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Armstrong, Louis

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Price: $1,750 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

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Price: $950 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 ]

Astronauts

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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 ]

Beatles

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Price: $8,500 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 ]

Bernstein, Leonard

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  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. Price: $450

Clemens, Samuel

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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 ]

Cushing, Harvey

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Price: $5,750 American neurosurgeon and a pioneer of brain surgery. Typewritten Letter Signed, Harvey Cushing, quarto, one page, November 11, 1936, on his letterhead for The School of Medicine at Yale University. To Dr. Glanville Y. Rusk, Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco, California. With two photographs of brain lesions, mounted on heavy card stock. “Dear … [ Read More ]

Dillinger, John

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Price: $25,000 American gangster and bank robber; known as “Public Enemy Number One,” killed by police as he was leaving Chicago’s Biograph Theater, subject of the blockbuster movie, “Public Enemies,” starring Johnny Depp. Extremely rare Autograph Letter Signed, “John Dillinger #14395,” one page, small oblong octavo, undated [circa 1929-1933]. Written while in the Indiana State … [ Read More ]

Eames, Charles and Ray

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Price: $5,750 Inventive designers of the post World War II period; created the “Eames Chairs.” Typewritten Letter Signed by Charles, C, one page, quarto, May 14, 1952. To Alexander Girard (in Grosse Pointe, Michigan). With one word and two corrections in his hand, and one sentence, written in red crayon, in Ray’s hand: ” will … [ Read More ]

Einstein, Albert

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Price: $7,500 German-born theoretical physicist; enunciated Theory of Relativity. “THE THOUGHT OPPRESSES ME; HOW SMALL MUST BE THE SELECTION, IF IN THE PURSUIT OF YOUR HUMANITARIAN WORK YOU BECOME AWARE OF [ME]….” Typewritten Letter Signed, A. Einstein, one page, quarto, Huntington, Long Island, June 21, 1937. In English, to members of the Rho Pi Phi … [ Read More ]

Ford, Henry

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Price: 7,500 American automobile manufacturer. Superb oversize Photograph, showing Ford examining an automobile engine, signed and inscribed to “Mrs. Cameron” in the light lower portion. The black & white photograph measures 11 inches wide by 14 inches high. Henry Ford’s aversion to farm work and his interest in mechanical things, caused him to leave home … [ Read More ]

Gable, Clark

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Price: $2,500 American movie star; played Rhett Butler in the film “Gone With the Wind.” Marvelous Signed Photograph, in the left margin in his customary green fountain pen ink, “To Tess from Clark Gable.” Gable, wearing a full length double-breasted tweendcoat, a white scarf and holding his hat, is shown with his wife, Texas socialite … [ Read More ]

Gershwin, George

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Price: $5,750 American composer of Rhapsody in Blue. Sepia-tone Photograph of Gershwin in profile, playing the piano, Signed, Inscribed and Dated on the lower margin, “To Hyman Sandow – All good wishes / George Gershwin / Feb. ’28”. A slight defect in the photographic surface, in the center upper portion, not affecting the image of … [ Read More ]

Goddard, Robert H

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Price: $12,500 American physicist; pioneer in rocket research. Photograph of Robert Goddard standing outdoors and holding his gyroscope stabilizer, Signed “R.H. Goddard”in the margin below. A second photograph to the right shows Goddard and two others “testing the gyroscope and directing vanes before a flight by inclining and rotating the rocket while it was suspended … [ Read More ]

Grieg, Edvard

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Price: $5,750 Norwegian composer; wrote the “Peer Gynt Suite.” Bust-length portrait photograph of the composer in formal dress, looking to the right, signed in the light lower portion. The photograph measures 5 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches and is in fine condition. Framed in beige, garnet and antique beaded gilt. Framed dimensions: 9 1/4 inches … [ Read More ]

Holiday, Billie

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Price: $3,750 American jazz singer. Autograph Sentiment Signed, “For Kayo / Sincerely / Billie Holiday,” in black pen on a card measuring 4 1/4 inches wide by 3 inches high. “Lady Day” (a nickname given to her by her friend and musical partner Lester Young) had a seminal influence on jazz and pop singing. Her … [ Read More ]

Leger, Ferdnand

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Price: $6,750 French painter; identified with the Ultra-Modern School, especially with the Cubists. Signed Photograph of one of his paintings, inscribed on the lower margin “Proof that man descends from the ape. To Louis Mangel, his friend F. Leger,” dated April 23, 1916. 11 1/2 by 8 inches, a fine example. Framed in gray, plum … [ Read More ]

Lennon, John

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Price: $8,500 Member of the Beatles. Full-length octavo-size printed photograph of Lennon with Paul, George and Ringo, boldly signed by John Lennon above his image. Framed in sand, charcoal and gilt measuring 10 ½ inches wide by 13 inches high.

Monroe, Marilyn

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Price: $15,000 Hollywood movie legend. “…LOVE AND KISSES….” Full-length photograph of the alluring Marilyn Monroe wearing a swimsuit and espadrilles, Signed and Inscribed in the light portion “To Mike Love and Kisses Marilyn Monroe.” The black and white photograph measures 8 inches wide by 10 inches high. Before she was an actress, before she was … [ Read More ]

Nureyev, Rudolf

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Price: $750 Legendary Russian dancer. Full length photograph of the legendary dancer, on stage, at the conclusion of a performance, the curtain lowered behind him, holding a few flowers, with an expression of gratitude on his face for the accolades of the audience. Signed vertically in gold ink on the right side. The black and … [ Read More ]

Nureyev, Rudolf

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Price: $950 Legendary Russian dancer. A dramatic photograph of the legendary Russian dancer, on stage, en pointe, his arms extended and fingers pointed upward. Rudolf Nureyev is simply dressed in a leotard with a satin sash at the waist, his chest bare. Signed, vertically, in gold on the right side of the photograph. The black … [ Read More ]

Pasteur, Louis

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Price: $7,500 French chemist; developed Pasteurization and inoculation for rabies. Extraordinarily well-executed engraved portrait of Pasteur, head and shoulders, inscribed by him and signed, “L. Pasteur, 26 Septembre [18]89” in the lower right corner. The engraved portrait, overall 5 7/8 inches wide by 8 inches high, is by Eugène-André Champollion [1848-1901], described in Benezit as … [ Read More ]

Pasteur, Louis

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Price: $4,750 French chemist; developed Pasteurization and an inoculation for rabies. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘L. Pasteur,” March 9 [no year]. One page, octavo. In French. “I want to thank you right away for your information on the subject of Mr. Eastlake’s work. I had already seen an interesting summary of it in your fine book … [ Read More ]

Piaf, Edith

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Price: $3,750 French singer and actress whose interpretation of the Chanson, or French ballad, made her internationally famous. A vintage “real photo” portrait postcard of the legendary chanteuse in a wistful gaze, inscribed in the dark lower portion, Pour Mademoiselle Yvette Pichou en toute sympathie, Edith Piaf, undated [1944]. The postcard measures 3 1/2 inches … [ Read More ]

Piaf, Edith

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Price: $2,750 French singer and actress whose interpretation of the Chanson, or French ballad, made her internationally famous. A close-up, head-shot Photograph of the legendary chanteuse in a wistful gaze, her hand on her cheek, Signed Edith Piaf and Inscribed in the dark upper portion, “Pour Monsieur Maurice Croifer / Sympathique… / Edith Piaf”. The black … [ Read More ]

Porter, Cole

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Price: $2,750 American composer. Formal bust-length portrait photograph of the composer, sporting a polka dot tie and a carnation in his lapel, Signed in the light right portion above his shoulder. The sepia-toned photograph measures 4 1/2 inches wide by 6 3/4 inches high. Matted in cream and yellow, and framed in antiqued gilt. Framed … [ Read More ]

Ravel, Maurice

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Price: $12,500 French composer. Autograph Letter Signed, two full pages, octavo, June 7, 1916. Written during his World War I service to his “Marraine” [de guerre], Mme Fernand Dreyfus, mother of the composer Roland-Manuel. Fine condition. “Your label didn’t surprise me; since arriving here I have been having a misperception that packages and perhaps letters … [ Read More ]

Reagan, Ronald

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Price: $9,500 President of the United States. Autograph Letter Signed, “Love / Dutch,” as President, December 7, 1981, one page, quarto, on White House stationery. To “Hup” (the widow of the Iowa radio station program director who gave Ronald Reagan his first job 49 years earlier). With the original White House envelope [postmarked December 7, … [ Read More ]

Renoir, Pierre Auguste

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Price: $7,500 French Impressionist painter. Photograph of one of his paintings of a female nude, standing backward, signed above a stamp, which reads “Seen in order to authenticate the signature of Pierre Auguste Renoir, painter, witnessed January 10, 1911.” The photograph was originally part of the archive of Renoir’s art dealer, the great Ambrose Vollard. … [ Read More ]

Rontgen, Wilhelm

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Price: $17,500 German physicist; awarded first Nobel prize for physics n 1901 for his discovery of X-rays. Autograph Letter Signed, W.C. Röntgen, two pages, small octavo, Hotel Miramare, St. Margherita Ligure, March 19, 1903. On his personal correspondence card, to a colleague. “Although you have learned through the State Institute why I could not come … [ Read More ]

Roosevelt, Franklin D

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Price: $2,750 President. Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, quarto, Hyde Park, New York, September 14, no year. On his name-imprinted stationery, to Dear Mr. Roberts. “I’m sorry, but still I don’t understand about the certificates. These are for 6,000 shares, the full amount to go to the organizers-and I understand that while they were to … [ Read More ]

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Price: $9,500 President. Typewritten Letter Signed, two pages, quarto, on White House stationery, dated from Oyster Bay, New York, July 2, 1908. With original envelope to the Rev. William Potts George, in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. The President sends an expression of his “very deep appreciation of the action of the New York Preachers’ Meeting … [ Read More ]

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Price: $7,500 President of the United States. Attractive sepia tone photograph of the twenty-sixth president of the United States, Signed on the mount (which is an integral part of the photograph) below, “Theodore Roosevelt / Sagamore Hill / 1918.” The photograph measures 4 inches wide by 6 inches high; overall measurements are 7 inches wide … [ Read More ]

Roualt, Georges

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Price: $5,000 French Fauvist and Expressionist painter. Autograph Letter Signed, one full page, quarto, August 15, 1938. “I am in receipt of your telegram – here is the address of my daughter, Isabelle Rouault, who is my secretary, but is not with me at this time: Chalet Pax, Route de Pau, les Hautes Pyrenées, where … [ Read More ]

Salinger, J D

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Price: $12,500 Typewritten Letter Signed, initials, one page, large quarto, [Windsor, Vermont], September 29, 1978. With original envelope. To Amy Kassak in Japan. With the original envelope. “Please excuse this late reply. (The truth be told, I’m usually later still. I’m the world’s worst correspondent, and I usually can manage about one letter to a … [ Read More ]

Shackleton, Ernest H

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Price: $5,750 English Antarctic explorer. Autograph Letter Signed, E.H. Shackleton, two pages, small octavo, on an imprinted correspondence card, Royal Societies Club, St. James Street, September 29, 1903. To “Dear Sir.” “I am afraid that until I have seen the President I cannot settle anything about a lecture. I will let you know when he … [ Read More ]

Sibelius, Jean

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Price: $1,750 Finnish composer of “Finlandia.” Typewritten Letter Signed, two pages, octavo, Järvenpää, August 13, 1954. To Cyril Clemens, with original envelope. “…The Olaf’s Castle is one of the finest tourist attractions of Finland. Though I have seen all places in my country that are worth seeing, curiously enough I have never been to Savonlinna. … [ Read More ]

Sibelius, Jean

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Price: $3,250 Finnish composer. Bust-length portrait photograph of the brooding composer, wearing a dark suit and resting his chin on his hand, signed in the dark portion with good contrast. The photograph of Jean Sibelius measures 6 by 4 inches. Fine condition. This item is associated with the following category in our inventory: Musicians / … [ Read More ]

Strauss, Johann

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Price: $6,750 Viennese composer of waltzes. Autograph Letter Signed, one page, octavo, undated, [Saturday]. To a “colleague.” “As no concert is taking place today — Herr Geber is asking for a new program for Sunday, as the one which would have been given tomorrow has already been publicized twice. I have therefore taken the liberty … [ Read More ]

Strauss, Johann

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Price: $12,500 Viennese composer of waltzes. Very fine contemporary carte-de-visite size photograph of the Waltz King, wearing formal attire and medals, inscribed to Monsieur Tudshoorn in bold blue pencil, and signed beneath the image of Johann Strauss. A fine example. Matted in tan and claret, in an antique gilt frame measuring 9 inches wide by … [ Read More ]

Stravinsky, Igor

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Price: $4,750 Russian composer of Firebird. Typewritten Document Signed, a carbon typescript signed in ink, one page, quarto, April 27, 1964. A legal agreement with Paul Kohner, Inc., in which Stravinsky states “that you acted as my exclusive agent in procuring employment…with Dino De Laurentiis Cinematografica…covering my services as composer and conductor of music in … [ Read More ]

Stuart, J E B

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Price: $25,000 Autograph Letter Signed, two and one-quarter pages, octavo, H[ea]d Q[uarte]rs Cavalry Division A[rmy] of N[orth] V[irginia], Orange C[ourt] H[ouse], May 11, 1863. As Major General, to My Dear Cousin.” “Let me share with you the deep grief for the fate of your dear boy, whose loss to me is scarcely less than to … [ Read More ]

Supreme Court

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Price: $4,750 Fred M. Vinson Court. Signed Photograph of the Fred M. Vinson Court, circa 1949/1953, including Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson, Felix Frankfurter, Hugo L. Black, Stanley Reed, William O. Douglass, Tom C. Clark, Robert H. Jackson, Harold Burton, and Sherman Minton. The black and white photograph measures 13 1/8 inches wide by 10 … [ Read More ]

Tolstoy, Leo

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Price: $17,500 Russian author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Bust-length postcard Photograph of Leo Tolstoy, Signed and Dated, “Leo Tolstoy / 24 Febr. 1910” in the lower portion.  The photograph by C. Kraft is captioned “Tolstoi.”  The black and white photograph measures 3 ½ inches wide by 5 ½ inches high.  Matted in … [ Read More ]

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henry de

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Price: $10,000 Autograph Letter Signed, HT Lautrec, one and a half pages, small quarto, [1894]. In French, to the publisher and lithographer André Marty. Requesting a meeting at 6:30 at the Napolitain, Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec writes: “I gave you my last instructions. I am going with Geffroy tomorrow (Friday) to see Yvette in Vaux.” In … [ Read More ]

Verdi, Giuseppe

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Price: $17,500 Italian operatic composer. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, “G. Verdi,” 1889, one page, from “Otello.” On an album page, Giuseppe Verdi has penned five notes from the arresting theme of the “Ave Maria” (“Prega per chi ado[rando]” or “Pray for all sho adore…”) from the fourth act of his tragic opera “Otello.” Interestingly, Verdi … [ Read More ]

Wagner, Richard

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Price: $35,000 German operatic composer. Autograph Musical Manuscript, Richard Wagner, one page, small oblong octavo, [Paris], undated but circa March 1861. A manuscript comprising Tannhäuser’s final words in the second Act “Vers Rome,” in score, for voices and strings. Four measures, notated in pencil on six staves. This is probably an alteration attached to the … [ Read More ]

Washington, Booker T

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Price: $7,500 Black American educator; founded the Tuskegee Institute for practical training of blacks in trades and professions in 1881. Autograph Letter Signed Booker T Washington, one page, large quarto, Tuskegee, Alabama, March 13, 1897. On imprinted stationery of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, to a supporter, Ella Kent in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Booker T … [ Read More ]

Weizmann, Chaim

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Price: $9,500 Polish-born Israeli chemist and politician who was the first President of Israel. Autograph Letter Signed, Chaim Weizmann, one page, octavo, August 4, 1940. On imprinted stationery of the Dorchester Hotel in London, to Dr. Josef Cohn at the Zionist Organization of American in New York City. “I would like to thank you for … [ Read More ]

Whistler, James McNeill

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Price: $5,750 American artist. Superb sepia tone albumen photograph of James Whistler’s work in White III, Signed Whistler and with his butterfly signature, in pencil on the lower mount.  From the private collection of the American painter Chauncey Ryder.  A fine example measuring 15 ½ inches wide by 21 inches high.

Whitman, Walt

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Price: $9,500 American poet. Printed Poem Signed Walt Whitman, one page, small oblong octavo, undated [ca. 1884-1885]. Entitled “Of that Blithe Throat of Thine.” “Of that blithe throat of thine from arctic bleak and blank/ I’ll mind the lesson, solitary bird – let me too welcome chilling drifts,/ E’en the profoundest chill, as now – … [ Read More ]

Wilde, Oscar

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Price: $7,500 Irish poet, dramatist and wit. Autograph Letter Signed Oscar Wilde, three pages, octavo, no date [ca. 1878], on his imprinted stationery from Magdalen College, Oxford, to “My dear Sir” [Rev. Matthew Russell]. Referring to “my recent success.” “I am sure you will excuse my not thanking you before for verses which in their … [ Read More ]

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