78. [NEWSPAPER]  New York Tribune, 1852. On page 5 - article about the funeral of Daniel Webster being postponed.  Describes the burial case [coffin].  VG.......Min. Bid $25 

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79 [CHEMISTRY] Antique wood-engraved portrait of Jons Jacob Berzelius(1779-1848) Swedish chemist. Berzelius is considered, along with Robert Boyle, John Dalton, and Antoine Lavoisier, to be one of the founders of modern chemistry. Berzelius became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1808 and served from 1818 as its principal functionary. He is known in Sweden as the "Father of Swedish Chemistry". Berzelius Day is celebrated on 20 August in honour of him. Original engraving c. 1836, paper size approx. 8 x 5 in. which includes margins. Very good condition. Scarce!. Provenance: Katherine Ebert Print Collection. She was a print specialist-author................75-100

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80. [GERMANY] a pair of antique wood-engraved portraits. (1) Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler (1770-1846) In 1805, he started to collect objects of art. In 1811–1821, he travelled in different countries. It was during these years that the main part of his collection was formed. Nagler collected paintings, drawings, prints, coins, medals, ethnographic objects and Egyptian antiquities. In 1835, he sold the main part of his collection (but not paintings) to the state. Old master prints from his collection became a very important part of the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin. After Nagler’s death in 1847 the rest of his collection, including paintings, drawings and old master prints, was sold in Berlin. (2) Also a portrait of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825)  German Romantic writer, best known for his humorous novels and stories. Paper size for each is about 8 x 5 in.  These date to c. 1836. Scarce.............75-100

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81. [BOOKS] Eben Francis Thompson (1859-1939) American lawyer and one of the most interesting literary figures that Worcester [Mass.] ever produced. Although Mr. Thompson was for over half a century a lawyer, it was for his literary pursuits that he was most widely recognized. For years he collected the varying editions of the Persian poet, Omar Khayyam, including the immortal translation by Fitzgerald. With the full realization of the magnificence of Fitzgerald's English verse, he wondered whether he could essay a poetical translation of the Persian text, but one which would more closely follow the original. Stimulated by the advice of his friend, Nathan Haskell Dole, he began to learn Persian. By 1906 he had finished his monumental task, bringing out in a volume of 290 pages his own translation of 878 quatrains of Omar, an achievement remarkable both for his poetic ability and his diligence. This volume he followed in 1907 with a work reproducing Fitzgerald's text, the Persian original with a transliteration, and his own versified translation. Finally, in 1910, he published a little volume of verse. The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam, Founded on the Persian. This trilogy of Omar books brought him into close touch with many admirers of Persian literature. In 1900 he founded the Omar Khayyam Club of America, of which he was secretary for twenty years, and later, president. 

Another hobby of Mr. Thompson's was his interest in Shakespeare. As early as 1887 he had published the text of "A Mid- summer Night's Dream" for public reading. Long an actor in amateur dramatics, and especially conversant with all of Shakespeare's plays, he travelled several times to England to study Shakespeare traditions and scenes, to search for manuscripts, and to acquire what early printed works his purse would allow. He owned the second and fourth folios and possessed a respectable Shakespearian library. He wrote a brochure in 1923 entitled "Bacon Not Shakespeare, being an Argument to Show that Francis Bacon, not William Shakespeare, Wrote the Plays and Poems Commonly Attributed to the Latter, by Adam Nutt, with an Introduction by Way of Dissent by Eben Francis Thompson," which really was an ingenious and amusing refutation of the Baconian theory. In his later life, Mr. Thompson compiled for his own use what he called a "reading translation" of Shakespeare, in which he marked on all of the hundred thousand lines of Shakespeare's plays with accents to show the correct pro- nunciation of Elizabethan words. In 1938, the year before his death, he wrote a pamphlet entitled Some Hints on Public Speak- ing, and in the introduction referred to his early attempts to perfect himself in Shakespearian speech, modelling his pronunciation upon that of Edwin Booth. In the meetings of the Worcester Shakespeare Club, organized in 1887, he participated for over fifty years. 
His third interest was miniature books. He owned a large collection, with over two hundred examples. His crowning achievement in this field was the production of the smallest printed book in the world, which in conjunction with Hamilton B. Wood of the Commonwealth Press, he issued in 1933. This tiniest of volumes, six-sixteenths by three-sixteenths inches in size, contained the printing of forty-six quatrains of The Rose Garden of Omar Khayyam, and can be read only with the aid of a magnifying glass. After seven years of trial and error, the book was produced, a triumph of printing, but chiefly the result of Mr. Thompson's imagination and persistence.  Offered here is a signed album page, approx. 7 x 4.5 in. Fine.............Min. Bid $20

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82. [POSTAL HISTORY] Wilson Barrett (1846-1904)  English manager, actor, and playwright. With his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodrama, an instance being his production of The Silver King (1882) at the Princess's Theatre of London. The historical tragedy The Sign of the Cross (1895) was Barrett's most successful play, both in England and in the United States. Offered here is a postmarked envelope [1896] ink addressed by Barrett but not signed by him. VG...............25-35



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83. [SPACE] John Glenn (1921-2016)  was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at age 77. Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, China and Korea. Signed, inscribed b/w photo, 8x10. There is a edge tear bottom left side but it does not touch the signature..................100-150

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84. [SPACE] John Glenn (1921-2016)  was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the third American in space, and the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio; in 1998, he flew into space again at age 77. Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, China and Korea. Original vintage 1960s color 8x10 photo taken by WILLENEWHISENHANT (1930-2015) she was a renowned photographer who was the first female photographer for NASA.  She has written Glenn at bottom of photo. VG.................100-150

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85. [SPACE] Original pamphlet ASTRONAUT JOHN H. GLENN ORBITS THE EARTH FOR AMERICA, Feb. 20, 1962. The pamphlet was published after Glenn completed the Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, and recounts details of the mission, along with some of Glenn's reflections on the experience and photographs of his training and recovery. Originally sold for 15 cents.  Another example of this pamphlet was offered online at $1000 to $1500 but passed. Heavily illustrated. 12pp., approx. 10 x 7.5 in. VG. Years ago this pamphlet was priced at $95............Min. Bid $50

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86. [MICKEY SPILLANE] Offered here are 2 letters sent to Spillane plus an unsigned 8x10 photo of Spillane.  All of these items come from Mickey's personal collection. [1] Jim Henaghan (1911-1984) journalist, screenwriter, novelist and columnist. Henaghan, who worked for every major paper in Los Angeles, served as The Hollywood Reporter's Rambling Reporter in the early '50's. Always candidly outspoken and never one to cater to the industry's sacred cows, he wrote an article concerning Preston Sturges' escapades with a nurse while confined in a local hospital. Sturges, far from angry at the humorous reportage, called Charles Feldman and convinced him Henaghan's talents could be better put to use as a screenwriter. He worked as rewrite man at Paramount working on property owned by the studio, and was responsible for rewrites of what were to become "Sunset Boulevard" and "North to Alaska." It was said of him..."he could take 'Stagecoach,' put it on shipboard, and make it a good screeplay." Henaghan served as executive vp of John Wayne's Batjac Prod. for seven years. From 1960-76, he lived and worked writing feature articles on film and film personalities in Europe. Henaghan wrote five novels in the Jeff Pride series, published by Bantam Books and St. Martin's Press. He was a close friend of the actor Robert Walker. 
In her biography of Walker and Jones, Star-Crossed, author Beverly Linet quotes Walker's friend Jim Henaghan, who was not mentioned in official accounts of Walker's death, as saying that he was present at the time of the events leading to Walker's death. Henaghan stated that he stopped by Walker's house, where they played cards, and Walker was behaving normally. Walker's psychiatrist arrived and insisted that he receive an injection. When Walker refused, Henaghan held him down in order for the physician to administer it. Walker soon lost consciousness, and frantic efforts to revive him failed.
Offered here is a lengthy 2 pages typed letter signed Jim, dated July 15, 1953. Written to Mickey Spillane regarding contract details with Waye - Fellows.  That's John Wayne's company.  Tattered edges.

       [2] Bob Fellows (1903-1969) American film producer who was once a production partner with John Wayne and later with Mickey Spillane. In 1952, Wayne and Fellows teamed up to start their own production company, Wayne-Fellows Productions, making (primarily) films starring Wayne, the first one being Big Jim McLain (1952). The following year they produced Island in the Sky (1953). Wayne had seen the venture as a way to produce and direct his own film version of the battle of the Alamo.  Eventually, Fellows became embroiled in a complicated divorce from his wife, necessitating the need to sell his half of the company. Wayne bought Fellows out and started his own Batjac Productions. One of the Wayne-Fellows films was Ring of Fear, featuring Mickey Spillane. Offered here is a July 15, 1953 typed letter signed Bob. Its basically about the same thing Henaghan's letter was about. [3] Unsigned vintage 8x10 photo of Mickey Spillane.  Provenance:  Estate of Mickey Spillane.........100-200

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87. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Sir. George Hubert Wilkins (1888-1958) Australian polar explorer, ornithologist, pilot, soldier, geographer and photographer. He was awarded the Military Cross, when he assumed command of a group of American soldiers who had lost their officers during the Battle of the Hindenburg Line, and became the only official Australian photographer from any war to receive a combat medal. SIGNED CARD. Fine. (2) Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton, PC (1774-1848), of The Grange in Hampshire, of Ashburton in Devon and of Buckenham Tofts near Thetford in Norfolk, was a British politician and financier, and a member of the Baring family. Baring was the second son of Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, and of Harriet, daughter of William Herring. ALS, no yr., 1p. (3) Henry Jephson (1798-1878) British physician & philanthropist. Signature clipped from 1839 document. (4) Ralph Shapey (1921-2002) was an American composer and conductor. ALS, 1997, 1p. (5) Joe Pesci (b. 1943-) actor, signed card.  (6) Benjamin Henry Day Jr. (1838-1916) illustrator and printer, best known for his invention of Ben-Day dots. Signed 1902 bank check. (7)  George Kennan (1845-1924) American explorer. AQS on card hearing his photo. Excellent example. Fine.........Min. Bid $50

88. [SPACE] JOHN GLENN - Guest Speaker flyer 1972, 1p.  About 8.5 x 11 in. Postmarked space stamps affixed..........Min. bid $20

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89.  [From Walt Kuhn Estate] ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART 1962. TWO letters written in 1962 between Brenda Kuhn and William E. Woolfenden. Mostly about the Montress Gallery and the Armory Show 50th Anniversary Exhibition. William E. Woolfenden, who made it his mission to gather every artifact, photograph, scrap of paper and taped recollection he could about American artists, collectors, curators and dealers, was the director of the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art. Mr. Woolfenden, who was born in Detroit and had bachelor's and master's degrees from Wayne State University, went to work for the Detroit Institute of Arts and was its director of education when the museum's director, Edgar P. Richardson, had an idea that would change both their lives. Mr. Woolfenden, who was associated with the archives from the beginning, was named assistant director in 1960, and after Mr. Richardson's retirement from the museum, he became the archives' first full-time director. During the next 19 years Mr. Woolfenden, who made Manhattan his headquarters, built what had begun as a modest depository into the world's largest archive devoted to American art, a treasure trove for scholars. The letter from Woolfenden was signed by his secretary. Brenda Kuhns letter was her signed retained COPY as was her practice when sending letters.......200-300  Min. Bid $50

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90. [CANADA] Major General Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone (Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George; born Prince Alexander of Teck; 1874-1957)  British Army commander and major-general who served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa and as Governor General of Canada. Brief autograph note signed, 19164 on South Cavalry Barracks, Aldershot letterhead, 6-1/2 x 4-1/4 in. laid to another sheet.................25-35

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91. [ART] Scott Leighton (1849-1898) American artist best known for horse racing, barnyard and landscape scene painting. Small watercolor done on album page, unsigned.  We purchased the sketchbooks of Scott Leighton during the 1990s and sold most of the drawings to an art museum in Maine. Album page is approx.  6.5 x 4 in. Fine.............200-300

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True story concerning our collection of Scott Leighton drawings. About 30 years ago we were doing a book show and had some of the Scott Leighton drawings on the table.  A man asked about the prices and I said that if he bought X number of drawings the price would be X [can't remember exact price amounts], and if he purchased more the price per piece would be lower.  He looked at me then asked "How many would I need to buy before they are free?" I did not know who this person was at the time but later we became friends. He was the director of a prominent national museum. Sorry but I won't give his name.

92. [SPACE] A vintage original black and white portrait of John Glenn, Gus Grissom, and Alan Shepard in spacesuits in front of a Mercury-Redstone spacecraft. A black number photograph, with explanatory text stamped on the verso in purple/blue ink. The 3 Mercury Redstone pilots participated in Mercury's first manned space flights from the cape. Left to right is John Glenn, Gus Grissom and Alan Shepard. UNSIGNED as usual. Very scarce. Another example of this photo was offered at auction in 2020 with an estimate of $800-$1200 but it failed to sell. We believe this photo was taken by WILLENE WHISENHANT (1930-2015) she was a renowned photographer who was the first female photographer for NASA. Provenance: Willene Whisenhant collection. Fine..............400-600

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93.  [ART] Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) Original metal etching plate, title unknown, c. 1920s , 5-3/4 x 4-5/8 in. Walt Kuhn was born in Brooklyn, and after a period of study art in Europe, he returned to the US to work as a cartoonist; illustrator, and developing artist. Aware of the great surge of modernist artistic activity in Europe, he joined with others to encourage Arthur B. Davies to get behind the idea of bringing a great European modernist art show to the US, and traveled with Davies to Europe to select art for the occasion (which became the 1913 Armory Show). Negligee was probably done c. 1920 when Kuhn, Davies, and a few others in the US were experimenting with modernism as they developed their printmaking skills. Kuhn successfully continued printmaking and painting in a modernist mode for the next 30 or so years. VG...................Min. Bid $4000

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94. [WORLD WAR 2] Louis W. McKeehan (1887-1975) Director of the Physics Laboratories Yale. He took leave of his teaching position to help out with the war effort. He was the driving force behind the creation of the torpedo called Fido. Capt. Louis McKeehan, head of the Mine Warfare Branch of the Bureau of Ordnance. Scientists at the Naval Torpedo Station at Newport, Rhode Island had been considering acoustic homing torpedoes for fifteen years but insisted that torpedoes made too much noise themselves to be able to home on any external noise source and until McKeehan came along to challenge them they seemed to have a point. But McKeehan was not a career naval officer. He was a reserve officer, on active duty for the duration, whose peacetime job was director of the physics laboratories at Yale University. Unimpressed by the received wisdom of Navy engineers, McKeehan turned to HUSL and BTL where his idea for an acoustic homing torpedo quickly bore fruit. With support and funding from the NDRC, HUSL and BTL proved Newport wrong and only seventeen months after the beginning of the project Fido had entered service and made his first kill. After the war, the scientists at Bell Labs who had worked on Fido returned to telephone work, Captain McKeehan returned to Yale, and Harvard - like some other universities - anxious to shed the military connection as soon as possible took back its buildings and ended its classified work. Louis McKeehan was, among other things, author of Yale Science: The First Hundred Years, 1701-1801 (New York: H. Schuman, 1947). Offered here is an unsigned autograph manuscript page dated 1 Nov. 1944, written on both sides, 8 x 10-1/2".  These are notes he kept for himself. Rare! VG...............100-150

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95. [TAFT-HARTLEY BILL]  Philip J. Philbin (1898-1972) Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. From 1917 until 1919, during the First World War, served as a seaman in the United States Navy. In 1942, as the Democratic nominee, Philbin was elected to the 78th United States Congress and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1971).  At the very end of the 91st United States Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, due to the death of L. Mendel Rivers on December 28, 1970. Offered here are 4 typed pages of a speech made before congress. Appears to be about military pay [Bill H.R. 5007, circa 1950]. All of the ink notationa & handwriting on the pages was made by Philbin. Also included are 3 clean typed copies of the speech without his handwriting. VG.............Min. Bid $50

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96.  [U.S. NAVAL] Capt. Paul Cassard (1891-1972) Navy officer who served in both World Wars. In 1941 Captain Cassard was the officer who welcomed Winston Churchill on the British battleship Duke of York off the Virginia Capes and escorted him to Washington for his conference with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was born in Prince Frederick, Md., graduated from the Naval Academy in 1913 and served in World War I with a destroyer force based in Queenstown, Ireland. In World War II he was as signed to the Office of Naval Intelligence in Washington and to New York headquarters of the Eastern Sea Frontier. He retired in 1950, at which time he was president of the Navy board of review of discharges and dismissals. Offered here is a TLS, Navy Department, 12 April 1948, 1p.  Written to Philip J. Philbin, US Congressman from Massachusetts.  Cassard, at this time was President, Board of Review, Discharges and Dismissals. Concerns the discharge of Francis A. Gregg.   This lot includes a TLS, March 18, 1948, 1p. from Congressman Philbin to Francis A. Gregg saying he has received enclosures from Admiral Colclough. At bottom of this letter is brief typed note signed in ink by Francis A. Gregg. PLUS 7 carbon copies of letters [retained copies] from Philbin concerning this case.  Total 9 pieces. VG..............Min.  Bid $25


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97.  [FILM] Iron Eyes Cody (1904-1999) Italian-American actor. He portrayed Native Americans in Hollywood films, famously as Chief Iron Eyes in Bob Hope's The Paleface (1948). He also played a Native American shedding a tear about litter in one of the country's most well-known television public service announcements, "Keep America Beautiful".  Signed and inscribed newspaper clipping about Gen. george A. Custer. Approx. 6-3/4 x 10-1/2 in. VG.................25-35

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98. Jesse Column Dickey (1808-1891) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He served as quartermaster and later paymaster in the United States Army during the American Civil War. Signed endorement on the back of 1869 bank check made out to him. VG..................25-35

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99. [WALT KUHN ESTATE] items from the estate of Brenda Kuhn, daughter of Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) famous American artist. Includes: Edmund Muskie 1968 TLS. Walt Kuhn's Wells, Maine property tax 1948 receipt. Photo of the Kuhn home in Cape Neddick, Maine up on the hill. Photo of later Brenda Kuhn building just down the road. Brenda Kuhn signed check 1967. Cape Neddick Park brochure featuring Walt Kuhn. VG.............Min. Bid $40

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100. [OPERA] Emma Howson (1844-1928) Australian opera singer and actress primarily known as the creator of the principal soprano role of Josephine in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore. Signed 4-1/4 x 3-1/4 card. VG.........25-35

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101. [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

102. Secretary of the Navy Isaac Toucey - 1858 printed government document, 38 pages: CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE NAVY DEPARTMENT, printed for the House of Rep., 35th Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 82. Approx. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. VG..............25-35

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103. [IRISH] Sir James Charles Mathew (10 July 1830 – 9 November 1908) was an Irish-born judge. Mathew was a driving force behind the creation of Commercial List in 1895, the forerunner of the modern Commercial Court, and was the first judge in charge of the List. CLIP SIGNATURE on 4-1/2 x 4-1/4 in slip. VG...............25-35

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104. [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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105. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL Ink drawing, unsigned on 6 x 7-1/4 in. sheet. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it. That name is a title we think...............50-75

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106. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL Ink drawing, unsigned on 8 x 5 in. sheet. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it..........50-75

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107. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL Ink drawing, unsigned on 6-1/4 x 7-1/2 in. sheet. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it........50-75
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108.  Floyd Dell [1887-1969] Am. journalist, novelist. In 1908 Dell moved on to Chicago where he became editor of the Friday Literary Review and a leader of the Chicago Renaissance. In his position at FLR, Dell promoted the work of Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Carl Sandburg and other Chicago writers. Relocating to New York in 1913, Dell became managing editor of Max Eastman's radical magazine The Masses, and a leader of the pre-war bohemian community in Greenwich Village. Nice CLIP SIGNATURE.............40-60

109. Gabriel Monod (1844-1912)  French historian, the nephew of Adolphe Monod. In 1876 he founded the Revue Historique,[2] which rapidly became a great authority on scientific education.  ALS, 1908, 1p. 4-1/4 x 5-1/2......25-35

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110. Justin Whitlock Dart Sr. (1907-1984) American businessman, considered the "boy wonder" of the drug store industry. In college Dart had played football for Northwestern University. TLS (1970), brief 1p. Fine......35-45

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111. [FRANCE] Jean-Baptiste-Léon Say (1826-1896) French statesman and diplomat. One of the 19th-century's noted economists, he served as French Finance Minister from 1872 until 1883. Letter Signed 1878, 1p. 8-1/4 x 10-1/4.  Written below [signed] are 4-5 lines by Henri de Gavardie (1823-1910) French politician. VG...............50-75

112. [OPERA] Sherrill Milnes [b. 1935] Am. baritone. ISP, 8x10.......20-30

113. 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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114.  [ART] A.B. GRIFFITH - caricature ink drawing of the actress Jean Arthur, signed and dated 1939. About 10-1/4 x 7 in. VG..............Min. Bid $40

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115. (GOVERNORS OF MASSACHUSETTS LOT)  (1) JOHN HENRY CLIFFORD (1809-1876) 21st Governor.  ALS 1862, mounted to larger sheet.  (2) ALEXANDER HAMILTON BULLOCK (1816-1882) 26th Governor.  ALS 1866, mounted to larger sheet.   (3) ALEXANDER HAMILTON RICE (1818-1895) 30th Governor.  ALS 1864, mounted to larger sheet.  JOHN VOLPE (1908-1994) 61st/63rd Governor, US Sec of Transportation. SIGNED Dept of US Trans. print with 7 x 7 unsigned photograph. MICHAEL STANLEY DUKAKIS (1933) 65th and 67th Governor. SIGNED 5x7 portrait photograph.............75-100
 

116. [ART - WALT KUHN ESTATE] 1927 Invitation card to Walt Kuhn Exhibition at Grand Central Art Galleries. On the verso is an original color drawing that we assume was drawn by Kuhn's daughter Brenda when she was 16 years old. Approx. 6 x 3.5 in. VG..............75-100

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117. [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

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118. [POSTAL HISTORY] Richard Henry Dana Jr. (1815-1882)  American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts, a descendant of a colonial family, who gained renown as the author of the classic American memoir Two Years Before the Mast. Both as a writer and as a lawyer, he was a champion of the downtrodden, from seamen to fugitive slaves and freedmen. Offered here is an envelope in the handwriting of Dana. The pencil signature at top was not written by Dana. 5 x 2-3/4 in. VG...........35-45

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119.  (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

120. [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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121 [FOREIGN MIXED LOT] mostly French autographs. Includes: (1) Alice Verlet (1873–1934)  Belgian-born operatic coloratura soprano active primarily in France. She sang principal roles at the operas in Lyon, Nice, and Monte Carlo; at His Majesty's Theater in London; at La Monnaie in Brussels; and at the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique. In the United States, although not entirely absent from the operatic stage, she was known primarily as a concert singer and was a featured singer on Edison records. Large signature on 7-1/2 x 6-1/4" slip. VG (2) Marthe Fiel [1873-1949] French writer of novels for young people. She also wrote under the pseudonym Claude Grey. Two ALSs, 1923 & 1944, each written on both sides. Not translated. Red pencil notation marks on each. (3) Yvette Horner (b. 1922-2008)  French accordionist. ALS, no date on 3x5 card. VG. On the 200th anniversary of the storming of the Bastille occurred Horner 1989 with the Orchestre National de Jazz under the direction of Quincy Jones  she gave in the Palais des Congrès de Paris, a concert with Marcel Azzola and the Orchestre Philharmonique Européen led by Hugues Reiner. (4) Hazel Court (1926-2006) English actress best known for her roles in horror films during the 1950s and early 1960s. SIGNED & INSCRIBED 5x7 photo. VG (5) Philippe Berthelot (1866-1934) was an important French diplomat, son of Marcellin Berthelot. He was a republican (as opposed to monarchists and the Far-right leagues at that time).  He entered the French diplomatic service in 1889 and joined the foreign office in 1904. In 1920, he became secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the rank of ambassador. After a violent campaign of Far-right leagues he was forced to step aside from 1922-1925 because of his involvement in the scandal opposing Banque Industrielle de Chine, controlled by his brother, and Banque d'Indochine (linked to Paul Doumer).  He was friends with, and important in the diplomatic careers of, Paul Claudel and Saint-John Perse.  ALS, nd, 1-1/2 pages. Fine. (6) Robert R. Parrish (1916 - 1995) American actor, film editor, film director, and writer. He received an Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1947 film, Body and Soul. Brief TLS, no date. (7) ALBERT BATAILLE [1856-1899] judiciary journalist noted for his coverage of the Dreyfus Affair; wrote a book on this important event in French history. AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED, 1893. Although not mentioned this is to the French poet Aime Giron. Fine. (8) Francois Debret [1777-1850] French architect. He designed the Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique. He was a controversial and overzealous restorer of historic buildings. ALS, 1827, 2pp., plus address leaf. VG (9) Marie-Louis Marcellus (1795-1865) French diplomat and writer.  He published many works on Greece, Palestine and Chateaubriand. Through his involvement the Venus de Milo statue ended up in the Louvre Museum in Paris. News of the discovery of the statue took longer than normal to get to the French ambassador. The peasant grew tired of waiting for payment and was pressured into selling it to Nicholas Mourousi, Grand Dragoman of the Fleet, working as a translator for Sultan Mahmud II in Constantinople (present day Istanbul, Turkey).  The French ambassador's representative, Vicomte de Marcellus, arrived just as the statue was being loaded aboard a ship bound for Constantinople and seized the statue and persuaded the island's chief citizens to annul the sale. Upon learning of the reversal of the sale, Nicholas Mourousi presumably had the chiefs whipped and fined.  In 1821, Mourousi was executed by order of Sultan Mahmud II in front of the arsenal in Constantinople. This was amidst massive executions of Phanariote Greeks and the beginning of the Greek War of Independence.  Offered here is a brief ALS, no date, 1p.  The address leaf is addressed to Marquis de Belleval and bears a black wax seal still in tact. Approx. 4-1/4 x 6-1/2". VG..................Min. Bid $90

122. [FRANCE] DECRET De La Convention Nationale, 28 June 1791, 3-pages, signed inprint Duport for the King, 7-1/2 x 9-1/2". Very fresh condition..........50-75

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123.  (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

124. [SCIENCE] Hermon Carey Bumpus (1862-1943) American biologist, museum director, and the fifth president of Tufts College (later Tufts University). Bumpus joined the faculty of Brown as a professor of comparative zoology in 1890, where he emphasized active experimentation over the "didactic doldrums" of lectures. In 1893, Bumpus worked with colleagues Charles V. Chapin and John Howard Appleton in establishing a premedical program, one of the first premedical programs in the United States, with Bumpus as the director. Bumpus also established a Medical Association for physicians of Providence; in 1896 Bumpus demonstrated a Holtz machine to this group.  TLS, 1895, 1p, plus envelope. VG...............50-75

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125. [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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126. J.S. DILLER (Joseph Silas) [b. 1850] American geologist, born in Plainfield, Pennsylvania. He was graduated at Lawrence scientific school of Harvard in 1879, and spent two years in postgraduate studies at Harvard and at the University in GSttingen. From 1873 till 1877 he taught in the State normal school in Westfield, Massachusetts, and from 1881 till 1883 was geologist of the Assos expedition. In 1883 he became assistant geologist on the U. S. geological survey, and in that capacity has traveled extensively throughout the United States. He is a member of several scientific societies, and author of numerous papers that have been published in scientific journals in the United States and in Europe, the principal of which are "Notes on the Geology of the Troad" (1883); "Diamonds in the United States" (1886)  and "Notes on the Geology of Northern California" (1886). TLS, US Geological Survey, Nov. 5, 1907, 1p, 4to. To Dr. R.S. Woodward. Sends copy of Miss Bascom's letter. "If there are steep slopes near the 'Race Course' to furnish the angular blocks her view seems possible but the evenness of the upper surface would still be difficult to understand...."etc.................100-150

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127. [ART]  Richard Elmore  (fl. 1852-1885) British painter first based in London and later moved to Tunbridge Wells, England. His distinctive and subtle landscapes depicting views in Devon, Surrey and Kent were widely exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists and the British Institution. Elmore’s painting of Twickenham is in the collection of the Cardiff museum. ALS, 1878, 4pp, to the art critic Samuel Carter Hall.  VG...........50-75

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128. [AVIATION] Ruth Rowland Nichols (1901-1960) American aviation pioneer. She was the only woman yet to hold simultaneous world records for speed, altitude, and distance for a female pilot. She has a very interesting biography including her connect to Amelia Earhart. In December 1930, she beat Charles Lindbergh's record time for a cross-country flight, completing the trip in 13 hours, 21 minutes. Offered here is a biographical sheet on which pens about 8 lines [not signed]. Approx. 6 x 8 in. VG............50-75

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129. [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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130. Ernest Harold Baynes (1868–1925) American naturalist. He was "the closest thing New England, and the world for that matter, will ever get to a real-life Doctor Dolittle; all sorts of New England birds and animals–foxes, wolves, chickadees, bears and bison were known to roam around and in and out of his house."  He treated animals like friends, but unlike Doolittle, never claimed to talk to them. He was instrumental in bringing to public attention the near demise of songbirds and of the bison. He founded the American Bison Society, of which President Teddy Roosevelt was honorary chairman.  SIGNATURE clipped away from letter. About 5-1/2 x 2-3/4 in. VG..............50-75

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131.  [FRANCE] Two French Mystery Documents, identified as being from the Burgundy region - one possibly a Birth Certificate.  Small documented is dated 1753, the larger one has several dates but appears to be from 1726. As you can see there a piece missing at edge on 1753 document..............100-150

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132. [ART] Nell Blaine (1922-1996) American artist. In 1942, she moved to New York City to study painting under Hans Hofmann to whom she was connected by printmaker Worden Day. Through her yearlong training at the Hans Hofmann School, she adopted a non-painterly style. By 1943, she joined the American Abstract Artists group as its youngest member. Blaine studied etching and engraving with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17 starting in 1945. Blaine's work had begun as "tightly realist" but transformed to an abstract style, which was inspired by artists such as Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger, and Jean Helion. Blaine's association with the American Abstract Artists group led to her receiving her first solo exhibition, held at Greenwich Village's Jane Street Gallery, of which she was a founding member and was home to the earliest known artists' cooperative in New York. Blaine briefly lived and worked in Paris around 1950 with Larry Rivers, traveling across Europe and exhibiting with the American Abstract Artists group in France, Denmark, and Italy. This experience inspired her to try traditional 19th century European painting. She showed at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery starting in 1953. Blaine was prominent among a prestigious circle of New York artists and poets which included John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Willem de Kooning, Kenneth Koch, Lee Krasner, Jane Freilicher, Leland Bell, Louisa Matthiasdottir, Robert De Niro Sr., and Rudy Burckhardt. In 1955, she designed the original logo of column heads and layout for weekly New York newspaper The Village Voice Offered here is a 1972 envelope  upon which she writes about students of Hans Hofmann etc. Signed "N".  RARE!..........Min. Bid $50

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133. [RUSSIA] Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov Gorchakov Gorchakov (1798-1883) Russian statesman from the Gorchakov princely family. He has an enduring reputation as one of the most influential and respected diplomats of the nineteenth century.  Signed manuscript page, 1878 date, 1p,  4.5 x 7 in. Not sure how to describe this [see scan].  VG........80-120

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

135. [18th Century Portrait] 1776 engraved portrait of Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (1707-1791) English religious leader who played a prominent part in the religious revival of the 18th century and the Methodist movement in England and Wales. She founded an evangelical branch in England and Sierra Leone, known as the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. Total size approx. 7.5 x 4.5 in. Condition is expected with this age. This originally was not printed on white paper. Rare!............50-75

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136. TO THE SELECTMEN OF STEUBEN, MAINE - 1868 printed letter from D. Brastow asking that a list of the names and ages of all the orphans of soldiers and seamen of your town be sent to the Governor at Augusta or to Brastow. Stamped address portion................Min. Bid $10

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137.  [SPACE] WILLENE WHISENHANT (1930-2015) she was a renowned photographer who was the first female photographer for NASA. From 1962 to 1965, Whisenhant, who was a native of Texas, was the staff photographer for NASA at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. During her tenure there she shot photos of astronauts, worked with CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite on a story about astronaut John Glenn, and photographed President John F. Kennedy. Growing up in Livingston, Texas, Willene Whisenhant probably couldn't have imagined sipping lemonade on Air Force One with the president. She most likely didn't think she'd be the first woman ordained into an all-male club. And the idea of being the first and only female photographer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), couldn't have possibly drifted into even her wildest daydreams. Later on, Whisenhant learned that President John F. Kennedy wanted her up front because, as he explained, when he first met his wife, then Jacqueline Bouvier, she was a struggling photographer and no one would give her a break. He therefore wanted Whisenhant to be front and center. That same day, the president asked his men to take the photographer up to Air Force One and give her some lemonade. Offered here is a lithograph picture of Deke Slayton one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts, and became NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office and Director of Flight Crew Operations, and was responsible for NASA crew assignments.. Whisenhant has written at the bottom "Slayton." Provenance: from the files of Willene Whisenhant. VG...............100-150

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ORIGINAL PORTRAIT ENGRAVINGS OF PRESTIGIOUS AMERICANS FROM THE FIELD OF LITERATURE. THESE ARE CLEAN & READY TO FRAME WITH AUTOGRAPHS. NO ESTIMATES. Literary portraits are much more scarce than military or presidents. Min. Bids $10 each

138. SAMUEL P. BATES  (1827–1902) was an American educator, author, and historian. He is known for his reference works on the American Civil War.

139. GEO. W. CHILDS  (1829–1894) was an American publisher who co-owned the Philadelphia Public Ledger newspaper with financier Anthony Joseph Drexel.

140. FREDERICK S. COZZENS (1818–1869) was an American humorist, who sometimes wrote under the name Richard Haywarde.

141. DONALD GRANT MITCHELL {1822-1908) American essayist and novelist who usually wrote under the pen name Ik Marvel.

142. GEORGE P. MORRIS (1802-1864) American editor, poet, and songwriter.

143. FLETCHER HARPER (1806-1877) American publisher in the early-to-mid 19th century.

144. GEO. D. PRENTICE  (1802-1870) newspaper editor, writer and poet who built the Louisville Journal into a major newspaper

145. JOHN R. BARTLETT (1805-1886) American historian and linguist.

146. N.P. WILLIS (18061867) American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day.

147. FITZ-GREEN HALLECK  (1790-1867) American poet notable for his satires and as one of the Knickerbocker Group.

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148. [NOBEL PRIZE] George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham Kt OM PRS FRSE (1920-2002) British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Signed 4-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. VG.............50-75

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149. [AMERICANA] John Smith writes letter [1867] to his cousin Master Willie N. Howes at Dennis, Mass.  "We have caught 2 rats in a box trap, the first one we caught we let out in the backroom and Father and I got two sticks and tried to kill him, at last he got under the table, and Father got down on his knees to strike him, and he ran under Father, and crawled up under his coat, then Father unbuttoned his coat and he came out the neck, and we killed him, the other one we served in the same way." And a good time was had by all. 2pp., 4-3/4 x 7-1/2 in. Comes with postmarked stamped cover.  VG..................25-35

150. [FILM] Karl Alexander (1938-2015) American fiction writer.  He was the son and nephew of screenwriters—his father, William Tunberg, wrote the screenplay for Old Yeller, and his uncle, Karl Tunberg, wrote the screenplay for Ben-Hur—and worked on a number of films himself. Alexander's first novel Time After Time was published by in 1979. It was adapted as a successful 1979 film of the same title, as a musical in 2010, and as a television series to premiere in the fall of 2016. He became internationally known for his role in the film le Fou 4 in 2004. Jaclyn the Ripper, Alexander's sequel to Time After Time, was published in 2009. Signed [verso] Warner Bros. paycheck, 1984. Fine...............Min. Bid $10

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151. [GERMANY] Helmut Schmidt (1918-2015) German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Signed postcard photo, 4 x 5.5 in. VG...............50-75

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152. Looks like a postcard signed by many persons [?].......Min. Bid $10    CLICK HERE

153. Signed 1912 -  signed card.............Min. Bid $10  CLICK HERE

154. [ART]  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 1907 check made out to Ida Knapp. She signed on the verso as Treasurer of the Art Workers, Club for Women. VG.........Min. Bid $10

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155. (Theodore Roosevelt) Daniel Tyler Moore. Moore was a Lt. Colonel in the Army and an aide to President Theodore Roosevelt. He boxed with TR in the White House and on one occasion inadvertently landed a punch to the President's eye that blinded him in that eye for the remainder of his life. TR kept this a closely guarded secret and Moore did not find out about it until twelve years after the fact. Offered here is a 1918 bank check signed by Moore.  Moore was a Lt. Colonel in the Army and an aide to President Theodore Roosevelt. He boxed with TR in the White House and on one occasion inadvertently landed a punch to the President's eye that blinded him in that eye for the remainder of his life. TR kept this a closely guarded secret and Moore did not find out about it until twelve years after the fact. Fine condition................Min. Bid $50

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156. [OLYMPICS] Bonnie Blair (b.1964) American speed skater. She is one of the top skaters of her era, and one of the most decorated athletes in Olympic history. Blair competed for the United States in four Olympics, winning five gold medals and one bronze medal.  Signed color picture, 4 x 5.5 in. Fine.................35-45

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157. [ENTERTAINMENINDUSTRY] Irving Salkow (1909-1989) Legendary Hollywood agent. This is one of the first and most historic agencies in town, for it was founded by Salkow in 1940, during the golden age of Hollywood. One of the agents during this time was Ray Stark, who later turned into one of the industry's premier movie directors. Some of Salkow's clients at that time were movie stars Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe and William Holden. TLS, 1964, 1-page, regarding William Asher. Stapled to letter are 2 carbon copies of letters Milt Ebbins.  William Asher (1921-2012) was one of the most prolific early television directors, producing or directing over two dozen series. With television in its infancy, Asher introduced the sitcom Our Miss Brooks, which was adapted from a radio show. He began directing I Love Lucy by 1952. In 1964, he produced and directed Bewitched, which starred his then-wife Elizabeth Montgomery. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of TV-land," and is credited in one magazine article for 'inventing' the sitcom. Fine...........100-150

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158. BRENDA KUHN (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. She spent her whole life overseeing the Kuhn Estate, was a philanthropist, Kuhn scholar, amateur photographer. Offered here: about 110 pieces from Brenda's estate. Comprised mostly of letters to Brenda, and ephemera. Probably not much relating to her famous father - we haven't taken the time to research any of the letters. Dates appear to be 1960s...........100-150

159. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Eben S. Draper (1858-1914) Governor of Massachusetts from 1909 to 1911. CLIP SIGNATURE. (2) Plimmon Henry Dudley (1843-1924) American engineer. He invented a dynamometer in 1874, the track indicator in 1880. and the stremmatograph for obtaining and registering stresses in rails.  Signed postcard dated 1891. (3) Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (1901 - 1987) American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA. CLIP SIGNATURE.  (4) Jinx Falkenburg (1919-2003) American actress and model. She married journalist and publicist Tex McCrary in 1945.  Known as "Tex and Jinx", the couple pioneered and popularized the talk show format, first on radio and then in the early days of television. They hosted a series of interview shows in the late 1940s and early 1950s that combined celebrity chit-chat with discussions of important topics of the day. Signature inscribed on her stationary. (5) Walter Wolfgang Heller (1915-1987) was a leading American economist of the 1960s, and an influential adviser to President John F. Kennedy as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, 1961–64. Signature. (6) Robert Tannahill (1774-1810) Scottish poet of labouring class origin. Known as the 'Weaver Poet', he wrote poetry in English and lyrics in Scots in the wake of Robert Burns. Original antique engraved portrait...................Min. Bid $50

160. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) John G. Schumaker (1826-1905) US Representative from New York. Signed [free frank] postmarked cover. (2) Clyde Martin Reed (1871-1949) 24th Governor of Kansas and U.S. Senator from that state. Signed 1948 cover honoring William Allen White. (3) Western Union telegram sent from congressman Philip J. Philbin [Mass]. (4) Theodore Roosevelt - 1906 printed gov. doc. re: PUBLIC-LAND LAWS, signed in type, 4pp. (5) 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 1896 bank check. (6) Kenneth A. Roberts (1912-1989) U.S. Representative from Alabama. CLIP SIGNATURE. (7) CHIEF OF REVENUE AGENTS DURING WORLD WAR I] JOHN D. MURPHY (1885-1949). Lawman, Chief of revenue agents, U.S. Treasury, Washington, D. C., 1918. Murphy went on to serve as partner, Lewis, Murphy & Co.. accountants and tax consultants (1919-26); among his other duties. SCARCE SIGNED BANK CHECK, 1918, The Riggs National Bank, Washington, DC. (8) Thomas Lee "Bum" McClung (1870-1914) American college football player and coach who later served as the 22nd Treasurer of the United States. Brief TLS, 1909. (9) Antique engraved portrait of  Sir Robert Strange................Min. Bid $50

161. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Miles B. McSweeney (1855-1909) the 87th Governor of South Carolina from June 2, 1899, to January 20, 1903. Signed card. (2) Frank Swett Black (1853-1913) was an American newspaper editor, lawyer and politician. A Republican, he was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1895 to 1897, and the 32nd Governor of New York from 1897 to 1898. Signed card. (3) Douglas Volk - artist. Signed 1922 bank check. (4) Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) American paleontologist,[1] administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and geologist. He is famous for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils, including some of the oldest soft-part imprints, in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. TLS on 1888 postcard. (5) Rowland Gibson Hazard (1801-1888) American industrialist, politician, and social reformer. Signed 184? bank check. (6) Charles Henry St John O'Neill, 1st Earl O'Neill, KP, PC (I) (22 January 1779 – 12 February 1841) was an Irish politician, peer and landowner. (7) Joseph Butterworth(1770-1826) English law bookseller and politician. Signed address panel postmarked 1826. (8) Limerick Nation Bank [Maine] 3 checks, 1924................Min. Bid $50

162. [MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt (1757-1847) was a Church of England bishop. He was the Bishop of Carlisle from 1791 to 1807 and then the Archbishop of York until his death. CLIP SIGNATURE. (2) Rowland Gibson Hazard (1801-1888) American industrialist, politician, and social reformer from Rhode Island.   He was educated in a Quaker boarding school in Burlington, New Jersey, where he developed a particular interest in mathematics.  In 1819 he returned to Rhode Island to join his elder brother Isaac in the management of the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company. One of Rowland Hazard's responsibilities was selling the company's prodent winters in New Orleans from about 1833 to 1842 to sell goods that included cotton bagging cloth, pre-cut garments, low-priced shoes, and raw "Negro cloth" for use by African-American slaves.  The activity that Hazard considered "as the greatest effort of his life" (according to his granddaughter) began when he was in New Orleans on business in the winter of 1841. After he learned that a free African-American man from Newport, Rhode Island was in custody in Louisiana as an escaped slave, his 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. Hazard retired fromucts to planters in the southern United States, particularly Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. He sp the textile business in 1866 and invested in the Union Pacific Railroad. After Union Pacific fell into financial disarray and became a party to the Credit Mobilier scandal of 1872, Hazard spent much time dealing with the company's financial affairs. Offered here is a bank check [New Orleans] signed, 1844. (3) Henry Bowen Anthony (1815-1884) Gov. R.I. Brief 1883 letter written/signed in 3rd person. (4) [ENTERTAINMENT] Lew Dockstader (1856-1924) was an American singer, comedian, and vaudeville star, best known as a blackface minstrel show performer. Dockstader performed as a solo act and in his own a popular minstrel troupe.Large bold signature dated Xmas 1898.  Signature on verso looks like Henry E. Dixon [?].  About 5-3/4 x 2-3/4 in . Provenance: Boothbay Theatre Museum, Boothbay, Maine. (5) [EPHEMERA] 1894 one page letter written from Portland, Maine on illustrated letterhead. 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. VG. (6) 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 1868 made out to Bunn but not signed by him..............Min. Bid $50

163. Archive of approx. 61 letters written by Henriette Baumes-Thion and Antoine describing life in France during the American civil war. Most, if not all dated 1863 and written in French. Not translated. Most are multi-page in length. VG.........150-250

164. [FRANCE] approx. 17 signed petitions to save the Olympia Music Hall in Paris [1970]. Signed by musicians, dancers etc. Each 8.5 x 11. All VG. Needs research..........100-150

165. [BRITISH RELIGION LOT] includes: (1)  Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt (1757-1847)  Church of England bishop. He was the Bishop of Carlisle from 1791 to 1807 and then the Archbishop of York until his death. CLIP SIGNATURE.  (2) William Howley (1766-1848) Archbishop of Canterbury from 1828 to 1848. CLIP SIGNATURE. (3) Charles James Blomfield (1786-1857)  British divine and classicist, and a Church of England bishop for 32 years. CLIP SIGNATURE. (4) Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-1886) Anglican archbishop and poet. CLIP SIGNATURE. (5) Christopher Bethell (1773-1859) was Bishop of Bangor..............Min. Bid $45

166. [ART] Françoise Gilot (b. 1921) French painter, best known for her stormy relationship with Pablo Picasso, with whom she had two children. Gilot was already launched as an accomplished artist, notably in watercolours and ceramics, but her professional career was eclipsed by her social celebrity, and when she split from Picasso, he discouraged galleries from buying her work, as well as unsuccessfully trying to block her memoir, Life with Picasso. In 1969, Gilot was introduced to American polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk at the home of mutual friends in La Jolla, California. Their shared appreciation of architecture led to a brief courtship and a 1970 wedding in Paris. During their marriage, which lasted until Salk's death in 1995, the couple lived apart for half of every year as Gilot continued to paint in New York City, La Jolla, and Paris. SIGNED PICTURE, 6x4 in. Fine........75-100

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167. [NOBEL PRIZE] Barry James Marshall AC FRACP FRS FAA (b.1951) Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Co-Director of the Marshall Centre at the University of Western Australia. Marshall and Robin Warren showed that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) plays a major role in causing many peptic ulcers, challenging decades of medical doctrine holding that ulcers were caused primarily by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid. This discovery has allowed for a breakthrough in understanding a causative link between Helicobacter pylori infection and stomach cancer. Signed color picture, about 3-3/4 x 6 in. Fine.................50-75

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168. [FILM] Wesley Studi (b. 1947) is a Native American (Cherokee Nation) actor and film producer. He has garnered critical acclaim and awards throughout his career, particularly for his portrayal of Native Americans in film. He has appeared in Academy Award-winning films, such as Dances with Wolves (1990) and The Last of the Mohicans (1992), and in the Academy Award-nominated films Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) and The New World (2005). He is also known for portraying Sagat in Street Fighter (1994). Other films he has appeared in are Hostiles, Heat, Mystery Men, Avatar, A Million Ways to Die in the West, and the television series Penny Dreadful. In 2019, he received an Academy Honorary Award, becoming the first Native American and the second Indigenous person from North America to be honored by the Academy (the first was Buffy Sainte-Marie). Signed 5x7 picture. Fine..............50-75

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169. [FILM] George Segal Jr. (1934-2021) American actor, comedian and musician. He became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for playing both dramatic and comedic roles. After first rising to prominence with roles in acclaimed films such as Ship of Fools (1965) and King Rat (1965), he co-starred in the classic drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Signed, inscribed 5x7 picture. Fine..................50-75

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170. [ART] Tony Palazzo (1905-1970) artist; best known  as an illustrator and author of children's books. Mr. Palazzo was a former art director of Esquire, Coronet, Collier's and Look magazines and had taught art at Pratt Institute and the New School for Social Research. Offered here is a collection of 15 Christmas / Season's Greetings card designed by Tony. Three por 4 are likely original prints; at least one is pencil signed by Tony. Scans upon request..........100-150

171.  [CHESS] 1965 printed page of chess once owned by Bobby Fischer. Approx. 5-3/4 x 9 in. Bobby Fischer (1943-2008) American chess Grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him the greatest chess player of all time. Provenance: Robert "Bobby" Fischer - Brooklyn Library - Swann's Auction - East Coast Books. In the late 1960s Fischer is said to have needed money so he sold his chess library to the Brooklyn Library, who then sold off some of their holding at auction in NYC, some 25 years later. Rare!. Fine................Min. Bid $10

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172. [CHESS] 1965 printed page of chess once owned by Bobby Fischer. Approx. 5-3/4 x 9 in. Bobby Fischer (1943-2008) American chess Grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him the greatest chess player of all time. Provenance: Robert "Bobby" Fischer - Brooklyn Library - Swann's Auction - East Coast Books. In the late 1960s Fischer is said to have needed money so he sold his chess library to the Brooklyn Library, who then sold off some of their holding at auction in NYC, some 25 years later. Rare!. Fine................Min. Bid $10

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173. [THEATRE] Henry Clay Barnabee - American actor, well-known in his time, particularly for playing the role of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1891 London production of Robin Hood.  He was a leading member of the Bostonians. The Boston Ideal Opera Company, later The Bostonians, was a comic opera acting company based in Boston from 1879 through 1905. Offered here is a NEW ORLEANS PRESS CLUB Visitor's card, dated 1899, given to H.C. Barnabee. Issued by J.M. L. Byrd.  On the back of the card is written "Press Club boat. Byrd."  3-3/4 x 2-1/4 in. VG................25-35

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174.  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 $100

175.  Diana Canova (b.1953)  American actress, director, and professor. Offered here is a signed sketch, 8-1/4 x 5 in. VG.............50-75

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176. [THEATRE] Adelaide Ristori (1822-1906) distinguished Italian tragedienne, who was often referred to as the Marquise. Front portion of a postmarked envelope addressed in her handwriting but not signed by her. Approx. 4-3/4 x 2 in. Fine.............25-35

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177. [FILM] Edra Jean "E. J." Peaker (b. 1944) is an American actress. Peaker is best known for her appearances in the movie Hello Dolly! and in the TV musical series That's Life. Signed page on which she makes 3 sketches. 5-1/2 x 7-3/4 in. Five.............Min. Bid $10 

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178. [US PRESIDENT] Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American educator and politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Offered here is a mounted photograph bearing an ink signature which I believe  was signed by autopen. Overall size 11 x 13-3/4 in. VG...............100-150

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179. Charles Edward Montague (1867-1928) English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays. Montague was against the First World War prior to its commencement, but once it started he believed that it was right to support it in the hope of a swift resolution. In 1914, Montague was 47, which was well over the age for enlistment, but in order to enlist, he dyed his white hair black to enable him to fool the Army into accepting him. H. W. Nevinson would later write that "Montague is the only man I know whose white hair in a single night turned dark through courage." He began as a grenadier-sergeant, and rose to lieutenant and then captain of intelligence in 1915. Later in the war, he became an armed escort for VIPs visiting the battlefield. He escorted such personalities as H.G. Wells and Bernard Shaw. After the end of World War I he wrote in a strong anti-war vein. He wrote that "War hath no fury like a non-combatant." Disenchantment (1922), a collection of newspaper articles about the war, was one of the first prose works to strongly criticise the way the war was fought, and is a pivotal text in the development of literature about the First World War. Disenchantment criticised the British Press' coverage of the war and the conduct of the British generals. Montague accused the latter of being influenced by the "public school ethos" which he condemned as a "gallant robust contempt for "swats" and for all who invented new means to new ends and who trained and used their brains with a will". Montague was the father of Evelyn Aubrey Montague, the Olympic athlete and journalist depicted in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. ALS, Oxford, England, 1927, 1p, 6 x 9 in. VG......................Min. Bid $25

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180. [FROM KUHN ESTATE] Mark Hanna (1917-2003) American screenwriter and actor. He was known for writing the screenplays for many science fiction B movies in the 1950s, particularly Attack of the 50 Foot Woman. His first major screenplay was Gunslinger in 1956. He continued to be prolific through the mid-1960s, after which his film credits become sporadic. His last screenplay was for Star Portal in 1998, five years before his death from stroke complications.  TLS, 1943, 1p,  to the artist Walt Kuhn, who is at Ogunquit, Maine in September. Says............it must be delightful in Maine - read reviews of LAUGH TIME vaude show which opened at the Shubert - terrific raves - helluva good list of acts includes Ethel Waters, Frank Fay & Bert Wheeler - will get tickets for you, Lily [Cushing - Kuhn painted her portrait] & myself - maybe Hope Richardson can make it a foursome. 7-3/4 x 10 in. VG..................50-75

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181. [FILM] Whoopi Goldberg - American actress. Signed American Film magazine, Dec. 1985. Signed on cover picturing her, in silver ink. VG.........Min. bid $10

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182.  Exhibition of Art Work by Walt Kuhn at the Walt Kuhn Gallery, at Cape Neddick Park, Maine, approx. 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 in. Lists 11 oil paintings, 1 watercolor and 1 drawing, each with a price. 3 pages; no illustrations. Accompanied by a 1966 bank check signed by Brenda Kuhn. VG.............50-75

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183. [MUSIC] John Thomas (1795-1871) Welsh, born in Carmarthen,  musician, poet and schoolmaster who taught in Machen and Merthyr before moving to the Pontypridd district in 1850. From his time in Merthyr he pioneered choral music in Wales, leading his own choirs to success in eisteddfodau in the 1830s. He was also an essayist on Welsh music and culture, winning awards at eisteddfodau in 1838 and 1840, and in 1845 published Y Caniedydd Cymreig, a collection of airs with English and Welsh words.  ALS, 1875, 2pp. To Mr. Planché, probably James Robinson Planché (1796 – 1880) the British dramatist.  Thomas is anxious to set up a meeting about "a Libretto...",  approx. 4-1/2 x 7".  VG........Min. Bid $25

184. Deborah Raffin (1953-2012) American model, film and television actress. Offered here is a signed & inscribed  sketch, 8-1/4 x 5 in.  The signature in yellow is hard to see. VG.............50-75

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185. [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.............Min. Bid $25

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186. [AMERICANA] Benjamin Wadsworth (1750-1826) undated manuscript document signed Mr. Wadsworth making a payment to Dr. Holten. Wadsworth was the pastor of the First Church in Danvers, Massacustetts. Samuel Holten was a Continental Congressman from Massachusetts. Approx. 6 x 3-3/4 in. VG................80-120

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187. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL Ink drawing, unsigned on 6-3/4 x 8 in. sheet. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it...............150-250

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188. [FILM] Ralph Bellamy (1904-1991) American actor whose career spanned 62 years on stage, film, and television. During his career, he played leading roles as well as supporting roles, garnering acclaim and awards, including an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for The Awful Truth (1937). Offered here is a signed sketch [a comical self-portrait], 5-1/4 x 8 in. He made the sketch but apparently didn't like it so he added NOT before the first name. VG.............50-75 

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189 [MILITARY] James L. Edwards (1786-1867) was born in Petersburg, Virginia. He served with the U. S. Marines during the War of 1812 and was awarded a medal for bravery. In 1816, he began working as a clerk in the War Department. He eventually became the principal pensions clerk, where he was responsible for many of the pensions granted to veterans of the Revolutionary War. When the Pension Office was created in 1833, Edwards became the first Commissioner of Pensions. He held this post until retiring on November 27, 1850.  Offered here is a ALS, Pension Office, 1847, 1p., written to Hon. Howell Cobb, House of Representatives. Cobb also served as the 40th Governor of Georgia (1851–1853) and as a Secretary of the Treasury under President James Buchanan (1857–1860).  Cobb is, however, probably best known as one of the founders of the Confederacy, having served as the President of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. This letter concerns the case of Mrs. Alice B. Alden, widow of the late Rev. Charles H. Alden, Chaplain in the Navy. Apparently Alden died in the line of duty. Obviously this letter has some condition problems BUT all of the text is there..................80-120

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190. [ART] RUDY POZZATTI - noted American printmaker [listed everywhere], original wood engraving, signed in the block. A commissioned print to commemorate the Inauguration of John Stephen Bailey as the 4th President of Nasson College [Springvale, Me.], 1970. Image is 5 x 4, sheet 10-1/4 x 7. Fine condition.............25-35

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191. George Mitchell (b. 1933) United States Senator from Maine from 1980 to 1995 and as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995. He has taken a leading role in negotiations for peace in Northern Ireland and the Middle East, being appointed United States Special Envoy for Northern Ireland (1995–2001) by President Clinton and as United States Special Envoy for Middle East Peace (2009–2011) by President Obama.  TLS, 1987, 1p. Sends editor thanks for sending a book.  Signed George.  VG...............25-35

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192. [NASA] group of 8 covers postmarked 1983. VG.................Min. Bid $20

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193. [LINCOLN] LEONARD W. VOLK (1828-1895) American sculptor. Most famous for making a life mask of American President Abraham Lincoln. In 1857, he settled in Chicago, where he helped to establish the Academy of Design and was for eight years its head. In 1860 he made a life mask of Lincoln, of whom only one other was ever made (by Clark Mills in 1865). In the early part of spring in 1860, during Abraham Lincoln's visit to Chicago, Volk asked him to sit for a bust. When Lincoln agreed, the artist decided to start by doing a life mask. Lincoln found the process of letting wet plaster dry on his face, followed by a skin-stretching removal process, "anything but agreeable." But he endured it with good humor, and when he saw the final bust, he was quite pleased, declaring it "the animal himself." Volk later used the life mask and bust of 1860 as the basis for other editions, including a full-length statue of Lincoln. OFFERED HERE: Signed 1895 National Bank of Illinois bank check, approx. 3 x 6.25 in., star & one other cancellation. Very good condition...................100-150

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194.  [FILM] Susan Seaforth Hayes (born 1943) American dramatic actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Julie Williams on the NBC drama Days of Our Lives, and her intermittent portrayal of Joanna Manning on the CBS daytime drama The Young and the Restless. She began playing the role of Julie Olsen Williams on Days of Our Lives in 1968, and is the only actor to appear on the show for all six decades (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s) in which it has been on the air. Mrs. Seaforth Hayes still regularly appears on Days as Julie Olsen Williams. Offered here is her signed 1965 contract for the film BILLIE starring Patty Duke.  She was paid $750 for 2 week's employment in the role of Jean Carol  [changed to Jean Matthews].  Counter signed by Milt Ebbins (1912-2008) the  well-connected show business manager who was a liaison between Hollywood and the Kennedy White House. Mr. Ebbins was a well-liked Hollywood insider who directed the careers of actors, musicians and comedians. For more than 30 years, he was the personal manager of actor Peter Lawford. Through Lawford, who was married to Patricia Kennedy, a sister of John F. Kennedy's, Mr. Ebbins became a favorite of JFK's and a frequent guest at the White House and on Air Force One. At Kennedy's 45th birthday party in 1962, Mr. Ebbins gave Marilyn Monroe a push onstage at Madison Square Garden as she went out to sing her sultry version of "Happy Birthday." Seaforth & Ebbins have also initialed 2 other pages. Approx. 8-1/4 x 14 in. VG.............75-100

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195. Oliver North (b.1943)  American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. Signed, inscribed photo, 8x10. Fine.................25-35

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196. George H.W. Bush (1824-2018) 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Signed, inscribed color 8x10 photo [auto=pen signature]. Fine................50-75

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197. Rudy Vallée (1901-1986) American singer, musician, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. Signed bank check, 1935. VG.................25-35

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198. [MARYLAND] Paul Sarbanes (b. 1933) a Democrat, is a former United States Senator who represented the state of Maryland. Sarbanes was the longest-serving senator in Maryland history, having served from 1977 until 2007. Group of 3 TLSs, 1977-80, 1p. each. To the President of a financial company, regarding various bills......40-60

199. [THEATRE] antique engraving of the actor Edwin Forrest (1806-1872) prominent nineteenth-century American Shakespearean actor. His feud with the British actor William Macready was the cause of the deadly Astor Place Riot of 1849. In this print he is Hamlet. The engraver was John Chester Buttre (1821-1893) American steel-plate engraver and lithographer, responsible for some 3,000 engraved portraits of American political, naval and military personalities. He published "The American Portrait Gallery" in 3 volumes (1880–81) with text by his daughter, Lillian C. Buttre. Overall size 8.5 x 11 in. Stun-toned line above image & soft crease....................25-35

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200. [POSTAL HISTORY]  Levi P. Morton (1824-1920)  the 22nd vice president of the United States from 1889 to 1893. He also served as United States ambassador to France, as a US representative from New York, and as the 31st governor of New York.  Offered here is a postmarked envelope. 1900, hand-addressed by Morton [not signed] to Lola Greene Baldwin (1860-1957) who was one of the first policewomen in the United States. In 1908, she was sworn in by the City of Portland, Oregon as Superintendent of the Women's Auxiliary to the Police Department for the Protection of Girls (later renamed the Women's Protective Division), with the rank of detective. Approx. 4-3/4 x 3-3/4 in. VG...............50-75

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201. [ART] 4 original etchings [book illus.] by Oreste Cortazzo (1836-1910) Italian-born French painter, graphic artist and illustrator. From 1870 to 1885, he was a regular participant in showings at the Salon. He also exhibited at the Exposition Universelle (1878) and the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in Glasgow. After that, he derived inspiration from the English Romantics and produced numerous landscapes in that style. His works received honorable mention at the Exposition Universelle (1889). Image sizes are approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. These etchings date to 1898. VG...............50-75

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202. [MUSIC] Lyell Cresswell (born 1944, Wellington, New Zealand) composer of contemporary classical music. He studied in Wellington, Toronto, Aberdeen and Utrecht. He moved to Scotland in the 1970s and has lived and worked in Edinburgh since 1985. He received the APRA Silver Scroll for his contribution to New Zealand music in 1979 and he won the Ian Whyte Award for the orchestral work Salm in 1978. In 1979, 1981 and 1988 he received a recommendation by the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers. In 2002, Victoria University of Wellington awarded him an honorary D. Mus degree and the inaugural Elgar Bursary. AMQS from his "Cello Concerto", dated 1993. On 6x4" card. Fine........40-60

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203. (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

204. [MIXED ULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Eileen Heckart ( 1919-2001)   American actress of film, stage, and television. Primarily known as a character actress, her career spanned nearly 60 years. SIGNED 3X5 card. VG. (2) Leslie Bassett (1923-2016) American composer of classical music, and the University of Michigan's Albert A. Stanley Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Composition. Bassett received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Variations for Orchestra. AMQS on 3x5 card. VG. (3) George D. Aiken (1892-1984) American politician from Vermont. A Republican Party, he served as governor of Vermont from 1937 to 1941 and as a U.S. Senator from 1941 to 1975. At the time of his retirement, Aiken was the most senior member of the Senate. SIGNED postcard photo, dated Dec. 10, 1941 on verso. VG. (4) [THEATRE] Victor Mapes (1870-1943) American playwright. Brief ALS, 1907, 1p. VG (5) [LAW] John Augustus (1785 -1859) Boston boot maker who is called the "Father of Probation" in the United States because of his pioneering efforts to campaign for more lenient sentences for convicted criminals based on their backgrounds. Brief ADS, Boston, 1821. "Mr. Wm. Barry Sir please deliver the bearer one Hat & charge the same to your acc." 8 x 2-3/4 in. VG. (6) [LABOR]  David Dubinsky (1892-1982)  American labor leader. He served as president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) between 1932 and 1966, took part in the creation of the CIO and was one of the founders of the American Labor Party and the Liberal Party of New York.  Signed 1977 FDC. Clean. VG. (7) ROBERT S. DILLON (1929- ) American Diplomat. He was US Ambassador to Lebanon (1981-1983)It was during this time during the War there and dealt with the crises there impeccably. Onn the morning of Sunday, October 23, 1983, a heavy truck, loaded with explosives rammed into the building that housed the Battalion Landing Team (BLT) of the 24th Marine Amphibious Unit (MAU) The truck detonated immediately. The building was destroyed and 220 U.S. marines, 18 sailors and 3 soldiers housed there were killed in the ensuing explosion TLS dtd 5/12/1983 as Ambassador, with signed/inscribed 5x7 portrait photograph (2 items). The photo is signed in dark area therefore poor contrast......Min. Bid $50

205. [MUSIC] Arthur Lloyd [1839-1904] Scottish singer, songwriter, comedian. Clip. signature.............Min. Bid $10

206. Henry M. Baird (1832-1906), American historian and educationalist. He is best known as a historian of the Huguenots. SIGNATURE with sentiment on card 1885.......20-30

207. Ben Turner [1912-1966] American painter. Signature...........20-30

208. [OPERA] Armand Tokatyan [1894-1960] tenor. Sig. inscribed 1942.............Min. Bid $10

209. [FRANCE] Gilbert-Louis Duprez (1806-1896)  French tenor, singing teacher and minor composer who famously pioneered the delivery of the operatic high C from the chest (Ut de poitrine, as Paris audiences called it). He also created the role of Edgardo in the popular bel canto-era opera Lucia di Lammermoor in 1835. ALS, 1842, 1p. approx. 5 x 8 in. VG.................50-75

210. [FRANCE] Joseph-Philippe Simon, called Lockroy (F1803-1891) French actor and playwright. ALS, not dated, 1p, approx. 5-1/4 x 8 in. VG..............50-75

211. [FRANCE]  Jules Charles-Roux  (1841-1918)   manufacturer, shipowner and French politician. The death of his father, he took over the management of the factory that completely modernized. In 1877, he teamed with his brother Charles Canaple and two, they manage to represent 10% of the Marseille production end of the century. It is named that year director of the Banque de France to Marseille in 1877, along with Gustave Luce and Joseph Bonnasse .  He led an active struggle for the recognition of the profession of soap manufacturer. He also won several international awards and medals coming devote his business.  In the year 1900 , he crowns his career by going to chair several shipping companies, including the General Transatlantic Company, which he rectifies the situation in 1904. He also exercises the chairmanship of several other companies linked with maritime transport (shipyards, banks and insurance companies), the Marseilles Company steamship Fraissinet and C ie, Building and Ateliers de Provence, the Building Workshops and Saint-Nazaire , the Building Society Levallois-Perret, of "The Land-Transport» Marine Insurance Company, and then became president of the Central Committee of France Shipowners from 1910 to 1917.  ALS, 1905, 4 full pages...............80-120

212. [RELIGION] Charles-Francois Turinaz [1838-1918] Catholic Archbishop. Extremely long ALS, 1902, 4 very full pages. Fine. Not translated.........80-120

213. Albert C. Ritchie (1876-1936) Maryland's ongest-serving governor, with almost 15 years of service (14 years, 11 months, and 27 days) and a record four terms.  TLS, 1927, as governor, 1p. 8.5 x 11 in. Includes envelope. VG..............25-35

214. [MUSIC] David Rubinoff (1897-1986) Russian-born violinist who was heard during the 1930s and 1940s on various radio programs playing his Stradivarius violin. He also performed in theaters, clubs and schools, and he gave several concerts at the White House during the 1940s. TLS, 1933, 1p. Probably an ink signed form letter sending his autograph. Minor faults........35-45

215. [MUSIC] Ivan Erod (b. 1936) Hungarian-Austrian composer and pianist. AMQS on 6x4 card. Fine........60-80

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216. Sir Frederick McCoy, KCMG, FRS [1817-1899] Irish palaeontologist and museum administrator, active in Australia. Last 4 pages of an ALS, no date. Ink has lightened on last name. Mounting trace along edge on last page. Very small punchhole............30-40

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217. Mike Connors (1925-2017)  American actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series, Mannix. In the 1959–1960 television season, he had played a crime-fighting investigator known only as "Nick" in another CBS series, Tightrope.  Signed, inscribed 8 x 10 photo. VG............40-60

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218. John Calvin Stevens (1855-1940) American architect who worked in the Shingle Style, in which he was a major innovator, and the Colonial Revival style. He designed more than 1,000 buildings in the state of Maine. TLS, Portland, Maine, 1925, 1p, re: reserving a book for him. VG.............100-150 

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219. 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

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220. [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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221. [ENTERTAINMENT] Ed Asner (1929-2021) 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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222 [FRANCE] Old French manuscript page, ca. late 18th century [could be earlier], about Henry IV, French King at Folembray Castle in Laon. Identification with this says "About Jeanne de Flandres and Rites of funerals in Laon in 1320 and 1658 [whatever this means???].  Approx. 6-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. Very fine...........75-100

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223. [SCIENCE] Jules Tannery (1848-1910)  French mathematician. Tannery discovered a surface of the fourth order of which all the geodesic lines are algebraic. ALS, Paris, 190?, 1p, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. Fine................75-100

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224. [FRANCE] CHARLES BUET [1846-1897] Fr. novelist & dramatist. ALS, 1886, 1p.....50-75

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225. Adolphe Desbarrolles (1801-1886) was a French artist. He is considered the father of modern chiromancy, aka palmistry or palm reading, a form of divination. A friend of Alexandre Dumas he accompanied Dumas in many of his travels abroad. Offered here is a ALS written from Hatie in 1874, 2-1/2 pp. Not translated.  6 x 8-1/4 in. Not translated. Content not identified. VG...........80-120

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226. [FRANCE] multiple lot of French autographs:  [1] Armand Carrel (1800-1836) French journalist and political writer. He had a deep admiration for the great generals of Napoleon , and his uncompromising spirit and independent views marked him as a leader. Entering the army as sub-lieutenant, he took a secret but active part in the unsuccessful Belfort Conspiracy. At the outbreak of war with Spain in 1823, Carrel, whose sympathies were with the liberal cause, resigned, and succeeded in escaping to Barcelona. He enrolled in the foreign legion and fought gallantly against his former comrades. The legion was compelled to surrender near Figueres , and Carrel was taken prisoner by his former general, Damas. There was considerable difficulty about the terms of his capitulation, and one council of war condemned Carrel to death. The sentence was not carried out, and he was soon acquitted and freed. ALS, no date, lengthy 1p., 6-3/4 x 9-1/4 in. VG.  [2] JACQUES NORMAND [b.1848] Fr. writer, poet & playwright. ALS, 1888, on both sides.  [3] REBE DE PONT-JEST [1830-1904] Fr. writer. ALS, 1878, 1p, 8vo. Fine  [4]  Henri Léon Emile Lavedan (1859-1940), French dramatist and man of letters. As a writer, Lavedan contributed to various Parisian papers a series of witty tales and dialogues of Parisian life, many of which were collected in volume form. In 1891 he produced at the Théâtre Français Une Famille, followed at the Vaudeville in 1894 by Le Prince d'Aurec, a satire on the nobility, afterward re-named Les Descendants. ANS, no date.  [5] Joseph-Marie JOUANNIN [1783-1847] Fr. writer. ALS, no date, not translated. 1-page.  [6] B. Noric - French painter. ALS, no date, written on card to M. Hubert, director of magazine Le Monde Illustre.  [7] Mlle Cécile Charlotte Furtado (1821-896) was chiefly known for her philanthropy in the areas of medicine, education, and religion. During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, 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. Letter Signed, nd, 2pp.  [8] Alfred Le Roux (1815-1880) Commerce Minister. ALS, 1867, 2pp.  [9] Arthur Levasseur   (1875-1955)  French politician. ALS, 1925, 1p.  [10] Henri-Leon Camusat de Riancey  [1816-1870]  politician and writer. ALS, nd, 1p.............200-300

227. [FRANCE] Beautiful French document 1715 with large ornate revenue stamp at top. Lengthy 4 pages, 7-1/4 x 9-1/2 in. Three ornate signatures on last page. 1715 was the fist year of the reign of King Louis XV. VG.................100-200

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228. [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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229. [THEATRE] Aline MacMahon  (1899-1991)  American actress. Her career began on stage in 1921. She worked extensively in film and television until her retirement in 1975. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Dragon Seed (1944). Document Signed, The Theatre Guild Inc., NYC, 1945, 1p. Signed contract to act in radio performance of "Storm Over Patsy", for run of an hour, and she will be paid $750. VG............50-75 

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230.  (20th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE LOT)     MAUD HOWE ELLIOTT(1854-1948) Writer, Pulitzer Prize(1917) on biography of her mother Julia Ward Howe  ALS(1954)3pp  EDGAR GUEST(1881-1959) Poet SIGNATURE on sheet typed books of various authors he has signed on his book title   LLOYD GOODRICH(1897-1987) Art Historian, director of Whitney Museum ANS on greeting card  MARION FAIRFAX(1875-1970) Playwright, Screenwriter TLS(1958)  JOSEPH KRAMM(1907-1991) Playwright, director, actor ANS(1977)  ELIZABETH HOLLISTER FROST(1887-1958) P. et SIGNED 1st edition presentation page from her book (1928) The Lost Lyrist”  NAT HENTOFF(1925) Historian, novelist, jazz critic, columnist  ALS on postcard(2001) William McFEE (1881-1966) English born/American novelist, writer of the Sea – TLS(1923).................Min. Bid $50

231. (20th AMERICAN LITERATURE LOT)   MAXINE HONG KINGSTON (1940)Poet   ALS(2000)  JOHN JAKES(1932) Historical Novelist, Author  SIGNED CARD(1991)   HAYDEN CARRUTH(1921-2008) Poet and Literary Critic  TLS(2002)   LAURA BENET(1884-1979) Poet and sister of William Rose and Stephen Vincent Benet  TLS(1961)  IRA LEVIN(1929-2007) Author, Dramatist, Songwriter noted works “Deathtrap”, “Rosemary’s Baby”, “A Kiss Before Dying”, “Boys from Brazil”  TLS(2000)  PHILIP LEVINE(1928) Poet – ANS(ny,nd)    ANTHONY LEWIS(1927-2013) Pulitzer Prize Writer, Journalist  SIGNED 5x7, inscribed photograph at his desk   RICHARD WATSON GILDER(1844-1909) Poet and Editor  SIGNATURE(1889)..........Min. Bid $50

232. (20th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE LOT)   HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE(1882-1958) Editor & Journalist, Pulitzer Prize TLS(1955)  EDWARD A. WEEKS(1898-1989) Author, Essayist and Editor of the Atlantic Monthly – ANS on large broadside(9x13)booklet   TOM WICKER(1926-2011) LUCY IRVINE(1956) DENISE GESS(1942-2009) JOHN KATZENBACH(1950) Novelists and Writers SIGNED by all 4  BOOK & AUTHOR Luncheon booklet Philadelphia (1984)   RICHARD WATSON GILDER(1844-1909)  Poet and Editor  SIGNATURE from TLS   RITA WEIMAN(1885-1954) Playwright, Novelist and Screenwriter – author of “The Acquittal”,” The Gentle Wife” “Possessed”, which was made into a film with Joan Crawford – TLS from the Literary Digest (1934)  asking her to pronounce her name, she responds at bottom of letter (letter is trimmed at bottom) CORNELIU;S WEYGANDT(1878-1957) Historian and Biographer, journalist authored 18 books  TLS(1928)   ANTHONY LEWIS(1927-2013) Pulitzer Prize Writer, Journalist TLS(2002)  WILL CARLETON(1845-1912) Poet  SIGNATURE(1898)  LAURA BENET(1884-1979) Poet and sister of William Rose and Stephen Vincent Benet  TLS(1964)............Min. Bid $50

233. (20th CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE LOT)   FRANK SULLIVAN  (1892 -1976) Humorist ,author, writer best remembered for creating the character Mr. Arbuthnot the Cliche Expert ALS(1973) Raymond Gram Swing (1887 - 1968) print and broadcast journalist. He was one of the most influential news commentators of his era, heard by people worldwide as a leading American voice from Britain during World War II.  SIGNATURE(1939)   RAYMOND UNDERWOOD JOHNSON(1853-1937) Writer, Diplomat, editor of Century Magazine on the death of Richard Gilder. He with Naturalist John Muir, was one of the driving forces behind the creation of “Yosemite National Park” also with his ongoing persuasion to President U.S. Grant the president wrote his “Memoirs” backed by Mark Twain. He became Ambassador to Italy ALS(1914) on “Century Club” card to Playwright Augustus Thomas(1859-1934)   MARY COLES CARRINGTON(1882-?) Poet, Writer She wrote many articles for Harpers Magazine SIGNATURE(1929)inscribed to American Poet William Rose Benet STARK YOUNG(1881-1963) Playwright, Novelist, Painter, Critic and Essayist  ALS, 2pp  GAIL GODWIN(1937) Novelist and Short Story Writer SIGNED Book & Author booklet Philadelphia(1985) )  LAURA BENET(1884-1979) Poet and sister of William Rose and Stephen Vincent Benet  ALS(1962)2pp   JEANE L. DIXON(1904-1997) Astrologer, writer, syndicated columnist  SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph.............Min. Bid $50

234. (AMERICAN SINGERS LOT)   JERRY BUTLER(1939) (2) SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 paper stock photograph  DEAN TORRENCE(1940) of “Jan and Dean” 60’s rock and roll group SIGNED, inscribed 8x11 paper stock photograph with ANS   GLADYS M. KNIGHT(1944) SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph(2002) BOBBY VINTON(1935) SIGNED 8x10 heavy paper stock photograph   HELEN REDDY(1941)Australian born American Singer – SIGNED, inscribed 6x7 postcard photograph on verso   BARBARA LEWIS(1943)  SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph   TOMMY BOYCE(1939-1994) of “Boyce & Hart”, singer/songwriters  SIGNED 5x7 color photograph, signed in gold in by Boyce only.................Min. Bid $50

235. (CLASSICAL CONDUCTOR LOT)  SIR CHARLES MACKERRAS(1925-2010) Australian Conductor SIGNED, inscribed 5x7 photograph(2001)  LEO DRIEHUYS(1932) Netherlands Conductor  SIGNED 10x8 portrait photograph(signed in dark area) ARTHUR RODANZKY(1877-1939) Austrian Conductor mostly associated with Wagner, conductor assistant to Mahler SIGNED Album page SIR THOMAS BEECHAM(1879-1961) British Conductor SIGNATURE.   ERICH KUNZEL(1935-2009) American conductor Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.  SIGNED inscribed 8x10 color photograph..................Min. Bid $50

236. (CLASSICAL CONDUCTOR LOT)  STEPHEN SIMON(1938-2013) American, Washington Chamber Symphony, resident conductor Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  SIGNED, inscribed 8x10(1983) VINCENT DeFRANK(1915-1998)Conductor and founder of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 portrait photograph(1982)   HENRY LYELL-TAYLER(1872-1938) British Conductor SIGNED Album Page AMERIGO MARINO(1925-1988) American Conductor Birmingham Symphony(1964-1984) SIGNED 7x5 photograph conducting(signed in dark area) FAUSTO CLEVA(1902-1971) Italian Conductor Metropolitan and Chicago Operas Many recordings – SIGNED 64pp Met Opera program magazine(68-69) season signed on page 25................Min. Bid $50

237. (OPERA NOTABLES LOT)  LAURITZ MELCHIIOR (1890-1973) Danish American Opera Star – SIGNED Album Page – LEONTYNE PRICE(1939) Leading Prima Donna of the Metropolitan Opera SIGNED FDC honoring the Met’s 100th Anniversary LAWRENCE TIBBETT(1896-1960) American Opera and film star – SIGNED CARD  IGOR GORIN(1904-1982) Ukrainian Baritone much celebrated in the US – SIGNED, inscribed album page  FREDERICK JAGEL(18897-1982) American Tenor Met Star in the 1930’s and 1940’s.  His debut there in 1927. Sang 217 performances in 34 roles  SIGNED Met Opera House booklet, season of 1941-1942, signed on center page program 2pp...................Min. Bid $50

238. (OPERA NOTABLES LOT)  LAWRENCE TIBBETT (1896-1960) American Opera Star/Film Star – SIGNATURE  on card . MARILYN HORNE (1934) American Mezzo-Soprano, Met Star SIGNED inscribed 5x7 color photograph(2000) as “L’Italiana” in Algeri .   CHARLES KULLMAN (1903-1983) American Tenor debut at Met in 1935 – SIGNATURE, with sentiment.– JESSE BARTLETT DAVIS (1859-1905) American Contralto/Opera Star and Broadway Actress – SIGNED CARD(1889).   DOLORA ZAJICK (1952) American Mezzo-Soprano – ANS, ny,nd.  JAMES MORRIS (1947) American Bass/Baritone SIGNED 8x10 portrait photograph signed in silver ink.................Min. Bid $50

239. (BRITISH LITERARY LOT)   SIR FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE(1810-1888) Poet TLS(ny) 2pp(trimmed on Right side) SIR ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS(1863-1933) Novelist bottom half of ALS SIR HALL CAINE(1853-1931) SIGNATURE, with sentiment on the SS Majestic(1898) ELIZA COOOK(1818-1889) Author, Poet  last signed page of a ALS(ny) CHARLES IGNANCE GILL(1871-1918) Poet, Artist SIGNED card(1910) died at age 46   ) HENRY MAJOR TOMLINSON (1873-1958) Novelist SIGNED 6x9 sheet  EDMUND BLUNDEN(1896-1974) Poet, Author, Critic SIGNED presentation page from his book “Near & Far” 1929..................Min. Bid $50

240. [SCIENCE] Hugo von Mohl  (1805-1872) German botanist from Stuttgart. He was the first person to use the word "protoplasm".  ALS, Paris, no yr., 1p, approx. 4-3/4 x 7 in. Fine.................75-100
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241. [BOBBY FISCHER] Robert James Fischer (1943- 2008) was an American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Offered here are 2 items once owned by Fischer. We bought his chess magazines at the Fischer Auction held in NY at Swann's Auction. Back around 1968 Fischer arranged thru a book dealer to sell his personal library because he needed money. The Brooklyn Library purchased in library.  Years later Swann's sold many items from the libraries collection. Offered here are 2 items: (1) A 1968 softcover brooklet titled FROM THEORY TO ACTION, 64pp. 8-1/2 x 10-3/4 in. (2) A 1961 page from a chess publication. Fischer subscribed to CHESS ARCHIVES EDITIONED BY DR. MAX EUWE.  They would mail to Fischer on some regular schedule multiple page of chess games. These would then be assembled in a notebook.  One page included here............50-75

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242. [BOOK] MAYORS OF BOSTON, printed 1914, illustrated, 48pp. begins with Boston's 1st mayor, John Phillips [1822] and ends with George Albee Hibbard 35th Mayor 1908-09.  Soft-cover, 6x9 in. VG.................25-35

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243. [PORTRAIT] 19th century engraved portrait of Bolivar (1783-1830) the  Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Panama, Peru, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. The image is about 5x4 in. plus margins. Fine...................25-35

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244. [FILM]  Group photo of friends Van Johnson, Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn and Peter Lawford.  c. 1950s. 8 x 10 in.From the personal collection of Van Johnson. VG for its age.........150-200    Min. Bid $35

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245. Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904) English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia. ALS, no year, "I am away at my house...." 4x6 in. VG...........75-100

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246. [FRANCE] Rene Cagnat (1852-1937) Fr. teacher and philosopher. As holder of the chair of 'Epigraphy and Roman antiquities' at the Collège de France, in 1888, he set up L'Année épigraphique (The Epigraphic Year, or AE) the French publication on epigraphy. ALS, no date, 2-1/2 pp., 4 x 5-3/8", sent to the poet, Noel Giron. VG............50-75

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247. [FRANCE] Hugues Le Roux  (1860-1925) French journalist, writer, Senator in the Third Republic.  ALS, 1909, 2 full pages. VG..........50-75

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

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249. Three document, stock sales, 1899-1900.......Min. Bid $5    CLICK here

250.  [FILM] Robert "Bobby" Banas (b. 1933) is an American dancer and actor. He is known for his work on movies such as West Side Story (1961), Always (1989) and Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), as well as a viral video of a televised performance of the Nitty Gritty dance, which accumulated 3.6 million views in four years.   Natalie Wood was his dancing partner in the Michael Panaieff Children’s’ Ballet Company, to which he received a scholarship and in which Jill St. John and Stefanie Powers were members. Banas also attended the Hollywood Professional School.  He auditioned for the production of Carousel at the LA Civic Light Opera and was cast as Enoch Snow Jr. After that, he appeared in stage productions of Kiss Me Kate, Annie Get Your Gun, Brigadoon, Plain and Fancy, and Peter Pan.  Offered here is his signed contract appearing as a dancer in the 1965 film BILLIE starring Patty Duke. Also signed by H. Bud Otto  (1934-2001) Producer. Approx. 8.5 x 13 in, 1p. Includes a 2 page RIDER ink signed by Bob Banas.  VG.................80-120  

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251.  [CHESS] 1965 printed page of chess once owned by Bobby Fischer. Approx. 5-3/4 x 9 in. Bobby Fischer (1943-2008) American chess Grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him the greatest chess player of all time. Provenance: Robert "Bobby" Fischer - Brooklyn Library - Swann's Auction - East Coast Books. In the late 1960s Fischer is said to have needed money so he sold his chess library to the Brooklyn Library, who then sold off some of their holding at auction in NYC, some 25 years later. Rare!. Fine................Min. Bid $10

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252. [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

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253. [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..............50-75

254. [POET] Paul Hamilton Hayne [1830-1886]. American poet, b. Charleston, S.C. ANS, 1881, on 4 x 3-1/4 slip............100-150

255. [MUSIC MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Connee Boswell [1907-1976] American vocalist who performed in the 1930s with The Boswell Sisters. Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. VG. (2) Dick Dale (b. 1937) American surf rock guitarist, known as The King of the Surf Guitar. Signed, inscribed color 8x10 photo. VG. (3) Ralph Kirbery (1900-1993) American Baritone Singer during the 1930s. Often singing the songs of Carrie Jacobs Bond. He was known on radio as "The Dream Singer." Signed, inscribed vintage 5x7 photo. (4) Georgia Gibbs (1919-2006) was an American popular singer and vocal entertainer rooted in jazz. ALS, on 6 x 3-1/4" card. Envelope postmarked 1991. (5) Vladimir Ashkenazy [b. 1937] Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Clip signature from envelope. (6) Jane Glover CBE (b.1949) British-born conductor and music scholar. Signed 8x10 photo. VG. (7) Jessica Dragonette (1900-1980) was a singer who became popular on American radio and was active in the World War II effort.  Signature with sentiment on card. (8) DELLA REESE (1931-2017 ) American Singer/Actress. SIGNED Document - A contract for her to appear on the Rosey Grier Show, for $57.00...............Min. Bid $75

256. [MUSIC MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Peter Duchin (b. 1937) American pianist and band leader. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. Soft crease in image [unobtrusive]. (2) Archibald Joyce [1873-1963] British composer. Signed card. (3) Rudy Vallée (1901-1986)  American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. Signed 1946 bank check made out to the Hollywood Studio Club. VG. (4) Nedda Casei [b. 1932] American operatic mezzo-soprano. Signed 1983 FDC honoring the Met Opera. Clean with cachet. Nice. (5) Jacob Avshalomov [b. 1919] Jewish American composer and conductor. Signed 3.5 x 4" photo. VG (6) Leonid Hambro [1920-2006] American concert pianist and composer. Clip signature with sentiment. (7) Hans-Werner Janssen [1899-1990] American conductor of classical music, and composer of classical music and film scores. ANS, 1979, on 3x5 card. (8) George Crumb (b. 1929)  American composer of contemporary classical music.  Autograph Note Signed [signed in text], not dated but envelope dated 2000. Content about the best book published about him. VG (9) Cora de Wilhorst [b. 1835] Opera singer. Signature with sentiment dated 1858. VG.................Min. Bid $75

257.  [LAW] ORIGINAL PORTRAIT ETCHING of the esteemed jurist, Lemuel Shaw. This portrait is signed in pencil by the artist, James Samuel King [1852-1925] Painter and etcher, James S. King's etchings are featured in J.R.W. Hitchcock's three books on etching, 1880s. He was born in New York City in 1852 and studied at the Art Student's League, National Academy of Design, Ecole Des Beaux-Arts, Paris with Gerome and Bonnat. He belonged to the Salmagundi Club and the Allied Artists of America. King was active in exhibiting at the Parrish Art Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art; Boston Art Club; National Academy of Design; Art Institute of Chicago; the Corcoran Gallery; and the Society of Independent Artists. The subject of this original portrait is Lemuel Shaw [1781-1861] American jurist, b. Barnstable, Mass. Father-in-law of Herman Melville. Practiced in Boston (from 1804); drafted first charter of Boston (1822), which remained in effect until 1913; chief justice, Massachusetts supreme court (1830-60). Probably no other state judge has so deeply influenced commercial and constitutional law throughout the nation. This IS NOT a steel-engraving; it is an etching which is much less common. The image is large, 18 x 14.5" plus slim margins. Laid to heavy paper as issued. In very good condition for size and age with a few small light rubbed areas plus some foxing in signature area. Will frame up nicely. Upon request we will put picture up online. Scarce!...............100-150

258. [FRANCE - MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Charles Mere [b.1883] Fr. dramatist; president of La Societe des Auteurs Dramatiques. ALS, 1936, 1p., 4to. No translation. (2) Eugene Marsan [1882-1936] Right-wing French author. He wrote the first French biography of Mussolini. ALS, 1902, 1p, 4-1/2 x 6-1/4 in. Irrregular/toned left edge. (3) Jacques Tarride (1903-1994) French actor, director. He was the son of the actor Abel Tarride and the brother of the director Jean Tarride. Great friend of Sacha Guitry who was godfather to his son. ALS, 1992, written on both sides. Approx. 6x7. VG. Content about "les Nouveai L Riches". (4) Pierre-Gustave BRUNET [1807-1896] Fr. writer. 8-line ANS or ALS [?]written on 3-3/4 x 3-1/4 slip. Not translated. (5) GEORGES SORIA - Fr. Communist dramatist, writer. Soria is a fine example of a writer whose theatrical aesthetic was seen to have lagged behind his philosophical and political views. TLS, 1960, 1p. (6) Charles MULLER [1877-1914] Fr. writer. ALS, n.d., 4 x 5 in. Not translated. (7) Joseph-Philippe Simon, called Lockroy (1803-1891)  French actor and playwright. Joseph-Philippe Simon began as an actor under the pseudonym Lockroy at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe and the Comédie-Française in Paris before devoting himself entirely to writing. For a few months in 1848 he served as provisional administrator of the Comédie-Française.  Brief ALS, no date, 1p. "How is our dear Dumas?" VG. (8) François Debret (1777-1850) French architect. He was the brother-in-law of fellow architect Felix Duban, and among his students and apprentices was Antoine-Nicolas Bailly. A pupil of Percier, he in turn became an important teacher of many architects who were destined to transform Paris under Haussmann. ALS, 1830, 1p. To the painter Blondel. VG. (9) Arvède Barine (1840-1908) French writer and historian. Arvède Barine was the pseudonym of Mme. Charles Vincens, born Louise-Cécile Bouffé. She mostly wrote on the subject of women, but she also wrote about travel and the political issues of the day. ALS, 1895, written on both sides of 4.5 x 3.5 in. card.  (10) Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent (1839-1908) French geologist. In 1879 he prepared an important memoir for the geological survey of France on the Pays de Bray , a subject on which he had already published several memoirs, and in 1880 he served as president of the Société Géologique de France. In 1881-1883 he published his Traité de géologie, a well-regarded textbook of stratigraphy. ALS, 1891, 1p, 4-1/4 x 7 in. Color pencil notations at top. (11) Madame de Thebes - French palmist and prophet. She was born in 1845 and died in 1916. She carried on a business as a palmist at her salon in the Avenue de Wagram in Paris, and each year at Christmas published prophecies which enjoyed a wide circulation. She was said to have predicted the Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War. ANS, no date, written on both sides of 4.5 x 3.5 in. card. VG.. (12) Charles Étienne Louis Ganderax (1855-1941)  French journalist and theater critic, he was co-director of the Literary Review of Paris with Henri Meilhac , of the French Academy.  He worked in Parliament, Figaro, the Blue Book.  ALS, 1917, PLUS a letter by his daughter. (13) Jacques Bardoux  (1874-1959)  French politician and writer. TLS, 1950, 2pp, with 6 handwritten lines at conclusion. VG. (14) Pierre Barillet  is a playwright born in Paris on 24 August 1923.  In association with Jean-Pierre Grédy he wrote thirty comedies , which many have become classics of boulevard theater . Among these include The Gift of Adele , Cactus Flower , Folle Amanda,  Potiche , ... The latter was freely adapted to the screen by François Ozon in 2010.  At the beginning, benefits advice Barrel Jean Cocteau and Christian Berard . In 1947 he wrote a first dark room, Lovers Christmas. He will thereafter, adaptations of novels for radio before meeting Jean-Pierre Grédy , his sidekick great success.  Pierre barrel is also the author of essays on theater: The Lords of laughter is a reference to Robert de Flers , Gaston Arman de Caillavet and Francis Croisset , four years tirelessly recounts theatrical life in Paris during the A German occupation and the city as the scene is a chronicle of the years during which his own theater pieces were played. He is also the author of Gustave and Louise, a structure built on correspondence between Gustave Flaubert and Louise Colet , a collection of short stories, Hollywood Solitude, and a novel, A genius, small. Finally, he collaborated with Robert Badinter and Elisabeth Badinter the television adaptation of Condorcet.  In January 2012, he was appointed Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. ALS, 1955, 1p, 8-1/4 x 10-1/2. Speaks about Mrs. Roubejansky, director of Theatre des Arts. VG..........Min. Bid $150

259. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) George Nicoll Barnes CH PC (1859-1940) Scottish politician and a leader of the Labour Party. He was leader of the Labour Party from 14 February 1910 to 6 February 1911. He was Minister of Pensions (1916-1917) and Minister without Portfolio (1917-1920) under David Lloyd George. In 1918 the Labour Party decided to leave the Lloyd George Coalition but Barnes refused to resign. As a result he was expelled from the Labour Party and founded the National Democratic Party. SIGNATURE. (2) [MUSIC] Jeanne Devries - Dutch soprano who made her debut in 1867. ALS, 1873, 2pp., 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". VG. (3) Joseph Parker (1830-1902)  English Nonconformist (Congregational) divine. Autograph signature.  Age stains. (4) Sir Aston Webb (1849-1930) English architect, active in the late 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century. He was President of the Royal Academy 1919-1924. TLS, 1921, 1p. To W.A. Menzies re: Conradi's Mother's portrait. (5) Sir Nathaniel Wm Wraxall, 1st Baronet (1751-1831), English author. He entered the employment of the East India Company in 1769, and served as judge-advocate and paymaster during the expeditions against Gujarat and Baroche in 1771. He was knighted in 1813. ALS, 1801, 1p. Gives change of address for delivery of the Herald. (6) SIR GERALD DURRELL (1925-1995) British Naturalist/Zoologist/Author. In 1947 he financed, organized, and led his first animal-collecting expedition to the Cameroons. This was followed by a expeditions in 1948 and 1949, this time to British Guiana. He has also made expeditions to Paraguay, Argentina, Sierra Leone, Mauritius, Assam, Mexico, and Madagascar. In 1962 he and his wife went to New Zealand, Australia and Malaya to film a TV series, Two in the Bush. In 1959 he founded the Jersey Zoological Park ,and in 1964 he founded the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust. Author of many books. 3x5 color photo SIGNED ON VERSO. (7) 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. (8) [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..............Min. Bid $75

260.  [MEDICINE] antique wood-engraved portrait of Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) German physician, best known for creating the pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine called homeopathy. Paper size is about 8 x 5 in.   c. 1836. Scarce.............75-100

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261. [GERMANY] antique wood-engraved portrait of Gottlieb Hufeland (1760-1817) was a German economist and jurist. Paper size is about 8 x 5 in.   c. 1836. Scarce..........50-75

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262. [MUSIC] antique wood-engraved portrait of Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber (1786-1826) German composer, conductor, virtuoso pianist, guitarist, and critic who was one of the first significant composers of the Romantic era. Best known for his operas, he was a crucial figure in the development of German Romantische Oper (German Romantic opera). Paper size is about 8 x 5 in.   c. 1836. Scarce..........50-75

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263. Pat Brown (1905-1996) American lawyer and politician who served as the 32nd governor of California from 1959 to 1967. His first elected office was as district attorney for San Francisco, and he was later elected Attorney General of California in 1950 before becoming the state's governor in 1959. Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo, 1990. VG.....................50-75

264. Marion Barry (1936- 2014) American politician who served as the second and fourth mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991 and 1995 to 1999. Signed & inscribed 8x10 color photo. VG..............50-75

265. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) [FILM] [James Poe]  (1921-1980)  American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies Around the World in 80 Days for which he jointly won an Accademy Award in 1956, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Lilies of the Field, and They Shoot Horses, Don't They?.  He also worked as a writer on the radio shows Escape and Suspense, writing the scripts for some of their best episodes, most notably "Three Skeleton Key" and "The Present Tense", both of which starred Vincent Price.  Offered here is a 1967 bank c heck made out by James Poe HOWEVER, someone at some time has torn his signature away. Nothing on verso. He has written on front "Am ExpChex - Horses".  Since there are no cancellation marks it is assumed the check was never used and the torn away signature was like a cancel??? Odd item. (2) [NEW YORK SUPREME COURT] Anson Cary (1764-1842) came from Windham, Ct., to Union, Broome county, where he resided for a short time, and then departed for Oxford in 1792. He came up the Susquehanna and Chenango rivers in a canoe paddled by an Indian named Seth, and took up the lands owned by the Charles A. Bennett estate. Mr. Cary was a Revolutionary pensioner, having entered the army at the age of 16 and served in three campaigns of the war. He was a very large and obese man, and was the first blacksmith to locate in Oxford. He worked at his trade and carried on his farm a great many years, and was also famous as a pettifogger before Justice’s courts. He held the office of justice of peace, was appointed sheriff of the county March 1, 1805, and for a considerable time one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas. Offered here is 1811 New York Supreme Court document signed by Anson Cary as judge. Approx. 7.5 x 9 in. VG.  (3) [MUSIC] Elsa Clay - Assistant Executive Director of Composers and Lyricists Guild of America.  TLS, 1963, 1p. to Milt Ebbins, informing Ebbins that Erroll Garner is now a member in good standing the Guild. (4) [MICKEY SPILLANE] Bud Yorkin (1926-2015) American film and television producer, director, writer, and actor. Known for The Tony Martin Show, Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, All In The Family, Maud, Sanford and Son, etc. He was a partner with Norman Lear. In 2002, Yorkin was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. TLS, 1956, 1p. to Mickey Spillane. Approx. 8.5 x 11 in.  VG. (5) Rowland Gibson Hazard (1801-1888) was an American industrialist, politician, and social reformer from Rhode Island.   He was educated in a Quaker boarding school in Burlington, New Jersey, where he developed a particular interest in mathematics.  In 1819 he returned to Rhode Island to join his elder brother Isaac in the management of the Peace Dale Manufacturing Company. One of Rowland Hazard's responsibilities was selling the company's prodent winters in New Orleans from about 1833 to 1842 to sell goods that included cotton bagging cloth, pre-cut garments, low-priced shoes, and raw "Negro cloth" for use by African-American slaves.  The activity that Hazard considered "as the greatest effort of his life" (according to his granddaughter) began when he was in New Orleans on business in the winter of 1841. After he learned that a free African-American man from Newport, Rhode Island was in custody in Louisiana as an escaped slave, his 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. Hazard retired fromucts to planters in the southern United States, particularly Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. He sp the textile business in 1866 and invested in the Union Pacific Railroad. After Union Pacific fell into financial disarray and became a party to the Credit Mobilier scandal of 1872, Hazard spent much time dealing with the company's financial affairs. Offered here is a Providence, RI document signed, 1839, about 8 x 3-3/8 in. Cancel hole over signature  which is blurred.................Min. Bid $50

266. [SCIENCE] William John McGee, LL.D. (1853-1912) American inventor, geologist, anthropologist, and ethnologist. While largely self-taught, McGee attended a rural one-room schoolhouse north of Farley, Iowa during the four winter months from about 1858 to 1867. He devoted his early years to reading law and to surveying. He invented and patented several improvements on agricultural implements. He was appointed geologist for the United States Geological Survey (USGS) in 1881. In 1884 McGee authored the article Map of the United States exhibiting the present status of knowledge relating to the areal distribution of geologic groups for the USGS Journal. While with the USGS, McGee travelled to Charleston, South Carolina, in 1886 for the purpose of studying the earthquake disturbances in its vicinity. McGee was ethnologist in charge of the Bureau of American Ethnology from 1893 to 1903. In 1895, he explored the Isla del Tiburón, Gulf of California, home of the Seri Indians. In 1904 he was chief of the department of anthropology that organized the "Anthropology Days" at the 1904 Summer Olympics / Louisiana Purchase Exposition, the 1904 World's Fair. In 1907 he was appointed a member of the Inland Waterways Commission by President Roosevelt.      His other prominent positions were: acting president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897–1898); president of the American Anthropological Association (1902–1912); and president of the National Geographic Society (1904–1905).  Excellent TLS, 1895, 2pp. to Professor Robert S. Woodward. 8 x 10.5 in. VG..............100-200

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267. Mystery Lot of 9 documents, dated 1828 - circa 1950.  You do the research. Conditions mostly VG..........Min. Bid $15

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268. [POSTAL HISTORY] Paul Du Chaillu (1831-1903) French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. He later researched the prehistory of Scandinavia. A 1895 envelope addressed in the hand of Du Chaillu but not signed by him. Approx. 5 x 4 in..........40-60

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269. (NEW YORK CITY) 1864 SOLDIER'S  DEPOT, HOSPITAL [4TH FLOOR] D. T. VALENTINES MANUAL.  Color lithograph, approx. 7.25 x 9 in., 2 vertical folds [as published folded into the manual].  Still tipped to the print back is a 1/2 page from the Manual with description of the facility. Valentine's Manuals, each volume officially titled, Manual of the Common Council of the City of New York...............Min. Bid $10

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270. [EARLY PORTRAIT] offered here is a 1776 engraving of Rev. Henry Foster (c.1743-1814) was an evangelical clergyman who played a significant part in the religious revival of the late eighteenth century. Paper size 7.5 x 4.5 in.  Condition is expected with this age. This originally was not printed on white paper. Rare!.................75-100 

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271. [PORTRAIT circa 1840 engraved portrait of Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818) British lawyer, politician and legal reformer. From a background in the commercial world, he became well-connected, and rose to public office and a prominent position in Parliament. After an early interest in radical politics, he built a career in chancery cases, and then turned to amelioration of the British criminal law. Image approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. VG...............Min. Bid $10

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272. [PORTRAIT] original antique portrait of Dr. Edmund Cartwright (1743-1823) English inventor. He became a clergyman of the Church of England. Cartwright began his career as a clergyman, becoming, in 1779, rector of Goadby Marwood, Leicestershire. In 1783, he was elected a prebendary at Lincoln Cathedral. During his time as a clergyman he published the poem Armine and Elvira in 1770, which was followed by The Prince of Peace in 1779. Although he became better-known as an inventor he was awarded the degree of DD in 1806. He was the inventor of the first wool-combing machine and of the predecessor of the modern power loom. His other inventions included a cordelier (machine for making rope; 1792) and a steam engine that used alcohol instead of water. This print (stipple engraving) Dr Cartwright, engraved by J. Thomson, published by Charles Knight, Ludgate Street, London, c. 1833.  Dr. Cartwright, From a Picture in the posession of Miss Cartwright, Under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.  The image area is approx. 4-1/4 x 3-1/2 in.  plus clean margins. VG...............Min. Bid $20

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273. 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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274. [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.............40-60

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275. [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

276. 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

277. [FILM] Sophia Loren (b. 1934) actress. Signed 4-1/4 x 5-3/4 in. picture. VG.............25-35

278. Vernon E. Jordan Jr. (1935-2021) American business executive and civil rights activist who worked for various civil rights movement organizations before becoming a close advisor to President Bill Clinton. Signed, inscribed picture, 5x7 in. VG...............40-60

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279. [FILM] James Earl Jones (1931- ) American actor. Signed Star Wars postcard ohoto as Darth Vader. 4x6. Fine.............40-60

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280. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: 1) [MUSIC] Thomas Harper Jr. (1816-1898) English trumpet musician. He was the son of  Thomas Harper (1786-1853) the English trumpet player, playing in important concerts of the day. ALS, 1857, 2pp,  4-1/2 x 7-1/4 in. He writes to Roger Kerrison saying the offer for payment is not less than he has been getting for other concerts. Fine. (2) Joseph P. Lash (1909–1987) was an American radical political activist, journalist, and author. A close friend of Eleanor Roosevelt, Lash won both the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Award in Biography for Eleanor and Franklin (1971), the first of two volumes he wrote about the former First Lady. The Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of August 23, 1939 deeply shook Lash's growing leanings towards the Communist Party, causing him to resign as executive secretary of the American Student Union. Three months later he was subpoenaed to appear before the House Un-American Activities Committee (colloquially known as the "Dies Committee" after its chairman) to be questioned about his activities with the American Student Union and the American Youth Congress. Lash was a hostile witness on Nov. 11, refusing to cooperate with the committee in its effort to obtain the names of members of the Communist Party and to expound upon their influence.  SIGNED 1p. typescript from some unknown work. VG (3) WW II] EVELYN W. FARRAND. Assist. to Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, Chairman of YOUNG AMERICA WANTS TO HELP, operated under the auspices of the British War Relief Society, Inc. Typewritten Letter Signed, New York, July 21, 1941, to Mrs. Burton Musser, the president of the Utah British War Relief Society. One page, 4to. Sending three pages of information on projects for raising funds for immediate aid of the children in Britain to the additional objective of "crystalliz[ing] the sympathy of the youth of America for the youth of Great Britain." Four pages total. (4) Clement Cabell Dickinson (1849-1938), also known as Clement C. Dickinson, was a Democratic Representative from Missouri. TLS, 1926, 1p.  (5) Brenda Kuhn (1912-1993) a founder of Cape Neddick Park [Maine], an art patron and historian. She was the daughter of American artist Walt Kuhn. Signed 1963 bank check. (6) 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 1923 bank check................Min. Bid $50

 
281. Mary Ella Reutershan (1921-2019) during World War II  she was a confidential secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Group of 2 ALSs, and 1 TLS, 1984 written to Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the artist Walt Kuhn. VG.............50-75

282. [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 3-1/4 page ALS, signed "Matty" to his friend, and fellow actor, Roland Young [1887-1953] best membered for his role as Topper [1937] film starring Cary Grant. Dated 10th , no year. Very good content to his friend.  VG...........75-100 

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283. [MAINE] Kenneth M. Curtis (b.1931) American attorney, Democratic politician, and diplomat. He was the Maine Secretary of State from 1965-1966, the Governor of Maine from 1966-1974, and the United States Ambassador to Canada from 1979 to 1981. TLS, 1966, 1p., to Brenda Kuhn. Also included is a ANS sending thanks. 2 pieces.........25-35

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284. Sidney Kilner Levett-Yeats CIE (c. 1858–1916), an English novelist known professionally as S. Levett-Yeats, was the descendant of an old English trading family with connections to British India. S. Levett-Yeats became a soldier with the Indian Army and later joined the Indian Civil Service as a low-level bureaucrat. Inspired by the example of other ambitious Anglo-Indian writers like Rudyard Kipling, Levett-Yeats turned out a series of Victorian potboilers, often set in Europe, that earned him a place on the bestseller lists of the day. CLIP SIGNATURE............20-30

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285. Austin Osman Spare (1886-1956)  English artist and occultist who worked as both a draughtsman and a painter. Influenced by symbolism and art nouveau his art was known for its clear use of line, and its depiction of monstrous and sexual imagery.  In an occult capacity, he developed idiosyncratic magical techniques including automatic writing, automatic drawing and sigilization based on his theories of the relationship between the conscious and unconscious self. CLIP SIGNATURE about 3-1/4 x 1-1/2 in. 1946..................25-35

286. [BRITISH NAVAL HISTORY] Sir Charles Napier (1786-1860) British Admiral whose sixty years in the Royal Navy included service in the War of 1812, the Napoleonic Wars, Syrian War and the Crimean War (with the Russians), and a period commanding the Portuguese navy in the Liberal Wars. An innovator concerned with the development of iron ships, and an advocate of humane reform in the Royal Navy, he was also active in politics as a Liberal Member of Parliament and was probably the naval officer most widely known to the public in the early Victorian Era. During the War of 1812 he spent a lot of time in battles in the United States. Offered here is a postmarked envelope not signed but i nk addressed by Napier. Postmarked 1841. Approx. 3-3/4 x 2-1/4 in..................100-150

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287. [NOBEL PRIZE WINNER] Desmond Tutu (1931-2021) South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first black African to hold the position. ANS dated 5/29/2000, about 6-1/2 x 4-3/4 in. VG...............35-45

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288. [FILM] Lillian Gish (1893-1993) American actress, director and screenwriter. Her film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912, in silent film shorts, to 1987. Gish was called "The First Lady of American Cinema", and is credited with pioneering fundamental film performance techniques. Signed book photo. She wrote "Mimi, in La Boheme All the Best, Lillian Gish." About 8 x 11 in. VG.................50-75

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289. [WAR] 1840 printed government document from the Secretary of WAR, J.R. Poinsett, 19pp. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. VG.................Min. Bid $10

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290. [THEATRE-MUSIC] Sofia Scalchi (1850-1922) was an Italian operatic contralto who could also sing in the mezzo-soprano range. Her career was international, and she appeared at leading theatres in both Europe and America. Scalchi helped to make history when she sang in the newly constructed New York City Metropolitan Opera's first ever staged work, Charles Gounod's Faust, which inaugurated the theatre on October 22, 1883. She returned to Mapleson's troupe a year later but went back to the Metropolitan in 1891, where she would spend five further seasons. Offered here is a signed card dated 1882, about 3.5 x 2 in. Fine..............Min. Bid $15

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Roland Young "Topper" Gets a Letter From His Old Friend

291. [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. Not dated.  Signed Matty." VG...........Min. Bid $35

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292. [ENGLAND] George Pryme (1781-1868) British economist, academic and politician. In 1799, Pryme entered Trinity College, Cambridge, winning a scholarship there in 1800 and graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1803. In 1804, he began studying law at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the Bar in 1806, practising in London until health problems forced him to return to Cambridge in 1808. In 1816, Pryme began conducting lectures on political economy at Cambridge, the first teaching of such a topic at any English university, and in that same year his lectures were published as a book entitled A Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Principles of Political Economy. In 1828, he was made Professor of Political Economy by the university senate, although a chair was not established for the topic at Cambridge until just before his retirement. He was politically active, and successfully opposed parliamentary candidates sponsored by the Duke of Rutland, and eventually winning a seat in the House of Commons representing Cambridge as a Whig. Pryme worked hard in the parliament, pushing for university reform at Oxford and Cambridge until his poor health prompted his family to urge his retirement from parliament. He returned to Cambridge and bought an estate in Wistow while continuing to lecture and practice as a barrister on occasion. He died in 1868. In 1870, his memoirs were published, Autobiographic Recollections of George Pryme, edited by his daughter Alicia Bayne. ALS, 1837, written on both sides. To Joshua Walmsby accepting invitation to dinner of the Reform Association of Liverpool.............50-75

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293. [MAINE] Henry Richards (1848-1949) He married Laura Elizabeth Howe, daughter of Samuel Gridley and Julia Ward Howe. They married in Boston on June 17, 1871. Reverend James Freeman Clark officiated the ceremony, which took place at Church of the Disciples Unitarian. In 1876, they moved to Gardiner, Maine.  In 1900 the Richards Paper Company was consolidated with International Paper Company, which purchased the property in Gardiner. At this point Henry worked as an architect during the winters while his summers were spent carrying on a boys camp at a property they purchased on Great Pond in Belgrade, Maine. That camp was known as Camp Merryweather and it was the very first camp for boys opening in 1900. Henry was very involved locally, serving as chairman of the Gardiner school board, trustee of Gardiner Water District, director of the Public Library of Gardiner (he even designed the building), and a member of city council. He was also a vestryman for some year at Christ Church. TLS, 1899, 1p. Re: bonds to pay off debt. VG...............Min. Bid $15

294. [ART] Louis-François Raban [1795-1870] French engraver and writer. At age 19 Raban enlisted in the artillerymen, in 1814 and participated, with the polytechnic School, in the defence of Paris. He was an avid admirer of the Emperor Napoleon and wrote a book about him under the pseudonym, the Comte de Barins. He was a member of the Secret Society of Les Saisons [very important in the 1839 Revolution]. He was arrested in the act of making bullets for the revolutionaries. Despite being an exceedingly prolific writer not only of biographical dictionaries but also 'bodice-rippers', and (as we have seen) that he tried to profit from contemporary politics to enhance his sales, he never managed to emerge from extreme poverty and died supported by his daughter at the fall of the Second Empire in 1870. "The issue of the powder plot of the Rue de Poursine was the condemnation of twenty-four individuals to various sentences of fine and imprisonment, from 300 to 3000 francs, and from four months to two years. Among the rest, Blanqui, Beaufotir, and Robier, figured as the highest mulcts, the longest terms, and each two years of surveillance at the expiration of their punishment. In November 1838, another manufactory of cartridges was discovered, and Raban, an en graver in the Palais Royal, the principal, condemned to two years in prison, two of his associates to eighteen and three months. A very large quantity of ammunition was also seized ; and every thing went to prove that the formation of secret societies to overturn the government had not ceased for an instant...." Two ALS letters, both 1829, written to Cassin. One is a lengthy 2-page letter [age toned paper], and the other one-page. Certainly worthy of further research!............100-150

295.  [FRANCE] 1784 Manuscript Document signed Pierre Fabri, from Geneva. About Isaac Vernet and Boutin [had to do with Abraham Gradis, Jewish merchant]. Approx. 6-1/4 x 8". VG......75-100 

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296. [FRANCE] Jacques Salomon Hadamard (1865-1963) French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations. ALS, (1954), 2pp. with envelope. Fine............80-120

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297.  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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298.  [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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299. [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.........?

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300. (BRITISH LITERATURE LOT)  BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD (1933) Novelist, celebrated storyteller known worldwide. SIGNED inscribed 8x10 photograph (1990).  EDMUND BLUNDEN (1896-1974) Poet, Author, Critic. SIGNED presentation page from his book “Near & Far” (1929).  JACQUETTA HAWKES (1910-1996) Archaeologist, Writer, wife of playwright J.B. Priestley. TLS on postcard signed “Jacquetta”.   SIR PHILLIP GIBBS (1877-1962)  Journalist. SIGNATURE.  IVOR ARMSTRONG RICHARDS (1893-1979) Critic and rhetorician.  SIGNATURE (1926). BENJAMIN L. FARJEON (1838-1903) Playwright, printer, journalist, author. SIGNATURE from ALS.  MARGARET STORM JAMESON (1891-1986) Novelist, writer.  SIGNATURE  on card. JEREMIAH HOLMES WIFFEN (1792-1836) Poet and scholar of Spanish. SIGNATURE (1811).............80-120

301.  (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

302. [FILM] Dorothy Malone (b. 1925) Academy Award-winning actress American. DOCUMENT SIGNED, a contract dated April 23, 1979, 4pp., a one year contract with Contemporary-Korman Ltd. Also signed by Tom Korman of the famous agency. Signed on last page. VG...........75-100

303. [MUSIC] Elis Pehkonen (1942 - ) English composer. AMQS from his "Russian Requiem" Closing Theme, 3rd movement. Approx. 9 x 4"/ VG............50-75See AMQS

304. [MUSIC MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Annie Louise Cary (1842-1921) American singer. Signed card, 1899, with envelope (2) Sigmund Spaeth [1885-1965] musicologist who traced the sources and origins of popular songs to their folk and classical roots. Presenting his findings through books, lectures, liner notes, newspapers, radio and television, he became known as The Tune Detective. ANS, 1940, 1p. stating his favorite composer was Brahms. G+. (3) Peter Paul Fuchs  (1916-2007)  Austrian born conductor and composer.  Signed 3x4 in. photo. Fine. (4) Frederick Martin Reiner (1888-1963) was a prominent conductor of opera and symphonic music. Signed album page. (5) Joseph Schuster [1903-1969] Russian Cellist. Sig. card.  (6) William Kraft  (b. 1923)  American composer. His works have been performed by many major American orchestras as well as those in Europe, Japan, Korea, China, Australia, Israel, and the USSR. Mr. Kraft’s Contextures: Riots – Decade ’60 (1967) has been choreographed and performed by both the Scottish National Ballet and the Minnesota Dance Company. In 1986, United Air Lines commissioned a work expressly to accompany a lumetric sculpture by Michael Hayden titled Sky’s the Limit, for their pedestrian passageway at Chicago-O’Hare International Airport. In November 1990, Mr. Kraft was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Percussive Arts Society.  AMQS  dated 1983 from his composition "MOMENTUM."  6x4 in. Fine. (7) FRANCES ALDA [1883-1952]. New Zealand operatic soprano. Made debut at Opéra-Comique (1904); at Metropolitan Opera, New York (1908-29); m. (1910; div. 1928) Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Author of Men, Women, and Tenors (1937). SIGNATURE on card dated 1932. (8) Leonard Slatkin [b. 1944] American conductor. TLS, 1989. (9) Harriet Kendall (1857-1933) English composer. ALS, 1889, 4pp. (10) Lanny Ross (1906-1988) American singer, pianist and songwriter. Signed 5x7 photo. VG.  (11) Rainer Midel - Conductor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG (12) Dame Moura Lympany (1916-2005) English concert pianist. Signed The Civic Music Association program. VG.  (13) Leslie Bassett (b. 1923) American composer of classical music. He received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Variations for Orchestra. AMQS from his " Variations for Orchestra." On 8.5 x 5.5" sheet. Written in pencil. VG. (14) WILLY EICKEMEYER [1879-1925] German composer & pianist. CLIP SIGNATURE. (15) Gladys Swarthout [1900-1969] Am. opera star. Pencil signature...............Min. Bid $100

305. Bernard Jacques Joseph Maximilien de Ring (1799–1873) French archaeologist; born at Bonn, Rhenish Prussia, May 27, 1799; died at Bischleim, Alsace, in 1873. He devoted himself from his sixteenth year to the study of archaeology, and published ‘Picturesque Views of the Old Castles of Baden’ (1829); ‘Celtic Settlement in Southern Germany’ (1842); ‘Roman Settlement of the Rhine to the Danube’ (1852–53), crowned by the French Academy; and ‘History of the Opiques People: Their Legislation, Customs, and Language’ (1859).  ALS, 1854, 2-1/2 pp, 5-1/4 x 8 in. PLUS another letter dated 1834, 1-1/2 pp. plus address leaf, by a different "archeologian" [so described].  Neither letter is translated. VG..........100-150

306. 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

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307. 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

308.  (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

309. [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

310. (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  

311. [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

312.   (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

313. (RELIGIOUS NOTABLES LOT)   JUDSON SMITH (1837-1906) American Missionary, Writer, Editor. SIGNED CDV photograph (2x4).  PHILIP HENRY WICKSTEED (1844-1927) English Unitarian Theologian/Economist, classicist.  ALS (1886) 2pp. RALPH RANDOLPH GURLEY (1797-1872) American Clergyman who was an strong advocate of the separation of races. He was US Chaplain to the US House of Representatives. He was a major force behind the American Colonization Society.  When former President James Madison died, he willed $2,000 to Gurley for his cause. Clipped SIGNATURE.  TIMOTHY MANNING (1909-1989) American Cardinal Archbishop of Los Angeles. SIGNED prayer card, inscribed on verso (1983). THEODORE M. HESBURGH (1917-2015) Roman Catholic Priest, Pres. Emeritus of Univ. of Notre Dame. TLS (1974)................60-80

314. [ART] RALPH BAKSHI - American animator/draftsman. In the late 1950s & early 1960s he worked at CBS-Terrytoons on such series as "Heckle and Jeckle" and "Mighty Mouse." From there he went to Famous Studios-Paramount, where he directed countless "Casper the Friendly Ghost" and "Little Audrey" cartoons, among others. During the 1960s he also animated Peter Max's commercials. When Famous Studios closed in 1967, Bakshi went into partnership with Steve Krantz. Their first venture was "Fritz the Cat", released in 1972. The success of "Fritz" prompted "Heavy Traffic" [1973], a funny-sad chronicle of life in New York's slums. Striking out on his own, Bakshi produced the sometimes brilliant, often disappointing "Coonskin" [1974]; also "Wizards" [1977]; "Lord of the Rings" [1978]. Ralph Bakshi occupies a somewhat ambiguous position in the animation world. He is one of the more original artists at work in the animated cartoon medium. He has become a cult figure. ORIGINAL Ink drawing, unsigned on 6-3/4 x 8 in. sheet. As this was a "working study" there was no reason for him to have signed it........50-75

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315. [ENTERTAINERS]  signed 3x5 cards: Bobby Vee - signed 1986 Kentucky Municipal League Banquet card [signed in person], Bob Hope (1903-2003),  Jimmy Buffett [light feltpen], Johnny Mathis, Bobby Goldsboro, Arlo Guthrie, Tony Dow......80-120

316. [FILM]  Martha Raye (1916-1994) American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television.  Signed  5x7 in. photo. VG..............25-35 

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317. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Auguste Hesse (1795-1869);  Stephen Liegeard(1830-1925); Abel Etienne Lous Transon (1805-1876);  plus 6 others.  No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................100-150

318. Oliver North (b. 1943)  American political commentator, television host, military historian, author, and retired United States Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel. He was convicted in the Iran–Contra affair of the late 1980s but his convictions were vacated and reversed, and all charges against him dismissed in 1991. Signed & inscribed 8x10 color photo. VG..............30-40
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319. [THEATRE] Edward Terry  (1844-1912) English actor. Signed 3-1/4 x 5-1/4" photo, dated 1905. Mounting traces on verso but front is pretty good...........50-75

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320. (AMERICAN THEATER LOT) includes: (1) Susan Strasberg (1938 –1999) widely praised performance as a teenager in Picnic, Strasberg originated the title role in the Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank and was nominated for a Tony Award at the age of 18. SIGNATURE, with sentiment clipped from Play Program. (2) Dorothy Stickney (1896 – 1998) actress best known for appearing in the long running Life with Father. SIGNED full Playbill Theater book from “Pippin”  6/15/73. (3) MARY K. TAYLOR (? -?)  actress who appeared with May Irwin and also on Broadway from 1906 to 1910. ALS 1908. (4) ARTHUR GARRELS (?-?) American Actor. He appeared on Broadway in 2 plays in 1901. He worked with Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott. SIGNED Cabinet Photograph on front ANS on verso, dated May 1901 and mentions working with Goodwin and Elliott. (5) Gus Rogers (1869–1908) and Max (1873–1932) Solomon].  Known as  “The Rogers Brothers”. The brothers, both of whom were born in New York, began to perform together in 1885 and soon became favorites at Tony Pastor's, with their “Dutch” dialect routines. When Weber and Fields rose to popularity but refused to cooperate with the Theatrical Syndicate or Trust, SIGNED CARD 1901 bu Gus. (6)   John Forsythe, Staats Cotsworth, Carol Cole Playbill signed by the 3 from the 1968 play “Weekend” by Gore Vidal. (7) Henry Eugene Abbey (1846 –1896) theatre manager and producer. During the 1870s - 1890s, he managed such prominent Broadway theatres as Booth's, Wallack's, and the Park Theatre, Abbey also had the distinction of being the first manager of New York's Metropolitan Opera Company, which opened for its inaugural season in 1883. He managed the tours of Adelina Patti, Francesco Tamagno and the London Gaity in America, and he introduced Sarah Bernhardt to America. He opened Boston's Park Theatre in 1879. He also opened Abbey's Theatre in 1890, one of the first theatrical managers to present expensive shows outside of the major cities. He resigned after a financially unsuccessful first season, but was re-hired in 1891, along with John B. Schoeffel and Maurice Grau. He continued in this capacity until his death in 1896--  RARE SIGNED cabinet photograph on verso. (8) George White (1892-1968) producer, actor, director his George White’s Scandals ran from 1919–1939, modelled after the Ziegfeld Follies. The "Scandals" launched the careers of many entertainers, including W.C. Fields, the Three Stooges, Ray Bolger, Helen Morgan, Ethel Merman, Ann Miller, Bert Lahr, and Rudy Vallée. Louise Brooks, Alice White, and Eleanor Powell got their show business start as lavishly dressed (or underdressed) chorus girls strutting to the "Scandal Walk". Much of George Gershwin's early work appeared in the 1920-24 editions of Scandals.George White's Scandals is also the name of several movies set within the Scandals, all of which focus primarily on the show's acts, with a thin backstage plot stringing them all together. The best known of these was 1934's George White's Scandals written by Jack Yellen, which marked the film debut of Alice Faye.Notable Flapper-era cartoonist and designer Russell Patterson worked on Broadway on a number of productions in various capacities, including George White's Scandals of 1936 as Scenic Designer. SIGNATURE mounted on presentation page...............100-150

321.  (American Hollywood Stars Lot) Gwen Verdon (1925 –2000) actress and dancer who won four Tony awards. She is also strongly identified with her  husband, director–choreographer Bob Fosse. ALS.  Don Beddoe (1903 –1991) character actor who appeared in dozens of films, stage and TV roles from the 1930’s.  ALS.   Nedra Volz (1908 –2003)film and television actress. She started as a toddler in Vaudeville and became well known on TV .   SIGNED, inscribed card.   John Raitt (1917 –2005) actor and singer best known for his performances in musical theater and film.  SIGNED Lakewood playhouse program (Maine).  Roger Pryor (1901-1974) Actor.  Slick, devilishly handsome leading man Roger Pryor was the son of prominent composer/bandleader Arthur Pryor.  SIGNED contract dated 1936, 2pp.   Joe Frank Cobb (1916 –2002) child actor, most notable for appearing as the original "fat boy" in the Our Gang comedies from 1922 to 1929.  SIGNED FDC honoring Grand Coulee Dam.  Blanche Yurka (1887 –1974) theatre and film actress.  SIGNATURE on card. Elissa Landi (1904 –1948) Italian born actress who was popular in Hollywood films of the 1920s and 1930s. SIGNED, inscribed sheet with a  Mayor dated February 21, 1941.  RICHARD ARLEN (1898-1976) Actor Film and Television He started out in Silent film. SIGNED 5x7 portrait photo (early) signed in dark area...............80-120

322. [ARTISTS] Mystery Lot of 10 signed items by American and European artists [20th century]. Includes: Elmer Bischoff (1916-1991) important Fransciso Bay artist;  Cadious;  Robert Camelot  plus 7 others...........100-150

323. Edmund Blunden, MC [1896-1974] English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose. For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong. He ended his career as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. Signed in ink limited edition page [proof page] from the "hand-set edition of Near & Far," 6-1/4 x 9-1/2". Fine...........30-40 

324. [THEATRE] Wilson Barrett [1846-1904] Brit. actor. AQS Hamlet 1896.....35-45

325. Sir Edwin Arnold CSI CIE (1832-1904) English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia. Signed picture [removed from some publication, signed in ink, 4.5 x 6.5". VG.............50-75

326. FRITZ HOCHWALDER - important Swiss dramatist. TLS, 1962 - not translated. Together with a contract signed by Suzanne Arnoux & R. Thieberger, concerning his play SUR LA TERRE COMME AU CIEL. Both very good............75-100

327. [FILM-MUSIC] Geraldine Farrar (1882-1967) American soprano opera singer and film actress. She had a large following among young women, who were nicknamed "Gerry-flappers". ALS, 1962, written on both sides, sending thanks for birthday greetings to friends and saying she had been suffering with the "shingles." VG.........60-80

328. [SCOTTISH] Misc. Lot comprised of: 1. Robert Anderson (1750- 1830) Scottish author and critic. For several years his attention was occupied with his edition of The Works of the British Poets, with Prefaces Biographical and Critical (14 vols. 8vo, Edin., 1792-1807). Autograph Manuscript Poem signed, 1-1/3 pages of his poem "Jacep the Peyper." 2. W.G. Blackie Murdoch (1880-1934) Scottish art critic, author. ALS, 2pp, mentions Whistler the artist. 3. Thomas Ryburn Buchanan (1846-1911) Liberal politician. Clip signature. 4. Sir Theodore Martin (1816-1909) Scottish poet. ANS [trimmed]. Each accompanied by biographical sheet.......100-150



329. [FRANCE - MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Madame de Thebes - French palmist and prophet. She was born in 1845 and died in 1916. She carried on a business as a palmist at her salon in the Avenue de Wagram in Paris, and each year at Christmas published prophecies which enjoyed a wide circulation. She was said to have predicted the Boer War and the Russo-Japanese War. ALS, no date, 4pp., to the photographer Seschamps about photography. (2) 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. (3) Pierre Dux (1908-1990) one of the most important theatre & film French actors. He appeared in 50 films between 1932 and 1990. ANS, 4 lines with 1985 postmarked envelope addressed to Felix Bonagi, Paris. VG. (4) Louis Bourdeau  (1824–1900) French author of various scientific, technical and academic subjects. Coinage of the word praxeology  is often credited to Louis Bourdeau,  author of a classification of the sciences, which he published in his Théorie des sciences: Plan de Science intégrale in 1882. However, the term was used at least once previously (with a slight spelling difference), as far back as 1608, by Clemens Timpler in his Philosophiae practicae systema methodicum.  ALS, 1893, 2pp. Blue pencil notations and 2 file punch holes. (5) Albert Delpit [1849-1893] Fr. writer. ALS, no yr., 2-1/2 pp, 5x8 in. VG. Speaks of his novel and play..................Min. Bid $50

330. [MUSIC] Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (b. 1923) composer, conductor. Signed, inscribed 4x7 photo. VG...........25-35

331. Part of the MANHUNT Detective Story Monthly magazine, 1952, containing Mickey Spillane's EVERYBODY'S WATCHING ME.  Contains only Spillane's story, pages 81-93 plus covers. From Mickey Spillane's personal collection. VG..........50-75

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332. [FRANCE] Robert d'Harcourt (1881-1965) French Catholic intellectual, scholar of German culture and anti-Nazi polemicist. During World War I d'Harcourt served in the artillery with the rank of sergeant. He was severely wounded twice during the conflict. Eventually taken prisoner, he recounted his experiences in his memoir Souvenirs de captivité et d'évasion d'un camp de Bavière. After the war he obtained the chair of German language and literature at the Catholic Institute of Paris. His knowledge of German culture and his anti-Nazi views led him to publish numerous detailed articles attacking the new Nazi regime after Hitler achieved power in 1933. In 1936 he published l'Evangile de la force (The Gospel of Force), his best-known work. It was a harsh attack on Nazism, and particularly drew attention to the indoctrination of young Germans in Nazi ideology. Harcourt stressed the incompatibility between the radical racist nature of Nazi ideology and Christianity. ALS, 1955, written on both sides...............60-80

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333. [MUSIC] Leslie Stuart (1863-1928) English composer of early musical theatre, best known for the hit show Florodora (1899) and many popular songs. Stuart began writing songs in the late 1870s, including songs for blackface performers, such as "Lily of Laguna"; songs for musical theatre; and ballads such as "Soldiers of the King". A song from Florodora, "Tell me, pretty maiden", became a vaudeville standard. Signature with sentiment on stationery, 4 x 6"............25-35

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334. LEVANDER, HAROLD. Gov. of Minnesota 1967-71. Letter as governor dated Nov. 28, 1987 sending photo and expressing warm sentiments concerning addressee's ill son. Vertical fold at right, not affecting the text...........20-30

335. [BUSINESS] Benjamin  Altman (1840–1913) American businessman who in 1865  founded B. Altman & Co., opening a store on Third Avenue and 10th Street in NYC. In 1906, he moved the business to Fifth Avenue and 34th Street. Benjamin Altman died without heirs. Shortly before the death, he founded the Altman Foundation. Until 1985, it owned B. Altman & Co., which latter closed the last store in 1990.  Altman was an avid collector of Rembrandt paintings and china, much of which he acquired through art dealer Joseph Duveen. Upon his death, he donated the collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Signed Chemical National Bank check, 1906.  VG................50-75

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336. Mr. Tindal (Nicolas Tindal. 1687 - 1774) was the translator and continuer of the History of England by Paul de Rapin. Very few comprehensive histories existed at the time and Tindal wrote a three volume 'Continuation', a history of the Kingdom from the reigns of James II to George II. Tindal was Rector of Alverstoke in Hampshire, Vicar of Great Waltham, Essex, Chaplain of Greenwich Hospital and a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. ALS, in 3rd person, August 22, 1764, 1p, 6-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. VG. Archival tape repair on verso.........50-75 

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337. [THEATRE] 1958 program starring Sana Andrews & Anne Bancroft in TWO FOR THE SEESAW. VG..............Min. Bid $5

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338. [JOHN F. KENNEDY]  JFK & THE MOB, People Magazine issue, Feb. 29, 1988. Unsigned. VG........20-30

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339. [ART] Adolphe Desbarrolles (1801-1886)  French artist. He is considered the father of modern chiromancy, aka palmistry or palm reading, a form of divination.  A friend of Dumas he accompanied him on many trips abroad.  ALS, 1876, 2-1/2pp................50-75

340. José María Pemán y Pemartín  (1897-1981) Spanish journalist, poet, novelist, essayist, and right-wing intellectual. Photograph 5 x 6 mounted, signed & inscribed, 1970. Overall 7 x 9 in. Pemán was one of the few prominent intellectuals to support Francisco Franco and the Falangist movement. This ensured his professional success during and after the Civil War, but damaged his international reputation. VG..................50-75 

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341. [NASA] group of 6 covers postmarked 1966-1982. VG........60-80.........Min. Bid $20

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342 [NASA] group of 6 covers postmarked 1975-1982. VG..................60-80..................Min. Bid $20

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343. The 3 Laycock Girls, antique photograph. Fine............Min. Bid $10  CLICK here to see

344. [OPERA] Lucrezia Bori (1887-1960) Spanish operatic singer, a lyric soprano and a tireless and effective fundraiser for the Metropolitan Opera.  An envelope partly addressed by her but not signed. The signature in a return address written on back of was not written by her. 3-1/2 x 2-3/4 in. VG...............Min. Bid $10

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345.  [MUSIC] David Amram (b.1930) American composer, musician, conductor. SIGNED 1p. WRVH permission form on which he makes list of musicians, and conductor to be used on a tape, dated Jan. 16, 1984........40-60


346. Alfred L. Atherton Jr. [1921-2002] career United States Foreign Service officer. He served as United States Ambassador to Egypt in 1978-1979. Signed/inscribed photo, 1983, as Ambassador to Egypt...............25-35

347. [MUSIC] Efraim Guigui [1926-2007] American conductor, musician. Signed, inscribed 5x7 photo, 1983. VG..........40-60

348. [ITALY] Tommaso Minardi (1787-1871)  Italian painter and author on art theory, active in Faenza, Rome, Perugia, and other towns. He painted in styles that transitioned from Neoclassicism to Romanticism.  ALS,  1849, 3pp,  8-1/2 x 10-1/4 in. VG...............100-150

349. (ART)  WILSON LOWRY  (1762-1824) Celebrated English Engraver and Inventor who’s creative genius revolutionized printed art. Also a founding member of the “Geological Society”, elected fellow of the “Royal Society” in 1812.  ALS, 1818, 2pp. VG............100-150

350.  [FRANCE] Pauline Marie Armande Aglaé Craven (1808 – 1891)  French author.  ALS, no yr., 3pp, 5-1/4 x 8 in. VG.........60-80

351. [RELIGION] ROBERT LAIRD COLLIER [1837-1890] He was originally an itinerant Methodist preacher, united with the Unitarian church in 1866, was pastor of large churches in Chicago and Boston, and at the same time became a popular lecturer and writer of magazine articles. His principal published works are "Every-Day Subjects in Sunday Sermons" (Boston, 1869)'" Meditations on the Essence of Christianity" (1876); and "English Home Life" (1885). ALS, 1869, 1p............50-75

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352. WILLIAM WHITTY HALL (1810-1876) physician and pioneer editor of health magazines, was born in Paris, Kentucky. After graduating from Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, with the intention of becoming a Presbyterian missionary, he studied theology and medicine at Transylvania University, where he received an M.D. in 1836, the same year he was ordained to the ministry. Intending to support himself as a missionary through his medical practice, he began work in Louisiana. But he subsequently came to Texas, met Sam Houston near Nacogdoches, and rode with him to the first presidential inauguration in Texas. Hall preached in Houston and the surrounding area and served as chaplain in both houses of the Texas Congress. He helped collect funds to build a Presbyterian church in Houston and was active in organizing an ecclesiastical vigilance committee to prevent imposters from posing as ministers. In 1837 Hall left the Republic in time to attend the Synod of Kentucky, which convened in October. There he urged the Presbvterian Church to become involved in missionary work in Texas. The General Assembly of the church adopted his recommendation in 1838. Hall gradually abandoned preaching for the practice of medicine and went first to New Orleans, then to Cincinnati, where he married Hannah Matlock. In 1851 he established a consultation practice in New York City, where he married Magdalene Matilda Robertson. While in Cincinnati, he had published several books on consumption and other lung ailments. In New York in 1854 he began the publication of Hall's Joumal of Health. In 1875 he started another periodical, Hall's Medical Adviser. Never weighing more than 125 pounds and working from five in the moming until ten at night, a violation of his own health rules, Hall fell in a fit on a street in New York and died aimost immediately on May 10, 1876. ALS, 2pp, dated June 30, 1857 giving health advice. VG..........60-80

353. [MUSIC] Baron Armand-Marie Limnander van Nieuwenhove (1814-1892)  Belgian composer of choral and orchestral works and church music. Knight of the Order of Leopold, he was the founder and conductor of the choral chamber ensembles Société Symphonique and Réunion Lyrique in Belgium.  ALS, no date, 1p, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". VG..........50-75

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354. Francis A. March (1825- 1911) American polymath, academic, philologist, and lexicographer. He is considered the principal founder of modern comparative linguistics in Anglo-Saxon. March applied the methods of studying the Latin and Greek classics towards the study of English literature, and led the way for the first scientific study of the English language. He graduated from Amherst College in 1845, and received a M.A. degree from Amherst in 1848. After studying law and teaching for three years, he became instructor at Lafayette College. March occupied the chair of English language and comparative philology at Lafayette College, in Easton, Pennsylvania, from 1857 to 1907. It was the first post of its kind. March was one of the first professors to advocate and teach English in colleges and universities. In addition to English, March also taught French, German, Greek, Latin, botany, "mental philosophy", political economy, the Constitution, and law. He also served as president of the American Philological Association (1873-1874; 1895-1896), the Spelling Reform Association (after 1876), and the Modern Language Association (1891-1893). March was the first American superintendent over the volunteer reading program of the Oxford English Dictionary, thus providing valuable support to James Murray in the compilation of this monumental work. ALS, no year, 1p, to the widow of a friend, offering assistance. 4 x 6-1/4". VG...........50-75

355. [FILM] Fritz Feld (1900-1993) film character actor actor who appeared in over 140 films, both silent and sound. His trademark was to slap his mouth with the palm of his hand to create a "pop!" sound. TLS, 1966, 1p, mentioning several films. VG.............40-60 

356. [FRANCE] Louis-Léonard de Loménie (1815-1878)  French scholar and essayist. He is best known for his biography of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, and also edited this author's complete works.  Loménie was born at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Haute-Vienne. He studied at Avignon and was professor of French literature at the Collège de France from 1862, then at the École Polytechnique from 1864, and editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes. His first literary work was a series of biographical sketches, published under the title Galerie des contemporains illustres par un homme de rien (1846–1847). He was elected to the Académie française in 1871.  Loménie was born at Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, Haute-Vienne. He studied at Avignon and was professor of French literature at the Collège de France from 1862, then at the École Polytechnique from 1864, and editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes. His first literary work was a series of biographical sketches, published under the title Galerie des contemporains illustres par un homme de rien (1846–1847). He was elected to the Académie française in 1871.  ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in.  VG........50-75

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357. [MUSIC]  John Lessard (b. 1920) American composer.  AMQS from his "cello Sonata".  6x4 in. Fine............50-75

358 [FRANCE] Armand de Pontmartin (1811-1890)  French critic and man of letters.  Imbued by family tradition with legitimist sympathies, he began by attacking the followers of the encyclopaedists and their successors. In the Assemblée nationale he published his Causeries litteraires, a series of attacks on prominent Liberals, which created some sensation. Pontmartin was an indefatigable journalist, and most of his papers were eventually published in volume form: Contes et reveries d'un planteur de choux (1845); Causeries du samedi (1857-1860); Nouveaux samedis (1865-1881), &c. But the most famous of all his books is Les Jeudis de Mme. Charbonneau (1862), which under the form of a novel offered a series of malicious and witty portraits of contemporary writers. Pontmartin died at Avignon on 29 March 1890.  ALS, Paris, no year, 1p., to Marie-Louis Marcellus (1795-1865) noted French diplomat and write. VG.........50-75


359. [FRANCE] Anatole de Monzie (1876-1947) French administrator, encyclopaedist (Encyclopédie française), political figure and scholar.  ALS, no date, 2pp. First page has light sunned marks............40-60

360. [CONGRESS] Philip Joseph Philbin (1898-1972)  Democratic U.S. Congressman from Massachusetts. Offered here is an archive of letters & carbon copies, 1948 concerning appearl of Mr. Remo Rossi that his daughter, Inez Rossi, residing in Italy, be permitted to enter the United States for permanent residence.  Two of the letters are signed by Philbin. About 43 pieces in this lot.................Min. Bid $25

361. [MUSIC] JEFF VON DER SCHMIDT is Conductor and Founding Artistic Director of Southwest Chamber Music. A two-time Grammy Award-winning conductor, he has led numerous performances of standard 20th century composers as well as world and local premieres of new work. Mr. von der Schmidt has received six Grammy nominations, including consecutive 2003 and 2004 Grammy Awards as conductor for the Complete Chamber Music of Carlos Chávez Volumes and 2. His performance was nominated for Best Classical Album in 2005 for the Complete Chamber Music of Carlos Chávez, Volume 3 by both mainstream and Latin Grammys. Recent projects include leading cultural exchanges at the Vietnam National Academy of Music and the Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, featuring Aura, a major new composition by Grawemeyer Award-winning composer Chinary Ung; and a complete cycle of the chamber music of Carlos Chávez with Southwest Chamber Music and the Tambuco Percussion Ensemble at the UNAM Center in Mexico City in May 2007.  His successful 2003 performance at the Library of Congress, with soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson in Richard Felciano’s An American Decameron, was greeted with a standing ovation. He has led cycles of the Los Angeles works of Arnold Schoenberg at Cooper Union in New York City and at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna, where Southwest Chamber Music was the first American ensemble to perform at the Center since its relocation from the University of Southern California.  Signed [endorsed on verso] 1984 Warner Bros. pay check. VG..............25-35

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362. [FILM] Ben Lyon (1901-1979)American film actor and a 20th Century Fox studio executive. His greatest success as an actor came in 1930 with the film Hell's Angels. TLS, L.A., Calif., 1973, 1p. To Harriet. In part - "...When we were visiting Colleen Moore up north last week, Barbara called from London..." VG.............50-75

363. [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

364. [BASKETBALL] The Harlem Wizards - color 8x10 photo signed by 3 members.  VG...................25-35

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365. [POETRY] Robert C. Waterston [1812-1893] Unitarian Clergyman, poet, born Kennebunk, Maine. Pastor at various Boston churches, he had charge of a sailor's Sunday-school. Signed holograph poem, "Familiar Things", 3pp, 4to. VG............50-75

366. Joan Davis (1907-1961) American comedic actress whose career spanned vaudeville, film, radio and television. Remembered best for the 1950s television comedy I Married Joan, Davis had a successful earlier career as a B-movie actress and a leading star of 1940s radio comedy. Signed album page. One fold crease down middle [not bad]..........25-35

367. [MUSIC] Edward Dannreuther (1844-1905) German pianist and writer on music resident from 1863 in England. He trained as a musician at the Conservatoire at Leipzig, where he was a pupil of Ignaz Moscheles. Dannreuther became a champion of Wagner, and founded the London Wagner Society in 1872. Dannreuther became a professor of piano in the Royal College of Music in 1895, a position which he held until his death. An enthusiast for new music, he was an important influence on the composer Hubert Parry. Clip signature [irregular shape].........20-30


368. [MUSIC] Lugi Ottolini - Italian Opera Singer, associated with the Chicago Lyric Opera and Metropolitan Opera Co. ANS, no date.......25-35

369.  Daryl Gates (1926-2010) Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1978 to 1992. Signed, inscribed  color 8x10 photo. Fine..............25-35

370. Edward Michael Davis (1916-2006) was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1969–1978. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. Dated 1975. Fine...............25-35

371. Willie L. Williams (1943-2016) was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1992 to 1997, taking over after chief Daryl Gates' resignation following the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Williams was the first African-American Commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department and the first African-American Chief of the LAPD. Signed, inscribed color 8x10 photo. Fine..............25-35

372. Boots Randolph [1927-2007] saxophone player "Yakety Sax." ISP, 8x10.....25-35 

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373.  [FOOTBALL] Steve Grogan (b. 1953) former American football quarterback. He played in the National Football League (NFL) for sixteen seasons and spent the entirety of his career with the New England Patriots. He was inducted into the New England Patriots Hall of Fame in 1995. Signed 3x5 card. Fine.................Min. Bid $8

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374.  [RELIGION] Mystery Document Signed. Approx. 12 x 8" on paper. Appears to be from Italy or Spain of religious content. We have just received the following information about this document. It says - This is a fairly routine document issued IN THE NAME of Archbishop Francesco Saverio Mastrilli, C.R., of Taranto Italy (1699-1777). It has something to do with the Congregation of the Universal Inquisition, now known as the Propagation of the Faith. It probably was the granting of church approval for publication of a book or some dispensation/approval.  See scan below. Certainly worthy of research..........100-150

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375. [MUSIC] John Anthony Lennon  (b. 1950) American composer.  AMQS dated 1999, from his "ECHOLALIA."  Fine......50-75

376. [MUSIC] Timothee Adamowski [1858-1943] Polish born American conductor, composer and violinist. Signature. Fine........25-35

377.  Bebe  Neuwirth (b. 1958) American actress, musician and dancer. She has worked in television and is known for her portrayal of Dr. Lilith Sternin, Dr. Frasier Crane's wife (later ex-wife), on both the TV sitcom Cheers (in a starring role), and its spin-off Frasier (in a recurring guest role). On stage, she is also known for the role of Nickie in the revival of Sweet Charity, the role of Velma Kelly in the revival of Chicago (for both of which she won Tony Awards) and for the role of Morticia Addams in The Addams Family musical. SIGNED inscribed 8x10 photograph.......25-35

378. Alexander Godunov [1949-1995] Russian ballet start & actor. Sig. 3x5 card.........20-30

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379. [MUSIC] Jan Bach  (b. 1937) American composer. AMQS from his "Laudes" written in 1971.  Dated 1983.  6x4 in. Fine........50-75

380. [MUSIC] Bobby Short (1924-2005) American cabaret singer and pianist. Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. Very nice. VG...........40-60

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

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382. [FILM] Debra Paget (born 1933) is an American actress and entertainer. She is perhaps best known for her performances in Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments (1956) and in Love Me Tender (1956) (the film debut of Elvis Presley), and for the risque (for the time) snake dance scene in The Indian Tomb (1959). Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo PLUS ANS on separate sheet.................40-60

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383. [FILM] Eleanor  Parker (1922 –2013) American actress who appeared in some 80 movies and television series.[1] An actress of notable versatility, she was called Woman of a Thousand Faces by Doug McClelland, author of a biography of Parker by the same title.At the age of 18, Parker was signed by Warner Brothers in 1941. She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress in the 1950s, for Caged (1950), Detective Story (1951) and Interrupted Melody (1955). Her role in Caged also won her the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. One of her most memorable roles was that of Baroness Elsa Schrader in the 1965 musical The Sound of Music. Signed inscribed 8x10 photograph. VG.............35-45

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384. [FILM] Joyce Compton (1907 - 1997) American actress. Among her films were Imitation of Life, Magnificent Obsession, The Awful Truth, Rose of Washington Square, They Drive by Night, Christmas in Connecticut, Mildred Pierce, The Best Years of Our Lives, and Sorry, Wrong Number. ALS, 1966, written on both sides to a fan. Nice letter. VG..........40-60

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385. [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 nine movies.  Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG...........40-60

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386.  Kim Hunter (1922- 2002) American film, theatre, and television actress. She won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, each as Best Supporting Actress, for her performance as Stella Kowalski in the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire. Lengthy TLS, 1980, signed Kim, 1p. Fine.........35-45

387.  James Curtis Hepburn (1815-1911) American physician, translator, educator, and lay Christian missionary. He is known for the Hepburn romanization system for transliteration of the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet, which he popularized in his Japanese–English dictionary.  Signed handwritten poem that was by Henry Van Dyke, remobed from 1902 autograph book. Approx. 7.5 x 5 in. Fine.................50-75

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388. BRITISH THEATRE - 7x8 in. sheet SIGNED by many British Theater Stars, among them MARIE LOHR (1890-1975), Clive Currie (1877-1935), Marjorie Playfair, Basil Foster (1882-1959), Elizabeth Allan (1908-1990), Michael Shepley (1907-1961), Alice O' Day (d. 1937), plus others. Signed on both sides...........40-60

389. [CABINET] John D. Long (1838-1915)  Sec. of the Navy from 1897-1902. Signed card, 4-1/4 x 2-1/2 in. VG...................25-35

390 [MUSIC] Arthur Butterworth (b. 1923) English composer, conductor and teacher. His works include six symphonies, the sixth having its première in St Petersburg by St Petersburg State Capella Orchestra on 15 November 2009. In the summer of 2008 Butterworth returned to the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to conduct a recording of his Fourth Symphony (1986) and his Viola Concerto (1988) with the English viola player, Sarah-Jane Bradley. He has also composed eight concertos, several other large orchestral scores and a considerable amount of 'serious' music for brass (almost totally neglected by the brass band movement). At 87 he is still active as a composer and an occasional conductor (August 2010). Signed, inscribed 1-page copy of part of his Fourth Symphony. Signed on front and verso, 2011. One middle fold. VG..........50-75

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391. [FRANCE]  a 1788 2-page document signed, from Dreux, France to Nantes, France.................80-120

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392. Mary Holden Coggeshall Seward (1839-1919), commonly known as Mary C. Seward, was an American poet, composer, and prominent parliamentarian serving humanitarian and woman's club movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A number of her works were published under the pseudonym "Agnes Burney", including several developed in collaboration with her spouse, Theodore F. Seward, an internationally known composer and music educator in his day. She became a groundbreaking advocate for the care and education of blind babies and young children during her later years, serving as president of the department for the blind of the International Sunshine Society.  AQS, 7-3/4 x 5 in.  Extracted from the pages of a 1902 Autograph Calendar book recovered from Orange Memorial Hospital, New Jersey. Seward has written 8 lines, titled Serenity. Fine.............80-120

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393. [RELIGION]  Pierre Simon de Dreux-Breze  (1811-1893) Priest since 1825 , Vicar General and Canon Emeritus of Paris,  he distinguished himself as a preacher,  and was appointed Bishop of Moulins  October 28, 1849, by the President of the Republic   Called to Rome by Pope Pius IX on 7 January 1850,  it was dedicated to Our Lady of Paris on 14 April and took possession of his see on 1 May.  Near Dom Prosper Gueranger, he established the Roman rite in his diocese a pastoral letter by the 21 November 1853 and was a promoter of the Gregorian chant.  [internet translation].   ALS, not dated, 3 full pages, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4".  On the verso of page 3 is an ALS by Xavier de Ravignan  (1795-1858) French Jesuit preacher and author. Educated in Paris, he resigned his army commission to study law. Auditor of the royal court. Deputy attorney-general by 1821. Entering a Sulpician monastery, and later joining the Society of Jesus, he was ordained in 1828, and after several years as professor and retreat preacher at Montrouge, he went to Notre Dame, where his logic, serenity, and zeal won souls by the hundreds. Superior of his brethren at Bordeaux from 1837 to 1842, and at Paris from 1848 to 1851. He preached throughout France and in Rome, Belgium, and London. His calm, eloquent De l'Existence et de l'Institut des Jesuites of 1844, vindicating the Society, sold 25,000 copies in one year. However, the Jesuits' strife continued until they were forced to disband for a time in France.  Despite painful controversy with his superiors and imputations from other quarters, he remained loyal to his order. In 1854 he brought out Clement XIII et Clement XIV, a dispassionate treatise, of no great literary merit, on the defender and the suppressor of the Jesuits. He steadfastly refused preferment, even the archbishopric of Paris, devoting himself to other works. He died a saintly death, and thousands followed the remains of the "Apostle of Paris" to his grave. VG..........200-300

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394. Otto Hermann Kahn (1867-1934)  German-born American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. Brief TLS, 1920, 1p, 4-3/4 x 7-3/4 in. Sends autograph. Mounting traces on verso.......50-75

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395. [PRINTING PRESS]  Peter Smith (1795-1824) American who designed and changed the way printing was made by developing a hand printing machine, which changed the course of printmaking. Rare clip signature [mounted]. About 2-1/4 x 1/2 in. mounted.........50-75

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396. [FOREIGN MIXED LOT] includes: (1) [MUSIC] Anton van Rooy [1870-1932] Dutch bass-baritone. He had a voice of enormous proportions and is most remembered for his association with the music dramas of Richard Wagner, especially the Ring Cycle, The Mastersingers of Nuremberg and Parsifal. ALS, no date, 2pp, about 4-3/4 x 6-1/2". Written in pencil. Not translated. Wrinkled. (2) [CINEMA] Édouard Molinaro (b. 1928) is a French film director, actor. SIGNED & INSCRIBED sheet to which is mounted his picture. (3) [SILENT FILM] Nellie Parker Spaulding (1870-1945)  American silent film actress who appeared in at least 37 films between 1915 and 1925. Born in Machias, Maine, she was 45 years old when she obtained her first film part, as 'Aunt Sally' in The Flying Twins (1915). Originally billed as 'Eleanor Spaulding', she was using the more informal 'Nellie' by 1918. She most often played mothers, aunts, or older women, such as "Mrs. Peniston" in the first filmed version of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth (1918). Spaulding worked for various production companies, but her last role (in 1925) was in an MGM picture.  Signed picture postcard, 5-1/4 x 3-1/2 in. VG (4) Louis Antoine François de Marchangy (1782-1826) French lawyer, author and politician. He was a passionate supporter first of Napoleon and later of the Bourbons, and an impressive force in the courtroom. He was a Deputy from 1822 to 1824.  In 1813 he published his first work, la Gaule poétique, a two-volume study of the history of France in terms of its poetry, speeches and beaux-arts. This book made his reputation. Six editions were published between 1813 and 1826. ALS, no date, brief 1p,  4-3/4 x 7-1/4 in. PLUS a lengthy 1p. letter by Countess de Marchangy. (5) [FRANCE - MUSIC] Aimable Antoine-Elie-Elwart  was a composer , musicologist and French musicologist born in 1808 and died in 1877.  ALS, 186?, 1p, 5x8 in. VG. (6) [FRANCE] Jean-Baptiste Honoré Raymond Capefigue (1801-1872) French historian and biographer. He became editor of the Quotidienne, and was afterwards connected, either as editor or leading contributor, with the Temps, the Messager des Chambres, the Revolution de 1848 and other papers. ALS, no date, 1p...............Min. Bid $50

397. [FRENCH MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Louis-Charles-Bonaventure-Alfred Bruneau (1857-1934)  French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera.  In 1887, he produced his first opera, Kérim.  The following year, Bruneau met Émile Zola, launching a collaboration between the two men that would last for two decades. Bruneau's 1891 opera Le rêve was based on the Zola story of the same name, and in the coming years Zola would provide the subject matter for many of Bruneau's works.  Bruneau was decorated with the Legion of Honor in 1895.  Five lines written in his hand on his calling card. Not signed. VG. (2) Emmanuel Roblès (1914-1995) Algerian-French author. He was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt in 1973. SIGNED/INSCRIBED [on the back] 5x7 photograph which he dates [19]91. Fine. (3) Henry de GORSSE [1868-1936] Fr. dramatist. ALS, no date, 1p. Speaks about his play. Not translated. Fine. (4) Jules Lemaitre  (1853-1914)  French critic and dramatist.  Lemaître was born in Vennecy, Loiret. He became a professor at the University of Grenoble in 1883, but was already well known for his literary criticism, and in 1884 he resigned his position to devote his time to literature. He succeeded Jean-Jacques Weiss as drama critic of the Journal des Débats, and subsequently filled the same office on the Revue des Deux Mondes. His literary studies were collected under the title of Les Contemporains (7 series, 1886-1899), and his dramatic feuilletons as impressions de théàtre (10 series, 1888-1898).  His sketches of modern authors show great insight and unexpected judgment as well as gaiety and originality of expression. He published two volumes of poetry: Les Médaillons (1880) and Petites orientales (1883); also some volumes of contes, among them En marge des vieux livres (1905).  Two brief ALSs, written on 4.25 x 3.25" cards plus signature with 2 lines on small slip. (5) Auguste Nicholas Cain (1822-1894) was a noted French sculptor known for his portrayals of wild and domesticated animals. ALS, no date, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. VG......Min. Bid $50

398. [FILM] 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. Signed 3x5 card..........25-35

399. Clinton Scollard [1860-1932] was a prolific American poet and occasional writer of fiction. He was a Professor of English at Hamilton College, and collaborator and husband of Jessie Belle Rittenhouse. Brief ALS, 1895. Two lines in his hand............25-35


400. Kuno Francke [1855-1930] American (German-born) educator and historian. Most of his career was spent at Harvard University where he eventually became a professor of history and German culture and curator of the Germanic Museum. He played an important role in his time as the foremost German-American cultural ambassador. ALS, 1914, 2 full pages. "...It is not entirely sure that I shall be here next winter. If the war is over by that time - frant God that it will..."........40-60

401. [BRENDA KUHN ESTATE] Lot of about 25 pieces [envelopes not counted] from the estate of Brenda Kuhn. Mainly bills, receipts etc.  Nothing appears to be important. Sorry but we will not spend any time on scans/pictures for this type of Brenda Kuhn lot.  For more of these lots go to lot 401. Brenda Kuhn (1912-1993) formerly of Cape Neddick, Maine, a founder of Cape Neddick Park, an art patron and historian. She was the daughter of American artist Walt Kuhn. Click below to see wiki page on Walt Kuhn. Also click below to see Walt Kuhn's painting of Brenda in the Ogunquit Museum of Art. Again, nothing important in this lot.............Min. Bid only $1.00

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Walt Kuhn Portrait of Brenda

402. [BRENDA KUHN ESTATE] Lot of about 25 pieces [envelopes not counted] from the estate of Brenda Kuhn. Mainly bills, receipts etc.  Nothing appears to be important. Sorry but we will not spend any time on scans/pictures for this type of Brenda Kuhn lot.  For more of these lots go to lot 401. Brenda Kuhn (1912-1993) formerly of Cape Neddick, Maine, a founder of Cape Neddick Park, an art patron and historian. She was the daughter of American artist Walt Kuhn. Click below to see wiki page on Walt Kuhn. Also click below to see Walt Kuhn's painting of Brenda in the Ogunquit Museum of Art. Again, nothing important in this lot.............Min. Bid only $1.00

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Walt Kuhn Portrait of Brenda

403. [BRENDA KUHN ESTATE] Lot of about 25 pieces [envelopes not counted] from the estate of Brenda Kuhn. Mainly bills, receipts etc.  Nothing appears to be important. Sorry but we will not spend any time on scans/pictures for this type of Brenda Kuhn lot.  For more of these lots go to lot 401. Brenda Kuhn (1912-1993) formerly of Cape Neddick, Maine, a founder of Cape Neddick Park, an art patron and historian. She was the daughter of American artist Walt Kuhn. Click below to see wiki page on Walt Kuhn. Also click below to see Walt Kuhn's painting of Brenda in the Ogunquit Museum of Art. Again, nothing important in this lot.............Min. Bid only $1.00

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Walt Kuhn Portrait of Brenda

404. [BRENDA KUHN ESTATE] Lot of about 25 pieces [envelopes not counted] from the estate of Brenda Kuhn. Mainly bills, receipts etc.  Nothing appears to be important. Sorry but we will not spend any time on scans/pictures for this type of Brenda Kuhn lot.  For more of these lots go to lot 401. Brenda Kuhn (1912-1993) formerly of Cape Neddick, Maine, a founder of Cape Neddick Park, an art patron and historian. She was the daughter of American artist Walt Kuhn. Click below to see wiki page on Walt Kuhn. Also click below to see Walt Kuhn's painting of Brenda in the Ogunquit Museum of Art. Again, nothing important in this lot.............Min. Bid only $1.00

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Walt Kuhn Portrait of Brenda

405. [BRENDA KUHN ESTATE] Lot of about 25 pieces [envelopes not counted] from the estate of Brenda Kuhn. Mainly bills, receipts etc.  Nothing appears to be important. Sorry but we will not spend any time on scans/pictures for this type of Brenda Kuhn lot.  For more of these lots go to lot 401. Brenda Kuhn (1912-1993) formerly of Cape Neddick, Maine, a founder of Cape Neddick Park, an art patron and historian. She was the daughter of American artist Walt Kuhn. Click below to see wiki page on Walt Kuhn. Also click below to see Walt Kuhn's painting of Brenda in the Ogunquit Museum of Art. Again, nothing important in this lot.............Min. Bid only $1.00

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Walt Kuhn Portrait of Brenda

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