1865. This two page hand-written report by J.M. Pierce for Captain Alanson W. Snyder from the Camp at Washington, D.C. After a list of ten being discharged, there are two important lists. The first is the list of deaths listing the names of those who died, the dates of their..... More
Prescott, [AZ]: 1864. Slight variations in text from the printed published the next year (1865). Possibly W. Claude Jones copy. The printed version adds: "shall take effect and be in force from and after the passage of this act." Two page document signed by Governor John Goodwin, President of the..... More
Ken White was a newspaper and radio personality in Denver in the late 1940's. Among the items in this collection addressed to him are: (1) 1tls. A Typed Letter Signed from Bob Hope on his letterhead, October 19, 1948, discusses a college poll hinting a religious attack. Speaks of mixup..... More
Whittier, California: Whittier College, 1962. The program of the honoring of Dr. Paul S. Smith for his role as President of Whittier College. Signed by graduates, Richard Nixon, class of 1934, who received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree and author Jessamyn West, class of 1923), who wrote "Friendly Persuasion"..... More
Boldly Signed by Tom Sopwith just after his 91st birthday. A fine first day cover produced in 1979 by Australia's Royal Air Force Museum as part of their test pilot series. It commemorates not only the great Australian aviation pioneer whose exploits as early as 1910 were evidence of how..... More
One of the great divorce scandals in the early 1920's following that of Chaplain, Fairbanks, and Pickford was this between Winifred (Westover) Hart and her husband, William S. Hart, the legendary cowboy of the early silents. In the Washington Times of September 3, 1922 on page 5, there is a...... More
Check measures approximately 6 3/4" x 2 3/4". It is signed by Major George W. Walker who had been appointed paymaster of the USMC by President Andrew Jackson in 1836 and he served until his death in 1862. The USMC was quite small at the time and there was usually..... More
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1 page hand written internal document of Simeon Baldwin's Purchase of 200 shares of the stock of the New York and Harlem Railroad [they do not treat it as a compound word; hence, rail road] The New York Legislature approved the Corporation in April of 1831. This document is a...... More
1789. Indenture on vellum measuring 28" X 11", Dated March 3, 1789, with one Pennsylvania seal and four red wax seals each signed by Alex Fullerton, Richard Fullerton, Esther Fullerton and Charles Marshall. John Evans was granted a portion of land to be purchased from the Fullerton family; Richard, Alex..... More
Wire Photo of Winnie Ruth Judd measuring approximately 6" x 8" shows her twisting her handkerchief while she listens to testimony during her trial for murder (February 1932). Smudges on outside border. Wire photo of the detectives examining the trunk she traveled with on the train with the body parts..... More
Boston: Colour Picture Corporation. Colour Picture Corporation, 195-? A nice color postcard with the image by James Montgomery Flagg of the famous Dempsey-Jess Willard fight in Toledo in which Jack Dempsey became world champion. Inscribed: To Anthony, good luck, Jack Dempsey. Signed menus and bar ads from the late champion's..... More
1 autographed bid for furnishings for the new Prescott County Court House signed Campbell & Parker, builders, August 26, 1878. The advertisement for bids appeared in the Weekly Arizona Miner, August 23, 1878 issued. The bidders note their bids for the furnishings made by H.G.. Howe. In the August 9..... More
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1913. First Edition. Small Octavo. 137p. A remarkable association copy inscribed by two prominent Chicagoans: Thomas E. Donnelley, President of Lakeside Press to William A. Dyche, who became Mayor of Evanston and was instrumental in getting the elevated train from Chicago to that city. His huge contributions..... More
Frank Richard Stockton (1834-1902) was an American writer of children's fairy tales who is often viewed as ahead of his time. He avoided the moralizing endemic to the era and mocked an age of greed, lust for power and violence. Maurice Sendak chose to illustrate his classic work: "The Griffin..... More
An interesting series of connections in Bethany Pennsylvania in 1831. Thomas T. Kissam has written to Thomas Fuller, an Attorney in Bethany requesting him to proceed in collecting an unpaid debt of Joseph Miller. He writes that they have a mutual friend, Randell Wilmot [father of David Wilmot, of the..... More
A letter addressed to Friend Clark, dated February 15, 1901 (in answer to letter to a check for $50.00 that was due the previous November). H.W. Adams arrived from Maine and became the superintendent of William H. Bartlett's Sahuaro Ranch. Adams was with the Glendale (Az) Livestock Association which soon..... More
59. Mount Vernon Street, Feb, 7th, 1893. The letter of February 7, 1893 is addressed to "My dear Chadwick" refers to a sketch based on his book issued in 1890 by Houghton Mifflin. Aldrich was the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly whose most famous work "The Bad Boy" became a...... More
The three letters indicate Steve Allen's more serious side on issues of religion and philosophy. The collection on Steve Allen's letterhead includes (1) a type one-page letter signed to Donald K. Sharpes on September 7, 1959. Allen explains his intent in the articles in Look Magazine was to shock Christians..... More
Addressed to Mr. Brady (unidentified) : "I was glad to get your kind letter and also to heart that your friend is interested in collecting my works. I have sent him two inscriptions for South Wind and the Scarlet Letter. It will give me great pleasure indeed when in some..... More
folio sheet (folded), August 16, 1853, 1 page handwritten authenticating he was known by Curtis Gupthill and A.G. Gupthill to confirm he was known in Gouldsboro, Hancock county, Maine under the name of Augustus A. Hoit and a native of Cabot, Vermont and he was known by them for four..... More
Each letter written to Francis Lawrence Bickley, author of The Adventures of Harlequin which was one of early fine books he illustrated. Each written on his letterhead John Austen. The September letter is not dated by year but from internal evidence points to 1925 when his "Rogues in Porcelain" was..... More
New Bedford, MA: 1842. 2 page autographed Bifolium to James R. Williams, April 20, 1842. New Bedford, MA: 1842. Dr. Lyman Bartlett was one of the leading physicians of New Bedford. He studied in Paris and took a liberal position when some physicians disparaged homeopathy. His view while conventional felt..... More
New York;: W.R. Benjamin Autographs. Quarto. A complete issue of the 1895-1896 issue of Walter Benjamin's marvelous magazine for the serious collector. Early copies are rare. For instance, the New York Historical Library has only the last issue, no. 11 of Volume XV. This copy according to OCLC is lacking..... More
London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson Ltd., 1931. Limited Edition. Octavo. 136(5) pages. Limited to 130 copies. The present copy is No. 127 inscribed by Selma Lagerlof, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature (1909), "Inscribed for the fellow countrymen of Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens, whose..... More
A scarce early letter from the father of two of Brigham Young's plural wives. It discusses a period of his life that is virtually unknown (see Gilman Bigelow Howe's Genealogy of the Bigelow Family in America (Worcester, 1890). As Susa Young Gates (a granddaughter of Nahum Bigelow and daughter of..... More