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 ]
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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 ]
Garcia, Jerry
Price: $17,500 American Rock ‘n Roll singer; leader of the Grateful Dead. Autograph Manuscript, one page, legal folio, [1992]. Garcia handwrites the lyrics to the song, The Maker, which he played in concert with the Jerry Garcia band from 1992. On a yellow-lined sheet of paper. “Oh deep water Black and cold like the nite … [ Read More ]
Greene, Graham
Price: $7,500 English writer. Collection of 8 Mimeograph Manuscripts for the motion picture, The Third Man, based on the novel by Graham Greene, comprising the Treatment, the Screenplay, the Second Draft Script, the Synopsis and Dialogue Screenplay, Dialogue Cutting Continuity Script, Release Script Reels 1 – 12, Narrator Portuguese Script, and Spanish Script. The 1949 … [ Read More ]
Hunt, William Holmon
Price: $3,500 English Pre-Raphaelite painter. Autographed William Holmon Hunt, Manuscript, two pages, oblong octavo, undated. Concerning William Holmon Hunt’s comments on Rossetti’s Annunciation and a “new Raffaelle” at the National Gallery. “We will not presume in concert to lay down the law about his merits but I think there is no reason why I should not … [ Read More ]
Kern, Jerome
Price: $15,000 American composer. Autograph Musical Manuscript Signed Jerome Kern twice, on the title page and to the right of the song title on the first page, six pages, folio, October 1, 19[4]2. Entitled Look Whos Here! This unpublished manuscript is the Opening Chorus Song, Miners, Girls and Band, from Act III of Look Whos Here!, … [ Read More ]
Lincoln, Abraham
Price: $7,500 President of the United States. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, one page, oblong octavo, undated, framed with a fine signature, Lincoln & Herndon, mounted below. As a young attorney, Abraham Lincoln pens a legal manuscript concerning a case of arson: Besides the title papers, one of which I have, and the other of which, Officers … [ Read More ]
Loewe, Frederick
Price: $22,500 Vienna-born American songwriter. Autograph Musical Manuscript of one of his most famous songs from Camelot, “Then you may take me to the Fair,” two pages, large quarto, [1959]. With the title page bearing the notation, “Guenevere, men”. THE ONLY KNOWN MANUSCRIPT, RETAINED BY LOEWE HIMSELF, OF THIS FAMOUS AND POPULAR SONG FROM CAMELOT. … [ Read More ]
Loewe, Frederick
Price: $8,500 Vienna-born American songwriter. Autograph Musical Manuscript of one of his songs intended for Camelot, “We All Had A Glorious Time,” one and one-half pages, large quarto, [1959]. THE ONLY KNOWN MANUSCRIPT, RETAINED BY LOEWE HIMSELF, OF THIS UNPUBLISHED SONG FOR CAMELOT. Frederick Loewe writes eighteen lines of music to the song, “We All … [ Read More ]
Malcolm X
Price: $12,500 American religious and political leader of the Black Muslims; formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity in 1964. Carbon Typescript, signed in ink, one page, quarto, undated [1963]. This manuscript is a transcript of a page of interview notes from Alex Haley’s profile of Malcolm X for Playboy. In order to ensure his work’s … [ Read More ]
Millay, Edna St Vincent
Price: $27,500 American author. A Collection of twenty-eight Typewritten Manuscripts, twenty-eight pages, quarto, [ca. 1920 and earlier]. Three of the manuscripts are signed by Edna St Vincent Millay at the conclusion; one bears a holograph correction in the text; and in another she has changed the title. Accompanied by a typewritten letter from her mother, … [ Read More ]
Millikan, Robert
Price: $12,500 American physicist. Typewritten and Autograph Manuscript, thirteen pages, quarto and octavo, undated. Comprising a quarto page of five typewritten lines, with the title and corrections in Robert Millikan’s hand; the first page of the paper (quarto), consisting of nine typewritten lines and corrections in Millikan’s hand; and eleven pages of the original paper … [ Read More ]
Morris, William
Price: $7,500 English poet and artist; founded the Arts and Crafts Movement. Printed Proof Sheet Signed, with initials in purple ink in the upper left margin, one page, quarto, undated. With handwritten corrections in purple and black ink. The proof sheet, bearing a large decorated woodcut initial W, is page 78 of the Kelmscott edition … [ Read More ]
Nast, Thomas
Price: $2,750 American cartoonist whose work was largely responsible for the overthrow of the Tweed Ring in New York. Fourteen sketches and Autograph Manuscript Signed, Th: N, drawn and written on both sides of a dust wrapper for Society as I have found it by Ward McAllister, 8 1/4 by 19 1/2 inches, [1892]. Minor … [ Read More ]
Neruda, Pablo
Price: $15,000 Chilean poet; winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Autograph Manuscript Signed, six pages, quarto, Paris, February 1972. In Spanish. Written in green ink. “Volcanoes and blizzards of the great south of America-of South America-all have been good teachers for us, little guards born in that distant silence. I will never … [ Read More ]
Pavlov, Ivan
Price: $12,500 Russian physiologist; conducted famous experiment demonstrating conditioned reflex in dogs. Inscribed copy of Ivan Pavlov’s 1909 lecture at the 12th Congress of Russian natural Scientists and Physicians in Moscow entitled “Natural Science and the Brain” in which he discusses animal adaptation to its external environment and conditioned reflex. Ivan Pavlov has written, in … [ Read More ]
Perkins, Carl
Price: $8,500 American singer, songwriter, and guitarist; wrote “Blue Suede Shoes.” Autograph Manuscript Signed, one page, quarto, 1991. On Perkins’ personal letterhead. Carl Perkins has transcribed six lines of lyrics from his 1956 hit “Blue Suede Shoes”. “‘Blue Suede Shoes’ / Well it’s one for the money / Two for the show / Three to … [ Read More ]
Reagan, Ronald
Price: $37,500 President of the United States. Autograph Manuscript Signed, six and a half pages of writing (seven actual pages), 8 inches wide by 10 inches high, Pacific Palisades, California, summer of 1960. Reagan’s proposal for a General Electric Theater special program on the evils of communism, written in heavy, dark pencil. (The engraved stationery … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Franklin D
Price: $25,000 President. Typewritten Manuscript Signed, one page, small quarto, Washington, D.C., January 25, 1936. On White House Stationery. “Abraham Lincoln was not a son of the North or of the South. Born in Kentucky and nurtured in the very heart of our land, the scope of his intellect and of his sympathies was co-extensive … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Theodore
Price: $17,500 President. Typewritten Manuscript, unsigned, sixty pages, small quarto, June 30, 1914. Entitled Speech of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, Pennsylvania Progressive Conference, with extensive corrections on one page in Roosevelt’s hand. ROOSEVELT OUTLINES THE PLATFORM OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY. Theodore Roosevelt’s holograph corrections appear on page 37, where he had made extensive revisions, in pencil, … [ Read More ]
Scott, Sir Walter
Price: $6,500 Scottish poet, novelist, historian and biographer. Autograph Manuscript, two pages, oblong quarto, undated. Headed The Earl [afterwards Duke] of, the manuscript comments on various topics, including a play about Queen Elizabeth, inventions, universal corruption, and historical events. “They cannot for example but be delighted to learn that the account of the new play … [ Read More ]
Shackleton, Ernest H
Price: $10,000 British explorer of the Antarctic. Typewritten Manuscript Signed at the conclusion, five pages, quarto, undated [1911]. Ernest Shackleton, a fervent admirer of Fridtjof Nansen and his work, writes a glowing review of the English translation of In Northern Mists by the Norwegian arctic explorer. Nansen had achieved by this time the status of … [ Read More ]
Shaw, George Bernard
Price: $6,750 British playwright, author, and critic. Typewritten Manuscript Signed twice, By Bernard Shaw, below the title, and with his initials at the conclusion, nine pages, large quarto, January 27, 1923. On green paper, entitled The Unprotected Child and The Law. With extensive revisions and corrections in George Bernard Shaw’s hand (shown in italic). Bound … [ Read More ]
Sikorsky, Igor
Price: $9,500 Russian-born American aeronautical engineer, Igor Sikorsky; developed the helicopter. A collection of two contracts and five typewritten letters signed, as well as five documents and 26 letters, typewritten and carbon copies of letters, memos and financial papers, all concerning the publication of his book, The Story of the Winged-S, and its revised editions, … [ Read More ]
Spencer, Herbert
Price: $7,500 English philosopher; one of the few modern thinkers to attempt a systematic account of all cosmic phenomena, including mental and social principles; influenced contemporary philosophy, psychology, and ethics throughout Europe and America, India and Japan. Collection of 63 letters (the majority of which are signed by Spencer), and a signed check; various sizes; … [ Read More ]
Sullivan, Arthur
Price: $8,750 British composer who collaborated with W.S. Gilbert in comic operas. Autograph Manuscript Signed, one page, octavo, undated. Headed Metronome times of the Choruses in the Prodigal Son, Arthur Sullivan’s list includes the chorus number, the title of the chorus, and the value of the quarter-note. Included in the list are eight choruses, including … [ Read More ]
Thoreau, Henry David
Price: $27,500 American essayist, poet and naturalist; wrote Walden. Autograph Manuscript, two full pages, quarto, undated [1854]. “As we grow old we live more coarsely, we relax a little in the disciplines, and to some extent cease to obey our first instincts. We are more careless about our diet & our chastity. But we would … [ Read More ]
Truman, Harry S
Price: $8,750 President. Typewritten Manuscript, twenty-one pages, large quarto, [Washington, D.C.], November 1, 1946. Entitled Memorandum on the Organization of Staff Assistance to the President. With corrections comprising seventeen words in Harry S Truman’s hand in red crayon (shown in italic), and with corrections in the hand of Dr. John R. Steelman in ink (shown … [ Read More ]
Washington, Booker T
Price: $25,000 Black American educator; founded the Tuskegee Institute for practical training of blacks in trades and professions in 1881. Autograph Manuscript, fifteen pages, undated, Booker T Washington. The pages are numbered 1-7 (two are numbered “5”), 22, 24, 28 and 29, and three pages are unnumbered. Written on the verso of imprinted stationery of … [ Read More ]
Wordsworth, William
Price: $12,500 English poet. Autograph Manuscript Signed, six lines from John Milton’s Paradise Lost, penned on a quarto sheet, Rydal Mount, October 4, 1825. Wordsworth adds an amusing note below. “What call’st thou solitude? Is not the Earth With various living creatures, and the air Replenish’d, and all these at they command To come and … [ Read More ]