SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH
Photograph. Carte-de-Visite (2-1/2" x 4") photograph of Ralph W. Emerson. A distinguished bust-length profile by Allen [Boston], boldly SIGNED on verso: "R.W. Emerson." Signed photographs of Emerson are very scarce.
Photograph. Carte-de-Visite (2-1/2" x 4") photograph of Ralph W. Emerson. A distinguished bust-length profile by Allen [Boston], boldly SIGNED on verso: "R.W. Emerson." Signed photographs of Emerson are very scarce.
1848. Letter. One-page letter to the Honorable John Davis, former governor of Massachusetts and United States senator at the date of this letter: 11 August 1848. On an integral sheet is Everett's SIGNATURE with a Cambridge postmark, red wax seal, and a free frank in the form of a stamp.....
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Nicely INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author to a close friend: "For my beloved Florence, this one,/after a long wait. And this one comes/at a time of new beginning, a time/of new strength and of healing./Through the years, Florence,/God love.....
London: MacMillan and Co., 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Original red cloth. BAL 7345: First one-volume edition, published earlier in the year in two volumes. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Harte to J. W. Wheeler "for his admirable services for the/Plaintiff in the case of `Common Sense vs The Good Old Times'.....
n.p. [1880]. First Edition. Wraps. Printed wraps; 4 pages, the last blank. SIGNED on the top margin of the front page "With Compliments/R. B. Hayes" by the President. Prints Hayes's speech celebrating the election of James Garfield to succeed him as President. "You all remember how four years ago the.....
Framed Autograph. A 5-1/2" x 3" index card SIGNED "Billie Holiday," attractively matted and framed with a 7-1/2" x 10" original photograph to an overall size of 13" x 20-1/4." One of the largest Holiday signatures we have seen at 4" x 2."
(Boston). Letter. A brief AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED as "O. W. Holmes" to Dr. Bowditch on a 4-1/2" x 6" sheet of paper dated February 25, no year, thanking him for his letter. In part: "I had thought of sending it to your cousin Frank Bowditch, and I wish you would.....
Boston: n.d. [1880?]. Letter. A one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED as "O. W. Holmes" to Dr. Bowditch on a 4-1/2" x 6" sheet of paper, not dated. In full: "Pray help me out of this scrape. I can't read the man's name, nor a word of his letter, but as far.....
Boston: 19 December 1891. Letter. A one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED in full "Oliver Wendell Holmes" on one panel of a 9" x 7" sheet of paper folded into fours. In full: "My dear little Lady, Do you think I could refuse writing you that 'little letter' you ask for? No.....
Beverly Farms, MA: 24 August 1878. Manuscript. On a 6-1/8" x 6-3/8" piece of lined paper the author has written the following six-line stanza from his poem "The Silent Melody": Sweet are the lips of all who sing When nature's music heather unsought But never yet could voice or string.....
Boston: 10 March 1888. Manuscript. On a 6-7/8" x 9" piece of paper the author has written the following seven-line stanza from one of his best known poems "The Chambered Nautilus": Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each.....
Boston: 2 January 1894. Letter. A fine 1-1/4 page letter of @50 words on Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court 4-7/8" x 8" stationery SIGNED by the Justice to an unnamed correspondent. Holmes transmits the address of an editor that his correspondent might contact in order to have a piece of writing.....
Paris: 24 November 1920. Letter. Small (4-1/2" x 6-1/2") AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "James Joyce" to Madame Yasushi Tanaka (Louise Gebhard Cann) on blue paper integral with envelope which is addressed in Joyce's hand and postmarked on the verso. In full: "Dear Madam, In reply to your letter I shall call.....
Tulsa, OK: 17 March 1922. Letter. Fine three-page letter on Hotel Tulsa stationery, 6" x 9-1/4", of @600 words to a Miss Hortop SIGNED in pencil by Keller. In part: “The lovely verse you sent brought a glow to my heart. But I did not need it to know that.....
Lincoln, NE: 17 December 1921. Letter. A charming two-page letter on two sheets of The Lincoln hotel stationery (5-1/2" x 9-1/4") addressed to "Bebe" and SIGNED in pencil by Keller. In part: "The other day, when we were walking along the main street of Lincoln, Nebraska, on our way to.....
Wrentham [MA]: 7 January [1904-1917]. Letter. A lovely one-page letter on a sheet of 8-1/2" x 11" paper addressed to a friend named Villa and SIGNED in pencil by Keller. In full: "Teacher [Anne Sullivan] is right in the midst of pies, and she wants me to thank you for.....
Washington DC: 21 May 1953. Framed Letter. On 8-1/2" x 11" United States Senate stationery to John Keegan thanking him for his views "concerning the security test for federal employees" and promising to consider them "should legislation be brought before the Senate." SIGNED at the conclusion with the following 21.....
(Fairview Village, PA & Plainsboro, NJ): W. Neale Lanigan, Jr. and La Scala Autographs, 1978. First Edition. Softcover. Softcover. Introduction by Charles Hamilton. Illustrated with hundreds of facsimile autographs. Useful compendium for early motion picture autographs.
Framed Autograph. A 5" x 3" index card SIGNED "Love! Peggy Lee," attractively matted and framed with a 7" x 9" original photograph to an overall size of 13" x 20-1/2." Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress with a career spanning seven.....
New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the great boxer on a special page tipped-in by the publisher. Illustrated with numerous photographs.
(New York): (Lion Heart Autographs), (2003). First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (9" x 12") in cloth-backed boards; 147, (2) pages. A collection of 100 items, all illustrated. Price list laid in.
n.p. 17 July 1848. Manuscript. A SIGNED AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION on a 4-1/8" x 6-5/8" sheet from the novel FALKLAND by Edward Bulwer Lytton, dated 27 July 1848, written to William W. Stickney, U. S. Attorney for the state of New Hampshire. In full: "The passions are like sounds of nature.....
New York: Crown Publishers, (1973). First Edition. hardcover. Illustrated with reproductions of over 350 signatures of authors, political leaders, musicians, scientists, artists, explorers, etc.
Framed Manuscript. On a 3-3/4" x 3-3/4" sheet [sight] Porter has written in green pencil a two-bar melody quotation from his 1932 song "Night & Day," and SIGNED below it "Cole Porter." It is matted with a 4-1/2" x 6-1/2" photo of Porter and framed to an overall size of.....
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. Illustrated with photographs. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the dedication page that states "To the American People": "To Dr. Rodger Friedman--/With Very Best Wishes + Regards/Ronald Reagan/March 22, 1990." Reagan is quite uncommon in authentically autographed books.....