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1. [NOBEL] Frederick C. Robbins (1916-2003) American pediatrician and virologist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 along with John Franklin Enders and Thomas Huckle Weller. The award was for his breakthrough work in isolation and growth of the polio virus, paving the way for vaccines developed by Albert Sabin, Jonas Salk. Signed 1967 Air Mail FDC honoring JFK. Also signed by Alice Robbins, his wife. Fine.........40-60
2. [THEATRE] Cornelius J. O'Brien (1869 - 1954) was known professionally as Neil O'Brien. He was a a popular blackface actor in vaudeville and a minstrel show performer. He worked with Lew Dockstader. He was born in 1869 in Port Dickinson, New York. He joined a minstrel show and later appeared with Lew Dockstader for a few years. He next performed in vaudeville then he started the Neil O'Brien Minstrel Company in 1913. He toured from 1913 to 1925. He next teamed up with James J. Corbett, the boxer to tour as a vaudeville comedy act. He retired in 1929. Signature written while in Denver, Colorado in 1903. Also included are 5 signatures of earlt actors [not identified]. All of these came from the Boothbay Theatre collection [in Maine]. The theatre closed many years ago and we purchased many items from their collection. The 2nd picture below is of a O'Brien poster and not, of course, included here..........Min. Bid $25
3. [FILM] Helen Walker (1920-1968) was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Walker's film debut came in 1942's Lucky Jordan, a comedy about a gangster (Alan Ladd) who ends up drafted in the Army, where Walker's character reports him AWOL. In the farce Brewster's Millions, her sweetheart inherits $8 million, but can't keep it unless he can spend a million of it within a specified time. Walker also played the romantic interest of Fred MacMurray in the popular comedy Murder, He Says in 1945. UNSIGNED vintage 8x10 photo. VG...............Min. Bid $10
4. [FILM] Lynn Bari (1913-1989) was a film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 movies for 20th Century Fox from the early 1930s through the 1940s. UNSIGNED vintage 8x10 photo. VG...............Min. Bid $10
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5. [FILM] Claire Trevor (1910-2000) American actress. She appeared in 68 feature films from 1933 to 1982,[2] winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty (1954) and Dead End (1937). Trevor was billed first for Stagecoach (1939); her profile was higher than John Wayne's at the time. UNSIGNED vintage 8x10 photo. VG...............Min. Bid $10
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6. [FILM] George Murphy (1902-1992) American actor and US senator. Signed [blue ink] 5x7 photo. Vintage 1942. Stain bottom border..............30-40
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7. [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
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8. [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
9. [FILM] Peter Graves (1926-2010) American film and television actor. He was best known for his role as Jim Phelps in the CBS television series Mission: Impossible from 1967 to 1973 (original) and from 1988 to 1990 (revival). Signed 7x9 in. photo. VG................30-40
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10. [THEATRE - FILM LOT] includes: (1) Clint Eastwood - signed 5 x 7 photo. Although ink signed in our opinion all Eastwood signed photos ARE secretarial signatures. That said we have not researched this one. VG (2) [THEATRE] Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905) English stage actor in the Victorian era. Irving is widely acknowledged to be one of the inspirations for Count Dracula, the title character of the 1897 novel Dracula whose author, Bram Stoker, was business manager of the theatre. UNSIGNED vintage photo, approx. 4 x 5.5 in. Some surface faults. (3) Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. Signed 1935 bank check made out to Zelly Smirnoff who was a violinist who played for Vallee as well as Charlie Parker. VG (4) James Farentino (1938-2012) was an American actor. (5) [THEATRE] Jean Van Kirk Dalrymple (1902-1998] American theater producer, manager, publicist, and playwright. She was instrumental in the founding of New York City Center, and is best known for her productions there. At City Center, she produced revivals of Our Town, Porgy and Bess, Othello (starring Paul Robeson and Jose Ferrer), A Streetcar Named Desire (starring Uta Hagen and Anthony Quinn), Pal Joey (with Bob Fosse and Viveca Lindfors), King Lear (with Orson Welles), and many others. Brief TLS, 1986, 1p. 4 x 6 in. To Franklyn Lenthall, a theatrical producer, director, and teacher. He was the owner of the Boothbay Theatre Museum in Maine. Signed Jean. VG. (6) [THEATRE] Sir George Robey. Orig. George Edward Wade [1869-1954]. English comedian. Created many comic roles on stage, esp. in music-hall performances (from 1891); during World War I relieved London with musical comedy The Bing Boys Are Here; also in films, including Don Quixote, Chu Chin Chow, Southern Roses. Signed 2-3/4 x 4 in. photograph in clown makeup. VG. (7) John Hollingshead (1827-1904) English theatrical impresario, journalist and writer during the latter half of the 19th century. He is best remembered as the first manager of the Gaiety Theatre, London. An innovative producer, Hollingshead brought Gilbert and Sullivan together in 1871 to produce their first joint work, a musical extravaganza called Thespis. ANS, 1874, mounted. (8) [FILM] Ernest Torrence (1878-1933) He was the man you loved to hiss. This towering (6' 4"), highly imposing character star with cold, hollow, beady eyes and a huge, protruding snout would go on to become one of the silent screen's finest arch villains. Unsigned vintage 5x7 photo. VG.................Min. Bid $50
11. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) George Burton Adams (1851-1925) American medievalist historian who taught at Yale University from 1888 to 1925. ALS 1903. (2) harles Sedgwick Minot (1852-1914) American anatomist and a founding member of the American Society for Psychical Research. His signature written in his return address. Mounted. 5 x 2 in. (3) [CALIFORNIA] William F. Knowland (1908-1974) Senator. SIGNED 1932 postmarked cover honoring a First Flight Air Mail, El Centro, Calif. VG. (4) George Romney (1907-1995) Gov. Michigan. Signed card. (5) Philetus Sawyer (1816-1900) Congress from Wisc. SIGNATURE. (6) James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888) American theologian and author. This appears to be the final page of an ALS [1881]. (7) Edwin Whitefield [1816-1892] was a landscape artist who is best known for his lithographed views of North American. Offered here is an original lithograph of The Carr House, Conanicut, R.I. Signed in the plate and dated 1882. (8) 1842 printed government document from the Secretary of WAR, J.C. Spencer, 79 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. Concerns PERSONS EMPLOYED AT THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Many names listed. VG (9) Allen J. Ellender (1890-1972) was a U.S. senator from Houma in Terrebonne Parish in south Louisiana, who served from 1937 until 1972 when he died in office. Signed cover honoring the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Postmarked 1933. Signed on the cachet so the contrast is not very good. (10) Samuel Reynolds Hole (1819-1904) English Anglican priest, author and horticulturalist. SIGNED CARD 1894...............MIN. BID $50
12. [BRITISH] Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue KG, PC (1783-1861), styled Viscount Ebrington from 1789 to 1841, was a British Whig politician. He served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1839 to 1841. Signed 1836 address panel [front portion]. 5x3 in.........25-35
13. [BRITISH] Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, PC, QC, FRS (1778-1868) British statesman who became Lord High Chancellor and played a prominent role in passing the 1832 Reform Act and 1833 Slavery Abolition Act. He was the designer of the brougham, a four-wheeled, horse-drawn style of carriage that bears his name. ALS, 1852, 1p, 4-1/4 x 7 in. Fine.................100-150
14. [ENGLAND] Edward Carr [Glyn] Petriburg (1843 - 1928) was an Anglican bishop in England the late 19th century and the early 20th century. He was the Bishop of Peterborough from 1896 to 1916. After a curacy in Doncaster, he was the domestic chaplain to William Thomson, the Archbishop of York, and then held incumbencies at St Mary's Beverley, St George's Minster, Doncaster and St Mary Abbots Church, Kensington. He became an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen and was the Bishop of Peterborough from 1897 until 1916. ALS, The Palace Peterborough, 1905, 2pp. VG.........50-75
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15. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Karl E. Mundt (1900-1974) US Senator from South Dakota. TLS, 1964. (2) Red Adair (1915-2004) American oil well firefighter. He became notable internationally as an innovator in the highly specialized and hazardous profession of extinguishing and capping oil well blowouts, both land-based and offshore. Signed, inscribed 5 x 6-3/4 in. color photo. Signed twice [contrast isn't very good because photo is darker]. (3) Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the noted American artist Walt Kuhn. Signed 1965 bank check. (4) C. Delano - Sec. of the Interior. Signed in type 1875 printed gov. document, INDIAN SERVICE IN CALIFORNIA. (5) Douglas Volk - artist known for his portraits of Abraham Lincoln, one used on postage stamp. Signed 1906 bank check. (6) James Edward Murray (1876-1961) US Senator from Montana, and a liberal leader of the Democratic Party. He served in the United States Senate from 1934 until 1961. (7) Tony Lavelli (1926-1998) NBA player. Sig. inscribed 3x5 card. (8) George Mitchell - US Senator from Maine. TLS, 1985, signed George. Thanks publisher for sending him a book. (9) Group of 26 Limerick, Maine bank checks c. 1917. (10) [ILLINOIS-LINCOLN] Jacob Bunn (1814-1897) important Illinois industrialist, financier, and close friend of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln acted as the attorney for Jacob Bunn. He was also a Pallbearer at Lincoln's Funeral. Offered here is a document dated 1877 made out to Bunn but not signed by him. Approx. 5.5 x 7.5 in. VG..................Min. Bid $50
16. Maine Paper - approx. 85 old documents, the earliest being 1834 - to about 1935. Receipts & business & legal paper. Needs research. Varied conditions.................Min. Bid $60
17. [MARYLAND] Thomas Ward Veazey (1774-1842) Maryland politician that served in a variety of roles. The zenith of his career was being the 24th Governor of the state from 1836 to 1839, when he was selected to serve three consecutive one-year terms by the Maryland General Assembly. Veazey was the last Maryland governor to be elected in this fashion and also the last Whig Party member to serve as Maryland governor. The governor vehemently and firmly believed in slavery, advocated for a general system of education throughout the State, and expressed a great deal of interest and concern over the matter of internal improvements. DOCUMENT SIGNED as Governor, 1838, appointment of Justices of Frederick County. Approx. 16-1/2 x 10-3/4 in. Also signed by Theodorick Bland (1776-1846) American lawyer, statesman, and federal judge in Maryland. Folds o/w excellent condition.................Min. Bid $35
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Portrait of Gov. Veazey
18. [COLONIAL] John Hancock (1737-1793) American patriot, Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Offered here is a 1783 manuscript document. Ebenz. Winter Caless pays John Hancock. The docket handwriting on the backside was written by Hancock. Some loss of paper well away from Hancock's endorsement on the verso. Approx. 7-3/4 x 3-1/2 in.......Min. Bid $350
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19. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Edward Jordan (1820-1899) American lawyer who served as Solicitor of the United States Treasury. LS, Treasury Department, 1866, 2pp. Much mounting trace along left edge. (2) James L. Edwards - clip signature. He was Commissioner of Pensions [1836]. Signed on other side by Joseph Healy [1836] US congressman from New Hampshire. (3) Seaman Block Jacobs (1912-2008) American screenwriter. He wrote episodes for several TV shows, such as The Addams Family, The Lucy Show, I Dream of Jeannie, F-Troop, The Andy Griffith Show, Here's Lucy and Diff'rent Strokes. He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1978 for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Special for The George Burns One-Man Show in 1977. Warner Bros. 1884 check for him [not signed on back]. (4) Maude Raymond - signed card dated 1910. Think she was a dancer. (5) James E. Carter Inauguration cover [not signed] postmarked Annapolis, MD, Jan. 20, 1977. (6) Shirely O'Hara - wife of the noted artist Eliot O'Hara. ALS, 1932, 2pp. (7) Gordon Dorrance (b. 1890-?) publisher, author. TLS, 1936, 1p, ro the noted cartoon Wally Wallgren. (8) Philip Philbin - US Congressman from Mass. Group of 5 carbon copy typed letter [not signed]. (9) Chancery of New Jersey court document, 1907. (10) Printed 1852 gov. doc. in the US Senate re: land claim in Louisiana, 1p. (11) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1965 bank check. (12) [CIVIL WAR] Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania. Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164, July 20, 1864. Signed Calais, Maine promisory document, 1901. Lines drawn over signature means paid. (13) Unidentified clip signature 1864 from Treasury Dept. (14) Socialist Labor Party - Who Speaks For Socialism. 4 page handout. ? date. (15) Styles Bridges (1898-1961) 63rd Governor of New Hampshire before a twenty-four-year career in the United States Senate. US Senate envelope bearing printed Free Frank signature, postmarked 1947................Min. Bid $75
20. [REV. WAR] Luke Drury (1737-1811) Patriot. He was a farmer and grist mill operator. He served as the town's constable, deputy sheriff, collector, assessor, selectman, and representative to the Massachusetts General Court. In 1757 he became a member of the town's militia during the French and Indian War. In 1773 Drury was a member of a Grafton committee organized to give bonds to the Indian trustees so that the town would come into possession of the tribe's "School Lots and meeting house with the four acres of Land by Sd. meeting house and Burying place." He captained the minute-men at the Lexington and Concord alarms and at Bunker Hill, and served the course of the Revolution. In 1786 Drury likely participated in Shay's Rebellion. He served on Worcester's "committee of the people" and may have participated in the attempt to take the Springfield arsenal. Imprisoned for his rebel activities "as a person dangerous to the state," in 1787, he was released and in June elected to the Massachusetts General Court. In early fall of that same year, Drury served on a committee of Hassanamisco Indian affairs. He removed to Marlborough in 1803, where he died in 1811. Offered here is a Manuscript Document [Deed] Signed by Drury on the front. The last 9 lines were also written by Drury. Signed on the back by Sam Bartlett (1752-1821) American patriot, and a noted silversmith from Concord, Mass. He was a founder of the Massachusetts Bible Society, a member of the Cambridge Humane Society, and also from 1795-1820 the elected Register of Deeds for Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Deafened by cannon fire during the Boston massacre, he gave up his acedemic studies and became a smith. He worked from circa 1775 to 1795 as a silversmith in Concord Mass.. Although he worked in the town for two decades, Bartlett's most active period in Concord seems to have been between 1785 and 1795. With the aid of journeyman silversmith Joseph Lasinby Brown, of Concord, Bartlett executed communion silver commissions for three towns in Middlesex County, and produced domestic silver for resale and wholesale markets. At the end of the period, he was elected register of deeds for Middlesex County and moved to Cambridge, retiring from the role of silversmith. Bartlett marked 12 pieces of communion silver, including three flagons, one tankard and eight cups. About 25 pieces of Bartlett's domestic hollowware are known, including canns, porringers, creampots, and a unique miniature teapot. In addition, Bartlett marked teaspoons, tablespoons, ladles, and shoe buckles. Offered here is a 1820 Charlestown, Mass. document concerning Henry Van Voorhees of Charlestown Morocco manufacturer. Sam Bartlett has signed on the back as Register of Deeds, Middlesex County, Mass. Approx. 9 x 14.5 in. Very good condition..................600-800
21. [ART] Morrie Turner (1923-2014) American cartoonist, creator of the strip Wee Pals, the first American syndicated strip with an integrated cast of characters. During World War II, where he served as a mechanic with Tuskegee Airmen, his illustrations appeared in the newspaper Stars and Stripes. After the war, while working for the Oakland Police Department, he created the comic strip Baker's Helper. In 1970 Turner became a co-chairman of the White House Conference on Children and Youth. In 1967, cartoonist Bil Keane created the Family Circus character Morrie, a playmate of Billy and the only recurring black character in the strip, based on Turner. In 2003, the National Cartoonists Society recognized Turner for his work on Wee Pals and others with the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award. Offered here is a First Day Cover, 1973, honoring American Revolution Bicentennial on which he does an ink drawing of "WEE PALS", signed. Great item. 6.5 x 3.5 in. Fine..............100-200
22. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Louisa Eldridge (1829-1905) American actress also know as Aunt Louisa. As a member of New York's Union Square Theatre company, she specialized in playing older women. C;op signature 1898. (2) Lloyd "Sunshine" Olen Parker (1927-1999) American actor. He appeared in 25 films between 1959 and 1994. He is best known for his roles as Emmet in 'Road House' and Edgar Deems in 'Tremors." He typically played minor roles as either a bum or an old codger. Unsigned 1985 Warner Bros. paycheck. (3) Konstantin G. Fedoseev - TLS, Russian Embassy in Washington DC. TLS, 1956, 1o. Says that Mrs. Senuita does not wish to leave the Soviet Union for the US. (4) Bea Wain (1917-2017) American Big Band-era singer and radio personality born in the Bronx, New York City. She had a number of hits with Larry Clinton and his Orchestra. After her marriage she and her husband became involved in radio, helming a show titled "Mr. and Mrs. Music". Card signed and inscribed by Bea and her husband Andre Baruch (1908-1991) French-American film narrator, radio announcer, news commentator, talk show host, disc jockey and sportscaster. (5) Job Lyman (1781-1870) Vermont politician, attorney and banker who served as Vermont's State Auditor. Signed 1812 Vermont Supreme Court document, 7.5 x 12.5 in. VG. (6) Thomas Gray Fleming - signed printed poem, 1909. (7) Sudie Bond (1928-1984) American actress on film, stage, and television.......Min. Bid $50
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23. [ART] Leonard Wells Volk (November 7, 1828 – August 19, 1895) was an American sculptor. He is notable for making one of only two life masks of United States President Abraham Lincoln. In 1867 he helped establish the Chicago Academy of Design and served as its president until 1878. He made several large monumental sculptures, including the tomb of the politician Stephen A. Douglas, and statues of American Civil War figures. Signed 1893 bank check. VG..............100-150
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24. [THEATRE] Henry Hutchinson Howe (1812-1896) English actor whose real name was Henry Howe Hutchinson, was born of Quaker parents in Norwich on 31 March 1812. His father would not hear of his becoming an actor, so he ran away from home at the age of nineteen to join a travelling company. He died at Cincinnati, while travelling in the United States as a member of Sir Henry Irving’s company. ALS, 1888, 2pp., to the artist Walt Paget (1862-1935) thanking him for a portrait. Some mounting remains affect nothing. Scarce. VG.............80-120
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25. (British Literature) Lady Margaret Sackville (1881-1963) poet and children’s author. ALS, nd, 3pp. Henry Wickham Steed (1871-1956)) journalist and historian. He was editor of The Times from 1919 until 1922. Appointed by Joseph Pulitzer as Paris correspondent for the New York World, Steed joined The Times in 1896 as a foreign correspondent, working briefly out of Berlin before transferring successively to Rome ( from 1897 until 1902) and then Vienna (1902–13). In 1914 he moved to London to take over as foreign editor of The Times. TLS 1928. Gladys Bronwyn Stern (1890- 1973) Novelist who wrote many short stories, plays, memoirs, biographies and literary criticism. Quote SIGNED, from the Marx Brothers. Henry Major Tomlinson (1873-1958 1958) writer and journalist. He was known for anti-war and travel writing, novels and short stories, especially of life at sea. SIGNED presentation title page from his book “Gallions Reach” (1927). Anne Douglas Sedgwick (1873 - 1935) American-born British writer. Her novels explored the contrast in values between Americans and Europeans. Her best-selling novel Tante was made into a 1919 film, The Impossible Woman and The Little French Girl into a 1925 film of the same name. In 1931, she was elected to the United States National Institute of Arts and Letters. Four of her books were on the list of bestselling novels in the United States for 1912, 1924, 1927, and 1929 as determined by the New York Times. ALS, 2pp. Al Alvarez (1929--) poet, novelist, essayist and critic, ANS, 2000. Richard Pryce (1864-1942) Novelist, Dramatist, ALS, 1913, 2pp...........100-150
26. [MEDICINE] Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson FRS FRCP (1828-1896) British physician, anaesthetist, physiologist, sanitarian, and a prolific writer on medical history. He was the recipient of the Fothergill gold medal, awarded by the Medical Society of London in 1854 and of the Astley Cooper triennial prize for an essay in physiology. He was a close personal friend, and professional colleague, of John Snow. On Snow's sudden death he took over the final editing of Snow's draft On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics and supervised its publication in 1858. Richardson was a sanitary reformer, who busied himself with many of the smaller details of domestic sanitation which tend, in the aggregate, to prolong the average life in each generation. ALS, 1877, 2pp., written to Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889) the Irish-born Victorian journalist who is best known for his editorship of The Art Journal and for his much-satirised personality. Fine.............100-150
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27. [WOMEN] Emma Stone Lawrence Blackwell (1851-1920), sister-in-law of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who married George W. Blackwell; she became a school teacher, later worked for “The Woman’s Journal,” she was Lucy Stone’s niece, one-time president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's New Jersey chapter; she was a founder of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA) and attended its initial meeting in February 1890. She served as its recording secretary in 1894-95. She served as the NJWSA secretary in 1900, historian in 1903, and president in 1905-07. Offered here is a 1907 ALS, 2pp. signed "Emma". Written to her father Henry Lawrence. Fine.........50-75 Scan 1
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28. Mary Baird Bryan (1861-1930) wife of William Jennings Bryan. She was an American writer and suffragette. Mary Elizabeth would emerge as an important part of Bryan's career, managing his correspondence and helping him prepare speeches and articles. Mary passed the bar exam and learned German in order to help his career. ALS, not dated to Mr. Berger, 2pp. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 in. On page 2 she says "I was never so proud of Mr. Bryan as now. He possesses powers of strategy & management of which I was not aware."................Min. Bid $45
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One Of The Founders Of Springfield, Illinois
29. [VERMONT] An 1811 partly-printed two prisoners in the common Gaol in State of Vermont. Both have signed this document. Also a witness signature of William Strong (1763-1840) US congressman and judge from Vermont. Strong was born in Lebanon, Connecticut in 1763, and moved with his parents to Hartford, Vermont, the following year. Strong was self-educated and was engaged extensively in land surveying. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1798, 1799, 1801, and 1802, and was the sheriff of Windsor County from 1802 to 1810. Strong was elected as a Democratic-Republican US Representative to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses, from March 4, 1811 until March 3, 1815. Strong returned to Vermont politics to sit once more in the state House of Representatives from 1815 until 1818, and as a judge of the supreme court of Windsor County from 1819 until 1821. He was then elected to the Sixteenth Congress, from March 4, 1819 until March 3, 1821. Strong died in Hartford on January 28, 1840, and was interred in Quechee Cemetery. Also signed by the Sherif on the verso. He was A Founder Of Springfield, Illinois. Pascal P. Enos Sr. (1770-1832) American pioneer. He is known chiefly as one of the four original proprietors of Springfield, Illinois. He was born at Windsor, Connecticut, in the year 1770, and in 1815 was married to Salome Paddock, of Woodstock, Vermont. He graduated at Dartmouth College in 1794, studied law, and after spending some years in Vermont, where he served as High Sheriff of Windsor County, Vermont. Soon after his marriage he went west to Cincinnati, Ohio, but did not remain there long. In the spring of 1817 he came to St. Louis, Missouri, then, in 1821, he moved to Madison county, Illinois. While residing there, upon the recommendation of the Vermont delegation in congress, Mr. Enos was appointed by President Monroe to be receiver of the land office at Springfield, Illinois. He reached this place with his family, in September, 1823, and opened office in a double log cabin at the corner of what is now Third and Jefferson streets. In November of that year he united with Major Hes, Thomas Cox, and John Taylor, in laying out a town site, since known as Springfield. Mr. Enos retained the office of receiver until General Jackson became president in 1829, when he resigned, and devoted his time to land transaction and mercantile pursuits. He died in 1832, leaving a large landed estate, and was survived by his wife and four children. Approx. 8 x 13 in. VG...........200-300
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Scan 230. [GREAT BRITAIN] group of signed address panels: (1) Sir William Horne (1774 – 13 July 1860) was a British barrister and Liberal politician. Postmarked 1834. (2) Stephen Lushington (17892-1873) British judge, Member of Parliament and a radical for the abolition of slavery and capital punishment. He served as Judge of the High Court of Admiralty from 1838 to 1867.Postmarked 1833. (3) Benjamin Lumley (1811-1875) was a Canadian-born British opera manager and solicitor. Born Benjamin Levy, he was the son of a Jewish merchant Louis Levy. Postmarked 1833. (4) Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832) Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests. He was trained as a doctor and barrister, and worked also as a journalist, judge, administrator, professor, philosopher and politician. Postmarked 1826. (5) Charles Manners-Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury, GCB, PC (9 January 1780 – 21 July 1845) was a British Tory politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1817 to 1835. Postmarked 1833. VG.............100-150
31. [FRANCE] multiple lot of French autographs: [1] Pauline [ Ducruet ] Augustine [1781-1865] French painter of miniature paintings. She was the wife of the famous French artist of miniature paintings, Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin. He married his pupil and assistant Madeleine Pauline Ducruet, some of whose works are often not easy to distinguish from his own. Offered here is a rare ALS, 1835, 1p, approx. 8 x 9". She speaks about miniatures. VG. [2] Virginie Demont-Breton [1859-1935] British artist. She was the daughter & student of Jules Breton; wife of painter Adrien Demont. She won a gold medal at the Universal Exposition of Amsterdam in 1883. She was President of the Union of Women Painters and Sculptresses; she was named Officer of the Legion of Honor. ALS, no date, 2pp, excellent condition. In French. [3] FERNAND VANDEREM [b. 1864] Fr. literary man. He was a novelist & reporter. ALS, 1906, 1p. [4] Toussaint-Bernard Émeric-David (1755-1839) French archaeologist and writer on art. ALS, Paris, 1819, written on both sides. Edge-tipped to another sheet. [5] BEATRICE BRETTY - famous French actress. ALS, [1932], 1p., to the actress Tania Fedor. [6] Pierre] ARTHUR PONROY [b. 1816] Fr. dramatist, poet, historian. Lengthy 4pp. ALS. Interesting content about literature. [7] HENRI TISOT - Fr. actor. ALS, Paris, 1959, on both sides. To Director of La Comédie-Française asking to forgive him for missing a show. In the comedy movie The Fuhrer runs amok by Philippe Clair, Henri Tisot stars stars socceras Hitler who challenges other European countries in matches. VG. [8] GEORGES DOUAY - Parisian man-about-town, theatre fan, and composer of songs and operettas. ALS, 1893, 1p. [9] César Campinchi (1882-1941) French statesman in the beginning of the 20th century. Campinchi was president of the Association générale des étudiants de Paris student organisation, a member of the Radical Socialist Party and deputy for Corsica from 1932 to 1940. He carried out the functions of the Keeper of the seals and presented the Campinchi proposal concerning the protection of minors in 1937. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 7 in. Speaks about politics and Bernstein. Fine. [10] Nicolas Levasseur (1791-1871) French bass, particularly associated with Rossini roles. Levasseur was considered without rivals in his time, possessing a voice of remarkable beauty and grandeur. ALS, 1854, 1p., 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". VG.........200-300
32. Amy Leslie (1855-1939) American actress, opera singer, and drama critic who was the first wife of Frank Buck. Her personal calling card on which she has written 4 words [not signed]. 3-1/8 x 2-1/4 in. VG.............20-30
33. [GEORGE WASHINGTON] 2 antique engravings: (1) Washington's House, Mount Vernon. Image approx. 4-3/4 x 7-1/4 plus margins. (2) The Tomb of Washington, Mount Vernon. Image approx. 7 x 4 plus margins. VG.........50-75
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34. [ENGLAND] William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland, PC (Ire), FRS (1745-1814) British diplomat and politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1774 to 1793. The subantarctic Auckland Islands group to the south of New Zealand, discovered in 1806, were named after him. ALS, 1800, 1p., regarding missing an old friend - hopes to see him in Paris. 5 x 8 in. VG....75-100
35. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] Offered here is a small lot of autographs. Includes: (1) Mark Sullivan (1874-1952) American journalist. 8 handwritten lines, not signed. (2) William Cave Thomas (1820-1906?), generally referred to as Cave Thomas was an English painter of historical, religious and literary subjects, also known as a sculptor and author. Brief autograph letter signed, 1877. (3) Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American portrait and figure painter, muralist, and educator. He taught at the Cooper Union, the Art Students League of New York, and was one of the founders of the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. He and his wife Marion established a summer artist colony in western Maine. Signed 1922 bank check. (4) Unidentified signed card dated New York 1885. We believe this is an actor but cannot make out the signature. (5) 1965 Inauguration cover for Lyndon B. Johnson, not signed. VG.................Min. Bid $30
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36. MYSTERY LOT of about 86 pieces from 19th & 20th century. Includes: letters; documents; 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 1804. Good lot for eBay sellers or those who like researching items.....150-250 Min. Bid $75
37. Lincoln Steffens (1866-1936) American investigative journalist and one of the leading muckrakers of the Progressive Era in the early 20th century. He launched a series of articles in McClure's, called Tweed Days in St. Louis, that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities. He is remembered for investigating corruption in municipal government in American cities and for his leftist values. Brief ALS written at bottom of a 1918 letter by Chas. D. Reid. Letter is ragged condition. Not researched..............Min. Bid $50
38. [FILM] Eddie Quillan (1907-1990) American film actor and singer whose career began as a child on the vaudeville stages and silent film and continued through the age of television in the 1980s. Ink Signed page on which he answers two questions. His answers are typed. 8.5 x 11 in. VG..............40-60
39. [PORTSMOUTH NH] Col. Otis Baker (1727-1801) He served during his life as: Colonel, Representative, Judge, Court of Common Pleas; Man of Committee of Safety (1776-77); Muster and Company Pay Master, 1776, 1777, 1778 (War years). Offered here is a 1773 document concerning land in Portsmouth, NH. Concerns Thomas W. Waldron, his wife Constant and son William. It appears that all of the handwriting is by Otis Baker, Justice of the Peace. Thomas Westbrook Waldron was a prominent political figure in Dover, New Hampshire and a military officer that fought in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). He later became a commissioner at Albany, New York and then a Royal councillor in 1782. During the American Revolution, Waldron abandoned his loyalist friend, New Hampshire Governor John Wentworth (governor) to become a patriot of the United States. He became a captain in the New Hampshire militia in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). He commanded one of the whale boats that landed under fire from the Fortress. His correspondence from Louisbourg to his father gives a rare glimpse of life after the Siege. His letters to his father describe with some bitterness that the spoils of war did not go to New Englanders and rightly predicted that the men would be "Lul'd along" into occupying Louisbourg through the winter. Waldron is critical of General Samuel Waldo, referring to him as "Duke Trinkelo". Approx. 6-1/2 x 14+ in. Written on both sides. As you can see the top edge is very damaged..................200-300
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40. [SCIENCE] Emile Hilaire Amagat (1841-1915) French physicist. His doctoral thesis, published in 1872, expanded on the work of Thomas Andrews, and included plots of the isotherms of carbon dioxide at high pressures. Amagat published a paper in 1877 that contradicted the current understanding at the time, concluding that the coefficient of compressibility of fluids decreased with increasing pressure. He continued to publish data on isotherms for a number of different gases between 1879 and 1882, and invented the hydraulic manometer, which was able to withstand up to 3200 atmospheres, as opposed to 400 atmospheres using a glass apparatus. In 1880 he published his Law of Partial Volumes. Amagat was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences on 9 June 1902. A unit of number density, amagat, was named after him. He was elected a foreign member of the Royal Society of London in 1897. The French Academy of Sciences gave him the posthumous award of the Prix Jean Reynaud for 1915. Offered here is a ALS, Paris, 1891, 1p, approx. 5 x 8 in., not translated. Fine...............100-150
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41. Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. LS, 1911, 1p, 5 x 7.5 in. VG............100-150
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42. [FILM] Liza Minnelli (b. 1946) American actress and singer, best known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Cabaret (1972), the film Arthur (1981), several hit albums and many other film and television appearances. She is famous for her energetic stage presence and her powerful alto singing voice. She is the daughter of actress and singer Judy Garland and director Vincente Minnelli. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG. THIS APPEARS TO BE SECRETARIAL.........?
43. [ART] Louise Jopling (1843-1933) English painter of the Victorian era, and one of the most prominent female artists of her generation. Jopling exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She joined the Society of Women Artists (1880) and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (1891); she became the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Society of British Artists (1901). ALS, no date, 4pp, approx. 4 x 6 in. Mounting traces along edge on last page. VG...............75-100
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44. (20th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE LOT) WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS (1837-1912) Realist Author, Crtic. Clipped SIGNATURE, mounted to larger card . NORMAN HAPGOOD (1868-1937) Writer, Journalist, Editor and Critic. TLS (1907). ARTHUR GUITERMAN (1871-1943) Writer, Poet noted for his humorous poems. TLS (1935). DAVID EWEN (1900-1985) Editor, Wrtier Biographer of Gershwin, Koussevitsky, Bernstein, Berlin, Cole Porter. TLS (1928). MAX FRANKEL (1930) Pulitzer Prize Journalist. ALS (2001). FANNIE HURST (1889-1968) Novelist. SIGNATURE mounted to larger card . LOWELL THOMAS (1892-1981) SIGNATURE on card. EAMALIEL BRADFORD (1863-1932) Biographer, Critic, Poet, Dramatist. He was regarded as “Dean of American Biographers”. ALS (1913) 2pp...................100-150
45. (HOLLYWOOD/ENTERTAINERS) DON MURRAY (b.1929) Actor, Director. ANS on postcard size photo on verso, with also signed on front. MARISA PAVAN (b.1932) Italian Actress, Oscar Nominee. SIGNED inscribed postcard photograph. WENCESLAO MORENO (Seneor Wences)(1896-1999) Spanish Comedian, Actor, ventriloquist. SIGNED inscribed4x6 photograph. BILL MACY (b.1922) Actor. SIGNED inscribed 4x6 photograph. JULIE ADAMS (1926-2019) Actress. SIGNED 5x7 heavy stock paper photograph. ALEC McCOWN (1925) British Actor. SIGNED, inscribed card. CHARLES KING (1889-1944) Singer, Actor, song and dance entertainer on Broadway and films. ALS (1940). JOYCE RANDOLPH (b.1924) Actress. ALS dated (1983) which she wrote on the bottom of letter she received..................75-100
46. Emma Speed Sampson author who wrote the last 5 books from The Bluebird Books series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. Signature, inscribed [pencil] 1923...........Min. Bid $1
47. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] Incudes: (1) [POSTAL HISTORY] James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce (1838- 1922) British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician. As an author, Bryce quickly became well known in America for his 1888 work, The American Commonwealth. A 1892 envelope addressed in the hand of James Bryce but not signed by him. Approx. 5 x 3.5 in. (2) 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. (3) War Department - General Order No. 37, 1872. Re: public building & grounds, the capitol, furnace-keeper at President's house, 2 policemen at President's house, 2 night watchmen at the President's house, doorkeeper at President's house. 8 pp, 4.5 x 7 in. VG (4) [WISCONSIN] Alexander Mitchell (1817-1887) Scottish-born banker, railroad financier and Democratic politician in Milwaukee. He was born in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and immigrated to the United States in 1839. He pursued a career in banking in Milwaukee, and founded the Marine Bank of Wisconsin. Mitchell was president of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway from 1864-1887. With fellow director Jeremiah Milbank (1818–1884) he built this railroad into one of the most profitable in the United States, and Mitchell was considered the wealthiest person in Wisconsin. SIGNATURE, approx. 4.5 x 2. (5) MILITARY FORCES IN KANSAS - 1856 printed gov't, 34th Congress, 1st Session, signed in type by President Franklin Pierce, and by Jefferson Davis, Sec. of War. Approx. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. Except for bottom left corner missing in very good condition.............Min. Bid $25
49. Rowland Gibson Hazard (1801-1888) American industrialist, politician, and social reformer from Rhode Island. From about 1833 to 1843, Hazard spent his winters in New Orleans to sell goods, including cotton bagging cloth, pre-cut garments, low-priced shoes, and raw "Negro cloth" for use by African-American slaves. According to his granddaughter, Hazard considered that "the greatest effort of his life" began when he was in New Orleans on business in the winter of 1841 when he learned that a free African-American man from Newport was being held in custody in Louisiana as an escaped slave. Hazard's investigations found that many free African-Americans were being detained under the assumption they were escaped slaves. He worked with Jacob Barker, then a New Orleans lawyer, to obtain freedom for nearly 100 people being held as slaves. The action later led to charges being filed against several public officials who were responsible for the illegal detentions. His involvement with abolitionist causes and in the Republican Party eventually caused his company to lose favor with its markets in the southern United States. This helped to prompt the Peace Dale mills' transition from making cheap cotton products to selling higher quality woolens. In 1856, he was one of Rhode Island's delegates to the founding convention of the Republican party. Four years later he was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention. In 1851, Hazard introduced a bill to the Rhode Island Assembly that proposed railroad companies should be responsible for providing an equal benefit to the public as they had a "habit of annexing private property." In 1854, while serving in the state legislature, he made a speech criticizing the Stonington Railroad Company for charging discriminatory rates for both freight and passengers. Shortly thereafter, the railroad company retaliated by refusing to let Hazard ride on one of its trains. Resolutions passed by the South Kingstown Town Council in reaction to his treatment are said to have formed "the germ of" the Interstate Commerce Law of 1886. Offered here is a New Orleans 1843 signed bank check. About 6-1/2 x 2-1/4 in. All of the Hazard bank checks offered by sellers over the years originally came from East Coast Books. VG [?]..................50-75 Roland Young "Topper" Gets a Letter From His Old Friend
48. [THEATRE & FILM] Matty (A.E. Matthews OBE) (1869-1960) English actor who played numerous character roles on the stage and in film for eight decades. Nicknamed "Matty", he was christened Alfred Edward Matthews. He was affectionately regarded by the British public over his extraordinarily long career. From World War II until his death he enjoyed renown as one of British cinema's most famous crotchety, and sometimes rascally, old men. Matthews' other most well-known films include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Million Pound Note (with Gregory Peck), Inn for Trouble, The Magic Box, The Ghosts of Berkeley Square and Just William's Luck. Offered here is a 2-page ALS, signed "Matty" to his friend, and fellow actor, Roland Young [1887-1953] best remembered for his role as Topper. Dated Jan. 30 , no year. "Dear Roland and Lady Roland. The only reason we were left out of the honeurs is that we were ___? Leslie Banks and a fellow [I forget his name, he plays Macbeth & ?, have both stuck to their wives, well its too late now so lets forget it. Aubrey Smith id the same. Charles Hawbrey was an exception! I should have written you before we had a good time on tour. We do Boston next Monday for 2 weeks then back to New York. We rose to capacity in Chicago and Detroit we had 19 thousand - here we are going the same. What about you? Have you fixed anything - have you heard about Freddie's Play which opened last Monday or this Monday in Edinburgh. Pat tells me he is sailing for New York. What about we both doing a musical. I have suggested it to Shubert and he likes the idea. Better still we both open in London with a new play. Have read 4 and don't like any of them..............I gave up drtink the last week in Chicago I mean till after the Play, and have knocked 10 minutes off the play. Milton Shubert saw the Play and advised me to go back to the drink. I do hope you have a job for me. Love to you both Matty." Fine.......70-90
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50. [MARYLAND] Augustus Williamson Bradford (1806-1881) the 32nd Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1862 to 1866. He served as governor during the Civil War and paid a heavy price for his devotion to the Union. 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." Signed 1866 bank check. Approx. 7.5 x 2.5 in. VG...................50-75
51. (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
52. [FRANCE] multiple lot of French autographs: [1] Lahaye, Louis-Marie de. Viscount de Cormenin [1788-1868] French lawyer and political writer. Member of Chamber of Deputies (1828-46, 1848); opposed to Louis-Philippe; appointed councilor of state (after 1848). Author of Droit administratif (1821), Les Entretiens de village (1846), etc. ALS, no date, 1p, 5 x 7.5 in. [2] Berthelot, Philippe-Joseph-Louis [1866-1934]. French diplomat. Son of Marcelin Berthelot. Entered diplomatic service (1889); adviser to Briand and active in Allied liaison during World War I; secretary general of ministry of foreign affairs (1920-21, 1925-32). TLS, 1925, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. To the poet Aime Giron. [3] GUSTAV SIMON - Paris dramatist. ALS, 1911, 2pp. Blue pencil word underlined on front. [4] LEON RIOTOR - FR. AUTHOR. ALS, 1928, 1p. re: about adapting novel for film. [5] Pierre Girault de Nolhac (1859-1936) French historian, art historian and poet. ALS, no yr., 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". Fine. [6] Séverin Faust (1872-1945), better known by his pseudonym Camille Mauclair, was a French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic. ALS written on back of picture postcard, not postmarked VG [7] Alfred-Henri-Marie Cardinal Baudrillart (1859-1942), French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris from 1907 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. ALS, 1920, 2pp, 4 x 5-1/4 in. [8] Pierre François Hercule de Serre (1776-1824) Minister of Justice [1818-21]. ALS, Paris, no date, 1p. 4-1/4 x 7 in. VG. [9] Paul Ferrier (1843-1928) French dramatist. He had already produced several comedies when in 1873 he secured real success with two short pieces, Chez l'avocat and Les Incendies de Massoulard. Others of his numerous plays are Les Compensations (1876); L'Art de tramper les femmes (1890), with M. Najac. One of Ferrier's biggest successes was the production with Fabrice Carré of Josephine vendue par ses sÏurs (1886), an opera bouffée with music by Victor Roger. His opera libretti include La Marocaine (1879), music of Jacques Offenbach; Le Chevalier d'Harmental (1896) after the play of Alexandre Dumas, père, for the music of A Messager; La Fille de Tabarin (1901), with Victorien Sardou, music of Gabriel Pierné. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4. Only minor faults. [10] Fortuné du Boisgobey (1821-1891) French novelist. His novels deal with crime, the police, and Parisian life. They had a high circulation, and the greater part of them have been translated into English. ALS, 1880, 1p. Moderate foxing throughout.......200-300
53. (BRITISH LITERATURE LOT) DAME BERYL M. BAINBRIDGE (1932-2010) Novelist. SIGNED 4x6 photograph. HENRY FESTING JONES (1851-1928) Biographer awarded the first James Tait Black award for literature 1919 for his biography of author Samuel Butler. ALS (1920) 3pp. JOHN HARTLEY MANNERS (1870-1928) Playwright known for “Peg O’ My Heart”. ALS. SIR JAMES JOHNSTONE (1815-1878) Publisher of the “Standard” and “Morning Herald”. ALS (1857) 4pp. ALEXANDER WILLIAM KINGLAKE (1809-1891) Historian and Travel Writer. His best known work “Magnum Opus” 7 volumes. Kinglake Australia and National Park named after him. ALS. JUSTIN McCARTHY (1830-1917) Irish politician, Historian, Novelist. ALS (1875). HENRY ARTHUR JONES (1851-1929) Dramatist. Clipped SIGNATURE..............80-120
54. (BRITISH LITERATURE LOT) RICHARD ADAMS (b. 1920) Novelist who best known work “Water Ship Down”. SIGNED 4x6 portrait photograph. EDMUND BLUNDEN (1896-1974) Poet, Author, Critic. SIGNED presentation page from his book “Near & Far”(1929). HENRY ARTHUR JONES (1951-1929) Dramatist “The Silver King” (1882) “The Crusaders” 1891 others. SIGNATURE. ARCHIBALD FORBES (1838-1900) celebrated War Correspondent. ALS, (trimmed affecting some writing). EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS (1868-1938) Popular Novelist of almost 100 books also noted for his essays and biography of Charles Lamb. ANS. SIR JOHN MASTERMAN (1891-1977) Academic, Sportsman, Author mostly noted for his being chairman of the “Twenty Committee” which during WW2 ran the Double Cross System, the scheme that controlled double agents in Britain. ALS (1973). SIR WILLIAM EMPSON (1906-1984) Poet, Literary Critic. SIGNATURE, with sentiment.................80-120
55. [ART] Ben Foster (1852-1926) American painter. With his rugged paint handling and deep expressive power, Ben Foster is one of the most deceptively modern of the American Tonalists. Although his subject matter at first seems conventional, Foster’s off-kilter landscapes are compositionally complex and emotionally compelling in their melancholic embrace of the raw Connecticut hills, his home ground. James Abbott McNeill Whistler and East Asian notions of abstract design guided Foster’s hand, especially in the use of subtle patterns and graphic cropping to enhance the dramatic and symbolic power of his landscapes. With fluid and gestural paint handling, Foster laid thick masses of pigment with the virtuosity of a calligrapher, lending his repertoire of trees, boulders, stonewalls, and undulating hills a dynamic energy that speaks the language of nature itself—the world of the “unseen” as George Inness called it. Offered here is a 4 x 3 in. slip signed. VG............25-35
56. (19th CENTURY LITERATURE LOT) JULIAN HAWTHORNE (1846-1934) Writer/Journalist, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. SIGNATURE removed from TLS, mounted on larger sheet with portrait. JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE (1827-1916) Author. SIGNATURE, mounted to card. CLYDE FITCH (1865-1909) Dramatist. SIGNATURE on CARD (1903). EDWARD EGGLESTON (1837-1902) Historian and Novelist. SIGNATURE, with sentiment. JOHN B. GOUGH (1841-1886) Author and Temperance Leader. SIGNATURE, with sentiment. ALBERT BUSHNELL HART (1854-1943) Historian. SIGNATURE on collectors card (1921). AMELIA EDITH BARR (1831-1919) Author of Historical Tales, Novelist. SIGNED CARD (1897). WILL CARLETON (1865-1912) Poet SIGNATURE on card. L. CLARKE DAVIS (1834-1904) Journalist, Essayist and Editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Husband of Rebecca Harding Davis the Author. SIGNATURE. REBECCA HARDING DAVIS. Signature.................100-150
57. (AMERICAN LITERARY NOTABLES LOT) GILBERT ARTHUR HIGHET (1906-1978 ) Classicist, academic, writer, critic and historian. TLS (1971) signed “Gilbert”. WILLIAM JAMES LAWRENCE (1862-1941) Irish born American Critic, author, theater historian. ALS (1928), 2pp. SIDNEY SHELDON (1917-2007) Writer, Oscar Winner. SIGNED 8x11 Color portrait photograph. JOHN LIVINGSTON LOWES (1867-1945) Writer, Scholar. TLS (1922). ERNEST KELLOGG GANN (1910-1991) Author, filmmaker. SIGNED card with quote. JOHN FISKE (1842-1901) Historian, philosopher. ANS (1891) on card..............80-12058. [ART] Mervin Jules (1912-1994) American painter & printmaker. Jules' woodcuts are represented in numerous collections. He was a teacher of art at the Fieldston School, the Museum of Modern Art (1943-46), the Baltimore Educational Alliance, the Veterans' Art Center and at Smith College. After teaching at Smith College from 1946-1969, in 1969 he became Chair of the Art Department at the City College of New York. He kept a studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he died. Brief 1981 ALS, 1p. about selling his prints. VG...............Min. Bid $20
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59. (BRITISH LITERATURE LOT) GEORGE GROTE (1794-1871) Classical Historian known for his voluminous “History of Greece”. SIGNED address panel (1835). BRIAN FRIEL (1929-2015) Irish Playwright. SIGNATURE (2001). DORIS LESLIE (Lady Fergusson Hannay)(1902-1982) Novelist and Historian. Typed Quote SIGNED. JOHN ST. LOE STRACHEY (1860-1927) Journalist, Editor brother of Edward Strachey. ALS, 4pp. RICHARD HENRY TAWNEY (1880-1962) Historian, Writer, Economist, Critic. ALS (1934). EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS (1868-1938) Popular Writer of a 100 books and essayist. SIGNATURE (1920). URSULA BLOOM (1892-1984) Novelist SIGNATURE...........80-120
60. [KUHN ESTATE] Original photograph of Walt Kuhn's 1931 painting "The Blue Clown", oil on canvas, 30 x 25 in. This is not a reprint. 8x10 in. VG.............MIN. BID $45
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61. [KUHN ESTATE] Original photograph of Walt Kuhn's 1931 painting "Plumes", oil on canvas, 40 x 30 in. This is not a reprint. 8x10 in. VG..............MIN. BID $45
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62. (BRITISH LITERARY NOTABLES) HENRY JAMES BYRON (1835-1884) Prolific Dramatist, editor, journalist, died at 49 of TB. ALS (1876) 3pp. ROBERT M. BOWYER NICHOLS (1893-1944) Writer, known as a War Poet of WW1, playwright. ALS (2pp) with envelope. SIR FRANCIS PALGRAVE (1788-1861) Historian. ALS (1859) in 3rd person. EDMUND C. BLUNDEN (1896-1974) Poet, Author, Critic. SIGNED presentation page from his 1929 book “Near & Far”. JOHN WILSON (Christopher North)(1785-1854) Scottish writer. ALS, 1p. SAMUEL RUTHERFORD CROCKETT (1860-1914) Scottish Novelist. TLS (trimmed)(1890) mounted to larger card. EDMUND HODGSON YATES (1831-1894) ANS with initials on note card.................75-100
63. S.H. Leeder was a British author best known for his book Modern Sons of the Pharaohs, published in English in 1918, translated into Arabic by Ahmad Mahmod and published in 2008 by Dar al-Shuruq in Egypt. ALS, 1916, 4 full pages plus envelope. Tipped to album page. VG...................60-80
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64. Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898) was the first female salaried journalist in Britain, and the author of over 20 novels. Despite her path breaking role as an independent woman, many of her essays took a strong anti-feminist slant. ALS, 1885, 2pp, 4-3/8 x 6-3/4 in. VG.................60-80
65. [MILITARY] David Johnston Craigie (born in Scotland in 1840, died 1913 in Oska, Iowa). he became a Brigadier General. He served in the Civil War and in the Cuban and Philippine campaigns. Breveted First Lieutenant, 2 March 1867 for gallant and meritorious service in the battle of Shiloh, Tennessee. Brevetted Captain, 2 March 1867 for gallant and meritorious services in the battle of Iuka, Mississippi. Offered here is a WAR DEPARTMENT document dated 1901, Commission of Lieutenant Colonel of the 8th US Infantry. Approx. 8 x 10-1/4 in. Small bottom edge loss o/w VG..............50-75
See above66. [WALT KUHN] Maynard Walker (1896-1985) American art dealer in New York City for nearly 40 years who was among the first to show the works of leading American regionalist painters. In 1933, while working at the Ferargil Gallery in New York, Mr. Walker organized an exhibition for the Kansas City Art Institute that for the first time brought together the work of the regionalist painters Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry. After Mr. Walker opened his own gallery, at 108 East 57th Street, in 1935, these artists joined him and showed regularly there. The gallery was also among the first to show the work of George Grosz, the German painter and caricaturist, who moved to the United States in 1932. The gallery moved to 117 East 57th Street after the war. Offered here is a 1958 letter on which he has written 5 lines plus signature. This is a copy sent to Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the artist Walt Kuhn. Walker had written to Harold Korzenik saying that there is not enough art work by Kuhn to have an exhibition. Harold Korzenik, a Brooklyn civic leader and counsel to the United Knitted Outerwear Association, the National Textile Processors Guild, the Knitwear Employers Association and the Knitwear Manufacturers Council. Walker says "So soup - We can't afford to participate in such stuff......" Envelope is included. During the 1950s and early 60s Maynard Walker was handing the estate of Walt Kuhn. VG...........75-100....Min. Bid $25
67. [WALT KUHN ESTATE] Helen Sanger (1923-2020) served as the fifth Chief Librarian of the Frick Art Reference Library and the institution's first Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian, a position inaugurated in 1990. ALS, 1966, 3pp. To Brenda Kuhn, daughter of Walt Kuhn. Thanks Brenda for sending catalogs re" Walt Kuhn. Helen says "....W.K. should be represented in the White House art collection." Includes envelope. 8 x 10.5 in. VG................50-75
68. [England] an old, very old album page containing 2 autographs glued to each side. On one side is Bishop of Ely, Bowyer Edward Sparke (1759-1836) & Bishop of Durham, William Van Mildert (1765-1836) was the last palatine Bishop of Durham (1826–1836), and one of the founders of the University of Durham. On the other side is the Bishop of London, Charles James Blomfield (1786-1857) British divine and classicist, and a Church of England bishop for 32 years & the Bishop of Norwich, Henry Bathurst (1744-1837) English churchman, a prominent Whig and bishop of Norwich. Overall 7 x 8.5 in. Not very attractive...............Min. Bid $25
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69. Ted Lewis (1890-1971) American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He fronted a band and touring stage show that presented a combination of jazz, comedy, and nostalgia that was a hit with the American public before and after World War II. He was known by the moniker "Mr. Entertainment" or Ted "Is Everybody Happy?" Lewis. Signed & inscribed vintage photo, 8x10. There are 3 edge tears & small hole top edge...............50-75
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70. Alfred R. Tucker (1849–1914) was the Anglican Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa (covering the contemporary countries of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania), from 1890 to 1899, and Bishop of Uganda from 1899 to 1908. Signature written on Place Salisbury letter sheet dated Feb. 4, 1902. Approx. 3-3/4 x 6 in. - laid to larger sheet. VG...............25-35
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71. 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............Min. bid $8
72. [ITALY] Guglielmo Ferrero (1871-1942) Italian historian, journalist and novelist, author of the Greatness and Decline of Rome (5 vols., published after English translation 1907-1909). Ferrero devoted his writings to classical liberalism and he opposed any kind of dictatorship and Big Government. ALS, 1906, 1p. 4-1/4 x 7". VG.........50-75
73. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Original photograph of Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1864-1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, was an American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she worked undercover to report on a mental institution from within. She was a pioneer in her field and launched a new kind of investigative journalism. NOT signed by Nellie Bly but signed in pencil by the photographer Emile Brunel (France 1874 - 1944 NY) was a noted artist, painter, filmmaker and photographer. Brunel worked as a photojournalist for the New York Times Magazine and earned a certain degree of fame as a portrait photographer. In 1910 he founded the New York Institute of Photography (NYIP), which continues to train photographers today. Brunel would also develop a one-hour film development process, a process unique and ahead of its time. In 1918 Brunel began operating a successful Catskills resort called Chalet Indien in Boiceville. In 1918 Brunel also began work as a sculptor, creating a series of works between 1918 and 1944 that can still be seen today. The photo is 10-1/2 x 6-3/4 in. There are some soft creases and minor corner chips. Very Scarce!...........200-300
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74. US Senators - 10 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Leverett Saltonstall [MA]; A. Willis Robertson [VA]; Jennings Randolph [WV]; Claiborne Pell [RI]; John O. Pastore [RI]; Maurine Neuberger [OR]; Joseph O'Mahoney [WYO]; James E. Murray [MT]; Karl E. Mundt [SD]; Frank E. Moss [Ut]...........Min Bid $45
75. US Senators - 5 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Homer E. Capehart [Ind]; John Marshall Butler [Md]; Wallace F. Bennett [Ut]; Quentin N. Burdick [ND]; Styles Bridges [NH]..........Min. Bid $25
76. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Leonard Waldo (1853-1929) Astronomer, director of the Yale Observatory. Signed album page. (2) Wayne MacVeagh (1833-1917) American lawyer, politician and diplomat. He served as the 36th Attorney General of the United States under the administrations of Presidents James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. Clip signature dated 1900. Corner piece missing just touches signature; mounting trace left edge. (3) 1985 postmarked cover from The Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, Hawaii. Ink signed by someone. (4) Charles Deane (1813-1889) American author of several historical works. ALS, Cambridge, Mass, 1876, 1p. (5) [THEATRE] Colonial Theatre playbill for UNCLE TOM'S CABIN starring Otis Skinner. (6) Theophil Mitchell Prudden (1849 – 1924) American pathologist, born in Middlebury, Connecticut. He graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale, in 1872 and received his M. D. from Yale School of Medicine in 1875. He became an assistant (1879) and was professor of pathology (1892-1909) in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. In 1901 he was made a director of the Rockefeller Institute for medical research. ALS c. 1905 written in 3rd person tp Prof. Robert S. Woodward. Fine...............Min. Bid $45
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77. (MIXED LOT) Sir Edwin Arnold (1832 –1904) English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia. SIGNATURE, mounted to card. TITO GUIZAR (1908 –1999) Mexican singer and actor. Together with Dolores del Río, José Mojica, Ramón Novarro and Lupe Vélez, Guízar was among the few Mexican people who made history in the early years of Hollywood. In a career that spanned over seven decades. TLS, 1988. HAROLD TAYLOR (1914-1993) American Philosopher of education, college president, and social activist, . He was a recognized spokesperson for Progressive education at the postsecondary level. TLS, 1974. ARTHUR BURNS (1904-1987) American Economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1970-1978). SIGNED FDC on Banking. Clara McBride Hale (1905 –1992) known as Mother Hale, was an American humanitarian who founded the Hale House Center, a home for unwanted children and children who were born addicted to drugs. SIGNED 5x7 photograph. Harold Herman Greene (1923-2000) federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was nominated by President Jimmy Carter in 1978. Judge Greene presided over United States v. AT&T, the antitrust suit that broke up the AT&T. In 1990, Greene sentenced the 1983 United States Senate bombing suspects, Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans, to prison. SIGNED, inscribed 10x8 photograph. Hanna Holborn Gray - historian of political thought in the area of the Renaissance and Reformation, and an emerita professor and former President of the University of Chicago. TLS, 1990...........100-150
78. [LARGE LOT] Philip Joseph Philbin (1898-1972) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. He then went on to Harvard University, was center on the Harvard Football Team that won the Rose Bowl game in 1919 against Oregon. He graduated in 1920 and from Columbia University Law School, New York City, in 1924. He served in the US congress Signed as Secretary of the Board of from 1943-1971. Large misc. lot of about 107 pieces including 18 signed letters to Philbin.................Min. Bid $35
79. From the Paper of Charles B. Rounds, Calais, Maine. Group of 11 documents plus one letter written to Rounds from Kansas City, Mo. 1873, 3pp, signed Geo. M. Chase. These date from 1869 to 1905. Six of them are signed by Rounds [some in the text]. Charles B. Rounds - served in the civil war and was a noted attorney and judge from Calais, Maine. He was First Lieut. in Company D, 32nd Maine Infantry. Mustered April 19, 1864; wounded in the arm May 12th at Spottysylvania. Rounds was at Elmira, NY guarding prisoners of war, having been assigned by Special Order No. 164 July 20, 1864..................Min. Bid $50
80. [VERMONT] Benj. Swan (1762-1839) was an American merchant, banker and politician. He was an important political figure in Vermont and served as State Treasurer.A Federalist, Swan served in local offices including Postmaster. He served as Justice of the Peace when holders of that office still heard court cases. He was also active in the militia, and achieved the rank of Major.In 1796 Swan was appointed County Clerk, an office in which he served until his death. Swan was elected Vermont State Treasurer in 1800. He served until 1833, and is the state's longest-tenured Treasurer. This is an original document, dated Woodstock, 1811, a double sided writ for non-payment of debts....signed twice on the front by Benjamin Swan and once on the back side. Document is 9-3/4 x 15 in. Also signed by Job Lyman (1781-1870) was a Vermont politician, attorney and banker who served as Vermont's State Auditor. Overall very good condition................100-200
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81. [COLONIAL] James Otis Jr. (1725-1783) was an American lawyer, political activist, pamphleteer, and legislator in Boston, a member of the Massachusetts provincial assembly, and an early advocate of the Patriot views against the policy of Parliament which led to the American Revolution. His well-known catchphrase "Taxation without Representation is tyranny" became the basic Patriot position. ALS, Boston, 1763, 1p. money transfer. Approx. 7-1/4 x 5 in.Nunerous old tape repairs detract..................Min. Bid $200
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82. [FRANCE] group of French autographs: [1] Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire (1834-1923) magistrate and French writer. As a prosecutor about the Court of Appeal of Paris , he drew up an indictment against the General Boulanger . He resigned when the Dreyfus affair came before the criminal chamber of the Supreme Court (1899) and campaigned against the Dreyfus. He is known as a writer under the pen name "Jules Glouvet", "Jules Glouvet" and "Lucia Herpin." The guide Paris-Paris, who considers 1899 as a "reputation of Parisian life," says that he "is a journalist in a fit of bad temper". ANS, written on both sides of his calling card. [2] Louis-François Du Bois (first written Dubois) was born in Lisieux on 16 November 1773 and died in Mesnil-Durand on 9 July 1855, was a historian, poet, translator, scholar, agronomist, politician and administrator. ALS, 1843, 1p. [large stains]. [3] Alexandre Mercereau (1884-1945) writer and poet. ALS, 1907, 3pp. [4] Alphonse Lemerre (1838-1912) Fr. editor. ALS, nd, 2pp. [5] Alphonse Huillard-Breholles (1817-1871) historian. ALS, Paris, 1869, 3pp., signed H.B. [6] Charles Mere ( 1883-1970) French film director, screenwriter and playwright. ALS, 1967, 2pp., about his play 'Les Trois Masques'. [7] Emile Berr (1855-1923) Fr. journalist. ALS, 1896, 1p.................150-250
83. [GREAT BRITAIN] Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, KG, GCB, PC, FRS (1784-1865) was a British statesman who served twice as Prime Minister in the mid-19th century. Palmerston dominated British foreign policy during the period 1830 to 1865, when Britain was at the height of its imperial power. Signed address panel, sent to Sir Herbert Taylor, undated, marked PRIVATE. Taylor was most likely Sir Herbert Taylor (1775-1839) the first Private Secretary to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom, serving Kings George III, George IV and William IV. About 4-1/2 x 2-3/4 in. Fine...............60-80
See above84 [NASA] Homer E. Newell Jr. (1915-1983) was a mathematics professor and author who became a powerful United States government science administrator—eventually rising to the number three position at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In the early 1960s, he either controlled or influenced virtually all non-military unmanned space missions for the free world. Signed 1955 First Day Cover. Fine..............Min. Bid $40
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85. Theodatus Garlick (1805-1884) American surgeon and sculptor. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Garlick was one of the world's first plastic surgeons. Along with colleague H.A. Ackley, he was known for successfully artificially propagating trout and other fish. He was also a talented fine art sculptor. It has been suggested that Garlick made the first daguerreotype photograph taken in the United States, and later the first daguerreotype taken in the shade. Rare ALS, Cleveland, 1867, to E.A. Brown. Some sort of financial matter. One page, 7.5 x 9.5 in. Envelope is included. This is another item just recently discovered amongst of holdings after many years. VG..................200-300
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86. [SHOW BUSINESS] offered here are Warner Bros. paychecks from 1984-85. None are signed [endorsed on verso]. Includes: (1) Catherine Burns (1945-2019) American actress of stage, film, radio and television. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Last Summer (1969). (2) Florence Henderson (1934-2016) she is best remembered for her starring role as Carol Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch. (3) William D. Wittliff (1940-2019) American screenwriter, author and photographer who wrote the screenplays for The Perfect Storm (2000), Barbarosa (1982), Raggedy Man (1981), and many others. (4) Jerry Summers (1931-2006) Hollywood stuntman and actor who performed stunts on Star Trek: The Original Series. He was Walter Koenig's stunt double during the second season episode "The Trouble with Tribbles". (5) Alan Crosland Jr. (1918-2001) TV director. (6) Lawrence B. Marcus (1917-2001) writer. (7) Peter Jolly (1932 - 2004) American West Coast jazz pianist and accordionist. He was well known for his performance of television themes and various movie soundtracks. (8) Sumner A. Long (1921-1993) American playwright, screenwriter, and author. He wrote the comedy play Never Too Late. A film adaptation was released in 1965. Long began writing for television in 1951, and wrote many episodes of Lassie, “Father Knows Best,” “The Danny Thomas Show,” “Dobie Gillis,” and “The Donna Reed Show.” (9) Brian Taggert (1938-2019) screenwriter who worked on such horror films as Poltergeist III and Visiting Hours. (10) Tina Lenert (b. 1948) an American magician, mime and harpist. She has performed worldwide and is known for combining elements of pantomime and magic. VG.............Min. Bid $50
87. [MILITARY] Hugh A. Drum (1879-1951) was a career United States Army officer who served in World War I and World War II and attained the rank of lieutenant general. He was notable for his service as chief of staff of the First United States Army during World War I, and commander of First Army during the initial days of World War II. Signed, inscribed photo dated 1941. This is a vintage photograph of a drawing, signed in 1941. Approx. 10 x 13 in. VG...............80-120
88. Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870-1965) American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters, and became a philanthropist. Interesting signed vintage photograph even with its condition faults. Baruch has signed and inscribed this photo to Leon Henerson (1895-1986) who was the administrator of the Office of Price Administration from 1941 to 1942. Henderson worked as an economic adviser in President Franklin Roosevelt's administration before he was appointed to the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1939.[4] In 1941 he became head of the Office of Price Administration. Baruch signed & dated this photo 1941. Condition: still contained in an old mat; one burn mark top edge [very visible]; also a surface flaw when held an an angle. Baruch signs "B.M." Doesn't add Baruch. Photo itself is 8x10 in..................80-120
89. [KUHN ESTATE] Archive of about 35-40+ letters and documents concerning the Estate of the noted American artist Walt Kuhn (1877-1949). Includes: Brenda Kuhn ALS [1]; 15 TLSs by Brenda Kuhn; 13 letters from estate accountants [or attorneys ??]; 5 Brenda Kuhn signed bank checks; several Tax documents. These date 1961-1963. Some of Brenda's letters have good art content about her father, esp. his paiting ATHELETE IN WHITE FACE. Needs further research for sure. VG..........400-600...........Min. Bid $150
90. [MULTIPLE MIXED LOT] includes: (1) William Cave Thomas (1820-1896) British Artist, generally referred to as Cave Thomas was an English painter of historical, religious and literary subjects, also known as a sculptor and author. ALS, 1876, 2pp. See wiki biography, click here. (2) print 1835 gov. doc. re: Indian Affairs, 2pp. (3) New York Times - 1916 letter sent to Howard L. Blackwell. (4) Phillip J. Philbin - US Congressman from Mass. Telegram sent from Philbin 1946. (5) Brenda Kuhn - daughter of the artist Walt Kuhn. Signed bank check 1967. (6) Robert S. Woodward (1849-1924) American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. Unsigned envelope bearing his name and address. (7) Louise Andrews Kent (1886-1969) American author. Three 1945 check subs not signed but in her handwriting. (8) James J. Blanchard - 1984 TLS as Gov. of Michigan [assume autopen signature]. (9) Lyndon B. Johnson - 1973 In Memorian First Cober Cover. Attractive but postage stamp is very defective. (10) The Limerick National Bank [Maine] group of 5 signed checks.............MIN. BID $30
91. MARYLAND CONGRESSMEN - A collection of 44 LS's written by House of Representative members from Maryland. Included are Michael D. Barnes (19), Stephen W. Gambrill (1), Gilbert Gude (6), Steny Hoyer (2), DeWitt S. Hyde (2) Gladys Spellman (2), and Newton Steers 12). Content is routine, mostly responding to constituent letters about specific proposed legislation. Dates range from 1929 to 1985. Steny Hoyer was House Majority Leader from 2007 to 2011. He is currently House Minority Whip.........Min. Bid $140
92. [MULTIPLE MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Florence Morse Kingsley (1859-1937) American author of popular and religious fiction. Signature on 3.5 x 2.5 in. card which has darkened somewhat. (2) 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. (3) [AMERICANA] three 1840 manuscript documents dated 1840. Shipping goods from New York to New Orleans. Each about 7.5 x 10 in. These are from the Roland G. Hazard papers. VG (4) George Rice Carpenter (1863-1909) was a noted educator, scholar and author. SIGNATURE, approx. 5 x 2.5 in. VG. (5) John Middleton Murry (1889-1957) English writer. He was a prolific author, producing more than 60 books and thousands of essays and reviews on literature, social issues, politics, and religion during his lifetime. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married in 1918 as her second husband, for his friendship with D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot, and for his friendship (and brief affair) with Frieda Lawrence. Following Mansfield's death, Murry edited her work. ALS, 1932, 1p., 4-1/4 x 7 in. VG. (6) [IOWA] William B. Allison (1829-1908) US Congressman and Senator from Iowa. By the 1890s, Allison had become one of the "big four" key Republicans who largely controlled the Senate. Three different Republican presidents asked Allison to join their Cabinet, but Allison declined each offer. A significant number of delegates supported his presidential nomination at the 1888 and 1896 Republican National Conventions. CLIP SIGNATURE on 3 x 1 in. slip. VG. (7) Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. He then went on to Harvard University, was center on the Harvard Football Team that won the Rose Bowl game in 1919 against Oregon. He graduated in 1920 and from Columbia University Law School, New York City, in 1924. He served in the US congress from 1943-1971. Offered here are 3 Western Union telegrams from Philbin & 13 to the congressman. Mostly VG. (8) Joseph E. Brennan - TLS, no date, 1p, as Gov. of Maine. VG (9) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1966 bank check. ..............Min. Bid $65
93. [MULTIPLE MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Reverend John Hall, D.D., L.L.D. (1829–1898) was pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, from 1867 until his death in Bangor, County Down, Ireland. The landmark New York church, that still stands today on Fifth Avenue at 55th Street, was built during his tenure. CLIP SIGNATURE. (2) c. 1946 telegram sent by congressman Philip J. Philbin [Mass]. (3) Doris Reynolds (1912-1978) Doris Reynolds did many illustrations for books published by Doubleday & Co. She was also an exhibiting artist, having work shown at the Krausharr Gallery in New York in 1949. Other exhibitions include: Wilmington Museum, Delaware 1940-45; Maracaibo 1936-39; Barbizon Plaza, NYC 1940; Lake Placid Club, NY 1940, etc. She studied at the Art Students League with Jules Gotlieb, Bridgman & Brackman. During World War II, she was one of Jackie Cochran's Girls, ferrying airplanes throughout the United States. Offered here is a pencil sketch unsigned, on 2-1/4 x 4-3/4 in. slip. Provenance: Artist's Estate. VG. (4) Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh (1917-2015) best known for his service as the president of the University of Notre Dame for thirty-five years (1952–1987). CLIP SIGNATURE. (5) Lee Iacocca (1924 – 2019) American automobile executive. Signed 1988 cover honoring W. Virginia Italian Heritage. (6) James J. Davis (1873-1947) He served as U.S. Secretary of Labor and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate. He was also known by the nicknames of the "Iron Puddler" and "Puddler Jim." 1930 US Senate envelope bearing printed Free Frank signature [no letter]. (7) 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. (8) Michael Tucci (b. 1946) American actor best known for playing the T-Birds member Sonny LaTierri for the 1978 film version Grease. Warner Bros. 1985 paycheck signed [endorsed on verso]....................Min. Bid $50
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94. [FRANCE] 1577 manuscript vellum document, signed with ornate signature. Approx. 10-1/4 x 4-1/2 in. VG..............200-300
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95. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) William Alfred (1922-1999) American playwright, poet, and professor of English literature at Harvard University. Signed bookplate. (2) USNA RANGE SENTINEL over postmarked 1983 Cape Canaveral, Fl. (3) 1852 Sec. of the Navy printed gov. document, 42pp. (4) Original etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn, c. 1890, image 5-1/4 x 3-3/4 in. (5) LBJ First Day Cover, 1973. Stamp is faulty. (6) Signed card - looks like Kuki Rinichi - not identified. (7) Another unidentified signed card......Min. Bid $25
96. [ALABAMA] Oscar Underwood (1862-1929) American lawyer and politician from Alabama, and also a candidate for President of the United States in 1912 and 1924. He was the first formally designated floor leader in the United States Senate, and the only individual to serve as the Democratic leader in both the Senate and the United States House of Representatives. Underwood sought the presidential nomination at the 1912 Democratic National Convention, but the convention selected Woodrow Wilson after forty-six ballots. He declined the vice presidential nomination, which instead went to Thomas R. Marshall. Underwood ran for president again in 1924, entering the 1924 Democratic National Convention as a prominent conservative opponent of the Ku Klux Klan. One of the few prominent anti-Klan politicians in the South at the time. Signed card, 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 in. Dated 11-22-21. VG...........Min. Bid $22
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97. [BRITISH MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Samuel Whitbread (1764-1815) British politician. Whitbread admired Napoleon and his reforms in France and Europe. He hoped that many of Napoleon's reforms would be implemented in Britain. Throughout the Peninsular War he played down French defeats convinced that sooner or later Napoleon would triumph, and he did all he could to bring about a withdrawal of Britain from the continent. When Napoleon abdicated in 1814 he was devastated. Whitbread began to suffer from depression, and on the morning of 6 July 1815, he committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. CLIP SIGNATURE dated 1808. (2) Sir John Arthur Thomson FRSE LLD (1861-1933) Scottish naturalist[1][2] who authored several notable books and was an expert on soft corals. SIGNED CARD 1931. (3) Alice Askew (1874-1917) British author. SIGNED CARD. (4) Arthur Hinsley (1865-1943) English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1935 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1937. SIGNED CARD dated 1938. (5) John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton, GBE, KCB, PC, FRS, FRAS (1844-1921) English mathematician, barrister and judge. He was a Cambridge Apostle. CLIP SIGNATURE........Min. Bid $40
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98. [SIGNED BOOK] William Henry Channing (1810-1884) American Unitarian clergyman, writer and philosopher. He graduated from Harvard College in 1829 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1833. He was ordained and installed over the Unitarian church in Cincinnati in 1835. Later he became a leader in a movement of Christian socialism. Channing took active part in the early years of the woman’s rights movement. As minister of the First Unitarian Church of Rochester in 1852, he influenced Susan B. Anthony, a member of his congregation who was a young schoolteacher on the threshold of her career as a women's rights activist. Channing was, in 1863 and 1864, the Chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. Offered here is a book signed in pencil twice by Channing [light pencil signatures], and signed twice [initials] in ink. Inside front flyleaf he writes "To my friends Anna - Marian - Elizabeth Blackwell - Cincinnati, May 27th 1841. W.H.C." He also writes on the title page "Elizabeth Blackwell W.H.C." Condition: spine is gone, foxing and stains inside on pages. Approx. 5x8 in.........200-300
99. [VERMONT HISTORY] Lewis Richard Morris (1760-1825) United States Representative from Vermont and a nephew of Gouverneur Morris and Lewis Morris. Born in Scarsdale, New York, he attended the common schools. He moved to Springfield, Vermont, and from 1781 to 1783 was secretary of foreign affairs. He was a member of the Springfield meeting-house committee in 1785, was tax collector in 1786 and 1787, Windsor County court clerk from 1789 to 1796 and was judge of the same court until 1801. He was clerk of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1790 and 1791, and was a member of the convention to ratify the United States Constitution . He was secretary of the constitutional convention in Windsor in 1793. He attended the Vermont ratifying convention in Bennington, where he voted in support of the Constitution. Morris was a brigadier general in the State militia in 1793 and major general of the First Division from 1795 to 1817. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1795 to 1797 and 1803 to 1808, and served as speaker. He was elected as a Federalist to the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1797 to March 3, 1803. His abstention from voting assured Thomas Jefferson's election as President over Aaron Burr in the House of Representatives in February, 1801. DOCUMENT SIGNED, signed twice, 2-1/2 pages folio, Windsor, August 29, 1794. Court document, old damp stains along edge. Approx. 7-1/4 x 12 in. See condition in scan below..........150-200
100. [BRITISH] Richard Whately (1787-1863) English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian who also served as a reforming Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin. He was a leading Broad Churchman, a prolific and combative author over a wide range of topics, a flamboyant character, and one of the first reviewers to recognise the talents of Jane Austen. Signed address panel, addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury, postmarked 1840. Stain on front is from the red wax seal. Approx. 4-3/4 x 3 in. Large hole on front does not detract...............25-35
101. Eugene R. Black (1873-1934) was the Chairman of the Federal Reserve from May 9, 1933 to August 15, 1934. Signed 3x5 card. VG................25-35
102. [MUSIC] Johanna Emilia Agnes Gadski (1872-1932) German soprano. She was blessed with a secure, powerful, ringing voice, fine musicianship and an excellent technique. These attributes enabled her to enjoy a highly successful career in New York City and London, performing heavy dramatic roles in the German and Italian repertoires. Large bold signature dated 1916 on 5 x 6.5 in. paper. Fine............25-35
103. [MUSIC] RAY ANTHONY (b. 1922), popular band leader, a signed/ inscribed 3 x 5 card, "To Kevin Ray Anthony;" A light paperclip impression, otherwise very good..........20-30
104. [FILM] Offered here is a vintage, circa 1955, b/w photograph of Russell Arms (1920-2012) Actor, singer, best known for his role of vocalist on the popular 1950's t.v. show YOUR HIT PARADE (1952-1957). In 2005, Arms authored his autobiography, entitled: MY HIT PARADE... and a FEW MISSES. Arms has signed: "David Best Wishes, Russ Arms [adds] c/o Hit Parade." Very minor edge wear, otherwise very good condition..............25-35
105. [MAP] Offered here is an early 19th century color map, 8-1/2 x 10-1/2, being a Map of the Country which was the scene of Operations of the Northern Army Including the Wilderness through which General Arnold marched to attack Quebec. Removed from a text, with backing strip on verso, scattered spotting, minor edge wear (small tear in margin)-- otherwise quite good.............Min. Bid $50
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106. [CONNECTICUT] Offered here is a 1p. manuscript document, 6-1/2 x 8, dated Stafford [CT] Jan. 5, 1815, wherein "... The inclosed Bill was lodged or taken from Elisha Ellis by him as a true bill of Capt. Eben Spelman & found the same to be counterfit & the sd Ellis made solom oath before me that he had the Bill of Capt. Eben Spelman as aforesaid... The inclosed Bill was lodged or taken from Capt. Eben Spelman as a true bill of Capt. David Gay & found the same to be counterfit & sd Spelman made solom oath before me that if this is the Bill which he Let Elisha Ellis have is the same bill that he had of Capt. David Gay," signed Daniel Peck (Justice of the Peace). Folds (pinholes), light toning/ minor ink smear, otherwise very good..............Min. Bid $15
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107. (BRITISH LITERATURE LOT) SIR PHILLIP GIBBS (1877-1962) War correspondent, journalist, writer. ALS (1935). HUGH CUDLIPP (1913-1988) Welsh Journalist, editor. ALS (1990). MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT (1861-1923) Historical Novelist, Poet, Essayist. ALS. EDMUND BLUNDEN (1896-1974) Poet, Author, Critic. SIGNED presentation page from his book “Near & Far”(1929). SIR DESMOND MacCARTHY (1878-1952) Critic, writer, journalist, a member of the “Bloomsbury Group”. ALS on card (1952). SIR WILLIAM STIRLING-MAXWELL of Pollock, 9th Baronet (1818-1878) Scottish historical writer, politician, virtuoso, husband of Caroline Norton. ALS (1870).............80-120
108. (COMPOSERS LOT) CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN (1881-1946) American Composer Large SIGNATURE on her personal stationary. EGON JOSEPH WELLESZ (1885-1974) Austrian Composer, musicologist ANS, one line “A Happy New Year!” Paris dated January 1, 1925, Paris . JAROMIR VEJVODA (1902-1988) Czech Composer most famous for “Beer Barrel Polka” SIGNED return address envelope(1984). DOMINIC ARGENTO (1927) Pulitzer Prize American Composer SIGNED FDC honoring Stravinsky. JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER (1876-1951) American Composer along with Charles W. Cadman and Deems Taylor considered one of the “foremost modern composers” SIGNED Card (1944). AL KASHA (1937) American composer of Film Music Academy Award for “The Morning After” SIGNED Xerox photograph 8x10..............Min. Bid $40
109. Erich Segal (1937-2010) American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best known for writing the novel Love Story (1970), a best-seller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a major hit. Signed 5x7 photo. VG.........40-60
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110. [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
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111. [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
112. [FILM] Don Ameche (1908-1993) Academy Award winning actor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.......Min. Bid $20
113. [FILM] Dean Jones (1931-2015) American actor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG........30-50
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114. Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton FRS (1809-1885) English poet, patron of literature and politician. ALS, May 14, no yr., 2pp, signed Baron Houghtyon. About invitation and meeting. VG............50-75
115. [THEATRE] Van Johnson (1916-2008) American film and television actor who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during and after World War II. Signed, inscribed Ogunquit, Maine Playhouse theatre program, 1980. He was appearing in the lead role in "TRIBUTE." VG.......50-75
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116. [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
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117. Julian Leonard 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. TLS, 1924, 1p. He is confirming a contract with Red Book magazine to write a serial. They will finance him for one year. If he dies the estate will be indebted to the magazine. Punch hole near top............50-75
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118. [FILM] Sybil Jason Sybil Jason (1927-2011) motion-picture child actress who, in the late 1930s, was presented as a rival to Shirley Temple. Signed, inscribed 4x6 lobby card reprint from the movie GREAT O'MALLEY starring Humphrey Bogart and Pat O'Brien. This was a 1937 film. Fine.............40-60
119. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867-1928) journalist, politician and best-selling Spanish novelist in various genres whose most widespread and lasting fame in the English-speaking world is from Hollywood films adapted from his works. Signed card, 3-1/2 x 2-1/4 in. VG..............75-100
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120. [MUSIC] Christopher Rouse (b. 1949) American composer. Though he has written for various ensembles, Rouse is primarily known for his orchestral compositions, including a Requiem, eleven concertos, and five symphonies. His work has received numerous accolades, including the Kennedy Center Friedheim Award, the Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition, and the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Rouse was the composer-in-residence for the New York Philharmonic from 2012 to 2015. AMQS, from his composition "Rapture" of 2000. Approx. 10-1/4 x 5 in. VG..............50-75
121. [THEATRE] Winifred Emery (1861-1924) English actress and actor-manager of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was the wife of the actor Cyril Maude. Born into a family of actors, Emery began acting as a child. Her career grew through the 1880s and 1890s as she played leading roles in the West End of London. After a period away from the stage, she returned with leading roles in the company of Herbert Beerbohm Tree at His Majesty's Theatre. She continued to act steadily in her own touring theatre company with her husband and in London theatres until 1922. Signed vintage postcard photo, 3.5 x 5.5 in. VG................50-75
122. Robert Loggia (1930-2015) is an American film and television actor and director, who specializes in character parts. In 1985, Loggia was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of crusty private detective Sam Ransom in the thriller Jagged Edge. Signed 8x10 photo. VG.....25-35
123. [THEATRE] Henry Arthur Jones [1851-1929] English dramatist. AQS on 4-1/2 x 5-1/4" card.......30-40
Sacco and Vanzetti Trial124. Robert Grant (1852-1940) American author. Grant was also a probate court judge, appointed in 1893. After he left the bench, Massachusetts Governor Alvan T. Fuller appointed Grant to a commission to review the conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti. The commission recommended that the decision to execute both men be upheld. AQS, 1904, on album page. "Nothing refineth the young like experience." Soft crease...............30-40
125. [MEDICINE] SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS BRODIE (1783-1862) English physiologist and surgeon. In 1858, Henry Gray of “Gray’s Anatomy” fame, dedicated the book to him. Brodie was Surgeon to the royal family, and was pioneer in research into bone and joint disease. ALS dated February 22, ny...............50-75
126. [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
127. [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
128. (Titanic Disaster) JOHN CHARLES BINGHAM,1st Viscount Mersey (1840-1929) British Jurist and politician, Lord Chancellor. He as most notable for heading the official Board of Trade inquires into the sinking of the RMS TITANIC, RMS EMPRESS OF IRELAND and RMS LUSITANIA. RARE signed Postcard portrait photograph, 3-1/2 x 5-1/2”. VG.........75-100
129. [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
130. HENRY van DYKE (1852-1933) American Author, educator and clergyman, lyricist. TLS (1907) 1p.............35-45
131. [FILM] Kurt Kreuger (1916-2006) was a Swiss-reared German actor. Kreuger once was the third most requested male actor at 20th Century Fox. He starred with, among others, Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. Kreuger was primarily offered roles in World War II movies as a German officer, prompting him to complain about being typecast as a Nazi. TLS signed Kurt, no dated, sent to Jess who was a syndicted columnist. Jess was likely Jessica Leigh who wrote about dogs. Nice letter talking mostly about German Shepard..........35-45
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132. The Masters and Johnson research team, composed of William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s. Sheet signed by both, 1973, 8.5 x 11. Inscribed in type to collector..........60-80
133. [FILM] Holly Hunter (b. 1958) American actress. Hunter starred in The Piano for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Academy Award for Best Actress, among other awards. Signed & inscribed 3x5 card..........15-20
134. Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Marshall [1829-1900] British Officer famed for his service in India. Clip signature.............20-30
135. Arnold Allan Cecil Keppel, 8th Earl of Albemarle CB, GCVO, TD, VD, JP (1858-1942), known as Viscount Bury from 1891 to 1894, was a British soldier, courtier and Conservative politician. Signed card............20-30
136. James Allen (1864-1912) was a philosophical writer of British nationality known for his inspirational books and poetry. CLIP SIGNATURE "J. Allen.".............20-30
137. [FILM] Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth (1867-1943) was an American film actor, director, writer, and producer. Signed album page. VG.............20-30
138. [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
139. [MUSIC] Henry Tobias (1905-1997) American songwriter. He wrote the 1974 song "Hang In There, Mr. President" in support of Richard Nixon. Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1983. Signed and inscribed sheet music of his song MISS YOU. 9 x 12 in. VG................50-75
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Picture of him
140.
[FILM] Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010) Canadian born, naturalized American actor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG............30-40
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Important Georgia 1828 Document
141. [CREEK INDIANS] Citizens of Georgia - Claims on Creek Indians, Mr. McLean, Committee on Indian Affairs, printed government document, Rep. No. 128, 20th Congress, 1st Session, February 5, 1828.
This original document was removed from a larger, bound volume, 23 pages, complete in itself. Approx. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. Signed in type by John C. Calhoun and others. The history of early Georgia is largely the history of the Creek Indians. For most of Georgia's colonial period, Creeks outnumbered both European colonists and enslaved Africans and occupied more land than these newcomers. Not until the 1760s did the Creeks become a minority population in Georgia. They ceded the balance of their lands to the new state in the 1800s. On December 20, 1828, the state legislature of Georgia, fearful that the United States would not enforce (as a matter of federal policy) the removal of the Cherokee people from their historic lands in the state, enacted a series of laws which stripped the Cherokee of their rights under the laws of the state. They intended to force the Cherokee to leave the state. Andrew Jackson, who had long favored removal, was elected US president in 1828, taking office in 1829. Important piece of Georgia's history. Excellent condition..................Min. Bid $50
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142. [JEFF DAVIS] printed gov. document signed in type by Jeff Davis, Sec. of War, Feb. 2, 1857, 2pp. ESTIMATES - BARRACKS AT CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA. Bottom left corner missing o/w VG.........25-35
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143.[JEFF DAVIS] printed gov. document signed in type by Jeff Davis, Sec. of War, March 3, 1856, 9pp. fortifications for proper defence of New York and Brooklyn. VG.........25-35
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144. [OMAR BRADLEY] original 1949 International News Photo. The caption included says it is the first photograph of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under the New National Security Organization. The photographer was A.E. SCOTT. 9 x 7 in. VG.................Min. Bid $50
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145. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Charles W. Tobey (1880-1953) Governor and US Senator from NH. Signed postmarked 1938 cover honoring 150th Anniversary of New Hampshire Ratified the Constitution June 21, 1788. Sticker addressed. VG.................50-75
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146. [ENGLAND] Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden GCB PC (1814-1892) British Liberal politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1872 to 1884. ALS, 1889, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. VG......40-60
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147. [ENGLAND] Apsley Pellatt (1791-1863) English glassware manufacturer and politician. His main interest lay in the chemistry of glass-making. In 1819, he took out his first patent for the manufacture of "sulfides" or Cameo Incrustations. Pellatt originally called them "Crystallo-Ceramie," reflecting their French origin. The process involved the embedding of ceramic figurines into the glass sides of paperweights, jugs, decanters, etc., by cutting a hole in the hot glass, sliding in the insert, and resealing the glass afterward.
Pellatt became the most famous and successful producers of sulfides in England from 1819 to the mid-century rivalled only by Baccarat in France. He described their manufacture in a book on glass-making entitled "Curiosities of Glassmaking" published in 1849. After his retirement around 1850, the glass-works went into decline in the hands of his brother Frederic. ALS, 1857, 2pp, 4-1/2 x 7-3/4 in. The edge is laid to backing sheet which doesn't allow the front page to show fully..................50-75
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148. [ENGLAND] Richard Polwhele (1760-1838) was a Cornish clergyman, poet and historian of Cornwall and Devon. ALS, 1829, 3pp, 4-1/4 x 7-1/4 in. Last page laid to another sheet. VG.............80-120
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149. [ENGLAND] Albert Woods (1816-1904) English officer of arms, who served as Garter Principal King of Arms from 1869 to 1904. He officiated at the coronations both of Queen Victoria and of Edward VII. ALS, June 1 (no year), 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. VG..............50-75
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150. 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
151. [CHAS. M. CONRAD] Conrad was Secretary of War under Fillmore. This lot includes two ALS's written by Anne H. Lloyd. As one of the letters is addressed to Hon. Charles M. Conrad in Washington and is written to "My precious Jean', and signed "Your loving mother", it appears that the writer was Conrad's mother-in-law. One letter,1p dated Sep. 5th 1852 to "My precious children" begins "I have news for you that will gladden our hearts and I trust fill you with thankfulness. Our beloved Nelson is with us. We are all happy and I trust thankful that after peril by land and by water he is brought to us safely in health. He was shipwrecked twice on his journey home and lost everything but the clothes on his back." The second letter is 3 full pages plus an integral address leaf. It is dated Nov. 24th 1857. It is written to "My precious Jean". It primarily consists of interesting family news. In part, "I knew you would feel a great deal as to the intelligence my last letter conveyed. I must reply to parts of yours. When our Heavenly Father afflicts us, we should ever remember that there is mercy in his judgments. Altho we see it not it is far more comfortable to feel that he does not willingly afflict his children and to say at all times "Tho he slay me yet will I trust him." More religious content follows.............40-60152. William Marvin Watson (1924-2017) was an advisor to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and was Postmaster General from April 26, 1968, to January 20, 1969. Signed 1971 postmarked cover. VG................25-35
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153. James Farley (1888-1976) Postmaster General under the first two administrations of President Franklin Roosevelt. Signed 1971 postmarked cover. VG................25-35
154. Linwood Holton - Gov. of Virginia. TLS, 1970. 1p., as governor........20-30
155. [THE WHITE HOUSE] Carl T. Curtis (1905-2000) American politician from Nebraska. He served as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives (1939–1954) and later the United States Senate (1955–1979). Ink signed 1970 White House pass. The signature of Richard Nixon is printed. Fine..............25-35
156. 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
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157. U.S. Senate - the following typed signed letters, 1960-1962, all sent to Vernon L. Talbertt, Chief Messenger, Office of the Secretary of the Senate [US Senate, Wash. DC]. The earlier letters pay tribute to Talbertt's 15 years of service, the later letters are on his retirement. Letters signed by senators Howard Cannon [Nev], Frank Carlson [Kan], Francis Case [S. Dak], Clifford P. Case [NJ], George D. Aiken [VT], Homer Capehart [Ind], E.L. Bartlett, John A. Carroll [Colo], Dennis Chavez [N. Mex], and Gordon Allott [Colo] fiest name only. All of these letters show mounting traces along the top & bottom edges, mostly on the backsides. Ten letters................100-150
158. Lowell Thomas (1892-1981) American writer, actor, broadcaster, and traveler, best remembered for publicising T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). Thomas shot dramatic footage of Lawrence, then returned to America and began giving public lectures in 1919 on the war in Palestine, "supported by moving pictures of veiled women, Arabs in their picturesque robes, camels and dashing Bedouin cavalry". His lectures were very popular and audiences were large, and he "took the nation by storm" in the words of one modern biographer. He agreed to take the lecture to England, but only "if asked by the King and given Drury Lane or Covent Garden" as a lecture venue. His conditions were met, and he opened a series at Covent Garden on August 14, 1919. "And so followed a series of some hundreds of lecture–film shows, attended by the highest in the land". Signed 1975 membership card, approx. 3-1/2 x 2-1/4 in. VG................25-35
See above159. US Senators - 10 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Olin D. Johnston [SC]; Henry M. Jackson [Wash]; Spessard L. Holland [FL]; Lister Hill [Ala]; B.B. Hickenlooper [IA]; Carl Hayden [Ariz]; Vance Hartke [Ind]; Ernest Gruening [Alaska]; J.W. Filbright [Ark]; Hiram L. Fong [Hawaii]..........50-75
160. 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
Controversial US Senator 161. [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
162. [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
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, 3pp, 5-1/4 x 8". Not translated. One soiled corner.........50-75
176. [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
177. [France] Misc. group of items from France. Worthy of research, many are accompanied with biographical information in either English or French. [1] Maurice Donnay [1859-1945] dramatist. Signature. [2] Rene Cagnat [1852-1937] historian. ALS, 1896, 2pp. [3] Auguste Chavannes [1810-1879] Zoologist. ALS, 1867, 1p. [4] Jean-Marie Magnaud [1848-1926] jurist, feminist pioneer. ALS, 1906, 1p. [5] Amable Pierre Floquet [1797-1881] historian, ALS, 2pp. [6] Henri Leroy-Beaulieu [1842-1912] publicist and historian. His signature on page from book. [7] Emile Perrin [1814-1885] Director of Paris Opera. ALS, 1878, 2pp. [8] Pierre De La Gorce [1846-1934] historian. ALS, 1p. [9] Charles Laubry [1872-1960] physician. ALS, 1p. [10] Charles Louvet [1806-1882] Minister of Commerce. ALS, 1p..........200-300
178. [FRANCE] ELIE BERTHET [1815-1891] Fr. novelist. ALS, 1877, 1p. About the book Picturesque Trip in Spain." Not translated. VG..........40-60
179. [FRANCE] GABRIELLE REVAL, pseudonym de Mme. Fernand Fleuret [1870-1938] Fr. writer. ALS, Paris, 1928, on both sides. Not translated but interesting content about the first adaptation made for the film from her novel L'lnfante a la Rose. And what a sad experience it has been. They even changed the ending without her permission. Fine..................75-100
180. [FRANCE] (AUGUSTE ALPHONSE) ETIENNE-GALLOIS [1809-1890] Fr. writer, traveler. ALS, no date, 1p............50-75
Father of Modern Palm Reading
181. Adolphe Desbarrolles (1801-1886) French artist. He is considered the father of modern chiromancy, aka palmistry or palm reading. He was a friend of Alex. Dumas; accompanied Dumas on many of his trips abroad. ALS, 1860, 1-1/2 pages, 8vo. Speaks about Humbolt's Cosmos. Not translated. VG............100-150
182. [FRANCE] Paul Bastid (1892-1974) French lawyer and politician. Attached to the Radical Party, he was a member of the Cantal , Minister of Commerce under the Popular Front and representing radicals National Council of the Resistance , before heading L'Aurore. In 1941, the Vichy government dismisses the mandate of General Counsel. Paul Bastid while campaigning in the Resistance and the General Committee of studies (CGE), was formed in 1942 in Lyon, at his home. In 1943, he is the representative of the radical party in the National Council of Resistance and writes articles for the underground press. ALS, 1971, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. About a presentation at the Academy. Fine............75-100 184. [FRANCE] Francis de Miomandre (1880-1959) French novelist and well-known translator from Spanish into French. He was born in Tours, Indre-et-Loire and educated in Marseille. He began writing in his early twenties and won the Prix Goncourt in 1908 for his novel, Ecrít sur de l'Eau . His novels are highly imaginative and put together with the genuine talent of a romancer who has traveled far and wide at his own study table. Lengthy ALS, 1955, 1-1/2 pages [ON BOTH SIDES OF ONE SHEET], 8-1/4 x 10-1/2". To the critic, Robert Kemp. VG............75-100
183. [FRANCE] Victor Louis Armand Boucher (1877-1942) French actor. ALS, 1912, 1p. 5-1/4 x 8-1/2 in. VG............50-75
185. [FRANCE] Etienne Marie Victor Lamy (1845-1919) French author, born in Cize, Jura. He was educated at the College Stanislas and became a doctor of law in 1870. From 1871 to 1881 he was a deputy from his native department, Jura, and his earlier writings were political and historical. In the House of Deputies he was a member of the Left, but he broke with his party and became a clerical reactionary, writing for the Gaulois and the Correspondant. In 1905 he became a member of the Académie française (seat #21), and in 1913 he succeeded Thureau-Dangin as its perpetual secretary. ALS, 1917, 2pp, 4-3/8 x 6-3/4 in. VG................75-100
186. [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
187. [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
188. [FRANCE] Eugène Manuel (1823–1901), French poet and man of letters. ALS, 1868, 3pp. VG..........50-75
189. [FRANCE] PAUL BRULAT [1866-1940] Fr. novelist. ALS, Paris, 1938, 1p. Probably to Mrs. Georges-Day about her poems...........50-75
190. [FRANCE] Abel-Anatole Tarride [1865-1951] Fr. actor & dramatist. TLS, 1914, 1p, signed twice. VG. Not translated..............35-45
191. [THEATRE] Louis Arsene Delaunay [1826-1903] French actor, born in Paris, the son of a wine-seller. He studied at the Conservatoire, and made his first formal appearance on the stage in 1845, in Molière's Tartuffe at the Odon. After three years at this house he made his debut at the Comédie-Française as Dorante in Corneilles Le Menteur , and began a long and brilliant career in young lover parts. He continued to act as jeune premier until he was sixty, his grace, marvellous diction and passion enchanting his audiences. It was especially in the plays of Alfred de Musset that his gifts found their happiest expression. In the thirty-seven years during which he was a member of the Comédie-Française, Delaunay took or created nearly two hundred parts. He retired in 1887, having been made a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1883. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/2 in. VG.............. 60-80
192. [FRANCE] Paul Bins, comte de Saint-Victor (1827-1881), known as Paul de Saint-Victor, French author, was born in Paris. His father Jacques BM Bins, comte de Saint-Victor (1772-1858), is remembered by his poem L'Espérance, and by an excellent verse translation of Anacreon. Saint-Victor, who ceased to use the title of count as being out of keeping with his democratic principles, began as a dramatic critic on the Pays in 1851, and in 1855 he succeeded Théophile Gautier on the Presse. In 1866 he migrated to the Liberté, and in 1869 joined the staff of the Moniteur universel. In 1870, during the last days of the second empire, he was made inspector-general of fine arts. Almost all Saint-Victor's work consists of articles, the best known being the collection entitled Hommes et dieux (1867). His death interrupted the publication of Les Deux Masques , in which the author intended to survey the whole dramatic literature of ancient and modern times. Saint-Victor's critical faculty was considerable, though rather one-sided. He owed a good deal to Théophile Gautier, but he carried ornateness to a pitch far beyond Gautier's. Saint-Victor died in Paris on 9 July 1881. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8 in. VG............50-75
193. [FRANCE] Anatole le Braz, the "Bard of Brittany" [1859-1926] Breton folklore collector and translator. He was highly regarded amongst both European and American scholars, and known for his warmth and charm. Le Braz was sent on foreign cultural missions by the Government of France twenty times. He made several visits to the US, Canada and Switzerland, notably lecturing at Harvard University in 1906, and at Columbia University in 1915. ALS, 1900, 3pp. 4-1/2 x 7 in. ............60-80
194. [FRANCE] Georges Valois (real name Alfred-Georges Gressent; 1878-1945) French journalist and politician. After having written his first book, L'Homme qui vient, he met the nationalist and monarchist writer Charles Maurras and became a member of his Action Française (AF) league, where he continued to follow the workers' movement. As his employment would have been compromised by an involvement in the far-right monarchist league, he took the pseudonym of Georges Valois. Georges Valois was finally arrested by the Nazis on 18 May, 1944, and died in February 1945 of typhus at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. ALS, 1911, 2pp, 4-3/4 x 6-1/2 in.............75-100
195. [FRANCE] Aurelien Scholl (1833-1902) French author and journalist, was born in Bordeaux. He was successively editor of the Voltaire and of the Echo de Paris. He wrote largely for the theatre, and also a number of novels dealing with Parisian life. ALS, nd, 2 pages. Not translated. VG...........50-75
196. [SCIENCE] Auguste Chevalier (1873-1956) French botanist, taxonomist, and explorer of tropical Africa, especially of French colonial empire Africa that included Cote d'Ivoire. He also explored and collected plants in South America and tropical Asia. Chevalier was a prolific contributor to the knowledge of African plants, studying forest trees and their woods, grasses, and agricultural plants of the continent. Unlike other botanists who studied the plants of tropical Africa, Chevalier also ranged to the floral regions of the Sahara. In 1899-1900, he took part in a scientific mission in French Sudan, and in 1905 established a botanical garden in Dalaba, French Guinea. From 1913 to 1919, he collected plants throughout Indochina. Later, he attained a professorship in Paris (1929). In 1937 he was elected as a member of the Academie des sciences, serving as its president in 1953. He was also a member of the Academie des sciences d'outre-mer (from 1922), president of the Societe botanique de France (1929), vice-president of the Comite national de geographie (1935-1952) and a member of the Academie d'agriculture de France (from 1937). ALS, Paris, 1912, 2pp, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. Except for blue pencil notation on front this is in excellent condition...................80-120
197. Joseph Grégoire de Roulhac Hamilton (1878–1961) was an American historian of the South, author, and the founder of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he spent most of his academic career. He published books and articles about the history of Reconstruction but his most influential role was as an archivist, collecting manuscripts from around the South that form the core of the Southern Historical Collection. TLS, 1943, 1p, to Peter Brannon, Department of Archives and History, State of Alabama. VG................60-80
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198. [FRANCE] Emile Fabre (1869-1955) French dramatic author and general administrator of the Comédie-Française from 1915 to 1936. ALS, no date, 1p. approx. 4.5 x 6.5". VG.............50-75
199. [FRANCE] Louis-Lucien Klotz (1868-1930) French journalist and politician. He was the French Minister of Finance during World War I. Brief ALS, no date,, 1p, to Lucien Bauzin (1881-1971) French lawyer, newspaper man, politician, who was Klotz's chief of cabinet and was vice-president of the Radical-Socialist Party. Includes, ALS, 1911, 2pp, by Bauzin to Klotz. VG...........100-150
200. [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
201. [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
202. [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
203. [FRANCE] Frantz Funck-Brentano [1862-1947] Luxembourgian-French historian and librarian. ALS, 1890, 1-1/4pp...........50-75
204. [FRANCE] Germaine Beaumont real name Germaine Battendier (1890-1983) French journalist and novelist. Virginia Woolf's translator. ALS, 1962, 1p, to Mrs. Robert Kemp, about the death of her husband. Kemp was a noted critic. With envelope. Fine................60-80
205. [ENGLAND] R(ichard) Cobden (1804-1865) British manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman, associated with John Bright in the formation of the Anti-Corn Law League as well as with the Cobden-Chevalier Treaty. Clip signature MOUNTED. Below is article about him............25-35
206. [MUSIC] "Zino" Francescatti (1902-1991) French virtuoso violinist. Signed postcard of Tel-Aviv - Frederic R. Mann Auditorium. Music postage stamp affixed. Signed in a dark area therefopre a poor contrast. Dated 1962..........40-60
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207. [FRANCE] Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux, known as Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944) French statesman and historian. ALS, 1905, 3 pages. VG............75-100
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208. [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
MURDERED JOURNALIST 209. [FRANCE] Gaston Calmette (1858-1914) French journalist. In January 1914 Calmette, who had been editor of the newspaper Le Figaro since 1902, launched a campaign against Minister of Finance Joseph Caillaux, who had introduced progressive taxation and was known for his pacifist stance towards Germany during the Second Moroccan Crisis in 1911. During this campaign, which was orchestrated by Louis Barthou and Raymond Poincaré, Le Figaro published several letters from the Minister's private correspondence. Caillaux's second wife Henriette , fearing that the newspaper would also make public a love letter that showed how he was already having a relationship with her during his first marriage, entered Calmette's office on 16 March 1914 and shot him four times. Calmette died instantly. Caillaux had to resign his post the next day, but during a spectacular trial later that year his wife was acquitted. MARCEL PROUST dedicated Swann's Way, the first volume of his novel In Search of Lost Time, to Calmette 'as a testimony of deep and affectionate recognition'. Offered here is Calmette's called card which he signed and has written 3 lines. Fine. Below is his portrait & an illustration of the murder..........50-75
210. [FRANCE] group of French autographs: [1] Édouard Alphonse Lefebvre Béhaine, Count Pigneaux (or Pigneau) is a diplomat, French (1829-1897). He was Ambassador of France to the Holy See , Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague and Secretary of Embassy ( Berlin and Rome ). He talked with his cousins Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, a rich correspondence of nearly 300 letters in almost 40 years. ALS, 1888, 3-1/2 pp. [2] Jean Charles Meissonier (1848 - 1917) French painter, son of the Master. ALS, Paris, 1893, 2pp. [3] Jean d'Esparbes (1899-1968) Fr. artist. ANS written on both sides of his personal calling card. Fine. [4] Louis Marsolleau (1864-1935] writer of songs. ALS, Paris, 1896, 2pp. [5] Camille-André Lemoyne, born in Saint Jean d'Angely (1822-1907) poet and novelist . ALS, 1p. plus envelope. [6] Emile Berr (1855-1923) Fr. journalist. ALS, nd., 1p. [7] Charles Borel-Clerc, pen name of Charles Clerc, was a French composer. My apple performer Maurice Chevalier (1936), Oh! If you knew my hen (1938) and Walk Ménilmontant (1941), three of his biggest hits. TLS, 1934, 2pp............150-250
211. [FILM] Edmund Lowe (1890-1971) American actor. Signed & inscribed slip........25-35
212. Liz Smith [1923-2017] American gossip columnist. Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. VG......25-35
213. [BOXING] Gene Fullmer [1931-2015] former American middleweight boxer and world champion. Signed collector's card, 3.5 x 2.5".........20-30
214. [MUSIC] KAY STARR (b. 1922) American singer of jazz and popular music. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG........25-35
215. [FILM] Avery Brooks (b.1948) American actor, director, singer, and educator. He is best known for his television roles as Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as Hawk on Spenser: For Hire and its spinoff A Man Called Hawk, and as Dr. Bob Sweeney in the Academy Award-nominated film American History X. Warner Bros. 1985 paycheck not signed by Cooksey..............Min. Bid $10
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216. Nancy Huston Banks (1849-1934) American journalist, literary critic, and novelist from Kentucky. During the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893, Banks was on the Board of Lady Managers, and worked for the fair as a writer and editor. Banks moved to New York to pursue a writing career in the early 1890s. She was on staff at The Bookman magazine in its first year as a book reviewer. She also lived in London for a time, and reported from South Africa during the Boer War for a London newspaper. For a time in November 1899, she was reported caught in the Siege of Kimberley, blockaded by the Boer army, in the company of Cecil Rhodes and fellow New Yorker Amalia Küssner, a miniaturist. Nancy Huston Banks also wrote novels, including Stairs of Sand (1890), Oldfield: A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century (1902), Round Anvil Rock: A Romance (1903), and The Little Hills (1905). In reviewing the last title, Frederic Taber Cooper commented that "Few are so fortunate as Mrs. Banks in knowing the range and boundaries of their intellectual gardens, the thoughts and fancies that will best flower therein." ALS, NY, [1895], 2pp., to Mr. Bok. sends photographs. 4-1/4 x 6-3/4 in. VG..................50-75
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217. [FILM] Wesley Barry (1907-1994) American child actor in silent motion pictures. He later became a producer and director of both film and television. Born in Los Angeles, Barry was seven years old when a young director was attracted by his facial features, and put him to work at the old Kalem Studios. He was not noted for his freckles until Marshall Neilan cast him in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, with his freckles uncovered (earlier producers had insisted that all subjects cover facial blemishes with grease paint). Soon, Barry became a star in his own right, and 1920's Dinty put him over with great success. Later screen productions which served him as starring vehicles are School Days, Rags to Riches, Heroes of the Street, and Warner specials. He was eleven years old when he appeared opposite Mary Pickford in Daddy-Long-Legs, and later, in Cecil B. DeMille's Male and Female, opposite Gloria Swanson. Offered here is a signed, inscribed 3x5 card. Picture not included. Fine.................Min. Bid $10
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218 [WW II] Jack J. Furman (1924-2010) He enlisted in the Army and was a World War II veteran. He served with the 4th Armored Division under the command of General George Patton and was wounded and awarded a Sharpshooter Medal, the Purple Heart and Bronze Star resulting from action in the invasion of Normandy and the Battle of the Bulge. He received a Letter of Commendation from the Government of France for actions in the liberation of France. TLS, 1957, 1p, to Rabbi Frederick Solomon. VG.............25-35
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219. [ITALY] Augusto Rosso (1885-1964) Italian statesman; doplomat. He was a delegate to meetings of Council and Assembly of the League of Nations [1927-1932]; including Reparations Conference, The Hague [1929], Naval Conference in London [1930]. He was Ambassador to the United States [from 1932]. In November 1940 Stalin sent Molotov to Berlin to meet von to meet von Ribbentrop and Adolf Hitler. In January 1941, the British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden visited Turkey in an attempt to get the Turks to enter the war on the Allies' side. Though the purpose of Eden's visit was anti-German rather than anti-Soviet, Molotov assumed otherwise and in a series of conversations with the Italian Ambassador Augusto Rosso, Molotov claimed that the Soviet Union would soon be faced with an Anglo-Turkish invasion of the Crimea. The British historian D.C. Watt argued that on the basis of Molotov's statements to Rosso, it would appear that in early 1941, Stalin and Molotov viewed Britain rather than Germany as the principal threat. Signed Riggs National Bank check, 1912. Excellent clear signature. VG.....75-100 Min. Bid $20
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220. Coleman Barks (born1937) is an American poet, and former literature faculty at the University of Georgia. Although he neither speaks nor reads Persian, he is a popular interpreter of Rumi, rewriting the poems based on other English translations. Signed typescript poem titled THE PENGUIN, 1p., 8.5 x 11 in. VG.................35-45
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221. Bob Dole - a 1987 typed 4 page letter sending two Preferred Tickets to his for formal announcement to run for President of the United States. His signature is, of course, printed. One of the tickets is included here. All are in fine condition.........Min. Bid $15
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222. Jacob K. Javitis (1904-1986) United States Senator from New York from 1957 to 1981. Brief TLS, 1980, plus unsigned photo. VG................Min. bid $10
223. James Truslow Adams (1878-1949) American writer and historian. He was a freelance author who helped to popularize the latest scholarship about American history and his three-volume history of New England is well regarded by scholars. He coined the phrase "American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epic of America. TLS, London, 1932, 1p. Declines invitation to speak. 6 x 8 in. Fine..............40-60
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225. Marcel Alexandre Bertrand [1847-1907] French geologist who was born in Paris. He was a student at the École Polytechnique, and beginning in 1869 he attended the Ecole des Mines de Paris. Beginning in 1877 he performed geological mapping studies of Provence, Jura Mountains and the Alps. In 1886 he became an instructor at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines, and in 1896 was appointed a member of the Académie des sciences. He was the son of mathematician Joseph Louis François Bertrand [1822-1900]. Bertrand was a founder of modern tectonics. He is remembered for the orogenic "wave theory" of mountain-building and his introduction of the nappe hypothesis (nappe de charriage). His wave theory described a build-up of massive folds of earth taking place over successive geological eras, called the Caledonian, Hercynian and Alpine periods of orogeny. Later he added a fourth event called the Huronian orogeny, which took place in Precambrian time. ALS, 1894, 1p, 4-3/8 x 7 in. VG.............75-100
224. John Morley [1838-1923] British statesman. Signed address panel addressed to Prime Minister Earl of Rosebury........25-35
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226. Rosalind Russell (1907-1976) American actress. Offered here are 2 color photographs [unsigned] from her personal collection. In the one showing her with 3 men it is her husband Freddie to her left side. 7x5 each. It is possible that no other copies of these photos exist elsewhere. Scarce............50-75227 [WALT KUHN ESTATE] 1918 letter to Walt Kuhn from The American Red Cross, 1p, 8.5 x 11 in. Apparently Kuhn did something but does not want compensation. Includes envelope [no stamp]. VG.......40-60
228. [MILITARY] Lyman Louis Lemnitzer [1899-1988] American Army General, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1960 to 1962. He then served as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO from 1963 to 1969. Signed bank check, 1957. VG example............50-75
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229. Original color 7 x 5 in. photo picturing Roseslind Russell with husband Frederick Brisson. He was a producer and was awarded a Tony for the musical Damn Yankees in 1956. Comes with TLS from The White House.............40-60
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230. 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
231. [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
232. [FRANCE] Philippe Erlanger [1903-1987] Fr. historian. At the end of the 1930s, shocked by the interference of the fascist governments of Italy and Germany in the selection of films for the Mostra del cinema di Venezia, Jean Zay, the French Minister of National Education, decided to create an international cinematographic festival in France, on the proposal of Philippe Erlanger and the support of the British and Americans. ALS, 1956, written on both sides to Robert Kemp, the French journalist and literary critic. Fine............75-100
233. [THEATRE] Joe Darion (1917 - 2001) American musical theatre lyricist, most famous for Man of La Mancha. Brief ALS, no date, 1p. Accompanied by music sheet "The Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha. VG............50-75
234. LORD BERNARD DELFONT (1909-1994) British Impresario. In the 1950's and 1960's he was one of the most powerful men in the entertainment industry, along with his brother Lord Lew Grade. He showcased the Beatles for the first time - His organization like Sol Hurok of the US was legendary, to get top performers, productions etc. TLS dtd 12/2/76..............25-35
235. Sir Francis Palgrave [1788-1861] English historian. Clip signature mounted to card.........20-30
236. Licia Albanese [b.1913] Italian soprano. TLS, 1981............25-35
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237. [MUSIC] David Amram (b. 1930) American composer, musician, conductor, and writer. Brief ALS, no date, 1p.............25-35
238. [MUSIC] Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989) English composer. SIGNED 1976 FDC honoring music. Clean & attractive.........25-35
241. [MAINE] James B. Longley Sr. (1924-1980) American politician. He served as the 69th Governor of Maine from 1975 to 1979, and was the first Independent to hold the office. TLS, 1980, 1p. Good content. VG.................50-75 239. [FILM] JANET LEIGH (1927-2004) Actress. SIGNED inscribed 5x7 photograph. VG.........40-60 240. [FILM] BILL WILLIAMS (1915-1992) Actor. SIGNED inscribed 3x5 photograph. VG............40-60
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See above243. [MUSIC] Lorin Maazel [1930-2014] conductor, composer and violinist. Signed, inscribed 5x7 photo. VG.......25-35
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244. [FILM] Marsha Hunt (born 1917) is a retired American actress, model, and activist. She was blacklisted by Hollywood film studio executives in the 1950s during the McCarthyism. Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..............50-75
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245. [FILM] Edmund Lowe (1890-1971) American actor. His formative experience began in vaudeville and silent film. Signature with sentiment, approx. 4 x 2-1/4 in. VG................25-35
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246. Adrien Brody - AMERICAN ACTOR. He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2002), for which he became the youngest actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor at age 29. Signature........20-30
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247. (BRITISH LITERATURE LOT) SIR PHILLIP GIBBS (1877-1962) Journalist, Novelist. ALS (1928). RALPH HAMMOND INNES (1913-1998) Author, Novelist of over 30 books, as well as children’s books and travel books. ALS. ARNOLD WESKER (b.1932) Playwright. SIGNED card (1992). ROBERT CHALMERS (1802-1871) Scottish Journalist, editor, publisher highly popular in Victorian/Scottish circles. SIGNATURE, mounted to larger sheet with photograph of him and his famous brother William (1800-1883). EDWARD RICHARD RUSSELL, 1st Baron Russell of Liverpool (1834-1920) Journalist, Politician. ALS on pc (1883)(signed twice). SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH (17650-1832) Historian, Jurist, politician considered one of the most cultured men of his time. Clipped SIGNATURE. MARTIN DONISTHORPE ARMSTRONG (1882-1974) Poet, writer, Novelist. ALS (1930) 2pp.............80-120
248. [MUSIC] Eberhard Eyser (1932 - ) Germany composer. AMQS from his "King of Hearts." Approx. 9.5 x 4.5". VG..........50-75
249. [HOLLYWOOD/ENTERTAINERS LOT) HOPE HAMPTON (1897-1982) Actress in Silent Screen, socialite. SIGNATURE, on verso is WALTER KING (1899-1984) Actor. RANDY QUAID (1950) Actor. TLS. JESSE WHITE (1917-1997) Actor. SIGNED inscribed (2) 8x10 printed photographs. JACK PEARL (1894-1982) Actor and early star of Radio. SIGNED inscribed card. BEATRICE KAY (1907-1986) Actress. TNS (1974). BUDDY EBSEN (1908-2003) Actor, Dancer. SIGNED 8x10 photograph as Jed Clampett. MAX BAER JR (1937) & BUDDY EBSEN, SIGNED 8x10 photograph with Clampett Family. G-VG..............Min. Bid $50
250. (AMERICAN FILM STARS LOT) John Phillip Law (1937-2008) SIGNED 5x7 photograph – Betty FURNESS (1916-1994). TLS dated May 16, 1990 - Richard Maximillian Ney (1916- 2004) ALS 1992, with SIGNED, inscribed 4x4 photograph - Eddie Mayehoff (1909 –1992) TLS, 1990, with SIGNED print stock photograph, inscribed (folds) - Peter Lind Hayes (1915-1998-) &. Mary Healy (1918- ) ANS, by both on postcard, with Norman Rockwell portraits of them on front - Harold John Russell (1914 2002) SIGNED, inscribed 5x7 photograph (signed in dark area in red ink) - Nina Foch (1924- 2008). Signed, inscribed 8x10 photograph...........Min. Bid $50
251. [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
252. [FILM] Beatrice Gladys "Bea" Lillie (1894-1989) actress and comedic performer. Following her 1920 marriage to Sir Robert Peel in England, she was known in private life as Lady Peel. Brief ALS, 1933, 1p, 5 x 6-1/2". VG..........50-75
See portrait of Lillie253. (AMERICAN FILM NOTABLES) Florence George (1917-1998) Singer and Actress, she remained focused on radio, concerts, recordings and the stage, did some films. TLS, 1937. Glenn Anders (1889 – 1981) actor, most notable for his work on the stage. ANS. Constance Moore (1920- 2005) singer and actress. Her most noted work was in wartime musicals such as Show Business and Atlantic City and the classic 1939 movie serial Buck Rogers. SIGNATURE, with unsigned photo. Richard Webb (1915 –1993) film, television and radio actor, he appeared in over 50 films, and Television, his most famous TV Role “Captain Midnight”. SIGNATURE on which he has written “Captain Mdnite”. Henry Wilcoxon (1905 -1984) actor 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. SIGNATURE. Alice White (1904–1983) film actress. After playing a succession of flappers and gold diggers, she attracted the attention of the director and producer Mervyn LeRoy who saw potential in her. Her first sound films included Show Girl (1928) made in the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system, and Show Girl in Hollywood (1930) in the Western Electric sound-on-film process, both released by Warner Brothers and both based on novels by J. P. McEvoy. In these two films, White appeared as "Dixie Dugan". SIGNATURE 1979. Bayard Veiller (1869–1943) screenwriter, producer and film director. He wrote for 32 films between 1915 and 1941. ANS 1940.........Min. Bid $50
254. [MUSIC] Irving Caesar (1895-1996) American lyricist and theater composer who wrote lyrics for numerous song standards including "Swanee," "Sometimes I'm Happy," "Crazy Rhythm," and "Tea for Two," one of the most frequently recorded tunes ever written. He was born and died in New York. In 1972 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. TLS, NY, 1972, 1p, 7-1/4 x 10-1/2 in. Mentions Jean Dalrymple (1902-1998) the theatre producer, manager. His typewriter ribbon needed more ink...............60-80
See above255. [TV] Beverly Garland (1926-2008) American film and television actress. She may be best remembered as Barbara Harper Douglas, the woman who married widower Steve Douglas (Fred MacMurray) in the latter years of the beloved sitcom My Three Sons. She played that role from 1969 until the series ended in 1972. Signed & inscribed 8x10 color photo plus ANS signed with initials. Two signed items..................25-35
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256. (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
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257. [FILM] Iron Eyes Cody (born Espera Oscar de Corti April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999) was a Sicilian-American actor. He portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films. He also played an Indian shedding a tear about litter in one of the country's most well-known television PSAs, "Keep America Beautiful". In 1996, Cody's half-sister said that he was actually of Italian ancestry, but he denied it. Brief Autograph Note Signed on postcard dated May 14, 1990. VG................50-75
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258. [THEATRE] Sir Francis Robert Benson (1858-1939) British actor and theatre manager. He founded his own company in 1883 and produced all but two of Shakespeare's plays. He was notable for producing at Oxford the first performance of a Greek play, the Agamemnon, in which many Oxford men who afterwards became famous in other fields took part. Signed vintage postcard photograph..........35-45
259. (AMERICAN LITERARY NOTABLES LOT) LAURA KEAN ZEMTKIN HOBSON (1900-1986) novelist noted for “Gentleman’s Agreement”. SIGNED, inscribed card . DON CARLOS SEITZ (1862-1935) Author, correspondent, newspaper manager. SIGNATURE, inscribed to Cartoonist Rollin Kirby(1875-1952). GEORGE FYLER TOWNSEND (1814-1900) author, translator of “Aesop’s Fables”. ALS (1850). ELIZABETH WILLIAMS CHAMPNEY (1850-1922) Author. SIGNATURE on card. MARTHA ALBRAND (1914-1981) Novelist of over 40 books. SIGNED card (1962). JANOS BEKESSY, known as HANS HABE (1911-1977) Hungarian born American writer, publisher. ALS on postcard (1977). IRVIN S. COBB (1876-1944) Author, humorist, columnist. SIGNATURE. ANNE HOLLINGSWORTH WHARTON (1845-1928) Novelist, writer. SIGNATURE mounted to card.................80-120
260. [FILM] John Carroll [1906-1979] American actor. SIGNED, inscribed printed portrait picture, 5 x 7. VG......25-35
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261. SPORTS SIGNED SHEET from the Michael Bolton Celebrity Softball Challenge (1997) SIGNED by 13: KYLE ROTE (1928-2002) Football THOMAS W. BROWN (1940) Football RON WALLER (1933) Football MIKE MEADE (1960) Football MICHAEL SANDOR SOMMER (1934) Football CHET HANULAK (1928) Football DIONNA HARRIS (1968) Olympic Gold Champion others unidentified...........50-75
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262. Irving Bacheller [1859-1950] American writer. Brief AQS.......40-60
264. 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
263. Ernesto Rossi (1897 - 1967) Italian politician, journalist and anti-fascist activist. His ideas contributed to the Partito d'Azione, and subsequently the Partito Radicale co-authur of the Ventotene Manifesto. Signed card, 1881............20-30
265. William T. Moncrieff [1794-1857] English dramatist. Signature in form of return address............20-30
266. Philip Berrigan (1923-2002) was an internationally renowned American peace activist, Christian anarchist and former Roman Catholic priest. Along with his brother Daniel Berrigan, he was for a time on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for acts of vandalism including destruction of government property. Signature, inscribed on 3x5 card........20-30
267. [FRANCE] J. A. Coulangheon [1875-1904] French, author, poet. His output was small, as he died young. Rare signature............50-75
268. [BRITAIN] Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake (1809-1893) British author, art critic and art historian who was the first woman to write regularly for the Quarterly Review. She is known not only for her writing, but also for her significant role in the London art world while her husband, Sir Charles Eastlake, was director of the National Gallery there. Signature with sentiment clipped from letter. Mounted. VG.........40-60
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269. Steve Forbes [b. 1947] ran for president. ISP, color 8x10.....20-30
270. [FILM] Charles Farrell (1901-1990) notable American film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor. Farrell is probably best recalled for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor in more than a dozen films, including Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and Lucky Star. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1952, 4pp. Contract with William Morris Agency. Signed on final page. VG...........75-100
271. [NOBEL PRIZE] Tjalling Charles Koopmans (1910-1985) was the joint winner, with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Economics. SIGNATURE on slip.......25-35
272. [MUSIC-THEATRE] Frederick Solomon - American composer, conductor. Known for his work on Broadway. ANS, 1925 on card.............Min. Bid $10
273. [THEATRE] Ethel Irving [1869-1963] British actress [not related to Henry Irving]. She created at Daly's Theatre [1902] the part of Sophie in A Country Girl. Another important role she played was Pamela Tuckwell in "What Pamela Wanted" at the Criterion Theatre. ALS, April 12, no yr., written on both sides of Criterion Theatre stationery which also says "Miss Ethel Irving's Season." Light scattered toning..............50-75
274. [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
275. [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
276. [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
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277. [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
278. 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
279. 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
280. [MUSIC] Noel Paul Stookey (b. 1937) singer-songwriter best known as "Paul" in the folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary. ANS, no date, accompanied by unsigned music sheet "PUFF"..........40-60
281. [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
282. Robert Collyer (1823-1912) English-born American Unitarian clergyman. ALS, 1884, 1p......60-80
283. Maurice Hewlett (1861-1923) English historical novelist, poet and essayist. ALS, 1912. 1p......50-75
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284. 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
285. [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
286. (20th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE) FLOYD GIBBONS (1887-1939) celebrated War Journalist, correspondent, writer. SIGNATURE on CARD. DOMINICK J. DUNNE (1925-2009) Writer, novelist, journalist. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 portrait photograph. BARRY COMMONER (1917-2012) Writer, biologist, ecosocialist. SIGNED 5x7, inscr8bed photograph. LAURA BENET (1884-1979) Poet and sister of William Rose and Stephen Vincent Benet. ALS (1962) 4pp. ABIGAIL VAN BUREN (Pauline Phillips)(1918-2013) writer, columnist [Dear Abby]. TLS “Abby”...............80-120
287. DIRECTORS & PRODUCERS] Charles Bennett (1899-1995) English playwright, screenwriter and director probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock. SIGNED 3x5 card. Joseph Anthony (1912-1993) American playwright, actor, and director. He made his film acting debut in the 1934 film Hat, Coat, and Glove and his theatrical acting debut in a 1935 production of Mary of Scotland. On five occasions he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction. Signed 3x5 card. "Pat" Weaver (1908- 2002) American radio advertising executive, who became president of NBC between 1953 and 1955. He has been credited with reshaping commercial broadcasting's format and philosophy as radio gave way to television as America's dominant home entertainment. His daughter is actress Sigourney Weaver. ANS dated 1990. Alan Badel (1923-1982) English stage actor who also appeared frequently in the cinema, radio and television and was noted for his richly textured voice which was once described as "the sound of tears". Signed 3x5 card. Carroll Shepplin - director. Signed 3x5 card. Marilyn Jacobs Tenser - American film producer. Signed card. Lawrence Turman (b.1926) American film producer. Signed card. Andrew J. Fenady - film producer. Brief ALS, 1988. Robert Thompson - producer The Paper Chase. Signed card. Roland Kibbee (1914-1984) American screenwriter and producer. Signed card. Alan Schneider (1917-1984) American theatre director. Signature. Plus signature of Allen A. Shaw, director. VG...............Min. Bid $50
288. [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
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289. William K. Vanderbilt (1849-1920) member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family and a horse breeder. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1907, approx. 22 pages, 8x13 in. Signed on last page by Vanderbilt and Franklin D. Locke as Trustees selling parcels of land located in Chautauqua County, New York, to Guaranty Trust Co.. The front page has old badly discolored tape repair.........200-300
290. [FILM] Joseph E. Levine (1905-1987) American film producer. At the time of his death it was said he was involved in 497 movies as a producer, distributor or financier. These included The Lion in Winter, The Night Porter, The Producers, The Graduate, and Carnal Knowledge; he was also responsible for the US releases of Godzilla, King of the Monsters! and Hercules, which helped revolutionize film marketing. TLS, signed Joe, 1965, 1p. He sends copy of Romain Gary's novel "The Ski Bum." Says Embassy Pictures has acquired the motion picture rights to this property. VG.............75-100
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291. Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959) was a prolific English-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet. TLS, 1958, 1p, sending appreciation for a Christmas greeting he had received. Fine............50-75
292 [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
293. STUART CHASE (1888-1985) American Economist/Consumer Activist/Man of Letters. From 1922 to 1939, Chase was a director of the New York-based Labor Bureau, Inc., an organization that furnished research, accounting, and other professional services to labor unions and cooperatives and published a newsletter.Chase and Frederick John Schlink were the founders of Consumers' Research. Schlink established Consumers' Research, Inc. They published the famous book Your Money's Worth(1927), a controversial exposé of the advertising and pricing practices used by manufacturers of consumer products. This work was widely distributed through the Book-of-the-Month Club In 1929, two months after the Wall Street crash, the organization began to publish its findings both as consumer pamphlets and in a regular bulletin that compared and assigned ratings to consumer products. These reports were eventually published in the Handbook of Buying. By 1930, membership in Consumers' Research, Inc. had reached twelve thousand.. He was the author of hundreds of papers and articles for over 60 years. ANS dtd Dec 1980.................30-40
294 Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901) was a novelist and historian from London. His sister-in-law was Annie Besant. ALS, 1882, 1p. Mounted to another sheet.........50-75
295. [MAINE] Jim Longley (1924-1980) American politician. He served as the 69th Governor of Maine from 1975 to 1979, and was the first Independent to hold the office. Signed Inaugural Address booklet, Jan. 2, 1975, along with unsigned Governor of Maine coaster. VG............40-60
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296. Edmund Blunden [1896-1974] English, poet, author. Signed Presentation/edition page from his book "Near & Far" 1929. Fine.............25-35
297. [MUSIC] Pierre Luboshutz [1891-1971] Russian-American pianist. Signed card, with sentiment written in different hand.......25-35
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302. [ENTERTAINMENT] Steve Allen (1921-2000) American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, writer, and advocate of scientific skepticism. He achieved notability as the first host of The Tonight Show, the first late night talk show, in 1954. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..............30-40 298. [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
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299. [ENTERTAINMENT] Marty Allen (b. 1922) American stand-up comedian, actor, and veteran of World War II. He has worked as a comedy headliner in nightclubs and as a dramatic actor in TV roles. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.............30-50
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300. [MUSIC] Roy Clark (1933-2018) American country music musician and performer. He is best known for hosting Hee Haw Show. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.............25-35
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301. ENTERTAINMENT] Bill Dana (1924-2017) American comedian, actor, and screenwriter. He often appeared on television shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show, frequently in the guise of a heavily accented Bolivian character named José Jiménez. Dana often portrayed the Jiménez character as an astronaut. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG............25-35
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302. [ENTERTAINMENT] Steve Allen (1921-2000) American television personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian, writer, and advocate of scientific skepticism. He achieved notability as the first host of The Tonight Show, the first late night talk show, in 1954. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..............30-40 See above
303. [ENTERTAINMENT] Minnie Pearl (1912-1996) American country comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (from 1940 to 1991) and on the television show Hee Haw from 1969 to 1991. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG............40-60
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304. [MUSIC] Mel Tillis (1932-2017) American country music singer. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s, with a long list of Top 10 hits. Signed 8x10 photo. Signed in dark area. VG........25-35
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305. George Parsons Lathrop (1851-1898) American poet, novelist, and newspaper editor. He married Nathaniel Hawthorne's daughter, Rose Hawthorne. ALS, 1895, 1p., to Joseph Marshall Stoddart (1845-1921) Editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine from 1886 to 1894 and later of the New Science Review. Laid to thick album mount page....................75-100
306. [FILM] Sophia Loren (b. 1934) actress. Signed 4-1/4 x 5-3/4 in. picture. VG.............25-35
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307. [ENTERTAINMENT] Ed Asner (b. 1929) American actor, voice actor and a former president of the Screen Actors Guild. He is primarily known for his role as Lou Grantduring the 1970s and early 1980s, on both The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off series Lou Grant, making him one of the few television actors to portray the same leading character in both a comedy and a drama. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.............40-60
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308. [BASKETBALL] The Harlem Wizards - color 8x10 photo signed by 3 members. VG...................25-35
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309. [MUSIC] Frederick Nicholls [b.1871] British composer. AMQS, no date, 3 bars of music from "A Song For Thee." 9x5".............75-100
330. (AMERICAN LITERARY NOTABLES LOT) JULIAN LEONARD STREET (1879-1947) Author, journalist. ALS (1947) on postcard. ALFRED ALISTAIR COOKE (1908-2004) Journalist, broadcaster, author. SIGNATURE, inscribed . ELLIN BERLIN (1903-1988) Novelist, songwriter, wife of Irving Berlin. ALS on her personal card. FRANK WELCH CROWNINSHIELD (1872-1947) French born American Critic, journalist, credited for developing and editing “Vanity Fair Magazine. TLS , 1936) as editor. MARY RODGERS (1931-2014), author of children’s books, composer daughter of Richard Rodgers. SIGNED, inscribed bookmark (1983). FRANCIS MARION CRAWFORD (1854-1909) Novelist. ANS on card (1904). AGNES REPPLIER (1855-1950) Essayist. ALS (1911)...............Min Bid $50 310. [Film] JOHN AGAR (1921-2002) Am. He appeared in some sixty motion pictures and some one hundred television shows. First husband of Shirley Temple. Onscreen in 1948 in such films as Fort Apache, Sands of Iwo Jima, She Wore A Yellow Ribbon, Along the Great Divide, Big Jake, others. ALS, no date...............30-50
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311. (British Literature) Leonard Alfred George Strong (1896 – 1958) highly popular novelist, critic, historian and poet, and published under the name "L. A. G. Strong." TLS, 1950, 1p. Laurence Meynell (1899-1989) writer, journalist and estate agent who also wrote as Valerie Baxter, Robert Eton, Geoffrey Ludlow and A Stephen Tring. ALS, 1945 5pp. Sir Sidney James Mark Low (1857-1932) journalist, historian, and essayist. He was the editor of the St. James's Gazette from 1888 to 1897, and was a leader writer and literary editor for the Standard. He was the paper's special correspondent on a number of occasions, covering such events as the visit of the Price of Wales to India, the coronation of Haakon VII of Norway and the Hague Conference of 1907. During the First World War he was a journalist in France and Italy, and edited the wireless service of the Ministry of Information. ALS, 1920. Euphemia Margaret Tait (1866-1946) Mystery Novelist – She used a pseud of John Ironside under this name she wrote 8 novels including her famous “The Call Box Mystery”. ALS as (John Ironside), 1909, 1p (trimmed on left side). Frederick Edward de Neuflize "Eric" Ponsonby, 10th Earl of Bessborough (1913- 1993) diplomat, businessman, playwright, Conservative politician, and peer. He was the author of plays and other works. SIGNED House of Lords card, 1989 (4x6). George Emlyn Williams, CBE (1905- 1987) Welsh dramatist and actor. In addition to stage plays, Williams wrote a number of film screenplays, working with Alfred Hitchcock (on The Man Who Knew Too Much), signed 1959 program. Ida A.R. Wylie (1885-1959) SIGNED 5x3 card, 1953...............80-120
312. [MUSIC] Paul Williams (b.1940)) American musician, composer, songwriter and actor. Signed bank check, 1977. VG...........25-35
313. (AMERICAN POLITICIANS/PUBLIC SERVANTS LOT) CLYDE A. TOLSON (1900-1975) Assistant and Acting Director of FBI, “Close Associate” of J. Edgar Hoover – SIGNED inscribed FBI career Opportunities Brochure, dated (1973). RUTH HANNA McCORMICK SIMMS (1880-1944) US Rep from Illinois. Signature [mounting traces]. GEORGE FRISBIE HOAR (1826-1904) US Senator from Massachusetts. CLIPPED SIGNATURE. SAMUEL LELAND POWERS (1848-1929) US Rep from Massachusetts. Signature. THURLOW WEED (1797-1882) New York Political Boss. SIGNATURE. STYLES BRIDGES (1898-1961) US Senator from NH, Pres. ran for President in 1944. TLS (1948). JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV (b.1937) US Senator from West Virginia. TLS (1973). Good-VG............60-80
314. [SCIENCE] JAMES A. VAN ALLEN (1914-2006) American Space Scientist. The Van Allen radiation belts around the earth are named after him. TLS (2002), 1p. Brief biographical content...........40-60
315. (BRITISH LITERATURE LOT) (8) SIGNATURES IN VARIOUS FORMS. DAME ROSE MACAULAY (1881-1958). SIR JOHN PENTLAND MAHAFFY (1839-1919) Irish Classical Scholar, writer. WILLIAM MASON (1724-1797) Poet, Editor, gardener. WILLIAM BABINGTON MAXWELL (1866-1938) Novelist. GILBERT MURRAY (1866-1957) Classical Scholar, writer. HENRY ARTHUR JONES (1851-1929) Dramatist. WILLIAM HONE (1780-1842) Satirist, writer and bookseller. GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE (1817-1906...........Min. Bid $35
316. (American Sports Figures/ Celebrites ) A large grouping of 20 Sports Figures who have all signed the Golf Score cards will playing for a Golf Tournement : SIGNED by: Peter T. Wills, football, Jack Marin, Football, Tom Dreesen, comedian, Richard Rhoden, Golfer, Robert Tichenal, Football Coach, William S. Humphries, Football, Bruce Brooks, Author, Richard Anderson, Football, Charles Wasserman, Hollwood director, David McNally, baseball, Michael Caruso, baseball, Clark Gillies, hockey, Ed Mariano, Actor, Football, Jeremy Roenick, hockey,Steven Bartkowksi, football, George Alvareyz, Actor, Michael Eruzione, hockey, Shane Rawley, baseball, John Congemei, football, Albert Del Greco, football, Craig Nettles, baseball, Steven Gatlin, Signer (Gatlin Bros), Neil Lomax, football, Craig Hentrich, Football, Tommy Moore, comedian, John Kidd, football, Philip Smith, basketball, Robert Remus, wrestler, Kenneth Harrelson, baseball.........Min. Bid $60
317. [MUSIC] Elis Pehkonen (1942 - ) English composer. AMQS from his "Russian Requiem" Closing Theme, 3rd movement. Approx. 9 x 4"/ VG............50-75
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318. [FILM] Fay Bainter (1893-1968) American film and stage actress. Bainter quickly achieved success, and in 1938 she became the first performer nominated for both the Academy Award for Best Actress, for White Banners (1937), and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Jezebel (1938), winning for the latter. Since then, only nine other actors have won dual nominations in a single year. She was again nominated for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Children's Hour (1961). ALS, no date, 1p. To Franklyn Lenthall - actor, director, producer, curator of the Boothbay Theater Museum [Maine]. "My dear Mr. Lenthall - How can I thank you for your wonderful letter - It helps a lot - I shall keep on trying until I get something to please everyone - Good luck to you - Please don't give up - Sincerely Fay Bainter." Written on Hotel Astor, NYC, letterhead. VG...........80-120
319. [CLOWNS] Duane "Uncle Soapy" Thorpe [1925-1995] American clown inducted into the Clown Hall of Fame in 2000. Wonderful 4 pages ALS, written in 1994 from Spain. Written to friends back in Florida he talks about the famous clow, Lou Jacobs, and his fear of ending up in a nursing home. He begins by saying he is disappointed from not being elected into the Clown Hall of Fame. He would be elected after his death. Mentions letter he got from John Ringling North II about a plaque for his father. Besides the envelope he includes 6 color photos of Spain with his descriptions on their backs. VG...............60-80
320. [FRANCE] LETTRES PATENTES DU ROI [of the king], signed Louis in print, dated 1790, 2pp, approx. 7-3/4 x 9-3/4". VG..........100-150
321. [OPERA] Dame Emma Albani, DBE (1847-1930) was a leading opera soprano of the 19th century and early 20th century, and the first Canadian singer to become an international star. AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED written in French, dated 1886, approx. 5 x 2.5 in. Mounting traces show...............50-75
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322. [FILM] Joseph Johnson Dowling (1850-1928) American stage and silent film actor. As a young boy, Dowling served as a drummer in Company G of the 29th Iowa Infantry during the Civil War. Offered here is a clipped pencil signature glued to larger card. Written in pencil below signature is "Excercized Mr. Dowlings horse in front of old Lyceum Theatre - Brooklyn." Overall 4-1/4 x 3-1/2 in. Most of the pencil writing is light [poor contrast]. Very scarce....................25-35
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323. [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
324. (HOLLYWOOD/ENTERAINERS) EDWARD ARNOLD (1890-1956) Actor. SIGNATURE with wife Olive from guest book. PAT HINGLE (1924-2009) Actor. SIGNED inscribed Theater Broadside “An Evening with Thomas Edison”. LEA SALONGA (b.1971) Actress/Singer. SIGNED CARD. JEAN KENT (1921-2013) British Actress. ALS. CHARLES KORVIN (1907-1998) Actor. ALS. JOSEPH CAWTHORN (1868-1949) Stage and Film Comic Star famous for “Whiffenpoof”. SIGNED card (1919). EDWARD ASNER (b.1929) Actor SIGNED inscribed 5x7 photograph. HARVEY FIERSTEIN (b.1954) Actor, Singer, Playwright, Pulitzer Prize. SIGNED inscribed printed sheet. CARLETON CARPENTER (b. 1926) Actor, Novelist. SIGNED & inscribed card (1990)..................75-100
325. (AMERICAN POLITICIANS/PUBLIC SERVANTS LOT) 1. (HENRY) STYLES BRIDGES (1898-1961) US Senator from NH, Pres. Pro Tempe of the Senate, ran for President in 1944. TLS (1946) concerning the Selective Service Act. 2. PAUL C. WARNKE (1920-2001) Diplomat. SIGNED CARD. 3. WILLIAM HENRY THOMPSON (1853-1937) US Senator from Nebraska. SIGNED vintage 5x7 photograph in photo folder. 4. THURLOW WEED (1797-1882) New York Political Boss. SIGNATURE. 5. THOMAS TURLOCK (1820-1883) Governor of NH. SIGNATURE clipped from document as NH Sec. of State. 6. NANCY TUCKERMAN – White House Staff coordinator, and Assistant and best friend to Jacqueline Kennedy. TLS (1984). 7. ED KOCH (1924-2012) US Rep, Mayor of NYC. TLS (2001)...............70-90
326. (AMERICAN LITERARY NOTABLES LOT) VINCENT SHEEAN (1899-1975) Journalist, writer. TLS (1973). RUPERT HUGHES (1872-1956) Historian, novelist, director, composer. SIGNATURE with 2 line sentiment for Fulton Ousler (1893-1952) the noted Novelist. GEORGE CREEL (1876-1953) noted Investigative Journalist. SIGNATURE on collectors card (1921). HENRIETTE BUCKMASTER (1909-1983) Novelist. TLS. HELEN KNOTHE NEARING (1904-1983) cookbook author with husband Scott. SIGNED book jacket form their book “Simple Food for the Good Life” signed on verso with her photo and that of her husband in which she writes his name too. SCOTT NEARING (1883-1983) Radical economist, educator, activist, author. CLIPPPED SIGNATURE. ALICE HEGAN RICE (1870-1942) Novelist. ALS 1940 on postcard......Min Bid $55
327. (Opera Lot) VIRGILIO BELLATI (1869-1917) Italian Opera Baritone and conductor. He made in 1892 at La Pergola in Florence in Pescatori di Perle. He enjoyed excellent reputation and had a long career. In 1894 he performed in the new opera of Leoncavallo "I Medici" at the Dal Verme in Milan and later in Naples in the role of Poliziano. In 1896 he was the first Schaunard in Genoa at the Politeama Genovese. In 1899 he took part in a very long tour in the United States. In 1901 he was cast in the first of the new Scala opera of Mascagni "The Masks" His career ended in 1917, the year of his death. SIGNED early Postcard Photograph [poor contrast]. Harry Dearth ( ? -1933) English Opera Star - a high basso. Active in opera, oratorio and concerts, Dearth made more than 225 recordings, mostly fascinating ballads. CLIPPED SIGNATURE. H. GREGORY HAST (1862-1944) English tenor who founded the Meister Glee-Singers in 1890. He was a member of the choirs of both Westminister Abbey and the Temple Church. Hast became a noted recitalist following his St. James's Hall debut in 1898 touring in both America and Europe. SIGNATURE. Anton Schott (1846 - 1913) German dramatic tenor. e began his studies with Agnes Schebest-Strauss, and by the end of the year had already appeared at the Munich Opera. The following year saw him engaged as leading lyric tenor of the Berlin Opera. In 1880 he made his London debut, in the title role of Rienzi; two years later he went to Italy with Angelo Neumann's company to appear in the works of Richard Wagner. He made his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera on, 1884, singing the title role of Wagner's Tannhäuser; it marked the beginning of Leopold Damrosch's first season of German opera with the company. SIGNATURE, 1889. Luigi Ravelli (1848-?) Italian Opera Singer. SIGNED card, 1881. Ruggero Raimondi (1941) Italian bass-baritone opera singer who has also appeared in motion pictures. SIGNED 4x6 photo in “Tosca”. Frances Lillian Bible (1919 –2001) American operatic mezzo-soprano who had a thirty-year long career at the New York City Opera between 1948 and 1978. SIGNED album page. Marguerite Piazza (1921 -2012) American soprano, entertainer and philanthropist. SIGNATURE from address return on envelope (large signature). Marcia Baldwin (b.1939) Met Opera mezzo soprano. SIGNED Album page..........75-100
328. [THEATRE] Neil Burgess [1846-1910] Vaudevillian comedian who specialized in female impersonations. Signature.........20-30
329. George Grote [1794-1871] Brit. historian. Clip signature...........20-30
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331. [SIGNATURES OF WRITERS] Mixed lot: [1] EDWARD EGGLESTON [1837-1902] American author. Bible agent and Methodist pastor in Minnesota (1858-66); editor of Little Corporal (1866-67), National Sunday School Teacher (1867-73), Hearth and Home (1871-72); author of novels. SIGNATURE, 1891, with sentiment on card. [2] Horace Annesley Vachell (1861-1955) prolific English writer. SIGNATURE with sentiment. [3] Phyllis Bottome (1884-1963) British novelist and short story writer. Signed inscription in her handwriting removed from unidentified book reading: "July 30th 1949. To the Mark Twain Society from its devoted member and daughter Phyllis Bottome." [4] John Drinkwater [1882-1937] Eng. poet. Signature, 1925. [5] Frederik Pohl [b.1919] sci-fi writer. Signed/inscribed 3x5 card, 1987. [6] Augustus Thomas [1859-1934] Am. playwright. Sig./sentiment 1908. [7] Frank R. Stockton [1834-1902] Am. writer & humorist. Clip sig. [8] John Godfrey Saxe [1816-1887] Am. poet. Signature, Brooklyn, NY. Soiled. [9] Wm. H.C. Hosmer [1814-1877] Am. poet. Signature, 1874. [10] James Lane Allen [1849-1925] Am. novelist. Signature.........Min. Bid $50
332. (THEATER ACTRESSES LOT) VIVIAN DUNCAN (1897-1986) of the famous Duncan Sisters. SIGNED, counter check document, inscribed. BESSIE CLAYTON (1878-1950) SIGNATURE. ANDREA McARDLE (1963) Annie Star ANS, with (2) signed postcard photos signed on verso. INA CLAIRE (1893-1985) ANS on card, mounted to larger sheet. MARIE WAINWRIGHT (1853-1923) She played the first “Josephine” in HMS PINAFORE SIGNATURE(1892) toned & soiled. JULIA MARLOWE (1865-1950) SIGNATURE. BLANCHE WHIFFEN (Mrs. Thomas Whiffen) (1845-1936) SIGNATURE (1902).......50-75
333. [POETS] Lot of 5 signed pieces: [1] Rod McKuen - signed 1977 FDC. [2] Gerard P. Meyer [1900-1983] ANS, 1945, to the pote Louise Bogan [1897-1970]. [3] Park Benjamin [1809-1864] signature mounted. [4] Conrad Aiken [1889-1973] clip signature. [5] Percy MacKaye [1875-1956] signed card..........50-75
334. [MUSIC] AMERICAN CLASSICAL COMPOSERS - includes: FREDERICK SHEPHERD CONVERSE (1871-1940) composer & ARCHIBALD T. DAVISON (1883-1961) Composer, musicologist & T.W. SURCETTE (1883-1961) author of music, all 3 have SIGNED a decision of judges sheet in pencil. ROBERT SUTTON WHITNEY (1904-1986) Composer/Conductor. SIGNED greeting card (1984). DEEMS TAYLOR (1885-1966) Composer. TLS (1942). LOUIS CHARLES ELSON (1848-1920) Composer, critic. SIGNED card. PAUL NORDOFF (1909-1977) Composer and music therapist. TLS (1941) signed “Paul”. WILLIAM SHUMAN (1910-1992) Pulitzer Prize Composer. TLS (1982) mounting traces...........60-80
335. (AMERICAN LITERARY NOTABLES LOT) ERNEST KELLOGG GANN (1910-1991) Author, filmmaker. TLS (1986) signed with his initials. WILLIAM COWPER PRIME (1825-1905) Journalist, art historian, numismatist. ALS (1886) 2pp. CHARLES FLEISCHER (1871-1942) American Divine, writer. ALS (1908). MICHAEL T. FLORINSKY (1895-1981) Russian born American Historian, economist. TLS (1962). JOHN FISKE (1842-1901) Historian, philosopher. SIGNED card. MORGAN DIX (1827-1908) Theologian, writer, author. AQS..............60-80
336. PEGGY STEWART (1923- ) American Actress. Her family moved to California in the mid '30s, where she made the acquaintance of character actor Henry O'Neill. Aware that Paramount Pictures was looking for a new face to play the part of Joel McCrea's and Frances Dee's daughter in Wells Fargo (1936), O'Neill recommended Stewart. The assignment led to numerous other roles for the teenaged actress, who by the end of 1940 was not only established in Hollywood but the wife of actor Don "Red" Barry (Stewart was also the sister-in-law of another actor, Wayne Morris). At about the time her marriage was breaking up in 1944, Stewart signed with Republic Studios, where, starting with Tucson Raiders (1944), she became resident leading lady for many of Republic's western stars. She also appeared in serials at Republic but preferred westerns because the shooting schedules were shorter and she was able to wear a more varied wardrobe. Leaving Republic in 1948, she freelanced until 1953, when she briefly gave up acting to become a casting director at NBC television. SIGNED/inscribed 8x10 photograph with sentiment...........25-35
337. [OPERA] ANNIE LOUISE CARY (1842-1921) American Operatic Soprano. Born in Wayne, Maine After studying abroad, she made her debut in New York in 1870, singing with Nilsson, Brignoli, and Vieuxtenips. Her success with the public was instantaneous, and for years she was a favorite singer in the United States. In 1873, she created, in New York, the part of Amneris in Aida, and her tours in Russia in 1875-1877 were a series of continuous triumphs. In 1882 she married Chas. M. Raymond, of Brooklyn, and retired from public life, only occasionally singing for charity. SIGNATURE dtd March 7, 1879.............20-30
338. [FILM] Charles Starrett (1903-1986) American actor best known for his starring role in the Durango Kid western series. When he retired he held the record for starring in the longest-running string of feature films (131 titles, half of them being "Durango Kid" films, for Columbia Pictures). Signed 8x10 photo as the Durango Kid. VG...............50-75
339.
[BASEBALL] Robin Roberts [1926-2010] Baseball Hall of Fame. Signed 1p. form, no date, 8.5 x 11. Sent by a Sports company in Wellesley, Mass. regarding the signing of baseballs. The players were given a number of choices to respond to - Roberts has checked "Send me a sample of the finished product, and he signs and writes in Florida address. Mail creases and 2 file holes at top..........35-45
Side note about Robin Roberts: Robin Roberts, from around 1946-1950, used to hang out in my family home in East Lansing, Michigan when I was a young kid. Believe it or not but he didn't play baseball while attending Michigan State U. but did play basketball. We rented out rooms to MSU students back then.
340. [BASEBALL] Bob Lemon [1920-2000] Baseball Hall of Fame. Signed 1p. form, no date, 8.5 x 11. Sent by a Sports company in Wellesley, Mass. regarding the signing of baseballs. The players were given a number of choices to respond to - Lemon has checked "I am interested in your offer. Please send a ball for me sign so that I can see the finished product. " Mail creases............35-45
341. [FILM] June Allyson (1917-2006) American actress. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.......40-60
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342. KEN BERRY (1933-2018) American comedic actor. Signed document - application for Membership in AFTRA, dated 1-5-1957............30-40
343. [MUSIC] Celedonio Romero (1913-1996) was a guitarist, composer and poet, perhaps best known as the founder of The Romeros guitar quartet. Signed concert program. Also signed by Celin Romero (b. 1936) classical guitarist and member of the guitar quartet the Romeros. He is the eldest son of Celedonio Romero, who in 1957 left Franco's Spain for the United States with his family. Four pages; mounting residue on back page.............50-75
344. [MUSIC] Alexander Brailowsky (1896-1976) Ukrainian French pianist who specialized in the works of Frederic Chopin. He was a leading concert pianist in the years between the two World Wars. Signed 1929 Berkeley Musical Association broadside, 5-1/4 x 10-3/4 in. VG..............50-75
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345. [THEATRE] Violet Vanbrugh (1867-1942) English actress who had a career spanning more than 50 years. Despite her many successes, her career was overshadowed by that of her more famous sister Irene Vanbrugh. Signed, with sentiment, postcard real photo, approx. 3-1/2 x 5-1/4 in. Unsigned note on verso. VG.............40-60 Scan 1 Scan 2 346. Nathan Lewis Miller (1868-1953) was an American lawyer and politician who was the 43rd Governor of New York from 1921 to 1922. Document Signed, bank check dated 1921. $100 from the Adjutant General's Office, State of New York. Fine example...........40-60
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347. Robert Stack [1919-2003] actor. ANS, nd. re: his autobiography..........20-30
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348. (BRITISH LITERATURE LOT) (8) SIGNATURES of noted British Literary Figures in various forms. NAOMI M. MITCHISON (1897-1999) Scottish Novelist. ROBERT MONTGOMERY (1807-1855) Poet. BENJAMIN HALL KENNEDY (1804-1880) Scholar, Writer . MARK LEMON (1809-1870) Editor of PUNCH, lyricist, song writer. ROSAMOND LEHMANN (1901-1990) Novelist. SIR SIDNEY LEE (1859-1926) Biographer, Critic. CHRISTOPHER FRY (1907-2005) Playwright. ERIC R. R. LINKLATER (1899-1974) Novelists, writer......75-100
349. [MUSIC] Gerard Schwarz (b.1947) American conductor. He was music director of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from 1985 to 2011. His numerous awards include Musical America's Conductor of the Year in 1994 (the first American to win that award), 13 Grammy nominations, and 3 Emmy nominations (2 of which resulted in Emmy wins) for his performance of Mozart's Requiem on Live from Lincoln Center and performances with the Seattle Symphony on PBS. He received Seattle's City of Music Outstanding Achievement Award for 2010. Signed 8x10 photo. VG......25-35
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350. [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
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351. [NASA] William H. Pickering (1910-2004) was a New Zealand born rocket scientist who headed Pasadena, California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for 22 years, retiring in 1976. He was a senior NASA luminary and pioneered the exploration of space. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..............50-75
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352. 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.........20-30353. [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
354. Samantha Reed Smith (1972-1985) was an American schoolgirl, peace activist and child actress from Manchester, Maine, who became famous during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1982, Smith wrote a letter to the newly appointed CPSU General Secretary Yuri Andropov, and received a personal reply with a personal invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which she accepted. SIGNED [on verso] color photo of Samantha and her puppy playing in the snow. Also included is an unsigned Russian First Day Cover honoring Samantha stamp. VG..............50-75
355. Bert Parks (1914-1992) American actor, singer, and radio and television announcer and host, best known as the longtime host (1955-1979) of the annual Miss America telecast. Signed 8x11 photo. VG............25-35
356. Howard Cosell (1918-1995) American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of himself, "Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. There's no question that I'm all of those things." TLS, no date, 1p., to "Dear IDS People." "Frank, Don, and I are delighted that you're joining our notable list of sponsors on ABC's NFL Monday Night Football...." VG.........50-75
357. Perceval Landon (1868-1927) English writer and journalist, now best remembered for his classic and much reprinted ghost story "Thurnley Abbey". ALS, 1903, 2pp, Sent from Cambodia to recipient sending a most sincere sympathy letter on the loss of their son at war. Apparently the boy was MIA. He also mentions that he is sure that Rudyyard Kipling has also sent his condelonces......75-100See above
358. [MUSIC] Carl Wendling [1875-1962] German violinist. Signature...........25-35
359. [FILM] Ann Blyth (b. 1928) is an American actress and singer, often cast in Hollywood musicals, but also successful in dramatic roles. For her performance as Veda Pierce in the 1945 film Mildred Pierce, Blyth was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. She is one of the last surviving stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Signed 9 x 8 in. photo plus sheet music [not signed] frpom the movie with Mario Lanza THE GREAT CARUSO, the song The Loveliest Night of the Year. Both very good...............40-60
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360. Dr. Rhoda Bubendey Metraux (1914–2003), was a prominent anthropologist in the area of cross-cultural studies, specializing in Haitian voodoo and the Iatmul of New Guinea. She collaborated with Alfred Metraux, on mutual studies of Voodoo in Haiti. During World War II, Dr. Metraux headed the section on German morale for the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Rhoda Metraux was also an important professional and personal partner of Margaret Mead (1901–1978). Together with Mead, she wrote several books and many articles on major issues from the 1950s to the late 1970s. As a contributing editor to Redbook magazine for well over a decade, both wrote many articles on contemporary issues that later formed the basis of a number of books including A Way of Seeing. Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux were in fact a close-knit professional team whose work greatly influenced American anthropology in the late 20th century. They shared a house in Greenwich Village in New York from 1955 to 1966 and an apartment on Central Park West from 1966 until Mead's death in 1978. ALS, 1991, signed Rhoda, mentions Margaret Mead, written to the author Irvine Millgate. Fine........75-100
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361. [TENNIS] Billy Jean King (b. 1943) American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. Signed, inscribed picture, about 8.5 x 11 in. VG.................30-40
362. Evelyn Laye, CBE (1900-1996) English actress who was active on the London light opera stage, and later in New York and Hollywood. She made her first stage appearance in August 1915 at the Theatre Royal. Laye made her Broadway debut in 1929 in the American première of Noël Coward's Bitter Sweet[3] and appeared in several early Hollywood film musicals. Offered here is a signed 3.5 x 5.5 photo. She writes ANS, 1983 on the verso. VG...............30-40
363. [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
364. [FILM] Diane Ladd (b. 1935) American actress, film director. She has appeared in over 120 roles, on television, and in miniseries and feature films, including Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Wild at Heart (1990), Rambling Rose (1991), Ghosts of Mississippi (1996), Touched by an Angel (1997) (TV), Primary Colors (1998), 28 Days (2000), and American Cowslip (2008). She is the mother of actress Laura Dern, by her ex-husband, actor Bruce Dern. Ladd has won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA and has been nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. ALS, 1982, written on her 6 x 4-1/2 correspondence card. She fills the page with opinions & thoughts. VG..........50-75
365. John Anderson [1922-2017] Am. politician. In 1980, he ran an independent campaign for president, receiving 6.6% of the popular vote. TLS & ISP, 2001...........25-35
366. [MUSIC] Melissa Manchester (b. 1951) American singer-songwriter. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photograph. VG..........25-35
367. THOMAS J. FOLEY - American Politician/Diplomat. He was a US Repesentative from Washington from 1965-1995. Speaker of the US House of Representatives and Ambassador to Japan - SIGNED/inscribed 7x9 photograph................................20-30
368. [MUSIC] John Mellencamp (b. 1951) American rock singer-songwriter, musician, painter and occasional actor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG...........25-35
369. Wm. Benton [1900-1973] US Sen. from Ct. TLS,
1951...........20-30
370. [ENGLAND] Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, PC (1907-2003) Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the House of Lords from 1964 to 1982. He was a great-great-grandson of William Wilberforce, the famous abolitionist, and son of a judge of the Lahore High Court. He grew up in India and attended Winchester College and New College, Oxford, and was later elected a Fellow of All Souls College. He was called to the Bar in 1932 and became a Queen's Counsel in 1954. He was first appointed to the bench in 1961 as a Chancery judge. Then in 1964 he was appointed to the House of Lords as a Lord Appeal in Ordinary, made additionally a life peer as Baron Wilberforce, of the City and County of Kingston-upon-Hull. He is the only judge in recent times to have been appointed to the House of Lords straight from the High Court Bench, without serving in the Court of Appeal. His decisions were known for being reserved and cautious. Wilberforce was Chancellor of the University of Hull between 1978 and 1994. ALS, May 18 (no year), written on both sides, re: sending autographs.........25-35
371. [MUSIC] Rudolf Kelterborn (b. 1931) Swiss musician and composer. Kelterborn has held guest lecturerships in the United States, England, Japan, China, and Eastern Europe. His works have been performed throughout Europe, the United States, and Japan, and he has also been active as a conductor on the international scene. AMQS from his work "Changements pour grand orchestre." Approx. 10-1/2 x 4-1/4". VG.............50-75
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372. John Watson - Pseudonym Ian Maclaren [1850-1907]. Scottish clergyman and author. Presbyterian minister, Liverpool (1880-1905); won reputation with Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1894), followed by other "kailyard school" portrayals of humble Scottish life as Days of Auld Lang Syne (1895), Kate Carnegie (1896); also wrote religious works, including The Upper Room (1896), Children of the Resurrection (1912). ALS, 1899, 2pp. ...............40-60
373. George Barr McCutcheon [1866-1928] Am. writer. Signature/sentiment.........15-20
374. Albert Henry Smyth [1863-1907] American writer. ALS, 1900, 2pp. Mentions his biography of Bayard Taylor. Light irregular toning on last page............25-35
375. ELDON DEDINI (1921- ) American Cartoonist - Celebrated cartoonist of Playboy, The New Yorker, others. SIGNED/inscribed print of him as the devil..............25-35
379. [THEATRE] Alice Kauser (1872-1945) theatrical agent. Born in Budapest, where her father was the American consul, she received most of her schooling on the Continent. Her mother was the celebrated opera singer Berta Gester, who introduced her to many theatrical figures. These connections served her handsomely when she became a play broker in the late 1890s. Klauser helped get several Sardou plays produced here and was one of the first to take up cudgels for Ibsen. She also fought to achieve recognition for such American clients as Edward Sheldon and Langdon Mitchell, proving instrumental in the production of such plays as Salvation Nell and The New York Idea. Among her other clients were Channing Pollock and Edward Childs Carpenter. TLS, 1925, 1p., to Marcel Ballot, French Society of Authors, Composers and Dramatists, Paris, France. In English about the play PALS FIRST..............60-80 376. [THEATRE - MUSIC] John Raitt (1917-2005) American actor and singer best known for his performances in musical theater. Signed program for his appearance in the 1992 Nevada Opera Presents ANNIE GET YOUR GUN. Includes 2 $40 ticket stubs. VG..............50-75
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377. [RELIGION] PERRAUD, Orat., Adolphe-Louis-Albert [1828-1906] French Cardinal. ALS, 1888, 1p, 5 x 8 in. VG...........50-75
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378. [FRANCE] Leon Dufourny (1754-1818) French architect whose works belong to the neo-classical movement of the late eighteenth century. Leon Dufourny was Commissioner of the French Republic to the King of Naples and made a trip to Sicily from 1787 to 1794 to study the ancient temples Greek. In 1796 Dufourny was elected member of the Academy of Fine Arts and was also appointed Chairman of the Committee of the Fund and the Central administrative board of the Institute of France, and Nivôse Ventôse Year XII (1802). Around 1800, he seized the castle of Richelieu, confiscated during the Revolution as many emigrated, had been emptied of its furniture collections and then stripped of its materials - before being demolished - the rectangular tray mosaic marble and hard stone of a ceremonial table, completed after a carved wooden base, and preserved from the Louvre (Galerie d'Apollon); a color lithograph nineteenth century this exceptional furniture and a replica of his legs are kept at the Museum of Fine Arts Tours. ALS, 1806, 1p., approx. 5-1/2 x 5-3/4 in.........100-150
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380. [FILM] John Gilbert (1899-1936) American actor, screenwriter and director. He rose to fame during the silent film era and became a popular leading man known as "The Great Lover". At the height of his career, Gilbert rivaled Rudolph Valentino, another silent film era leading man, as a box office draw. Unsigned vintage 1926 photograph, 5x7 in. The signature is printed. VG................Min. Bid $10
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381. [FRANCE] BULLETIN DES LOIS, No. 266, 1810, 8pp., concerning the Pope subject to the Emperor, signed in type Napoleon. Approx. 5 x 7-1/2". VG...........100-150
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382. PITTSBURGH, PA. - Sinking Fund Commission of the City of Pittsburgh. File folder containing over 60 documents & letters, 1940s - 50s. Over 70 pages. Many signatures, mostly city officials. Who knows what this is?..........50-75
383. [FRANCE] Georges Lecomte (1867-1958) French novelist and playwright, who also wrote literary, historical and artistic studies. In 1924 he was elected to the Académie française, of which he became perpetual secretary in 1946. He was also director of the École Estienne. He died in Paris. ALS, 1925, 1p., approx. 5-1/2 x 6-3/4 in. To Hugues Le Roux the monument of Jean Julien in Ville d'Avray. VG.............75-100
384. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Abel-Francois Villeman (1790-1870); Henri Mondor (1885-1962); Auguste Nelaton (1807-1873); plus 6 others. No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................100-150
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386. [OPERA] Emilio Naudin (1823-1890) Italian tenor. He is most notable for creating the role of Vasco da Gama in Meyerbeer's opera L'Africaine. ALS, 1864 [?], 1p, 4 x 6-3/8 in. Not translated. VG..........75-100[BELGIUM] Camille LEMONNIER (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]............40-60
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387. [FRANCE] Antonio Georges Lopisgich (1854 - 1913) French Artist. ALS, 1893, 1-1/2pp, 5 x 8 in. VG...........Min. Bid $25
388. [ART] Eric Pape (1870-1938) Called “the Master of the Pageant,” Eric Pape was a painter of historical and archaeological subjects, a landscape painter, art teacher, and illustrator. Fine ink signature dated 99, on 3-3/4 x 3-3/4" slip........Min. Bid $7
389. [FRANCE] Charles MERE [b. 1883] Fr. author & playwright. Two TLSs sent to him on which he pens ANSs, 1931 & 1943. VG.....................60-80
390. [FRENCH THEATRE] Louis Desire Veron (1798-1867) French opera manager and publisher. Veron originally made his fortune from patent medicines. In 1829 he founded the journal Revue de Paris, and from 1838 to 1852 was owner and director of the Constitutionnel, in which he published Eugene Sue's novel based on the legend of the Wandering Jew. It was also during Veron's direction and at his suggestion that Sainte-Beuve contributed the Causeries du lundi, an early example of the regular newspaper column. He is largely known to history for his direction, from 1831-1835, of the Paris Opera. DOCUMENT SIGNED, 1831, 1p. Not translated..................75-100
391. [FRANCE] Pierre Wolff (1864-1944) successful French playwright. He wrote many pieces of theater and was also librettist several operettas and musicals. He also gave lectures on the history of the song ( Marie Dubas there began his singing career varieties by interpreting the themes of folklore). His personal calling card on which he pens a few lines [unsigned ??]. VG..............25-35
392. [FRANCE] Bernard-Jacques-Joseph Maximilian von Ring ( 1799 - 1873 ) was an archaeologist, designer and historian. ALS, 1857, 1p..............50-75
393. [FRANCE] Alfred Deberle [1835-1877] Journalist, historian. He was literary editor of the "Great Larousse encyclopedia" of the 19th century. ALS, 1877, lengthy 2 pages. Not translated. Fine......50-75
394. [FRANCE] François Debret (1777–1850) French architect and Freemason. He was the chief architect of the city of Paris and inspector general of civil buildings. He was responsible for the maintenance and repair of the Basilica of Saint-Denis. He was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts of the Institute of France in 1825. ALS, no date, 1p. , to his former teacher, speaks of Mr. Perigord. Probably about the Paris Opera. VG.............75-100
395. FRANCE] Dr. Philippe ENCAUSSE [1906-1976] Author, physician, athlete; administrator of French Olympic Committee [1964-68]. Two ALSs, 1950 and two TLSs 1937 & 1950. Both 1 page - not translated................75-100
396. [FRANCE] Edmond Haraucourt (1856-1941) French poet and novelist, also a composer, lyricist, journalist, author and curator dramatic museum. ALS, 1925, 1p, approx. 4 x 5-1/4". VG.............50-75
397. [FRANCE] Jules-Antoine Droz (1807–1872) French sculptor. UNSIGNED autograph letter to Claudius Popelin, the author and secretyary of Princess Bonaparte. Droz says he wanted to visit him but was unable to climb the stairs. Unsigned but Popelin wrote in pencil "Mr. Droz." VG............60-80
398. [GERMANY] August Everding - 20th century theatre/opera director. SP, 4 x 5-3/4 in. Scarce!.......Min. Bid $10
Leading Authority on Byzantine Art399. 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
400. [FRANCE] Pierre Martin Victor Richard de Laprade (1812-1883), known as Victor de Laprade, was a French poet and critic. After completing his studies at Lyon, he produced, in 1839, a small volume of religious verse, Les Parfums de Madeleine. This was followed in 1840 by La colère de Jesus, in 1841 by the religious fantasy of Psyche, and in 1844 by Odes et poèmes. In 1845 Laprade visited Italy on a mission of literary research, and in 1847 he was appointed professor of French literature at Lyon. The Académie française, by a single vote, preferred Émile Augier at the election in 1857, but in the following year Laprade was chosen to fill the place vacated by Alfred de Musset. In 1861 Laprade was removed from his post at Lyon owing to the publication of a poem satirising the Second Empire (Les Musées d'Etat), and in 1871 was elected to the National Assembly as a conservative. A statue was erected in his memory at Montbrison. ALS, 1872, 3pp, to the French poet Aime Giron. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. VG............60-80
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