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1903006925NY: D. Appleton. Signed limited first edition. Number 118 of an edition of 160. Published NY: D. Appleton 1903 first printing. 8vo. xxxii 359pp. illustrated with plates. Bound in gilt stamped three-quarter vellum over gray paper covered boards top edge gilting. Signed by Mrs. Stockton after her Memorial Sketch signed on frontis by artist Jacques Reich with clipped signature of Stockton pasted below. Light soil to the vellum and rear board one inch bump abrasion on front edge of rear board. Very good attractice example. . Very Good. Hard. 1st. 1903. D. Appleton unknown
1908001971New York City: National Association of Manufacturers Secretary's Office 1908. First Edition . Soft Leather. Good. 364 Pp. Text Of Issues And Policies As Discussed At The Convention. An Important Document Of The Activities And Intentions Of The Association The Most Powerful Lobby In The United States Particularly In Regard To Its Views On A Large Number Of Political And Legislative Issues Lobbying Was Their Primary Concern. With The Name In Gilt On Cover Of Job E. Hedges Delegate To The Republican Convention In 1908 And 1916 From New York City And Inscribed "With The Compliments Of." By Stillman. Quite Scarce. <br/> <br/> National Association of Manufacturers, Secretary's Office hardcover
19504103Los Angeles: Nashunal Publishing Company 1950. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. 339pp. Frontispiece illustrations map endpapers. Very good. Very faintest of binding edgewear else tight and internally fine. Tight attractive first edition of this history of the famed college football all-star game that has been played annually since 1925. This copy bears choice autograph additions: Tipped facing the half-title page are three fine matching heavy stock 5" X 2.75" cards each signed and dated by deceased members of the East-West Shrine Game Hall of Fame's inaugural 2002 inductees: At top is EDDIE LeBARON who signs in blue ballpoint and dates it 15 January 1974 at upper right; below him is OLLIE MATSON who signs in blue ballpoint and dates it 10 January 1973; and below him is DICK STANFEL who signs in black fineline and dates it 20 October 1975 at upper right. LeBaron 1930-2015 played for the College of the Pacific and went on to quarterback for the Washington Redskins 1952-53 1955-59 Calgary Stampeders 1954 and Dallas Cowboys 1960-63. Matson 1930-2011 played for the University of San Francisco and went on to play running back for the Chicago Cardinals 1952-58 Los Angeles Rams 1959-62 Detroit Lions 1963 and Philadelphia Eagles 1964-66; an Olympic sprinter he was also elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1972. Stanfel 19278-2015 also played for the University of San Francisco and went on to play offensive guard for the Detroit Lions 1952-55 and Washington Redskins 1956-58. All three original signature transmittal envelopes are laid in. A quite special copy. Nashunal Publishing Company hardcover
19235365bx110<p>Front free endpaper signed "Mary Jayne Gold '24" her copy. Mary Jayne Gold was an American heiress who played an important role helping European Jews and intellectuals escape from Nazi-occupied France in 1940–41 during World War II. VG in pebbled blue cloth gilt. hinges starting but holding. Contents clean 2 edges deckle. 324p index. 8 1/4" tall</p> Covici-McGee hardcover
1911058460London: Macmillan and Co 1911. Macmillan Library of English Classics Ed . Half Dark Blue Calf. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. 368 378. Half Dark Blue Calf With Maroon Calf Labels. Full Gilt Spine. Top Edge Gilt. Hand Marbled End Papers. Large Engraved Bookplates Of Actress Dorothy Gish Signed Fr By The Designer No Names Or Marks Not Signed. Near Fine Gift Quality. <br/> <br/> Macmillan and Co unknown
13913Chicago philanthropist and renowned Lincoln collector whose 7000 item Lincoln collection became one of the cornerstones of the Library of Congress's Lincoln collection. ALS 1p 6" X 7" Chicago IL 1946 September 5. Addressed to Edward Jacobs. Fine. Thanks the Peoria Lincoln publisher for "the beautiful and well designed New Salem item. I shall with pleasure add it to my Lincoln collection." Comes with a copy of Elmer Gertz's February 1942 "Lincoln Herald" article "The Library of Alfred W. Stern. unknown
1928007214New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1928. First Edition . Grey Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good Dustjacket. 120 Pages. Beige Cloth Stamped In Red. First Printing. A Bright Copy Top Of Page Block Quite Dusty And With A Few Tiny Spots Foredge Of Page Block Aged. Violet Dust Jacket Is Aged At Edges And Heavily Browned At Spine So That Lettering Is Just Barely Readable; It Has Tiny Chips Along Some Of Top Edge Particularly The Top Edge Of The Rear Panel And At Bottom Edge Of Spine As Dust Jacket Is About 1/8" Taller Than The Book. Small Inscription "Frances From Aileen July 1928" On Endpaper Probably An Inscription To Intellectual Screenwriter Frances Marion As This Is From A Collection Books From Her Library And Inscribed To Her; And Probably From Actress Aileen Pringle Who Starred In Films In The 1920'S With Screenplays By Marion. H. L. Mencken Visited Hollywood Which He Loathed Ostensibly To See Sterling Etc. But Motivated Primarily By His Desire To Pursue His Relationship With Pringle Who Then Became Acquainted With Sterling. <br/> <br/> Albert & Charles Boni hardcover
23959Commonly called "the greatest baseball player not in the Hall of Fame" or "the greatest baseball player you never heard of" this outfielder debuted with the Cleveland Indians in 1921 through 1925 playing also for the Chicago Cubs 1926-34 and two World Series. Large old-age signature in blue ballpoint heavy stock 5" X 3" card n.p. 1973 April 6. Fine. With original envelope. Uncommon. unknown
26984Particularly noted as author of the first celebrated Beadle "dime novel" the 1860 potboiler "Malaeska" this New England writer penned more than 25 novels and wrote for many popular periodicals of her day; she also served as editor for "Ladies' Companion" "Graham's Magazine" and "Peterson's Magazine." AQS 1p 6½" X 4" New York NY 1882 March 22. Near fine. A boldly penned 8-line untitled poetry excerpt in her semi-legible hand reading in part: "Oh fame is not for woman; she must yield / The very essence of her being up; / Bare her full heart -- fling off its golden shield. / And chain her very life to fill the cup / Which like a brimming goblet rich with wine / She lavishes upon the world's broad shrine. / Upon its brazen rim they write her name -- / Fling back the empty cup and this is fame!" Signed and dated at the close. Interesting and unusual. unknown
1892759251892. Fine. s. d. 15 avril 1892 12.60 x 16.40 cm 2 pages sur un double feuillet une carte et un calque Autograph letter signed by Stéphane Mallarmé to Alidor Delzant. Two pages written in black ink on a bifolium. Envelope enclosed. Also included is a signed autograph quatrain by Mallarmé on a card the one later inscribed on the mantelpiece: « Ici le feu pour renaître Tantôt durable ou charmant Comme l'amitié du maître Mêle du chêne au sarment. » Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. A friend of the Goncourt brothers he devoted a work to them and served as Edmonds secretary and executor. A fine letter in which Mallarmé evokes the composition of a quatrain to adorn Delzants mantelpiece: « Je suis infiniment touché et cette pensée comme toutes les vôtres est gracieuse. Voici un quatrain lapidaire je conseille la gravure en capitales; dites-moi s'il vous agrée. Mais usez-vous de sarments » Also included is the original tracing probably made by Mallarmé himself of the quatrain intended to decorate the lintel of Alidor Delzants library fireplace in his house at Paraÿs. Delzants reply to this letter is known: « Mon cher ami / Ces vers sont très beaux juste ce qui convenait pour glorifier la Cheminée de Paraÿs où les sarments pétillent autour des bûches des chênes. / Je demeure touché et reconnaissant. / Alidor Delzant. » unknown
189476276Paris 1894. Fine. Paris 11 mars 1894 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto et une enveloppe Autograph card signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant written on the recto in black ink. Envelope attached. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. Friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was the secretary and testamentary legatee of Edmond. Card written upon return from a trip to Oxford during which Mallarmé gave a lecture on aesthetics: "".j'ai du reste à vous parler de M. Dyer."" "".I have moreover to speak to you about M. Dyer."" Louis Dyer friend of Delzant is an Oxford alumnus and was then professor of Greek at Harvard. Through Delzant's intermediary he had offered hospitality to Mallarmé who did not know him before his lecture but this card attests that the two men finally met. unknown
189276345Paris 1892. Fine. Paris 7 février 1892 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte et une enveloppe Autograph letter signed by 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. ""Quels regrets je dîne précisément ce soir dans mon voisinage tout pris que je sois encore par un rhume absurde ; mais je ferai part à Whistler de la jolie intention que vous eûtes."" ""What regrets I am dining precisely this evening in my neighborhood taken as I still am by an absurd cold; but I will inform Whistler of the lovely intention you had."" unknown
189676279Paris 1896. Fine. Paris 15 avril 1896 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. A small water stain affecting the beginning of the card without hindering readability. 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. ""Voici que j'écris un jour trop tôt je suis confus : mon ami Muhlfeld qui me prie d'être témoin à son mariage ce lundi prochain."" ""Here I am writing a day too early I am confused: my friend Muhlfeld who asks me to be witness at his wedding this coming Monday."" ""On the 20th of this month also spring-like he signs the municipal register as witness at the wedding of Lucien Muhlfeld one of the leading figures of La Revue blanche and all this fine company dines in evening dress at La Tour d'Argent enlivened by the laughter of Misia and the Natanson brothers."" Jean-Luc Steinmetz unknown
189476272Paris 1894. Fine. Paris 12 février 1894 11.40 x 8.80 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. Mallarmé mentions a future stay in Oxford and thanks Delzant for having recommended him to a friend: "".vous songez si j'ai été touché de la lettre de Monsieur Louis Dyer de qui me voici connu tout de suite et comme anciennement à travers vous. Je lui réponds avant que je ne fasse si heureux sa connaissance. Hôte je ne pourrai l'être M. Powell qui a eu l'initiative de ma conférence m'ayant de longue date offert son toit pendant mon bref séjour à Oxford."" "".you can imagine how touched I was by the letter from Monsieur Louis Dyer through whom I find myself known immediately and as if from long ago through you. I am writing back to him before I have the pleasure of making his acquaintance. I will not be able to be a host as M. Powell who initiated my lecture has long since offered me his roof during my brief stay in Oxford."" Mallarmé would indeed give a lecture on aesthetics on March 1st 1894 at Oxford the text of which was published in 1895 under the title Oxford Cambridge. La musique et les lettres. unknown
189776333Paris: S. n. 1897. Fine. S. n. Paris 23 janvier 1897 10.20 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. ""Ami cher ami à lundi et merci ; je ne vous ai pas répondu tout de suite parce que je m'attendais à vous rencontrer ces temps-ci."" ""Friend dear friend until Monday and thank you; I did not answer you right away because I expected to meet you these days."" S. n. unknown
189176346Paris 1891. Fine. Paris 5 mai 1891 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto-verso et une enveloppe Signed autograph card from 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. ""Je prends part à votre deuil voulez-vous en assurer Madame Delzant dont seule la délivrance de votre malheureuse parente par elle entourée de soins peut adoucir le chagrin. . Heureusement vous êtes un de ceux avec qui l'on se sent partout et même loin."" ""I share in your grief would you please assure Madame Delzant of this for whom only the deliverance of your unfortunate relative surrounded by her care can soften the sorrow. . Fortunately you are one of those with whom one feels comfortable everywhere and even from afar."" unknown
189875918Valvins 1898. Fine. Valvins 23 juin 1898 8.90 x 11.50 cm une carte recto verso - enveloppe jointe Autograph letter-card signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant written in black ink on both sides. With the original envelope. Enclosed with this letter is a quatrain in Mallarmés hand: ""Tout en les éternisant / Bracquemond ici fait vivre / Les traits d'Alidor Delzant / A nous ouvert comme un livre."" Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. A friend of the Goncourt brothers he devoted a book to them and served as Edmonds secretary and testamentary executor. A delightful card in which the poëte ordinaire refers to the making of his portrait by his friend the painter Whistler: ""j'ai honte d'avoir fui dans ma verdure au moment même où Whistler parlait de mon portrait à faire"". ""On June 1st as he had promised Whistler who in his last letter with an affection verging on tenderness addressed him as mon Mallarmé he went to the painters studio on the rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. You will see someone from the woods somewhere between the wild boar and the nightingale he had warned playfully in announcing his visit. Painter and poet ended the day dining on the rue du Bac where the all-too-ephemeral Trixie was now absent. In the half-light after dinner Whistler near a lamp seemed to resurrect in appearance the extraordinary Poe. Doubtless he then repeated to Mallarmé his intention of painting him. The next day without waiting for the Monet exhibition soon to be held at Georges Petit the Mallarmés went on to Valvins. Jean-Luc Steinmetz Stéphane Mallarmé This was most likely the execution of another portrait of Mallarmé of which no trace remains Whistler having already produced one that served as the frontispiece to Vers et Prose in 1893. He also alludes to Bracquemonds etched portrait of Delzant: ""Je comprends du reste l'eau-forte valant cet exil de Paraÿs . Redites mon affectueuse admiration toujours à Monsieur Bracquemond."" unknown
189676347Paris 1896. Fine. Paris 2 avril 1896 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte 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. ""Merci de songer à moi qui ne vous oublie. J'attends à chaque minute un télégramme qui m'appelle à Londres où je passerai vraisemblablement toute la semaine de Pâques."" ""Thank you for thinking of me who does not forget you. I am expecting at any moment a telegram calling me to London where I will most likely spend the entire Easter week."" unknown
189576349Paris 1895. Fine. Paris 26 avril 1895 11.40 x 8.80 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. Envelope included. 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. ""Je le craignais que vous n'eussiez pas rencontré M. York Powell en le voyant l'autre soir apparaître rue de Rome. Encore rapportez-vous du merveilleux Oxford un souvenir."" ""I feared as much that you had not met M. York Powell seeing him the other evening appear on rue de Rome. Still you bring back from wonderful Oxford a memory."" Mallarmé had recommended his friend Frederick York Powell professor of history to Delzant who was to travel to Oxford in March 1895. It appears from this letter that the two men had not met previously. unknown
189476269Paris 1894. Fine. Paris 30 avril 1894 11 x 13.20 cm 3 pages sur un double feuillet et une enveloppe Autograph letter signed by Stéphane Mallarmé to Alidor Delzant; three pages written in black ink on a bifolium. With the original envelope. Alidor Delzant was a lawyer collector and bibliophile. A friend of the Goncourt brothers he devoted a book to them and served as Edmonds secretary and executor. A cordial letter in which the poet offers his condolences to his friend following his fathers death: ""Vous m'avez au hasard de nos rencontres amicales plusieurs fois parlé de votre père de façon à ce que je devinasse bon haut et délicat et que cette tardive mais prompte séparation à un âge qui donne une illusion chère de continuelle durée soit pour moi comme pour ceux qui vous aiment un deuil."" unknown
189876329Paris 1898. Fine. Paris 30 janvier 1898 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto et une enveloppe Autograph postcard signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant written on the front 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. ""Je suis bien chagrin outre que souffrant ; voici que pris de malaise je ne pourrai me rendre demain à votre amicale invitation que je ne perdais pas de vue. Je vous ferai signe quand je commencerai à sortir de nouveau le soir ; si vous voulez bien."" ""I am quite grieved besides being unwell; here I am taken with malaise I will not be able to respond tomorrow to your friendly invitation which I had not lost sight of. I will give you a sign when I begin to go out again in the evening; if you would like."" unknown
189276338Paris 1892. Fine. Paris 21 novembre 1892 11.20 x 134 cm 2 pages sur un double feuillet et une enveloppe Autograph letter signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant; two pages written in black ink on a double sheet. 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. ""Je suis désastreux. Voici que lundi prochain me rappelle-t-on à la maison j'ai du envoyer dans la soirée un travail à Londres et qu'on a déjà remis au lundi suivant une invitation chez des amis pour ce motif."" ""I am disastrous. Here it is that next Monday I am reminded at home I have to send in the evening some work to London and that an invitation from friends has already been postponed to the following Monday for this reason."" The ""work"" mentioned in this letter is the article entitled ""Théodore de Banville"" which would appear in the National Observer of December 17 1892. unknown
189576327Paris 1895. Fine. Paris 31 mars 1895 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto-verso et une enveloppe Autograph card 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. A friend of the Goncourt brothers he devoted a book to them and served as Edmonds secretary and executor. ""Je ne sais plus personne à Londres envers qui je fus si infidèle ; mais pour Oxford voici ma carte avec un mot à l'adresse de mon hôte et ami M. York Powell. M. Louis Dyer à qui vous porterez mes compliments les meilleurs le connaît ; et sans doute Cazalis porteur l'an dernier d'un mot de moi à son adresse. Je vous souhaite un temps moins fantasque encore qu'il doive rendre charmante la mer."" Mallarmé was well acquainted with Oxford where he had given a lecture the previous year under the auspices of Frederick York Powell professor of history. Louis Dyer a friend of Delzants was an Oxford alumnus and then professor of Greek at Harvard. Through Delzants mediation he had offered Mallarmé his hospitality. unknown
189676336Valvins 1896. Fine. Valvins 25 novembre 1896 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto-verso et une enveloppe Autograph card 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 secretary and testamentary legatee of Edmond. ""L'aimable invitation me trouve ici attendant aux vitres que la dernière feuille vole. Vous me permettrez de m'en souvenir peu après ma rentrée à Paris."" ""The kind invitation finds me here waiting at the windows for the last leaf to fly away. You will allow me to remember it shortly after my return to Paris."" unknown
189476348Paris 1894. Fine. Paris 24 octobre 1894 11.40 x 8.80 cm une carte recto-verso et une enveloppe Autograph letter signed 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. A friend of the Goncourts he devoted a work to them and was Edmond's secretary and testamentary legatee. ""La délicate caisse était votre souhait d'accueil à notre rentrée avant-hier ; et moi qui me plaignais tant à ces dames qu'elles m'eussent privé des toutes dernières feuilles mortes voici qu'à un point de vue poétique différent ces pruneaux les remplacèrent aussitôt."" ""The delicate box was your welcoming wish upon our return the day before yesterday; and I who complained so much to these ladies that they had deprived me of the very last dead leaves here from a different poetic point of view these prunes replaced them at once."" unknown
