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35258Montana resident possibly an attorney. ALS 2pp separate leaves 8½" X 11" Harlem MT 1904 July 21. Addressed to "My dear James & Albert" Smith's brothers. Near fine. Handsomely penned in black ink in a large readable hand this letter largely concerns the claims on "poor Writ's property" for "some of his old time prospect loving friend got around me and did not want Writs mining claims sold that he had held onto for 20 years as they would go for little or nothing. So I paid out on them $500.00 & told the administrator not to sell them. They have to be represented again within a few months it will take between $300 & $400.00 dollars Will you help me represent them If you cannot or do not want to will you let me have your interests On account of your being in Canada & so far away If you will let me have your interests I will send you $25.00 apiece. Should I ever be luckly sic to get any thing out of them I will send you something more." Goes on to explain "the claims are so high up in the mountains and the snow comes there so early the claims must be represented early or else they will be lost. The claims that Writ had in Thunder Mountain have gone by default they were so far away I could do nothing about them." Of some town named Bellevue in Montana he notes "Bellevue is a gone down place very dull there." Invites his brothers to visit: "I'd like to have you both come out and see this country some time do not put it off too long it would be a fine trip for you." Interesting mine settlement content. unknown
18442Manuscrit autographe signé daté Beyrouth, mars 1924, de 16 pages in-quarto. Provient des archives de Pierre-André May, mais cet essai sur Henry de Montherlant ne fut pas publié dans la revue Intentions. Ce manuscrit n’est pas de la main de Gabriel Bounoure mais certainement de sa femme. “Tibre et Oronte” de Montherlant paru dans la Nouvelle Revue Française du 1er octobre 1923 et en volume en 1924 (1er chapitre du Paradis à l’ombre des épées).
1964H4056London: Royal Opera House 1964. Paperback. Very Good. Program from 1964 in wraps ca. 25 pp illustrated light wear signed on the cover Jones played Leonora thank you note from her is 6 lines long signed in full. This was a very significant performance in Jones's career as she stood in for Leontyne Price for the role of Leonora and her career took off after that. Royal Opera House paperback
40955Catalogue de la vente aux enchères réalisée à l'Hôtel Drout le 2 juillet 2002 - un volume 21x27cm broché sous couverture illustrée, de 70 pages illustrées en noir et en couleurs comprenant 304 notices - bon état -
20012Tirage argentique d’époque sans marge, 24 × 18, tampon au dos des archives de la Librairie Hachette. Très beau portrait de trois quarts, à la manière des Studios Harcourt (des noirs intenses et une sorte de relief). Photographie prise vers le milieu des années 1950, époque où Nabokov écrit Lolita ; il est souriant, en chemise blanche, cravate et veston.
40711AM unsigned 19pp recto and verso 4 3/4" X 7 3/4" n.p. n.y. ca. 1870s. Very good. Bit of faint age toning and old folds neither strong nor weakened. Quite attractive and frustratingly cryptic unsigned Autograph Manuscript two-punched at top and string-tied with original pink ribbon. Fascinating firsthand recollections of the writer's early education in a New England country school house apparently penned for some kind of commemoration. All told a dense meaty manuscript that must be read in its entirety to be appreciated. Opens with: "It is a difficult thing to describe an old place which you have not seen for years to a company of friends who have never seen it; a ruler and a compass seem indispensable a rough sketch on paper to show its position and its various surroundings but who among us here can fail to describe most accurately and who can fail to comprehend without the aid of riveted compass and finely pencilled drawings a country school house a New England School house with its ragged walls and still raggeder urchins with its four windows with its one door with its rows of old desks long since hacked by the idlers of other days with its ink spots dropped years before with its benches all scratched over with school boy hieroglyphics and last and not least but first with that old that honorable that respected that indispensable institution to Every New England town the village 'School mom'." He then gives a few vague specifics: "In the years 1847 & 1848 there was a small white house in a village north that has since been torn down. If we were to measure off 200 feet in 27th Street on the lower side of the Street West of the Third Avenue should locate there the Old Academy where two short years we studied. Six young zebras sent from the turmoil of the city to the quiet country there by labor of mind and of body to blend beauty with intelligence alas it was a failure from lack of ingredients ." He describes their beloved "School mom" "She was a nice young lady a little above the medium height with light hair and very mild blue eyes her dress was always plain and becoming. and she was loved by us all young and old thought Miss B. was perfection and how could we help it we fresh from the Schools of Gotham." going at length into her benevolent teaching style and her mysterious personal life. He addresses the family who lived in the house Dominis the appearance of the school and its grounds the pupils' pastimes and pranks the owner of the house "an old Jesuit. always prowling round inserting his long lean crooked nose in the School house. the wealthiest & the meanest" etc. All very Dickensian very Norman Rockwell -- sentimental and charming viewed from perhaps a half century or more later. Penned in brown ink in a handsome easily legible small hand. Although some clues do crop up that may help identify this academy and perhaps the writer we have been unable to do so despite all efforts. unknown
17454Partly-printed AD 1p 8½" X 6" New Orleans LA 1842 July 1. Fine. Partly-printed "Manifest of the Cargo of the Flat Boat No. 47" listing a cargo of 14 casks of bacon 75 kegs of lard and 5 tons of bacon being taxed by the city $2.34. On the verso is a printed "Extract from an Ordinance passed by the Council of the Second Municipality of New-Orleans June 21 1842." Interesting bit of pre-Civil War Louisiana maritime history. unknown
40760New York City's famed Juilliard School was the breeding ground for this unusual opera troupe of under-30 singers that sprung up in the 1940s the brainchild of David Otto. Signed Program small 4to 6¼" X 9½" 4pp n.p. n.y. Very good. Mild edgewear and folds; faint age toning. Attractive program on buff stock for the Nine O'Clock Opera Company's appearance at the "Community Concert Association" performing "The Marriage of Figaro: A Comic Opera in Two Acts." The entire cast of seven listed on the front wrapper have each signed boldly in pencil: David Otto John Tyers 1914-07 Helen Van Loon Vera Weikel 1911-61 John McRae Allen Stewart and Gertrude Gibson along with pianist Max Walmer. Inside pages give a plot summary of "The Marriage of Figaro" page 2 and the history of this upstart opera company page 3 noting "the oldest member of the company is now thirty." Interesting and unusual! unknown
39659This huge corruption investigation of the 1980s involved the FBI IRS USPS Chicago Police Department and other law enforcement agencies and resulted in a large number of indictments and convictions of judges lawyers sheriffs police officers and court officials -- among the top of which was this federal judge convicted of extorting $200000 in "loans" from those under him; his 18-year sentence was later reduced to 13 years and he was released in 1990. TLS 5pp rectos only 8½" X 11" Oxford WI 1987 December 29. Addressed to a Chicago publisher. Very good. Two faint original fold lines and 3/4" edge tear at right margin. Writing from prison Holzer congratulates this Chicago publisher on his success then boldly states: ".allow me to introduce myself. I am a prisoner at the Federal Prison Camp Oxford Wisconsin." Interestingly when Holzer was sentenced for his crimes he remarked 'I stand before you a convicted felon exhausted disrobed and defeated. . I have committed crimes. Those crimes have destroyed me. They have wounded my family beyond measure and confused my friends. . There are no words to express my loss my remorse my grief.'' But in this letter he recaps his career then paints Operation Greylord in a different light: "I became in 1985 one of more than seventy judges lawyers and court personnel to find himself the target of a wide-ranging investigation tagged 'Operation Greylord' by the prosecutors and press followed by the inevitable indictment. after a newsy six-week trial I was of course found guilty on most counts. In the media-hyped atmosphere of the day a finding of innocent would have been impossible." The remainder of this lengthy letters is not a legal expose "but I'm ready to take on that assignment next" but rather a description of his novel "Leviticus 18" -- "the story of a Jewish family who lived in the town of Oswiecim Polish Austria-Hungary nestled in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains about thirty-five miles west of Krakow. The action occurs roughly between 1880 and 1910." Interesting and unusual with direct reference to the scandal that ruined his career. unknown
192278931922 Paris, Joubert, 1922 ; partition in-folio de 4pp.
1973EEzz5634xParis, Galerie Herve Odermatt 1973. Gr.-4°. 24 S. (vorw. mit s./w. photogr. Aufnahmen v. A. Newman u. M. Fraas). OKart. (Siebdruck. v. Roman Cieslewicz). Einbd. etw abgerieben. Hinterdeckel m. Eselsohr. - Auf Titelblatt m. eigenh., mehrzeil. Anmerkung durch den Künstler: "J'aime des oiseaux mais ceux ci ... préférent le changement pour être eu relations. il faut que je vole. peut-être cet oiseau est une poulette?" sowie auf Hinterdeckel einige Pariser Adressen von der Hand des Künstles. Mit einleitenden Texten von Roland Penrose Alain Jouffroy sowie Vita u. Ausstellungsverzeichnis des Künstlers. - Text französisch.
21857Tirage argentique d’époque, 8,5 × 7,8, montée sur un carton fort. Sans date (vers 1850). Cette très curieuse photographie provient des archives de Paul Bourget : devant la maison de Pétrarque Riva degli Schiavoni, à Venise, des militaires sont assis près d’un étal de pastèques ! Une plaque sera apposée en 1904.
15276Founded in 1821 and today operated under the auspice of the University of Pennsylvania this institution is the first pharmaceutical college in North America. AM unsigned 2pp 6½" X 8½" n.p. n.d. Very good. Slight separations along single horizontal fold. Headed "Library of the Philada College of Pharmacy / Circular" this unsigned essay is a thumbnail history of this institution's library prepared to be typeset and distributed for collection-building purposes. "More than twenty years ago" it begins "the College of Pharmacy commenced the formation of a Library for the use of its members and their apprentices when by the Liberality of some of the early friends of the Institution and a small appropriation from the College about five hundred volumes were collected; soon after this effort the college procured a lot on Ground rent and erected their present hall on Felbert Street above 7th. This large expenditure has prevented the College from doing any thing more for the library except to bind periodicals taken in exchange for our Journal until the past Year. we have come to the conclusion that the next most important object to promote the interest of our Profession is the building up of our Library and extending its usefulness by collecting together every thing we can procure in relation to the early as well as present history of Pharmacy and its colateral branches. we earnestly request from our members and other interested in the prosperity of our useful Institution such books as they may be willing to spare from their own collections." There's a prescription for success! The ink paper and handwriting are all consistent with a date roughly 20 years after the founding of the college: circa 1840. Fascinating bit of pharmaceutical and library history. unknown
10831Photographie, insérée dans un support de carton brun, formant médaillon, diamètre de 6, 2 cm, support de 13 x 13 cm. Tirage argentique. Description autographe signée de l'artiste au verso.
19451313PARIS. LAMBUSIER. 1945. (AU PROFIT DES OEUVRES DE LA CROIX ROUGE FRANCAISE POUR LES PRISONNIERS DE GUERRE). IN-4 EN FEUILLES (28 X 22,5 X 2,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE 147 PAGES, COUVERTURE CREME REMPLIEE, TITRE IMPRIME EN ROUGE, SOUS ETUI CARTONNE (29 X 23 X 3 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON). ILLUSTRE D'UN FRONTISPICE GRAVE EN MEZZOTINTE PAR DARAGNES, UNE GRAVURE AU BURIN (PORTRAIT DE FRANCOISE GILLOT) ET DEUX IN-TEXTE DE PICASSO, QUATRE HORS TEXTE GRAVES A L'EAU -FORTE ET DIX-SEPT DESSINS IN-TEXTE DE DIGNIMONT, QUATRE HORS TEXTE GRAVES A L'EAU-FORTE ET VINGT-CINQ DESSINS DANS LE TEXTE DE TOUCHAGUES. PREFACE DU GENERAL KOENIG, TEXTES PAR PAUL ELUARD, PAUL VALERY, COLETTE, ANDRE BILLY, ETC. LE BURIN ET LES DEUX DESSINS DE PICASSO ILLUSTRENT LE POEME «DANS UN MIROIR NOIR» DE PAUL ELUARD. EDITION ORIGINALE. TIRAGE LIMITE A 1070 EXEMPLAIRES NUMEROTES, TOUS SUR VELIN DE LANA, DONT 50 HORS COMMERCE, CELUI-CI PORTANT LE NUMERO 246. DEFAUTS SUR L’ETUI CARTONNE, SINON BON EXEMPLAIRE.
190888550s. n. | s. l. 11 mai 1908 | 13.3 x 21.6 cm | 7 pages sur deux doubles feuillets + une enveloppe
19088857526 décembre 1908 | 13.3 x 21.5 cm | Un double feuillet + une enveloppe
190888572s. n. | 21 avril 1908 | 11.2 x 17.5 cm | Deux bi-feuillets + une enveloppe
190888574s. n. | Toulon 1908 | 13.2 x 21.7 cm | Une feuille + une enveloppe
4882Procuration faite par Sœur Combas de Saint-Ignace de Bourg Saint-Andiol, où il est fait mention des îles de Porquerolles et de son gouverneur. Datée 1645, trois grandes pages manuscrites avec nombreuses signatures. Rare.
Barcelona, 1942. Ilustrado con orlas y letras capitales. 31 p. Rústica editorial. Bordes algo rozados. 4ºmayor. Dedicatoria autógrafa del autor. Muy buen ejemplar. 1ª edición. Primera edición. 1st edition. First edition.
180622 pages in-8, datée Asnières, 24 mai 1948. Jacques Prado né en 1889 était ingénieur en aéronautique et aviateur. Il publie, en 1927, un recueil de poèmes intitulé Balises. L´année suivante, il est victime d'un accident mortel en service commandé. En 1929 parait Holocauste, recueil posthume, préfacé par Henri de Régnier.La fille du poète Jacques Prado adresse à Eluard les 2 recueils de poésie de son père, publiés aux éditions La Phalange en 1928 et 1930 pour son Anthologie des poètes français 1918-1948. Elle cite Henri de Regnier, Jean Royère qui lui a consacré un article, Alfred Mortier. Ces poèmes pourraient avoir une place dans l’anthologie que prépare Paul Eluard.
201521 p., 22 x 17,2, sur papier ligné, datée Sète, 10 octobre [1943], env. cons. Jolie lettre dans laquelle le futur journaliste de Paris-Match (“le poids des mots, le choc des photos”) exprime son enthousiasme d’avoir pu faire la rencontre de Prévert : “j’ai envie de vous dire la joie que j’éprouve de vous avoir connu, de vous avoir parlé et de vous avoir vu comme vous êtes dans la vie et non plus seulement à travers vos films. Cela a été pour moi d’un grand encouragement de vous voir vivre tous trois avec MM. Traüner et Rey autour du cinéma, pour le cinéma et aussi tellement dans la vie de tous les jours (...) dommage que je n’ai pu faire du cinéma près de vous ou de M. Carné. (Je vous remercie de votre accueil si franc et je me rends compte de tout ce que je dois à Rey qui m’a présenté à vous”.La photographie tirage argentique de l’époque en n&b, 7 x 9 cm, a été certainement prise par Roger Thérond, elle était jointe à la lettre. Elle représente : Prévert, sa compagne Claudie Carter, Henri-François Rey et le chien de Prévert au premier plan, annoté au dos “Fête Nice 43”. Prévert en 1943 était à Nice sur le tournage des Enfants du Paradis de Marcel Carné. Son histoire d’amour avec Claudy Carter se terminera aussi cette année là.
13013Paru dans le n°14-15 d'Intentions, avril-mai 1923. Texte critique assez ambigu. "Les critiques me paraissent avoir fait une confusion entre la précocité du romancier, réelle certes et remarquable, et le fait beaucoup moins étonnant qu'un homme de dix-sept ans se trouve en possession d'une personnalité déjà formée, et, disposant de loisirs exceptionnels, s'exerce à l'amour comme on se lance sur une belle route sans obstacles, un beau matin, pour essayer une voiture neuve. La randonnée se termine mal il est vrai. Une femme est tuée. Mais le moteur a fait ses preuves, et les ressorts n'ont pas trop souffert..."
20006P., Librairie Delagrave, 1937, in-8, br., 144 p. Edition originale. 1/15 ex. de tête sur pur fil, celui-ci H.C. Bel envoi a.s. : à Monsieur Léon Deffoux ces pages sur Verlaine - et parfois de Verlaine - avec mes confraternels sentiments”. Prière d’insérer joint. 6 lettres autographes signées jointes (différents formats) d’André Fontaine à Léon Deffoux 19 avril - 28 juin 1937, 9 pages in-8 d’une fine écriture, env. cons. (l’une d’elle est découpée). Les lettres relatent la découverte d’une correspondance échangée en 1875 entre Verlaine et Delahaye au sujet de Rimbaud. Il y est question aussi de Germain Nouveau. A la bibliothèque Jacques Doucet, André Fontaine copie partiellement cette correspondance et voudrait la faire publier intégralement. Il demande à Léon Deffoux de l’aider car le Recteur de l’Académie de Paris n’a autorisé qu’une utilisation très stricte des citations inédites. Très intéressant ensemble.
