MARKHAM, Edwin (1852-1940)Biblio.com
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16441Poet best remembered for "The Man with the Hoe." Partly-printed ADS 1p 7¼" X 10½" West New Brighton NY 1929 September 21. Very good. Updating form sent out by "Who's Who in America" for their 1930-31 edition on orange stock with Markham's 2" X 3" biographical entry from the previous edition affixed onto the blank center area. Markham has written on the wide margin "is frequently called the leader of the Democratic movement in American poetry" and "Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters" plus one minor correction. At the bottom he signs and gives his address. An editor has made marks and drawn lines in green ink through most of Markham's additions; two checkmarks near the signature barely touch two letters; there are several other editor's marks in pencil and red pencil. A colorful extremely interesting document. unknown
27639Schoolchildren nationwide used to be required to memorize this poet's social protest piece "The Man with the Hoe" which was inspired by Millet's painting of the same name. Printed DS 1p 8½" X 14" n.p. Staten Island NY n.d. post-1924. Near fine. Broadside printing of this most renowned poem signed big and bold at the lower margin "Your friend Edwin Markham: / Staten Island N.Y." Bright and attractive. "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans / Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground" Markham begins. "The emptiness of ages in his face / And on his back the burden of the world." -- still a powerful and moving piece despite changes in poetry style and diction. Accompanied by a fine heavy stock 6¼" X 5" color reproduction of Millet's namesake painting. unknown
2002021996Boston: Bulfinch Press / Little Brown & Co 2002. First Edition . Black Cloth. Fine/Fine DJ. Color Plates Throughout; Original Signed Artwork By Chaz. 160 Pp. Black Cloth. First Edition. Inscribed With Greeting "Thanks For Being Part Of A Historical Event" In 2002 To Actor Nicolas Cage Signed By Cheech Marin. With A Color Lithograph "L A Mix" Signed By Chaz Laid In Loosely. From The Collection Of Nicholas Cage Who Had Larger Artwork By Chaz But Not Signed By Cage. <br/> <br/> Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown & Co hardcover
36507Well-known Lafayette University football star who played halfback on their 1921 national championship team -- the last living member of that team at his death; later a running back for the Pottsville Maroons and Philadelphia Quakers. ANS 1p 5½" X 7" Easton PA 1977 May 31. Addressed to Richard C. Laade. Near fine. In response to a plea also present from this researcher "attempting to locate a number of Lafayette alumni who have played in the N.F.L." Marhefka replies boldly in blue ballpoint in part: "In addition to making necessary corrections I have added three names of Laf. alumni who were quite prominent in pro football their names are Leonard Brunner '24 Bull Lowe '19 and John Scott '19." The researcher's 8½" X 11" query for assistance in locating Lafayette alumni is present on which Marhefka has inked the names he referred to. With original envelope addressed in Marhefka's hand and signed again. unknown
27020The daughter of famed singer Mathilde Marchesi was a noted French soprano; though she debuted in opera as Brunnhilde in Prague in 1900 her voice underwhelmed the critics and lent itself more to the concert stage and later in life to recordings. Large and bold signature and "1899 / First visit to / America. / March" in bold brown ink heavy stock 3½" X 2½" card n.p. Very good. Mild age toning; faint mounting trace at corners. A fine signature signed during her first and quite successful U.S. tour. unknown
19196Negro Leagues utility player from 1939 to 1950 playing with the Kansas City Monarchs 1939 Satchel Paige's All-Stars 1939 Homestead Grays 1940 New York Black Yankees 1939 1941 Chicago American Giants 1942 Baltimore Elite Giants 1939 1947 Newark Eagles 1948 and the Canadian League 1950. Bold signature in blue ballpoint heavy stock 5" X 3" card n.p. n.y. Above this is penned in black ballpoint in another hand probably spousal: "Teams played with: / Kansas City Monarchs / Baltimore Elite Giants / New York Black Yankees." Fine and uncommon. unknown
190484876s. l. 1904. Fine. Because I also want success I am extremely material in my wishes for those I love and I wish them every pleasure from the highest to the crudest. s. l. mardi 25 octobre 1904 12.60 x 20.40 cm 12 pages sur 3 bifeuillets Autograph letter signed by Marcel Proust addressed to René Peter. Twelve pages written in black ink on three bifolia framed in black. Tears at the ends along the folds of the bifolia not affecting the text. Published in Kolb IV n°168. A very long letter from Proust full of innuendo to the playwright René Peter. Praising Peter's success Proust confesses to his own vanity as a writer and his literary ambitions. He subtly lets his jealousy for Peter's mistress shine through and declares his absolute devotion to Reynaldo Hahn. This is one of the first letters he sends to his childhood friend after recently reconnecting with him. Proust eternally plagued by ailments remains a recluse and apologizes for missing the rehearsal of Peter's new play Le Chiffon. Peter's three-act comedy with music by Reynaldo Hahn premiered at the Athénée the following month and was a huge success with around sixty performances before the end of the year. The young Proust relies on the glowing opinion of Hahn who had attended the rehearsals and the missive becomes a love letter for the composer and his impeccable judgement: ""Reynaldo told me that your play was delightful and ravishing which is not quite the same thing that he laughed and cried in it as he never laughs or cries in the theater and that the language was exquisite. Of that I was certain. But knowing nothing about you I couldn't know if you had dramatic genius. I am certain of it now because even if I do not know a judge as severe as ridiculously severe as Reynaldo I also do not know one who has more taste giving his enthusiasm very great value in my eyes. In a characteristic tangle of confession and denial Proust barely hides his ambitions and his quest for recognition. He hopes and prays for the same laurels he places on Peter's head: your poor and charming mother who like all those who love and who have lived life bruising all our tenderness has suffered so much is witnessing this great happiness these first rays of glory on your charming forehead which Vauvenargues says softer as the rising sun. I only speak of them in quotations having never known them myself! He will even end up instilling his own literary vocation into the fictional life of the narrator of In Search of Lost Time although the narrator's journey as a man of letters is more marked by disappointments than rays of glory so long awaited by Proust himself. However it culminates in Time Regained with an epiphany: the narrator now knows what to write and above all how to write it. The letter marks the beginnings of the Proust-Peter-Hahn trio whose complicity was such that they formed a special vocabulary of which only they had the secret. The river of words in this letter perfectly illustrates the undeniable link between desire and intellectual admiration: Because I also want success I am extremely material in my wishes for those I love and I wish them every pleasure from the highest to the crudest. Despite these displays of generosity the writer cannot however mask a certain jealousy towards Robert Danceny the fictional co-author of Le Chiffon who was none other than Peter's mistress Mme Dansaërt. Proust elegantly but explicitly refers to her: It makes me happy to think that the charming woman who I am assured is hiding under the male name of your collaborator shares half of your work. I am not talking about your success because whether she worked with you or not she would always have shared your success with her heart having I believe a deep friendship for you. Typical of a Proust transposing his desires through fiction the writer will form various dramatic and morbid scenarios between Peter and this young woman in the following years: I unknown
190783638s. l. 1907. Fine. ""New Year's Day is just an occasion for me -- as if occasions were needed! -- to reminisce and weep"" s. l. s. d. ca 1907 12.60 x 20.40 cm 3 pages sur un double feuillet Autograph letter signed to Madame Catusse 126x204cm 3 pages on a double leaf. Autograph letter signed by Marcel Proust probably addressed to Madame Catusse. The recipient and date have been determined by Proust scholar Jean-Yves Tadié. Three pages in black ink on a double leaf edged in black. A fold inherent to the mailing. A sombre and admirable letter steeped in Proustian melancholy. The future author of In Search of Lost Time feels more than ever the loss of his mother during the New Year period. The famously generous Proust also asks his faithful confidante Madame Catusse to buy a gift for the Straus couple whose wife inspired the character of the Comtesse de Guermantes. The end of 1907 apparent date of this letter alluding to the approaching New Year marks the second holiday season spent without Madame Proust who had died two years earlier: ""New Year's Day is only an occasion for me - as if occasions were needed! -- to reminisce and weep"". Proust had also expressed this sentiment in a letter to Anna de Noailles the year before ""New Year's Day had a terrible evocative power over me. It suddenly gave me back the memories of Maman that I had lost the memory of her voice"" February 1906. This fateful moment acted on Proust like a pernicious madeleine at once a sensory reminiscence and an acute awareness of his loss. He would soon begin writing In Search of Lost Time to conjure up this mother figure whose absence would remain unbearable. For the time being Proust is busy writing a series of Pastiches for Le Figaro ""which were in reality only a penultimate detour before writing La Recherche"" George D. Painter. One of these Pastiches dealt with the swindle perpetrated on the president of De Beers in which Proust had invested. Imagining himself already ruined he mentions these unfortunate circumstances in capital letters: ""HAVE I REPORTED MY FINANCIAL DESASTERS TO YOU OVER THE TELEPHONE ."" Overwhelmed by ailments he is also plagued by one of his many asthma attacks ""provoked or exasperated by these terrible fogs"" forcing him into reclusion and even silence: ""telephoning is very dangerous for me. And I'm also very tired when it comes to writing"". The recipient Mme Catusse was a friend of Proust's mother and became an invaluable support to the writer. Proust's prolific correspondence with the woman Ghislain de Diesbach had dubbed the writer's Notre-Dame-des-Corvées represents an inexhaustible resource of insights into his secret life and fears. Proust had called her in a panic during an aphasia attack suffered by his mother shortly before her death. As he became increasingly isolated after moving into 102 boulevard Haussmann the previous year Proust sought her help in many matters including the purchase of numerous gifts: ""I would have liked to ask you if you had by any chance seen anything suitable for the Straus although I always dislike coinciding with New Year's Day"". This sentiment would inspire a passage in The Captive castigating those same ""New Year's Day presents"" given to Madame Verdurin: ""those singular and superfluous objects which still appear to have been just taken from the box in which they were offered and remain for ever what they were at first"" The Captive C.K. Scott Moncrieff's Translation Edited and Annotated by William C. Carter Yale University Press 2023 p. 308. Known for his frenzied displays of prodigality Proust overcomes his aversion to these occasional gifts. The smallest favor to the writer gave rise to extravagant expenses. Lawyer Emile Straus had probably helped the writer sort out his inheritance affairs: ""I FEEL THAT THE NUMEROUS SERVICES PROVIDED TO ME BY MR. STRAUS CANNOT REMAIN WITHOUT THANKS since I believe he would not accept a fee. If you happened to have seen something very unknown
190886094s. l. 1908. Fine. Proust and the future of pastiche: ""it seems to me that it could perhaps become a more discreet more fragile and more elegant form of literary criticism"" s. l. s. d. 1908 ou 1919 11.60 x 17.80 cm 4 pages sur un feuillet remplié Autograph letter signed by Marcel Proust to his friend Maurice de Fleury a psychiatrist and famed man of letters close to Émile Zola who wrote a collection of short stories as well as various medical works on neurasthenia insomnia epilepsy Chiara Carraro Philip Kolb. Four pages written in black on a bifolium with ""Island Mill"" watermark and framed in black. Usual traces of folds. Published in Kolb VIII no. 32 p. 74-75. Superb letter extolling the merits of literary pastiche by one of the greatest writers of the genre: Marcel Proust. The writing of this letter may coincide with the publication of Proust's series of pastiches on the Lemoine Affair a scam set up by a French engineer of that name who claimed to be able to make genuine diamonds. The articles were printed on the front page of the literary supplement of 'Le Figaro' between 1908 and 1909 or date from its publication in volume under the title 'Pastiches et mélanges' in 1919. The autograph letter is presented in a midnight blue half morocco chemise with marbled paper boards beige suede lined pastedowns and a slipcase edged with the same morocco. Proust warmly thanks his correspondent Maurice de Fleury whom he describes as a ""scholar and writer"" for his favorable reception of his ""little pastiches"": ""Your double merit should make you doubly severe: and you excuse pastiche that inferior genre!"" Votre double mérite devrait vous rendre doublement sévère : et vous excusez le pastiche ce genre inférieur ! acknowledging with irony the still precarious place of this unusual genre although popular during Proust's lifetime. Pastiche was perceived more as a stylistic musing or even a student exercise than a true creation worthy of literary praise. Yet here the writer considers it here a refreshing addition to the strict hierarchy of genres that still prevailed: ""Handled however by your hands more beautiful than mine it seems to me that it could perhaps become a more discreet more fragile and more elegant form of literary criticism. Very proud minds could devote themselves to it and very fine minds like yours very attached to greatness seriousness duty as wise could take pleasure in it and follow these games."" Manié pourtant par vos mains plus belles que les miennes il me semble qu'il pourrait peut-être devenir comme une forme indirecte plus discrète plus frêle et plus élégante de critique littéraire. Des esprits très fiers pourraient s'y adonner et des esprits très fins. comme le vôtre très attraché par la grandeur le sérieux le devoir aussi sage pourrait s'y plaire suivre ces jeux. With these words Proust asserts the interest of 'critical pastiche' which was already well established and acted as an empirical analysis of an author's style. Since his years as a student in Condorcet the writer had regularly indulged in this activity with according to him varying degrees of success: ""I have also sometimes made pastiches of medical literature! these writings are now lost If I could have found them again or started them again but all that is too far away I would have published them if I had known that you read this for fun. I don't need to tell you that considered inimitable you are not among the authors I pastiched. But . others are less perfect and combined some very interesting qualities with small flaws that could be imitated and caricatured."" J'ai été aussi quelques fois à faire des pastiches de littérature médicale ! Si j'avais pu les retrouver ou les recommencer mais tout cela est trop loin je les aurais publiés si j'avais su que vous lisiez cela pour vous amuser. Je n'ai pas besoin de vous dire que jugé inimitable vous n'y figurez pas. Mais . d'autres sont moins parf hardcover
1941732171941. Fine. Samedi 6 novembre 1941 10 x 15.80 cm une feuille Autograph note signed by Marcel Jouhandeau addressed to his dear friend. 9 lines in blue ink on a leaf fold marks inherent to the letter's folding for envelope. ""Malgré le très grand plaisir que je me faisais de vous recevoir demain. Je ne suis pas libre. Excusez-moi. Dès que possible. Je vous ferai signe."" ""Despite the great pleasure I was looking forward to receiving you tomorrow. I am not free. Excuse me. As soon as possible. I will let you know."" Fine condition. unknown
1976028087New York: Ronald A. Wilford Associates 1976. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. Large Format Souvenir Program Inscribed By Marceau On The Front Cover. With A Duplicate Unsigned Also With 8 Additional Programs For His Performances. <br/> <br/> Ronald A. Wilford Associates paperback
28979Unquestionably the 20th century's most famous mime this French pantomimist toured the world for decades as "Bib" the character he created in 1947. "'Bip' / Marcel / Marceau" in thin black fineline together with his usual scrawled flower sketch on a 4" X 3" archival cream colored bookplate featuring a printed book border. Fine. Not gummed on verso and never affixed. Accompanied by a nice 8" X 10" black and white photograph a charming half-length portrait of a smiling Marceau in character as "Bip. unknown
40508This American playwright director and stage manager began as a stage manager then became the "New York World" drama critic which he promptly quit upon the success of his first play "A Flower of Yedda" in 1898; he directed and managed well-known theatres but is remembered for "The Boomerang" 1915 "The New Henrietta" 1913 and "The Hottentot" 1920. AMS 1p 7 3/4" X 8½" n.p. n.y. Very good. Lightly age toned; two file holes at left not affecting text. Full page of bold neatly pencilled text on this cheap lined notebook paper head "WN-59" and beginning: "It is no longer required of the chief or ruler to be a great fighter himself. It is enough for him to see that his fighting men are properly organized and officered. What is especially required of him is intelligence executive ability foresight justice -- wisdom." Not seemingly a working draft page from a drama though further research required as we have not been able to identify the text. In a blank area at upper right Mapes signed boldly in brown ink dating it "March 4 1923." From the collection of Professor Albert Johannsen author of "The House of Beadle and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Novels" University of Oklahoma Press 1950 the definitive reference work and bibliography on the subject. Johannsen requested working draft pages from authors so it's possible this manuscript leaf predates its 1923 date by quite a bit. Also present is Johannsen's original 8½" X 11" file folder bearing his printed "Collection of Albert Johannsen" label partly filled in by Johannsen. unknown
25567The huge golden Prometheus figure in the fountain in front of Rockefeller Plaza in New York 1934 is one of this sculptor's best known works. ALS "Paul M" 1p 6" X 7" New York NY 1961 October 23. Addressed to Carl Haverlin president of music licensing giant Broadcast Music Inc. Fine. Regards the stir caused by the New York Civil War Centennial Commission's effort to have a casting of Manship's 1937 equestrian statue of General Ulysses S. Grant erected in front of Grant's Tomb: "Enclosed please find the letter I have just received from Mrs. Wm. Pigott Cronan Gen. U.S. Grant's Grandaughter." Boldly penned in blue ballpoint. Also present is a copy of Cronan's letter of support some newspaper clippings regarding the controversy and a few miscellaneous papers. Accompanied by a fine 10" X 8" glossy photograph showing Manship Haverlin and Bruce Catton examining a scale model of the Grant statue. Superb little collection regarding this controversial proposal. unknown
41740The best-known Shakespearian interpreter of the late 19th century was this English actor who toured extensively and played Broadway to great success often producing and directing as well; his performance in London in 1888 in the title role of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" earned him consideration as a suspect in the then-current Jack the Ripper murders. ALS 3pp lettersheet 5" X 8" New York NY 4 July 1895. Addressed to Charles Henry Meltzer. Very good. Lightly age toned with some discreet expert archival mends on folds. On letterhead of the Garrick Theater in which Mansfield premiered Meltzer's new play "The Story of Rodion the Student" a stage version of Dostoyevski's "Crime and Punishment" on December 3 the actor writes the playwright on some future play. In part: "I am glad to receive your report of progress and all your ideas seem Excellent. I shall also be more than pleased to receive the first act and -- I am sure -- to be pleased when I read it. It is also good to hear from a man whose motto appears to be: 'Labor voluptas'. When you have finished 'Le Pere Prodigue' you will I hope commence at once on a play for me." Meltzer 1853-1936 was an English dramatist and translator who penned a number of plays though the new play Mansfield refers to in this letter appears never to have been completed. Excellent stage content -- and attractive despite mild wear. unknown
28899Manning was the popular archbishop of Los Angeles from 1970 to 1985 Krol his Philadelphia counterpart from 1961 to 1988. Signed Postal Card heavy stock 5 3/4" X 4" Rome Italy n.y. ca. early 1980s. Fine. Color picture postcard issued by the Vatican never addressed never mailed with the picture side showing a blueprint shape of the Vatican at left and the Vatican crest in color at the right. Below this crest Krol signs boldly in full in blue fineline and below him Manning signs boldly in full in black fineline. A handsome and appropriate pairing of these two noted American archbishops. unknown
19917The influential Church of England archdeacon converted to Catholicism in 1851 becoming Archbishop of Westminster in 1865 in which position he zealously promoted English Catholicism. Miniscule ALS 1p 3½" X 4½" London England 1864 October 12. Addressed to Mrs. Dickinson. Fine. At this time superior at the Oblatres of St. Charles in London which he founded in 1857 Manning asks a favor: "Will your kindness take me to the London Bridge Station tomorrow -- unless my hour is too late for you. I wish to leave here at 5 o'clock. I hope you are well: & have good news." Quite handsome little piece. unknown
26721Noted British playwright best remembered for "Peg o' My Heart" 1913 a smash hit featuring his wife Laurette Taylor; he also wrote and produced the film version which starred Marion Davies. AQS 1p 8" X 10" n.p. May 1923. Near fine. Handsome quotation of a brief dialogue speech given by the character Arthur Carlton on page 28 of the 1922 first edition of "The National Anthem: A Drama." Reads: "Listen to that damned senseless barbaric discord. The kind of sound you'd expect Indians or negroes to beat out when they're frenzied with rum. --- Listen! You can hear their brains rattling in their skulls. God! It's become like a National Anthem! Whenever a band strike up a jazz I feel like standing up and taking my hat off. It's our national anthem." Nicely accomplished in black fountain pen signed and dated at the conclusion. From the collection of University of Chicago geology professor Albert Johannsen 1871-1962 author of "The House of Beadle and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Novels" 1950 the definitive reference work and bibliography on the subject. Johannsen's original 8½" X 11" file folder bearing his printed "Collection of Albert Johannsen" label partly filled in by Johannsen accompanies this item. unknown
28288This American film and television director was only the third director to win both an Academy Award and a Cannes Palme d'Or for the same film "Marty" 1955; other films include "Desire Under the Elms" 1958 "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" 1960 "A Gathering of Eagles" 1963 and "David Copperfield" 1969. TLS 1p 8½" X 11" Los Angeles CA 1978 November 3. Addressed to noted Lincoln/Civil War scholar ARNOLD F. GATES 1914-93. Near fine. On "Richmond-Confederate Productions Inc." letterhead Mann chats with this friend from his days in New York in the 1950s. "I was involved in doing a television film during the early part of the summer" he writes "and then was off to Ireland where I spent the last two months preparing a film which unfortunately has collapsed because of a failure in the financing plans. So now I am back here not knowing for sure what I will be doing next but left free to try to catch up on my old correspondence! Maybe sometime we will be able to get the Robert E. Lee project off the ground. Money has been promised from various sources but as yet hasn't materialized. I have learned to count on nothing in this crazy business so it may happen with surprising suddenness or it may not happen at all." Signed simply "Del" in green marker. Mann directed a number of made-for-television movies around this time making it difficult to determine exactly which film he was filming "during the early part of the summer." And it seems this film involving General Lee never came to pass for nothing resembling this appears in the Mann filmography. An interesting letter. unknown
31316The namesake son of the Florida senator and Confederacy's Secretary of the Navy 1812-73 himself served in the Confederate Navy then was elected Florida representative 1891-95 and senator 1897-1907. Printed DS 1p 8" X 3 3/4" Pensacola Florida n.y. likely 1897. Near fine. Lightly age toned. Printed receipt noting "RECEIVED of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park Commission one copy of its Atlas of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga battlefields" boldly signed by the new senator "Hon. S.R. Mallory" in thick brown ink also noting his address as "Pensacola Fla." Congress first printed this commemorative volume in 1897 thus dating this signature; it sold well enough that a second printing of 4000 sets appeared in 1901. An attractive piece. unknown
27640This Chicago journalist became the syndicated "Penny Prudence" in 1925 for the "Chicago Herald and Examiner" discussing cooking and homemaking issues; she wrote cookbooks such as "Meatless Meals" "Penny Prudence's Cookbook" "52 Victory Meals" and more under this nom de plume and in 1941 a one-reel film titled "Penny to the Rescue" appeared in theaters whether this featured Malek herself or an actress we haven't determined. TLS 1p 7" X 10½" Chicago IL 1929 September 9. Addressed to Mary Day librarian Museum of Science and Industry. Very good. Upper left corner torn off slightly affecting printed letterhead. On letterhead of the "Illinois Woman's Press Association" which lists Malek as that organization's president Malek asks for assistance on an IWPA matter from another member. In part: "Will you please send out these letters Suppose you have a new list Miss Knight will help about envelopes so please see that she has all names. Our room is 633 Fine Arts Bldg. Better bring a tack to hang up our name don't you think" Bold full signature beneath which is typed "Prudence Penny." Unusual autograph: the original Susie Homemaker! unknown
31168This versatile and longevous American actor of stage screen and television won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his role in "A Streetcar Named Desire" 1951 and is also remembered for "Baby Doll" "On the Waterfront" "How the West Was Won" and "Patton"; he played Lt. Mike Stone on t.v.s "The Streets of San Francisco" in the 1970s. PS 8" X 10" n.p. n.d. Fine. Handsome half-length glossy still closeup from "Patton" 1970 showing Malden in uniform as General Omar Bradley signed large and bold across his chest in blue fineline. To paraphrase Malden's popular catchphrase as spokesperson for American Express Traveler's Checks: "Don't leave home without it! unknown
1997007418Helena MT: Greycliff Pub Co. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Helena MT: Greycliff Pub Co. 1997 first printing. 4to. 8 3/4" x 11 1/4" xvi366pp. illustrations by Robert Cormier. Signed by Knopp and Cormier on half title with Cormier's signature embellished with the drawing of a mayfly. Small spot on front edge of page block else fine in fine dust jacket. . Fine. Hard. 1st. 1997. Greycliff Pub Co unknown
1926038757Paris: Chez Claude Aveline 1926. First Edition. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: xxii 55 leaves illutrated on rectos only 7 index 3 publisher's ads colophon. Bound in stiff wrappers printed in red and black glassine dust jacket chipped at spine ends. 9" x 7.5" #35 of 35 copies on velin de rives for the author and editor this is a presentation copy with a four-line inscription inked on the half-title and signed by Berthold Mahn. Interesting aside: Mahn was a camouflage artist in World War I. Chez Claude Aveline unknown
39651This Maine-born Congregationalist minister made his mark in Iowa where he spearheaded educational reform and became the first president of Grinnell College then Iowa College from 1865 to 1885. Intriguing if frustratingly cryptic closing portion of an ALS -- as is a fragmentary ANS 1p irregular 5¼" X 1 3/4" tipped to slightly larger sheet n.p. n.y. "1855" penned minutely in another hand along right border. Very good. Bold and attractive the top two lines are partial -- whole reads: "ing it & robbing us / it will be a favor to the illegible / Yours truly Geo. F. Magoun. / Mr Quinche comes from Columbian College D.C. unknown
