Signed photograph of Gov. Earl Warren [1891-1974; California] correcting a document or speech at his desk. April 10, 1953, six months before his appointment as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 10x8", b/w. /////A more personal signature than we are accustomed to seeing, inscribed "from Pop" to his secretary Stella Pauw. The unusual signature suggests a warm familial relationship between the two. We are aware of no other documents signed with this moniker and have seen no other copies of this particular photo. Provenance: A family photo obtained from Pauw's granddaughter.... View More...
TLS to art gallery owner Earl Stendahl, 1955"Dear Earl://Thank you very much for your thoughtful note of the seventh. I understand the material has arrived and I look forward to seeing it this coming weekend when I am in New York. // With Very best wishes, // Sincerely//Nelson"The exhibition is not identified, but likely the works of Paul Klee. Until its recent closure, the Stendahl Gallery was one of America's oldest continuously operating private art galleries. Art from the Stendahl collections found a home in The Louvre and many other major institutions throughout the world, as well as the ... View More...
Typed letter, signed Dick Nixon . 5 x7 on U.S. Senate stationery, dated October 9 1952. ##### Responding to a burgeoning scandal about his personal finances, 1952 vice-presidential candidate Richard Nixon went on national television to deliver his Checkers speech, one of the most famous speeches in American political history. Nixon s innovative use of television to make an emotional defense of his personal integrity, complete with maudlin references to his wife s respectable Republican cloth coat and his childrens cocker spaniel Checkers literally saved his career overnight. ##### Wit... View More...
First edition, second state -- lacking the page number at the bottom of p.52 . 12mo Brown-Maroon cloth, gilt titles. 52 pp., engraved title page and frontis. Ex-libris RKO Studios Research Library, with the studio logo and inkstamp on the FEP and second flyleaf. Orson Welles’ inked signature at bottom of fep, and possibly a second time above -- the lower signature is clearly Welles -- the upper signature has indicial of Welles’s wide variety of signatures, but also some unfamiliar characteristics. One can only speculate on the connection -- but the presence of snow plays small but vital role... View More...
Large contemporary scrapbook containing 292 autographs of members of Britain's House of Lords; clipped from franked envelopes and correspondence. 14”x17” leather covers with embossed onset label, a.e.g. Approximately 80 leaves, each with one to six clipped signatures. Penciled headings indicate Dukes, Earls, Viscounts, Barons, Marquesas’ galore.
Note: Given the format and vintage, we presume all signatures are genuine. About 30 clipped signatures were removed before we obtained this; we do not know when this happened or who was removed -- it is being sold as is, as we obtained it.
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1948 Souvenir Theater Program for a charity production of “Oedipus” and “The Critic” signed by Lawrence Olivier and eight other members of the cast. 8.5x11”, stitched wrappers. 16 pp.
A special production in aid of King George’s Pension Fund for Actors and Actresses, Theatre Festival Week, April 10, 1948, with H.R.H. The Princess Elizabeth in attendance. Signed inside the front cover by Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Ralph Richardson, George Relph, Miles Malleson, Nicholas Hannen, Margaret Leighton, and one unidentified. Gorgeous cover by portrait artist and illustrator Anna Zinkeisen who, wi... View More...
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