1927. Softcover. Decorated suede covers (9-1/4" x 6-1/2") with a rawhide tie containing 94 4-1/4" x 3-1/2" original photographs captioned in white ink on the album pages and 6 4" x 6" commercial photographs with captions in the negatives, all documenting an automobile trip out west, starting in or near.....
Washington DC: 18 January 1900. Letter. Fine SIGNED handwritten four-page letter on all sides of a 9-1/2" x 7-3/4" sheet of paper folded in half to a Miss R. K. Crandall, written in answer to an inquiry about documents concerning American foreign affairs. In part: "Miss Donnely was instructed to.....
1967 - 1968. hardcover. Autograph Guest Book (10" x 7-5/8") in gilt-lettered red cloth maintained 1967-1968 by the Banfer Gallery, Inc. in New York City and containing autographs on 95 pages including Edward Albee, John Ashbery, Paul Cadmus (5 times), Truman Capote, Jean Charlot, Adolf Dehn, Michael Frank, Stephen Holden.....
New York: 1950. A scarce 8" x 10" Black-and-White Formal Photograph SIGNED by Bill Wilson: "To Martie C--/With affection/and thanks/Bill/NY -- 9/50."
Portland [ME]: Lamson, n.d. Photograph. Wonderful SIGNED photograph (2-1/2" x 3-7/8") of Hans Christian Andersen seated at a small table and holding an open book. On the otherwise blank verso of the photograph, Andersen has written, in English, "The first moment of arrival at home is however the Bouquet of.....
New York & London: John Lane, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Anderson's third book and first book of poetry, this copy a superb Association copy INSCRIBED simply "Miss Marietta Finley" and SIGNED "Sherwood Anderson" in green ink on the front endpaper. Anderson met unmarried, 24-year old "Babs" Finley at the Art.....
(New York): (Limited Editions Club), (2005). Benny Andrews. First Edition. Original Art. Folio (19-1/2" x 25-1/2") consisting of 6 color etchings and 2 letterpress text pages: a title page and a colophon page. There were 300 copies of O'Connor's book illustrated by Benny Andrews and published by the Limited Editions.....
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[London]: [T. Bensley for the author], [1803-1815]. First Edition. Hardcover. Six (of 10) large quarto (8-5/8" x 11-1/8") volumes bound in half brown morocco with marbled boards and matching morocco corners, gilt-lettered spines; marbled endpapers. Volumes 5 - 10 of a ten-volume set. The letterpress title page giving publication information.....
Chicago: 23 January 1897. Letter. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to an unknown recipient on 48 Lake Shore Drive letterhead (9-3/4" x 7-7/8" folded to 4-7/8" x 7-7/8" with the writing on two separate sides) with an INITIALED additional note. In full: "My Dear Sir I was not the first woman.....
New York: Susan B. Anthony, (1902). First Edition. Hardcover. The fourth volume, eventually complete in six volumes, in publisher's purple cloth. Illustrated with copperplate and photogravure engravings. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Anthony on her birthday, filling the front free endpaper: "Mrs Mariana Wright Chapman/Brooklyn -- New York --/This Huge Volume.....
14 June 1970. Letter. Fine 4-page letter written entirely in the jazz legend's hand with interesting personal content on the back of four 8-1/2" x 11" photocopies of his advertisement for "Lose Weight The Satchmo Way," often used by Armstrong as stationery to his frequent correspondent, Mr. Kauffmann. Armstrong mentions.....
Birmingham: 14 September 1938. Letter. Superb 1-1/2 page TYPED LETTER SIGNED on both sides of an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper to American historian, philosopher, and literary critic Lewis Mumford. In part: "I nearly wrote you a fan letter once before, when I read CIVILIZATION AND TECHNICS, and now.....
New York: V. G. Audubon, 1851-1851-1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Octavo Edition of the first volume, First Editions of the second and third. Three volumes in modern half black morocco leather with matching corners, retaining the original marbled boards, all edges marbled; 6-3/4" x 10-3/8"; viii, 383, [1] pages; [2].....
Louisville, KY: 3 February 1870. Letter. A 2-page letter on the front and verso of a 5-1/8" x 8" sheet of blindstamped Galt House letterhead addressed to Mr. Grinnell and SIGNED as "P. T. Barnum." In full: "I enclose a letter from Congressman Kellogg according to my agreement with you.....
Bridgeport, CT: 29 August 1890. Letter. A 2-page letter on two 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" sheets of Barnum's Marina letterhead addressed to Mrs. [Alice Graham] Lanigan and SIGNED as "P. T. Barnum." Barnum discusses a sketch being written by Mrs. Barnum and an unnamed neighbor (who might possibly be fictitious). In.....
Glen Echo, MD: 4 February 1906. Letter. A four-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED on both sides of a 10-5/8" x 6-3/4" sheet of light blue paper from the 85year-old founder of the American Red Cross to her friend and supporter Roscoe [Green Wells], who held various positions in the National First.....
Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1765. First Edition. Hardcover. The First Baskerville Edition and the Eighth overall. Quarto (9-7/8" x 12-1/2") bound in original blue paper-covered boards with light green paper backing, uncut and mostly unopened; [12], [ii]-xiii, [2], 504, [18] pages. Gaskell 30 describes that the errata leaf is frequently missing.....
Photograph. An 8" x 10" photo of Belafonte with his business manager, Jay Kennedy, and another man, apparently producer Sidney Buchman, Kennedy's partner, at a restaurant table from the early to mid-1950s. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Belafonte to Kennedy: "Dad! Dad!! Dad!!! On this day we released ourselves to further.....
New York & Melbourne: This Is the Army, Inc. and Allan & Co. Pty. Ltd., (1942) but later. wraps. Quarto (9" x 12") in green illustrated wraps; 4 pages including covers. Vintage sheet music with words and music by Irving Berlin. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the composer on the front.....
[1981]. Hardcover. Thick quarto (8-7/8" x 11-3/4" x 3" thick) in a plastic-enclosed black pebbled leather 3-hole binder containing 194 vintage pieces of sheet music by Irving Berlin, likely all reprints, specially compiled and arranged alphabetically with a special contents page bound at the front. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the.....
[New York]: [Limited Editions Club], [1994]. John Biggers. First Edition. Original Art. Large folio consisting of 5 ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS and the title and colophon pages. For her favorite poem, originally published in I SHALL NOT BE MOVED, Angelou chose the internationally acclaimed African-American printmaker John Biggers to illustrate a book.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Bishop's first book, of which only 1000 copies were printed. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award. Owner name of Marjorie Bailey neatly penned on the front endpaper, quite likely belonging to the noted professor of English and Dramatic Arts and Literature.....
Athens, GA & London: The University of Georgia Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. A Review Copy with publisher's inserts laid in. This copy SIGNED by 14 contributors on the front endpaper including Allen Ginsberg, Donald Hall, Robert Pinsky, Robert Hass, Robert Bly, Philip Levine, Charles Simic, Stephen Dobyns, Robert Creeley.....
Philadelphia: W. Spotswood, R. Campbell, and B. Johnson, 1792. First American Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (4-1/8" x 6-3/4") bound in contemporary calf leather with gilt rules on the spine and a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; xiii, xii-xvi, 557, [1-advertisement for Spotswood's books] pages, as issued. Originally issued in London in.....
n.p. 31 December 1856. Manuscript. A handwritten poem on a 7-1/2" x 8" sheet of paper folded vertically SIGNED "W. C. Bryant" at the conclusion. The poem consists of 6 six-line stanzas with the second and third stanzas transposed from the final printed version and the second stanza here containing.....
