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COMIC STRIP ARTISTS AND CARTOONISTS. Curt Swan (1920-96) comic book artist during the super hero hey day of comic book heroes, mid 1950's through the early 1980s and closely associated with Superman comic books; Charles Schulz (1922-2000), cartoonist, "Peanuts" creator; Friz Freleng (1905-95) animator and cartoonist; best known for his work on Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies; Hank Ketchum (1921-2001), cartoonist and "Dennis the Menace" creator; Bil Keane (1922-2011), cartoonist, "The Family Circus" creator;Mort Walker (b. 1923), cartoonist, "Beetle Bailey " creator; (Rudolph Wendelin (1910-2000), artist and US Forest Service worker, best known for his "Smokey the Bear" illustrations.
Signed Original Cartoon Sketches by these cartoonists on one small 4to white board featuring Superman drawn by Curt Swan, Charles Schulz and Friz Freleng.
Price: $2,000.00
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PORTER, COLE. (1891-1964) American composer and songwriter. His works include the musicals, “Kiss Me Kate”, and “Anything Goes”, as well as the standards “Night and Day", “I Get A Kick Out of You", and “I’ve Got You Under My Skin”.
Typed Letter Signed, 4to, on "The Barclay" hotel stationery, Philadelphia, Nov. 29, 1944.
Price: $1,275.00
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FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT. (1896-1940) Enduring American writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined. He is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's great writers, best remembered for his novel, "The Great Gatsby" (1925).
Autograph Letter Signed, one page on 8vo folded sheet, Paris, May 20 1921.
Price: $7,200.00
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FREUD, SIGMUND. (1856-1939). Austrian neurologist, writer and founder of psychoanalysis.
Uncommon Autograph Letter Signed, in English, on "Marsfield Gardens" printed stationery card, 12mo, London stationery, January 5, 1939.
Price: $12,800.00
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GORDON,CHARLES GEORGE. (1833-1885). Known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, Gordon was a British army officer and administrator. He is remembered for his campaigns in China and northern Africa.
Autograph Letter Signed, 4pp on one folded 8vo sheet, Gravesend, June 28, 1871.
Price: $1,850.00
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EHRLICH, PAUL. (1854-1915). German physician and researcher who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine .
Signature on a 12mo page matted with 8vo photograph showing Ehrlich in his study.
Price: $950.00
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MAYO, CHARLES HORACE. (1865-1939) American medical practitioner and was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic along with his brother, William James Mayo, his father, William Worrall Mayo, and several other eminent physicians.
Fine Photograph Signed, folio, Aug. 16, 1933.
Price: $375.00
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DOWNING, GEORGE. (1624-84) English soldier and diplomat, nephew of Gov. John Winthrop of Massachusetts, sutdiedstudied
6 Manuscript Documents signed, on vellum, from his position in the Exchequer, various dates.
Price: $150.00
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SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic. Winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature. Best remembered for his plays 'Man and Superman' (1903) and 'Pygmalion' (1912).
A.L.S.,oblong 8vo on printed address stationery, Adelphi Terrace, July 9, 1909.
Price: $1,300.00
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KING, MURIEL. (1900–77). American fashion designer and artist whose career spanned four decades. She distinguished herself by drawing detailed water colors of her designs, rather than sketching her fashions. She also designed costumes for major films in the 1930s and 1940s.
Water color on paper of a woodland scene, signed, approximately 10 X 12 inches, matted.
Price: $400.00
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LAVOISIER , ANTOINE LAURENT DE and CONDORCET, MARQUIS DE. Lavoisier: (1743-1793) French financier and scientist. Condorcet: (1743-94) French mathematician, one of the main liberal philosophers and political leaders of the French Revolution. Both served together in the National Treasury during the French Revolution.
Scarce Manuscript Letter Signed, in French, 4to, Paris, July 7, 1792.
Price: $4,300.00
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BERLIN, IRVING. (1888-1989) Prolific and popular Russian born American composer and song writer whose enduring music remains easily recognizable.
Typed Document Signed, folio, New York, 14 separate pp. January 14, 1949.
Price: $1,100.00
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STANISLAVSKY, KONSTANSTIN. (1863-1938) Highly influential Russian actor and theater director.
Letter Signed, in English, on emblematic theater stationery, 8vo, Moscow, Nov. 24, 1908.
Price: $625.00
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PUCCINI, GIACOMO. (1858-1924) Italian composer whose operas, including “La Boheme”, “Tosca”, and “Madam Butterfly” are among the most beloved and frequently performed of the standard repertoire.
Autograph Letter Signed, in Verse in Italian, on printed "Torre del Lago" postal stationery, with integral address leaf, narrow 4to, Nov, 16, 1916.
Price: $4,500.00
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GERSHWIN, GEORGE. (1898-1937) American composer and pianist whose early death brought to a premature halt one of the most remarkable careers in American music. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are universally familiar. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin. George Gershwin composed music for both Broadway and the classical concert hall, as well as popular songs that brought his work to an even wider public. Gershwin's compositions have been used in numerous films and on television, and many became jazz standards recorded in numerous variations.
Bold Signature, 12mo, framed with a large 8vo photograph of Gershwin at the piano.
Price: $1,100.00
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O’NEILL, EUGENE. (1888-1953) American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature.
Rare Original Photograph of O'Neill as a boy, unsigned, oblong 8vo, with full signature on a small 12mo visiting card.
Price: $4,100.00
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TOOROP, JAN. (1858-1928) Dutch painter, born in Java who painted in a variety of contemporary styles including Art Nouveau.
Important Autograph Letter Signed, in Dutch, 3 pp on lined 8vo stationery, October 27, 1924.
Price: $4,700.00
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MADISON, JAMES and MONROE, JAMES . Madison (1751-1836), Fourth President of the United States and Monroe (1758-1831), Fifth President of the United States.
Presidential Document Signed, on parchment, folio, Washington, July 24, 1815.
Price: $2,500.00
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BROCA, PAUL. (1824-80). French physician, anatomist, and anthropologist.
Autograph Note Signed, in French, on flyer for the "Association Francaise pour L'avancement des Sciences," Paris, April 15, 1872.
Price: $750.00
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MILLER, HENRY. (1891-1980). American writer and water colorist, best known for "Tropic of Cancer" (1934), and "Tropic of Capricorn" (1939); also wrote travel memoirs and literary criticism.
Autograph Letter Signed, 8vo, on printed personalized stationery with an imprint of "Fantasmagoria," Big Sur, California, July 31, 1949.
Price: $1,875.00
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LANG, FRITZ. (1890-1976). Austrian-born American film director. Best known for his 'Metropolis', 'Dr. Mabuse', and 'Fury'.
Typed Document Signed, 4to, printed document, 2pp with two carbon copy riders attached, signed with initials, Los Angeles, CA, April 27, 1955.
Price: $425.00
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STEKEL, WILHELM. (1868-1940). Austrian psychoanalyst, part of Sigmund Freud's Vienna Circle of practitioners who met weekly.
Typed Letter Signed, in German, 4to, Vienna, Oct. 28, 1916.
Price: $500.00
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BECQUEREL, JEAN. (1878-1953). French physicist, discovered polarization rotation in the presence of a magnetic field, wrote a text on relativity. Becquerel was the son of Nobel Laureate Antoine Henri Becquerel.
Substantive Autograph Letter Signed, in French, on National Museum, "Laboratoire de Physique" stationery, Paris, April 19, 1931.
Price: $975.00
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BIERSTADT, ALBERT. (1830-1902) American painter, born in Germany, regarded as the leading painter of the Hudson River School of painting.
Autograph Letter Signed, 8vo, New Bedford, June 20, 1862.
Price: $800.00
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LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. (1809-65). Sixteenth President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1861 until his assassination.
Autograph Note Signed on lower portion of a letter, 8vo, Washington, , March 2, 1864.
Price: $16,500.00
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WRIGHT, FRANK LLOYD. (1867-1959) American architect: one of the world's most prominent and influential architects. He developed a series of highly individual styles over his extraordinarily long architectural career (spanning the years 1887-1959) and he influenced the entire course of American architecture and building. To this day, he remains America's most famous architect.
Typed Letter Signed to engineer and builder David Henken who trained under Wright, on his personal Wright-designed Taliesin letterhead, 4to, Taliesin West, Feb. 8, 1954.
Price: $2,100.00
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LEGRAND, LOUIS. (1863-1951). French artist known for his erotic and humorous drawings.
Autograph Letter Signed, in French, 8vo, n.p., April 30, n.y.
Price: $175.00
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CAIN, JAMES M. (1909-94) American novelist, journalist. He is considered to be of the hard-boiled genre of crime fiction writers. His most famous novels, such as “Mildred Pierce,” and “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” have been made into films.
Typed Letter Signed, 4to, Hyattsville, Maryland, April 27, 1974.
Price: $500.00
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RANDALL, JAMES RYDER. (1839-1908) American journalist and poet. He is most remembered for writing the poem "Maryland, My Maryland," which became a war hymn of the Confederacy after the poem's words were set to music during the Civil War. It later became the state song of Maryland.
Autograph Manuscript Signed, 4to, 2pp on verso of printed letterhead, 'The Morning Star, Catholic Weekly', n.p., c. 1905.
Price: $995.00
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DINESEN, ISAK (KAREN BLIXEN). (1885-1962) Danish author also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen wrote works both in Danish and in English and is best known, at least in English, for "Out of Africa", her account of living in Kenya.
Autograph Letter Signed, in Danish, on picture postcard of New York City, postmarked Feb. 2?, 1959.
Price: $300.00
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LINDGREN, ASTRID. (1907-2002) Swedish children's book author, whose many titles were translated into over 70 languages and published in more than 100 Countries, her most famous being Pippi Longstocking.
Black and white Photograph Signed, 8vo, n.p., n.d.
Price: $100.00
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ELDER, WILL . (1921-2008) American illustrator best known for his comic book art particularly for "Mad Magazine."
Two Original drawings, signed.
Price: $225.00
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FREUD, MARTHA BERNAYS. (1861-1951) Wife of Sigmund Freud.
Autograph Letter Signed, in German, 2 pp on one sheet of printed address stationery, 20 Marsefield Gardens, London, Jan. 12, 1950.
Price: $3,750.00
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ARMSTRONG, NEIL A., MICHAEL COLLINS, EDWIN (BUZZ) ALDRIN, JR. Armstrong, (1930-2012) American astronaut, and aerospace engineer, first person to walk on the Moon; Collins (b. 1930), American astronaut; Aldrin (b. 1930), American astronaut and second person to walk on the Moon.
Signed color NASA photograph, 4to, captioned, "Prime Crew of Fifth Manned Apollo Mission," photograph dated on verso, 1974, issued by US Government Printing Office.
Price: $8,000.00
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WALLACE, ALFRED RUSSEL. (1823-1913) British naturalist explore, and biologist, best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution based on natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin to publish on his own theory.
Autograph Letter Signed, 8vo, Parkstone, Dorset, April 17, 1892.
Price: $1,400.00
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WODEHOUSE, P(ELHAM). G(RENVILLE). (1881-1975) British author known for his humorous writings centered around upper-class British life before World War, and particularly for his characters Bertie Wooster and his butler Jeeves.
Typed Letter Signed, oblong 8vo, New York, Dec. 14, 1952.
Price: $750.00
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TRUMBO, DALTON. (1905-76). American screenwriter and novelist, known for his Academy Award winning films "Roman Holiday" (1953), and "Exodus" and "Spartacus," (both released in 1960). These screenplays were written while he was blacklisted as part of the Hollywood Ten.
Typed Document Signed, 4 separate pp, 8vo, n.p., August 10, 1962.
Price: $700.00
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POUND, EZRA . (1885 -1972). American expatriate poet, musician, and critic who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in early-to mid- 20th century poetry. He was the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism.
Autograph Letter Signed, folio, on personalized printed stationery, Rapallo, Oct. 23, 1927.
Price: $2,600.00
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MILNE, A. A. (ALAN ALEXANDER). (1882-1956) British author, best known for his children's stories about Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin.
Autograph Letter Signed, 8vo, on personalized address stationery, London, May 1, 1920.
Price: $2,850.00
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SCHUMANN, CLARA . (1819- 96). German musician, one of the leading pianists of the Romantic era, as well as a composer, and wife of composer Robert Schumann.
Autograph Letter Signed, in German, small 8vo, n.p., n.d.
Price: $1,750.00
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