ALS with remnants of envelope, dated Mch 11th, 1920, addressed to J.D. Baker, Pasadena. Two pp. 8.5x11”.
“Dear ‘D’. I address you as ‘D’ since you were so kind as to ask me to do so, and also because I want to do so. I have that beautiful cigarette can ….. you know you wrote] Jack [Frost’s son] that you had spent that fifty cents and you were going to save up to replace it. Knowing that ‘saving up’ in these times is close to the impossible I made up my mind that all that money was gone…..Now my dear boy, lay your hand on your heart, wear a beatific look and try hard to tell me the trut... View More...
Charles Erskine Scott Wood [Emma Goldman, Basil Rathbone, Sara B. Field]Self-published, 1918/ 112 pp. Original Printed Wrappers. 16mo.#####Presentation copy to actor Basil Rathbone, with lengthy inscription dated 1934. Possibly with Rathbone's signature on the cover. #####A very unusual item loosely associating actor Basil Rathbone with anarchist Goldman.#####Although little known today, Charles Erskine Scott Wood [C.E.S. Wood (1852 –1944)] was a successful author, civil liberties advocate, artist, soldier, and attorney. He served as a lieutenant with the 21st Infantry Regiment, fought in t... View More...
[Black Fury] Archive of film-related correspondence by Sacco-Vanzetti/Nuremberg Justice Michael A. Musmanno#####A remarkable archive of nearly 41 original letters from noted judge/author/screenwriter Michael A. Musmanno concerning the 1935 Warner Brothers film "Black Fury" starring Paul Muni. The letters are written to his ghostwriter/script doctor/amanuensis Bruce Lockwood. With another five letters from Lockwood to Musmanno. #####The film was based on an actual 1929 incident in whichJohn Barkoski, a miner agitating for recognition of theUnited Mine Workers of America, was beaten to death by... View More...
During the Second World War, a ship's war diary and its appendices contained the essential details of their activites and encounters.M-1806 was a German minesweeper in the German 18th flotilla, taking part in the invasion of Norway. This log contains 42 leaves on printed logbook pages, comprising 84 pages, both typed carbon and entries in pencil; about a dozen leaves blank. Entries initialed and occasionally signed in ink by Capt. Witting. Another 14 pages on 8.5x14 ruled paper, all in holographic pencil appears to cover Sept and October, 1940 in a more narrative format; also in Witting's hand... View More...
3 pcs. Re: setting up a London engagementLouard-Bruce -1 Sept 62: "All well here. Fagots [sic], jews, fascists, negros, Europeans, and other friends of Peter Cook flock in nightly. Your name has become something of a legend since you left -- Tynan and other critics use it as a term of refernce [sic] in their articles: i.e. "This actors genitals bear little comparison with those of Mr. Bruce." Louard-Bruce 28 Sept 1962. "Baby, I just cannot bargain over this. A six week season….I'm offering 2-1/2 times what you got before." On the reverse side are Bruce's copious holographic notes for a res... View More...
First Edition. 8vo, 156pp. #####Signed presentation copy from the author to the famous actor/producer Arnold Daly, of one of her most successful plays. Poet/librettist George Turner Phelps has used the covers, pastedowns and end sheets to write a long letter to Daly urging him to produce the play with Dorothy Donnelly, who played opposite Daly in Shaw’s Candida. An added note by Peabody on the rear flyleaf approves.Condition: Fair. A clean, tight copy internally; moderate wear to covers, title label on spine rubbed, end papers toned. But who cares -- it’s a $15 book enhanced immeasurably by... View More...
ALS to [Judge] J. R. Lewis re his invitation to attend a Washington D.C. political event in support President Lincoln. Sept 20, 1863, 7.5x10". "Our soldiers in the field will look with great anxiety at the endorsement which their friends give at the ballot box, when I and confident Iowa will heartily respond favorably to their cause. /// Hoping that you will cast a united vote for the Union ticket and thereby convince the rebels that we of Iowa stand firmly in favor of our cause and country." Samuel Ryan Curtis [1805-1866] was the most successful union general west of the Mississippi, rememb... View More...
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