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1977réf. 009631London: Folio Society 1977. All three volumes of The Lord of the Rings ; The Fellowship of the Ring ; The Two Towers ; The Return of the King. First edition from the Folio society illustrated by Eric Fraser. All three volumes are bright and clean inside and to covers just a few light marks to spines . Lacks original slipcase.Heavy books 2.5 kg there may be extra postge needed for overseas. SEE IMAGES EXTRA IMAGES CAN BE TAKEN UPON REQUEST. First Illustrated Eric Fraser. Half Leather Gold Decorated. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Eric Fraser Ingahild Grathmer . 23 x 15 Cms. Hardcovers. Folio Society Hardcover
1954réf. 060239New York: John Wiley And Sons 1954. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine. First Edition First Published In 1952 This Being The Scarce Corrected Second Printing In The American Issue With Sheets And Dj Printed In The Uk. Book Is Near Fine No Wear Doctor's Library Stamp On Front Endpaper Prof. J. M. Sendbuehler. This Seond Printing Corrected 1954 Is Scarce. John Wiley And Sons hardcover
1901réf. 060237Cambridge: Herbert S. Stone 1901. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. B/W Plates From Drawings. 208 Pp. Illustrated Olive Brow Cloth. First Printing 1901 Her First Book. Near Fine. Nicely Inscribed By Percival To "General And Mrs. Sheldon". Lionel Allen Sheldon 1828-1917: A Union Army Veteran U.S. Congressman From Louisiana And Governor Of The New Mexico Territory. Following His Political Career He And His Wife Relocated To The Los Angeles Area In 1888. He Practiced Law And Eventually Retired To Pasadena Where He Lived Out The Remainder Of His Life. He Was A Relative Of Percival And Their Families Socialized. Percival Lived Lnear Pasadena In The Arroyo Seco Where She Wrote Made Bookplates Maintained A Locally Famous Garden And Collected Fine Books Later Dispersed In Remarkable Catalogs From Dawson';S Book Shop. Herbert S. Stone hardcover
réf. 45001VERMONT CHARLES E. TUTTLE COMPANY 1985. ELEVENTH PRINTING. A FINE COPY IN A FINE DUSTWRAP AND CONTAINED IN SLIPCASE. - 431 PAGES. ILLUSTRATING ALL KNOWN MARKS AND SECONDARY MARKS OF THE OLD PEWTERERS WITH A SERIES OF PLATES AT THE REAR OF THE BOOK SHOWING THE CHIEF TYPES OF THEIR WARES. VERMONT, CHARLES E. TUTTLE COMPANY, 1985 unknown
réf. 21715ANTIQUE COLLECTORS CLUB. 1994. QUARTO REPRINT. FINE IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAPPER. A DISCUSSION OF ENGLISH CLOCKS UP TO THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. WITH 800 FINE PHOTOGRAPHS MANY OF THEM DETAILS OF THE MECHANISMS 36 COLOUR PLATES. OVER 500pp. WILL INCUR EXTRA POSTAGE FOR OVERSEAS. ANTIQUE COLLECTORS CLUB. 1994. unknown
réf. 45027VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM 1989. A FINE HARDBACK BOOK IN GREEN DECORATED BOARDS.SCARCE. STILL SEALED. VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, 1989 hardcover
réf. 45033MONACO SOTHERBY PARKE 1975. HARDBACK SALES CATALOGUE FROM 25-26 MAY 1975. SALES OF ART AND ANTIQUE WORKS FROM L'HOTEL LAMBERT AND CHATEAU DE FERRIERS - BARON DE REDE AND BARON GUY DE ROTHSCHILD. VERY GOOD IN DUSTWRAPPER. TOGETHER WITH AN ORDER FORM AND THE SALES RESULTS. FULLY ILLUSTRATED. 317 PAGES. UNCOMMON. MONACO, SOTHERBY PARKE, 1975 hardcover
1948réf. 152267New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1948. First edition of this pioneering study of racial residential segregation in American cities by the economist who would become the first African American member of a United States presidential cabinet. Octavo original publisher's cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "To Henry Lee Moon with admiration and regards Robert C. Weaver 1948." The recipient journalist and civil rights leader Henry Lee Moon had worked under Weaver on Franklin Roosevelt's Black Cabinet and in this same year became director of public relations for the NAACP. Very good in a good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed. The Negro Ghetto 1948 was among the first comprehensive studies of racial residential segregation in the United States documenting how housing policy restrictive covenants and discrimination confined African Americans to overcrowded urban districts and setting out a program for democratic integrated housing. Its author Robert C. Weaver 1907 to 1997 was a Harvard-trained economist and a leading member of Franklin Roosevelt's informal Black Cabinet who in 1966 became the first African American to serve in a United States presidential cabinet when Lyndon Johnson appointed him the inaugural Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. The recipient Henry Lee Moon 1901 to 1985 was a journalist and civil rights activist who had worked alongside Weaver in the New Deal administration and who in 1948 published his influential study Balance of Power: The Negro Vote and began his long tenure as director of public relations for the NAACP a post he would hold for more than twenty-five years. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
1969réf. 152333November 1969. Vintage NASA photograph from the Apollo 12 mission the second crewed lunar landing showing lunar module pilot Alan Bean carrying the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package ALSEP across the surface of the Moon. Boldly signed and inscribed along the mat by three Apollo 12 crew members to Elton “Steph” Stepherson Jr. one of the earliest African American employees of NASA: commander Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. 1930-1999 “Good show - Let’s do it a third time. Many thanks - Pete Charles Conrad Jr.”; command module pilot Richard F. Gordon Jr. 1929-2017 “To Steph - A great effort - see you in Paree! Dick”; and lunar module pilot Alan L. Bean 1932-2018 “To Steph - You did one hell of a good job for all of us many many thanks Alan L. Bean.” The piece is additionally signed and inscribed by twenty-four members of the mission’s supporting cast. From the collection of Elton “Steph” Stepherson Jr. Matted. In fine condition. The piece measures 20 inches by 16 inches. Accompanied by a letter of authenticity from Zarelli Space Authentication. An extraordinary piece of space history. Apollo 12 was the second crewed mission to land on the Moon launching from Cape Kennedy on November 14 1969 just four months after Apollo 11. The command and service module Yankee Clipper entered lunar orbit on November 18 and the following day the lunar module Intrepid touched down in the Ocean of Storms a short distance from the unmanned Surveyor 3 probe that had landed there in 1967. Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad and lunar module pilot Alan Bean descended to the surface becoming the third and fourth men to walk on the Moon while command module pilot Richard Gordon remained in lunar orbit. Over two moonwalks Conrad and Bean collected rock samples deployed the ALSEP scientific instruments and retrieved parts from Surveyor 3 for analysis before a successful splashdown in the Pacific Ocean on November 24 1969. unknown
réf. 151649Photograph of a reentry capsule signed by Wally Schirra. Glossy photograph of a reentry capsule in the ocean with a NASA identification number to the upper left edge. Boldly signed by NASA astronaut Wally Schirra to the right of the capsule in black felt tip. In near fine condition. The piece measure 8 inches by 10 inches. The fifth American in space during the Mercury-Atlas 8 mission and the only astronaut to fly in the Mercury Gemini and Apollo space programs Walter 'Wally' Schirra’s career in NASA represents each step in answering Kennedy’s 1961 call to put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. unknown
réf. 151661Color photograph of the iconic 'Earthrise' image taken by Bill Anders during the Apollo 8 mission. Boldly signed by mission commander Frank Borman in black felt tip to the bottom of the photograph. In fine condition. Official NASA photograph captioned "Apollo 8 Spacecraft In Orbit Around The Moon Views The Earth" and with a printed explanation to the verso. The photograph measures 10 inches by 8 inches. Taken by American astronaut William Anders from lunar orbit on December 24th 1968 during the Apollo 8 mission 'Earthrise' has become synonymous with the American space program and essentially marked the beginning of the environmental program. In Life's 100 Photographs that Changed the World wilderness photographer Galen Rowell called Earthrise "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken". Fifty years to the day after taking the photo William Anders observed "We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth." unknown
1948réf. 152471New York: Boni & Gaer 1948. First edition of this early and courageous account of the case of the Hollywood Ten published at the height of the postwar Red Scare. Octavo original grey cloth stamped in green. Signed by five members of the Hollywood Ten on the front free endpaper: Herbert Biberman Lester Cole Adrian Scott Ring Lardner Jr. and Alvah Bessie. In 1947 these men all screenwriters or directors refused on First Amendment grounds to answer the House Un-American Activities Committee's questions about alleged Communist affiliations. Cited for contempt of Congress and imprisoned they were blacklisted by the Hollywood studios their careers destroyed for years. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Foreword by Thomas Mann. Hollywood on Trial was among the first books to document the 1947 hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee into alleged Communist influence in the motion picture industry and the plight of the Hollywood Ten. Its author Gordon Kahn was himself a screenwriter who was named and blacklisted and who later left the country for Mexico. He wrote the book as a contemporary defense of his colleagues with a foreword by the Nobel laureate Thomas Mann who had emigrated from Nazi Germany and warned against the parallels he saw in the committee's methods. The Hollywood Ten Alvah Bessie Herbert Biberman Lester Cole Edward Dmytryk Ring Lardner Jr. John Howard Lawson Albert Maltz Samuel Ornitz Adrian Scott and Dalton Trumbo became enduring symbols of the era's assault on civil liberties and the blacklist that followed reshaped the American film industry for a generation. Boni & Gaer hardcover
1794réf. 152465London: Printed For The Author; and Sold by J. Murray; J. Debrett; and J. Kerby 1794. Rare first edition of the finest contemporary history of the American Revolution written from the British side. Quarto two volumes bound in polished brown calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and fived raised bands to the spines edges speckled blue half-titles present illustrated with fifteen engraved maps and battle plans most folding. In near fine condition with occasional marginal spotting the maps with neat repairs largely at the folds and intersections and a few lightly toned. Sabin 91057; Howes S914; Reese Revolutionary Hundred 89. A handsome example of this landmark work with excellent maps. The History of the Origin Progress and Termination of the American War published in London in 1794 is generally considered in the words of Sabin the best contemporary account of the Revolution written from the British side. Its author Charles Stedman 1753-1812 was a Philadelphia-born loyalist who served as a British officer throughout the war under Lord Percy at Lexington and Concord under General Howe in the New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania campaigns and with Lord Cornwallis in the southern theater so that much of his narrative rests on firsthand observation of the events he describes. The work is further distinguished by its fifteen engraved maps and battle plans whose production Stedman himself oversaw and which have been praised as the finest collection of plans assembled by an eyewitness to the conflict making the book a cornerstone of any collection on the American Revolution. Printed For The Author; and Sold by J. Murray; J. Debrett; and J. Kerby hardcover
1931réf. 152398Washington D.C.: The Army Industrial College 1931. First edition of this scarce Army Industrial College lecture by the future Supreme Allied Commander and President. Quarto original half-cloth over marbled boards. Association copy inscribed by the author on the title page "For I.P. Phillipson with best wishes Dwight D Eisenhower." The recipient I. P. Phillipson was a fellow United States Army officer and a contributor to the same volume in which his essay on the Army budget process appears alongside Eisenhower's history and an article by Bernard Baruch who had directed American industrial mobilization during the First World War. In very good condition with light rubbing and chipping to the extremities and light toning. Ownership signature to the front free endpaper and along the top of the title page. From the collection of Malcolm Forbes. Dwight Eisenhower was an Army general who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. He was responsible for planning and supervising the invasion of North Africa in Operation Torch in 1942–43 and the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944–45 from the Western Front. In 1951 he became the first Supreme Commander of NATO. The Army Industrial College hardcover
1931réf. 152463New York: The John Day Company 1931. First edition of this witty illustrated guide to the after-dark world of Prohibition-era New York. Octavo publisher’s elaborately decorated cloth illustrated by Raymond Bret Koch title page printed in blue and black pictorial endpapers decorated with the names of New York clubs. Near fine in the scarce original dust jacket which is in very good condition. A very sharp example. Nightlife: Vanity Fair’s Intimate Guide to New York After Dark published in 1931 is a witty and richly illustrated tour of the nocturnal city at the height of Prohibition guiding the reader through the speakeasies nightclubs dance halls ballrooms burlesques night courts and all-night haunts of Harlem Broadway and Yorkville. Its author Charles G. Shaw 1892-1974 was a well-known man about town and a contributor to Vanity Fair and The New Yorker as well as a serious abstract painter who became a leading member of the American Abstract Artists group. Illustrated by Raymond Bret Koch and issued with endpapers decorated with the names of New York clubs the book is a vivid and now scarce record of the glittering after-hours world of Jazz Age Manhattan. The John Day Company hardcover
1962réf. 152352New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce 1962. First edition of Roger Maris at Bat the New York Yankees slugger’s own account of his career published the year after he broke Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record written with sportswriter Jim Ogle. Octavo bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with 22 karat gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands gilt ruling to the front and rear panels gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Founded over a century ago in 1900 the Harcourt Bindery is the oldest and largest traditional bindery in America exclusively devoted to fine traditional leather bookbinding by hand. Harcourt Bindery uses 22 karat genuine gold leaf top grades of Nigerian moroccos and hand marbled papers from craftsmen representing seven countries. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. Roger Maris at Bat is the autobiography of the New York Yankees right fielder Roger Maris written with the sportswriter Jim Ogle and published in 1962 the year after his historic 1961 season. That year Maris hit 61 home runs to break Babe Ruth’s single-season record of 60 set in 1927 in a season-long chase that drew enormous public attention; because the 1961 schedule was longer than Ruth’s the record was for years popularly noted with an asterisk. A two-time American League Most Valuable Player Maris helped lead the Yankees to consecutive World Series titles and remains one of the most storied figures in baseball history. His single-season mark of 61 home runs stood until 1998. Duell, Sloan and Pearce hardcover
1948réf. 152400Chicago Illinois: Chicago Daily Tribune 1948. The celebrated four-page front wrap of the Chicago Daily Tribune of November 3 1948 bearing what is perhaps the most famous mistake in the history of American journalism: the triumphant banner headline “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” In fine condition with intersecting folds and a small corner tip tear to the rear page. When the decision to go to press was made election returns were arriving slowly and the deadline for the edition was fast approaching; the Tribune’s staff chose nonetheless to proclaim Thomas E. Dewey the next President of the United States. In very good condition. An iconic and increasingly scarce artifact of American political history rarely found complete and in such condition. Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York had been the overwhelming favorite to unseat the incumbent Harry S. Truman in the 1948 presidential election with Truman’s popularity in apparent decline and nearly every poll and pundit predicting a Republican victory. At the Chicago Daily Tribune a Republican-leaning paper then relying on a temporary typewriter-based typesetting method its effects visible in the front-page body text that required more time than usual to print the early deadline collided with the slow-arriving returns. Trusting the forecasts and the judgment of a specially engaged election prognosticator the Tribune committed its early morning edition to a Dewey victory before a sufficient count had come in. Only after the papers had reached the streets did the later returns make clear that Truman had in fact won reelection. Staff members were dispatched to newsstands and homes across the Chicago area to retrieve the erroneous copies and shortly afterward a jubilant Truman was famously photographed at St. Louis Union Station holding the paper aloft and grinning at the headline that had prematurely written him out of office an image that endures as one of the most beloved in American political history. Original entirely complete examples of this newspaper have grown increasingly scarce and are seldom found in such fine condition. Chicago Daily Tribune unknown
1910réf. 152363New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1910. First edition of this compilation of Theodore Roosevelt's forceful and fearless utterances on the great questions of his day. Octavo original publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to the spine and front panel tissue-guarded frontispiece illustrated with portraits. Association copy inscribed by Theodore Roosevelt on the front free endpaper "Inscribed for Edwin Willard Deming with the best wishes of his one-time fellow-plainsman Theodore Roosevelt." The recipient Edwin Willard Deming was a celebrated American painter muralist and sculptor of Native American life and western wildlife who spent three decades among the Apache Pueblo Umatilla and Blackfeet peoples the last of whom adopted him and gave him the name Eight Bears. Roosevelt who had ranched in the Dakota Badlands in the 1880s and shared Deming's deep attachment to the American West was the artist's foremost literary correspondent and famously urged him to paint the Indians as he knew them. Here the former president salutes Deming as a fellow plainsman. In very good condition bookplate of Edwin Willard Deming to the front pastedown. Selected and arranged by Alan Warner. Foreword by Lyman Abbott. The Real Roosevelt 1910 gathers Theodore Roosevelt's most vigorous pronouncements on politics citizenship conservation the strenuous life and national character drawn from his speeches and writings and arranged by subject by Alan Warner with a foreword by the influential clergyman and editor Lyman Abbott. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1910 it appeared at the height of Roosevelt's post-presidential fame in the year he returned from his celebrated African expedition and European tour and began the insurgent political course that would culminate in his 1912 Bull Moose campaign for the presidency. The twenty-sixth President of the United States Nobel Peace Prize laureate naturalist rancher soldier and prolific author Roosevelt was among the most quoted public figures of his era and this volume distills the combative eloquence for which he was celebrated. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
réf. 152446Original photograph of the Enola Gay crew annotated throughout in the hand of Paul Tibbets. Glossy black-and-white vintage photograph depicting the crew of the U.S. Army Air Forces posed in front of their B-29 aircraft. Annotated in blue ink in the hand of pilot Paul W. Tibbets who has identified most of the individual crew members directly on their respective images but in keeping with his well-known policy declined to sign the photograph itself. Accompanied by a yellow Post-it note handwritten and initialed by Tibbets he states "My policy is 'one autograph' per individual. PW." In fine condition. The photograph measures 8 inches by 10 inches and the note measures 5 inches by 3 inches. Rare and unique. Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. 1915 to 2007 was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force best remembered as the pilot who flew the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay which he named for his mother on the mission that dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on Hiroshima on August 6 1945. A highly regarded combat pilot who had already flown bombing missions over Europe and North Africa Tibbets was chosen in 1944 to organize and command the 509th Composite Group the secret unit trained to deliver the atomic bomb. He personally selected and trained its crews and piloted the Enola Gay on the Hiroshima mission one of the most consequential events in modern history and a turning point in the Second World War that marked the beginning of the atomic age. In later life Tibbets consistently defended the bombing as having shortened the war and saved lives and he remained a prominent if controversial figure until his death. Famously protective of his signature he restricted himself to a single autograph per person. unknown
1950réf. 152544Los Angeles c. 1950. Rare original carbon copy typescript of The Lure of Gold the unpublished last project of the celebrated photographer Edward S. Curtis bearing his own autograph pencil corrections. Quarto housed in a folder with metal fasteners 32 pages typed on rectos only numbered 1 to 31 and including a leaf numbered 7 1/2 being carbon copies apart from two leaves typed directly with minor holograph corrections in pencil to seventeen of the leaves. In very good condition. From the library Edward S. Curtis by descent to his daughter Beth Curtis Magnuson and her husband Manfred "Mag" Magnuson and acquired from them by Dr. Billy T. Utley. The Lure of Gold was the last great project of Edward S. Curtis the photographer and ethnologist celebrated for his monumental twenty-volume work The North American Indian. In 1949 and 1950 having largely set aside the Indian work that had consumed his life Curtis labored furiously on this unpublished manuscript. As his biographer Timothy Egan records "The walls of his tiny apartment were plastered with notes in his unreadable scratch. I'm busy with The Lure of Gold he wrote Harriet Leitch in October brushing off a fresh round of questions from her about his Indian work" Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher page 311. Curtis envisioned a sweeping work documenting two hundred years of the history of gold and hoped that year to organize a gold-mining and scientific expedition to Brazil the Amazon and the Andes. The present manuscript reads like an introductory chapter or prospectus considering the importance of gold in human cultures from ancient Egypt to the Klondike and drawing on Curtis's own experiences mining for gold in California Oregon and Alaska. It opens "What implanted in the brain of man the covetous desire for gold Gold! Gold! The name in many languages of the globe comes down to us from the dawn of time" and concludes with a group of rainbow chasers agreeing that heaven should be "like Northern California and Southern Oregon where we have wooded mountains moderate temperature and cool flowing streams." Edward S. Curtis 1868 to 1952 spent more than thirty years photographing the native peoples of North America producing some of the most enduring images in the history of American photography. unknown
1984réf. 152514Washington D.C. December 6 1984. Typed letter signed by Ronald Reagan as President of the United States written to the actor Mickey Rooney and his wife Jan shortly after Reagan's landslide reelection in November 1984. One page on White House stationery dated December 6 1984 and signed "Ron." The letter reads in full "Dear Jan and Mickey: Thanks for your message and most of all for your support and friendship. I cherish the victory and the confidence and trust it represents. The American people have given us the 'go-ahead' to complete our agenda and I look forward to the next four years with great anticipation. Nancy joins me in sending our appreciation and warm regards. Sincerely Ron." The recipient Mickey Rooney was one of the most enduring stars in the history of American film a child actor who became the top box-office draw of the late 1930s and went on to a career of more than nine decades. Reagan himself a Hollywood actor before he entered politics writes warmly to his fellow star Mickey Rooney signing with the familiar "Ron" he reserved for friends. In fine condition. The letter measures approximately 5.25 inches by 7 inches. Ronald Wilson Reagan served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became a highly influential voice of modern conservatism. Prior to his presidency he was a Hollywood actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975. When Reagan left office in 1989 he held an approval rating of 68% matching those of Franklin D. Roosevelt and later Bill Clinton as the highest ratings for departing presidents in the modern era. He was the first president since Dwight D. Eisenhower to serve two full terms after the five prior presidents did not. Evaluations of his presidency among historians and the general public place him among the upper tier of American presidents. unknown
1900réf. 152614Pach Brothers circa 1900. Remarkable photograph for the 1900 McKinley-Roosevelt presidential campaign signed by both William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. Full-length sepia-toned photomontage copyrighted Pach Brothers New York 1900 the double portrait shows the two men seated together in a leafy garden. Boldly signed within the image at the lower edge each beneath his own portrait "William McKinley" and "Theodore Roosevelt." The photograph measures 11.5 by 15.75 inches mounted to a larger board handsomely matted and framed in a heavy wooden frame. The entire piece measures 25.75 inches by 21.5 inches. In near fine condition with a very small area of restoration to the upper right corner the signatures very crisp and bold. Exceptionally rare. In 1900 this photograph was created to promote President William McKinley’s re-election campaign pairing him with Governor Theodore Roosevelt of New York whom the Republican National Convention had chosen as his running mate. The image has a remarkable history: the Pach Brothers had first produced it in 1899 for the intended McKinley-Hobart ticket showing McKinley seated in a leafy garden beside his vice president Garret Hobart. When Hobart died in November 1899 the photographers artfully replaced him pasting in a portrait of Roosevelt and rephotographing the result to create the negative from which the present print was made. McKinley and Roosevelt won the election of 1900 in a landslide but McKinley was shot by an assassin in Buffalo in September 1901 only six months into his second term and Theodore Roosevelt succeeded him to become at forty-two the youngest president in American history. Pach Brothers unknown
1921réf. 152533Los Angeles 1921-1923. Three of the scarce blank volumes issued to accompany Edward S. Curtis’s monumental work The North American Indian. Two of the three volumes are entirely blank while the third was used as the guest book of Curtis’s Los Angeles studio. Three quarto volumes bound to match the sets of The North American Indian in brown half morocco gilt stamp-signed by the binder H. Blackwell the spines lettered “North American Indian Clippings” Volumes I and II and “North American Indian Letters” Volume I. Printed with blank leaves and half the pages of the standard volumes these books were made for subscribers who owned the Stickley Brothers cabinet built to house the work: the cabinet’s shelving held twenty-four octavo volumes but a completed set numbered only twenty and the blank “Letters” and “Clippings” volumes were evidently produced to fill the empty shelf. Very few appear to have been made or sold and examples are rarely encountered. The “Clippings” volume is blank throughout apart from some thirty pages near the front which Curtis’s daughter Beth used as the sign-in book for the open houses she held at the Curtis Studio in Los Angeles from 1921 to 1923; the endpaper is inscribed with the studio’s address at 668 South Rampart and a note of the two and a half years Curtis spent there. These pages record the names of visitors entered from the first open house of April 7 1921 through the Adam’s Rib exhibition of February 1 1923 in most cases signed by the guests themselves with their addresses and telephone numbers. Among those who signed were the composer Charles Wakefield Cadman the silent film players Snitz Edwards and Hedwiga Reicher the authors Gene Stratton-Porter and Marah Ellis Ryan the Shakespearean actor Frederick Warde the sculptor David Edstrom the choreographer Marion Morgan and the operatic soprano Margaret Romaine. An entry for June 30 1921 bears the signature of Manford “Mag” Magnuson who met Beth Curtis at the studio that very evening and would later marry her. In very good condition with some light rubbing and wear to the bindings. Provenance: Edward S. Curtis; by descent to his daughter Beth Curtis Magnuson and her husband Manford “Mag” Magnuson; acquired from them by Dr. Billy T. Utley. Edward S. Curtis 1868-1952 was among the most important photographers in American history the creator of The North American Indian a monumental twenty-volume study published between 1907 and 1930 with the financial backing of J. Pierpont Morgan and the encouragement of Theodore Roosevelt which documented the traditional life of the Native peoples of the United States in more than two thousand photogravures. When his marriage to Clara ended in divorce in 1919 and she was awarded his own set of the work Curtis relocated from Seattle to Los Angeles where with his daughter Beth he opened his first commercial portrait studio at 668 South Rampart and took work as a still photographer for the Hollywood studios among them Cecil B. DeMille’s production of The Ten Commandments in the hope of financing the completion of his great ethnographic project. Beth built the studio’s clientele through a series of weekly open houses at which her father was the principal attraction aimed at the carriage trade and the growing world of the movies. Among Curtis’s closest allies in these years was the author Marah Ellis Ryan whose novel The Flute of the Gods he had illustrated with his photographs and who shared his devotion to the cause of Native peoples; a subscriber to the deluxe issue of The North American Indian she gave Curtis her own set after his was lost in the divorce and it is through this descent that the present blank volumes are understood to have passed to him. unknown
réf. 152619Striking original bust portrait photograph of the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. Photographed by Harris and Ewing the image captures Hearst looking directly into the camera. Inscribed diagonally in the image at lower left "To Reine Davies who writes about the stars and is one. With best wishes from WR Hearst." The recipient Reine Davies was a Broadway actress and Hollywood gossip columnist and the elder sister of Marion Davies the film actress who was Hearst's devoted companion for more than three decades. In very good condition. The piece measures 13.25 inches by 10.5 inches. William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper magnate who built the nation's largest newspaper chain and whose methods profoundly influenced American journalism during the Great Depression and beyond. He later expanded into magazines creating the largest newspaper and magazine business in the world. His flamboyant brand of yellow journalism helped shape modern mass media and his life and career famously inspired Orson Welles's film Citizen Kane. Hearst's grand California estate at San Simeon known as Hearst Castle became a legendary gathering place for the political and Hollywood elite of his day. unknown
réf. 152616New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates 1993. First edition of this sweeping large-format history of space exploration signed and inscribed by twelve of the pioneering American astronauts of the Mercury Gemini and Apollo programs. Folio publisher's black cloth with color illustrations and photographs throughout. Boldly signed and inscribed by the astronauts to Thomas or Mark Babinski most signing twice chiefly across the first and second half-title pages with others scattered throughout the inscriptions dated 1994 and 1995. The signers are: Alan Bean Apollo XII; Frank Borman Gemini VII Apollo 8; Charles Duke Apollo 16; James Lovell Gemini 7 and 12 Apollo 8 and 13; James McDivitt Gemini IV Apollo 9; Edgar Mitchell Apollo 14; Wally Schirra Mercury 8 Gemini 6 Apollo 7; Gordon Cooper Mercury 9 Gemini 5; Walter Cunningham Apollo 7; John Glenn Friendship 7; Alan Shepard Freedom 7 Apollo 14; and Alfred Worden Apollo 15. In very good condition with tape reinforcement to the front hinge. A rare and desirable collection of signatures. Space: Discovery and Exploration is a lavishly illustrated large-format history of humanity's venture beyond the Earth from the earliest rockets through the Mercury Gemini and Apollo programs to the era of the Space Shuttle. The astronauts who have signed this copy were among the great pioneers of American spaceflight. John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth aboard Friendship 7 in 1962 and Alan Shepard the first American in space went on to command Apollo 14 and to walk on the Moon. Among the signers are four more moonwalkers Alan Bean of Apollo 12 Charles Duke of Apollo 16 and Edgar Mitchell of Apollo 14 together with Frank Borman and James Lovell of Apollo 8 the first crew to orbit the Moon and Lovell again as commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13. Wally Schirra remains the only astronaut to have flown in all three of the Mercury Gemini and Apollo programs. Together their signatures gather the living memory of the first age of human spaceflight into a single volume. Hugh Lauter Levin Associates hardcover
