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189676326Paris 1896. Fine. Paris 12 avril 1896 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto-verso et une enveloppe Autograph postcard signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant written on both sides in black ink. Envelope included. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee. ""Here I am not having gone to London warned late that the reason for my journey was no longer necessary: I replaced this with a trip to the countryside from which I do not return in time to warn you. But would you like me to invite myself for today in eight . "" unknown
189776331Paris 1897. Fine. Paris 26 novembre 1897 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto-verso et une enveloppe Autograph signed postcard by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant written on both sides in black ink. Envelope included. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was secretary and testamentary legatee of Edmond. ""Merci cher Delzant de me donner le premier des deux si aimablement de vos nouvelles ; et ingrat je n'ai pu me désengager précisément lundi prochain : mais ici je mets les pieds dans le plat que diriez vous du suivant 6 décembre où je serais des vôtres "" ""Thank you dear Delzant for giving me first of the two so kindly your news; and ungrateful as I am I could not free myself precisely next Monday: but here I put my foot in it what would you say to the following December 6th when I could join you"" unknown
189276335Paris: S. n. 1892. Fine. S. n. Paris 30 décembre 1892 10.40 x 6.30 cm une carte de visite et son enveloppe Signed autograph visiting card from Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant. Envelope included. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee. ""Mon cher ami veuillez présenter à Madame en gardant pour vous mes voeux simplement les meilleurs."" ""My dear friend please present to Madame while keeping for yourself my simply best wishes."" S. n. unknown
189876332Paris 1898. Fine. Paris 25 février 1898 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto-verso et une enveloppe Autograph signed postcard by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Gabrielle Delzant wife of his friend Alidor written on both sides in black ink. Envelope included. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was secretary and testamentary legatee of Edmond. ""Que c'est gracieux de vous souvenir ! Je n'ai pas encore repris au milieu de l'hôpital où je vis femme fille influenzées et moi pas quitte tout-à-fait d'un malaise mes habitudes du soir."" ""How gracious of you to remember! I have not yet resumed in the midst of the hospital where I live with wife and daughter suffering from influenza and myself not entirely free of discomfort my evening habits."" unknown
189376340Paris: S. n. 1893. Fine. S. n. Paris 16 mars 1893 10.40 x 6.30 cm une carte de visite et son enveloppe Visiting card with autograph signature by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant. With envelope. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee. ""Que je suis aux regrets d'avoir manqué votre aimable visite ; à l'une de mes premières sorties après une indisposition ! et j'en veux au beau temps qui me tenta dehors."" ""How I regret having missed your kind visit; during one of my first outings after an indisposition! and I blame the fine weather that tempted me outside."" S. n. unknown
189276270Paris 1892. Fine. Paris 1er janvier 1892 8.80 x 11.40 cm une carte recto-verso et une enveloppe Autograph letter signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant written on both sides in black ink. With envelope. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. A friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and served as secretary and testamentary legatee to Edmond. Charming letter in which the poet sends his wishes to his friend for the new year: ""Tous mes voeux mon cher Delzant ; et veuillez les rendre charmants pour les déposer aux pieds de Madame."" ""All my wishes my dear Delzant; and please make them charming to lay them at Madame's feet."" unknown
189776330Paris 1897. Fine. Paris 11 mars 1897 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto-verso et une enveloppe Autograph postcard signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant written on both sides in black ink. Envelope enclosed. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was secretary and testamentary legatee of Edmond. ""Tout ce qui vécut autour de Verlaine s'efface donc aidé tant mieux ! de la piété charmante et tendre de Madame Delzant. La gloire du Poëte se fait toujours solitaire."" ""Everything that lived around Verlaine thus fades away helped so much the better! by the charming and tender piety of Madame Delzant. The Poet's glory always stands alone."" Delzant had announced to Mallarmé the death of Eugénie Krantz Verlaine's last mistress. Delzant's wife had frequented her during visits to the sick at Bonsecours hospital in Montrouge. unknown
189375921Paris 1893. Fine. Paris 13 octobre 1893 11.40 x 8.90 cm une carte recto verso - enveloppe jointe Signed autograph card from Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant written in black ink on both sides. With envelope. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. A friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee. A friendly card in which Mallarmé thanks Alidor Delzant for a surprise sent: ""Ma fille a trouvé à la maison dès notre retour ces jours-ci la caisse remplie de regards en coulisse ; elle vous remercie beaucoup et Madame Delzant. Vous avez toujours des façons charmantes de vous rappeler à vos amis même quand ils se souviennent."" ""My daughter found at home upon our return these past days the crate filled with sidelong glances; she thanks you very much and Madame Delzant. You always have charming ways of reminding your friends of yourself even when they remember."" The ""regards en coulisse"" are likely apricots or prunes. unknown
189576277Paris 1895. Fine. Paris 22 novembre 1895 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto et une enveloppe Signed autograph card from Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant written on the recto in black ink. Envelope included. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee. ""A lundi et merci de vous souvenir ; je vous presse impatiemment la main et vous prie de présenter mon hommage à Madame."" ""Until Monday and thank you for remembering; I impatiently press your hand and ask you to present my respects to Madame."" unknown
189076344Valvins 1890. Fine. Valvins 13 octobre 1890 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto et une enveloppe Autograph quatrain signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant written in black ink on the verso of a card. Envelope included. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee. ""Vous n'avez pas su nos / Exclamations : Qu'est-ce / Avant tant de pruneaux / Savourés dans leur caisse"" ""You did not know our / Exclamations: What is this / Before so many prunes / Savored in their box"" Amusing stanza of thanks for the sending of prunes. unknown
189376341Valvins 1893. Fine. Valvins 4 juillet 1893 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto et une enveloppe Autograph quatrain signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant written in black ink on the verso of a card. With envelope. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee. ""Vole avec ce qui t'environne / A Paraÿs Lot-et-Garonne / Notre coeur qui n'es pas pris qu'aux / Séductions des abricots"" ""Fly with all that surrounds you / To Paraÿs Lot-et-Garonne / Our heart which is not taken only by / The seductions of apricots"" Amusing stanza of thanks for sending apricots. unknown
1808689671808. Fine. 26 mars 1808 20 x 24.80 cm 3 pages 1/2 sur un double feuillet Long autograph letter by Stendhal addressed to his sister Pauline written in fine handwriting with black ink. Address of Stendhal's father where his sister resides in Grenoble with the stamp ""n°51 Grande Armée."" Red wax seal bearing Stendhal's coat of arms. Several original folds inherent to postal delivery. A paper loss due to the unsealing of the letter has been skillfully restored. Published in his Correspondance ed. Henri Martineau Paris Le Divan 1933 vol. 3 no. 262 A pp. 26-29. A very beautiful letter filled with romantic passion blending childhood nostalgia with sentimental tales and foreshadowing The Red and the Black. This letter is part of the correspondence between twenty-five years old Henri Beyle and his sister Pauline three years his junior. This epistolary relationship which quickly took the form of a ""journal"" as Pauline's responses were rare. It is deemed a crucial milestone in the intellectual development of the future Stendhal: ""Here are my dreams my dear friend; I am almost ashamed of them; but after all you are the only person in the world to whom I dare confess them."" In this letter which attests to the strong bond between brother and sister Stendhal then in Germany expresses his deep nostalgia: ""I revisited in my memory all the time we spent together: how I did not love you in our childhood; how I once hit you at Claix in the kitchen. I hid in the little book cabinet; my father came back a moment later furious and said to me: 'Wicked child! I would eat you!' Then all the woes inflicted upon us by poor Aunt Séraphie; our walks along those paths surrounded by stagnant water towards Saint-Joseph."" These regrets about the past are accompanied by a typically Stendhalian melancholy: ""Alas! That delightful happiness I once imagined I glimpsed it once at Frascati and a few other times in Milan. Since then it has not returned; I marvel at my inability to feel it. The mere memory of it is more powerful than all the present joys I can procure."" This evocation of the Italy he longs for is intertwined with memories of the women he loved: ""I told you that while in Frascati at a charming fireworks display at the moment of the explosion Adèle leaned on my shoulder for an instant; I cannot express how happy I was. For two years whenever I was overwhelmed with sorrow this image gave me courage and made me forget all my troubles. I had long forgotten it; I tried to recall it today. Against my will I see Adèle as she is; but as I am now there is no longer the slightest joy in this memory."" This lengthy account of Adèle Rebuffet his cousin with whom he had a profound romantic relationship before forming a closer bond with her mother reflects Stendhal's sentimentality. He also mentions another of his great passions Angelina Pietragrua the ideal Italian woman and embodiment of his Milanese memories: ""Madame Pietragrua is different: her memory is linked to that of the Italian language; whenever something pleases me in a role for a woman in a work I involuntarily put it into her mouth."" This ""role for a woman"" that Stendhal refers to echoes the central theme of this letter the work Il Matrimonio segreto by composer Cimarosa: ""Do you sometimes play the Matrimonio Its the passage Cara sposa at the beginning between Carolina and Paolino. . But play the Matrimonio for my sake especially Signor deh permettette and the finale Io rival de mia sorella."" This opera by Cimarosa remained a constant throughout the writer's life and work. In his Memoirs of an Egotist 1832 he explains: ""In Milan in 1820 I wanted to have this written on my tomb . I wanted a marble tablet in the shape of a playing card: ""Errico Beyle - Milanese - Visse scrisse amò - Quest'anima adorava Cimarosa Mozart e Shakspeare - Morì di anni. il . 18."" ""Henri Beyle - Milanese - He lived wrote loved - This soul adored Cimarosa Mozar unknown
1805669741805. Fine. 10 Floréal 13 30 avril 1805 18.50 x 23.10 cm une feuille Stendhal's autograph letter addressed to his sister Pauline. 28 lines written with a fine writing in black ink. First name ""Pauline"" from the hand of the sender at the bottom of the letter. Inventory number ""36"" in ink from another hand. Two small traces of stamp and stamp a small tear restored in the bottom margin of the page. A few tiny folds inherent in the enveloping of the letter. Rare and beautiful letter of Stendhal addressed to his sister Pauline in which all the sensitivity of the young man and his love for the dramatic art shows more than twenty years before his big romantic successes. This letter comes from the correspondence between Henri Bayle here twenty-two years with his sister Pauline three years younger. This true epistolary liaison which quickly took the form of a ""diary"" - Pauline's answers were rare - is an essential milestone in the constitution of the intellectual journey of the future Stendhal. Our letter of a great lyricism testifies to the strength of the bond uniting the young writer and his sister: ""Let's shake each other my good friend. We will never find anyone who loves Pauline as Henry nor will Henry ever find a more beautiful soul than Pauline. ""The use of the third person and a lover vocabulary erects the young woman to the rank of alter ego a sister-soul and even perfect mistress. The young Henri is then precisely under the yoke of a devouring passion for the actress Melanie Guilbert whom he met during his declamation classes at Dugazon: "" I'm going to be bored perhaps by my dark sadness. I know very well that the seriousness of ardent passions is not pleasant. "" Contrasting with this passionate relationship Pauline symbolizes reason and balance a figure that Henri like a pygmalion can fashion at leisure. In good tutor he advises: ""Learn by heart roles. About declamation I will teach you a thousand things. I'm bringing you a Gil Blas and a Tracy. ""We understand here worship Stendhal devoted to the theater from his earliest years both as a player as a playwright the fund of its archives to the Grenoble Library contains nearly 700 sheets of blanks:"" I am in despair at not being able to wear you Beanies. But wait maybe someday will come . as Ulino says. ""This passion for theater Henry intends to pass it to his sister:"" We will work like hell during the time that I stay in Grenoble. ""In total opposite view with the education of women in his time he put a point of honor that Pauline is an educated person; In several letters moreover we find injunctions from the brother ordering his sister to give up needlework in favor of the reading he recommends. Truly obsessed with theater and convinced that he will become an author of successful comedies he works tirelessly: ""I am told a room where I will not be free and where I can not just declaim. Try to disturb this arrangement. ""Years before writing great novels that make her famous Stendhal already understands that loneliness is for him a source of creation and says:"" A lonely is jealous of his freedom. It is his greatest good as that of all men. "" unknown
20848Famed German ace of World War Two. PS 18½" X 25" n.p. n.y. 1988. Fine. Heavy stock print of a pencil portrait of the renowned ace in uniform sporting his Iron Cross. Below a blind-embossed inner border noted aviation artist J.G. Keck signs it in pencil and numbers it #344 of an edition of 500 copies. Within a blind-embossed rectangle below his likeness Steinhoff also signs in pencil. Very handsome and a genuinely small limitation. unknown
10077This prominent Nebraska politician served Congress as Republican from 1935 until his death. Printed DS 10pp rectos only 8½" X 14" Washington DC 1938. Near fine. Faint horizontal fold; staple at upper left. Mimeographed press release titled "Five Republican Congressmen in Lincoln Day Broadcast Over CBS" and consisting of texts of patriotic speeches aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System on February 12 1938 by Stefan and four other Congressman -- Daniel A. Reed Leo A. Allen B. Carroll Reece and Charles W. Tobey. Signed huge and bold Stefan who adds "MC / Nebraska" in blue ink at upper right of the first page. Quite unusual in this format. unknown
193770612Londres London 1937. Fine. Londres London 26 décembre 1937 17.90 x 22.90 cm une feuille Signed autograph letter to Alfred Cortot and his wife about Richard Wagner's manuscript collection: ""I was lucky enough to be able to acquire the entire lot one day before Bayreuth sent a trusted buyer"". London 26 December 1937 17.9x22.9cm one leaf. Autograph letter signed by Stefan Zweig to Alfred Cortot two pages on one sheet written in violet ink. An outstanding autograph letter in which the avid collector informs his friend Alfred Cortot of his acquisition of unpublished manuscripts of Wagner. Alfred Cortot himself owes his career as a conductor to his early discovery of the German composer. Cortot shared with Zweig his ""almost tyrannical bewitchment suffered with as much intoxication as fervor"" for the composer. Zweig who spoke of his collection as ""more worthy of surviving me than my own works"" The World of Yesterday: Memories of a European 1942 recounts for his friend the details of this incredible discovery of hundreds of forgotten leaflets including Wagner's intimate correspondence handwritten scores and excerpts from opera librettos including The Flying Dutchman The Sublime Fiancée or Bianca and Giuseppe Die Feen Das Liebesverbot The Ban on Love and a lost orchestral version of Rule Britannia. In December 1937 as he fled the Nazi regime and settled in London Zweig became fascinated by the archives of a time when intellectual Europe was living in perfect syncretism. The writer takes a nostalgic look at the manuscripts of Wagner who like him spent his youth travelling through the capitals of Europe: ""I was extraordinarily fortunate to be able to get my hands on a whole lot of Richard Wagner's musical and literary manuscripts from his early period Leipzig Magdeburg Riga and Paris during a short stay in Vienna"". Among these precious manuscripts is the extremely rare orchestral arrangement of the patriotic song Rule Britannia which had been missing for more than sixty years. Sharing his passion for Wagner with his friend the pianist Cortot Zweig announced his discovery with the wonder so familiar to collectors when faced with an exceptional find: "". the manuscript is the only one of its kind in the world that has been preserved. It contains things that will be of special interest to you for example the complete translation 60 pages of the French version unpublished I believe of the text of the ""Liebesverbot"" entirely in Wagner's hand as well as the manuscripts of a vaudeville song ""Descendons la Courtille"" which he performed in his darkest moments . almost thirty pieces of the highest interest and precisely from the rarest period. All this was hidden for 50 years in a private collection and I was lucky enough to be able to acquire the entire lot one day before Bayreuth sent a buyer"". The letter is a fascinating account of Zweig's parallel life which had earned him a reputation as an accomplished collector. His collection also inspired one of his most beautiful short stories The Invisible Collection die Unsichtbare Sammlung and a pioneering essay in the Deutscher Bibliophilen Kalender The Autograph Collection as an Art. His hundreds of historical musical and literary autographs from the Middle Ages to the 20th century were carefully catalogued and collected in the library-museum of his house in Kapuzinerberg: ""In this library a 'place of worship' he also exercises a real activity as an expert in autographs . . The library will attract a number of distinguished scholars sometimes accompanied by their assistants who will not hesitate to return to work there quietly for days or even weeks at a time"" Stefan Zweig le voyageur des mondes Serge Niemetz. With this acquisition Zweig sees the dream of every collector come true. After two years of exile in England Zweig returned to Vienna in time to purchase these exceptional documents from Bayreuth's emissaries who had already built up unknown
231101912 saw the debut of this Cleveland Indians pitcher. Full signature and "Cleveland and / Detroit" in blue ballpoint 5" X 3" card n.p. n.d. Fine. Uncommon. Handsome later life example. unknown
1950008118London: Methuen 1950. First Edition 1st Printing. Boards. Near Fine/Very Good DJ. One Of 3 370 Copies Publisher Out-Of-Print In May 1953. 187 Pp. Purple Cloth Gilt. Signed Neatly By Philosopher And Science-Fiction Writer Stapledon Below His Name On The Title Page And Later Inscribed On The Front Endpaper From Golden Age Literary Agent Forrest J. Ackerman To His Client Golden Age Science Fiction Writer A. E. Van Vogt Winner Of The Retroactive Hugo For "Slan". Included Is Ackerman's Publicity Sheet For Stapledon One Page "The Philosopher Of Fantasy" Circa 1949 Mentioning That Stapledon's Next Book Would Be "A Man Divided" The Sheet Signed At Bottom For Me By Mr. Ackerman. Signed Copies From Stapledon Are Scarce Although Apparently Forrest Ackerman Brought A Number Of Signed Copies Of This Particular Book To America Before Stapledon's Death The Same Year. Ackerman Was A Great Fan Of Stapledon And Was Involved In Promoting His Trip To The Us. This Copy With A Little Rippling To Cloth On Rear Cover With Bleed Through Of The Red Color In A Strip 3/8" Wide Along Bottom And Foredge Of Rear Pastedown No Other Traces Of Damp. Dustjacket Is Unusually Complete With No Chipping Not Price-Clipped Just A 1/8" Closed Tear On Bottom Of Front Panel As Usual But Some Rubbing/Dustiness And Some Fading To Spine Although All Lettering Remains Quite Clear. <br/> <br/> Methuen hardcover
34573This Accounting Hall of Famer inducted 1960 was a civil servant who served as director of the Bureau of the Budget 1958-61 and as President Nixon's secretary of commerce 1969-72 resigning to head Nixon's re-election campaign which bore the unfortunate acronym CREEP in which capacity he got caught up in the Watergate affair. PS heavy stock 8" X 10" n.p. n.y. Fine. Superb matte finish head-and-shoulders portrait circa 1970 signed handsomely by Stand in blue ink on the blank lower margin. A choice example. unknown
40753Dean Stanley" was one of the leading and most prolific liberal Church of England theologians on 19th century England and served as Dean of Westminster from 1864 to 1881. Partial ANS 1p 4½" X 3½" n.p. n.y. Very good. Faintest of age toning; two faint vertical folds. Clipped portion of letter on pale blue stock. Below a few illegible works is a large bold wild educated guess "Yours truly" and "A.P. Stanley" followed by a dozen or so words on three lines that perhaps partially read: "The remuneration is 2£ a / week for copying &c 10" after which it's anyone's guess. Verso also bears 15 or so large words in Stanley's notorious hand some of which may read: "copy for the / place of." and "I can pay / to hear from you" -- or not. Incredibly this outlandishly illegible fragment is accompanied by a clipped late 19th century newspaper tidbit of the period 2 3/4" X 3¼" that describes this very document and the original recipient's experience in trying to transcribe it! Reads in full: "A correspondent of The Manchester Examiner says that he once received from Dean Stanley the most inscrutable epistle he ever beheld. It was written upon poor blue paper and in two kinds of ink the latter portion in black ink and the former in ink about the color of brown vinegar. The writing had a thin timid scratchy look and suggested the thought that it had been written with an old pen with only one prong or with the point of an old stocking-needle. There were no distinct letters as such but a series of nervous pecks at the paper with something smeared with ink. 'I tried over and over again for several days' says the correspondent 'to decipher the missive but to no purpose. I procured a magnifying glass and was simply dismayed at the result. I held it up to a strong gas-light and tried to read the front through the back and the back through the front. I tried to read it perpendicularly horizontally and from each of the four corners diagonally and at last flung myself full length upon the hearthrug and sought a friendly revelation from the glow of the fire but in vain. As a last resource I took it to a clever schoolmaster who after looking carefully over it from beginning to end somewhat discouraged me by asking me who it was from and what it was about. He labored at it more or less for five weeks and then gravely assured me that the man who could read such writing was not yet born.'" Describes this letter to a "T" and presumably written about this same example. An outrageously illegible example of this famously illegible script. unknown
22734This engineer joined the Boeing company in 1962 as head of their aeronautical electronics division and soon rose to vice president where he gained fame for spearheading the race to develop the 747 jumbo jet a massive management and engineering achievement as well as an enormous financial gamble that ushered in a new age of air transport; he served as president from 1972 to 1985 their longest ever. Signed Postal Cover 6½" X 3½" cancelled in Jamaica New York on 12 April 1970. Single 20-cent "Audubon 1785-1851" air mail stamp at upper right. NOT a First Day Cover but left side bears a large circular purple inkstamp commemorating "First TWA 747 Service New York-Paris." To the right of this in the "sweet spot" Stamper signs large and bold in black ballpoint. Most unusual. Comes with original transmittal envelope and TNS secretarial 1p 7¼" X 10¼" Seattle WA 1970 May 11. Addressed to Paul Johnston. Thanks him for "the personal interest of so many people in the 747. we're very proud of this newest member of our jet family. unknown
31516This Greek-born American artist was the youngest of that fabled group of abstract expressionist painters that included Jackson Pollock Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning active in New York in the 1940s and '50s. Signed First Day Cover 6½" X 3½" cancelled in Boston Massachusetts on 27 October 1976 and with "First Day of Issue" boldly stamped. Single 13-cent "Winter Pastime" Christmas stamp at upper right. Simple blue and gold "First Day Cover" printed cachet at left. No distracting recipient's name/address. Just right of center Stamos signs boldly in black ballpoint -- unfortunately his pen skips on the first name only which he partly overwrites. A most uncommon signature. This stamp NOT designed by Stamos by the way but by Stevan Dohanos. unknown
1920045483Washington D.C.: The Lord Baltimore Press 1920. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. 304 pages indexed. Hardcover bound in original blue cloth with a front cover design of a three masted ship embossed in gilt. The binding is worn and shows heavy white spotting to the cloth. The inner hinges are secure but the frontis piece is detached and chipped about the edges. Text is toned. INSCRIBED on the front flyleaf "Mrs. Elizabeth A. Weeks / Presented by / Mr. James Sprunt / Wilmington N.C. / Jan. 1922." There are some notations on the front pastedown. Quite scarce. <br/> <br/> The Lord Baltimore Press hardcover
28262The man whose knee bones were the largest diameter of his leg and weighed fifty-two pounds was a popular Barnum circus attraction. Scarce "Mr Isaac W Sprague / The Living Skeleton" in a shaky hand on a 4 3/4" X 2" slip n.p. n.d. Very good. Minor mounting traces on verso. Accompanied by a striking carte-de-visite photograph 2" X 4" n.p. n.d. Very good. No backstamp. Sepia-tone image of Sprague in his circus costume standing alongside his wife and child. A quite scarce signature and a desireable image. unknown
1994010148New Haven: Yale Univ Pr. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published New Haven: Yale Univ Pr. 1994 first printing. 8vo. xvi190pp. illustrated with b/w plates. Inscribed by author on fly leaf with inscribed holiday card to same recipient in which she mentions Magritte. Fine in fine dust jacket. . Fine. Hard. 1994. Yale Univ Pr unknown