Houston, TX:: (Cumming & Sons, printers, for) Passenger Dept., Southern Pacific Sunset Route,, nd [1900]. First edition. Oblong 4to. 32 pp. Illus., facsimiles of signatures and documents. Original printed tan wrappers. Poor quality paper browned, else very good. .... more information
Price: 125.00 USD
Oblong 8vo. 112 leaves bearing 116 autographs, some inscribed with a sentiment, all save four on a recto; included are 32 senators and 75 representatives from the 45th Congress, among them the three African-American members, former Confederate general Matt Ransom, former Union generals Ben Butler, Ambrose Burnside, Phil Sheridan, and Nathaniel Banks, and former U.S. Vice-President Hannibal Hamlin. Original gilt-stamped leather (rubbed, spine ends chipped), with a Washington, D.C., bookseller's ticket ("Milans & Wilkins") on the front pastedown. Still a good solid album and most autographs quite legible.Blanche K. Bruce (1841-1898), born a slave in Prince Edward County, Virginia, became.... more information
Price: 2500.00 USD
AUTOGRAPH ALBUM WITH SIGNATURES FROM THE R & B BAND "THE HONEYDRIPPERS."
[1946-47]. Small autograph album, bound in stiff dark red paper (simulating leather) measuring 6 x 4 inches, tied with ribbon. This album belonged to a woman named "Helen," to whom several of the autographs are signed. Each of the nine pencilled autographs is on a separate page (the remainder of the album is blank). .... more information
Price: 750.00 USD
Boston, New York and Chicago:: Houghton Mifflin and Company,, 1905 - 1906. 9.5" x 6". 267pp. Gray paper covered boards with a blue cloth spine with a printed paper spine label. Mild soiling, else near fine condition. With a frontispiece showing portraits of six great authors published by the Houghton Mifflin firm. With many other portraits scattered throughout the book, as well as facsimiles of various author's autographs. Useful as an autograph reference work. .... more information
Price: 45.00 USD
Michael R. Thompson Rare Books
8242 West Third St., Suite 230
Los Angeles, CA 90048
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Cambridge:: Printed at the Pitt Press, by John Smith,, 1833. Binding extremities rubbed, former owner’s ink signature (“Susanna Georgiana Lloyd”) on front pastedown. A very good copy.. First edition of a scarce collection of scientific signatures. Includes lithographed signatures of Charles Babbage, George Bentham, David Brewster, Michael Faraday, Sir J.F.W. Herschel, Peter Mark Roget, William Whewell, and many others.. Bound in are eight letters from Lord Derby (probably Edward Stanley, twelfth Earl of Derby, who introduced the English Derby at Epsom Downs) to George Lloyd (one of the members of the Association), and one letter from William Butterworth Bayley (1744-1802, who introduced many improvements in prison construction, sanitation and agricultural methods) to George Lloyd. Also bound in are five leaves of lithographed signatures, with an ink notation on the first page: “autographs of some of Sir John Sinclair’s correspondence.” Sinclair (1754-1835) was President of the Board of Agriculture from 1793-8 and from 1806-13. .... more information
Price: 750.00 USD
AMERICAN BOOK PRICES CURRENT: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 & 1995.
NY: Bowker, 1991 Fine. First Edition. Auction Records covering a five year period. Important information on prices realized for 1,000s of books, manuscripts, documents, autographs and maps. Gilt-stamped red linen. .... more information
Price: 75.00 USD
Old Bookshop of Bordentown
200 Farnsworth Avenue
Bordentown, NJ 08505
Phone: (609) 324-9909
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A Celebration of Young Poets: New Jersey--Spring 2002
Logan, UT: Creative Communication, 2002 fine. First edition. Oversized in glossy illustrated hardcovers. 252 pp. plus blanks at rear for autographs. Anthology of poetry composed by New Jersey students from schools that received the Poetic Achievement Award. Fine. Issued without dust jacket. .... more information
Price: 21.95 USD
Old Bookshop of Bordentown
200 Farnsworth Avenue
Bordentown, NJ 08505
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Echoes of the Aesthetic Society of Jersey City
NY: Thompson & Moreau, 1882 Very Good. First Edition. First printing. SIGNED ON SPECIAL LEAVES BOUND IN FOR FOR AUTOGRAPHS BY SEVERAL OF THE CONTRIBUTORS, MOST NOTABLY AMERICAN SCULPTOR AND ARTIST WILLIAM RUDOLF O'DONOVAN. Also signed by a number of contributors and members including founder and president Erminnie A. Smith. Collection of prose verse and essays on general uplifting topics, including "Poe's House at Fordham". The Aesthetic Society of Jersey City was a woman's literary and discussion group founded in 1876. Blue cloth lettered in gilt and decorated with black edging design; all edges gilt255 pps. with decorated capitals and headings and occasional engravings; frontis photo of bronze bas.... more information
Price: 79.50 USD
School Days Record: A Memory Book.
New York: The Marion Company, n.y., [1915?] 8vo. Grey cloth with pictorial label. (122pp). Decorations. Fine. Blank, unused school memory book with album pages for photographs, autographs, special events, press clippings, etc. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
London: W.S. Lincoln & Son, 1867 16mo. Stiff pale green wrappers. 50pp. Very good. Minor edgewear; small green name/address (New York) inkstamped on front wrapper. Clean, tight copy of this early catalogue containing 918 lots. Sure to make any philographer drool! .... more information
Price: 65.00 USD
Classic Books and Ephemera
109 W. Stratford Ave.
Lansdowne, PA 19050
Phone: (215) 823-9607
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New York: Grolier Club, 1911 Very Good. First Edition. Printed by the De Vinne Press. vii, [1], 85, [1] p.: tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait and 3 leaves of portrait plates, 2 facsimile leaves; 24 cm. (9.5 inches). Speckled white paper over boards with gilt-stamped cover title; red leather spine title with gilt-stamped spine title. Plain white slipcase. One of a limited edition of 200 copies on Van Gelder Zonen handmade paper, printed in March 1911. The catalogue lists 135 books, autographs, manuscripts, portraits, and other Popeana, which appeared in an exhibition held at the Grolier Club in early 1911. Illustrated with lovely collotype plates. Book is in Very Good Condition:.... more information
Price: 55.00 USD
Classic Books and Ephemera
109 W. Stratford Ave.
Lansdowne, PA 19050
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Musical Autographs: List 84-10
Berkeley, Ca.: J.B. Muns Fine Art Books, 1984 Near Fine. [24] p.: illustrations; 22 cm. Stapled paper covers included in page count. An early, or perhaps the first, catalog issued by Muns that contained autographed musical material. The first page of text states: "We are beginning to move into autographed musical material, to supplement the books." Apparently a successful move, as the company became Muns Fine Art Books & Musical Autographs. This catalog contains 233 items. In Near Fine Condition: one staple removed from fore-edge; clean and tight. .... more information
Price: 8.50 USD
THE SIGNERS SALE: AUTOGRAPHS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND RARE BOOKS AUCTION
Beverly Hills, CA;: Superior Galleries, 1993 First Edition. Catalog from November 6, 1993 auction. 318 pages with black and white photographs. A fine copy. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
THE SUPERIOR GALLERIES MAY 9TH 1992 AUCTION OF AUTOGRAPHS, MANUSCRIPTS, & SELECT BOOKS
Beverly Hills, CA;: Superior Galleries, 1992 First Edition. Catalog from May 9, 1992 auction. 222 pages with black and white photographs. A fine copy. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Ken Sanders Rare Books
268 South 200 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Phone: (801) 521-3819
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Presidents of the United States Steel Plate Portraits with Fac Simile Autographs.
Circa 1885 21 steel plate portraits with gilt stamped edges and rounded corners, housed in a red bonded leather portfolio case. The plates measure 17.5 cm tall by 12.5 cm wide. The plates are in very good condition, and have occasional small light stains. The portfolio case is in good condition, with rubbing. There are several closed tears in the edges. The largest tear measures 1 inch long. .... more information
Price: 100.00 USD
Le Manuscrit Autographe Revue Paraissant Tous Les Trois Mois.
Paris: Auguste Blaizot & Fils, 1933 Fair. SPine weak, text block fairly tight. Sold as a reading copy, not returnable based on condition. Printed wraps. 330 pp. [vi] pp. This is the catalogue for April to September 1933, Huitieme Annee Nos. 42-43. An attractive selection of autographs and collectibles. .... more information
Price: 30.00 USD
New York: Homer Lee & Co., 1878 VG internally, with old oval stamp from Mercantile Library and their bookplate inside front cover. New spine with original spine laid-down, new endpapers, a solid copy. Some soiling to covers, which otherwise are only showing moderate wear to the edges an. 14 blank leaves for autographs (unused), 1 advertisement leaf. Text illustrations by Thomas Nast and other American artists Harte's elaborate poem was modeled after Lord Byron's "Childe Harold." "Cadet Grey" contains the first song Harte ever composed, and was the featured work (occupying pages 9 to 43) of this anthology of military verse. Warren Howell, cataloguing this title in 1979, considered the work "very rare." (Bea and Peter Siegel Books 2008) .... more information
Price: 250.00 USD
Austin, Texas: The Jenkins Company, 1978 VG- (Minor scuffing to wraps and wear to extremities). Black illus. wraps; Unpaginated, approx. 100 pp.; Profusely illustrated with figures, mostly bw, some color A wide array of pieces, featuring works by George Cruikshank, e.e. cummings, Daumier, Degas, Whistler, and Renoir, as well as American Historical works by Walt Disney, Currier & Ives, and Daniel Webster; Also includes autographs, art books, antiquites, bronzes, and more .... more information
Price: 10.00 USD
The Plaud Collection of Eleanor & Franklin Roosevelt Items.
Dallas, TX: Heritage Auctions, 2008, June 7 VG+. Color illustrated wraps. 568 lots presented on 206 pages, all illustrated in full color lots 53001 - 53568 are offered for sale. The auction and catalogue are organized as follows: Franklin D. Roosevelt as President; Eleanor Roosevelt Relics and Autographs; The Roosevelt Children Lots; Roosevelt’s Close Associates; Presidential and Other Historical Autographs; The Pre-Presidential Career of Franklin D. Roosevelt; Roosevelt Related Relics, Memorabilia and Artwork. .... more information
Price: 50.00 USD
Autograph Letters and Historical Documents: Maggs 1449.
London: Maggs Bros. Ltd., 2011 VG+. Burgundy/BW pictorial wraps, unpaginated; approx. 100pp, several BW illustrations This is a catalog published by Maggs Bros. Ltd, a rare books, first editions, manuscripts and autographs specialist in London. This volume contains numerous historical documents in reference, from Rudyard Kipling to Sir Winston Churchill. Each example contains historical back story and a price. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
Fine Arts Journal, January, 1909 and January, 1910 to December, 1910.
1909-1911 VG, Bound in Leather. 1/2 leather. numerous bw plates. A stunning set, with autographs by a few artists (Thomas Moran, Elbridge A. Burbank) at the beginning of articles on them! Articles on these artists, as well as: H. Anthony Dyer; Alfred East; A Notable Collection of American Paintings (see Karpel for a description of this article); Some American Landscape Painters; Art and Artists of The Great Southwest (Part 2,3,4,5,6); Mural Paintings in Public Buildings; An Appreciation of American Art; Improvement of Art in the [American] West; Exhibition of The St. Louis Society of Artists; Brumidi-Nichael Angelo of The Capitol; The Death of Two Western.... more information
Price: 300.00 USD
Photographically Illustrated Books, Albums, Books, Autographs and Manuscripts, Photographic Ephemera
NY`: Janet Lehr, Inc, 1979 VG, ready for 3-ring binder. White wraps. [37] pp. 79 bw plates .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
(Marietta, Ohio: 1859-63) An album, titled "Autographs" and comprising of 33 mounted oval photographs, both salt prints and albumen prints, of members of the classes of 1859 - 1863. The images are 5 x 3 ¾ inches ( 127 x 95 mm.) and smaller. Most of the salt prints are exquisitely touched up in ink, with a few having full color applied to the image. They are, in fact, some of the most beautiful we have ever seen. Below each image the sitter signed his name, address, and class affiliation. Also included are two hand-colored photographic reproductions of local views. Octavo, 9 x.... more information
Price: 2000.00 USD
Well: Daniel F. Kelleher Co. , Inc, 2007 No Dust Jacket. Very Good.
Price: 8.00 USD
Well: Daniel F. Kelleher Co. , Inc, 2007 Very Good+; No Dust Jacket. Very Good.
Price: 8.00 USD
Regency Superior Beverly Hills Collectibles Sale December 19-21, 2008
Beve: Regency Superior, 2008 Very Good+. Massive auction catalogue featuring space & aviation, coins & currency, autographs, Hollywood, sports and militaria. ; 352 pages .... more information
Price: 8.00 USD
La J: Early American Numismatic Auctions, 1996 Very Good.
Price: 8.00 USD
La J: Early American Numismatic Auctions, 1996 Very Good.
Price: 8.00 USD
New: Phillips, 1980 Very Good- with no dust jacket; Covers have light creasing and light smudging. A few notations next to lot descriptions.. "Andrew Jackson & His Times (in autograph letters and documents, pamphlets, books, broadsides & prints) " .... more information
Price: 8.00 USD
Tigard, OR: The Senior Class of Tigard Union High School, 1930 First Edition. Softbound. Quarto. 72pp including thirteen pages of advertisements at rear. Illustrated throughout with numerous black & white photo reproductions. Stiff red stapled wrappers with yapped edges. Very Good+ with previous owner's signature on title page, classmate signatures on autographs page, light edgewear .... more information
Price: 25.00 USD
MARY PICKFORD AND DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS AUTOGRAPHS.
Autograph of silent film star Mary Pickford and her second husband, actor Douglas Fairbanks, both in black ink and dated 1924. The Pickford signature is on a 3 5/8 by 2 1/4-inch note card, the Fairbanks signature on a 3 7/8 by 3-inch note card. Until their divorce in 1936 after sixteen years of marriage, Pickford and Fairbanks were the most popular Hollywood couple of their time and the first movie stars to leave their handprints in cement outside the famed Graumann's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. In 1919, together with Charlie Chaplin and D. W. Griffith, the couple founded.... more information
Price: 150.00 USD
[Worcester, MA; Honolulu, HI:: 1870's. Oblong 8vo, bound in brown leather stamped in gilt. Some miscellaneous ephemera laid in. Many of the pages contain autographs and sentiments from towns in central Mass (around Worcester) as well as several that have been signed in Hawaii. Two pages contain elaborate pen drawings. .... more information
Price: 125.00 USD
John K. King Used & Rare Books
901 W. Lafayette Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48226
Phone: 313 961 0622
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COLLECTION OF FOUR AUTOGRAPHS OF MICHIGAN-BORN MILITARY HEROES.
Includes: John Biddle, WW I General, on 3.5x6", autograph-book page with typed identification, Irving, Pennsylvania August 20, 1925, v.g.; C.W. Cole, Rear Admiral, two signatures on 10.5x8" page, endorsing passage of U.S.S Mercy in San Francisco June-July 1922, holes and wear else ok; W.W. "Bones" Marshall, Major General, Korean War and Vietnam air ace, signed 3x5", card, v.g.; and Cecil G. Foster, Korean War air ace, signed and inscribed FirstDay Cover honoring the Korean War vets, v.g. The lot. .... more information
Price: 100.00 USD
John K. King Used & Rare Books
901 W. Lafayette Blvd.
Detroit, MI 48226
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N.p. n.d. (1870's-"80's-'90's). Oblong 4x7", gilt-lettered embossed leather. .... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
1) Twenty-four signed (some inscribed) b/w photographs of Karlweis. Two of the photographs are 6 3/4" x 9" press-photos (one b/w, the other in sepia-tone), both inscribed to Trude (Brodheim) with stamp of "Sellman Photos" and "Phot. Willinger" on verso. One signed 5 1/2" x 7 1/2'" Christmas & New Year's card depicting Karlweis on stage in uniform. Remaining twenty-one signed cards show the actor in portrait, in various characters, as well as four images of Karlweis in traditional Lederhosen. Average size of photos 3 1/2" x 5 1/2".2) Fifteen original b/w photographs of the actor with his son, signing.... more information
Price: 950.00 USD
Springfield, New Jersey: William A. Fox, Auctions Inc., 1989 Very Good. Quarto, stapled paper covers, 90 pp., 66 pp., b/w photos .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
Springfield, New Jersey: William A. Fox, Auctions Inc., 1989 Very Good. Quarto, stapled paper covers, 82 pp., 59 pp., b/w photos .... more information
Price: 15.00 USD
Washington: Bancroft-Parkman, Inc., 1996 Fine condition Wrinkled pages in back of vol 1. Volume One 1174 Pages; Volume Two 2334 Pages .... more information
Price: 45.00 USD
Courtland, CA: Associated Student Body. Courtland Union High School, 1932 80p., illus. with drawings and black/white photos, 8x11 inches, some autographs, wraps, spot on front cover. This yearbook shows a student body with a large proportion of Japanese Americans. .... more information
Price: 35.00 USD
Franciscan 1943, volume 18, published annually by the students of the San Francisco State College.
San Francisco: the college, 1943 104p., glossy paperstock throughout with the usual mugs and clubs; 9.5x12 inch boards with B&W photo of students outside building on cover, blank endpapers lack any autographs. Military themes appear in various places .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
San Francisco: Mission High School, 1938 96p., usual quarto yearbook format, boards show one nasty pressure-mark or scrape, an otherwise clean copy with some autographs and a couple of will-repay-you-to-read-between-the-lines inscriptions. Bears only a few autographs, but is notable for two of the lengthiest yearbook messages this cataloguer has seen-- one in the front, agonized but innocent, from "Rita," an even longer one in the back. This latter memorandum is from "Lucille," who seems to be the chagrined but dispassionate rival of Rita (handwriting is in red ink on brown endsheets, we give up). .... more information
Price: 30.00 USD
Oakland, CA: Oakland High School, 1928 [16p.], wraps rather worn with paste adhesions on blank back cover, numerous autographs throughout, bird-shaped homemade label on cover along with an ownership signature ("Jennie Wong"). List of graduating students, with photos of football team and valedictorians, group shot of entire class of '28, drama club, humorous essay, history of the school, etc. A multiethnic class, though the social stratum associated with producing the booklet seems to have been all white. .... more information
Price: 20.00 USD
San Francisco, CA: Central Hebrew School, 1935 12p. in English, 13p. in Hebrew, 9x12.5 inches, worn wraps with minor soiling, ink stain along outer edge, some internal foxing. Black and white photos of graduates and faculty; pages with photos have many autographs and penned greetings in both English and Hebrew. Essays on the significance of Hebrew education to Jewish life and nationalism, notes of congratulations from various school and temple officials, edvertisements. Not found in OCLC .... more information
Price: 25.00 USD
Santa Rosa: National Association of Miniature Autographs, 1981 unpaginated 8.5x11 inches, illustrated with photos, maps, drawings, patterns, plans, ads, very good in brad-bound gilt-illustrated covers. Convention program. .... more information
Price: 25.00 USD
1945 Cousin and brother-in-law of King Ghazi, brother of King Faisal II, son of King Hussein. Abdullah assumed power upon the death of King Ghazi, serving as Regent for the underage Faisal II. Exceedingly rare black-and-white portrait; heavy-stock 8" x 10" photograph by "Starvis & Ewing," official photographers of the British Royal Family, as King Regent and Field Marshall, war-dated January 1, 1945, boldly signed "Abdullah" in English and Arabic, not personalized as it would be considered demeaning. Authentic signatures of Starvis and Ewing on lower border attest to the fact that this is an official portrait. Contrast is exceptional. Abdullah.... more information
Price: 650.00 USD
"[THE LETTER] POSTCARD SUBSCRIPTION RENEWAL, Spring 1989"
"Rogers City, Mi": Elaine's Upper Story, 1989 Good. 1st. "Blue postcard with reminder to renew the subscription to The Letter, as the 1989 issue was due to arrive in June. On the back is a message about an upcoming Tasha Tudor event on April 9, 1989 at the Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, PA. Tudor was to be the honored guest at an evening reception and available for autographs at 1 pm the next day. ""Forget Me Not"", as the party was called, was a benefit for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals." .... more information
Price: 2.00
Scarce Vintage Inscribed Photo
1934 Vaudeville radio show performers who starred in Here Comes the Show boat" (broadcasting from a studio), featuring fictional characters "Captain Henry" and black-face deck hands "Molasses and January." The show aired from 1931 through 1945. Their real names were Pick Padgett and Pat Malone, two Irishmen who had a second radio show called "Pick and Pat," which appeared on NBC, CBS, The Lux Theater, The Chesterfield Super Club, etc. Very scarce and fabulous inscribed signed photo. 8" X 10", sepia-tone, depicting both characters in black-face in their dressing room -- Molasses holding a card hand of five aces while January.... more information
Price: 300.00 USD
Certain Books
P.O. Box 9 143 B Montauk Highway
Westhampton, NY 11977-0009
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El Paso Texas: Not Published, 1921 Very Good. F. The collection includes over 150 dated and signed letters written to (and a few items from) Dr. Lucinda DeLeftwich Templin (1888-1969) author, historian & collector, "...one of El Paso's best-loved and most distinguished educators - in 1916 she took her undergraduate and Master's at U. of Missouri and became Dean of Lindenwood College in St. Charles, MO., did doctoral work at Harvard and Columbia and took over as principal at the Radford School in 1927 (at the time, called El Paso School for Girls); Dr. Templin interested Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Radford of Webster Grove, Mo., in the school.... more information
Price: 3500.00 USD
Fine War-Date Autographed Letter Signed Describing an Embarrassing Event
Fairfax Station: 1863 Exceptional war-date autographed letter signed describing the embarrassing event whereby Union Brig. General Edwin Stoughton was captured by the Confederate Ranger "The Gray Ghost" John S. Mosby, 8vo. 3 pages, Fairfax Station (Virginia), March 15, 1863 on colorful patriotic stationary depicting President Lincoln and General McClellan, captioned: "Review Of The Army," written by Pvt. Harry [Noyes], of the short-lived 2nd Vermont Brigade, in small part: "...There is more sickness in camp than usual - with a good many cases of the measles...though none have died. One is very sick and not expected to live, his name is E.A. Mathews. I.... more information
Price: 350.00 USD
