. The act mandated drawing
lessons in public schools. To fill the need for art teachers,
Massachusetts Normal Art (MNA) was established in 1873. Two
blocks behind the Museum of Fine Arts, in the New Studio
Building near the Back Bay Station, was the Cowles Art School
(1883). Cowles Art School offered instruction in figure
drawing and painting from the flat cast and life, artistic
anatomy, perspective and composition, painting still life,
drawing and painting the head from life, drawing still life,
oil and water colors, ad perspective. Notable alumni and
instructors included Childe Hassam, William McGregor Paxton,
Abbott Fuller Graves, George Elmer Browne, Robert Vonnoh
etc. Fine..........250-350
552. [BASEBALL] Harry Lavagetto -
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
554. [BASEBALL] John Mize - 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
561. [ART] Portrait of
George Washington - original
engraving/etching/aquatint by T. Johnson, plate signed &
dated 1903 in the plate. This, of course, was done after
Gilbert Stuart's famous portrait. Image 11-1/2 x 9-3/4" plus
wide margins. VG...........100-150
See
Portrait of Washington
562. [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
See McGarrell lithograph563. [ART] Claude Franqois FORTIER - French engraver, was born in Paris in 1775, and died in the same city in 1835. Original engraving by Fortier, title: "La Matin", image size approx. 10 x 13-1/2" plus wide margins. Circa 1820-1828. Condition: minor foxing spots on verso; minor stains & marks in margin areas; the main flaw, although less visible from front is an offset blue number that must have rested against this print years ago. At first we didn't notice this but its there. We have adjusted the estimate because of this..........75-100
564. [ART] James Brooks [1906-1992] American muralist, abstract painter and winner of the Logan Medal of the Arts. Brooks was a friend of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner. Considered a first generation abstract expressionist painter, Brooks was amongst the first abstract expressionists to use staining as an important technique. The Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, Texas), the Harvard University Art Museums, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Indianapolis, Indiana), the Sheldon Art Gallery (Lincoln, Nebraska), the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.), the Tate Gallery (London) and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, Minnesota) are among the public collections holding work by James Brooks. Signed Portland Museum of Art [Maine] membership brochure. This is also signed by Charles Whitney Payson [d. 1985] husband of Joan Whitney Payson the American heiress, businesswoman, philanthropist, patron of the arts and art collector. She was also co-founder and majority owner of Major League Baseball's New York Mets baseball franchise, and was the first woman to own a major-league team in North America without inheriting it. Also signed by Joe Brennan, the Gov. of Maine. VG..........50-75
565. [FILM] Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. Signed bank check dated 1935 plus sheet music.. ......50-75
Click here to see Vallee566. [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 etching567. [FILM] Bill Williams (1915-1992) American television and film actor. He is best known for his starring role in the early 1950 television show The Adventures of Kit Carson. Signature matted with vintage photo. Overall 9x13"...........40-60
568. Edmund Blunden [1896-1974] English, poet, author. Signed Presentation/edition page from his book "Near & Far" 1929. Fine.............25-35
570. Fanny
Heaslip Lea [1884-1955] writer.
Signed card...........20-30
571. Geo. William Childs [1829-1894] Am. publisher. Sig./inscribed 1890............20-30
574. JOHN SAVAGE (1779-1863), Democratic-Republican Congressman from New York from 1815 to 1819; Chief Justice of the N, Y. Supreme Court 1823 to 1837. DS dated May 21, 1830, as Chief Justice authorizing Thomas G. Fletcher to practice before the Court. Nice paper seal and remnants of ribbon. 11 X 7-3.4 in. VG...........40-60
575. [CABINET] CLINTON P. ANDERSON (1895-1975), Sec. of Agriculture under Truman. Congressman and then Senator from New Mexico. LS as Chairman on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy congratulating long-term Senate employee on 50 years of service. FINE..........25-35
576. Roger
Wolcott (1847-1900),
Governor of Massachusetts 1896-1900. ALS, 1999, 1p.......35-45
577. [FILM] Lita Grey
(1908-1995) American actress and second wife of Charlie Chaplin.
Signed 3x5 card. Fine..........25-35
578. Eddie Albert [1906-2005] Am. actor. Signed 3x5 card........20-30
579. Mike Douglas [1925-2006] TV Show Host. Signed 3x5 card......20-30
580. Buddy Hackett [1924-2003] Comedian. Signed 3x5 card.......20-30
581. Steve Allen [1921-2000] Tonight Show host. Signed 3x5 card......20-30583. [FOOTBALL] Ara Parseghian (b. 1923) American collegiate football coach. He
served as head coach for three teams, most notably the
University of Notre Dame team from 1964-1974. During his 11
seasons as head coach of the Fighting Irish (known popularly as
"the Era of Ara"), he compiled a 95-17-4 record, for a .836
winning percentage, making him the most successful Notre Dame
coach of the modern era. Signed,
inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..............25-35
585. [MINN] Robert Selmer Bergland (born July 22,
1928 in Roseau, Minnesota) is a United States politician. He
grew up on a farm (where he still lives) near Roseau, and
studied agriculture at the University of Minnesota in a two year
program. SEC. OF AGRICULTURE. ALS, 2004, 1p...........25-35
586. [FILM & TV] Hazel Court (1926-2006) English actress best known for her
roles in horror films during the 1950s and early 1960s. SIGNED
& INSCRIBED 5x7 photo. VG....25-35
587. [TV] Henry Winkler (b.
1945) American actor. Signed 3x5 card.........20-30
588. ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of JEREMIAH DAY [1773-1867] NOTED YALE CLERGYMAN. Clean.....................20-30
590. [NY] BENNETT, David Smith, a Representative from New York; born on a farm near Camillus, Onondaga County, N.Y., May 3, 1811; attended the common schools and the local academy in Onondaga; engaged in agricultural pursuits; moved to Syracuse and engaged in the produce business, afterwards extending his business to New York City; moved to Buffalo in 1853 and built and operated several grain elevators; also purchased the original Dart grain elevator; elected a member of the State senate in 1865; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1870; resumed his former business pursuits in Buffalo, N.Y., where he died November 6, 1894; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, N.Y. SIGNATURE............15-20
591. [NY] SCHUMAKER, John Godfrey, a Representative from New York; born in Claverack, Columbia County, N.Y., June 27, 1826; completed preparatory studies in the Lenox (Mass.) Academy; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in 1847; moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1853 and continued the practice of law; district attorney for Kings County 1856-1859; corporation counsel for the city of Brooklyn 1862-1864; member of the State constitutional conventions in 1862, 1867, and 1894; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1864; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871); was not a candidate for renomination in 1870; elected to the Forty-third and Forty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1873-March 3, 1877); was not a candidate for renomination in 1876 to the Forty-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of law; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., on November 23, 1905; interment in Greenwood Cemetery. SIGNATURE.......15-20
592. Sir ISAAC COFFIN - signature with rank of Rear
Admiral. Coffin Bay is a town at the southern extremity of the
Eyre Peninsula, which is a wheat growing area of South
Australia. British naval explorer Matthew Flinders named the
bay on 16 February 1802 in honour of his friend Sir Isaac
Coffin. CLIP SIGNATURE.............35-45
597. (MASSACHUSETTS) CENTRAL PART OF CONCORD, MASS. - original 1839 wood-engraved view, 6-1/2 x 3-1/4 plus margins. Part of the court house is seen on the left. Burying-ground Hill [a post of observation to the British officers in the invasion of 1775] is seen a short distance beyond. VG...................25-35
598. (MASSACHUSETTS) LENOX, MASS. - original 1839 wood-engraved view, 6-1/2 x 3-1/4 plus margins. VG.................25-35
599. [Olympics] Horace Ashenfelter, III (b.1923) American athlete. He competed in international athletics from 1947 to 1956 after service in World War II. Ashenfelter was one of America's finest runners during his career. Although he was considered a long shot, Ashenfelter was the surprise winner of the steeplechase at the 1952 Summer Olympics at Helsinki. He finished ahead of Vladimir Kazantsev of USSR and John Disley of Great Britain, and broke Kazantsev's unofficial world record. Since Ashenfelter worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation , it led to humorous comments about him being the first American spy who allowed himself to be chased by a Russian. In addition, Ashenfelter won the Sullivan Award as outstanding amateur athlete for the year 1952. The indoor track facility at his alma mater, Penn State, is named in his honor. Signed & inscribed album page. He adds 3000 meter steeplechase 1952 Olympic Games.........20-30
600. [Olympics] Tom Courtney (b. 1933) iAmerican athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Signed album page to which he adds 1956 Olympic 800 meters, 1600 meter relay.......20-30
601. [MUSIC] Ivor Foster (1870-1959) Baritone and teacher of singing. SIGNATURE ON ALBUM PAGE, HE DATES IT MARCH 1/1902. SIGNED BELOW BY H. LANE WILSON........20-30
603. MARY WILSON - singer., best known for her work as a founding member of The Supremes. Signed 3x5 card..........20-30
604. LOUIS ELSBERG (1836-1885) physician & author. Two ALS's [1875] on postal cards.......25-35
606. [BASKETBALL] George Yardley (1928-2004) Basketball HOF. Sig. on lined card.......20-30
607. [BASKETBALL HOF] Dave Tobey (1898-1988 ) American basketball referee. He refereed many notable pro games in New York between 1918 and 1925. In 1926 he refereed the Syracuse vs. West Point game, which featured two future Hall of Famers, Vic Hanson and John Roosma . After that game he became popular and refereed many important games from 1926 to 1945, such as the first game with a three-man officiating crew (Georgetown vs. Columbia). He was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961. Signed & inscribed 2-1/2 x 6-1/2" card with his picture & bio. information......20-30
608. [U.S. GRANT] Message from the President of the United States, April 4, 1876, government document, House of Rep. Ex. Doc. No. 154, 12 pages, signed in type by Grant. Regarding Pawnee Indians. VG....30-40
613. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908), American poet, critic, and essayist. A printed poem "FIN DE SIECLE", signed, 3pp. Removed from some publication. Attractive example.............25-35
613a. [FILM] Iris Adrian (1912-1994) American film actress. During the 1930s she specialised in playing glamorous gold-diggers and gangsters ' "molls", and played supporting roles in numerous features. She was considered a versatile actress, who could play drama or comedy, and she was also regarded as a capable dancer, dancing in a couple of films with George Raft. She also appeared on several radio programs, including serving as a regular on the Abbott and Costello Show. Signed, inscribed phptp, 8x10. VG......25-35
613b. Shari Lewis (1933-1998) American ventriloquist, puppeteer, and children's television show host, most popular during the 1960s. She is best known as the original puppeteer of Lamb Chop. Signed/inscribed 8x10 photo...............25-35
614. [MUSIC] Arlo Guthrie (b. 1947) is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo is known for singing songs of protest against social injustice. Guthrie's best-known work is "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a satirical talking blues song about 18 minutes in length. His song "Massachusetts" was named the official folk song of the state in which he has lived most of his adult life. Signed 3x5 in. card. Fine................25-35
615. Mr. Tindal (Nicolas Tindal. 1687 - 1774) was the translator and continuer of the History of England by Paul de Rapin. Very few comprehensive histories existed at the time and Tindal wrote a three volume 'Continuation', a history of the Kingdom from the reigns of James II to George II. Tindal was Rector of Alverstoke in Hampshire, Vicar of Great Waltham, Essex, Chaplain of Greenwich Hospital and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. ALS, in 3rd person, August 22, 1764, 1p, 6-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. VG. Archival tape repair on verso...............100-150
616. [FILM] Bruce Bennett (1906- 2007) American actor and Olympic silver medalist shot putter. He moved to Los Angeles in 1929 after being invited to compete for the Los Angeles Athletic Club and befriended actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who arranged a screen test for him at Paramount. In 1931, MGM, adapting author Edgar Rice Burroughs's popular Tarzan adventures for the screen, selected him to play the title character. Unfortunately, he broke his shoulder filming the 1931 football movie Touchdown, which also prevented his entry into the 1932 Olympics, still holding the world record for shot put. Swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller replaced him and became a major star. Bennett appeared in many films in the 1940s and early 1950s, including Sahara (1943) with Humphrey Bogart, Mildred Pierce (1945) with Joan Crawford, Nora Prentiss (1947) with Ann Sheridan, Dark Passage (1947) with Bogart and Lauren Bacall, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) with Bogart and Walter Huston, Mystery Street (1950), Sudden Fear (1952) with Joan Crawford and Gloria Grahame, and Strategic Air Command (1955) with James Stewart. Brief ALS, 2002, 1p, concerning his autobiography. VG................40-60
617. [CARTOON] JACK ELROD - known for his work on "Mark Trail" comic strip. Jack Elrod, who as a Boy Scout had met Dodd when the latter was a Scout leader, joined the Mark Trail team at its Atlanta, Georgia studio in 1950 as background artist (Agena). The strip's popularity grew through the mid-1960s, with Mark Trail appearing in nearly 500 newspapers through the North America Syndicate.. ALS, no date, 1p. Mentions Mark Trail........25-35
619. George Shultz [b. 1920] Sec. Labor. SP, 8x10............20-30
620. [MUSIC] Licia Albanese (b.1913) distinguished Italian soprano. ISP, 8x10. Prominent corner crease..............20-30
623. [GREAT EASTERN] John Scott Russell
1808-1882) Scottish naval engineer who built the Great Eastern
in collaboration with Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and made the
discovery that gave birth to the modern study of solitons.
Russell's experiments and observations led him to propose a new
system of shaping vessels, known as the wave system, which was
to culminate in the building of the SS Great Eastern. He was
held in high regard by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, who made him a
partner in his project to build the Great Eastern. At its time,
this was to be the largest moveable object man had ever created.
The Great Eastern was eventually launched in 1858, having been
designed according to Russell's wave system. Russell was also
one of the earliest and most active people advocating ironclad
men-of-war, and was the joint designer of the first armoured
frigate, HMS Warrior. CLIP SIGNATURE mounted..............25-35
624. [FILM] Beulah Bondi (1888-1981) American actress. ANS, 1962..........25-35
626. [OLYMPIC SKATERS] BONNIE BLAIR & NANCY KERRIGAN - both have signed OLYMPIC HEROES page from some publication. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4........25-35
627. [THEATRE] Herbert Kelcey - vintage stage actor. Signed 5x3 card.....20-30
628. BRANDER
MATTHEWS (1852-1929) American writer and
educator. ALS, 1905, 2pp. VG...........35-45
629. HENRY
JACKSON van DYKE (1852-1933) American
Author, educator, clergyman, lyricist. TLS, 1908, 1p.
VG..........35-45
630. HEINRICH FRIEDIRCH M. SAHM (1877-1939)
German Politician, Diplomat, Mayor Berlin (1933-1935),
Ambassador to Norway. He became the first President of the
Senate. He retained his position as Mayor after the Nazi
takeover but was replaced in 1935, but held little power over
the Commissioner Julius Lippert. TLS, 1931,
1p.............50-75
631. (FRANCE) Roger
de Beauvoir (1806-1866) Romantic novelist
and playwright. His wit, good-looks and adventurous
lifestyle made him well known in Paris, where he was a friend of
Alexandre Dumas, père. Of independent means, he wed actress and
author Léocadie Doze in 1847. He was imprisoned for three months
and fined 500 francs for a satirical poem, Mon Procs, written in
1849. Afflicted with gout and nearly destitute from his
flamboyant lifestyle, de Beauvoir spent the last few years of
his life unhappily confined to a chair, dying in Paris. His
best-known works included Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1840),
Les Oeufs de Paques (1856) and Le Pauvre Diable (reprinted
1871). ALS, no yr., 1p. VG............75-100
633. Lot of 10 signed photos & printed portraits of 20th century governors. All are 10 x 8" unless otherwise indicated. [1] JOHNSON, PAUL B., governor of Mississippi 1964-68. 11 x 8 overall. Inscribed, "Best wishes to a fine young man." Glossy. [2] GUERRERO, MANUEL FLORES LEON. Governor of Guam 1963-69, apptd. by JFK. He has added "Governor of Guam". Matte finish. [3] WALLACE, LURLEEN B. Governor of Alabama 1967-68 until her death. Her husband George was the noted opponent of integration and a presidential candidate who was shot while campaigning. 5 x 3", matte finish. She added to her signature "Gov". [4] KNOWLES, WARREN P. Governor of Wisconsin 1965-71. Matte finish. Punch holes at left border barely touching the image. [5] CARGO, DAVID F. Governor of New Mexico 1967-71. Glossy. Cargo has added "Governor". [6] SMITH, HULETT C. Governor of West Virginia 1965-69. "With best wishes". Glossy. [7] BREWER, ALBERT P. Governor of Alabama 1968-78. Glossy. Inscribed "To George Berstler Sincere best wishes from his friend Albert P. Brewer, Gov." [8] HEARNES, WARREN E. Gov. of Missouri 1965-73. "Best regards". Glossy. Punch holes at right border barely touching the image. [9] WILLIAMS, JOHN BELL. Gov. of Mississippi 1968-72. "Best wishes". Glossy. Punch holes at left border not touching the image. [10] BRANIGAN, ROGER D. Gov. of Indiana 1965-69. Matte finish.........60-80
637. [FILM] John Carroll [1906-1979] American actor. SIGNED, inscribed printed portrait picture, 5 x 7. VG......25-35
See Carroll638. [ART] Filippo Morghen (Florence, 1730 - Naples, 1777) accomplished eighteenth century engraver. He studied art in Rome for a period of seven years before settling in Naples where he created etchings and engravings. Filippo Morghen was a leading engraver for the recent archaeological discoveries detailed in the Antiquities of Herculaneum, published in Naples in 1757, and the sole engraver and publisher of Views of Ruins in the Environs of Naples, published in 1766. In fact, reference is made to the discoveries at Herculaneum (then a Spanish possession) in the lower right corner of this portrait engraving of Charles III, King of Spain, where we see ancient pottery and sculpture as well as archeological tools-of-the-trade, such as a shovel and a pick. Filippo Morghen's fine engravings earned him the title of 'Engraver to the King of the Two Sicilies'. He was also the father and teacher of Rafaello Morghen (1758-1833), one of the most influential engravers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Carlos III Hispania Atque Indiarum Rex is based upon a design created by the eighteenth century Italian artist, Camillus Paderni (Naples, c. 1720 - 1770). Original Engraving, portrait of Carlos III Hispania Atque Indiarum Rex (Charles III, King of Spain), image approx. 17 X 12" plus margins. Printed on mid eighteenth century hand-made, laid paper. It is a fine, early impression in excellent condition throughout and an outstanding example of the 18th century portrait engraving. This original engraving stands as a prime example of the famous art of Filippo Morghen. VG............250-350
See Morghen portrait640. 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
641. 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
642. 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
643. 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
645. Dee Barton (1937-2001) American jazz trombonist, big band drummer, and prolific composer for big band and motion pictures. Barton is known for his horror-esque style of composing in action thriller films. He created the soundtrack to the Clint Eastwood films Play Misty for Me, and the eerie soundtrack to the 1973 film High Plains Drifter. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
646. 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
647. 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
648. Helen Astor [1893-1976] American Socialite. In 1913, she married William Vincent Astor. ALS, nd, 3pp. VG...........50-75
649. [FILM] Jessica Tandy (1909-1994) actress. Signed 3x5 card. Fine........20-30
650. Annie Fields (1834-1915) American writer. Fields was a forward-looking, philanthropic and multi-talented woman, who encouraged the talents of others even as she followed the good of the intellect. Although Fields often turns up in the pantheons of 19th century poetry, it is for her short sympathetic biographies that she is now remembered. ALS, 1910, 1p, laid to mounting page. With original envelope........50-75
652. [PORTRAIT] of Thomas Cecil
: first earl of Exeter (1542-1623) engraved by John
Cochran (active 1821-1865) was a Scottish portrait
miniaturist, a stipple and line engraver and a painter of
watercolours. Cochran exhibited his portraits at the Royal
Academy between 1821 and 1823, and at the Suffolk Street Gallery
from 1821 to 1827. Image approx. 5x4" plus marghins.
VG..........25-35
653. Stephen Wright Kellogg
(1822-1904) Congressman from Ct. He was Colonel of the Second
Regiment, Connecticut National Guard, from 1863 to 1866, and
Brigadier-General from 1866 to 1870. He was the author and
promoter of legislation organizing the active militia in an
efficient body known as the Connecticut National Guard. CLIP
SIGNATURE.............20-30
655. Morgan R. Wise
(1825-1903) Democratic congressman from Pa. 1879-1883. Document
Signed, Washington DC, 1880, 1p. Received from the Sec. of the
Interior Vol. Two of the Official Register of the US.
VG.............35-45
659. [BRITAIN] Denman, Thomas. 1st Baron Denman. (1779-1854) English judge. Solicitor general to Queen Caroline (1820), whose innocence he maintained before bar of House of Lords (1820); attorney general (1830); prosecuted reform rioters (1832); M.P. (1818-26, 1830-32); lord chief justice (1832-50); speaker of House of Lords (1835); condemned Moxon, publisher of Shelley' s complete works, for blasphemy (1841). SIGNED address panel postmarked 1836.............25-35
661. Larry Kasdan (b.1949) American film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known as the co-writer of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. Kasdan has been confirmed to be a consultant for the upcoming third trilogy of Star Wars. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
662. William Goldman (b.1931) is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter. He came to prominence in the 1950s as a novelist, before turning to writing for film. He has won two Academy Awards for his screenplays, first for the western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and again for All the President's Men (1976), about journalists who broke the Watergate scandal of President Richard Nixon: both films starring Robert Redford. His other notable works include his thriller novel Marathon Man and comedy-fantasy novel The Princess Bride, both of which Goldman adapted for film. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
663. Anne Marie Pohtamo (b. 1955, Helsinki, Finland) was the second woman from Finland to capture the Miss Universe crown. She claimed the Miss Universe crown in 1975 at the pageant held in El Salvador. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to her but not signed by her. VG.......20-30
664. Gerald McRaney (b. 1947) American television and movie actor. McRaney is best known as one of the stars of the television shows Simon & Simon, Major Dad, and Promised Land. He was a series regular for the first season of Jericho, and the final season of Deadwood. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG.......20-30
665. Stella
Parton (b.1949) American country singer and
songwriter. She is a younger sister of entertainer Dolly Parton.
Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to her but not signed by her. VG.......20-30
668. David Stewart (1800-1858) American Senator. Stewart was born in Baltimore, Maryland, completed preparatory studies, and attended the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He graduated from Union College of Schenectady, New York in 1819. He later studied law, was admitted to the bar about 1821, and commenced practice in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1849, Stewart was appointed as a Whig to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Reverdy Johnson and served from December 6, 1849, to January 12, 1850, when a successor was elected. He was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy, and resumed the practice of his profession in Baltimore soon thereafter. ALS, not dated but appears to be as a senator, written on both sides to Robert P. Anderson about having books sent to him. VG............35-45
669. Maud B. Booth (1865-1948) Salvation Army leader and co-founder of the Volunteers of America. Signed card, with sentiment, 3x2 in........35-45
671 . [ENGLAND] Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, KG, LVO, OBE, MC, DL, FKC (born 2 July 1915), is a senior British peer and a retired Brigadier in the British Army. He was born in Rome. From 1943 to 1972, when he succeeded his father, he was known as Marquess Douro, and he is currently styled His Grace The Duke of Wellington. He joined the British Army, serving in the Second World War with the Royal Horse Guards. He eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding that regiment in 1954. He then moved to the Household Cavalry Regiment, which he began commanding in 1959. He commanded the 22nd Armoured Brigade (1960-1961), served in the British Army of the Rhine, and became defence attaché to Spain in 1964; he retired from the Army in 1968 as a Brigadier. During his period of service, he received the Military Cross. Sigbature, WITH SENTIMENT ON STATIONERY, DATED 1987. FOLD LINES O/W VG........20-30
672. [SIGNED
BOOK] EDWARD EVERETT HALE (1822-1909)
American writer and Unitarian clergyman. Noted for his short
story "Man Without a Country". Offered here is an edition of
hisbook "Memories of a Hundred Years" with nice inscription,
dated Feb. 24, 1905, written on inside cover. Unfortunately the
book itself is in poor condition: spine is pulling away; bad
repair job attempted. Will put up scans upon
request.........50-75
673.
[FILM] Olivia de Havilland (1916 - )
actress who
won the
Academy Award
for Best
Actress for
her
performances
in To Each His
Own (1946) and
The Heiress
(1949).
Signed 3-1/2 x
1-1/2" card.
Fine............25-35
674. [BOOKS] Sir Walter Scott. TALES OF A GRANDFATHER, 1870, Boston, Fields, Osgood, & Co., 3 volumes, 301, 298, & 310 pages, 8vo. Green cloth, gilt lettered spines. Slight cover scuffing. A good tight set. Provenance: Frank Cutter Deering Library.................75-100
675. HENRY A. LAVELY (1831-?), American poet. AMS, his poem "Smiles and Tears" written on the letterhead of Aetna Life Insurance Co. TEN LINES + TITLE. Small corner piece missing o/w VG.......30-40
679. [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
681. [MUSIC] William Bolcom [b. 1938] American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. Bolcom taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973-2008. AMQS, inscribed, from his 8th Symphony. 10-1/4 x 4-1/4". Two mail fold lines o/w VG.........75-100
See AMQS above
683. 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
684. [CIVIL WAR] G.R. GIDDINGS - Partly printed Document
signed [filled in by Giddings].
Army pay voucher dated March 9, 1867 for G.R. Giddings, Lt. Col.
16 th U. S. Infantry. Interesting document covering two months
and detailing the amounts due for pay for himself and 2
servants, clothing for the servants, and subsistence for himself
and his servants. It even includes physical descriptions of the
servants. Gives some insight into Army life immediately after
the Civil War. Col. Giddings died suddenly 3 months later while
acting as President of a Court-martial. The Savannah (GA)
Republican that "a more modest, courteous, and genial commandant
has never been stationed in Savannah." Folds out to 17 x 11 in.
He served at Gettysburg and Chancellorsville. Fresh
condition..............50-75
685. [WESTERN AMERICANA] H. Webster - Frontier veterinarian. Document signed, Leadville, Colorado, 1882. Vetinary Bill that to early Colorado statehood. Approx. 8-1/2 x 4-1/4".....25-35
686. RUFUS W. PECKHAM (1809-1873). Congressman from New York 1853-55. Killed at sea in ship's collision. His namesake son was an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. ADS. This is a letter dated June 25, 1853, attesting to the character and pecuniary respectability of one Andrew Morrison, addressed to a Washington law firm by H. A. Brigham, a lawyer in West Troy. Added to the letter are endorsements by the State Director of Pensions (?), two acting magistrates, the postmaster, and Peckham. Peckham dates his endorsement Albany June 25. "I concur in the above certificate of Mr. Hitchcock as to Mr. Brigham whom I know very well." This lot also includes four of Peckham's clipped signatures, 3 of which add "Yours very truly"...........50-75
687. WALTER F. MONDALE - V.P. under Carter, Democratic candidate for President in 1984, U.S. Senator. Lot consists of 2 items. (1) DS with initials as Senator dated Aug. 30, 1966, requesting information about dermatology et al from the Dept. of Medicine at the University of Minnesota. Punch holes at left and small marginal tears at top. (2) First day cover signed by autopen, honoring Mondale on his V.P. inauguration and postmarked Jan. 20, 1977 at Ceylon, MN (his hometown).............50-75
688. L. QUINCY MUMFORD (1903-1982). Librarian of Congress 1954-74, having been appointed by President Eisenhower. LS dated May 3, 1973 suggesting to his correspondent how he might search for a letter of Thomas Rodney..........25-35
689. (STUART SYMINGTON) (1901-1988), Senator from Missouri, First Secretary of the Air Force, appointed by Truman. LS written by his cousin Stuart Symington Goode, a lawyer and socialite, to prominent newsman Ray Tucker December 9, 1952. Extremely interesting political commentary and considerable discussion, sometimes very unflattering, about his cousin...........35-45
690. William F. Sapp (1824-1890). Congressman from Iowa 1877-1881. ALS from Council Bluffs dated October 14th 1869, 1 very full p., 10 x 8", to General Wm. W. Belknap. This is an extremely warm letter congratulating the General on his appointment (by Grant) as Secretary of War. (Belknap was later impeached and resigned but was found not guilty.) Significant staining, but the writing is dark and clear..........40-60
693. Henry L.
Nunn (1878-1972) American Business Leader,
one of the founders of the Nunn-Bush Shoe Company and a pioneer
in the development of good labor-management relations. His
papers are in the collection of the Wisconsin Historical
Society, including records of Nunn's participation in a mission
in 1951 for the Economic Cooperation Administration, the
United States government agency set up in 1948 to administer the
Marshall Plan. Archive of 6 TLSs plus 3 envelopes, 1953-63, to
Dorthy Nunn or Alice Josephine Nunn. PLUS 4 letters from
Mrs. Henry L. Nunn, all with their envelopes............50-75
694. "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
695. J. Glenn Beall (1894-1971) Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1953-1965. He was also a United States Congressman, representing the sixth district of Maryland from 1943-1953. Group of 5 TLSs, 1957-1975, to Vernon Talberett [1] & 4 to another person. Only the letter to Talberett has the mounting residue on the verso...........25-35
696. US Senators - 10 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Thruston B. Morton [KY]; Lee Metcalf [MT]; Pat McNamara [MI]; Gale McGee [Wy]; John McClellan [Ark]; Warren G. Magnuson [Wash]; Russell Long [LA]; Oren E. Long [Hawaii]; Frank Lausche [OH]; B. Everett Jordan [NC].........50-75
697. [MARYLAND] Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. (1922- 2010) Republican member of the United States Senate, representing Maryland. GROUP OF 5 TLSs, 1965-78, each 1p. All to the President of a financial corporation discussing minimum wage, Federal Trade Commission, etc. All very good condition..........50-75
698. [FRANCE] Madame de Thebes - French palmist and prophet. She was born in 1845 and died in 1916. She carried on a business as a palmist at her salon in the Avenue de Wagram in Paris, and each year at Christmas published prophecies which enjoyed a wide circulation. She was said to have predicted the Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War. ALS, no date, 4pp., to the photographer Seschamps about photography...........50-75
699. [FRANCE] Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue (1801-1872) French historian and biographer. He became editor of the Quotidienne, and was afterwards connected, either as editor or leading contributor, with the Temps, the Messager des Chambres, the Revolution de 1848 and other papers. ALS, no date, 1p..............35-45
703. [BASEBALL] John "Buddy"
Lewis - 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
704. [BASEBALL] Frank Hayes - 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
705. [BASEBALL] Edward Miller - 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
706. [BASEBALL] August Galan - 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
707. [MASONS]
2 printed Masonic docyments from the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of
the District of Columbia, 1878 and 1881. Each approx. 5x8
in. VG...............40-60
ORIGINAL PORTRAIT ENGRAVINGS OF PRESTIGIOUS AMERICANS FROM THE FIELD OF LITERATURE. THESE ARE CLEAN & READY TO FRAME WITH AUTOGRAPHS. NO ESTIMATES. Literary portraits are much more scarce than military or presidents.
773. SAMUEL P. BATES
774. JOHN P. KENNEDY
775. GEO. W. CHILDS
776. FREDERICK S. COZZENS
777. DONALD GRANT MITCHELL
778. CHARLES SPRAGUE
779 GEORGE P. MORRIS
780. FLETCHER HARPER
781. GEO. D. PRENTICE
782. JOHN R. BARTLETT
783. N.P. WILLIS
784. FITZ-GREEN HALLECK
785. [SCIENCE] Herbert Haviland Field [1862-1921] American Zoologist: founded the
Concilium Bibliographicum, 1895, in Zurich, an agency for
zoological and related literatures, briefly considered after
World War I as a possible center for the international
organization of scientific literature by the US Academy of
Sciences. Typed Document Signed, Zurich, 1897, 1p. Received of
R.S. Woodward, Treas. of The American Assoc. for the Advancement
of Science, $250 in full payment of grant voted in aid of the
International Bureau of Bibliography. Mail folds o/w
VG................50-75
786. [FRANCE] Bishop Paul-Augustin Le Coeur
(1848-1942) Bishop of Saint-Flour, France. ALS, 1912,
2pp, approx. 5-1/4 x 8 in. Not translated.
VG.............80-120
787. [FRANCE] Bernard Potier,
duc de Gesvres,
Military governor of Paris 1739-1757. Some sort of
letter or document signed, 1749, 1p, approx. 6-5/8 x 8-1/4 in.
VG............100-150
788. [MUSIC] Gilbert Ross [1903-1975] Professor of music at the University of Michigan, and founder and first violinist with the Stanley Quartet. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photograph on which he has penned a musical quote. Excellent condition.........75-100
789. [MUSIC] Hafliði
Hallgrimsson (1941 - ) Icelandic
composer, currently living in Bath. Hafliði was the
Principal Cellist of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, but
left that position in 1983 to pursue a full-time career as a
composer. In 2008, he became composer-in-residence of the
Iceland Symphony Orchestra (through 2010). AMQS from his
work "Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Op.30" Approx.
10-1/2 x 4-1/4". VG...........60-80
See AMQS
790. (SPORTS LOT) VIRGIL OLIVER TRUCKS
(1917-2013) American Pitcher, ANS. ARA R. PARSEGHIAN
(b.1923) Football Player and Coach. SIGNED, inscribed large
12x18 portrait sketch, inscribed (fold in middle). CHRISTINE D. WITTY (b.
1975) Olympic Speed Skater. SIGNED 5x7 print photo (fold in
middle). WILBUR “Weeb”
EWBANK (1907-1998) Football Coach, SIGNED
address return on envelope, with 2 SIGNATURES, with words of
encouragement. BILLY
CASPER (1931) Golfer. SIGNED 8x11
photograph. GREG E.
LOUGANIS (1960) Olympic Diver SIGNED
printed letter. STEVE J.
GROGAN (1953) Quarterback, ANS signed
“Steve G”.........80-120
791. Jean Rostand (1894-1977)
French biologist and philosopher. Active as an
experimental biologist, Rostand became famous for his work as a
science writer, as well as a philosopher and an activist. His
scientific work covered a variety of biological fields such as
amphibian embryology, parthenogenesis and teratogeny, while his
literary output extended into popular science, history of
science and philosophy. His work in the area of cryogenics gave
the idea of cryonics to Robert Ettinger. Rostand Island in
Antarctica is named after him. Rostand was born to
playwright Edmond Rostand and poetess Rosemonde Gérard.
Following the footsteps of his father, Rostand was elected to
the Académie française in 1959. Rostand was famous for the
following quotation: "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill
millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you
are a god." From Thoughts of a Biologist, 1938. Bold
signature on 7-1/2 x 4-1/2 slip of paper dated 1949.
Fine.............75-100
792. [COUNTRY MUSIC] "Mother" Maybelle Carter (1909-1978) American country musician. She is best known as a member of the historic Carter Family act in the 1920s and 1930s and also as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters. She has signed a book page photograph, about 8x6". Also signed by Helen Carter (1927-1998) American country music singer. The eldest daughter of Maybelle Carter, she performed with her mother and her younger sisters, June Carter and Anita Carter, as a member of Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, a pioneering all female country/folk music group. The group was also known as The Carter Family. Signed by both. VG............50-75
793. [THEATRE]
multiple lot: Matheson
Lang
[1879-1948] Canadian born British matinee idol and Shakespearean
actor, Signed vintage postcard photo. / Richard Kiley [1922-1999] TLS, 1958, to the
Theatre Guild - where to send his check. Walter Hampden [1879-1955] signature on hotel
sheet. Olga
Nethersole
[1863/70? - 1951] English actress. Signature dated 1899. Agnes Huntington - American actress best known for
her famous role of playing the famous naval hero John Paul
Jones, which caused controversy, a woman playing a man. Signed
card on which she pens "Where ever Paul Jones is - there I will
be! Yours truly Agnes Huntington."............60-80
794. [FILM] Trevor Howard (1913-1988) English film, and stage actor. Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..........50-75
See Trevor Howard
795.
[MUSIC] Max Rudolf (1902-1995) German
conductor who
spent most of
his career in
the United
States.
Signed,
inscribed 8x10
photo.
1990.
VG............50-75
See
above
796. (ART) (JASPER JOHNS) original multiple. New York. Museum of Modern Art. Text by Riva Castleman Technics and Creativity Gemini GEL, 1971, 10.5 x 8.5 in. stiff wrappers in plastic clamshell box. 108 pp. 364 mostly thumbnail illustrations (20 full size in color), bibliography, index of artists. A Catalogue raisonne (to early 1971), published in a boxed edition of 22,500, with its problematic Jasper Johns "Target," an offset lithograph with applique paintbrush and three watercolor disks, in addition to the print , which is glued to the inside front cover of the box). Box also contains the catalog, a sheet of protective foam. The foam sheet is normally discolored and usually has three circular offprints from the watercolor disks. According to Richard S. Field ("Jasper Johns Prints 1970-1977"), the image was derived from a pencil drawing and collage of 1960 in the Sonnabend collection. A hand-pulled edition of 50 copies and six artists proofs was printed by Kenneth Tyler at Gemini in 1971. The offset edition was produced by Graphic Press, Los Angeles. Johns's participation in this enterprise was, at best, limited to the Gemini printing, which was hand-signed and numbered. The signature on the MoMA target was mechanically reproduced [the one offered here]. If it appears to have been signed in ink or pencil, forgery is indicated. The white clamshell box is spotted but intact. The other main factor involving this multiple is the condition of the offset target lithograph. As is often the case a former owner has wetted the watercolor blocks and started to paint the target but has only painted a small part in yellow. The brush is often missing as is missing here. VG condition.............300-400
Clamshell box
798. [ART] William
Brassey Hole RSA (1846-1917) was an English
artist, illustrator, etcher and engraver, known for his
industrial, historical and biblical scenes. He was
educated at Edinburgh Academy, then served an apprenticeship as
a civil engineer for 5 years, although he really wanted to be an
artist. In 1869, he sailed from Swansea to Genoa, and
spent the next 6 months travelling and sketching around Italy.
In Rome he made the acquaintance of Keeley Halswelle who gave
him practical advice on art. It was Halwelle whose criticism
encouraged Hole to endeavour to become a professional
painter. On returning to Edinburgh, Hole entered the
School of Design, then won admission to the life school of the
Royal Scottish Academy, first exhibiting there in 1873; in 1878
he was elected an associate of the Academy. Around this time he
took up etching and was accepted into the Royal Society of
Painters and Etchers (RE) in 1885; he was already a member of
the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society (RSW) from 1884. He
eventually became a full member of the Academy (RSA). Original
etching, title MASTER HOLDENOUGH'S STORY, approx. 5.5 x 3.5
in. plus margins. Fine.............40-60
See above
799. [ART] Frank
Paton
(1855-1909) was an English artist of the
Victorian and Edwardian eras, best known
for his paintings of animals and scenes of
rural life. He was a successful artist
during his lifetime and could even count
Queen Victoria as an admirer of his
work. His most famous compositions,
"Fairest of Them All" and "Puss in Boots"
(1880), have adorned many a wall in the
form of plates and posters. In addition,
his series of printed Christmas cards
published between 1880 and 1909 have
become an affordable way for those
interested in Paton's art to begin a
collection. Frank Paton showed an
early talent for drawing animals and was
allowed to follow his artistic bent.
His first known exhibition was at the age
of sixteen, the piece being a portrait of
a German peasant girl. Family rumour has
it that Paton briefly spent time in France
working in stained glass before being
recalled by his father. Although
never a member of the Royal Academy, a
total of 20 works by Paton were exhibited
at their annual selling exhibition between
the years 1878 and 1890. From 1890
Frank Paton no longer exhibited at the
Royal Academy following a dispute with the
organisers. His reputation firmly
established, it was of little consequence
and the artist continued to work until his
final days. At the time of his death Paton
was living in Walton-on-the-Naze,
Essex. Original etching, plate
signed, 1884, image approx. 7 x 9-1/8
in. Contained in old mat.
VG............150-200
See
above
The Book
Room
802. [BOOK] Jewett, Sarah Orne [1849-1909]. American writer, b. South Berwick, Me. Author of sketches and tales of New England important in the "local color"school, including Deephaven (1877), A Country Doctor (1884), A Marsh Island (1885), A White Heron (1886), Tales of New England (1890), The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), etc. Her book A Native of Winby and Other Tales. Sarah Orne Jewett. Boston and New York. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1893. First Edition. Sarah Wyman Whitman binding. Nice tight copy. No dust jacket. Minor color loss on spine. 7.25 x 5........150-200
See title page
803. [SIGNED BOOK] Benjamin Lawrence Reid
(1918-1990) his book "The Man from New York: John
Quinn and His Friends" (1968), which won
the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or
Autobiography. Dr. Benjamin L. Reid, biographer,
literary critic and professor emeritus of English at Mount
Holyoke College. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for "The
Man From New York: John Quinn and His Friends," a biography
of a wealthy New York lawyer who owned the largest single
collection of modern European paintings in the world in the
1920's and was an assiduous patron of artists and
writers. Dr. Reid's interest in Quinn stemmed from his
own undergraduate days at the University of Louisville,
where he studied art history and literature. He subsequently
traveled in Europe under a Fulbright research grant that
enabled him to interview T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and other
luminaries who were close to Quinn. B.L. Reid has signed
on the flyleaf. First edition in dust jacket, 708
pages. Following the Armory Show, the artist Walt
Kuhn acted as an art advisor to the collector John Quinn
and assisted in the formation of his unique collection of
modern art, unfortunately dissolved and sold at the time
of Quinn's death in 1924. Quinn’s most
important contribution to the Amory Show was as a patron,
lending and buying more artworks than any other collector or
dealer. His loan included seventy-five works by artists such
as Cézanne, Van Gogh, Puvis de Chavannes, and Augustus John
and he spent nearly $6,000 on a variety of artworks from the
lithographs of Redon to the paintings of Walt Kuhn and
the cubist sculptures of Duchamp-Villon. According to a 1909
congressional tariff, Americans were required to pay a 15%
tax on imported artworks produced in the last twenty years.
In an effort to repeal the tariff in advance of the Armory
Show, Quinn appeared before the House Ways and Means
Committee arguing against the tax. Although it was not
repealed in time for the exhibition, the tariff was
overturned in October 1913 and Quinn’s advocacy helped
promote the sale of modern European art in America in the
wake of the Armory Show. This signed book comes
directly from the Brenda Kuhn [daughter of artist Walt Kuhn]
estate in Maine.........100-150
Dust jacket
Signed page
Photo of
Quinn, Walt Kuhn & John Wilson
Photo of
John Quinn
804. [BOOK] Jacob Brown. BROWN'S
MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS - Upon A Great Variety Of Subjects.
Prepared and written from 1880 to 1895. 1896, J.J. Miller,
Cumberland, Md., 325pp, 8vo. Cloth covers slightly scuffed. VG
tight copy of a somewhat scarce edition. Provenance: Frank
Cutter Derring Collection...............75-100
808. [SIGNED BOOK] author: Jim Dan Hill [noted historian]. "The Minute Man in Peace & War: A History of the National Guard." The history of the National Guard from the first Colonial Militia [Concord 1775] to Berlin, 1961. First Edition, 1964, The Stackpole Co., 585pp., 9-1/4" high. Signed & inscribed on front flyleaf by the author. Chipped dj. Good+...........50-75
815. (BOOK) Clara Endicott Sears, Days Of Delusion, A Strange Bit of History, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924, 1st Ed., 264pp., 8vo. Sl. faded spine, no dj. This book is about MILLER, William (1782-1849), American religious leader, who founded the Protestant Adventist denomination ( see Adventists), also known as the Millerites. Miller, a Baptist, closely studied the Bible, especially the Book of Daniel, and concluded that the world would end and Christ would appear in the year 1843. He began preaching these ideas in 1831. By 1840 some of his many followers had disposed of their belongings in anticipation of the judgment day. When 1843 passed uneventfully, Miller set a new date in 1844 for the end of the world. In 1845, although the movement had collapsed in disillusionment, Miller and a few loyal followers met in Albany, N.Y., and founded the Adventist church. Former owner's signature. Scarce........150-200
818. (REV. WAR) SCHUYLER, George L. Correspondence and Remarks Upon Bancroft's History of the Northern Campaign of 1777, and the Character of Major-General Philip Schuyler. N.Y.,1867. 47pp., David G. Francis, publisher, 8vo. Finally rebound in half-medium brown Levant. Extra-illustrated by the insertion of 24 plates. With paper bookplate of Frank Cutter Deering as well as his leather bookplate. A few of the plates are foxed but text is clean. Overall in fine condition.............150-250
821. [CONFEDERACY]
Douglas Southall Freeman. 1st edition of his 4
vol. set R.E. LEE, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934, no dust
jackets. Red cloth. VG...................350-450
822.
[NAPOLEON - Book] William Forsyth. HISTORY OF THE
CAPTIVITY OF NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA; From the
Letters and Journals of the late Lieut-Gen Sir Hudson Lowe.
Publisher: John Murray, London, 1853; A superb three-volume
set in cloth, complete with large fold-out map in Vol.1;
495pp.; 490pp.; 529pp, engraved frontispieces to all volumes.
Sunned spines; rubbed corners; small suff-hole front cover
vol. 1; vol. 2 cover loose; vol. 3 covers
cracked...................250-350
824. [SIGNED BOOK] JOHN HAYS HAMMOND [1855-1936] American mining engineer, b. San Francisco. On staff, U.S. Geological Survey, in California gold fields (1880); associated with Cecil Rhodes in development of South African resources; a leader in Transvaal reform movement (1895-96); arrested after Jameson Raid and sentenced to death; sentence commuted to imprisonment; freed finally on payment of fine. Consulting engineer, esp. to Guggenheim Exploration Co. (1900-07). A signed book from his library titled INTRODUCTION TO FRESH-WATER ALGAE, by M.C. Cooke, 1890, London, 339 pages with 13 illus. plates. Book from the International Scientific Series. Hammond writes by his signature "Johannesburg, South Africa, 1895. Signed the year of the Jameson Raid for which Hammond was to be sentenced to death. NO dj o/w VG. Quite uncommon.........................200-300
826. [SIGNED BOOK] Samuel Hazo - American poet, essayist, and novelist. He is the founder and director of the International Poetry Forum. Hazo is McAnulty Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Duquesne University, where he taught for 43 years. He was chosen to be the first State Poet of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by Governor Robert Casey in 1993 and served in that role until 2003. Offered here is his book "Once for the Last Bandit", signed & inscribed, 1973, U. of Pittsburgh Press, [1972], 206pp. Book of his poems. In VG dust jacket. Samuel Hazo was a National Book Award finalist for his collection "Once for the Last Bandit." ...........25-35
828. [SIGNED BOOK] JOHN HAYS HAMMOND [1855-1936] American mining engineer, b. San Francisco. On staff, U.S. Geological Survey, in California gold fields (1880); associated with Cecil Rhodes in development of South African resources; a leader in Transvaal reform movement (1895-96); arrested after Jameson Raid and sentenced to death; sentence commuted to imprisonment; freed finally on payment of fine. Consulting engineer, esp. to Guggenheim Exploration Co. (1900-07). A signed book from his library titled "THE FORMS OF WATER IN CLOUDS & RIVERS, ICE & GLACIERS,"by John Tyndall, London, 1889. Hammond writes by his signature "Johannesburg 1895". Signed the year of the Jameson Raid for which Hammond was to be sentenced to death. NO dj o/w VG. Quite uncommon.........................200-300
831. (BOOK - REV. WAR) PAUL REVERE'S OWN STORY, AN ACCOUNT OF HIS
RIDE AS TOLD IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND, TOGETHER WITH A
BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS VERSATILE CAREER, BY HARRIET E. O'BRIEN. Perry Walton, Boston,
1929. Edition limited to 500 copies, privately printed.
Contains a complete facsimile of the letter written by Paul
Revere to Rev. Dr. Jeremy Belknap, recounting his famous ride.
Eight pages in all, with each reproduced in the text in its
original spelling, capitalizing and phrasing. A comprehensive
biography of Revere is also included, with his work as a
silversmith, engraver, designer of bookplates, dentist,
gunsmith, soldier and other professions. Well-illustrated with
photographs, facsimiles, engravings and more. Bibliography.
Quarter bound in cream cloth with teal paper covered boards,
the Revere (Rivoire) family crest in gold. Corners bumped,
some chipping, ends of spine bumped. Minor foxing on free
endpapers. 4to.. A most interesting book.........100-150
832. [MAINE] Tim Sample [b. 1951] New England humorist, famous both for his presentation and his Maine accent, has sold well over a million copies of his books, albums, and videos (including four albums and a video for the Bert and I company). In the summer of 1993, Tim was recruited by Charles Kuralt as a correspondent for the Emmy Award winning TV Show CBS News Sunday Morning. Over the following 11 years Tim produced over 100 "Postcards from Maine" segments which introduced millions of CBS viewers around the nation and the world to the lifestyles of Mainers. Offered here is his signed soft cover book "POSTCARDS FROM MAINE," Stories & drawings by Sample, 97 pages. VG...........25-35
833. [RUSSIA - Book] James H. Billington. MIKHAILOVSKY AND RUSSIAN POPULISM, 1958, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 217 pp, 8vo., no dj. EX-LIBRARY. VG.................25-35
834. [BOOK] James Brown Scott. ROBERT BACON LIFE AND
LETTERS [Assistant
Secretary of State], 1923, 1st edition, Doubleday, Page &
Co., illus. from photographs, 459pp, 8vo. Cloth, no dj. VG.
Provenance: Frank Cutter Derring
Collection................30-40
835. [JUDAICA - Signed Book] Anton Darms (1869-1968) signed & inscribed copy of his
book "The Delusion of British-Israelism, no publ. date, 223
pages. No dust jacket. The author writes inscription of
flyleaf yo E.S. Olson. "In defense of the Inspired Word of God
concerning His chosen people Israel - the Jews, who have a
greater history awaiting them in the future than they have had
in the past." An interesting statement considering the
establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
British-Israelism (also called Anglo-Israelism) is the belief
that people of Western European descent, particularly those in
Great Britain, are the direct lineal descendants of the Ten
Lost Tribes of Israel. The concept often includes the belief
that the British Royal Family is directly descended from the
line of King David. There has never been a single head or
organisational structure to the movement. However, various
British Israelite organisations were set up across the British
America and in Commonwealth from the 1870s, and many continue
to exist...............80-120
836. [MUSIC] Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians. New
York: G. Schirmer, 1940. 1234 pages A-Z listing, with a second
A-Z listing in the appendix of additions and corrections. This
is a definitive work up to the date of publication. Maroon
cloth hard cover, gilt titles, very good condition;.
Bookplate: from the Library of Ernest Dickinson Eames. Ernest
Dickinson Eames, an accomplished singer and actor, died in
1965 in Cambridge, Mass.............50-75
837. A. Merwyn Carey. AMERICAN FIREARMS MAKERS,
1953, 146pp, plus a few pages of plates. DJ. VG.........25-35
![69. LEMONNIER, (Antoine Louis) Camille (1844-1913), Belgian novelist and art critic, founder of the Belgian literary renaissance. Most of his fiction was influenced by the work of the French writer Émile Zola, and is frank and naturalistic in its descriptions of characters and analysis of their behavior. His first successful novel was Un mâle (1881), a vivid description of a rural setting; Le petit homme de Dieu (The Little Man of God, 1902) is considered one of his best works. Among his writings on Belgian art is Histoire des beaux-arts en Belgique (1887). ALS [APPEARS TO BE ONLY THE LAST PAGE SIGNED]............50-75](https://merv2.tripod.com/lemonnier-638.jpeg){kind=link}
![75. [ART] DOUGLAS VOLK [1856-1935] Noted American artist. Signed 1907 bank check to the artist William B. Faxon, with Faxon's endorsement signature is on the verso. Faxon 1849-1941] was an artist...........40-60](https://merv2.tripod.com/faxon-2132.jpeg){kind=link}
![170. Annie A.F. [Annie Adams Field. 1834-1915] Am. writer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she was the second wife of the publisher and author James Thomas Fields, whom she married in 1854, and with whom she encouraged up and coming writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Freeman, and Emma Lazarus. She was equally at home with great and established figures including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose biography she fearlessly compiled. Her closest friend was Sarah Orne Jewett, a novelist and story writer whom her husband had published in The Atlantic. Fields and Jewett were together for the rest of Jewett's life. Some modern scholars have speculated that the two were lovers. ALS, Jan. 12, no yr., 1p. To Mrs. Tuttle. "Your lovely bit was most welcome. __? finds its very best things - I wish you would ask me to do something for you? You are doing for all of us steadily - & at a great sacrifice often I know!". One fold....75-100](https://merv2.tripod.com/fields-128.jpeg){kind=link}
![172. [SIGNED BOOK] "An Hour Before Daylight" by Jimmy Carter [former US President]. Simon & Schuster: NY (2001). Photos, 8.5 x 5.5", boards, 271pp. + index. With BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY CARTER AFFIXED TO FRONT FREE END PAPER. Near fine condition................100-150](https://merv2.tripod.com/carter-120-1.jpeg){kind=link}
![223. [OPERA] Emma Eames [1865-1952] soprano. Signature.](https://merv2.tripod.com/eames-651-1.jpeg){kind=link}
![[BRITAIN] Graham Wallas [1858-1932]. English political scientist. Lecturer, London School of Economics (1895-1923); professor, U. of London (1914-23); member of Fabian Society (1886-1904); on London County Council (1904-07); known for contributions to development of empirical basis and scientific methods in social sciences. Author of Life of Francis Place (1898), Human Nature in Politics (1908), The Great Society (1914), The Art of Thought (1926). CLIP SIGNATURE.](https://merv2.tripod.com/wallas-47.jpeg){kind=link}
![589. [MEDICAL] ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of JOHN WAKEFIELD FRANCIS [1789-1861] one of the most distinguished American physicians. Clean........................20-30](http://home.gwi.net/%7Eecbart/francis-442.jpeg){kind=link}
![660. Alexander AGASSIZ (1835-1910), American zoologist, son of Louis Agassiz. He became curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard in 1873 and held the post until 1885, when poor health forced him to resign. As administrator of the Calumet and Hecla copper mines on Lake Superior (1865-69) and as a stockholder in the mines, Agassiz acquired a fortune. His gifts to the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and to other institutions for biological research totaled over $1 million. In 1874-75 he explored Lake Titicaca, between Bolivia and Peru, and in 1875 established an aquarium at Newport, R.I. From 1877 to 1904 he made annual expeditions to study the marine life of the western Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. He was an authority on jellyfish, echinoderms, and corals. DOCUMENT SIGNED [on verso], Cambridge, 1874, folds out to 16-3/4 x 13-3/4 in. Headed "Museum of Comparative Zoology." Financial accounts for the trustees for 1873 & 74. PLUS a separate unsigned document headed "State Grant of 1873 - Museum of Comp(arative) Zoology." Shows Account appropriated by Trustees [$25,000] & how that was disbursed. Two documents. VG.............60-80](https://merv2.tripod.com/agassiz-20.jpeg){kind=link}
