Price: $2,750 American nature photographer. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, quarto, February 6, 1960. On his name imprinted stationery, to “Dear Nick.” “It was good to talk with you the other day – although I must have sounded very dull indeed! This flu is bad stuff!! I am still in bed with it, and I … [ Read More ]
Addison, Joseph
Price: $5,750 English essayist, poet and statesman; with Richard Steele produced the non-political Spectator. Document Signed, one page, quarto, Whitehall, January 29, 1717/18. Addison, signing on the verso of an account of Henry Worsley’s extraordinary expenses on behalf of the King, makes a two-line statement authorizing payment. The lower left corner has been torn off, … [ Read More ]
Alexander III
Price: $125,000 AN EXTRAORDINARY DOCUMENT SIGNED BY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POPES OF MEDIEVAL TIMES [1159-1181]. Pope Alexander III. Document Signed, as Pope, one page, folio [28 by 24 inches], on vellum, Rome, May 25, 1163. The Pope’s signature appears beneath the text between the sign of the Rota and the Benevalete sign; countersigned and dated … [ Read More ]
Alphonso XI
Price: $47,500 King Alphonso XI of Castile and Leon [1312-1350]. Royal Charter, one page, 32 by 23 1/2 inches, on vellum, Royal Chancery, Segovia, September 29, 1344. Written in Castilian vernacular with the royal names, the opening device and the King’s seal painted in red, green, blue and biege. Fine condition. An important and exceptionally … [ Read More ]
Anne, Queen of England
Price: $12,500 Queen of England. Letter Signed, Good cousin and friend / and good sister, cousin,/ and friend / AnnaR, two and two-thirds pages, tall quarto, Given at Our Palace at Windsor, July 3, 1709. Countersigned by H. Boyle. To Franz Ludwig, Count Palatine, Bishop of Worms, and Johann Wilhelm, Count Palatine on the Rhine, … [ Read More ]
Anthony, Susan B
Price: $8,750 American woman suffrage advocate. Autograph Letter Signed twice, initials, at the conclusion of the letter and after the postscript, five pages, octavo, Rochester, New York, May 31, 1873. To Mrs. Davis, who was apparently acting as treasurer of the National Woman Suffrage Association; she had become discouraged with the suffrage cause and was … [ Read More ]
Architecture
Price: $2,500 Norman Houston, Paul Williams, Walter Gordon. The first black architectural firm. Typewritten Letter Signed, Norman Houston, Paul R. Williams, Walter A. Gordon, one page, quarto, [1943]. On stationery with a colored illustration of a cameraman filming a residential lakefront neighborhood. Two tall palm trees are drawn in the left margin. “Greetings to Walter … [ Read More ]
Armstrong, Louis
Price: $2,750 American jazz trumpet player. Three-quarter length Photograph of Armstrong wearing a white suit, and playing his trumpet, Signed and Inscribed in green ink in the upper right portion, “To Max Turner… Louis Armstrong.” The black and white photograph measures 8 inches wide by 10 inches high. Matted in ivory and gray, and framed … [ Read More ]
Astaire and Rogers
Price: $1,750 Legendary Hollywood dance team. Full-length Photograph of the duo, each posing with their right hand on their right knee and their left hand on their left hip, Signed by each in the light portion of their corresponding image. Astaire’s signature appears in red ink. The black and white photograph measures 8 inches wide … [ Read More ]
Astaire and Rogers
Price: $1,750 Legendary Hollywood dance team. Three-quarter-length photograph of the two, wearing formal attire and dancing in their 1939 RKO movie, The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, inscribed by Miss Rogers “To Diane / Blessings / from” and signed by each in the light lower portion, undated. Framed in antiqued beaded gilt with a … [ Read More ]
Astaire and Rogers
Price: $1,250 Legendary Hollywood dance team. Two very fine signed studio photographs of pair, framed as an ensemble. Each measures 10 by 8 inches and is signed boldly, in the light portion. Matted in gray and deep blue. In a wide gilt frame measuring 22 inches wide by 15 1/2 inches high. This item is … [ Read More ]
Astaire, Fred
Price: $750 Legendary Hollywood dancer. Full-length Photograph of Fred Astaire and co-star Joan Leslie, wearing formal attire and dancing in their 1943 RKO film The Sky’s The Limit, Signed by Fred Astaire in the light portion to the left of his image. The black and white photograph measures 8 inches wide by 7 inches high. … [ Read More ]
Astronauts
Price: $12,500 Apollo XI. Signed Photograph of the Apollo XI lunar astronauts crew posing in their space suits against a lunar background, Inscribed by Armstrong and Signed on the mount below, “Best Wishes To James E. Rogan / Neil Armstrong “. Also Signed by M. Collins and Buzz Aldrin. The color photograph measures 14 inches … [ Read More ]
Avery, Oswald T.
Price: $15,000 DNA pioneer. Typewritten carbon copy excerpt: “Part of a letter from Dr. O. T. Avery to his brother Roy C. Avery, dated May 13, 1945, just after his retirement from the Rockefeller Institute, when he was considering moving to Nashville, Tennessee. Original in the possession of R. C. Avery, Vanderbilt University Medical School, … [ Read More ]
Aviation
Price: $1,250 Cover Signed by the four crew members of the NC-4, bearing the imprint “Carried by U.S. Navy seaplane NC-4” with the post mark, November, 1919. Signed by Al Reed, M.S.N; James L. Breese U.S.N.R.F; E. S. Rhoades, U.S.N.; & Walter Hinton in the top left portion of the envelope. The NC-4 was the … [ Read More ]
Babbage, Charles
Price: $3,750 English mathematician and mechanical genius; perfected a calculating machine, the forerunner of the modern computer. Autograph Letter Signed, C Babbage, two pages, octavo, Com[mitte]e Room, December 1, 1832. To W. Venning. “I regret exceedingly that on consulting my Committee they advise me not to have a meeting at Holloway on account of the … [ Read More ]
Bacon, Sir Francis
Price: $25,000 English philosopher, essayist and historian. Document Signed, Fr. Bacon, five lines on a legal folio page, January 2, 1616/17. “Know that the honorable Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, hath borrowed and received of Sir Arthur Ingram, Knight, the sum of five hundred pounds…. I do promise to repay…the 22nd of February in witness hereof … [ Read More ]
Baden-Powell, Robert
Price: $1,500 Founder of the Boy Scouts. Autograph Letter Signed, three pages, large octavo, East London, [South Africa], February 19, 1927. On his imprinted stationery, to Lt. Col. Smedley Williams. “Just a line to thank you and congratulate you on the success of the Rally today. I was very pleased with all that I saw, … [ Read More ]
Baden-Powell, Robert
Price: $2,250 Founder of the Boy Scouts. Autograph Letter Signed, four pages, octavo, April 1, 1927. On imprinted stationery of the Union-Castle Line R•M•M•V “Carnarvon Castle,” to Lt. Col. Smedley Williams. Concerning the organization of the Boy Scouts movement in South Africa. Fine condition. “I sent Mansergh a final appeal yesterday to reconsider his view … [ Read More ]
Baker, Josephine
Price: $3,750 Photograph Signed, Josephine Baker, written in dark ink in light part of her skirt and train. The black and white photograph measures 3 inches wide by 5 inches high. Born in the slums of St. Louis, Josephine Baker made her name as a dancer at the Plantation Club in Harlem. She transformed herself … [ Read More ]
Barnum, P T
Price: $1,250 American showman; creator of The Greatest Show on Earth. Autograph Letter Signed, one page, octavo, Bridgeport, Connecticut, September 24, 1881. On lined paper, imprinted with the name, “Waldemere.” To “My dear Dr. Reid.” “I have just returned from the great show at St. Louis and found your letter. I hope Mr. Wildman has … [ Read More ]
Bates, Katharine Lee
Price: $7,500 American poet. Typewritten Manuscript Signed and Inscribed, “Katharine Lee Bates, With Friendly Greetings to Mr. and Mrs. Benson and Barbara,” one page, quarto, undated. The typewritten manuscript is of Bates’ patriotic hymn, America the Beautiful. “O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! … [ Read More ]
Beatles
Price: $7,500 British rock ‘n roll singers. Large bold signatures of each Beatle on separate sheets of paper. George Harrison signs a sheet of paper measuring 4 inches wide by 2 3/8 inches high; John Lennon signs on a sheet of paper measuring 5 inches wide by 2 inches high; Ringo Starr signs and underlines … [ Read More ]
Beatles
Price: $14,500 British rock n’ roll singers. Signatures, on one page in an octavo notebook belonging to a girl named Nicola, [1967] . Inscribed “McCartney loves Nicola (true)”, the inscription annotated by McCartney’s sketch of three flowers. Ringo Starr signs “love Ringo Starr” and John Lennon signs it twice, with the second signature partly deleted. … [ Read More ]
Bell, Alexander Graham
Price: $8,500 American inventor of the telephone. Letter Signed, two and one-half pages, quarto, Northampton, Massachusetts, March 15, 1906. To Dr. A. L. E. Crouter, president of the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf. Also signed by three witnesses. “As I am about to sail for Europe, and since I … [ Read More ]
Ben-Gurion, David
Price: $1,750 Israeli Prime Minister. Autograph Letter Signed, D. Ben-Gurion, one page, octavo, Tel Aviv, April 20, 1966. In Hebrew, on a thin sheet of lined paper, to Hannah Bentov. “I am in Tel Aviv until Saturday morning. If you can come to me before then, I will talk with you most willingly. Call me … [ Read More ]
Ben-Gurion, David
Price: $4,750 Israeli Prime Minister. Bust-length Photograph of the prime minister in mid-speech, pointing his finger, Signed, D. Ben-Gurion, on the mount below. The black and white photograph measures 3 ½ inches wide by 5 inches high.
Bentham, Jeremy
Price: $3,500 English philosopher and jurist; one of the chief expounders of Utilitarianism; author of Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, full page, small quarto, undated. Fine condition. A portion of the original manuscript of the second edition of Chrestomathia, with corrections and additions in the text by Bentham. “Impracticability, … [ Read More ]
Bentham, Jeremy
Price: $3,500 English philosopher; one of the chief expounders of utilitarianism; noted jurist and author of Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation. Autograph Manuscript, full page, legal folio, undated, [December 28, 1820.] Twenty-three lines of notes in Jeremy Bentham’s hand concerning interpretations of the law, with additional corrections and revisions, also in his … [ Read More ]
Berlin, Irving
Price: $1,500 American composer. Printed Sheet Music, to his 1913 song That International Rag, signed boldly by Irving Berlin on the front cover, five pages, 13 1/2 by 10 1/4 inches. The brightly colored cover is attractively illustrated with a scene showing Uncle Sam directing a chorus dressed in international costumes Fine condition, bound in … [ Read More ]
Berlin, Irving
Price: $2,000 American composer. Allied military currency in the amount of 100 lire, issued in occupied Italy, and Signed by Irving Berlin in ink on the back, along with five others including Eddie Foy Jr., Johnny Garfield, and Jean Darling.
Berlioz, Hector
Price: $8,500 French composer of “Symphonie Fantastique.” Autograph Musical Quotation, written on the back flap of an envelop addressed to Monsieur Alizard. Together with an Autograph Inscription Signed, two lines on one page, octavo, [Paris], December 15, 1838, to the violinist Alexandre-Jean Boucher; with the integral address leaf attached. In his Autograph Musical Quotation, Hector … [ Read More ]
Berlioz, Hector
Price: $6,500 French composer of “Symphonie Fantastique.” Autograph Letter Signed, H. Berloiz, one page, small octavo, n. d. To Lindan. “Here are two seats for the concert Sunday. Do try to come.” Framed in sand, dark brown and gilt with a portrait photograph. Framed dimensions: 13 inches wide by 10 inches high.
Bernstein, Leonard
Price: $750 American composer and conductor. Typewritten Letter Signed, “Lenny Bernstein” with a three line post script in his hand, one page, quarto, New York, April 4, 1945. An early letter to a friend, Leonard, who has written from the Philippines where WWII was still going on. He thanks him for his thoughtful comments about … [ Read More ]
Bernstein, Leonard
Price: $1,500 American composer and conductor. Autograph Note Signed, Lenny, one page, octavo, 1975. On his name imprinted correspondence card measuring 4 ¾ inches wide by 3 ½ inches high. To “Dear Doris [Monteux]”. The widow of conductor Pierre Monteux. “How marvelous to receive your charming letter. It evokes so much nostalgia, and memories of … [ Read More ]
Bernstein, Leonard
Price: $1,250 American composer and conductor. Fine bust-length profile Photograph of the maestro wearing formal attire, conducting. Signed and Inscribed in the light portion of his image, “For Karl Geyer, Leonard Bernstein.” The black and white photograph measures 5 inches wide by 7 inches high.
Bernstein, Leonard
Price: $975 American composer and conductor. Half-length postcard Photograph of the maestro conducting, Signed across the light portion of his image. The black and white photograph of Leonard Bernstein measures 6 inches wide by 4 inches high.
Bierce, Ambrose
Price: $4,750 American journalist and short story writer; disappeared into Mexico in 1913. Letter Signed Ambrose Bierce, two pages, octavo, Washington, October 30, 1911. To Neale. “Enclosed is Newbegin’s check for $278.47. I hold also his note to you at four months for $536.54 which, with your bill for the books, I will send on … [ Read More ]
Bizet, Georges
Price: $8,750 French composer of “Carmen.” Autograph Letter Signed, one page, octavo, undated. “Here you are — you only need to have the last chorus translated, which had been suppressed and which was successfully reinstated at the last moment. As to the rest, you could request the translation from the Italians.” Framed in soft blue, … [ Read More ]
Blackstone, William
Price: $6,750 English jurist. Partly printed Document Signed, one page, octavo, February 15, 1773. “Let the def[endant’]s attorney or agent attend me at my chambers in Sergeants Inn tomorrow morning at 9 of the clock in the forenoon to show cause why the def[endan]t should not have till ten o’clock same day to plead in … [ Read More ]
Borden, Lizzie A.
Price: $7,500 American suspect in the unsolved murders of her wealthy father and step-mother. Autograph Letter Signed, L.A. Borden, two full pages, small octavo, Fall River, Massachusetts, December 9, 1896. To Miss Jennie F. Bras, with the original envelope. “I should be ready to see you Wednesday the sixteenth any time after five in the … [ Read More ]
Borodin, Alexander Porfir’yevich
Price: $12,500 Russian composer. Autograph Letter Signed, A. Borodin, two and one-half pages, octavo, St. Petersburg, May 6, 1884. To My dear Monsieur Jadoul. “I have just received your letter accompanied by two programs at once. I thank you infinitely for the kindness of having performed my piece and having notified me of its success. … [ Read More ]
Boyle, Robert
Price: $12,500 Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, inventor, and gentleman scientist. Autograph Document Signed, “Ro Boyle,” one page, oblong octavo, June 26, 1675. Also signed by E Anglesey (Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey). “We doe hereby acknowledge to have recd. of the Countess of Orrery our Severall propo[rt]ions of the ballance of this acco[un]t. … [ Read More ]
Brahms, Johannes
Price: $5,750 German composer. Autograph Letter Signed, J. Br., one page, octavo, on the verso of a correspondence card, Vienna, January 20, 1895. In German, to a correspondent in Berlin. “It may perhaps be that I will return your visit in the next few days! Joachim is pressing me to play the sonatas on the … [ Read More ]
Brahms, Johannes
Price: $22,500 German composer. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, Joh. Brahms, two pages, large quarto, [Amsterdam], January 31, 1876. Also signed by members of the Florentine String Quartet on the verso. On twelve-line music paper in green printer’s ink, with an engraved allegorical border. Johannes Brahms writes six measures of the piano part of the opening … [ Read More ]
Browning, Elizabeth and Robert
Price: $6,500 English poets. Autograph Note Signed Elizabeth and Robert Browning, one page, octavo, London, October 21, 1856. On card stock, to the Women’s Hospital in New York. Written in the hand of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Robert Browning adds the place and date, “London, October 21. ’56” beneath his signature. “With the most earnest wishes … [ Read More ]
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Price: $7,500 English poet. Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, octavo, 43 via Bocca di Leone [Rome], Friday, undated. To “My dear Reverend Hanna.” With the original black-bordered mourning envelope addressed in her hand. “Will you allow us to introduce to you Mrs. Hamilton and her daughter, country-women of your own, who will commend themselves to … [ Read More ]
Browning, Robert
Price: $6,750 English poet. Autograph Letter Signed, three pages, octavo, London, February 14, 1882. To “My dear Leighton,” the British painter Sir Frederic Leighton. “I do more indeed than ‘care to have’ a copy of that address which I certainly had ‘interest enough in to listen to.’ I think, did the case relate to any … [ Read More ]
Buck, Pearl S
Price: $1,750 American novelist. Typewritten Manuscript, seven full pages, quarto, undated. Buck’s speech, concerning relations between the United States and the Asian countries and her peoples, is heavily revised and corrected by the author in ink and pencil [these are shown in italic]. With a carbon copy of the corrected draft, six and a half … [ Read More ]
Bulfinch, Charles
Price: $6,750 American architect. Autograph Document Signed, one page, legal folio, Boston, May 17, 1802. “To All whom it may concern, this certifies that Messrs. Richard Chamberlain and Thomas Chase obtained liberty of the selectmen to break ground in the public burying place, south of the common for the purpose of building a tomb therein; … [ Read More ]
Bulow, Hans von
Price: $450 German conductor, pianist, and composer. Autograph Musical Quotation Singed, on the verso of Minnie Unger’s visiting card measuring 3 ½ by 2 ¼ inches, New York, April 30, 1889. Von Bülow writes two measures from a work in Bᵇ , with the tempo and dynamic markings, Allegretto and p.
Burke, Edmund
Price: $6,750 British statesman and orator; gained a high position among the Whigs through his eloquence on the American question and vigorous opposition to George III’s policy of court domination and arbitrary rule; advocated liberal treatment on the American colonies. Autograph Letter Signed, Edm Burke, one page, oblong small quarto, Westminster, October 6, 1775. To … [ Read More ]
Burke, Edmund
Price: $2,500 British orator and statesman. Autograph Letter Signed, Edm. Burke, one page, quarto, April 24, 1796. To Stephen Thurston Ady, Burke’s friend and banker. Thurston was a partner in the banking house of Boldero, Kendal & Co. Fine condition. “I beg you to pay to a Mr. Chalkley, who will call on you for … [ Read More ]
Byrd, Richard E.
Price: $375 American polar explorer. Check signed, R E Byrd, February 4, 1933 drawn on his account at the Farmers & Merchants Bank, payable to Dexter School in the amount of $230.00.
Byron, George Gordon
Price: $22,500 English poet; wrote Childe Harold. Autograph Note Signed, initials, one page, oblong octavo, July 28, 1813. [To John Murray.] “The enclosed lines you will insert in paragraph named after the line ‘That wakes and wafts the fragrance there.’” The verse quoted by George Byron comes from his poem, The Giaour, which was published … [ Read More ]
Cagney, James
Price: $675 American movie star famous for his gangster roles. Photograph from the 1939 Warner Brothers film, Each Dawn I Die, Signed by Cagney in blue ink in the lower left portion. James Cagney, famous for his gangster roles, is shown with his hands on his hips, wearing prison attire and a serious expression on … [ Read More ]
Cagney, James
Price: $275 American film actor; starred in The Public Enemy and Yankee Doodle Dandy. Typewritten Letter Signed, Jim, one page, quarto, April 17, 1974. On his name imprinted stationery, Beverly Hills, California, to Ann Ford in Huntington, Massachusetts. “I assume by this time you are happily ensconced at The Wrens. It would be just the … [ Read More ]
Cagney, James
Price: $1,000 American film actor; starred in The Public Enemy and Yankee Doodle Dandy. Typewritten Letter Signed, Jim, one page, quarto February 14, 1974. On his name imprinted stationary, Beverly Hills, California, to “Dear Anne.” With one line, “This was in other letter” written in his hand. “Your letter was a delight. “The O’Keefe’s I … [ Read More ]
California Gold Rush
Price: $975 Group of four illustrations on an oblong quarto sheet, entitled Sundry Amusements in the Mines. Lithographed and published by Britton & Rey, San Francisco. Each image measures 3 3/8 by 4 3/4 inches; the sheet measuring by 8 3/8 by10 3/4 inches. The first image, A Sunday’s Amusements, shows two miners washing their … [ Read More ]
California Gold Rush
Price: $750 A stock certificate for the Tuolumne Country Water Company, 6 ¼ by 9 ¾ inches, Columbia, [California], September 26, 1862. With a fine vignette of miners working a sluice and a cradle, typical of the California Gold Rush. The one-share certificate is signed by President P.J. Gibbs and Secretary Joseph Pownall. Water was … [ Read More ]
Capone, Al
Price: $32,500 Partly Printed Document Signed, “Alphonse Capone,” one page, 8 by 3 inches, November 18, 1926. Also signed by his mother Theresa Capone and his wife Mae Capone, and endorsed on the verso, “Alphonse Capone,” as well as by Theresa and Mae Capone. A loan from the Lawndale National Bank, “Due on the 18th … [ Read More ]
Carnegie, Andrew
Price: $12,500 Scottish-born American industrialist; merged Carnegie Steel Co. with United States Steel Corp. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, quarto, New York, January 24, 1913. On his name-imprinted stationery, to Duffield Osborne, a representative of the Authors Club. “I wish to put on record my deep appreciation of, and grateful thanks for, the kind notis … [ Read More ]
Cassatt, Mary
Price: $6,750 American Impressionist paper. Autograph Letter Signed, M. Cassatt, one page, octavo, Paris, undated but circa 1904. To M. Anzoli, in French. “Would you please be kind enough to make for me, as soon as possible, a white frame for a pastel, no. 12, that is to say the frame and its number 12 … [ Read More ]
Cassatt, Mary
Price: $4,750 American painter who exhibited with the Impressionists. Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, oblong small octavo, [Paris, May 21, 1914]. In English, on her imprinted correspondence card measuring 5 3/8 inches wide by 3 5/8 inches high, to Dear Miss Hester. With the original envelope. “Can you bring your work to me some morning … [ Read More ]
Catherine the Great
Price: $9,500 Czarina of Russia. Document Signed, Yekaterina, one page, folio, October 11, 1762, Tsarskoe Selo. In Russian. From the Main court chancery, a release to the administrator Udalov of Tsarskoe Selo, of three thousand roubles for the digging of ponds, if the said revenues are not sufficient, then from the Total of the Main … [ Read More ]
Catholic Church
Price: $17,500 Document Signed, by Cardinal St. Praxedis, Antonio Ciocchi del Monte, one page, oblong folio, 330 by 470 mm. [13 by 18 inches], [ca. 1528]. On vellum. Two vertical folds damp-stained in the upper portion, affecting the illuminated border and two letters of the heading; some rubbing of the painted surfaces, otherwise in fine … [ Read More ]
Cezanne, Paul
Price: $37,500 French painter. Autograph Letter Signed, Paul Cezanne, November 30, 1896, two pages, octavo. In French. To Emile Solari. “I am so very sorry I was not at Rue des Dames when you came by. There’s only one way to make up for that, and that is to give me a rendezvous for tomorrow, … [ Read More ]
Chagall, Marc
Price: $5,750 Russian painter. Autograph Letter Signed, one full page, quarto, New York, 1945. In Russian. “She always spoke of you with affection. I always feel your sincerity. I will be happy to see you. I sent you a book. Modesty prevented me from getting in touch with you earlier. She was in art as … [ Read More ]
Chandler, Raymond
Price: $1,750 American novelist; creator of the Philip Marlowe detective series. Document Signed, a carbon typescript signed in ink, one page, quarto, April 12, 1945. An agreement with Paramount Pictures in which Raymond Chandler accepts a $5000 bonus “in recognition of the excellence of the quality of your services and for your zeal and enthusiasm … [ Read More ]
Chandler, Raymond
Price: $17,500 American author of crime fiction. Typewritten Letter Signed, Ray, one page, large quarto, La Jolla, California, December 15, 1950. On his name-imprinted stationery, to his literary agents, Swanie [H. N. Swanson] and Eddie [Edward Carter]. “Evidently Swanie has not yet heard from Carl Brandt, although I told him a couple of weeks ago … [ Read More ]
Chekhov, Anton
Price: $37,500 Russian dramatist and novelist. “MY PETITION WAS JUST A CRY IN THE DESERT. I AM NOT A FIGHTER, IT’S NOT IN MY NATURE.” Autograph Letter Signed, A. Chekhov, two and one-half pages, octavo, February 11, [no year, but after 1897]. In Russian. To Nikolai Nikolaevich. “Due to my sickness, I am a little … [ Read More ]
Chinese Oracle Bone
Price: $25,000 An extremely rare CHINESE ORACLE BONE, measuring 4 * by 2 * inches (120 mm by 55 mm), from Xiaotun, the site of nearly all known oracle bones, near the ancient capital of the Late Shang Dynasty of Anyang. The oracular use of bones involved the interpretation of the pattern of cracks that … [ Read More ]
Chippendale, Thomas
Price; $17,500 English cabinet-maker. Autograph Document Signed, Thos Chippendale Junr., one page, oblong quarto, June 4, 1766. A receipt for furnishings and services from Mr. Parran, made and done for Thomas Chippendale, Sr. “Feby 22 1766, To making a new Cloaths press shelf and putting edges round two other shelves and lining them with baize … [ Read More ]
Christie, Agatha
Price: $4,750 English mystery writer; creator of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Typewritten Letter Signed, one and a half pages, octavo, Greenway House, South Devon, May 5, 1954. To Joyce Lambert, in London. “Thank you for your letter of 23rd February which I have not had time to answer until now. I am so glad … [ Read More ]
Christie, Agatha
Price: $6,750 English mystery writer; creator of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Typewritten Letter Signed, Agatha Mallowan, one page, octavo, Churston Ferrers, near Brixham, South Devon, June 12, 1972. To Dear Mrs. Frink. “As I will have written 82 books on my 82nd birthday this year and they have been translated into over 80 languages … [ Read More ]
Christie, Agatha
Price: $3,250 English mystery writer; creator of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Typewritten Letter Signed, Agatha Christie, two pages, quarto, Winterbrook House, Wallingford, Berkshire, October 23, 1972. To Michael Underwood, Esq., Riverbank, Datchet, Bucks. “I got your letter this morning. As far as my own personal feelings are concerned I have always enjoyed the private … [ Read More ]
Churchill, Winston
Price: $25,000 Prime Minister of England. An extraordinary Photograph of Churchill seated in the library, his favorite room in the Villa la Pausa, with several Impressionist paintings above the bookcase, Signed, “Winston S. Churchill.” Churchill, seen from the side, smoking a cigar, is reading The Herald Tribune. A magnificient and highly unusual photograph, signed by … [ Read More ]
Churchill, Winston
Price: $37,500 Prime Minister of England. THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN “THE AUTUMN OF 1940 HAS COME TO SYMBOLIZE THE SPIRIT THAT BROUGHT OUR COUNTRY THROUGH THE DARKEST DAYS OF THE WAR.” Typewritten Statement Signed in full, one page, quarto, September 1961. On imprinted stationery, Chartwell, Westerham, Kent. “It is most fitting that we should each … [ Read More ]
Churchill, Winston
Price: $22,500 Prime Minister of England. CHURCHILL ACCEPTS NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN’S RESIGNATION FROM THE CONSERVATIVE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, quarto, [London], October 31, 1940. On his imprinted stationery, as Prime Minister, to Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer in Churchill’s War Cabinet. “Neville [Chamberlain] has written to tell me of his wish … [ Read More ]
Churchill, Winston
Price: $15,000 British Prime Minister. Typewritten Letter Signed, “Your friend, Winston S. Churchill”, two pages, small quarto, February 20, 1947. On his address-imprinted stationery, To “Dear Mrs. Chandor”. “I feel I would like you to know how much pleased we are with the charming and life-like portrait your husband has painted of Mrs. Churchill. It … [ Read More ]
Churchill, Winston
Price: $27,500 Prime Minister of England. “…THE BATTLE FOR FREEDOM DURING THE WAR. NOW, UNHAPPILY, WE ARE ENGAGED IN ANOTHER STRUGGLE TO PRESERVE WHAT WE THOUGHT WE HAD WON. UPON THE ISSUE OF THIS STRUGGLE THE FUTURE HAPPINESS, PROSPERITY AND STABILITY OF OUR NATION AND EMPIRE DEPEND.” Typewritten Manuscript Signed, one page, quarto, London, September … [ Read More ]
Churchill, Winston
A Spectacular Collection of Winston Churchill Letters and Manuscripts Collection of 37 pieces signed by Churchill: 22 letters signed [eleven completely in his hand], fifty pages; two Typewritten Manuscripts Signed, seven heavily revised and corrected Manuscript pages; three Signed Photographs; a group of his books Signed; printed broadside of his speech; and three other interesting … [ Read More ]
Clark, William
Price: $12,500 American explorer. Letter Signed, William Clark, two pages, quarto, Superintendency of Indian Affairs, St. Louis, September 27, 1832. To Col. Ira Cottle, regarding Cotle’s claim against the Fox Tribe for 30 cattle stolen in 1816. While the War Department had rejected Cottle’s claim, Clark writes: “Believing your claim to be strictly just, I … [ Read More ]
Clemens, Samuel
Price: $7,500 Mark Twain. American author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Autograph Quotation Signed, Truly yours Mark Twain, two lines on an oblong octavo sheet, dated “Dec./05.” “Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.” Matted in beige and cocoa with a bust-length portrait photograph … [ Read More ]
Clemens, Samuel
Price: $8,500 WRITING IN HIS HEAVENLY BED Mark Twain. American author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Superb oversize photograph, Signed, “Mark Twain, Jan./06,” showing the author at work on a manuscript, wearing his pajamas and propped up in bed. The black and white photograph, by Underwood & Underwood, New … [ Read More ]
Clemens, Samuel
Price: $2,500 Mark Twain. American author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Autograph Letter Signed, S.L. Clemens, postcard, Hartford, Connecticut, [January 10, n.y.]. To Arthur Bell, in New York. In pencil. “No — shall lecture nowhere this year.” Matted in celadon and navy blue with a portrait of Samuel Clemens as a … [ Read More ]
Cody, William F.
Price: $1,750 William Cody, aka Buffalo Bill. American showman; creator of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Double Signature, “W.F. Cody, ‘Buffalo Bill’, 1898” on a sheet of paper measuring 6 3/8 inches wide by 3 ¼ inches high.
Cohan, George M
Price: $975 American composer and lyricist of popular songs including I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy. Autograph Sentiment Signed, Yankee Doodlefully, Geo M Cohan, on the verso of his business card, 1 1/4 by 3 3/4 inches. This item is associated with the following category in our inventory: Musicians / Composers
Cohan, George M
Price: $950 American composer, producer and actor. Autograph Letter Signed, one page, quarto, October 3, 1925. To Julius [Witmark]. “This will introduce Mr. Murphy of Boston a friend of mine who has written and is writing songs, words and music. He has played over several of his numbers for me and there might be something … [ Read More ]
Cohan, George M
Price: $950 American composer and lyricist of popular songs including I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy. Typewritten Document Signed, five full pages, quarto, [New York], November 1926. Signed also by EDWARD BELASCO and his two partners, FRED BUTLER and GERHOLD O. DAVIS. The agreement between Cohan and Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles. Cohan did not wish … [ Read More ]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Price: $3,750 English poet and critic; author of the Ancient Mariner. Document Signed, two pages, legal folio, Malta, June 19, 1805. Headed Affidavit of the Pay Master and signed by Coleridge as Public Secretary to the Governor of Malta. “I…do swear that on the twenty-fourth day of March, 1805 I mustered the Maltese Artillery under … [ Read More ]
Collins, Wilkie
Price: $4,750 English novelist; wrote The Woman in White. Autograph Quotation Signed, one page, octavo, London, February 17, 1883. From The Woman in White, Collins writes: “Women can resist a man’s love, a man’s fame, a man’s personal appearance, and a man’s money; but they cannot resist a man’s tongue when he knows how to … [ Read More ]
Cook, Frederick A
Price: $5,750 American arctic explorer; he claimed to have reached the North Pole April 21, 1908 ahead of Peary; denounced by Peary and his claim rejected as fraudulent, on grounds of insufficient evidence, by scientists as Copenhagen. Partly printed Typewritten Document Signed, seven pages, legal folio, Leavenworth, Kansas, July 16, 1926. An Application for Executive … [ Read More ]
Cooper, James Fenimore
Price: $17,500 American author of The Last of the Mohicans. Autograph Letter Signed, J. Fenimore Cooper, four full pages, legal folio, [May 20-27, 1848]. To Messrs Editors [George Pope Morris and Nathaniel Parker Willis] of The Home Journal. The Battle of Long Island that James Cooper discusses in the present letter took place on August … [ Read More ]
Cooper, James Fenimore
Price: $875 American author of The Last of the Mohicans. Check filled in by the author and Signed, J. Fenimore Cooper, April 28, 1841, drawn on his account at the Otsego Country Bank, in Cooperstown, [New York] and made payable to “Maple Sugar” in the amount of $1.43.
Cooper, James Fenimore
Price: $2,250 American author of The Last of the Mohicans. Autograph Letter Signed, one page, quarto, Mansion House, September 29, 1939. To John Jacob Werner Esquire in Philadelphia. “I hear that our friend Bolton sails for the Mediterranean to day, and as he has one of the finest frigates in the service, I trust he … [ Read More ]
Coots, J Fred
Price: $2,500 American composers of Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, nine measures of his beloved Christmas ballad, with lyrics, boldly penned on a 8 1/4 inches wide by 5 3/4 inches high sheet of light green music paper. A fine example. This item is associated with the following category in … [ Read More ]
Copley, John Singleton
Price: $25,000 American artist. Partly-printed Receipt Signed, J.C.Copley. one page, narrow oblong octavo, April, 2, 1787. Together with a printed prospectus of the subscription for the engraving of Copley’s painting, “The Siege and Relief of Gibraltar,” three and one half pages, large quarto, [London], undated. The receipt is from Mr. John Fornou Tuffen for “the … [ Read More ]
Coward, Noel
Price: $7,500 English actor, playwright and composer. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, one page, on a 3 by 8 inch sheet, undated. Noel Coward writes seven measures of his song, “I’ll Follow My Secret Heart,” with words to the refrain, “I’ll follow my secret heart my whole life through.” Inscribed to Lionel Aucoin. Noel Coward’s song, … [ Read More ]
Coward, Noel
Price: $6,750 “…THE BIGGEST SMASH HIT IN NEW YORK.” English actor, playwright, and composer best known for highly polished comedies of manners. Typewritten Letter Signed, May 21, 1958, octavo, on stationary with the address 404 East 55th Street, New York. To “My dear Bink” (Hugh Beaumont). “Thanks ever so for your letter. “Yes, I am … [ Read More ]