AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION
31 signatures of mainly American famous people.
Various formats, from complete letters to cut-off signatures and autographs written on collector's cards. 19th and 20th centuries. From writers and painters to politicians, talk show hosts and even a humorist and a great picture collector. Laura Adams Armer (1874-1963), American artist and writer Stringfellow Barr (1897-1982), American historian Barry Benefield (1877-1971), Texas writer Otto L. Bettmann (1903-1998) and another Bettmann. From the founder of the Bettmann Archive Miner W. Brock (2 x), American poet of the 1960s Phillips Brooks (1835-1895), Episcopal Bishop of Massachusetts Frederic Brush (author of the Songs of the Susquehanna) Alice Curtis Desmond (1897-1990), American author and founder of the Desmond-Fish Library. A 1931 loose signed dedication page to Henry Goddard Leach (1880-1970), Scandinavia scholar. Marshall J. Dodge 3rd (1935-1982), Maine humorist Emily Myrtle Dunn (signature of 1925, a poet born 1886) George Fielding Eliot (Australian military author, 1894-1971) Thomas J. Fleming (American popular author). Signed card from 1987 Allen French (1870-1946), American historian and children's book author Percy Stickney Grant (1860-1927), writer, Episcopal priest. Dedication of 1908 Charles Yale Harrison (1898-1954), Canadian war writer Rosalba Beecher Hartshorne (1868-1933), American heiress, a ‘petit bleu’ to Rudolph Aronson (1856-1919), founder of the Casino Theatre in New York Charles F. Heartman (1883-1953, a prominent Mississippi book dealer) Alexander Irvine (author of My Lady of the Chimney Corner, Oct. 1924, N.Y.C.) Walter A. Maier (1893-1950), theologian author, large signed photograph Clarence “Pat” Manion (1896-1979), American talk show host Nellie Burget Miller (1875-1952), Poet Laureate of Colorado Anthony Mockler (signed 1976, author) Paul Elmer More (1864-1937), American journalist Jerome Myers (1867-1940), American painter who lived in Carnegie Hall, slip of paper signed and dated ‘February 21st 1914/ Carnegie Hall NY’ Henry Sylvester Nash (1854-1912), American theological author I.L. Nathan (??) not well readable, an editor of Life Magazine, 1912 Pierre van Paassen (1895-1968), Dutch-Canadian bestseller author, signed inscription, clipped from a book Bess Sankey (1905-1970), American film actress George Ticknor (1791-1871), American Hispanist Peter Wilson (boxing journalist, letter dated 1975)
Boeknummer: 283247
€ 100.00