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1. [FILM] Whoopi Goldberg (b. 1955) American comedienne, actress. SIGNED STAR TREK BOOKPLATE. VG...........20-30
2. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) George McAneny
(1869-1953) American a newspaperman, municipal reformer and advocate of
preservation and city planning from New York City. He served as
executive manager of The New York Times (1916-1921), and president of
the Regional Plan Association (1930-1940). brief ALS no year, 1p. (2) Bill Keane (1922-201 American cartoonist. Signed, inscribed card HELP STAMP OUT HUNGER. (3) 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. 1877 bank document, not
signed by Bunn. (4) Alexis Anastay Julien (1840-1919)
American geologist who taught at Columbia University's School of Mines
for many years. ALS on 1880 postcard. (5) Dr. Frank F. Rosenthal (Rabbi), TLS, 1-1/3pp, to Dr. Frederick Solomon. (6) Orlando Allen
(1803–1874) was a member of the New York State Assembly and the 18th
mayor of the City of Buffalo, New York. ALS, 1873, 3pp, to Nelson K.
Hopkins the NYS Comptroller. (7) James Osborne Putnam (1818-1903) American lawyer and politician from New York. ALS, no date], 1p. ToNelson K. Hopkins the NYS Comptrol Nelson K. Hopkins the NYS Comptroller................Min. Bid $50
3. [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. (7) 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
4. Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) American singer and actor who is generally perceived as one of the greatest musical artists of the 20th century. Signed [likely secretarial signature] by felt pen b/w printed caricature drawing. Pictures Sinatra, Dolly Parton, Elton John and Barry Manilow. 8.5 x 11 in. The drawing was by Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003) American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars.We do not guarantee the authenticity of this signature. VG..................Min. Bid $10
5. [MULTIPLE MIXED LOT] includes: (1) Linus Pauling (1901-1994) American chemist, biochemist, chemical engineer, peace activist, author, and educator. Pauling was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954. For his peace activism, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is one of four people to have won more than one Nobel Prize. Signed 1951 FDC. Smeared ink signature. (2) Rudy Vallee (1901-1986) American singer, musician, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. Signed 1935 bank check. (3) James Roosevelt II (1907-1991) American businessman, Marine, activist, and Democratic Party politician. The eldest son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt, he served as an official Secretary to the President for his father and was later elected to the United States House of Representatives representing California. He received the Navy Cross while serving as a Marine Corps officer during World War II. TLS, 1963 [mounted to album page]. On the verso of the James Roosevelt is (4) Herbert W. Christenberry (1897-1975) United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. TLS, 1965. (5) Doris Gold (1922-2013) well known artist for doing first day covers. Signed 1978 FDC honoring American Folk Dance. (6) Robert Echols Scoggin (1922-2003) was born in North Carolina in 1922. His family moved to Spartanburg, S.C. early in his life, where he lived for the rest of his life, except for the years of his service in the Navy during WWII. In the 1950s, Scoggin, disappointed with the changes taking place in American society, joined the KKK, using it as a venue for publicizing his opinions and agenda. Because of his charismatic personality and ability as an organizer, he ascended the ranks quickly, becoming grand dragon of the South Carolina Klan in 1962. By the late 1960s his relationship with the national leadership of the United Klans of America, Inc. began to deteriorate. Scoggin and a few other members of the Klan were imprisoned on a contempt of Congress charge. Soon after his release from prison, the Klan banished him from the UKA in early 1970. Scoggin re-incorporated the invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (a different organization) soon thereafter and retained most of his followers. He resigned his position as grand dragon a few years later because of his wife's failing health, but remained active in the Klan until his death in 2002. Signed card...............Min. Bid $50
6. George W. Bush For President bumper sticker. Fine............Min. bid $10
7. (BRITISH LITERATURE LOT) GEORGE GROTE (1794-1871) Classical Historian known for his voluminous “History of Greece”. SIGNED address panel (1835). BRIAN FRIEL (1929-2015) Irish Playwright. SIGNATURE (2001). DORIS LESLIE(Lady Fergusson Hannay)(1902-1982) Novelist and Historian. Typed Quote SIGNED. JOHN ST. LOE STRACHEY (1860-1927) Journalist, Editor brother of Edward Strachey. ALS, 4pp. RICHARD HENRY TAWNEY (1880-1962) Historian, Writer, Economist, Critic. ALS (1934). EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS (1868-1938) Popular Writer of a 100 books and essayist. SIGNATURE (1920). URSULA BLOOM (1892-1984) Novelist SIGNATURE...........80-120
8. 1944 COVER SIGNED - looks very interesting.........Min. Bid $10 CLICK HERE
9. [FILM] vintage 1960 movie still photograph from the film ON THE WATERFRONT, showing Lee J. Cobb. Marlon Brando is not pictured in this scene. 10x8 in. VG...............Min. Bid $10
10. [FILM] Marlon Brando - original vintage 1976 photograph from the film THE MISSOURI BREAKS, 10 x 8 in. Unsigned. VG.......Min. Bid $10
11. [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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12. 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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13. [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
14. [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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15. [WWI] Davenport - ALS, London, 12 Jan. 1917, 2pp, 4to. Re: contributions to the Seaman's Hospital at Greenwich "in recognition of the splendid & signal services of our Merchant Navy during the war. Whether on transports, on mine-sweepers, on patrol duty, or on trade routes carrying the cargoes which are the life-blood of the Empire they have faced not only the perils & hardships of the Sea, but the deadly risk of submarines, mines, & other enemy devices..." VG.....80-120 Min. Bid $20
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16. Albert Shaw (1857-1947) was a prominent American journalist and academic of the early 20th century. In the autumn of 1890 Shaw was elected professor of international law and political institutions at Cornell University but resigned the post in 1891 to accept Stead's invitation to establish an American edition of the Review of Reviews . Shaw served as editor-in-chief of this publication until it ceased publication in 1937, ten years before his death at the age of ninety. He was the author of "Abraham Lincoln" [1929]. ALS, Hastings On Hudson, NY, Feb. 4, 1947, 2-1/2 pages. This letter was sent to Who's Who In America. 'I have been listed in every volume of Who's Who since Mr. Marquis began its publication..." Excellent condition............40-60
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17. [ART] Edward Scriven (1775-1841) English engraver of portraits, in the stipple and chalk manner. Scriven was the pre-eminent engraver of his generation, with 210 portraits ascribed to him by the National Portrait Gallery. Offered here is a 19th original engraved portrait of Madame De Stael, image area is approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. This print is in better condition than the same print is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in England. VG...............25-35
18. [ART] William Henry Mote (1803–1871) British stipple and line engraver, primarily known for his portraits. He produced etchings for reference books, as well as original etchings. Mote became a member of the Royal Academy in his twenties and his portraits hang in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Offered here is a 19th original engraved portrait of Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Count Carnot (1753-1823) French mathematician, physicist and politician. He was known as the "Organizer of Victory" in the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars. The image area is approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. VG...............25-35
19. [ART] William Henry Mote (1803–1871) British stipple and line engraver, primarily known for his portraits. He produced etchings for reference books, as well as original etchings. Mote became a member of the Royal Academy in his twenties and his portraits hang in the National Portrait Gallery, London. Offered here is a 19th original engraved portrait of Charles Carroll Of Carrollton (1737 1832) American Delegate To The Continental Congress And Senator Signer Of The Declaration Of Independence. The image area is approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. VG...............25-35
20. [ART] Lambertus Antonius Claessens (1763-1834) Flemish engraver, print artist, copyist and publisher. He trained initially in Antwerp as a landscape painter and then in London as an engraver with Francesco Bartolozzi. He was active in Amsterdam and Paris. He is known for his reproductive prints mainly of portraits and old master paintings. ALS, 1821, 1p, 7-1/4 x 9-1/4 in. Not translated. VG.................80-120
21. [ART] Sir Edwin Henry Landseer RA (1802-1873) English painter and sculptor,[1] well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags. However, his best-known works are the lion sculptures at the base of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square. His signature on address panel. See scan for condition. Mounting traces on verso......................25-35
22. [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
23. [MUSIC] Tito Petralia (1896-1982) Italian composer and conductor. Signed, inscribed 4.5 x 7 in. photo mounted to large sheet. VG.......40-60
24. [MUSIC - FILMS] José Iturbi Báguena (1895-1980) Spanish conductor, pianist and harpsichordist. He appeared in several Hollywood films of the 1940s, notably playing himself in the musicals Thousands Cheer (1943), Music for Millions (1944), Anchors Aweigh (1945), That Midnight Kiss (1949), and Three Daring Daughters (1948), his only leading role. TLS, 1977, 1p. to the Mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley, saying he will not be able to attend The Jewish National Fund meeting. Envelope is included. VG...............60-80
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25. [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 brief ALS, 1972, 1p. Offer to send zerox of Hans Hofmann school literature and lectures. VG...............Min. Bid $50
26. Albert Stanburrough Cook (1853-1927) American philologist, literary critic, and scholar of Old English. He has been called "the single most powerful American Anglo-Saxonist of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." ALS, New Haven, 1893, 4pp. About 5 x 8 in. VG.................75-100
27. [FILM] Jack Nicholson - original vintage 1976 photograph from the film THE MISSOURI BREAKS, 8 x 10 in. Unsigned. VG.......Min. Bid $10
28. [FILM] Jack Nicholson - original vintage 1976 photograph from the film THE MISSOURI BREAKS, 8 x 10 in. Unsigned. VG.......Min. Bid $10
29. [FILM] original c. 1949 movie still photo from the film THE HASTY HEART starring Ronald Reagan and Patricia Neal. 10 x 8 in. Unsigned. VG................Min. Bid $8
See above30. [FILM] Helen Walker (1920-1968) was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Walker's film debut came in 1942's Lucky Jordan, a comedy about a gangster (Alan Ladd) who ends up drafted in the Army, where Walker's character reports him AWOL. In the farce Brewster's Millions, her sweetheart inherits $8 million, but can't keep it unless he can spend a million of it within a specified time. Walker also played the romantic interest of Fred MacMurray in the popular comedy Murder, He Says in 1945. UNSIGNED vintage 8x10 photo. VG...............Min. Bid $10
31. (ART) Jo Anne Schneider (1919-2017) American artist. Exhibited: Corcoran Gal. biennial, 1957; WMAA; 50 Years Am. Art, AFA, 1964; Am. Acad. Arts & Letters, 1971 (Childe Hassam Fund exh.); Guild Hall, Southhampton, NY, 1967 (1st prize); NAWA, 1970 (Haldenstein Mem. Prize); Audubon Artists, 1972 (Grumbacher Mem. Award); plus nine solo exh. at galleries, 1954-72, incl. Frank Rehn Gal, NYC. This is a [plate signed] original lithograph from IMPROVISATIONS done in 1953. Noted artists draw directly on the lithographic plates. Each was used as an ad for various businesses. The proceeds went to Artists Equity. Sheet size is approx. 12 x 8.5 in...........50-75
32. [FILM] Lynn Bari (1913-1989) was a film actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in roughly 150 movies for 20th Century Fox from the early 1930s through the 1940s. UNSIGNED vintage 8x10 photo. VG...............Min. Bid $10
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33. [FILM] Claire Trevor (1910-2000) American actress. She appeared in 68 feature films from 1933 to 1982,[2] winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty (1954) and Dead End (1937). Trevor was billed first for Stagecoach (1939); her profile was higher than John Wayne's at the time. UNSIGNED vintage 8x10 photo. VG...............Min. Bid $10
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34. Eliza Lynn Linton (1822-1898) was the first female salaried journalist in Britain, and the author of over 20 novels. Despite her path breaking role as an independent woman, many of her essays took a strong anti-feminist slant. ALS, 1885, 2pp, 4-3/8 x 6-3/4 in. VG.................60-80
35. [FRANCE] group of French autographs: [1] Édouard Alphonse Lefebvre Béhaine, Count Pigneaux (or Pigneau) is a diplomat, French (1829-1897). He was Ambassador of France to the Holy See , Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague and Secretary of Embassy ( Berlin and Rome ). He talked with his cousins Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, a rich correspondence of nearly 300 letters in almost 40 years. ALS, 1888, 3-1/2 pp. [2] Jean Charles Meissonier (1848 - 1917) French painter, son of the Master. ALS, Paris, 1893, 2pp. [3] Jean d'Esparbes (1899-1968) Fr. artist. ANS written on both sides of his personal calling card. Fine. [4] Louis Marsolleau (1864-1935] writer of songs. ALS, Paris, 1896, 2pp. [5] Camille-André Lemoyne, born in Saint Jean d'Angely (1822-1907) poet and novelist . ALS, 1p. plus envelope. [6] Emile Berr (1855-1923) Fr. journalist. ALS, nd., 1p. [7] Charles Borel-Clerc, pen name of Charles Clerc, was a French composer. My apple performer Maurice Chevalier (1936), Oh! If you knew my hen (1938) and Walk Ménilmontant (1941), three of his biggest hits. TLS, 1934, 2pp............150-250
36. [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
37. [SCIENCE] Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician and autodidactic polymath, who was Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hopkins University. TLS, 1887, 1p, 7.5 x 10 in. Mounted. Good...........50-75
38. [EARLY FILM] Lucy Cotton (1895-1948) was an American actress who appeared in 12 films between 1910 and 1921. She went to New York City in her teens and found her first role on Broadway in the chorus of The Quaker Girl. In 1915 Cotton appeared on stage in Polygamy at the Park Theatre in New York City. She then starred in the 1919 production of Up in Mabel's Room. As a popular actress, her personal life was closely followed by the press. Brief ALS, 1919, 1p. with envelope. About 5-1/4 x 4-1/4 in. VG...............35-45
The First Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in the United States39. [MEDICINE] Daniel Elmer Salmon (1850-1914) was a veterinary surgeon. He earned the first D.V.M. degree awarded in the United States, and spent his career studying animal diseases for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He gave his name to the Salmonella genus of bacteria, which were discovered by an assistant, and named in his honor. In 1883 he was asked to establish a veterinary division within the Department of Agriculture. It became the Bureau of Animal Industry and he served as its chief from 1884 to December 1, 1905. Offered here is a Signed document dated Sept. 20/96 [1896], which is a receipt for $100 contribution made by Salmon to the American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science to the international fund for the erection of the Pasteur monument in Paris, France. This document comes out of the papers of Prof. Robert S. Woodward who had received the contribution check. This document is signed by Daniel E. Salmon as President of the Pasteur Monument Committee of the United States and also signed by its secretary Emil Alexander de Schweinitz (1866-1904) American bacteriologist.
He taught chemistry in Tufts College, Massachusetts, and then became a Professor of Chemistry at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky. After becoming associated with the chemical division of the Agricultural Department, Washington, D.C. in 1888, he was appointed as director of the biochemical laboratory of the department's Bureau of Animal Industry in 1890, a position he remained in until his death. He was a member of the American Public Health Association from 1896. He was also chair of chemistry and toxicology in the Columbian University and later its dean. He specialized in bacteria and immunity, and studied the bacterial products of tuberculosis, hog cholera and glanders. Among other essays, he published Laboratory Guide (1898). This document is is fine condition. Provence: from the personal papers of Robert S. Woodward (1849-1924) American physicist and mathematician. He was dean of the faculty of pure science at Columbia from 1895 to 1905, when he became president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, whose reputation and usefulness as a means of furthering scientific research was widely extended under his direction. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. Also included here is a 1895 bank check signed by Woodward. This check is not connected to Salmon's contribution. Rare!.........2000-3000
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40. [ART] Pierre Justin Ouvrié (1806-1879) French painter and lithographer. He was known as Justin Ouvrié from 1852 onwards. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1831 onwards with views of towns and monuments, sometimes as historical or picturesque scenes. He was very successful under the July Monarchy, winning a 2nd class medal at the 1831 Salon, a 1st class medal at the 1843 Salon and a 3rd class medal at the 1855 Exposition Universelle as well as being made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur in 1854. He was a professor at the Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur in Saint-Denis. He later became blind, after which the paintings in his studio were sold off at the hôtel Drouot on 21 December 1874. ALS, 1869, 1-1/2 pp. Not translated but speaks of other painters. Just beginning to separate at middle foldline o/w VG................80-120
41. [COLONIAL] Major Joshua Sprague (1729-1816) American Patriot. Born in Smithfield, RI. Sprague was enthusiastic in the cause of freedom, as also were his sons. He enlisted as private in Col. Archibald Crary's Regt. in 1776; had due him 20 pounds, 12 shilling, 10 pence. In Massachusetts, he served as Major in Col. Joab Stafford's (Independent) Co. of volunteers and fought in the battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777. He marched to Fish Kill, June 6, 1778, to serve nine months in Col. Diamond's Regt., but was rejected as unfit for service. However, on October 17, 1779, he enlisted as private in Capt. Asa Barnes's (1st) Co., Col. Israel Chapens' 3d Regt., and was discharged November 21, 1779, serving one month and nine days. After the war Joshua and his sons, William and Jonathan, worked at the carpenter trade, building boats. In 1788 they left Massachusetts, going to Simrell's Ferry, on the Monongahela river. They brought their tool chest on a two-wheeled cart drawn by one horse. Here they expected to remain and build boats, but after building several they were persuaded to come with the company that arrived at Marietta, June 22, 1788. Mr. Sprague and his two sons took a contract of building one of the block-houses and stockade called Fort Frye. Early in the spring, William and Jonathan had gone up to Waterford and cleared five acres of ground and planted corn, which produced a good crop. They lived in the stockade seven years, or until the Indian troubles were over. Joshua came into possession of a farm in Waterford Twp., on which he lived until 1812, when the infirmities of his years caused him with his wife to seek a home with their son Jonathan in Adams Twp., where their remaining years were spent. He appears to have been a Major in 1762. Offered here is a closely cropped clip signature. Rare...............50-75
42. [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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43. [ART] Stephen J. Ferris (1835-1915) American artist. An influential Philadelphia painter and etcher of portraits and figure studies, he studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy and in Paris, under Jean Leon Gerome. He achieved a considerable reputation for his art in both America and Europe and received the prestigious Fortuny Prize for the best portrait, Rome, 1876. He also served for twenty six years as the Instructor of Art at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women. Stephen Ferris' association with American art and artists is also important. His wife, Elizabeth Moran Ferris, was the sister of the artists, Thomas and Peter Moran. His son, Jean Leon Gerome Moran, became a much admired painter in the late nineteenth century. Stephen Ferris was also a major connoisseur of fine prints, particularly etchings. Over two thousand of his collected prints are now housed at the Smithsonian Institution under the title of 'The Ferris Collection'. Stephen James Ferris' first published etching was created in 1875. During the following years he created many fine portraits and figure studies in this medium. Most were based upon the designs of the artists he admired most, such as, Gerome (his former teacher), Fortuny and Mouilleron. His finest prints are 'Orientalist' in nature and draw upon scenes of the middle and near East. Original etching, DEVIL'S WAY, ALGIERS, signed in the plate & dated 1879, image approx. 8.5 x 6" plus margins. VG...........200-300
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44. [CUBA] Dr. Frederick Solomon (1899-1980) Dr. Frederick K. “Fritz” Solomon (originally Solomonski) was born in Berlin, Germany in 1899. In 1938, when the synagogue he was serving at was torched by Nazis and he was subsequently summoned by the Gestapo, he fled Germany with his wife, Margot, and emigrated to England. While still in Europe, Solomon had studied art under the German-Jewish artists Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg and Eugene Spiro, and German expressionist Willy Jaeckel. In England, he continued his artistic career, exhibiting his religious and expressionistic work at various galleries throughout the country, including the Royal Academy and the Kensington Art Gallery in London, where he had a one-man show. His work is in the permanent collections of the Courtauld Institute, the Bazalel Museum in Jerusalem, and the Ben Uri Art Gallery St. John’s Wood, London (now incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art). He was the curator of this latter gallery from 1943 to 1946. In 1954, Solomon left England to take up a position as rabbi for Temple Beth Ha Shalom in Williamsport, PA. After three years in Pennsylvania, he sought another position and, as a member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, was appointed rabbi at Temple Beth Israel in the Vedado suburb of Havana, Cuba, where he wrote sermons and hosted religious services for his congregation, a part of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Solomon was also active in the Jewish Progressive movement, frequently communicating with representatives of The World Union for Progressive Judaism throughout the 1950s in an attempt to officially associate his congregation with the organization. Offered here are 3 items directly from the estate papers of Rabbi Frederick Solomon. (1) Unsigned manuscript written by Solomon about Jewqs in Havana, Cuba. Not dated but c. 1961. Six pages. (2) His 2 page typescript that of this address that he gave at the Temple Beth Israel, Havana, Cuba. Not signed. (3) A Feb.-March 1959 newspaper from SOCIAL ACTION IN REVIEW (Reform Judaism), 4pp. On the front page is an article written by Frederick Solomon about the early days of the revolt and takeover by Castro. What this means for the Jews in Cuba. VG.............200-300
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45. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) John W. Foster (1836-1917) American diplomat and military officer, as well as a lawyer and journalist. His highest public office was U.S. Secretary of State under Benjamin Harrison, although he also proved influential as a lawyer in technically private practice in the international relations sphere. Signature dated 1886. Nice example. (2) Francis D. Moore (1913-2001 American surgeon who was a pioneer in numerous experimental surgical treatments. Among his many achievements, he refined burn-treatment techniques, helped perform the world's first successful organ transplant (which involved a kidney), and accurately determined the volume of water and other nutrients in the human body using radioactive isotopes of those substances. Signature inscribed glued to album page with his return envelope. (3) The White House, Washington - 1940 postmaked envelope [no letter] hand-addressed to Walter Trumbull 75 Central Park West, NYC. (4) David Monroe Shoup (1904-1983) was a general of the United States Marine Corps who was awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II, served as the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps, and, after retiring, became one of the most prominent critics of the Vietnam War. Signed card 1963 as GeneraL US Marine Corps. (5) Portrait 1830 engraving of Sir Thomas Bodley (1545-1613) was an English diplomat and scholar who founded the Bodleian Library in Oxford...................Min. Bid $50
46. [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
47. [THEATRE] Jane Coombs (1842-1901?) The daughter of a socially prominent New York family, Jane Coombs sought out the renowned actress Clara Fisher Maeder for instruction in acting. It was Maeder who connected her with Fred Niblo and other New York producers enabling her sudden emergence as a favorite on the eve of the Civil War. During the 1870s, Coombs may have been the most highly esteemed tragedienne regularly appearing on the American stage. She embodied for many an ideal of feminine dignity. It is not approach to exaggeration to say she is the most beautiful woman on the American stage," wrote an 1880 critic for the New York World. While her preeminence was challenged by Mary Anderson in the 1880s, Coombs enjoyed the highest approbation when performing the roles of the standard repertory from Shakespeare to Sheridan as her troupe toured the continent well into the 1890s. Of contemporary roles, her most famous was Lady Dedlock and Hortense in the stage adaptation of Charles Dickens's "Bleak House." Offered here is a signed card, about 3 x 2 in. VG...............50-75
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48. Shirley Booth (1898-1992) American stage, film, radio, and television actress. Offered here is a sketch on which she writes it is of her cat Carrie; and says she is now legally blind, Sorry Shirley Booth. 8 x 5-1/4 . VG...........50-75
49. [FILM] Marge Champion (1919-2020) American dancer and actress. At a young age she was hired as a dance model for Walt Disney Studios animated films. Later, she performed as an actress and dancer in film musicals, and in 1957 had a TV show based on song and dance. In 1947, she married dancer Gower Champion (1919–1980). Together as a dance team, the Champions performed in MGM musicals of the 1940s and 50s, including their first MGM musical Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), Show Boat (1951) and Everything I Have Is Yours (1952). Offered here is a signed sketch [a comical self-portrait], 5-1/4 x 8 in. VG.............50-75
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50. [Americana] Bill of Lading 1835 concerning goods being shipped by Rowland G. Hazard on board the ship called Shakespeare, in New York harbor bound for New Orleans with 9 bales of domestic goods. Approx. 10-1/2 x 5 in. 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 products to planters in the southern United States, particularly Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. He spent 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 from 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. Nice woodcut vignette. This does have some condition problems.............50-75
See above51. (RELIGIOUS FREEDOM) McLaurin F. Cooke - signed 3 page letter + address leaf, dated Dartmouth College, July 9, 1867, wriiten to his sister, MIss Mary C. Cooke at Great falls, Somersworth, NH. He is asking his sister to attend the commencement at Dartmouth; tells her of his activities. Interesting content. The main significance of this relates to about 12 years later [1859]. The Eliot School, Boston, in March, 1859, exhibited cruelty and intolerance such as had been rebuked by the State Superintendent in New York. Thomas J. Whall, a Catholic pupil, was ordered to repeat the Ten Commandments in the Protestant form; he declined, as his father had forbidden him to do so. The teacher sent for McLaurin F. Cooke, the second master, who flogged the boy on both hands for thirty minutes, declaring that he would whip him till he consented, for he had nothing else to do the whole forenoon. The inhuman teacher was tried for assault and battery, and the case was argued at considerable length, but Judge Maine held that the teacher had a right to inflict the punishment, and that it was not excessive or malicious.' One hundred Catholic children were expelled for refusing to submit to the intolerant system, and the monstrous decision of the judge sustaining the cruelty showed Catholics that no recognition of their religious rights could be expected from the State schools, which made open war on their religion, and that they must establish schools of their own. On the 21st of March, Bishop Fitzpatrick addressed a letter to the President and members of the School Committee, in which he stated in clear and convincing language the reasons why Catholics resisted the enforced use of the Protestant version of the Bible, the enforced learning and reciting of the Ten Commandments in their Protestant form, and the enforced union in chanting the Lord's Prayer and other religious chants. This masterly document, while it embarrassed the Board, turned the tide of public opinion, and, a few months later, there were elected as members of the School Committee, a Catholic priest and several Catholic laymen. One small hole on page 3 affects a couple of words [caused by the seal]. The letter is in excellent condition. Very uncommon.................400-600
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Our Most Prominent Pacific Coast Scientist
52. GEORGE DAVIDSON [1825-1911] pioneer west coast scientist. Probably no name is better known in the scientific world of the Pacific Coast than that of Professor George Davidson, of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. His active and untiring efforts, extending over a long period of time in advancing the interests of science on this coast, are well known; and the work he has accomplished in the service in which he holds high rank has earned for him a name and reputation which might be envied by any man. He determined the Eastern boundary, 120th meridian, of California in 1873. Lengthy ALS, 1908, WRITTEN IN THE 3RD PERSON. "Mr George Davidson expresses his thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Woodward for their kind invitation to meet the members of the National Academy of Sciences on the evening of Wednesday the twenty-second of April, and regrets his inability to be present. San Francisco Cal. March 22/08." VG...........Min. bid $25
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53. [FILM] Myrna Loy (1905-1993) American actress. Trained as a dancer, Loy devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. She was originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, but her career prospects improved greatly following her portrayal of Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934). Signed, inscribed 3x5 card. Fine..............25-35
54. [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.........50-75
55. 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...........50-75
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56. [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.........40-60
57. [AMERICANA] Ephraim Cooke (1756-1824) - document signed, Cambridge [Mass.], 1790, signed as tax collector. Nathan Fessenden pays his property tax. Nathan Fessenden (1749-1797). He was a member of Capt. Parker's Co. of Minute Men at the Battle of Lexington. Approx. 7-1/4 x 2-1/2 in. Small holes in middle.................75-100
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58. [From Mickey Spillane Papers] Bob Fellows (1903-1969) American film producer who was once a production partner with John Wayne and later with Mickey Spillane. TLS, May 2, 1956, 1p, approx. 8.5 x 11 in. To Mickey Spillane. This letter has good content. He talks in a negative way about Victor Saville (1896-1979) English film director, producer, and screenwriter who directed 39 films between 1927 and 1954. He also produced 36 films between 1923 and 1962. As an independent producer he had purchased the film rights to A. J. Cronin's novel The Citadel. He was persuaded to sell them to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in return for the chance to produce the film and another big-budget adaptation, Goodbye Mr Chips (1939). Both films starred Robert Donat and were a great success in the USA as well as in Britain, providing Saville with a passport to Hollywood. After the war Saville continued directing films for MGM but eventually returned to Britain. Saville acquired production rights for Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer mysteries and produced a few features, though Spillane thought he as interested in doing so only to acquire the money to produce The Silver Chalice. Mentioned also is Bert Allenberg, Frank Sinatra's agent. Sun-toned along bottom edge.....100-150 Min. Bid $50
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59. [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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60. (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
61. DIRECTORS & PRODUCERS] Charles Bennett (1899-1995) English playwright, screenwriter and director probably best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock. SIGNED 3x5 card. Joseph Anthony (1912-1993) American playwright, actor, and director. He made his film acting debut in the 1934 film Hat, Coat, and Glove and his theatrical acting debut in a 1935 production of Mary of Scotland. On five occasions he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Direction. Signed 3x5 card. "Pat" Weaver (1908- 2002) American radio advertising executive, who became president of NBC between 1953 and 1955. He has been credited with reshaping commercial broadcasting's format and philosophy as radio gave way to television as America's dominant home entertainment. His daughter is actress Sigourney Weaver. ANS dated 1990. Alan Badel (1923-1982) English stage actor who also appeared frequently in the cinema, radio and television and was noted for his richly textured voice which was once described as "the sound of tears". Signed 3x5 card. Carroll Shepplin - director. Signed 3x5 card. Marilyn Jacobs Tenser - American film producer. Signed card. Lawrence Turman (b.1926) American film producer. Signed card. Andrew J. Fenady - film producer. Brief ALS, 1988. Robert Thompson - producer The Paper Chase. Signed card. Roland Kibbee (1914-1984) American screenwriter and producer. Signed card. Alan Schneider (1917-1984) American theatre director. Signature. Plus signature of Allen A. Shaw, director. VG...............Min. Bid $50See above
62. [WALT KUHN] Maynard Walker (1896-1985) American art dealer in New York City for nearly 40 years who was among the first to show the works of leading American regionalist painters. In 1933, while working at the Ferargil Gallery in New York, Mr. Walker organized an exhibition for the Kansas City Art Institute that for the first time brought together the work of the regionalist painters Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and John Steuart Curry. After Mr. Walker opened his own gallery, at 108 East 57th Street, in 1935, these artists joined him and showed regularly there. The gallery was also among the first to show the work of George Grosz, the German painter and caricaturist, who moved to the United States in 1932. The gallery moved to 117 East 57th Street after the war. Offered here is a 1958 letter on which he has written 5 lines plus signature. This is a copy sent to Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the artist Walt Kuhn. Walker had written to Harold Korzenik saying that there is not enough art work by Kuhn to have an exhibition. Harold Korzenik, a Brooklyn civic leader and counsel to the United Knitted Outerwear Association, the National Textile Processors Guild, the Knitwear Employers Association and the Knitwear Manufacturers Council. Walker says "So soup - We can't afford to participate in such stuff......" Envelope is included. During the 1950s and early 60s Maynard Walker was handing the estate of Walt Kuhn. VG...........75-100....Min. Bid $25
63. [MUSIC] Celedonio Romero (1913-1996) was a guitarist, composer and poet, perhaps best known as the founder of The Romeros guitar quartet. Signed concert program. Also signed by Celin Romero (b. 1936) classical guitarist and member of the guitar quartet the Romeros. He is the eldest son of Celedonio Romero, who in 1957 left Franco's Spain for the United States with his family. Four pages; mounting residue on back page.............50-75
64. Burton Holmes (1870–1958) was an American traveler, photographer and filmmaker, who coined the term "travelogue". Travel stories, slide shows, and motion pictures were all in existence before Holmes began his career, as was the profession of travel lecturer; but Holmes was the first person to put all of these elements together into documentary travel lectures. Signed, inscribed soft cover A LIFE STORY, approx. 9 x 12 in. Published 1939. Good condition..................50-75
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65. [From Walt Kuhn Estate] Original 5-3/4 x 4-3/4 in. photograph of the Walt Kuhn painting YOUNG CLOWN, painted in ?................60-90
66. [From Walt Kuhn Estate] Offered here is a letter from Teresa Jabelmann to the noted artist Walt Kuhn, March 30, 1943, 2 pages. She was the wife of Otto Jabelmann (1892-1943). He was considered a mechanical genius, and the "hard-nosed ruler of the Union Pacific Railroad mechanical department. He led the team that developed The Big Boys locomotives. He died in Jan. 1943 while in England visiting England to investigate railway problems at the behest of W. Averell Harriman and concluded that British railways needed 1200 more locomotives. Apparently Otto was in poor health then and Teresa says in this letter ".....I did worry constantly as I knew Otto would never try and save himself in any way..." Envelope is included..............50-75
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67. [MUSIC] Ben Davies (1858-1943) Welsh tenor, who appeared in opera with the Carl Rosa Opera Company, in operetta and light opera, and on the concert and oratorio platform. He was spoken of as a successor of Edward Lloyd, as a leading British tenor, and retained something of his style and repertoire in concert performance. Clip Signature.............Min. Bid $10
68.[BASEBALL] Robin Roberts [1926-2010] Baseball Hall of Fame. Signed 1p. form, no date, 8.5 x 11. Sent by a Sports company in Wellesley, Mass. regarding the signing of baseballs. The players were given a number of choices to respond to - Roberts has checked "Send me a sample of the finished product, and he signs and writes in Florida address. Mail creases and 2 file holes at top..........35-45
Side note about Robin Roberts: Robin Roberts, from around 1946-1950, used to hang out in my family home in East Lansing, Michigan when I was a young kid. Believe it or not he didn't play baseball while attending Michigan State U. but did play basketball. We rented out rooms to MSU students back then.
69. [BASEBALL] Bob Lemon [1920-2000] Baseball Hall of Fame. Signed 1p. form, no date, 8.5 x 11. Sent by a Sports company in Wellesley, Mass. regarding the signing of baseballs. The players were given a number of choices to respond to - Lemon has checked "I am interested in your offer. Please send a ball for me sign so that I can see the finished product. " Mail creases............35-45
70. Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism. Stamped postmarked Boston July 14 [no yr] envelope addressed in her hand to Mrs. Mary E. Stearns Care of George L. Stearns, 129 Milk St., Boston, Mass. NOT SIGNED. Mary Elizabeth [Preston] married George Stearns in 1843. George L. Stearns (1809-1867) was an American industrialist and merchant in Medford, Massachusetts, as well as an abolitionist and a noted recruiter of black soldiers for the Union Army during the American Civil War. Approx. 5.5 x 3 in. VG and Scarce!................80-120
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71. US Senators - 10 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Leverett Saltonstall [MA]; A. Willis Robertson [VA]; Jennings Randolph [WV]; Claiborne Pell [RI]; John O. Pastore [RI]; Maurine Neuberger [OR]; Joseph O'Mahoney [WYO]; James E. Murray [MT]; Karl E. Mundt [SD]; Frank E. Moss [Ut]...........Min Bid $45
72. [FRANCE] Mystery lot of misc. autographs. Includes: Gerard Bauer (1888-1966); Jean-Jacques Weiss (1827-1891); Alfred de Courcy (1816-1888); plus 6 others. No doubt some SLEEPERS in here.................100-150
73. [NEW YORK] Amasa Dana (1792-1867) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Document Signed, NY Supreme Court, Tmpkins County, 3pp, signed as a judge. Approx. 8 x 12 in. VG....................50-75
74. [MICKEY SPILLANE] Arthur Florman (1917-2001) Cinematographer. He sends this letter to Mickey Spillane looking for a job after hearing of Mickey's upcomh TV film series. Says he was the camerman who shot the screen test for Mickey in Newburgh. He goes on to compliment Mickey. Dated 1955. 1p, 7 x 10-1/4 in. Fine..........40-60
75. [THEATRE] Anne Hartley Gilbert (1821-1904) professionally billed as Mrs. G. H. Gilbert was a British actress. Her first conspicuous appearance on stage was made as a dancer, in the Norwich theatrical circuit, England, in 1845. In 1846 she married George H. Gilbert (d. 1866), a performer in the theatre company of which she was a member. Together they filled many engagements in English theatres, moving to America in 1849. One of the most brilliant and decisive successes of her professional life was gained at the Broadway Theatre[2] where, on 5 August 1867, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence presented Thomas William Robertson's comedy Caste, for the first time in America. Signed 3x2 in. card, dated 1904. See scan for condition.................25-35
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76. Edmund Valpy Knox (1881-1971), was a poet and satirist who wrote under the pseudonym Evoe. He was editor of Punch 1932–1949, having been a regular contributor in verse and prose for many years. ALS, 1932, 1p. He sends proofs "dated as you ask. I gathered there was some objection to the Kipling ..." About 5.5 x 7 in. VG..............min. bid $10
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77. Leueen MacGrath (1914-1992) English actress and playwright and the second wife of George S. Kaufman,[1] from 1949 until their divorce in 1957. ALS, not dated, written to Franklyn Lenthall, 1p. Lenthall (1919-2001) was an actor, known for Kiss of Death (1947) and Carnegie Hall (1947). He was the Founder of the Boothbay [Maine] Theatre. Provenance: The Boothbay Theatre Museum Collection. VG..............40-60
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78. [GREAT BRITAIN] Henry Philpott (1801-1892) Anglican bishop and academic. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge on three occasions (1846, 1856, 1857). Philpott was awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) by royal letters patent in 1847 and was Bishop of Worcester from 1860 to 1890. He was Clerk of the Closet from 1865 to 1891 and Chairman of the Cambridge University Commission in 1878. ALS, 1863, 1p. laid to another sheet. VG................40-60
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79. (HOLLYWOOD/ENTERTAINERS) ABBE LANE (b.1932) Actress/Singer. SIGNED inscribed 8x10 photograph. BESS MEYESON(1924-2014) TV Personality, Miss America (1945). SIGNED 5x7 photograph and CARD. JOEY BISHOP (1918-2007) ANS with initials only. JB CRAWFORD KENT (1881-1953) British Actor who started in Silents in 1915. SIGNED inscribed album page. ALEC McCOWEN (1925) British Actor ALS (1980) 2pp. EVELYN LAYE (1900-1996) & FRANK LAWTON (1904-1969) British Actors. SIGNED postcard size (trimmed) portrait photograph. MARY TREEN (1907-1989) Actress, Dancer and Singer. ALS(1971). VIRGINIA FOX ZANUCK (1902-1982) Actress, daughter of William Fox of Fox Film Corp. and wife of Darryl F. Zanuck. She appeared in early silent films from 1915-1923). ALS (1939) 3pp (tape stains on pages signed “Virginia”. Joe Loss (1909-1990) British musician popular during the British dance band era, and was founder of the Joe Loss Orchestra., signature...............Min. Bid $50
80. Reginald John Campbell (1867-1956) British Congregationalist and Anglican divine who became a popular preacher while the minister at the City Temple and a leading exponent of 'The New Theology' movement of 1907. His last years were spent as a senior cleric in the Church of England. As his fame spread he was invited on a preaching tour of America and Canada. He left Southampton on 13 June 1903, arriving in New York on 20 June. He preached or spoke at venues in New York, Boston, and Chicago. At Ocean Grove he spoke to a crowd of 10,000. He also preached in Toronto and Montreal, visiting Niagara Falls on the way. CLIP SIGNATURE, about 2-3/4 x 1-1/4 in. VG.............50-75
81. [AMERICANA] Richard E. Pairo, Attorney Ar Law writes an 1885 letter to attorney J.W. Pickering in Boston. It seems that Margaret Mockler made a claim as the widow of Thomas Mockler, deceased, formerly a Laudsman on the USS Fernandina and collected $36.13 Prize money. Years later a man claiming to be Thomas Mockler makes a claim. 3-1/3 pages, 5-1/2 x 8-3/4 in. Pairo is asking for additional information to begin the process of determing who the imposter is, Margaret or the other man. VG..........Min. Bid $25Scan 1
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82. [WORLD WAR 11] 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
83. [MIXED MULTIPLE LOT] includes: (1) Lowell Thomas Jr. (1923-2016) American politician and film producer who collaborated with his father, the accomplished reporter and author Lowell Thomas, on several projects before becoming an Alaskan state senator in the early 1970s, and later the lieutenant governor of Alaska (1974–1978). In the 1980s, he owned and operated Talkeetna Air Taxi, an Alaska bush flying service. TLS, 1977, 1p. Sends autograph. (2) Whitelaw Reid (1837-1912) American politician and newspaper editor, as well as the author of Ohio in the War, a popular work of history. ALS, 1878, 1p. tipped at top to page with newspaper clippings. (3) On verso of page containing Whitelaw Reid is a ALS, 1872 signed by John Prentiss - Editor and Peace Delegate from New Hampshire. (4) John Piggott F.S.A. - wrote about art. ALS, 1877, 1p. Provenance: collection of Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889) Irish-born Victorian journalist who is best known for his editorship of The Art Journal and for his much-satirised personality. (4) Printed 1842 gov. doc. - re: Gen. Jackson at New Orleans, 1p. (5) Cecil D. Andrus (1931-2017) Governor of Idaho, for total of fourteen years. Also served as U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1977 to 1981 during the Carter Administration. Signed 1978 FDC. Slightly smudged. (6) Rev. Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton - signed Prelude page removed from book. (7) [WESTERN AMERICANA] H. Webster - Frontier veterinarian. Document signed, Leadville, Colorado, 1882. Vetinary Bill that dates to early Colorado statehood. Approx. 8-1/2 x 4-1/4 in.................Min. Bid $50
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84. [BOBBY FISCHER] Robert James Fischer (1943- 2008) American chess grandmaster and the eleventh World Chess Champion. Many consider him the greatest chess player of all time. Offered here is a 1963 chess magazine once owned by Fischer. The ink handwriting on the back page was written by Bobby 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 his library................200-300
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85. [PORTRAIT] antique engraved portrait of Thomas Say (1787-1834) the American entomologist, conchologist, and herpetologist. His definitive studies of insects and shells, numerous contributions to scientific journals, and scientific expeditions to Florida, Georgia, the Rocky Mountains, Mexico, and elsewhere made him an internationally known naturalist. Say has been called the father of American descriptive entomology and American conchology. He served as librarian for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, curator at the American Philosophical Society, and professor of natural history at the University of Pennsylvania. Image approx. 3-3/8 x 4-1/4 in. plus clean margins. Fine................Min. Bid $10
86. [FILM] Don "Red" Barry (1912-1980) American film and television actor. He was nicknamed "Red" after appearing as the first Red Ryder in the highly successful 1940 film Adventures of Red Ryder; the character was played in later films by "Wild Bill" Elliott and Allan Lane. Barry went on to bigger budget films following Red Ryder, but none reached his previous level of success. On July 17, 1980, Barry shot himself in the head at his home, shortly after police had left the residence after investigating a domestic dispute.[5] He was estranged at the time from his second wife, Barbara, with whom he had two daughters. Offered here is a Warner Bros. check dated 1984 paying DECEASED Donald Barry $191.29, endorsed on the verso by Barbara Barry. Therefore not actually signed by Red Barry. Fine.................Min. Bid $10
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87. [FRANCE] Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques. Baron de l' Aulne [1727-1781]. French administrator and economist. Intendant of Limoges (1761-74); minister of marine (1774); controller general of finance (1774-76); removed because of opposition to his Six Edicts. Member of the Physiocrats. As intendant, abolished the corvée, constructed roads and bridges, reformed interest rates, and distributed the burden of taxation more justly. As finance minister, introduced a rigid economy, abolished certain feudal privileges, and attempted to restore free trade in grain between the provinces. Best known works were Lettres sur la tolérance (1754) and Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses (1766). ORIGINAL ENGRAVED PORTRAIT of Turgot [1853], image approx. 5 x 4 in. plus margins. Engraved by W.T. Fry. UNSIGNED, of course. Very good condition..............Min. bid $10
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88. [PORTRAIT] circa 1840 engraved porait of Sir William Jones (1746-1794) Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indo-Aryan languages, which he coined as Indo-European. Jones is also credited for establishing the Asiatic Society of Bengal in the year 1784. Engraved after a painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. The image is about 5 x 4 in. plus margins. VG.................50-75 89. [TV] Colleen Dewhurst (1924-1991) Canadian actress known for playing Marilla Cuthbert in the various Anne of Green Gables productions. She was twice married to actor George C. Scott. SIGNED 1961 contract to act in The Play of The Week: "No Exit." She was paid $650. 4 pages; signed on pg. 1 and pg. 4. Unique.......50-75
90. David Stacton (1923-1968) American novelist, historian and poet. David Stacton's earliest published works were poems, often betraying the influence of T.S. Eliot, which were published in American little magazines. Faber Finds has republished seven of Stacton's novels. TLS, not dated, to Jon Silkin (1930-1997) the British poet. Stacton sends [typed in body of this letter] his latest poem, saying.......my only latest work is the below---which I doubt if you'd care for, but I do at the moment. The last line and signature are on the verso. VG..............50-75
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91. [THEATRE] GERALD SAVORY [1909-1996] Playwright. ALS, NY, 1939, 2pp, 8vo. To Roland Young. All his plans have clashed badly on the verge of a production in London. Seriously considering a return to Hollywood if you should hear of an assignment..........75-100
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92. Rutland [Vermont] court documents regarding the case of Daniel Lincoln vs Alanson Norton and Silas Stanley. Six documents dated around 1860. VG.................Min. Bid $25
93. [FILM] Martha Raye (1916-1994) American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television. DOCUMENT SIGNED, July 13, 1953, 6pp. Her contract with the William Morris Agency for 3 years. Signed on last page; also signed by her agent............50-7594. Mickey Spillane (1918-2006) American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself. Offered here is a photocopy of his The Night I Died - Mike Hammer short story published in the anthology Private Eyes - although story was written in 1953, was not published until 1998. Identified as a 1951 Unproduced Radio Drama. This photocopy is from the Spillane estate and it is not known if there are other copies. VG. From the Estate of Mickey Spillane..........100-150 Min. Bid $25
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95. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Grayson Louis Kirk (1903-1997) was president of Columbia University during the Columbia University protests of 1968. He was also a Professor of Government, advisor to the State Department, and instrumental in the formation of the United Nations. Signed photograph taken by Yousuf Karsh [original, with Karsh blindstamp on verso. 8 x 10 in. VG..............200-400
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96. [SPILLANE] typed 1951 page sent to Mickey Spillane about an incident in Lansing, Michigan where a 28 year old man was arrested on a charge of larceny. Apparently he bought a book but concealed two others under his coat and left without paying for them. According to detectives he admitted stealing the books. They were entitled MY GUN IS QUICK and VENGEANCE IS MINE, both by Spillane. 8.5 x 11 in. VG..............50-75
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97. 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
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Scan 498. [THEATRE] Louis Mann (1865-1931) American theatre actor and sometime director, who in his later life made a few appearances in motion pictures. He was married to actress and playwright Clara Lipman (1864–1952) was an American musical comedy actress and playwright whose career began in 1885 and continued on until her retirement in 1927. She was the wife of comedian Louis Mann and the sister of popular Lieder singer, Mattie Lipman MaruNeither is actually signed. Each about 3 x 1-3/4 in. Fine..................25-25
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99. [ART] Walter Kuhn (1877-1949) American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism.TLS, Nov. 7, 1936, 1p, signed in ink by Walt Kuhn. Kuhn had the habit of keeping copies of letters sent to others, and actually signing them. This letter was his retained copy to the water dept. in Kennebunk & Wells, Maine, which also covered Ogunquit back then. Kuhn says that they didn't use their Maine cottage during the past season, water pipes not connected, therefore he did not pay a water bill. A day later the water dept. sends Kuhn a letters basically saying that if he had just sent them a letter before the billing to let them know he would not have gotten a bill. They cancelled the charge for 1935. Although this letter seems rather routine you should know that Walt Kuhn throughout his life was often a difficult person with others. By the 1940s, Kuhn’s behavior began to take on unsound characteristics. He became increasingly irascible and distant from old friends. He also became frustrated by the lack of attention his own work was receiving and was particularly strident about the Museum of Modern Art's support of abstraction and neglect of American art in the postwar period. In 1948, he was institutionalized, and on July 13, 1949, he died suddenly from a perforated ulcer. VG.......................200-300
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100. Raja Rammohan Roy (1772-1833) The Maker of Modern India. Considered to be the Father of Indian Renaissance, this multifaceted social, religious and educational reformer is renowned for his pioneering role in opposing practices like Sati, child marriage and social divisions and for advocating education. Also known as Ram Mohan Roy. It was he who first introduced the word "Hinduism" into the English language in 1816. Offered here is an ALS, 1832, 1p. To "My Dear Lord." He is sending something as promised. VG. VERY RARE!............3000-4000
101. Bill Asher (1921-2012) American television and film producer, film director, and screenwriter. He 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. As a result of his early success, Asher was considered an "early wunderkind of TV-land," and was hyperbolically credited in one magazine article with "inventing" the sitcom. In 1964, he began to direct episodes of Bewitched, which starred his then-wife Elizabeth Montgomery. Asher and Montgomery befriended President John F. Kennedy, and, together with Frank Sinatra, planned Kennedy's 1961 inaugural ceremony. Offered here are 4 items that Asher sent to Peter Lawford, the actor. (1) Typed 1963 memo re: PASSIONATE SEASON - David Picker is reading the script. David Picker (1931-2019) was an American motion picture executive and producer, working in the film industry for more than forty years. (2) Typed 1963 memo saying David Picker re: FOUR DAYS - should make the picture with or without Patty Duke. Asher would like to do it in the Great Lakes region for under $200,000. (3) typed 1963 memo re: a comedy like Arsentic and Old Lace; its a little stiff. (4) Typed 1963 memo, 1-1/2 pp. to Lawford giving brief comments about certain film projects, mentioning Rod Serling, Patty Duke, Haley Mills, Cary Grant, Ray Stark, & Tony Curtis. All VG................100-150.................Min. Bid $25
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Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism. Walt Kuhn is best remembered today for his key role in planning the Armory Show. Ironically, a man who was in the forefront of the modern movement and was seen as an advocate of adventurous new art in 1913 came to be labelled, because of his on-going commitment to representation, a conservative artist by future generations of art historians. Nevertheless, he holds a place in American art history as a skilled cartoonist, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor and painter. Although he destroyed many of his early paintings, his works that remain today are powerful and are a part of most major American art collections. His portraits of circus and vaudeville entertainers are some of the most memorable, confidently painted works of twentieth-century American art. They are reminiscent of commedia dell'arte actor portraits done by the French masters centuries earlier. The Tragic Comedians (1916) in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and The White Clown (1929) in the collection of the National Gallery of Art are intense, arresting images and are among his most respected paintings. Offered here is Walt Kuhn's PLAN TO REVITALIZE THE CLOWN AND FUN PROBLEM OF THE CIRCUS. This is his retained copy that was made for John Ringling North. Kuhn sent 2 letters to North in 1941. 2 pages, approx. 8.5 x 11 in. VG. RARE!.................300-400
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103. [MULTIPLE MIXED LOT] includes: (1) National Tea Co. 1940 stock certificate. (2) Martin Armstrong (1882-1974) English writer and poet/ ALS, 1925, 2.5 pp. (3) Ted Noose (1930-2010) actor. Unsigned Warner Bros. paycheck. (4) Colleen Walker (1956-2012) American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour. (5) A 1950 telegram from Congressman Philip J. Philbin of Mass. (6) Vintage 1906 stereopti can card of the San Francisco Earthquake. (7) Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale (1883 – 1967) English actress, lecturer, writer, and suffragist. Card signed in pencil 1921. (8) Small antique engraving of William 4th. (9) Emerson Hough (1857-1923) American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels. Signed card 1916. (10) Rabbi Louis I. Engelson - TLS 1956 to Rabbi Fred Solomon. (11) Brenda Kuhn (1911-1993) the only child of the famous American artist, Walt Kuhn. Signed 1965 bank check. (12) The White House envelope postmarked 1925. Ink signature on verso reads G. Coolidge [probably a secretarial signature].......Min. Bid $35
104. Sam Bartlett (1752-1821) American patriot, and a noted silversmith from Concord, Mass. He was a founder of the Massachusetts Bible Society, a member of the Cambridge Humane Society, and also from 1795-1820 the elected Register of Deeds for Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Deafened by cannon fire during the Boston massacre, he gave up his acedemic studies and became a smith. He worked from circa 1775 to 1795 as a silversmith in Concord Mass.. Although he worked in the town for two decades, Bartlett's most active period in Concord seems to have been between 1785 and 1795. With the aid of journeyman silversmith Joseph Lasinby Brown, of Concord, Bartlett executed communion silver commissions for three towns in Middlesex County, and produced domestic silver for resale and wholesale markets. At the end of the period, he was elected register of deeds for Middlesex County and moved to Cambridge, retiring from the role of silversmith. Bartlett marked 12 pieces of communion silver, including three flagons, one tankard and eight cups. About 25 pieces of Bartlett's domestic hollowware are known, including canns, porringers, creampots, and a unique miniature teapot. In addition, Bartlett marked teaspoons, tablespoons, ladles, and shoe buckles. Offered here is a 1816 Charlestown, Mass. deed, estate of John Trumbull of Newton. Signed on front by John Trumbull & Nancy Trumbull. Sam Bartlett has signed on the back as Register of Deeds, Middlesex County, Mass. Very good condition although just beginning to separate at some folds...............200-300
American Physicist Louis W. McKeehan105. [SCIENCE - WAR] The following are from the papers of the American physicist 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 are several pieces. Includes: 1940 letter to his wife Grace [scan 1]; a 1932 Naval Reserve Fitness document signed by McKeehan [scan 2]; an interesting 1940 document pencil signed by McKeehan [scan 3]; plus 5 other pieces, all showing below...........200-300
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106. [MASSACHUSETTS] group of 3 letters written by S.B. Woodward, all dated 1845. Written to Sheldon Moore, from the State Lunatic Hospital in Worcester, Mass. Total of 4 pages. Each letter has an address leaf postmarked. We have not read or researched these letters. VG.............80-120
107. [NEW HAMPSHIRE] Original PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY CLASS DAY 1907 program bound in suede, approx. 5 x 6-1/4 in. Five printed pages in side includes class officers and senior class roll. VG. Kind of rare piece of ephemera.............50-75
108. [SCIENCE] Louis Agricola Bauer (1865-1932) American geophysicist, astronomer and magnetician. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1888, and he immediately started work for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. During 1895-1896, he was instructor in mathematical physics at the University of Chicago, after which he worked in various positions at different locations. The most important of these was as the first director of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, which was established in 1904. In this position, he set up and carried out a large-scale program of two and a half decades to map the Earth's magnetic field on land and at sea in an attempt to provide accurate, up-to-date information about this important feature. Offered here is a 1896 bank check made out to Bauer and endorsed on the serso by him. The check is signed by R.S. Woodward. Robert Simpson Woodward (1849- 924) was an American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1896. In 1898-1900 he was president of the American Mathematical Society, and in 1900 he became President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 1915 he was appointed to the Naval Consulting Board. VG................100-150
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109. [FRANCE] multiple lot of French autographs: [1] Lahaye, Louis-Marie de. Viscount de Cormenin [1788-1868] French lawyer and political writer. Member of Chamber of Deputies (1828-46, 1848); opposed to Louis-Philippe; appointed councilor of state (after 1848). Author of Droit administratif (1821), Les Entretiens de village (1846), etc. ALS, no date, 1p, 5 x 7.5 in. [2] Berthelot, Philippe-Joseph-Louis [1866-1934]. French diplomat. Son of Marcelin Berthelot. Entered diplomatic service (1889); adviser to Briand and active in Allied liaison during World War I; secretary general of ministry of foreign affairs (1920-21, 1925-32). TLS, 1925, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4 in. To the poet Aime Giron. [3] GUSTAV SIMON - Paris dramatist. ALS, 1911, 2pp. Blue pencil word underlined on front. [4] LEON RIOTOR - FR. AUTHOR. ALS, 1928, 1p. re: about adapting novel for film. [5] Pierre Girault de Nolhac (1859-1936) French historian, art historian and poet. ALS, no yr., 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4". Fine. [6] Séverin Faust (1872-1945), better known by his pseudonym Camille Mauclair, was a French poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, and art critic. ALS written on back of picture postcard, not postmarked VG [7] Alfred-Henri-Marie Cardinal Baudrillart (1859-1942), French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris from 1907 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1935. ALS, 1920, 2pp, 4 x 5-1/4 in. [8] Pierre François Hercule de Serre (1776-1824) Minister of Justice [1818-21]. ALS, Paris, no date, 1p. 4-1/4 x 7 in. VG. [9] Paul Ferrier (1843-1928) French dramatist. He had already produced several comedies when in 1873 he secured real success with two short pieces, Chez l'avocat and Les Incendies de Massoulard. Others of his numerous plays are Les Compensations (1876); L'Art de tramper les femmes (1890), with M. Najac. One of Ferrier's biggest successes was the production with Fabrice Carré of Josephine vendue par ses sÏurs (1886), an opera bouffée with music by Victor Roger. His opera libretti include La Marocaine (1879), music of Jacques Offenbach; Le Chevalier d'Harmental (1896) after the play of Alexandre Dumas, père, for the music of A Messager; La Fille de Tabarin (1901), with Victorien Sardou, music of Gabriel Pierné. ALS, no date, 1p, 5-1/4 x 8-1/4. Only minor faults. [10] Fortuné du Boisgobey (1821-1891) French novelist. His novels deal with crime, the police, and Parisian life. They had a high circulation, and the greater part of them have been translated into English. ALS, 1880, 1p. Moderate foxing throughout.......200-300
110. [PIONEER KENTUCKY] Col. Joseph Barnett (1730 or 31 - 1795) an early pioneer in Kentucky who built Barnett's Station, one of the earliest forts erected near Severns Valley, Kentucky. He was also one of the founders and preacher of Regular Baptist Church of Severns Valley [Elizabethtown, KY], the oldest Baptist church in Kentucky. Barnett's Station was established by brothers Joseph and Alexander Barnett who came from Virginia to Kentucky in early 1780s. Settlement was frequently raided by Indians. During an attack in April 1790, two children were killed and Hanna Barnett, the ten-year-old daughter of Joseph, was carried off and held captive for six months. He was also one of the first judges in Elizabethtown. He, with his brother Robert, was at Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War. His brother Robert was killed there. When the Revolutionary War came on some twenty years later he entered the northern wing of the army. He was in the Battle of Yorktown (October, 1781) and there met up with his brother Alexander. After some discussion they made arrangements to come to Kentucky. The following year they met at the fort where Elizabethtown now stands. To quote from Haycraft’s History "Honorable Judge Joseph Barnett . . . lived near Hartford, and traveled upwards of seventy‑five miles to sit in court. He did indeed possess a large landed estate ‑-27,934 acres at the time of his death. He was a dealer in lands on a large scale, Jefferson County (then Virginia) entries alone totaling 155,370 acres, and the early records of Nelson and Hardin Counties are full of land transactions to which he was a party. Offered here is a signed document dated 1791. Barnett is transferring 400 acres od land in Kentucky. Signed by Joseph Barnett, Thomas Allen, Robert Allen, and Anne Allen. Approx. 7-3/4 x 12-1/2 in. There are numerous condition faults and repairs using very thin, strong acid-free tissue coated with acid-free adhesive which is non-yellowing. Some text loss along right side...............600-800
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111. [MUSIC] Brian Farnon (1911-2010) Canadian born actor, known for The Spike Jones Show (1957). Jazz saxophonist, arranger and composer. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.........Min. Bid $10
112. [TV] Judith Chapman (b. 1951) American soap opera actress, best known for roles as Natalie Bannon Hughes in As the World Turns, Charlotte Greer on Ryan's Hope, Ginny Blake Webber on General Hospital, Sandra Montaigne on One Life to Live, Anjelica Deveraux Curtis on Days of our Lives, and as Gloria Abbott Bardwell on The Young and the Restless. Signed, inscribed 8x10 p[hoto. Several faults to photo surface................Min. Bid $10See above
113. [MUSIC] The Aguilars - Berkeley Musical Association flyer signed by 4 members, 1930. Approx. 5 x 11 in. VG..............Min. Bid $10
114. Alfred Robert Tucker (1849–1914) Anglican Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa (covering the contemporary countries of Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania), from 1890 to 1899, and Bishop of Uganda from 1899 to 1908. Following in the footsteps of his family, he became an artist, exhibiting at the Royal Academy. In 1913, a year before Bishop Tucker's death, Uganda's first theological college was formed. On his death, it was named Bishop Tucker Theological College. In 1997, it became Uganda Christian University. In 2004, the University's theology faculty was named "The Bishop Tucker School of Divinity and Theology." CLIP SIGNATURE, about 4 x 3/4 in. VG...............40-60
115. Quida [1839-1908] British novelist. Clip signature. Ink is light...........Min. Bid $8
116. [FILM] Horst Buchholz (1933-2003) German actor, remembered for The Magnificent Seven, in which he played the role of Chico,[1] and One, Two, Three and Nine Hours to Rama. He appeared in over sixty films during his acting career from 1952 to 2002. Signed 4x6 postcard picture. VG............35-45
117. [FILM] Jan Sterling (1921-2004) American actress. Most active in films during the 1950s, Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the same performance. Her career declined during the 1960s, however she continued to play occasional roles for television and theatre. Bold Signature ON VINTAGE ALBUM PAGE [1945]............25-35
118. [THEATRE] Tom Ewell (1909-1994) American actor. TLS, 1957, to Theatre Guild approving cast of a show............40-60
119. [THEATRE] Sir Charles Wyndham (1837-1919) Early in 1862 he made his first professional appearance in London, performing with Ellen Terry. Later in the year he went to America and since further stage work was not forthcoming, he returned to medicine. There was a shortage of surgeons in the United States, which was in the throes of the Civil War, and he volunteered to become brigade surgeon in the Union army. He served at the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. On one occasion he appeared in New York City with John Wilkes Booth. Offered is is a signed vintage photograph, approx. 3-1/4 x 5-1/4 in. On otherside of postcard. A few chips in the surface, one showing to the right of his head. That aside this is a nice item.................60-80
120. [MUSIC] Sir Walter Parratt KCVO (1841-1924) English organist and composer. From 1882 he the post of organist of His Majesty's Chapel Royal, Windsor. He became Heather Professor of Music at Oxford University in 1908, taking over from Hubert Parry. He had previously been Organist and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He became one of the foremost organ teachers of his day, with many important posts in Britain being filled by his students. He was knighted in 1892. In 1893 he was appointed Master of the Queen's Musick to Queen Victoria, and afterward held the same office under Kings Edward VII and George V. Signature with sentiment. Mounted............40-60
121. Gertrude Berg (1899-1966) was an American actress, screenwriter and producer. A pioneer of classic radio, she was one of the first women to create, write, produce and star in a long-running hit when she premiered her serial comedy-drama The Rise of the Goldbergs (1929), later known as The Goldbergs. Her career achievements included winning a Tony Award and an Emmy Award, both for Best Lead Actress. Signed & inscribed 3-3/4 x 5-1/2 in. photo. VG.............40-60
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122. [MUSIC] Theo Loevendier (1930 - ) Dutch composer and clarinet player. Loevendie studied composition and clarinet at the Conservatoire of Amsterdam. Initially he concentrated on jazz music. As off 1968 he also wrote concert music, among which operas, concertos and chamber music. Several of his compositions won prizes. Starting 1970 Loevendie taught composition at several Dutch conservatoires. Among his many students were Svitlana Azarova, Matthias Kadar, Vanessa Lann, Peter van Onna, Robin de Raaff, Victor Varela, Sinta Wullur and Evrim Demirel. As a performer, he participated in the ensembles Consort, Brevisand the Theo Loevendie Quintet. In 2004, he founded a new group: The "Ziggurat Ensemble" - as he puts it himself: his dream-ensemble. It consists of a mix of western and non-western instruments: Er-hu, Viola da Gamba, Qanun, Voice, Duduk, Bass, Pan Pipes and Percussion. Loevendie is writing practically all the music for this young and enthusiastic team and in the relatively short time of its existence has celebrated many successes with it. AMQS from his work "Gassir, the Hero", approx. 9-1/4 x 4-1/2". Two folds o/w VG. Written on both sides............50-75
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123. William Robert Ware (1832-1915) American architect, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts into a family of the Unitarian clergy. He received his professional education at Milton Academy, Harvard College and Harvard's Lawrence Scientific School. He is credited with designing the High Street Church in Brookline, Massachusetts while at the first firm he partnered, Philbrick and Ware, and Harvard's Memorial and Weld Halls, the Episcopal Divinity School campus at Harvard University, and the Ether Monument at the Boston Public Garden while at the second firm he partnered, Ware and Van Brunt. In 1865, Ware became the first professor of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1881 he moved to New York City and founded the School of Architecture at Columbia University, which began as the Architecture Department in the Columbia School of Mines. He retired in 1903. Clip Signature........20-30
124. [MUSIC] James Conlon (b. 1950) American conductor. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.......25-35
125. [TV] Jay North (b. 1951) American actor best known for Dennis The Menace. Signed 8x10 photo. Fine........25-35
126. William Arthur Purtell (1897-1978) was an American businessman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Connecticut in the United States Senate in 1952 and from 1953 to 1959. His family was poor, his father and mother being tobacco workers. He dropped out of school at 15 and worked as a janitor, water boy, and car checker for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. During World War I, he served with the radio section of the U.S. Army Expeditionary Force in France, being discharged as a corporal in 1919. After working as a salesman from ten years, Purtell co-founded the Holo-Krome Screw Corporation of West Hartford in 1929 and served as its president, treasurer, and general manager until 1952. He was also director of the Hartford Red Cross and one of the executive directors of the Connecticut State Prison. Signed 1931 cover honoring Wethersfield, Ct............Min. Bid $10
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127. President George W. Bush - unsigned Jan. 20, 2001 Inauguration cover plus Bush For President bumper sticker. Both are VG.................Min. Bid $10
See above128. [ART] Judith Zilczer - American art historian and former museum curator. She is known for her work with artists such as Horace Pippin, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Willem de Kooning, and Richard Lindner. Zilczer was interested in the connections between music and art, which she described as "the mystical strain of artistic synesthesia." She curated an exhibit titled "Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900". Zilczer served at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) in various capacities from 1974-2003. From 1992 to 2003, she was Curator of Paintings. Her papers are held by the Smithsonian Institution Archives. TLS, Hirschhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Oct.. 4, 1983, 1p. To Brenda Kuhn, daughter of the artist Walt Kuhn. She thanks Brenda for granting her permission to study the restricted Walt Kuhn Papers in the Archives of American Art. Fine............50-75
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129. [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
130. [ENGLISH THEATRE] Robert E. Chatterley - originally a surgical instrument maker in Cannon Street filled subsequently a post in connection with Drury Lane Theatre. He was the father of William Simmonds Chatterley (1787-1822) the actor who appeared at Drury Lane Theatre. Robert was also an actor who fl. 1792-1818. Document Signed 1817 - his salery for 1816-17. Approx. 7-1/4 x 2-3/4 in. Laid to stiff paper................50-75
131. Anthony Wilson Thorold (1825-1895) Anglican Bishop of Winchester in the Victorian era. The son of a Church of England priest, he also served as Bishop of Rochester. It was in that role that he travelled throughout North America and met with leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While he wrote a number of devotional books, he is best remembered for having recruited Isabella Gilmore to revive the female diaconate in the Anglican Communion. CLIP SIGNATURE, about 3-1/2 x 1-3/4 in. VG..............35-45
132. [ART] Bettina Heinen-Ayech (1937-2020) was a German painter. She became known for her colorful landscape views of Algeria. Between 1955 and 2017 she had many exhibitions worldwide and won several prizes. Original ink drawing, signed, dated 1964, approx. 8x6 in. VG..............200-300
133. [SCIENCE] George Ferdinand Becker (1847-1919) American geologist. His most important work was in connection with the origin and mode of occurrence of ore deposits, especially those of the western United States. He was a leader in mining geology and geophysics, and for many years was the chief of the Division of Chemical and Physical Research in the United States Geological Survey. The investigations under his direction led to the establishment of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. In 1896 he examined the gold mines of South Africa and at the time of the Spanish-American War was detailed to serve as geologist on the staff of General Bell with the army in the Philippine Islands. He died on 20 April 1919 in Washington, D.C. ALS, 1908, written in the 3rd person, accepting invitation. Not mentioned but this was sent to Robert S. Woodward in regards to invitation to meet members of the National Academy of Sciences. Fine..........60-80
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134. [EPHEMERA] 1896 one page letter written from Bangor, Maine on illustrated letterhead. 8-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. VG.........Min. Bid $9
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135. [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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136. [MUSIC] Burrill Phillips (1907-1988) American composer, teacher, and pianist. AMQS from "Scena da Camera" for Violin and Cello, 8-1/4 x 2-3/4". Wrinkled.....40-60
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137. [OPERA] Jarmila Novotna (1907-1994) Czech Opera . ALS, 1981...........35-45138. [FRANCE] Joseph Auguste Emile Vaudremer (1829-1914) French architect. He won the prix de Rome and designed several public buildings in France, particularly in Paris. He designed several typical 19th century buildings in Paris : lycées (including the Lycée Buffon), churches (including Notre-Dame-d'Auteuil, and Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge) and the Prison de la Santé. In 1867 he was elected to the seventh seat of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, architecture section, succeeding Alphonse de Gisors. ALS, 1882, 2pp, 4 x 5-1/4 in. VG..........80-120
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Page 2139. [FRANCE] Pierre Guillaume Frédéric Le Play (1806-1882) French engineer, sociologist and economist. One page manuscript signed, dated 1835, approx. 5-1/4 x 8-1/8 in. VG..................75-100
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140. [POSTAL HISTORY] Henry Wilson (1812-1875) was the 18th vice president of the United States (1873–75) and a senator from Massachusetts (1855–73). Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican, and a strong opponent of slavery. Hand addressed envelope, 5-1/4 x 3 in. Torn along top edge....................50-75
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141. [US SENATORS] TLSs by US senators: Wm. Spong, Harry F. Byrd Sr., Clifford Case, Charlie Goodell, John Sherman Cooper, Thomas Dood, Russell Long, 2 by John Sparkman, and Charles Percy. These date 1969-1972............50-75
142. STELLA ADLER (1902-1989) Actress, Director, Teacher. She opened the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting. Among those to study at the conservatory were Marlon BRANDO Robert De NERO, Warren BEATTY, and Candice BERGEN, Adler is viewed as one of the foremost influences on contemporary acting. TLS dtd 5/12/89 signed "Stella"................40-60
143. MUSIC] Julius Rudel (b. 1921) American opera and orchestra conductor. Signed, inscribed 4x5 photo. VG...........25-35
144. [MUSIC] Salvatore Baccaloni (1900-1969) Italian operatic bass, often regarded as the greatest buffo artist of the 20th century. Signed card............Min. Bid $10
145. [FILM] Warren Berlinger (1937-2020) American character actor, with Broadway runs, movie and television credits, and much work in commercials. His signed contract for the film "BILLIE", starring Patty Duke. Also signed by Milt Ebbins who was Peter Lawford's business manager. Includes 3 additional Rider pages, each signed with the initials of Berlinger and Ebbins. VG..........100-150
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146. [FILM] Joan Fontaine (1917-2013) British-American actress who is best known for her starring roles in Hollywood films during the "Golden Age". Signed portrait print, 8 x 10.5 in. VG..............50-75
147. [MICKEY SPILLANE] 1954 retained copy of Spillane's 1955, 2 page letter to someone named Robert Holdorf, in Hollywood, California. Mickey gives his ideas about making a movie [title not mentioned]. Basically Mickey says if he [Spillane] controls everything [he writes it; directs it; cast it; select everything etc. let's talk about it. Also includes a TLS, 1955, 1p. from Del Handel.......80-120
148. [MICKEY SPILLANE] Robert Fellows (1903-1969) American film producer who was a production partner with John Wayne and later with Mickey Spillane. Fellows produced for RKO were Tall in the Saddle and Back to Bataan starring John Wayne. 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). One of the Wayne-Fellows films was Ring of Fear, featuring Mickey Spillane. Though the film was credited to frequent Wayne collaborator James Edward Grant, Wayne and Fellows felt the screenplay had problems and asked Spillane to rewrite it, which he did over a weekend. When Spillane, who appeared in the film as himself, refused credit for the screenplay, Wayne presented him with a Jaguar. Fellows produced a film version of Spillane's The Girl Hunters in England in 1963 with Spillane portraying his own creation, Mike Hammer. Fellows had acquired the rights to all of Spillane's work and had planned to film The Snake in 1963, but the project was never produced. Offered here is a signed [by Robert Fellows] 11 page Agreement, dated 1951. Employs Spillane to perform as HIMSELF in the film SHOW OF VIOLENCE - MAN KILLER. About 8-1/2 x 14 in. Scarce!................300-400...............Min. Bid $100
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149. [MICKEY SPILLANE] Mickey Spillane (1918- 2006) American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself. Signed Biographical document, dated May 26, 1950, 5 pages. Mickey answers many questions honestly for Dutton Publishing company. Approx. 8.5 x 11 in. VG.................2000-3000
150. [NAVAL] James Otto Richardson (1878-1974) Admiral in the United States Navy who served from 1902 to 1947. Orders document signed, 1920, for Lieut. Comdr. Ellsworth Davis. Richardson has signed in ink. He was head of the US Naval Academy in 1920. Approx. 7-3/4 x 10-1/2 in. Used condition. As Commander in Chief, United States Fleet (CinCUS), Richardson protested against the redeployment of the Pacific portion of the fleet forward to Pearl Harbor, believing that a forward defense was neither practical nor useful, and that the Pacific Fleet would be the logical first target in the event of war with Japan, vulnerable to air and torpedo attacks. He was subsequently relieved of command in February 1941. His concerns were to be proved justified in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ten months later. VG.............300-400....................Min. Bid $100
151. [ENTERAINMENT] a 1961 contract signed by Peter Lawford [the actor] of Chrislaw Productions Inc. and Billy Asher [employee]. 11 pages, signed at conclusion by Lawford and Asher. You already know who Peter Lawford is - Bill 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. Included here is a carbon copy of another letter plus a copy of a contract with William Asher. VG..................300-400..........Min. Bid $100
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153 152. [MICKEY SPILLANE] Mickey Spillane (1918- 2006) American crime novelist, whose stories often feature his signature detective character, Mike Hammer. More than 225 million copies of his books have sold internationally. Spillane was also an occasional actor, once even playing Hammer himself. Offered here are 3 letters written to Mickey Spillane. (1) Stan Purdy (1926-2010) at age 16 he was admitted into the American Federation of Musicians. While in college he founded the "Stan Purdy Orchestra" and toured the East Coast collaborating with musicians like Duke Ellington, Bucky Pizzarelli, Lou Mecca, and Maynard Ferguson. In Hollywood, he composed and conducted the music for "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer," an album based on Spillane's mystery book characters. The music consisted of an orchestral suite with narration done by Spillane. Released through John Wayne's Batjac Productions, the music was also scored for Ring of Fear, starring Spillane, Pat O'Brian, and the Clyde Beatty Circus. In New York, Stan conducted and arranged studio orchestras for many well-known jazz and dance-band musicians as well as string players from the New York Philharmonic. ALS, 1954, 1p. 8.5 x 11 in. Signed Stan. Unable to reach Mickey by phone to discuss subjects of importance. Will keep trying. (2) Stan Purdy (1926-2010) long 2 page typed memo dated same day as letter. Subject: Liv Lowry. This really important content about the contract regarding Purdy & the Mike hammer album. Signed Stan. (3) Richard (Dick) Irving (1917-1990) was the primary producer of the MIKE HAMMER show on TV. His company was Revue Productions, which filmed many early television series on the lot (including early episodes of Leave It To Beaver). TLS, 1955, signed Dick.1p. All are very good condition.............200-300Scan 1Scan 2Scan 3Scan 4
. [WASHINGTON] Early 19th century engraving of George Washington by W. Humphreys from a picture by Gilbert Stewart, printed at London by William Mackenzie. Fine, measures x 4 in. plus margins...............25-35 156. Camille Darville [1863-?] Dutch actress, singer. Signed card........15-20
154. [ENGLAND] Henry Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden GCB PC (1814-1892) British Liberal politician. He served as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1872 to 1884. ALS, 1889, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. VG......40-60
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155. [SCIENCE] James McKeen Cattell (1860-1944) American psychologist, was the first professor of psychology in the United States, teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, and long-time editor and publisher of scientific journals and publications, most notably the journal Science. He also served on the board of trustees for Science Service, now known as Society for Science & the Public (or SSP), from 1921–1944. The New York Times hailed him as "the dean of American science." Yet Cattell may be best remembered for his uncompromising opposition to American involvement in World War I. His public opposition to the draft led to his dismissal from his position at Columbia University, a move that later led many American universities to establish tenure as a means of protecting unpopular beliefs. Offered here is a ALS, written in the 3rd person to Robert S. Woodward (1849-1924) American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. Diller and his wife accept invitation from Woodward to meet the members of the National Academy of Sciences. All of the handwriting is by Cattell. Approx. 3-3/4 x 6 in. Very good. Provenance: Estate of Robert S. Woodward' s summer home in New Hampshire...............Min. Bid $50
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157. [OPERA] Elizabeth Harwood (1938-1990) English lyric soprano. She enjoyed an operatic career lasting for over two decades and worked with such conductors as Colin Davis and Herbert von Karajan. She was one of the few English singers of her generation to be invited to sing in productions at the Salzburg Festival and La Scala, Milan, as well as at the Metropolitan Opera. ANS, with envelope postmarked 1981. 7x9 in. Mail folds............20-30
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158. [MUSIC] George Crumb (b. 1929) American composer of avant-garde music. Signed 5-1/2 x 3-1/4 in. slip plus envelope addressed in his hand, signed in the return address portion. Two signed pieces. VG..........30-40
See above159. [MAINE] John Baldacci (b. 1955) the 73rd Governor of Maine from 2003 to 2011. A Democrat, he also served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003. TLS, 1997, 1 full page, about cutting Medicare................20-30
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160. [ENTERTAINMENT LOT] includes: David Niven (1910-1983) signed card; Red Skelton (1913-1997) small photo signed on verso; Caesar Romero (1907-1994) signed 5x7 photo; Leon Belasco (1902-1988) autograph note signed 1982; Belita (1923-2005) signed & inscribed card; Don Beddoe(1903-1991) ANS; Lina Basquette (1907-1994) 4x5 photo signed on verso; Whitt Bissell (1909-1996) signed & inscribed card; Joyce Matthews (1919-1999) signed, inscribed stationary...........80-120
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161. [FOOTBALL] Ara Parseghian (1923-2017) American collegiate football coach. He served as head coach for three teams, most notably the University of Notre Dame team from 1964-1974. During his 11 seasons as head coach of the Fighting Irish (known popularly as "the Era of Ara"), he compiled a 95-17-4 record, for a .836 winning percentage, making him the most successful Notre Dame coach of the modern era. Signed, inscribed 8x10 photo. VG.............Min. Bid $20
162. [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. VG.....100-150
163. [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 $35
164. [FRANCE] Adolphe Perraud (1828-1906) French Cardinal and academician. His calling card as Le Cardinal Perraud on which he pens 13 lines on both sides. Accompanied by original envelope addressed to Edmond de Morsier. About reunion; mentions Leon XIII. Don't think he signed. VG.........50-75
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165. Julian Hawthorne [1846-1934] Am. writer, son of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Clip Signature..........20-30
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166. Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889) was an Irish-born Victorian journalist who is best known for his editorship of The Art Journal and for his much-satirised personality. ALS, dated 9 May, no year, 1p, 5-1/4 x 7-3/4. Very light foxing..........50-75
ARCHIVE LETTERS TO LOUIS ALIBERT
167. [FRANCE] Félicien Champsaur (1858-1934) French novelist and journalist. His first novel was the roman à clef Dinah Samuel (1882), said to present portraits of poet Arthur Rimbaud and actress Sarah Bernhardt. He went on to publish many novels, collections of articles, and other works, including Miss America (1885), Entrée de clowns (1886), Parisiennes (1887), Les Bohémiens (1887), Lulu (1888), L'Amant des danseuses (1888), La Gomme (1889), and Poupée Japonaise (1912), Nora, la guenon devenue femme (1929), a parody loosely based on the career of American dancer Josephine Baker. He died in Paris. ALS, 1909, WRITTEN ON POSTCARD. SPEAKS OF L'ABATTUIR. * ALSO letters to Alibert from Jean Royere, the poet [ALS 1911]; Julia Allard [1884-1940]; Eugene Hollande; and Leon Hennique. Very good condition. Certainly worthy of research...........100-150
168. [ENGLAND] George Willmer - collector of the new imposition of 3d. in the pound of goods and merchandise imported or exported by foreign merchants, pays a sum collected since Michaelmas 1617. Dated July 25, 1618. On vellum, approx. 13 x 1-5/8 in. VG...............50-75
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169. [ART] Marion L. Volk (1859-1925) American artist who was married to the artist Douglas Volk. In 1881 Volk married the artist Marion Larrabee (1859–1925). She became the first instructor at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts. By the turn of the century, Marion Larrabee Volk had begun using traditional area looms to weave textiles and rugs. Rather than cotton, she became known for handwoven woolen work. Her designs were based on motifs from Native American art, and she made her own dyes out of natural materials – apple, yellow oak and maple tree bark; goldenrod, barberry, St. John's wort and madder root. In a communal effort with her children and local residents, she produced "Sabatos" rugs and textiles, named for a nearby mountain. The Volk family held their large property for 100 years. Jessie McCoig Volk, Wendell's widow, was the last to live there. Following her death in 2004, the property was bequeathed to the University of Maine, and a portion of the family records went to the Smithsonian Institution. University officials arranged for an auction of much of the property's contents and family papers, including art and craftwork by the Volks, and art they had collected. In October 2006, the contents grossed more than $700,000 at auction, drawing especially high prices for two paintings by the illustrator Howard Pyle and photographs of Native Americans by the Norwegian Frederick Monsen (1865–1929). One item sold at the 2006 auction was Marion Larrabee Volk's first Sabatos rug. It is now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Many of their friends in the Arts and Crafts Movement were houseguests, including artists J. Alden Weir, Frank Benson, Childe Hassam, and William Merritt Chase; architect John Calvin Stevens, interior designer John Scott Bradstreet, and Swedish-born woodcarver Karl A. von Rydingsvärd. Von Rydingsärd carved frames for a number of Volk's paintings, and taught woodcarving to Wendell Volk, their son. Offered here is a 1923 bank check made out [signed] by Douglas Volk to Marion L. Volk. She has signed on the verso. Douglas Volk (1856-1935) American artist best remembered for his portrait of Abraham which appeared on a U.S. postage stamp issued in the 1950s, and is now at the National Gallery of Art.Lincoln. Volk was elected to the Society of American Artists in 1880. He was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design in 1898, and became a full academician in 1899. Excellent condition................100-150
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170. [MUSIC] Eula Beal (1919-2008) American contralto. During her relatively short touring career, she performed with distinguished collaborators not only in concert but also in Concert Magic, a 1947 film billed as "the first motion picture concert." Touring the United States as a concert contralto in the 1940s, she appeared with orchestras including the Phoenix Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. With the latter ensemble, she performed in two works by Gustav Mahler: his Eighth Symphony, under Eugene Ormandy at the Hollywood Bowl, and Kindertotenlieder. Beal's operatic appearances included interpretations of Erda in Wagner's Siegfried and the innkeeper in Boris Godunov with the San Francisco Opera during the 1948 season. She also sang at Radio City Music Hall and the Tanglewood Festival with the Boston Pops. Signed program, 6 x 9 in. Tape remains at two corners...............40-60
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171. [MUSIC] Dalton Baker (1879-1970) Baritone, teacher, choir conductor and organist, born in England. Baker emigrated to the USA in 1913 and moved to Canada in 1914 as the first organist-choirmaster at Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, Toronto. Signed musical quote "Is not his word like a fire?, from Felix Mendelssohn's opera "Elijah." About 3-3/4 x 3-1/2 in. Includes postcard photo of Baker. VG......50-75
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172. [MUSIC] Jack Jones [b. 1938] American jazz and pop singer. He was one of the most popular vocalists of the 1960s. Signed 1993 contract to appear in Dearborn, Michigan for $12,500. Jones signs with initials...........30-40
173. John Gould (1908-2003) American humorist, essayist, and columnist who wrote a column for the Christian Science Monitor for over sixty years from a farm in Lisbon Falls, Maine. He was published in most major American newspapers and magazines and wrote thirty books. SIGNED, inscribed 10 x8 photo, dated April 3, 2002. VG...........40-60
174. [MEDICAL] Tito Vanzetti (1809-1888) was a famous surgeon and professor of medicine of the 19th century. He studied surgery at the University of Padua under Bartolomeo Signoroni (1797-1844) and at the University of Vienna with Joseph Wattmann (1789-1866). Several years later, he was appointed professor of clinical surgery and ophthalmology at the University of Kharkiv. In 1853 he returned to Padua as a professor of clinical surgery. In 1846 he performed the first ovariotomy in Russia. Vanzetti is credited for introducing a procedure of manual compression for treatment of popliteal aneurysms. He became rector of the University of Padua in 1864. Together with other 16 professors, he was dismissed in 1866, after the annexation of Venetia to Italy, because of his position of support to old Austrian rule. He was reintegrated soon after, under international pressure. Offered here is a 2 page manuscript written and signed by Vanzetti, dated 1870. Translation of the Heading is Proposal of a way to stop bleeding in the palm of the hand and other regions of the body. RARE! Fine condition................600-800
175. [WOMEN] Emma Stone Lawrence Blackwell (1851-1920), sister-in-law of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, who married George W. Blackwell; she became a school teacher, later worked for “The Woman’s Journal,” she was Lucy Stone’s niece, one-time president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's New Jersey chapter; she was a founder of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association (NJWSA) and attended its initial meeting in February 1890. She served as its recording secretary in 1894-95. She served as the NJWSA secretary in 1900, historian in 1903, and president in 1905-07. Offered here is a 1907 ALS, 2pp. signed "Emma". Written to her father Henry Lawrence. Fine.........50-75
176. Josiah William Bailey (1873-1946) American politician who served as a U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina from 1931 to 1946. Born in Warrenton, North Carolina, he grew up in Raleigh and graduated from Wake Forest College (now Wake Forest University). Before turning to a career in law, Bailey was editor of the Biblical Recorder, a newspaper for North Carolina Baptists. Elected to the United States Senate in 1930, defeating longtime incumbent Furnifold McLendel Simmons, Bailey earned a reputation as a conservative while in office. In 1937, he coauthored the bipartisan Conservative Manifesto, a document criticizing President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and proposing more conservative alternatives. Among other things, the Manifesto called for lower taxes and less spending. During his time in office, he served as chairman of the Committee on Claims and Committee on Commerce. Signed Check dated 1924...............40-60
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177. [NASA] John A. Manke (1932-2019) served as a research pilot, Chief of Flight Operations, and as site manager NASA's Flight Research Center, later the Dryden Flight Research Center, at Edwards, CA, during a 22-year career with NASA. SIGNED COVER HONORING MANKE POSTMARKED 1973. Fine............25-35
178. [ART] Walt Kuhn (1877-1949) American painter and an organizer of the famous Armory Show of 1913, which was America's first large-scale introduction to European Modernism. Walt Kuhn is best remembered today for his key role in planning the Armory Show. Ironically, a man who was in the forefront of the modern movement and was seen as an advocate of adventurous new art in 1913 came to be labelled, because of his on-going commitment to representation, a conservative artist by future generations of art historians. Nevertheless, he holds a place in American art history as a skilled cartoonist, draughtsman, printmaker, sculptor and painter. Although he destroyed many of his early paintings, his works that remain today are powerful and are a part of most major American art collections. His portraits of circus and vaudeville entertainers are some of the most memorable, confidently painted works of twentieth-century American art. They are reminiscent of commedia dell'arte actor portraits done by the French masters centuries earlier. The Tragic Comedians (1916) in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and The White Clown (1929) in the collection of the National Gallery of Art are intense, arresting images and are among his most respected paintings. Offered here are some handwritten notes written by Walt Kuhn on 2 pages. It begins with "On entering first gallery...." He continues talking about the art he was viewing there, whereever that was. Not dated but c. 1940-45. About 5-1/4 x 8-1/2 in. Beginning to separate at some fold lines. UNSIGNED. Rare!..............300-400...............one time Min. Bid $90179. [MILITARY] George Miller Sternberg (1838-1915) U.S. Army physician who is considered the first U.S. bacteriologist, having written Manual of Bacteriology (1892). After he survived typhoid and yellow fever, Sternberg documented the cause of malaria (1881), discovered the cause of lobar pneumonia (1881), and confirmed the roles of the bacilli of tuberculosis and typhoid fever (1886). Offered here is a 1896 bank check endorsed on the verso by Sternberg. The check was sent and signed by Robert Simpson Woodward (1849-1924) American civil engineer, physicist and mathematician. Woodward sends $100 to Sternberg who was Treasurer of the Pasteur Monument Committee. Fine. VERY RARE! ..........300-600
180. [FRANCE] Auguste Armand Ghislain Marie Joseph Nompar de Caumont de LLa Force (1878-1961), 12th Duke of La Force, was a French duke and historian. Specialising in the 17th century (he was himself a descendent of the 1000-year-old Caumont de la Force family), his work allowed him to reconstruct events in which his ancestors had taken part. He was elected a member of the Académie française on 19 November 1925. ALS, [1899?], 1-1/2 pages. VG.............50-75
181. 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
182. US Senators - 10 TLSs, 1960-1962, all to Vernon Talbertt: Hickenlooper [IA], Hickey [WY], Holland [FL], Hruska [NE], Johnston [SC], Jackson [WA], Jordon [NC], Kuchel [CA], Lausche [OH], Cotton [NH]. All have mounting residue at top & bottom edge. Mostly on verso but with some show-thru.............50-75
183. [ENGLAND] Charles Lloyd (1784-1829), Regius Professor of Divinity and Bishop of Oxford from 1827 to 1829. Eventually he had to leave and took a job as a tutor to Lord Elgin's children at Dunfermline. This didn't last long as he was asked to return to Oxford to teach mathematics. One of his first jobs was to prepare Robert Peel for his exams. Peel later became prime minister. Charles Lloyd soon gained a reputation as an effective teacher. Address panel signed Charles Oxford, postmarked 1829, a few months before he passed away. Rex wax seal on backside. Fine................40-60
See above184. [CUBA] (Daniel M. Braddock 1906-1980) was serving as Chargé d'affaires ad interim when the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba in January 1961. On January 3, 1961, in a 1 a.m. telegram, the U.S. embassy in Cuba reported receipt of a diplomatic note from the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations indicating that the size of the American diplomatic and consular presence in Habana must be cut to 11 persons within 48 hours. Daniel Braddock, the U.S. Charge d’Affaires in Cuba, reported that a staff of that size could not maintain a useful operation and recommended breaking relations. President Dwight Eisenhower held a meeting at 9 a.m. the same day to discuss how to respond to the Cuban note. Even though there was some sentiment to move with more deliberation, President Eisenhower decided to break relations and ordered Secretary of State Christian Herter to take that action as soon as possible. Offered here is a ALS [signed Dan], 1972, 1p. 7 x 10-3/4 in. To Frederick Solomon who was a Rabbi in Havana, Cuba during the time leading to severed relations with Cuba. Friendly letter about getting back together. Envelope is present. Included here is a TLS signed R.E. Stedman [Claims Department] Foreign Offer, dated 1967, 1p. To Solomon. Headed CUBA-PROPERTY CLAIMS. Two letters................75-100
185. [FILM] Dominic Frontiere (1931-2017) American composer, arranger, and jazz accordionist. He is known for composing the theme and much of the music for the television series The Outer Limits. At age twelve, he played a solo recital at Carnegie Hall. After a period with a big band in the late 1940s and early 50s, Frontiere moved to Los Angeles, where he enrolled at UCLA. He eventually became musical director at 20th Century Fox. He scored several films under the tutelage of Alfred and Lionel Newman, while also recording jazz music. An association with director and producer Leslie Stevens led to several projects, such as his innovative blend of music and sound effects for The Outer Limits. He scored several iconic themes of the '60's such as The Rat Patrol, Branded, The Flying Nun, and for producer Quinn Martin The Invaders, The Fugitive, and Twelve O'Clock High. After scoring for TV shows, he went on to compose the music for the Clint Eastwood film Hang 'Em High. The title theme for that movie became a top-10 hit for the group Booker T. & the M.G.'s. He also composed the soundtrack to the 1971 motorcycle documentary On Any Sunday, which featured Steve McQueen and was directed by Bruce Brown. Frontiere became head of the music department at Paramount Pictures in the early 1970s, where he again worked on television and film scores, while concurrently orchestrating popular music albums for, among others, Chicago. Examples of Frontiere's sweeping, cinematic orchestrations appear in the opening and closing songs of the 1977 album Nether Lands by Dan Fogelberg. He won a Golden Globe for the score to the 1980 film The Stunt Man. He also composed a jingle for the studio's television division. In 1986, Frontiere was incarcerated for nine months in a federal penitentiary after scalping tickets to the 1980 Super Bowl, which he obtained through his then-wife, Los Angeles Rams owner Georgia Frontiere. He was estimated to have scalped as many as 16,000 tickets, making a half million dollars in profit that he failed to report to the Internal Revenue Service. Frontiere pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year and one day in prison, three years probation, and fined $15,000 for failing to report income from the sale of the tickets and for lying to the IRS. Georgia Frontiere filed for divorce shortly after Dominic's release from prison. OFFERED HERE is a 1965 contract for composer for the movie BILLIE starring Patty Duke. Also signed by Milton Ebbins (1912–2008) Film executive, songwriter ("Yale Blues", "Basic Boogie") and composer. Ebbins helped produce JFK’s 1961 Inaugural Ball and the subsequent 1962 JFK Anniversary Gala. In May of 1962, Ebbins escorted a very late Marilyn Monroe to Madison Square Garden where she famously — and breathlessly — sang “Happy Birthday, Mr. President.” He was also the man that Lawford called after speaking to Monroe the night of her death in August of 1962. Ebbins was one of the few allowed inside the White House after the JFK assassination. As the link between Washington and Hollywood, Ebbins helped Kennedy family patriarch and former ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy navigate through the movie business, not only keeping him apprised of his son-in-law’s career moves but at one point advising him against purchasing United Artists’ movie studio. At the time of his death, Ebbins was working with his friend, actor Bill Paxton, on an HBO project about the Kennedy assassination. Ebbins music career began in 1936, he formed his own orchestra, then became music director at CBS, and went to New York in 1938, joining an advertising agency's radio department. He also had been a road manager for the Jack Jenny and Count Basie orchestras, and then a personal manager. He left his career as bandleader and became a talent manager, rising to become one of Hollywood’s top personal managers, guiding the careers of Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn, Billy Eckstine and singer Vic Damone. Because of Ebbins’ musical background and his adeptness at arranging scores, he had a knack for picking hit songs for his clients. He also represented actresses Elizabeth Montgomery and Patty Duke, comedian Mort Sahl and actor Peter Lawford, who Ebbins managed for 35 years. Signed in the final page 11. Fine condition....................200-300
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186. 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..............30-40See above
188. [FILM] 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............20-30
189. [MUSIC] 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.........50-75
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190. [VERMONT] George D. Aiken (1892-1984) American politician from Vermont. A Republican Party, he served as governor of Vermont from 1937 to 1941 and as a U.S. Senator from 1941 to 1975. At the time of his retirement, Aiken was the most senior member of the Senate. SIGNED postcard photo, dated Dec. 10, 1941 on verso. VG........25-35
191. [ITALY] Giuseppe Bianchini (1704-1764) Italian Oratorian, biblical, historical, and liturgical scholar. Three (3) UNSIGNED manuscript pages in his hand. Not dated. VG................100-150
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192. [THEATRE] Victor Mapes (1870-1943) American playwright. Brief ALS, 1907, 1p. VG.......25-35
193. [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...........75-100
194. [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............50-75
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195. [FILM] Gregory Hines [1946-2003] American actor, singer, dancer and choreographer. TLS, 1981, 1p. VG.........25-35
196. [GOLF] Raymond Floyd [b. 1942] American golfer. Signed, inscribed 8x10 color photo. VG......25-35
197. Almer Stillwell "Mike" Monroney (1902-1980) Democratic Party politician from Oklahoma. He represented Oklahoma's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1939 until 1951, and represented Oklahoma in the United States Senate from 1951 until 1969. He was voted by the Senate pages as "the nicest Senator." TLS, 1966, 1p. Re: inefficiencies in the postal service. VG................25-35
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198. [ACTORS] actors - 4 portrait cards: Emil Jannings, Jackie Coogan, Erich Von Stroheim & Montgomery Clift.......Min. Bid $12
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199. [ACTORS] actors - 2 portrait cards: James Dean & Natalie Wood.............Min. Bid $9
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200. [ACTORS] actors - 2 portrait cards: ClarK Gable & Marilyn Monroe............Min. Bid $9
See above201. [MUSIC] Rene Clemencic (1928 - ) Austrian composer, recorder player, harpsichordist, conductor and clavichord player. AMQS from his famous "Kabbala Oratorio." Approx. 10-1/2 x 4". VG..........50-75
202. 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.........................25-35
203. Sir Owen Seaman, 1st Baronet [1861-1936] British writer, journalist and poet. He is best known as editor of Punch, from 1906 to 1932. ALS, 1933, 1p. VG..........50-75
204. George Ade [1866-1944] American writer. Signature.............20-30
205. [THEATRE] George Edward Wade (1869-1954) better known by his stage name, George Robey, was an English music hall comedian and star. He was marketed as the "Prime Minister of Mirth". SIGNED postcard photograph with sentiment dressed as the Queen of Hearts. Mounting traces on verso. VG.............40-60
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206. [FILM] Ricardo Cortez (1900-1977) American actor. Unsigned vintage 1925 photograph, 5x7 in. The signature is printed. VG................Min. Bid $9
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207. [BALLET] Dame Merle Park (b. 1937) prima ballerina. She joined the Royal Ballet in 1954 and became a soloist in 1958. In her career, she was partnered by Rudolf Nureyev, Anthony Dowell, Mikhail Baryshnikov. Signed color 5x7 photo. VG.............40-60
208. PETER DRUCKER (1909- 2005) American Writer/Teacher. He is also a consultant specializing in strategy and policy for businesses and social sector organizations. He has consulted with many of the world's largest corporations as well as with nonprofit organizations, small and entrepreneurial companies, and with agencies of the U.S. government. He has also worked with free-world governments such as those of Canada, Japan, and Mexico. He is the author of thirty-one books which have been translated into more than twenty languages. Thirteen books deal with society, economics, and politics; fifteen deal with management. ANS on 3x5 card dtd 1985...............20-30
Ellis Island Designs 209. Edward L. Tilton (1861-1933) American architect, with a practice in New York City, where he was born. He specialized in the design of libraries, such as the Olean Public Library and Mount Pleasant Library (Washington, D.C.), two of about a hundred libraries, many of them Carnegie libraries, that he designed in the United States and Canada, and structures for educational institutions. He and the partner that he met in Paris, William A. Boring, won a competition in 1897 to design the first phase of new buildings for the U.S. Immigration Station on Ellis Island in New York Harbor : the Main Building (1897-1900), Kitchen and Laundry Building (1900-01), Main Powerhouse (1900-01), and the Main Hospital Building (1900-01) were all constructed to their designs before the formal partnership was amicably dissolved in 1904. The two architects continued to share an office. A RARE DOCUMENT SIGNED, Dec. 27, 1923, concerning construction supplies for the Knight Memorial Library in Providence, Rhode Island, for $8,579.23. One page plus 2 additional pages of figures.......100-150
210. [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..............25-35See check
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211. [MUSIC] Charlotte Mellot Joubert - French Opera singer, noted on the world stage at the turn of the century. Made early recordings. ALS on 4-1/4 x 2-3/4" card, dated 1934. Written on both sides. Includes envelope. VG..........35-45
212. [SPACE] Gerald "Jerry" Carr (b. 1932) American astronaut. Signed, inscribed color litho. portrait in space suit, Sky Lad III. VG..........35-45
213. [FRANCE] 1671 manuscript document, 3pp, written on thick vellum. Numerous signatures not researched. Approx. 7-1/4 x 10 in. VG.......................100-150
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214. [MUSIC] ROBERT WARD (1917- 2013) American Composer/Pulitzer Prize - His large and distinguished musical creation has,in large measure, been commissioned by the New York City Opera, Broadcast Music. Inc., the New York Philharmonic, the Friends of Dumbarton Oaks, the Juilliard Musical Foundation. and many others. His opera, THE CRUCIBLE, based on the play by Arthur Miller, won both the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Music and the New York Music Critics Circle Citation for the same year. ANS ny, nd. MENTIONS HE'S WRITING HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Two pieces of paper residue near one edge which doesn't affect text...........25-35
215. (BRITISH RELIGIOUS NOTABLES LOT) WILSON CARLILE (1847-1942) Evangelist who found the Church Army and was Prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral. SIGNED card. CHARLES THOMAS LONGLEY (1794-1868) Archbishop of Canterbury (1862-1868). ALS (1863). ANDREW KENNEDY HUTCHSON BOYD (1825-1899) Minister at St.Andrews, Author, Writer. ALS (1879). DR. HUGH SINGLETON (1851-1934) Roman Catholic Lord Bishop of Shrewsbury. SIGNED postcard photograph (1905). FREDERIC WILLIAM FARRAR (1831-1903) Church of England cleric, author. SIGNATURE. VG..............75-100
216. Preston Foster (1900-1970) American actor of stage, film, radio, and television, whose career spanned nearly four decades. Signed, inscribed yellow card, 5x4 in. One fold line down the middle...............25-35
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217. [MUSIC] Paul Anka (b. 1941) Canadian singer, songwriter and actor. Anka became famous with hit songs like "Diana", "Lonely Boy", "Put Your Head on My Shoulder", and "(You're) Having My Baby". Signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. VG...............30-40
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218. Teófilo Braga, in full Joaquim Teófilo Fernandes. (1843-1924). Portuguese scholar and writer. Professor, Lisbon (1872 ff.); wrote prolifically on literature, history, politics, etc.; noted controversialist, and anticlericalist republican. Head of provisional government (1910-11) after dethronement of King Manuel; interim president of Portugal (1915). Author of Visa~o dos Tempos (1864), História da Poesia Popular Portuguesa (1867), comprehensive História da Romantismo en Portugal (1880), A Arcádia Lusitana (1899), etc. Signature on card (stamp dated 1916)..............40-60
219. [GREAT BRITAIN] Henry Richard Charles Wellesley, 1st Earl Cowley, KG, GCB, PC (1804-1884), known as The Lord Cowley between 1847 and 1857, was a British diplomat. He served as British Ambassador to France between 1852 and 1867. ALS, Paris, nd, 1p, 4-1/4 x 7-1/8 in. Fine.....50-75
220. 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
221. [FILM] "Dino" DE LAURENTIIS [1919-2010] Italian film producer. SIGNED 3X5 CARD........25-35
222. [MUSIC] Christoph von Dohnanyi (b. 1929) German conductor. Signed, inscribed, 8x10 photo, 1991.........25-35
223. [NOBEL PRIZE] Wassily Leontief [1905-1999] was an economist notable for his research on how changes in one economic sector may have an effect on other sectors. Leontief won a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1973. BRIEF ALS [1989]..............50-75
224. Josephine Miles (1911 - 1985) poet and literary critic, was the first woman to be tenured in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She wrote over a dozen books of poetry and several works of criticism. She was fascinated with Beat poetry and was both a host and critic to many Beat poets from her chair at Berkeley. Most notably, she helped Allen Ginsberg publish Howl by recommending it to Richard Eberhart, who would publish an article in the New York Times praising the poem. She was also the founder of the internationally distributed Berkeley Poetry Review in 1974 on the U.C. Berkeley campus. Signed, inscribed, 1971, 1p. typescript of her porm "Signs of Affection." VG.........50-75
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225. [AVIATION] J. Leland Atwood (1904-1999) engineer and manager in the aerospace industry. He worked in various prominent positions at North American Aviation for over 35 years. The International Aerospace Hall of Fame invested Atwood in 1984. SIGNED 8x10 photo, 1983. VG........25-35
226. [ENGLAND] Sir Samuel Romilly (1757-1818) English legal reformer. The greatest labour of his life was his attempt to reform the criminal law of England, then at once cruel and illogical. His work in reforming criminal law began with his "Thoughts on Executive Justice" (1786). Sir Samuel Romilly's efforts made his name famous not only in England but all over Europe. Rare clip SIGNATURE dated 1803.............25-35
227. George Ade (1866-944) American writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright. CLIP SIGNATURE..........20-30
228. [MUSIC] Irmgard Seefried (1919-1988) distinguished German opera soprano. Signed 5x7 photo. VG............50-75
229. Lord William Pitt LENNOX [1799-1881] English writer; present as spectator at Waterloo [1815]; novelist; edited the "Review" newspaper [1858]. Clipped mounted signature.........20-30
230. [FRANCE] Émile Fabre (1869-1955) French dramatic author and general administrator of the Comédie-Française from 1915 to 1936. To the film actress Tania Fedor. VG.........50-75
231. [FRANCE] Émile Auguste Étienne Martin Deschanel (1819-1904) French author and politician, the father of Paul Deschanel, the 11th President of the French Republic. His works include: Études sur Aristophane (1867), Le Romantisme des classiques (1882), and the controversial Catholicisme et socialisme (1850). As a result, Napoleon III forced him into exile between 1851 and 1859. He later became a professor at the Collège de France and in 1881 became a lifetime member of the French senate. A street bearing his name is located in Paris's VIIe arrondissement bordering the Champs de Mars. ALS, 1869, 2pp, 5-1/4 x 8". Not translated. One soiled corner.........50-75
232. [MUSIC] William Elden Bolcom (b. 1938) American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, two Grammy Awards, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph. VG............50-75
233. [MUSIC] Amanda McBroom (b. 1947) American singer, songwriter actress and cabaret performer. Notable among the songs she has written is "The Rose", which Bette Midler sang in the film of the same name , and which has been covered by many other recording artists. McBroom is also known for her collaborations as lyricist with songwriter Michele Brourman, including some of the songs in the The Land Before Time film series, Balto II: Wolf Quest, and the musical Dangerous Beauty based on the film of the same name, which was scheduled to have its world premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse in February 2011. Signed 8x10 photo. VG........25-35
234. [MUSIC] Lukas Foss (1922-2009) German-born American composer, conductor, pianist. ANS, no date, 4-1/4 x 5-1/2". VG........25-35
235. BRANDER MATTHEWS (1852-1929) American writer and educator. ALS, 1905, 2pp. VG...........35-45
236. HENRY JACKSON van DYKE (1852-1933) American Author, educator, clergyman, lyricist. TLS, 1908, 1p. VG..........35-45
237. (FRANCE) Roger de Beauvoir (1806-1866) Romantic novelist and playwright. His wit, good-looks and adventurous lifestyle made him well known in Paris, where he was a friend of Alexandre Dumas, père. Of independent means, he wed actress and author Léocadie Doze in 1847. He was imprisoned for three months and fined 500 francs for a satirical poem, Mon Procs, written in 1849. Afflicted with gout and nearly destitute from his flamboyant lifestyle, de Beauvoir spent the last few years of his life unhappily confined to a chair, dying in Paris. His best-known works included Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1840), Les Oeufs de Paques (1856) and Le Pauvre Diable (reprinted 1871). ALS, no yr., 1p. VG............75-100
238. [TV] James Drury (b.1934) American actor probably best known for his success in playing the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series The Virginian, broadcast on NBC from 1962-1971. With 12-14 hour workdays, the series had perhaps the most demanding production schedules in the history of network television. TLS/agreement, not dated, 1p, giving his permission to use his name and photograph. VG...........25-35
239. [OPERA] JARMILLA NOVOTNA (1907-1994) Czech Opera Singer/Actress. When talking pictures arrived, she headlined the 1932 German film version of Bartered Bride, among other productions. She then left films to concentrate on her stage work with the Vienesse State Opera and New York's Metropolitan Opera, where she performed regularly from 1940 to 1956. In 1946 she returned before the cameras in a straight dramatic role in Fred Zinneman's The Search. Jarmila Novotna's last film appearance was as turn of the century diva Maria Selka in the 1951 biopic The Great Caruso. SIGNED/inscribed 3x5 photo in costume from Manon, dtd 3/14/93...........25-35
240. [OPERA] ANDRE ALLARD [1875-1938] French Bass-Baritone. ANS on card, 1936..........35-45
241. [OPERA] DAME JOSEPHINE BARSTOW (1940- ) British Soprano - A most powerful and intense singing actress. She created the role of Denise in The Knot Garden, Gayle in The Ice Break and many other roles. She is a great interpreter of contemporary roles, appeared in films. SIGNED personal note card with sentiment................Min. Bid $10
242. [MUSIC] Bradford Marsalis - Jazz saxophonist. Signed card..................Min. Bid $10
243. [MUSIC] Ovide Musin [1854-1929] Belgian violinist, composer. Clip signature.................Min. Bid $10
244. [MUSIC] Martha Tilton [1915-2006] 1930's pop singer. ISP, 8x10..............Min. Bid $10
245. [MUSIC] Rudolph Ganz [1877-1972] pianist, conductor, composer. Clip signature. On verso is Frances Williams [1901-1959] blonde Broadway star................Min. Bid $10
246. [MUSIC] C. Austin Miles [1868-1946] Am. composer. Signature................Min. Bid $10
247. [FRANCE] Raymond Gerome (1920-2002) was a Belgian born, French stage and screen actor. He made his first stage appearance in 1946, in a stage production of Jeanne d'Arc au bucher and he entered films in 1954. He is best known to English speaking audiences for his roles as The Commander in The Brain and Inspector Renard in The Greengage Summer. In later life, he leant his voice to dubbing - he provided the voice of Governor Ratcliffe in the French release of Pocahontas. Lengthy TLS, 1945, Les Spectacles du Palais, 1p, 8-1/4 x 10-3/4 in. Good+.........50-75
248. [FRANCE] François-Xavier-Joseph Droz (1773-1850) was a French writer on ethics, political science and political economy. Droz's own legal studies led him to Paris in 1792; he arrived the day after the dethronement of King Louis XVI of France, and was present during the massacres of September. On the declaration of war he joined the volunteer battalion of the Doubs, and for the next three years served in the Army of the Rhine. Discharged on health grounds, he obtained a much more congenial post in the newly founded école centrale of Besançon; and in 1799 he made his first appearance as an author by an Essai sur l'art oratoire (Paris, Fructidor, An VII.), in which he acknowledges his indebtedness more especially to Hugh Blair. As he advanced in life, Droz became more and more decidedly religious. Handwritten page, 1806, from his hand but not signed. Approx. 8 x 10 in. VG. Rare!..............100-150
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249. [FRANCE] Paul Ernest de Royer (1803-1877) French lawyer, magistrate and politician. He was Minister of Justice in 1851 under the French Second Republic, and again from 1857 to 1859 under the Second French Empire. He was first president of the Court of Auditors in 1863, and was also President of the General Council of the Marne. After the fall of the Empire in 1870, he returned to his career as a magistrate. Rare handwritten and signed poem dated 1876, 1p, 4.5 x 7 in. This was sent to the artist Claudius Popelin. Fine..............100-150 See above
250. [WORLD WAR 2 NAVAL] George Frederick Hussey Jr. (1894-1983) was United States Navy Vice admiral during World War II, who served as the Chief of Naval Ordnance from December 1943 to September 1947. During the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hussey served with the USS Hopkins within directing the off-shore patrol off Hawaii. Hussey was ordered to Washington, D.C., where he was appointed the director of production within the Bureau of Ordnance. In December 1943, Hussey succeeded Rear admiral William H. P. Blandy and became the Chief of the Bureau. In this capacity, he was responsible for the directing of development and production of Naval arms during World War II. Hussey was decorated with the Navy Distinguished Service Medal for his service during the War and finally retired from the Navy in September 1947. Offered here is a April 21, 1944 one page memo from Hussey [not ink signed] to The Chief of the Bureau of Ships. Captain L.W. McKeehan is nominated for Special Board, Bureau of Ordnance. McKeehan has signed in ink at bottom left and he has written 21 Apr 1944 in right corner. Approx. 8 x 10.5 in. VG................100-150
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251. John Lithgow (b.1945) American character actor. He appeared in the films The World According to Garp (1982) and Terms of Endearment (1983), receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for each. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to Lithgow, not signed by him. VG.......20-30
252. Terry Malick (b. 1943) American film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning over four decades he has directed six feature films. He made his directorial debut with the drama Badlands in 1973. Malick released his second film, Days of Heaven, in 1978, after which he took a long hiatus from directing films. His third film, the World War 2 drama The Thin Red Line, was released in 1998. Warner Bros. 1984 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG..............Min.Bid $5
253. [TV] Denver Pyle (1920-1997) American film and television actor. He is best remembered for playing Uncle Jesse in The Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1985). Signed photo card picturing him in his role as Briscoe Darling", the gruff patriarch of a clan of musical hillbillies, on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show. 2.5 x 3.5". Fine..........25-35
254. [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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255. [WORLD WAR 2 NAVAL] John H. Newton (1881-1948) Commander, Cruisers, Scouting Force at the outbreak of war. At the moment of the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was in tactical command of the Lexington task force, which was on the way to deliver aircraft to Midway. After war broke out, the Lexington force was given to the more senior Brown, and Newton commanded its screen. Relieved before the end of the year, he was given command of the South Pacific Area in June 1944, when it had lost almost all strategic relevance. Offered here is a 1p. memo from Newton dated Nov. 7, 1942. Not ink signed. The ink date below is in the hand of Louis McKeehan. VG.................50-75
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257. [MEDICINE] Wilson Greatbatch (1919-2011) American engineer and pioneering inventor. He helped develop the first implantable pacemaker. He was one of the greatest American inventors of the 20th century. Mr. Greatbatch, an incurable tinkerer who constructed a radio transmitter at 16, held more than 300 patents, and his inventions largely shaped modern cardiology. Signed 8x5 color picture. VG................80-120
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258. Gerald McRaney (b. 1947) American television and movie actor. McRaney is best known as one of the stars of the television shows Simon & Simon, Major Dad, and Promised Land. He was a series regular for the first season of Jericho, and the final season of Deadwood. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to him but not signed by him. VG................Min. Bid $5
259. Stella Parton (b.1949) American country singer and songwriter. She is a younger sister of entertainer Dolly Parton. Warner Bros. 1985 check made out to her but not signed by her. VG..............Min. Bid $5
260 [FILM - TV] Bonnie Bartlett (b.1929) is an American television and film actress. Her career spans over 50 years, with her first major role being on a 1950s daytime drama, Love of Life. She is best known for her role as Ellen Craig on the medical drama series St. Elsewhere. She and her husband, actor William Daniels, who played her fictional husband Dr. Mark Craig, won 1986 Emmy Awards on the same night, becoming the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965. Warners Bros. paycheck, 1984, endorsed by her on verso. VG...................Min. Bid $8
261. [FILM] William Caskey Swaim (b. 1947) American television and film actor, best known for having played Staff Sergeant Harry Fitz in the 1978-1979 television series, Project U.F.O. Signed Warner Bros. check made out to Swaim in 1985, endorsed by him on the verso. VG.........Min. Bid $4
263. Group of payroll checks from WARNER BROS. 1980s made out to various people. None are actually signed by the person. Here are some of the names found at Wikipedia: Ken Wild [bass player]; Sudie Bond [actress]; Bill McEuen [manager of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - paid $9,999.98]; plus 3 others. All very good condition.........Min Bid $12
262. [TV] Polly Holliday (b. 1937) is an American actress. She has appeared on stage, television and in film. She is best known for her portrayal of sassy waitress "Flo" on the hit 1970s sitcom Alice, and her starring role in its short-lived spinoff, Flo. Flo's signature line was "Kiss my grits!". Warner Bors. paycheck, 1985, endorsed by her on verso. VG...............Min. Bid $10
264. [TV] Chris Cluess is a producer and writer, known for Saturday Night Live (1975), MADtv (1995) and Night Court (1984). Signed [endorsed on verso] 1984 Warner Bros. pay check. VG........Min. Bid $10
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265. [MEDICINE] MIN CHUCH CHANG (1908-1991) Chinese-born American reproductive biologist. His specific area of study was the fertilisation process in mammalian reproduction. Though his career produced findings that are important and valuable to many areas in the field of fertilisation, including his work on in vitro fertilisation which led to the first "test tube baby", he was best known to the world for his contribution to the development of the combined oral contraceptive pill at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology. Signed 3x5 card. Fine..........40-60
266. [FILM] Ron Randell (1918-2005) Australian-born American film and stage actor. Arguably his best performance was in King of Kings, as the Roman centurion Lucius, who defends Christ at his trial as a sort of impromptu legal counsel, and presumably becomes converted to Christianity after the Crucifixion. Great TLS, 1949, 2pp, all about acting, mentions several films. VG............40-60
267. Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford (1751- 1812) son of Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Aylesford, was a British peer. From 1757 until his accession in 1777, he was styled Lord Guernsey. He was an artist of some repute. Eleven of his paintings, part of the Oppe Collection, are held on behalf of the National Museum by the Tate Gallery. CLIP SIGNATURE [toned/mounted]........20-30
268. [LAW] Richard H. Thornton (1845-1925) The son of a prominent English Wesleyan clergyman and Latin tutor, Richard Hopwood Thornton was born in 1845 in Didebury, Lancashire, England. After attending New Kingswood School near Bath, he passed the entrance examination for Oxford University in 1862, but instead entered a London business house. After a visit to Paris in 1870 he went to Canada in 1871 where he taught school in various places. Receiving a small legacy from his mother in 1874, he travelled throughout North America, attended Columbia University law school in Washington, and was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1878. In 1884 Thornton received an invitation from Judge Matthew P. Deady to come to Oregon and serve as the first dean of the University of Oregon law school. Thornton accepted the position and held the post in Portland for the next nineteen years. After his retirement in 1903 he travelled in Europe with his wife, and after her death he moved to London in 1907. There he compiled the work An Amercian glossary, which was published in 1912. He returned to the U.S. in 1916 and eventually took up residence again in Portland, Oregon, where he died in January of 1925. Offered here is an extraordinary ALS, Law School of The University of Oregon, 3 full pages written to Wm. Henry Rawle (1823-1889) the noted Philadephia lawyer. Excellent content about an address that Rawle gave before the Phi Beta Kappa Society Honor Society. Notice the $45 price [1984] written in pencil at top left corner. This was from the noted autograph dealer Paul Richards, who had the practice of writing prices on letters. Very fine..........200-300
269. Benjamin Fine [1905-1975] Am. journalist, author. TLS, 1956........20-30
270. [MUSIC] Giovanni Martinelli (1885-1969) celebrated Italian operatic tenor. Signed, inscribed card, with sentiment. Approx. 3.5 x 2.5". VG..........25-35
271. [POLITICAL EPHEMERA] Can America Be Saved? Offered here is a 4x6 in. card feathering Kenneth Goff & Don Lohbeck. Kenneth Goff (1914-1972) was an anti-Fluoride, Christian Identity, anti-Communist minister. He was the 1944 national chairman of Gerald L. K. Smith's Christian Youth for America.
Donald Lohbeck (1917-1999) Self-employed as a musician in St. Louis then briefly worked as an organizer for the America First Committee. He was "subversive activity and tendency" which was based upon information received from G2-Army Intelligence that portrayed him as "pro-Nazi" [per FBI]. Arrested with Kenneth Goff for placing placards around front lawn of Russian Embassy in Washington DC. Lohbeck was Editor of Christian Nationalist Crusade magazine The Cross and the Flag (1947-1948). In 1951 Lohbeck ran for U.S. House of Representatives from the 11th Congressional District in Missouri on Christian Nationalist Crusade ticket. In 1952 Lohbeck ran for Governor of Missouri on Christian Nationalist Party ticket. VG..................Min. Bid $25
272. Laura Spencer Porter - American short story writer. Very popular in Harper's Magazine and the New England Magazine at turn of century into 1920s. ALS, NY, 1901, 2pp. VG...........40-60
273. Carl Hayden [1877-1972] US senator [Ariz.] TLS, 1964, 1p........20-30274. Leonard Merrick [1864-1939] British Playwright. Clip signature..............20-30
275. Charles Doughty [1843-1926] English poet. Clip signature..............20-30
276. Alfred Henry Lewis [1857-1914] American journalist and novelist. Signed card..........20-30
277. Helen Astor [1895-1965] Am. socialite. ANS, nd, re: her father....20-30
278. Samuel Merwin [1875-1936] American writer. Signature 1907.........20-30
279. Sir James Black Baillie [1872-1940] British philosopher and academic. ALS, 1931, 2pp..........40-60
280. [POSTAL HISTORY] Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) was a United States author, artist and engineer. He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty, wrote many famous stories and received awards for his paintings. Offered here is an envelope addressed in the hand of Smith. Approx. 4.5 x 3.5 in. VG.........Min. Bid $25
281. [BRITISH NAVAL] Sir Eustace Henry William Tennyson d'Eyncourt, 1st Baronet KCB FRS[1] (1868-1951) was a British naval architect and engineer. As Director of Naval Construction for the Royal Navy, 1912–1924, he was responsible for the design and construction of some of the most famous British warships. He was also chairman of the Landship Committee at the Admiralty, which was responsible for the design and production of the first military tanks to be used in warfare. Brief 1934 TLS answering request. 7-3/4 x 10 in. VG........50-75
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282 [PORTRAIT] Samuel Latham Mitchill (1764-1831) was an American physician, naturalist, and politician who lived in Plandome, New York. Mitchill taught chemistry, botany, and natural history at Columbia College from 1792 until 1801 and was a founding editor of The Medical Repository, the first medical journal in the United States. In addition to his Columbia lectures on botany, zoology, and mineralogy, Mitchill collected, identified, and classified many plants and animals, particularly aquatic organisms. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1797. From 1807 to 1826, he taught at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York and then helped organize the short-lived Rutgers Medical College of New Jersey, which he served as vice president until 1830. While at Columbia, Mitchill developed a fallacious theory of disease, which however resulted in his promotion of personal hygiene and improved sanitation. Offered here is an original engraved portrait done circa 1832. Image size approx. 4-1/2 x 3-3/8 in. plus pretty clean margins except for one small light spot well away from image..............MIN. BID $10
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283. [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...................2000-3000
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284. HELGA SANDBURG (1916- ) American Author/Poet; Carl Sandburg. SIGNED/inscribed stationary, March 1973, with sentiment........20-30
285. LOUIS ADAMIC (1899-1951) American Author, translator. Brief TLS, 1939, 1p.........40-60
286. [FRANCE] Clement Duvernois [1836-1879] noted French journalist. ALS, Paris, 1872, 1p, 5 x 8 in. VG.............50-75
287. Lowell Thomas [1892-1981] Am. writer/broadcaster. Clip signature.........20-30
288. [FILM] John L. Russell Jr. (1905-1967), sometimes credited as Jack Russell, was an American cinematographer who was known for his work on films like Psycho (for which he earned an Academy Award nomination) as well as his extensive work on TV. Offered here are 3 items: [1] His signed 1965 contract for the movie BILLIE starring Patty Duke, 12 legal size pages, signed by Russell and Milt Ebbins on the last page. [2] Unsigned carbon copy of Ebbins letter to Russell. [3] Memo from Ebbins, ink signed with his initials, to John Bowman about Russell's contract. All VG...........100-200.......Min. Bid $40
Douglas Volk artist 50 signed checks289. [ART] DOUGLAS VOLK [1856-1935] AMERICAN ARTIST. Douglas was born to be an artist. His father was the famous sculptor Leonard Wells Volk and his mother Emily Barlow Volk was counsin to Senator Steven Douglas. At a young age Douglas showed an ability to draw and was taken seriously later studying with George Inness, and at age 14 took classes at the Accademia San Luca in Italy. In 1873 Volk went to Paris to study at Ecole des Beaux Arts with the Master Jean-Leon Gerome. When he returned to the U.S. he began teaching at The Cooper Institute in New York and in 1886 was founder of the Minneapolis School Of Fine Art. In 1893 Volk was chosen for the selection committee at the Columbian Expo where he exhibited three paintings and the the gold medal, his first major award. In 1899 the National Academy granted him membership. His paintings hang in many important collections including the Metropolitan Museum in NY. Douglas Volk first ventured into Lincoln portraiture in 1908, and that canvas, reworked in 1917, eventually found its way into the National Gallery of Art. It also achieved a kind of anonymous familiarity between 1954 and 1968, when it was featured on the regular four-cent U.S. postage stamp. When in 1860, Lincoln sat in Leonard Volk's studio, a liittle child was running in and out. The great man took him on his knee and asked his name. It was Douglas. It was this boy, long grown to manhood who was the paint one of the most famous portraits of Lincoln. One of his Lincoln portraits hangs in the Lincoln Bedroom in The White House. Collection of 50 signed bank checks, dating 1896-1930.................Min. Bid $399
290. [FRANCE] Charles-Robert Boutin (1722-1810) noted French lawyer. He was successively deputy of the Attorney General of the Parliament of Paris ( 1741 ), adviser to the first chamber of requests (February 5, 1743), master of requests (February 17, 1749), president of the Grand Council (April 19, 1754), King's Commissioner to the Compagnie des Indes ( 1756 ), Intendant of Bordeaux ( 1758 - 1766 ). In 1762, with Querdisien Tremais, he interfered with Canada's Intendant BIGOT's operations with the Jewish merchant Abraham Gradis and with Biot's dishonest fur trade in Canada. Offered here is a 1783 manuscript document concerning Boutin's garden and work done by Maingot, Master Sculptor. Not signed. Approx. 8 x 12.5 in. VG.............100-150
291. Jacob K. Javitis (1904-1986) United States Senator from New York from 1957 to 1981. Brief TLS, 1980, plus unsigned photo. VG................Min. bid $10
292. [FILM] Cecil M. Hepworth (1974-1953) English film director, producer and screenwriter. He was among the founders of the British film industry and continued making films into the 1920s at his Walton Studios. TLS, 1944, 1p. Rejection letter to author saying he doesn't remember a great deal but he is willing to answer a few questions..........40-60
293. Edward Sheffield Bartholomew (1822 - 1858) was a noted American sculptor active in Italy. Bartholomew was born in Colchester, Connecticut. After apprenticeships as a bookbinder and dentist, his first employment was as a dentist in Hartford, but he soon abandoned it for painting and (after learning that he was color-blind) sculpture. In 1844 he studied at the National Academy of Design's antique class in New York City, from 1845-1848 directed the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, contracting a severe case of smallpox circa 1847, then studied for another year in the National Academy of Design and sailed for Europe. From 1851 onwards he lived in Rome and died in Naples of bronchitis. Bartholomew is known for his bas reliefs, marble busts and statues, and medallions in the neo-classical style. His earliest recorded work is a medallion of poet Lydia Sigourney (1847). Among his best-known works are Blind Homer Led by the Genius of Poetry (1851, now in the Metropolitan Museum), Eve, Campagna Shepherd Boy (Peabody Institute), Genius of Painting, Youth and Old Age, Evening Star, Eve Repentant (Wadsworth Atheneum), Washington and Flora, A Monument to Charles Carroll (near Baltimore), Bellsarius at the Porta Pincinia, and Ganymede. Many of his works are now held by the Wadsworth Atheneum. CLIPPED SIGNATURE from letter mounted. Irregular shape slightly affected signature.........20-30
294. James Truslow Adams (1878-1949) American writer and historian. He was a freelance author who helped to popularize the latest scholarship about American history and his three-volume history of New England is well regarded by scholars. He coined the phrase "American Dream" in his 1931 book The Epic of America. TLS, London, 1932, 1p. Declines invitation to speak. 6 x 8 in. Fine..............40-60
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295. (BASEBALL LOT) MILT PAPPAS "Gimpy" (1939- ) Pitcher - SIGNED inscribed note paper - JIM PERRY(1935-) Pitcher - SIGNED 8x10 photograph with sentiment - JAMES KAAT "Kitty" (1938- ) Pitcher - ANS on 3x5 card that he is writing a book - KEN KELTNER (1916-1991) 3rd baseman, responsible for ending DiMaggio's Hitting Streak - SIGNED 5x7 print photograph - MAX LANIER (1915-2007) Pitcher, SIGNED 3X5 card............50-75
296. 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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297. (AMERICAN FILM STARS LOT) John Phillip Law (1937-2008) SIGNED 5x7 photograph – Betty FURNESS (1916-1994). TLS dated May 16, 1990 - Richard Maximillian Ney (1916- 2004) ALS 1992, with SIGNED, inscribed 4x4 photograph - Eddie Mayehoff (1909 –1992) TLS, 1990, with SIGNED print stock photograph, inscribed (folds) - Peter Lind Hayes (1915-1998-) &. Mary Healy (1918- ) ANS, by both on postcard, with Norman Rockwell portraits of them on front - Harold John Russell (1914 2002) SIGNED, inscribed 5x7 photograph (signed in dark area in red ink) - Nina Foch (1924- 2008). Signed, inscribed 8x10 photograph...........Min. Bid $50
298. John Gunther (1901-1970) American journalist and author whose success came primarily in the 1940s and 1950s with a series of popular sociopolitical works known as the "Inside" books. Signed, inscribed 4 x 6 photo. VG.......50-75
299. HARRY HAWKINS FLAGLER (1870-1952) American Philanthropist, Socialite, founder of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, son of Henry Flagler. SIGNATURE (1922) on verso is DANIEL FROHMAN (1851-1940) American Theatrical Producer and manager and early Film Producer.........50-75
300. [FILM] Edward Chodorov (1904-1988) Broadway playwright and he was the author or the producer of over 50 motion pictures. DOCUMENT SIGNED, July 11, 1935, 1p. To Samuel Goldwyn Inc., Hollywood, Cal., giving authorization to Vernopn D. Wood to accept delivery of any and all checks and/or sums of money payable to Chodorov. Lightly toned at right edge affecting nothing............50-75
301. [MUSIC] Sergiu Comissiona (1928-2005) Romanianviolinist and conductor. Signed 1973 FDC honoring George Gershwin. Clean with cachet.......25-35
302. [MUSIC] Louis Kentner [1905-1987] Hungarian, later British, pianist who excelled in the works of Chopin and Liszt, as well as the Hungarian repertoire. SIGNATURE on album page, 1942............25-35
303. OTIS CHANDLER - American Publisher - He was the 4th in a family line, who was publisher of the Los Angles Times. He became head in 1960 and stepped down in 1980. His tenure brought the paper to its highest level and down to its being sold. SIGNED 5x7 portrait photograph...............20-30
304. [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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305. 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
306. William Milligan [1821-1892] was a renowned Scottish theologian. He studied at the University of Halle in Germany, and eventually became a professor at the University of Aberdeen. He is best known for his commentary on the Revelation of St. John. He also wrote two other well known books that are classics: The Resurrection of our Lord and The Ascension of our Lord. ALS, 1868, 3pp, signed with his initials on page 4. Small loss affecting a word or two along edge.........50-75
307. [ENGLAND] David George Coke Patrick Ogilvy, 8th and 13th Earl of Airlie, KT, GCVO, PC, JP[1] (born 17 May 1926), is the eldest son of David Ogilvy, 7th (or 12th) Earl of Airlie and Lady Alexandra Coke. In 1984, Lord Airlie resigned from Schroder in order to take up the position of Lord Chamberlain. He was following in the footsteps of his late father, who served as Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, He remained in the post until 1997. He was made a Knight of the Thistle in 1985. Lord Airlie has also served as the Lord Lieutenant of Angus in Scotland, and as the Captain General of The Royal Company of Archers and Gold Stick for Scotland. His wife, formally known as the Countess of Airlie, is a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II. SIGNED 3-1/2 X 5 in. photo, signed on the back, with from his secretary.......20-30
308. [MUSIC] Ferdinand Q. Dulcken (1837-1902) German concert pianist and composer. ANS, no date, not translated. Approx. 6-3/4 x 3". VG...........40-60
309. Sidney Sheldon (1917- 2007) American writer and producer. TLS, 1991, 1p. Giving advice. VG............30-40
310. [MUSIC] Maryan Rawicz (1898-1970) Polish Pianist. Sig. inscribed.........20-30
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311. Edwin Percy Whipple (1819-1886] American essayist and critic. He was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1819. For a time, he was the main literary critic for Philadelphia-based Graham's Magazine. Later, in 1848, he became the Boston correspondent to the Literary World under Evert Augustus Duyckinck and George Long Duyckinck. Historian Perry Miller called Whipple "Boston's most popular critic". Whipple was a close friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne. After Hawthorne's death in 1864, Whipple served as a pallbearer for his funeral alongside Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Thomas Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Whipple's close relationship with other Boston-area authors occasionally tinted his reviews. Edward Emerson later noted, "No other member of the Saturday Club has ever been more loyally felicitous in characterizing the literary work of his associates." Clip Signature...........25-35
312. Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867) American physicist, great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, was born at Philadelphia. After graduating at the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1825, he acted as assistant professor there for some time, and as a lieutenant in the corps of engineers he was engaged for a short time in the erection of coastal fortifications. He occupied the post of professor of natural philosophy and chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1828 to 1841 and again from 1842 to 1843. He spent the years 1836 to 1838 in Europe on behalf of the trustees of what, in 1848, was to become Girard College. Abroad, he examined European systems of education and, on his return, published a very valuable report. In 1843, on the death of Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, he was appointed superintendent of the United States coast survey. He succeeded in impressing the United States Congress with a sense of the great value of this work and by means of the liberal aid it granted, he carried out a singularly comprehensive plan with great ability and most satisfactory results. By a skillful division of labour, and by the erection of numerous observing stations, the mapping out of the whole coast was completed. In addition, a vast mass of magnetic and meteorological data was collected. His autograph in the form of a FREE FRANK SIGNATURE [used in place of stamp on envelope]. Actual size 2-5/8 x 1-1/4 in. Mounted to another sheet; handly any margins; condition - stained..............50-75
313. [RELIGION] Marie-Dominique-Auguste Sibour (1792-1857) French Catholic Archbishop of Paris. He held in 1849 a provincial council in Paris, and in 1850 a diocesan synod. In 1853 he officiated at the marriage of Napoleon III, who had named him senator the previous year. He also aimed at introducing the Roman Rite in Paris and was progressing favorably in this direction, when he was assassinated by an interdicted priest named Jean-Louis Verger, who openly admitted to the crime. Archbishop Sibour may be the only cleric murdered in modern times due to his assassin's views on papal doctrine. ALS, 1856, 1p, 5 x 8 in. Speaks about Niederrmayer. Signed about 3/4 of the page down - followed by long postscript which continues on verso. VG...........100-150
314. [FRANCE] HENRY JOUIN [b.1841] Fr. writer. ALS, 1900, written on correspondence card. Bottom right corner trimmed. To Aimi Giron. Not translated.........................50-75
315. Jilly (Cooper) OBE (b. 1937) is an English author. She started her career as a journalist and wrote numerous works of non-fiction before writing several romance novels, the first of which appeared in 1975. She is most famous for writing the six blockbuster novels the Rutshire Chronicles. BRIEF TLS, 1979, 1p............25-35
316. [AMERICANA] The State of Maine imposes a $500 fine on the Town of Plymouth, Maine for not repaiting a road. Dated 1834, 1p, 7-3/4 x 12 in. VG................50-75
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317. Liverpool, England - manuscript document signed, 1852, 8pp. Indenture listing a Watchmaker, Hatter, Tailor, Draper, Paper Dealer, etc. Folds out to 9-3/4 x 15-1/2 in......35-45
318. [CINEMA] Val Guest (1911-2006) was a British film director, best known for his science-fiction films for the Hammer company in the 1950s, but who also enjoyed a long, varied and active career in the film industry from the early 1930s up until the early 1980s. SIGNED & INSCRIBED CARD, 1991, accompanied by small color print of his film Le Monstre..............25-35
319. [FILM] ANNE REVERE (1903-1990) Actress, Academy Award WINNER. SIGNATURE, inscribed attached to an 8x10 portrait photograph......30-40
320. [SIGNED BOOK] Albert L. Murray (b. 1916 in Nokomis, Mobile County, Alabama) is an African-American literary and jazz critic, novelist and biographer. SIGNED, inscribed copy of his book "From the Briarpatch File", dated 2002, 195 pages, with very good dust jacket. First edition. Murray and the American painter Romare Bearden were close friends and influenced each other's art. Bearden's 1971 six-panel, 18-foot collage "The Block" was inspired by the view from Murray's Harlem apartment.........40-60
321. [FILM] John Rhys-Davies (b. 1944) English-born Welsh actor and vocal actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the charismatic Arabian excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Clipped Signature. Mounted......20-30
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324. Jack (John Ludlow) Gould (1914-1993) American journalist and critic, who wrote commentary about television. He started as a copy boy at the New York Herald Tribune in 1932. In 1937 he moved to The New York Times, writing for the drama department and in the 1940s writing also about radio. In 1944 he became the newspaper's radio critic, and in 1948 the chief television reporter and critic. At one point he had eight people working under him. In the early 1960s he was a CBS executive for a short time but returned to the Times. Gould's columns and reviews (along with those of rival John Crosby of the Herald Tribune) were widely read by decision makers in the fledgling medium of television, and Gould had many professional and personal relationships with prominent industry figures such as Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly. He did not hold back harsh criticism, even when The New York Times itself produced its own public affairs program in 1963; he was aware of the potential power of television as a force for social good. His colleagues dubbed him "the conscience of the industry", to his own embarrassment. Offered here is a TLS, NY Times, Dec. 19, 1967, 1p, approx. 8.5 x 7 in. To Orville S. Poland of Blue Hill, Maine. Interesting content people's opinions. VG............50-75
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325. [ART] Louise Jopling (1843-1933) English painter of the Victorian era, and one of the most prominent female artists of her generation. Jopling exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She joined the Society of Women Artists (1880) and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters (1891); she became the first woman to be admitted to the Royal Society of British Artists (1901). ALS, no date, 4pp, approx. 4 x 6 in. Mounting traces along edge on last page. VG...............75-100
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326. Cyril Ritchard (1897-1977) Australian stage, screen and television actor, and director. He is probably best remembered today for his campy performance as Captain Hook in the Mary Martin musical production of Peter Pan. DOCUMENT SIGNED, April 21, 1961, 1p, 4to. An agreement to appear on the Hy Gardner Show [TV]. Fine............50-75
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327. [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..............40-60328. [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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329. Vassar Miller (1924-1998) was a writer and poet. She served as Poet Laureate of Texas (1988-1989). Three of her books won the annual poetry prize of the Texas Institute of Letters. In 1982 and 1988 Miller was named Poet Laureate of Texas, and in 1997 she was named to the Texas Women's Hall of Fame by the Governor's Commission for Women. Signed typed poem titled "Precision", 1p. Approx. 7 x 10 in. VG...................50-75
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330. [AMERICANA] Augustus Moore writes a 1833 letter from Charleston, South Carolina to his sister Lydia Moore in Frankfort, Maine. One full page + 1/2 page on address side which is postmarked [light now]. 7-3/4 x 9-3/4 in. VG...............50-75
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331. [BUSINESS] Frederick Fraley (1804-1901) American businessman, politician, and civic leader from Pennsylvania. He was involved in several successful businesses and served on the Philadelphia City Council and as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate. He was one of the founders of the Franklin Institute and one of the first directors of Girard College in Philadelphia. He worked for seven years as secretary of the American Fire Insurance Company and for twenty-three years as president of the Schuylkill Navigation Company. He also worked for the Western Savings Fund Society and as president of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company. He was associated with the Philadelphia Board of Trade and served as president of the National Board of Trade. In 1824 he was one of the founders of the Franklin Institute and served as treasurer for many years. In 1847, he became one of the first directors of Girard College. In 1853 Fraley became a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania. He also worked as president of the Western Saving Fund Society. In 1880, he received an honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He was one of the founders of the Union League of Philadelphia. For the last twenty-one years of his life Fraley was the president of the American Philosophical Society. Document Signed, American Fire Insurance Co., 1842, approx. 5-1/4 x 4 in. The ink is a little light...........Min. Bid $25
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333. [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
334. [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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335. [THEATRE] Charles Kelly (1839–1885) English actor/journalist and husband of actress Ellen Terry. Charles and Ellen met while appearing in Reade's plays, but they separated in 1881. Signature with inscription, Prince of Wales Theatre, Liverpool, 1870, approx. 4 x 4 in. VG..................20-30
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336. [ART] Mervin Jules (1912-1994) American painter & printmaker. Jules' woodcuts are represented in numerous collections. He was a teacher of art at the Fieldston School, the Museum of Modern Art (1943-46), the Baltimore Educational Alliance, the Veterans' Art Center and at Smith College. After teaching at Smith College from 1946-1969, in 1969 he became Chair of the Art Department at the City College of New York. He kept a studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he died. Brief 1981 ALS, 1p., about selling his prints. VG...............Min. Bid $20
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337. [NOBEL PRIZE] ROBERT M. SOLOW (1924- ) American Economist /1987 Nobel Prize Winner He-is one of the major figures of the Neo-Keynesian Synthesis macroeconomics. Together with Paul Samuelson, he formed the core of the M.I.T. economics department which has been widely viewed as the "mainstream" of the post-war period. Together, Solow and Samuelson have contributed to various landmark pieces of work: e.g. on von Neumann growth theory (1953), on capital theory (1956), on linear programming (1958) and on the Phillips Curve (1960). He is best known for his work on the Neoclassical growth model (1956, 1970). He was also one of the co-inventors of the constant elasticity of substitution (CES) production function (1961). He is also responsible for exploring and popularizing the "long-run multiplier" derived from a dynamic government budget constraint. (1973) - SIGNED/inscribed 5x7 photograph...........................40-60338. [FILM] Hume Cronyn (1911-2003) Canadian-born actor who was married to Jessica Tandy. TLS, 1957, 1p. Mentions the play "The Man In The Dog Suit" not yet finished. To M. Abbott Van Nostrand, the publisher of plays. VG...........40-60
339. (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
340. REPRESENTATIVES REPORT OF THE NINTH ANNUAL SESSION OF THE ROYAL CLAN O.S.C. Held in Chicago, Illinois, June 28, 29, 30th and July 1st 1887. T.G. Fleming writes a 25 page handwritten report "To the worthy Chief, Officers and Clansmen of Clan Gordon No. 19, Hartford, Conn. Scottish Clans. VG..................100-200
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341. HENRY MORGAN (1915-1994) Comedian, Radio and Television personality. DS, agreement (1965).............35-45
342. [MUSIC] Tristan Keuris (1946-1996) Dutch composer. Rare AMQS from his "String Quartet No. 2", dated 1994, inscribed.........40-60
343. Jarmila Novotna [1907-1994] Czech soprano. Signature in return address clipped from envelope........20-30
344. [AVIATION] WALTER HINTON (1888-1981) American Early Aviator, balloonist. CLIP SIGNATURE.........30-40345. [MEDICINE] DENTON COOLEY (1920) American Heart Surgeon first to implant an artificial heart. SIGNED 5x7 photograph (2000). VG.......25-35
346. HUNTINGTON HARTFORD (1911-2008) Producer. TLS (1958), BRIEF 1p. With envelope..........40-60
347. [FRANCE] Charles Lucas (1803-1889) French jurist and administrator, author of many books and articles on the abolition of the death penalty, the theory of preventive detention, law enforcement and imprisonment, and finally the civilization of war. ALS, 1828, 2pp. Speaks of Keratry and justice. Below signature of Lucas there are about 10 lines and sifnature of Auguste Hilarion, comte de Kératry [1769-1859] French poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, historian, and politician. He was the father of Emile de Kératry. VG.........60-80
348. [FILM] CHARLES L. BUSCH (1954) Actor, screenwriter, dramatist, female impersonator. TLS (2002)...........25-35
349. William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 4th Earl Fitzwilliam PC [1748-1833], styled Viscount Milton until 1756, was a British Whig statesman of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1782 he inherited his uncle Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham's estates, making him one of the richest people in Britain. He played a leading part in Whig politics until the 1820s. ALS, 1841, 1p, mounted attractively...........50-75
350. [PORTSMOUTH NH] Col. Otis Baker (1727-1801) He served during his life as: Colonel, Representative, Judge, Court of Common Pleas; Man of Committee of Safety (1776-77); Muster and Company Pay Master, 1776, 1777, 1778 (War years). Offered here is a 1773 document concerning land in Portsmouth, NH. Concerns Thomas W. Waldron, his wife Constant and son William. It appears that all of the handwriting is by Otis Baker, Justice of the Peace. Thomas Westbrook Waldron was a prominent political figure in Dover, New Hampshire and a military officer that fought in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). He later became a commissioner at Albany, New York and then a Royal councillor in 1782. During the American Revolution, Waldron abandoned his loyalist friend, New Hampshire Governor John Wentworth (governor) to become a patriot of the United States. He became a captain in the New Hampshire militia in the Siege of Louisbourg (1745). He commanded one of the whale boats that landed under fire from the Fortress. His correspondence from Louisbourg to his father gives a rare glimpse of life after the Siege. His letters to his father describe with some bitterness that the spoils of war did not go to New Englanders and rightly predicted that the men would be "Lul'd along" into occupying Louisbourg through the winter. Waldron is critical of General Samuel Waldo, referring to him as "Duke Trinkelo". Approx. 6-1/2 x 14+ in. Written on both sides. As you can see the top edge is very damaged..................200-300
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351. [NAVAL HISTORY] Samuel Smallcorn (c.1735-1793) Revolutionary War Naval Gunner and First Lieutenant. Appointed Gunner, Aug. 12, 1776, of the Continental frigate "Raleigh," Capt. Thomas Thompson, at wages of $15 a month. He did not remain on her long, as on Sept. 30, 1776, he was First Lieutenant of the brigantine "Reprisal," a privateer, then lying at Boston, Capt. John Wheelright; she was of about seventy tons, carried eight carriage guns (three pounders) and ten swivels, and seventy men, also provisioned for a cruise.Capt. Samuel Smallcorn married Jane Moore, Dec. 11, 1785, at Kittery, both residents. Offered here is a Signed document, Kittery (Maine), Feb. ? 1775, approx. 6 x 7-1/4 in. This is a receipt signed by Smallcorn who receives payment from Capt. Robert Follett who was also an interesting person. Robert Follett (1737-1780) was also a physician. He Commanded a company of Artillery at Kittery Point, Me., by return of Nov. 5, 1775. Was appointed Master of the Continental frigate, "Raleigh" Capt. T. Thompson, June 24, 1776; was discharged about Jan. 1, 1777. Also signed by others on verso. VG..............Min. Bid $100
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352. [MAINE] John W. Hubbard (1837 - 1863) Union Captain in the American Civil War. Assistant Adjutant on Gen. Weitzel's staff. Killed on May 27, 1863, at the battle of Port Hudson. His father John Hubbard (1794-1869) was the 22nd Governor of Maine. Offered here is a very fine letter written from Portland, Maine by John [Hubbard] to his father John Hubbard at Hallowell, Maine [stamp removed]. Dated Feb. 27, 1860, 4 full pages signed John. The Tom mentioned in the letter is his brother Thomas Hamlin Hubbard (1838-1915) who was a Union Army colonel from Maine during the Civil War who was awarded the honorary grade of brevet brigadier general, United States Volunteers, for meritorious service. Letter mentions the loss of the SS Hungarian, steamship of the Canadian Allan Line that was launched in 1858, completed in 1859 and sank in 1860; and the stealing or obtaining of Peck's safe by Neal Dow. Dow, who was of course famous for other things, became entangled in scandal when the State Treasurer, Benjamin D. Peck, lent out state funds to private citizens (including Dow) contravening state law. Peck lent large sums to himself, which were lost when his business ventures failed. Dow had guaranteed some of Peck's borrowing, and faced ruin as it became clear that Peck could not repay the state treasury. Dow was able to settle the debts and conceal much of his role in the affair, but enough of the scandal became known that some of his many enemies attacked him in local newspapers. Even some of his prohibitionist allies became less openly supportive of him. Hubbard writes that some say that Neal Dow was the bigger rascal of the two, Peck & Dow. He goes on the talk about the Hungarian sinking; Capt Jones had dined at their boarding house the day before he left Portland to England, his last trip. Fine condition.................Min. Bid $200
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353. [FRANCE] group of French autographs: [1] Jules Quesnay de Beaurepaire (1834-1923) magistrate and French writer. As a prosecutor about the Court of Appeal of Paris , he drew up an indictment against the General Boulanger . He resigned when the Dreyfus affair came before the criminal chamber of the Supreme Court (1899) and campaigned against the Dreyfus. He is known as a writer under the pen name "Jules Glouvet", "Jules Glouvet" and "Lucia Herpin." The guide Paris-Paris, who considers 1899 as a "reputation of Parisian life," says that he "is a journalist in a fit of bad temper". ANS, written on both sides of his calling card. [2] Louis-François Du Bois (first written Dubois) was born in Lisieux on 16 November 1773 and died in Mesnil-Durand on 9 July 1855, was a historian, poet, translator, scholar, agronomist, politician and administrator. ALS, 1843, 1p. [large stains]. [3] Alexandre Mercereau (1884-1945) writer and poet. ALS, 1907, 3pp. [4] Alphonse Lemerre (1838-1912) Fr. editor. ALS, nd, 2pp. [5] Alphonse Huillard-Breholles (1817-1871) historian. ALS, Paris, 1869, 3pp., signed H.B. [6] Charles Mere ( 1883-1970) French film director, screenwriter and playwright. ALS, 1967, 2pp., about his play 'Les Trois Masques'. [7] Emile Berr (1855-1923) Fr. journalist. ALS, 1896, 1p.................150-250
Bill of Sale For $75,000 Walt Kuhn Painting354. [ART] 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. Typed Document signed by Brenda Kuhn, an AGREEMENT AND BILL OF SALE, for a painting by Walt Kuhn titled "Brenda in Ogunquit." The painting was 50 x 30 in., sold by the Midtown Galleries in New York for the Kuhn Estate. The document has the signature of a Notary Public, dated 1989. VG......100-150......Min. Bid $25
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355. Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870-1965) American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters, and became a philanthropist. Interesting signed vintage photograph even with its condition faults. Baruch has signed and inscribed this photo to Leon Henerson (1895-1986) who was the administrator of the Office of Price Administration from 1941 to 1942. Henderson worked as an economic adviser in President Franklin Roosevelt's administration before he was appointed to the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1939.[4] In 1941 he became head of the Office of Price Administration. Baruch signed & dated this photo 1941. Condition: still contained in an old mat; one burn mark top edge [very visible]; also a surface flaw when held an an angle. Baruch signs "B.M." Doesn't add Baruch. Photo itself is 8x10 in..................80-120
356. 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
357. [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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358. [TV] Lea Thompson (b. 1961) American actress and director. She is best known for her 1990s NBC situation comedy Caroline in the City and her portrayal of Marty McFly's mother in the Back to the Future trilogy. Signed/inscribed 8x10 photo. VG..........20-30
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359. [SCOTLAND] Alexander Anderson (1845-1909) Scottish poet. AQS on 4.5 x 3.5 in. card. Light mounting trace in blank area o/w VG.......25-35
360. [ENGLAND] Jesse Collings [1831-1920]. English politician. Mayor of Birmingham (1878-80); M.P. (1880-1918); took part in Joseph Chamberlain' s municipal reform from Joseph Arch' s land-reform movement; used slogan "Three acres and a cow"; undersecretary to home department (1895-1902). ALS, 1883, 1p. VG.............25-35361. [MUSIC] Klaus Tennstedt (1926-1998) German conductor from Merseburg . He studied violin and piano at the Leipzig Conservatory. He became concertmaster of the orchestra at the Halle Municipal Theatre in 1948. However, a finger injury stopped his career as a violinist, and afterwards he worked as a coach to singers at the same theatre. Tennstedt then directed his talents toward conducting. In 1958, he became music director of the Dresden Opera, and in 1962, music director of the Schwerin State Orchestra and Theatre. Signed Toronto Symphony 1973/74 Season program, 4pp. Mail folds............25-35
362. [MUSIC] Ross Lee Finney Jr. (1906-1997) American composer born in Wells, Minnesota who taught for many years at the University of Michigan. He studied with Nadia Boulanger, Edward Burlingame Hill, Alban Berg (from 1931-2) and Roger Sessions (in 1935). His students included Leslie Bassett, George Crumb, Burton Beerman, Roger Reynolds, William Albright, Donald Bohlen, Robert Ashley, Robert Morris, Richard Toensing, Stephen Chatman, Rolv Yttrehus, Robert Cogan, Roland Trogan, George Balch Wilson, Philip Krumm, and Donald Harris. According to the notes for the Composers Recordings, Inc. recording of Finney's second cello sonata (about 1953), Chromatic Fantasy In E for Violoncello Solo (1957) and second piano trio (1954), he received the Rome Prize in 1960 and the Brandeis Medal in 1968. He is quoted in those notes as having begun writing serial music from time to time beginning with his sixth string quartet (a work which uses serial principles but is "in E" on the score), his next work to be composed after the sonata. He wrote eight string quartets, four symphonies as well as other orchestral works, other chamber works and songs. SIGNED book [hardbound] from his personal library. The contents of the book is the music of Jos. Hayden. Finney signed inside on the front flyleaf, 1927. Minor expected wear to cover..........50-75
363. [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
364. [From Walt Kuhn Estate] a week after his death in 1949, ART DIGEST referred to Walt Kuhn as "one of the most forceful, independent and self-disciplined painters of our time." That glowing evaluation is certainly just as valid today. [Written by Bennard B. Perlman, the art historian-author, from Baltimore]. Offered here are items from the Kuhn Estate in Maine. [1] Kennedy Galleries 1974 letter sending $3000 for month of June. At this time the Kennedy Galleries in New York was handling the Kuhn Estate and Brenda Kuhn received a monthly check of $3000 plus more if something sold. [2] Letter dated 1962 from attorney for Kuhn estate about Maine inheritane tax and a $125 bill for repairs to the painting "Landscape and Brook. [3] Dorsha Hayes (1897-1990) stage actress and dancer during the early 20th century. She was born in Galesburg, Illinois. She made her debut appearance in Pierre Loti's Daughter of Heaven in 1912. TLS, 1983, 1p. [4] Althea Bransom, neice of the noted artist Paiul Bransom. ALS, 1983, 1p. [5] Ruth M. Blaine - ALS, 1983, 2pp. about an UNSIGNED painting from the 1930s WPA project. She wants to know if Brenda thinks it is by Walt Kuhn. [6] Two letters, 1983, fromMaine Historical Society. [7] Brenda Kuhn (1911-1912) Co-manager, Kuhn Estate, New York City, 1949-1956; manager, Kuhn Estate, New York City, 1956-1966; Collection of Brenda Kuhn, Kuhn Estate, Cape Neddick, 1956-1966; founder, Cape Neddick Park, since 1965. President Kuhn Memorial Corporation, Cape Neddick, 1968-1975. Founder Walt Kuhn Gallery, Cape Neddick, since 1980. Brenda Kuhn has been listed as a noteworthy art historian by Marquis Who's Who. SIGNED 1967 bank check. [8] Thank you for donation card 1960, from Museum of Art, Ogunquit, Maine. [9] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) From 1969 to 1978 she was in charge of the art museum at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Later she moved north to Camden and was curator at the Farnsworth Museum. She was a close friend of Brenda Kuhn. 1p. ALS saying she was in Portland and saw "your father's paintings in the Barridoff [gallery' and the Museum." [10] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1985, 2pp. Mentions seeing painting by Walt Kuhn and Marsden Hartley. [11] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1984 on postcard - mentions Tea Party painting by Walt Kuhn "still puzzles me." [12] Synnove Haughom (1911-2005) ALS, 1984, 2pp. Talks about Port Clyde, maine and the church there says that "the Wyeths attend a different church - Ridge". The Wyeths, of course, were Andrew and Betsey Wyeth. [13] 2 page TLS from an attorney about the sale of a Kuhn painting titled "Brenda in Ogunquit." Price $75,000. [14] Brief autograph note dated 1983 re" birthday of a 3 year old child [Cape Neddick, Maine]. [15] Group of 3 Walt Kuhn gallery consignment sheets signed by 3 different artists 1986 & 1987. [16] 2 misc. items. In all approx. 20 pieces. VG..............Min. Bid $75
365. [MUSIC] Walter Damrosch (1862-1950) German-born American conductor and composer. He is best remembered today for conducting the world premiere performances of George Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F (1925), and An American in Paris (1928). ANS written at bottom of letter to him from the James B. Pond Lyceum Bureau. They ask Damrosch if he is available for "your delightful musical lecture..." THE BUREAU'S COMMISSION IS 20% OF THE GROSS but Damrosch says "Three hundred dollars of which I will allow you my usual commission of 10 percent. Yrs truly Walter Damrosch." Somewhat worn condition with some toning...........50-75
366. [OPERA] SCHUYLER CHAPIN (1923- ) American Opera Manager - He studied music with the great Nadia Boulanger.. From 1963 until 1968 he was vice president in charge of programming of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Upon the death (1972) of Goeran Gentele (whose assistant he had been), Chapin succeeded him as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, a position he held until 1976. He is the author of Leonard Bernstein: Notes from a Friend (1992) and Sopranos, Mezzos, Tenors, Bassos and Other Friends (1995). TLS dtd 3/20/75.....................Min. Bid $10
367. [OPERA] Maria Nemeth (1897-1967) Hungarian soprano, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, one of the leading dramatic sopranos of the inter-war period. ALS ON POSTCARD DATED 1925. In English. VG..........50-75
368. [MUSIC] JEAN-CLAUDE CASADESUS - French Conductor/Composer/Orchestra Director. He has written a number of pieces for the cinema and theatre, and trained as an orchestral director with Pierre Dervaux in Paris and Pierre Boulez in Basle. In 1969 he was appointed principal conductor of Opera de Paris and Opera Comique In 1971, he joined with Pierre Dervaux in setting up the Orchestre Philharmonique des Pays de Loire and was its Assistant director until 1976.. He then formed the Orchestre National de Lille of which he was appointed Music Director and to which he has since devoted the major part of the time. ANS on personal stationery card, 1993..........40-60
369. [MUSIC] Miriam Gideon (1906-1996) American composer. She was the second woman inducted into American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1975, Louise Talma being the first in 1974. ANS - HAS NO PHOTOS AVAILABLE. 6x4.........25-35
370. 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
371. [WORLD WAR I] William Jason Mixter, M.D. (1880-1958) prominent American surgeon. By the early 1930s, Mixter was considered to be one of the nation's leading experts in spinal surgery, and he went on to become the first chief of the neurosurgery department at Massachusetts General Hospital. He served in the U. S. Army in both world wars. In 1934, at the age of 54, Mixter and Joseph S. Barr published an article on the intervertebral disc lesion in the New England Journal of Medicine. That article fundamentally changed the popular understanding of sciatica at that time, and for this work Mixter is generally credited by his contemporaries as being the man who best clarified the relation between the intervertebral disc and sciatica. Mixter and Barr's landmark report helped to establish surgery's prominent role in the management of sciatica at the time. Over the next few decades, discectomy surgery increased in popularity tremendously, and some refer to that period as the "dynasty of the disc." Offered here are 5 items circa 1915 while Dr. Mixter was serving overseas. Two are documents plus a photo of him plus 2 other small photos. VG................100-150
372. [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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Scan 2373. 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
374. [ENGLAND] 4 signed address panels - 2 on each side of same sheet. Includes: Robert Fowler - eminent Anglican bishop in the late eighteenth and early 19th centuries. Signed as Bishop of Ossory 1835. Hugh Percy (1784-1856) signed 1835 as Bishop of Carlisle. Other side is: Edward Harcourt (1757-1847) signed 1835 as Bishop of York; Charles Richard Sumner (1790-1874) signed 1832 as Bishop of Winchester.........Min. Bid $40
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375. [KUHN ESTATE] The following from the Estate of Walt, Vera and Brenda Kuhn. [1] a 4-1/2 x 3-1/4" photo of the Walt Kuhn home in Cape Neddick, maine, taken by his daughter Brenda. [2] a 1989 Midtown Galleries exhibition brochure for Walt Kuhn. [3] receipt for Walt Kuhn's property tax bill, Wells, Maine, 1941. This would have been for the house shown in the photo offered here. [4] Walter Hatch TLS, 1941, to Walt Kuhn, saying there was an error in in tax bill. All items are directly from the Kuhn Estate...........100-150
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376. Soupy Sales (1926 –2009) American comedian, actor, radio-TV personality and host, and jazz aficionado. He was best known for his local and network children's television show, Lunch with Soupy Sales; a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark. SIGNED inscribed 10x8 color photo. VG..........35-45377. 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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378. (ART) August Mosca (1909-2002) Italian-American artist. This is a [plate signed] original lithograph from IMPROVISATIONS done in 1957. Noted artists draw directly on the lithographic plates. Each was used as an ad for various businesses. The proceeds went to Artists Equity. Sheet size is approx. 12 x 8.5 in...........50-75
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379. [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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380. [FILM] Sam Flint (1882-1980) American actor. Flint appeared in more than 230 films, often as a judge, lawyer, military officer, senator, sheriff, chief of police, or doctor. Vintage signed & inscribed 8x10 photo. Pin holes in corners............50-75
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381. Dick Van Patten (1928-2015) American actor, best known for his role as patriarch Tom Bradford on the television sitcom Eight is Enough. He began work as a child actor and was successful on the New York stage, appearing in more than a dozen plays as a teenager. SIGNED, inscribed 8x10 photograph. VG...........25-35
382. [THEATRE] OTIS SKINNER (1858-1942) American Actor - His first stage appearance was at the Philadelphia Museum in 1877 in Woodleigh.and made his New York City debut in 1879. During the next five years he developed a classical repertory and a successful acting style, first with Edwin Booth, at Booth's Theatre, and then, for three years, with Lawrence Barrett. In 1884 he joined Augustin Daly's company at Daly's Theatre, remaining with it for four years. He made his London debut in 1886 with Daly's company. After two years with the Booth-Modjeska company, he became, in 1892, leading man opposite Helena Modjeska. In 1903 he starred with Ada Rehan. By his own estimation he appeared in 16 plays of Shakespeare, "acting therein, at various times, 38 parts." In addition to his Shakespearean roles, Skinner's chief successes were in Kismet, which he played between 1911 and 1914, and Blood and Sand (1921), in which he played the matador, Juan Gallardo. Skinner was active in the theatre until his death. He was the author of Footlights and Spotlights (1924) and Mad Folk of the Theatre (1928). SIGNATURE with sentiment dtd 1922.....20-30
383. [SCIENCE] Alfred Newton [1829-1907]. English zoologist. First professor of zoology and comparative anatomy, Cambridge (from 1866); edited journals Ibis (1865-70), Zoological Record (1870-72); author of Dictionary of Birds (1893-96), etc. ALS, 1902, 2pp.............50-75
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384. Elden le Roy Auker (1910- 2006) American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball noted for his submarine pitching style. Signed card................20-30
385. Clement Furman Haynsworth, Jr. (1912-1989) was a United States judge and an unsuccessful nominee for the United States Supreme Court. TLS, 1981, 1p. "...One who approaches any undertaking obsessed with his expectation of personal gain is unlikely to contribute much to society..."..........35-45
386. [POSTAL HISTORY] John A. Cobb - Cobb led the Legion Guards in the 16th Georgia Infantry, Confederate Army. Group of 3 postmarked envelopes all addressed by John A. Cobb to Mrs. Howell Cobb, wife of HOWELL COBB (1815-1868) American political figure. A southern Democrat, Cobb was a five-term member of the United States House of Representatives and Speaker of the House from 1849 to 1851. He 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. Delegates of the Southern slave states declared that they had seceded from the United States and created the Confederate States of America. These date 1866, 1867 & 1889..........75-100
387. [SCIENCE] Claude-Louis Mathieu or Louis Mathieu (1783-1875 in Paris) French mathematician and astronomer who began his career as an engineer. He worked with the Bureau des Longitudes and tried to determine the distance of the stars. Awarded the Lalande Prize twice, in 1808 and 1815. ALS [1871], 3 full pages, approx. 5 x 8 in. VG.............60-80
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388. [EISENHOWER] offered here is a youthful color photo of Julie [Nixon] and David Eisenhower. Mounted to about 8 x 10, signed & inscribed on the mount. Julie signs the inscription and David add's his first name. Youthful pose. VG...............100-150
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389. (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
390. [ENTERTAINMENT] Nedra Volz (1908-2003) American actress. Born in Montrose, Iowa, she began her career in the family tent show, and appeared in vaudeville as a toddler (called "Baby Nedra"). In the early 1930s, Volz was featured vocalist with Cato's Vagabonds, a Des Moines, Iowa, big band that briefly enjoyed national popularity. Cato never made records, but Nedra managed to appear on exactly one 78 side, with Will Osborne's orchestra in 1933. Beginning with an episode of Good Times in 1975, she became a well-recognized supporting character actress, primarily on television and also in feature films. Offered here is a 3x5 card on which she has written about 13 lines and signed. VG..............Min. Bid $7
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391. [THEATRE] Dorothy Stickney (1896-1998) American film, stage and television actress, best known for appearing in the long running Broadway hit Life with Father. TLS, 1979, 1p, 7-1/4 x 10-1/2 in. To Franklyn Lenthall, actor, and director of the Boothbay {Maine] Theatre Museum. She mentions her broken hip caused by a mugger. VG.....................50-75
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392. [FILM] Esther Ralston (1902-1994) American movie actress whose greatest popularity came during the silent era. ALS, 1981, 1p...........35-45
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393. James Doohan (1920-2005) Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series Star Trek. Signed 8x10 color photo as "Scotty" from Star Trek. VG...............40-60
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394. William Babington Maxwell (1866–1938) was a British novelist. He was the son of novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Though nearly 50 years old at the outbreak of the First World War, he was accepted as a lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers and served in France until 1917. He wrote The Last Man In, a drama, produced 14 March 1910, at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, by the Scottish Repertory Company; and, with George Paston (i. e., Emily Morse Symonds), a farce, The Naked Truth, which was first played at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in April, 1910, and in which Charles Hawtrey played Bernard Darrell. ALS, 1934, 1p, addressed to Mr. Ellis D. Robb concerning the first edition of Maxwell's book ELAINE AT THE GATES. Maxwell recommends two London booksellers who may be able to supply Robb a copy. Approx. 7 x 8-3/4 in. A few spots near bottom................50-75
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395. [THEATRE] Johnstone Bennett [1870-1906] American stage actress. Signature on 6.5 x 4.5" slip...........20-30
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396. 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
397. From the private collection of HENRI CORBIERE, the noted French art critic. The following are original drawing was sent to Corbiere. STEFAN WALLMARK (born 1912) signed pencil drawing dated 1972, 12 x 8.5 in..........50-75
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398. [HOCKEY] Mike "Ritz, Rizzo" Eruzione (b.1954) American ice hockey player. He is best known as the captain of the 1980 Winter Olympics United States national team that defeated the Soviet Union in the famous "Miracle on Ice" game, in which he scored the game-winning goal. SIGNED, and inscribed 5x7 photo from the 1980 Gold Game. VG.....................50-75
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399. [FRANCE] BISHOP OF CHARTRES [1717-1780, Pierre-Augustin-Bernardin de Rosset de Fleury]. He was Bishop from 1748-1780. Document Signed, Paris, 1778, 1p, approx. 6-1/2 x 8-1/4". About Madame de Vauldrey. VG...........100-150
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400. Addison Irving Bacheller (1859-1950) was an American journalist and writer who founded the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States. ALS, 1929, 1p, to Darwin P. Kingsley, who was President of the New York Life Insurance Co. from 1906-1930. VG.................60-80
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401. CHUCK CLOSE - original color etching on Arches paper, FIGURE IN A DOORWAY, signed in pencil, dated 1964, edition 48/50. Image approx. 10-3/4 x 8-1/4 in. plus margins. Light sun toning in top right corner area. Outer margin edges have defects but not affecting image area. A very good impression of this scarce, early etching. Light sun toning in top right corner area. Outer margin edges have defects but not affecting image area.............2000/3000
402. RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. ORIGINAL drawing, NOT signed, titled CHESTER. Approx. 9 x 12 paper. Dated 1-6-82. VG.............100-150
403. RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. ORIGINAL ink drawing, signed, 1977. Approx. 11 x 13.5 in. VG..................150-200
404. Christo (1935-2020) artist known for large-scale, site-specific environmental installations, often large landmarks and landscape elements wrapped in fabric, including the Wrapped Reichstag, The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Running Fence in California, and The Gates in New York City's Central Park. Signed color print of THE UMBRELLAS (Japan Site), 1984-91. He has also signed the name of his wife Jeanne-Claude (1935-2009). Approx. 11 x 14-1/4 in. VG..........200-300
405. Robert Swain Gifford (1840-1905) American landscape painter. He was influenced by the Barbizon school. Much of his work focuses on the landscapes of New England, where he was born. He, along with Victorian contemporaries from the White Mountain and Hudson River Schools, helped immortalize the majestic cliffs of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy. His painting from the island, "Pettes Cove," is illustrative of his masterful marine work. In the 1870s, he undertook several journeys to Europe and the Middle East and painted some subjects from those regions. In 1899, he was an artist on the famous Harriman Alaska Expedition. Some of his works hang in the most prominent galleries in the USA, including the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC. He was a member of the Society of American Artists. Original etching, signed in the plate, c. 1879, image approx. 7 x 5 in. plus clean margins. Title is Coal-Pockets at New Bedford, Mass. VG...............200-300
406. Clara Klinghoffer (1900-1970) A woman who became a famous painter overnight at the age of 19. Now universally recognized as one of the greatest English woman painters, she was a poor and utterly unknown young girl from the East End when her first exhibition took the artistic world by storm in 1919. Hailed everywhere as the girl who could draw like Raphael, her superb technique has always been compared with the Old Masters, but at the time of her first show she had never seen any of the great Old Masters pictures. While living in Holland in 1939, discovering German spies had been planted in the household staff and aware that the invasion of Holland was imminent, the family returned to London briefly before departing for the United States. Before leaving Holland, their household furniture and some of her artwork were placed in storage in a Haarlem warehouse and subsequently stolen by the Nxxxs. In 1945, following the war, Clara divided her time between her studios in London and New York. Although she had exhibited in the United States during the forties, fifties and sixties, she refused to join the abstract expressionism which had become so popular in America. Offered here is an 1957 [plate signed] original lithograph from IMPROVISATIONS. Noted artists drew directly on the lithographic plates. Each was used as an ad for various businesses. The proceeds went to Artists Equity. Sheet size is approx. 12 x 8.5 in. VG..............150-200
407. Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) American artist, illustrator and author. He studied with the influential painters and theorists of his day, including Arthur Wesley Dow, William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, Abbott Thayer, and Kenneth Hayes Miller. A transcendentalist and mystic, Kent painted remote and austere lands, including Newfoundland (1914-15), Tierra del Fuego (1922-23), and Greenland (1929; 1931-32; 1934-35). Collotype offered here is from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1925.? Not in Burne Jones. Unsigned. Image sizes approx. 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches plus clean margins. Printed on copper plates by hand on French Arches hand-made paper. This is a proof printing. Fine, black impression, on cream wove paper, in excellent condition. Scarce............100-150
408. Engraving by Cook. Offered here is an original engraving by Cook. Image is approx. 3 x 3-5/8 in. plus margins. Some foxing at outer edges well away from image which is very good.............50-75
409. PIERRE TEYSSONNIERES (1834-?) was an etcher who specialized in reproducing popular contempory paintings of the 19th century for the general public as an affordable alternative to the actual paintings. Offered here is a book containing 48 original etchings by Tessonniers plus 2 double page etchings [middle fold] making it a total of 50 etchings. The 48 etchings are actually 24 images; 24 in black and 24 in light brown [bistre] ink. These are contained on a 1894 edition book Victor Hugo's Works, this being BUG-JARGAL. EDITION DE BIBLIOPHILE, LIMITED TO 250 copies on Japanese vellum. Bug-Jargal is a novel by Victor Hugo. First published in 1826, it is a reworked version of an earlier short story of the same name published in the Hugo brothers' magazine Le Conservateur litt_raire in 1820. The novel follows a friendship between the enslaved African prince of the title and a French military officer named Leopold D'Auverney during the tumultuous early years of the Haitian Revolution. Hugo later claimed that the story was to have been part of a collaborative work called Contes sous la Tente (Tales under a Tent), and that he had written it in 1818 (at the age of sixteen) in two weeks; the manuscript is however dated April 1819. Condition: blue cloth covers are very good; was not issued in dust jacket; 304 pages, 5-3/4 x 9 in. All of the etchings are in VERY FINE condition...........Min. Bid $175
410. Charles Adams Platt (1861-1933) A painter, architect, etcher and writer, Charles Adams Platt quickly became one of America's most highly regarded landscape artists during the late nineteenth century. He first studied art at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League of New York before finishing his formal training under Boulanger and Lefebvre, in Paris. During his successful career, Charles Adams Platt received many awards, including the bronze medal from the Paris Exposition of 1900. He was a full member of the Society of American Artists (1888), the National Academy of Design (Associate, 1897: Academician, 1911), the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Institute of Architects, the New York Etching Club and the London Society of Painter-Etchers. Offered here is his etching STREET at HONFLEUR, FRANCE, plate signed and dated 1882, image approx. 4 x 8-1/2 in. plus clean margins. Very fine condition..............200-300
411. A limited edition hand pulled lithograph titled Rose by William G. Haendel (American, b. 1926-2020). Haendel was born in Wisconsin, receiving his education at the University of Wisconsin Madison as well advanced studies in Seattle and London. He is a sculpture professor at the University of Illinois, most notably known for his paper sculpture. The print Rose depicts a single stemmed red rose to the center arched by the upward view of teeth that are supported by two armed soldiers. This is pencil signed, titled and numbered XXI / XXV. This is an artist proof, of which there were 25. The regualr edition 50. The print is in very good condition. You see in the picture below signs of the shrinkwrap protecting the print. Paper size is approx. 14-1/2 x 11 in. VG...............100-150
412. Joseph Wasser (1900-?) pencil signed hand-colored lithograph, numbered 81/250. Image approx. 11 x 9 in. plus margins. VG.................50-75
413. RICHARD CARLE - deceased New England artist. Worked a lot around Boston and the north shore. ORIGINAL drawing, signed, 1980. Paper size approx. 11 x 13-1/2 in. VG................200-300
Original Etching By German Expressionist 414. [ART] FREDERICK "Fritz" SOLOMON (1899-1980) German Expressionist artist. Original etching, unsigned, image approx. 5 x 3.5 in. plus margins. Comes with biographical information. This is, without doubt, by Solomon and guaranteed to be so without a time limit. Solomon won the Mowbray Prize [1944] in London; was listed in WHO'S WHO IN ART [1954 London edition]. He studied art with such famous German artist's as: Max Liebermann, Martin Brandenburg, Eugene Spiro & Willy Jaeckel [Masterclass]. Exhibitions: Berlin, Cologne, Capetown, Haifa, London [Royal Academy], U.S., and in 1958 had one-man show at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Havana, Cuba. In 1956 several of his paintings were exhibited at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio. He died in the U.S. We purchased his personal papers and most of his drawings at his estate sale. His work is fairly scarce. The photos shown below in 2nd scan DO NOT accompany this etching and are not for sale........100-150
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415. [ART] Stephen James Ferris [1835-1915] influential Philadelphia painter and etcher. Original etching, "AN EASTERN PRINCESS", from a painting by J.G. Jacquet. Image 8-1/8 x 4-3/4" plus margins which are fairly clean with only the slightest signs of age.............80-120.................Min. Bid $25
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416. [ART] Salvatore Grippi (1921-2017) important American artist. One of the underrepresented figurative expressionist members of the New York School featured in Herskovic’s book is Salvatore Grippi, who was born in 1921 in Buffalo. After participating in the major invasions in Europe during World War II, Grippi came back to New York and attended the Art Students League under the G.I. Bill from 1945 to 1948. From 1951 to 1953, Grippi was at Atelier 17, the famous printmaking studio run by British artist Stanley William Hayter, who taught printmaking to Pollock and Rothko, among many other abstract expressionists. Grippi would later contribute an etching to the well-known portfolio Twenty-One Etchings and Poems [1958], including work by such artists and poets as Frank O’Hara, Franz Kline, Grippi’s brother Peter Grippe, and Dylan Thomas. From 1953 to 1955, Grippi worked in Florence, Italy, with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship. He taught for several years at the Cooper Union Art School before moving to California to teach at Pomona College. In 1968, Grippi was asked to start the art department at Ithaca College and taught there until 1991. Grippi, who worked and exhibited alongside the likes of de Kooning, Nevelson, and Kline during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s. In 2011, he was honored with a solo retrospective at Cornell University's Johnson Museum of Art. He was a significant figure in postwar abstraction and his work from this period has graced the walls of MoMA, the Whitney, and the Met but has seldom appeared at auction. Offered here is a signed ink drawing, approx. 13 x 10 in. VG.............200-300
See above417. [ART] William Grainger - 18th century British engraver, active 1784-1793. Original copperplate engraving c. 1790s, image size approx. 3-3/4 x 3-3/4" plus margins. Clean image area and surrounding; spots and stain in outer margins. VG......50-75
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