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 ]
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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 ]
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 ]
Cassatt, Mary
Price: $4,750 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: $3,750 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: $6,500 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 ]
Christie, Agatha
Price: $3,750 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: $4,750 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: $2,500 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 ]
Crawford, Joan
Price: $250 American motion picture actress. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, quarto, April 23, 1955. On her address-imprinted stationary, to Sally and Bob Roberts in Forest Hills, New York. With the original envelope. “Thank you so much for your lovely birthday card. I am so deeply grateful to each of you for remembering. “I did … [ Read More ]
Dietrich, Marlene
Price: $350 Actress; starred in The Blue Angel. Typewritten Letter Signed, Marlene Dietrich, two pages, quarto, Paris, April 23, 1987. With the word “COPIE” stamped in orange in the top right corner of the first page, and a phone number handwritten on the top left corner of the first page. Addressed from Marlene Dietrich to … [ Read More ]
Hepburn, Katharine
Price: $500 American movie actress; starred in “The African Queen” and “The Philadelphia Story.” Typewritten Letter Signed, “Katharine Hepburn (with her phone number, 203-388-9705),” August 13, 1985, one page, octavo, on her personal stationery with her name engraved in red. To fashion designer Perry Ellis. “Dear Perry Ellis / Why don’t you call me: PL … [ Read More ]
Howe, Julia Ward
Price: $2,750 Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Julia Ward Howe. Autograph Quotation Signed, “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,” on a 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inch card, dated by the author “January, 1896.” With a printed copy of the first song book appearance of the … [ Read More ]
Isabella I
Price: $9,500 Queen of Castile; joint sovereign with Ferdinand V; patron of Columbus. Document Signed, yo la Reyna, [I the Queen], one page, legal folio, May 17, 1501. The Queen orders her chamberlain, Sancho de Paredes, to pay the sum of 530 maravedis, or two florins, to a silversmith named Anton de Carrion for work … [ Read More ]
Joanna
Price: $15,000 La Loca. Queen Joanna of Castile; daughter of Ferdinand V and Isabella I. An official royal document, signed in the name of the Queen by the Councillors of Castile, one page folio, (15 by 12 inches), Granada, May 11, 1510. With a full impression of the Royal Great Seal, covered by a contemporary paper … [ Read More ]
Josephine
Price: $7,500 Empress of France; wife of Napoleon I. Letter Signed, Josephine, one half page, quarto, Malmaison, January 15, 1812. To Monsieur de Lescaille. “I am sending you the plan of a new road which I propose to construct, in order to create jobs for the people of Evreux. Please advise me of your opinion … [ Read More ]
Leigh, Vivien
Price: $37,500 Motion picture actress. Four Typewritten Documents, forty-two pages, legal folio, January 16 to November 8, 1939. Concerning Vivien Leigh’s role in the production of Gone With The Wind. Together with an Autograph Letter Signed. Typewritten Document, seventeen pages, legal folio, Culver City, California, January 16, 1939. The carbon copy of the contract for … [ Read More ]
Maria Theresa
Price: $4,750 Archduchess of Austria; Queen of Hungary and Bohemia; mother of Marie Antoinette. Partly printed Document Signed Maria Theresa, three pages, folio, [16 1/2 by 10 1/2 inches, May 22, 1770. To Adam Radlmacher, the official responsible for expenditure on roads and bridges, accepting his accounts for the military year 1769. “Received from the … [ Read More ]
Maria Theresa
Price: $4,750 Arch-Duchess of Austria; Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. Mother of Marie Antoinette. Document Signed Maria Theresa, one page, large folio, [17 1/2 by 21 3/4 inches], n.d. With the Queen’s large paper and wax seal. An ornate document commending Don Francesca de Magan “for his long-rendered service and steadiness and bravery in wartime,” … [ Read More ]
Marie Antoinette
Price: $25,000 Queen of France. Letter Signed, one page, quarto, Versailles, May 19, 1782. To “Monsieur, my brother, cousin and brother-in-law.” “The interest I take in the events which are agreeable to Your Majesty is too keen for you not to be convinced of the interest I took in the birth of the Princess, to … [ Read More ]
Medicis, Catherine de
Price: $4,750 Queen of France; wife of Henry II. Letter Signed, one page, legal folio, Fontainbleau, March 30, 1560. In German. To her cousin. The Queen says she has had to neglect her cousin’s affairs, but that he should realize that both she and the King value him as an ally. Her representative, Herr von … [ Read More ]
Millay, Edna St Vincent
Price: $17,500 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 ]
Mitchell, Margaret
Price: $9,500 American author. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, quarto, Atlanta, Georgia, September 26, 1936. To Almira B. Taylor in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. With the original envelope. “Thank you so much for your letter about ‘Gone With the Wind.’ I appreciated it so much. Authors write books and send them out into the world and … [ Read More ]
Monroe, Marilyn
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 ]
Monroe, Marilyn
Price: $8,500 Hollywood movie legend. Carbon Typscript, Signed in ink, one page, quarto, May 16, 1958, or an advance for “Some Like It Hot.” The contract is between Marilyn Monroe (represented by MCA Artists) and Ashton Productions. The advance is for $55,000. There are two provisions in the contract. They read, in part: 1. Concurrently … [ Read More ]
O’Keeffe, Georgia
Price: $2,750 American painter. Autograph Letter Signed, Georgia O’Keeffe, one page, quarto, Abiquiu, July 25, 1969. To Elizabeth Monroe. With the original envelope. “Dear Elizabeth Monroe / When you are in Santa Fe drop me a note and plan to come up some morning. “If you do not have a car I could probably send … [ Read More ]
Perón, Eva
Price: $2,750 Wife of Argentine President Juan Perón, who, during her husband’s first term as president, became a powerful though unofficial political leader, revered by the lower economic classes. Signed Book. “Eva Perón and Her Social Work”. Signed and inscribed on the front cover, “a Jouhn Walcot / Eva Perón / 1950”. [Buenos Aires]: Subsecretariat … [ Read More ]
Piaf, Edith
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, Katherine Anne
Price: $12,500 American essayist, short story writer, novelist; wrote Ship of Fools. Typewritten Letter Signed, Katherine Anne Porter, three densely typed pages, on blue paper, quarto, August 18, 1958, Outpost Inn, Ridgefield, Connecticut. With corrections in her hand. To Mr. Clemons. “ I am towards the end of the triple-copy stage with my Ship of … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Price: $375 First Lady of the United States. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, octavo, February 20, 1936. On White House stationery, to her literary agent George Bye. “I would consider any radio contract that was perfectly all right and brought in sufficient return to make it worthwhile, but I would want to be sure that … [ Read More ]
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Price: $950 First Lady. Typewritten Letter Signed, four pages, small quarto, October 26, 1956. On her name imprinted stationery, 211 East 62nd Street, New York, 21, N.Y., to “My dear Friend”. With several corrections in her own hand. “I was very sorry to get your letter and also sorry to see your statement in the … [ Read More ]
Sayers, Dorothy Leigh
Price: $3,750 English mystery novelist; creator of the memorable sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey. Typewritten Letter Signed Dorothy Leigh Sayers, three pages, quarto, Witham, Essex, July 25, 1947. To Dr. James Bridie. Fine condition. “…I said that one statement of yours, which I quoted, was…’venomously said.’ It is venomous, because it is one of those accusations, … [ Read More ]
Stael, Madame de. Anne Louise Germaine Necker
Price: $1,750 Anne Louise Germaine Necker. French writer; exiled by Napoleon I. Autograph Letter Signed, Necker Stael de Holstein, one full page, octavo, 28 messidor, no year. To Citizen [Paul] Barras, a member of the Directory. I was deeply affected by the misfortune suffered by Citizen Barras. I must know if his health was affected. … [ Read More ]
Stael, Madame de. Anne Louise Germaine Necker
Price: $2,750 French writer; exiled by Napoleon I. Autograph Letter, unsigned, one page, octavo, n.d. Fine condition. “I miss you very much, my dear sir, you are for me beautiful England, that of wit and soul. don’t forget that I am expecting you and Lady Mackintosh tomorrow for dinner. You will give me my festive … [ Read More ]
Stein, Gertrude
Price: $9,500 American author. Autograph Letter Signed, four pages, quarto, Azay-le-Rideau, France, [July 19, 1926]. On imprinted stationery of the Hotel du Grand Monarque, to Gertrude Stein’s friends, Allan Taumer and [Trututueff]. With the original envelope. Not a squeak out of you. Where are you and how are you, we are here. We came near … [ Read More ]
Victoria, Queen
Price: $6,500 Signed Books. “Life of the Prince Consort”. Set of five volumes. Signed by Queen Victoria in volume I and in volume III. Inscribed in volume I on a front blank page, “To The Hon: Mary Pitt from VR & I Windsor Castle Jan.17, 1877”. Inscribed in volume III on a front blank page, … [ Read More ]
Vigee-Lebrun, Marie Anne Élisabeth
Price: $4,500 Portrait painter to Queen Marie Antoinette. Third Person Letter, Marie Anne Vigee-Lebrun, one page, octavo, October 28, [1837]. In French. Mme Le Brun, before returning to Paris next Monday, asks Monsieur Vattemare to do her the honor of visiting her tomorrow, Sunday. She will return the engravings he left with her, as she … [ Read More ]