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Rare Autograph Letter Signed on Painting by EAKINS, THOMAS

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Title: Rare Autograph Letter Signed on Painting
Author: EAKINS, THOMAS
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: To the head of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art, Leslie William Miller (1848-1031), Eakins proposes an exhibit, two pages on one 8vo sheet, Philadelphia, Feb. 11, 1901. "Thinking it might be of interest to young composers to see all the working drawings for a composite picture, I send you those of my my compositions now on exhibition at the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, a portrait of Mrs. Frishmuth ['Antiquated Music' Portrait of Sarah Sagehorn Frishmuth shown seated with her collection of musical instruments 1900], who gave the University of Pennsylvania (Archeological Dep't) its superb collection of musical instruments. The first sketch and general perspective are for convenience made one sixth the size of the picture that is they are to be viewed at one sixth from the eye of the finished picture. To save time in calculating proportions, I have as some cases used a table of logarithms...." He signs, "Thomas Eakins." The letter presents Eakins as both a portrait painter and an art educator. Condition: Creasing along mail folds. Archival tape attached to top and bottom of third page and remnants of mounting adhesive to fourth page. Date of receipt of the letter is stamped under the date on the first page. Included is a photograph reproduction of the painting referenced in the letter, "Antiquated Music," with credit on verso. Eakins is widely acknowledged as one of America's most important artists. His work received little recognition during his lifetime, however, posthumously he has been celebrated by art historians as among the most important, if not the most significant, realist painter of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He focused on the human form in his painting, sculptor and photography. He is also recognized as a fine arts educator for his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. Eakins built the program into the leading American art school in the late nineteenth-century, but was forced to resign after he allowed a fully nude male model to pose for his class of male and female students. He struggled to work as a portrait painter following his dismissal because of his emphasis on realistic portrayals of his subjects. In the year following his death, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy held exhibitions of Eakins' paintings, and by the 1930's, he was recognized as one of the nation's great painters.

Autograph Letter SIGNED, 2 pp on one 4to sheet of printed personalized stationery, Bridgewater, CT., Oct. 27, 1965 by EVERGOOD, PHILIP

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Title: Autograph Letter SIGNED, 2 pp on one 4to sheet of printed personalized stationery, Bridgewater, CT., Oct. 27, 1965
Author: EVERGOOD, PHILIP
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: Philip Evergood writes to Sidney Hill regarding, among other things, Sidney's catalogue of his Charles Dana Gibson show. Sidney Hill was co-owner. at the time, with his brother, Henry, of Berry-Hill Galleries in New York. Henry and Sidney moved from London to New York during World War II and established Berry-Hill Galleries. While they were scholars of and dealers in antiquities and gold boxes, they became known in America for dealing in American art. Berry-Hill had an exhibition from October 1 - November 15, 1965 of "Charles Dana Gibson, 1867-1944: Creator of the 'Gibson Girl'," an exhibition of over 100 original Gibson black and white drawings from the artist's collection. Evergood says that he is a "great admirer of Gibson for in his smooth way he is a social satirist of great stature like George Grosz was in a savage way." Evergood says that he is not sure he will get to see the exhibition because of "my wife's broken arm" and "some of my own problems which include great pressures of work...." Evergood was with Dintenfass Gallery in 1963 and left them to join Ziunta Gerst's Gallery 63 in New York. He exhibited at Gallery 63 and in Rome at their La Galleria 63 during 1963 and 1964. But in 1965 "Gallery 63 suddenly closed without warning" as he tells Sidney in this letter. So, as he also tells Sidney, it was in 1965 that he then went to Hammer Galleries, owned by Victor Hammer. Evergood must have been preparing at this time for what would be his first one-man show with Hammer Galleries which occurred in 1967. He didn't stay long there, however, as, according to details in "Philip Evergood: Never Separate from the Heart," by Kendall Taylor (page 20), in 1970 he left Hammer for Kennedy Galleries. Evergood reminds Sidney that since he was only interested in his work on an exhibition basis, he had to go elsewhere to "seek a permanent anchor," saying that he had "recently... joined the Hammer Galleries." He then speaks highly of owner Victor Hammer who "has great plans to how my work abroad." While in the 1930s, the Hammer Galleries were the first in the west to exhibit the Faberge eggs, by the 1960s they were focused on 19th and 20th century European and American Masters. In a side note, after the P.S., Evergood asks his correspondent if he has "seen the Kahns lately." This reference is most likely to Mr. & Mrs. Harry Kahn (1916-1999) who the Frick Collection "Archives Directory for the History of Collecting in America" lists as an art collector, an investment advisor and a philanthropist who served on the board of the Brooklyn Museum until 1997 and founder of its Contemporary Arts Council. An informative letter showing the working life of the artist, moving from gallery to gallery, preparing for exhibitions, and commenting on other artists. Signed "Phil Evergood" and again with initials in the P.S.

Royal-Cookery; or, the Complete Court-Cook. Containing the Choicest Receipts in all the particular Branches of cookery, now in use in the Queen's Palaces of St. James, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor. With near Forty figures (curiously engraven on Copper) of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations Instalments; Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; Also receipts for making of Soupes, Jellies, Bisques, Ragoos, Pattys, Tansies, Forc'd-meats, Cakes, Puddings, &c. By Patrick Lamb, Esq; Near Fifty Years Master-Cook to their late Majesties King Charles II. King James II. King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne. To which are added, bills of fare for every Season of the year by Lamb, Patrick

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Title: Royal-Cookery; or, the Complete Court-Cook. Containing the Choicest Receipts in all the particular Branches of cookery, now in use in the Queen's Palaces of St. James, Kensington, Hampton-Court, and Windsor. With near Forty figures (curiously engraven on Copper) of the Magnificent Entertainments at Coronations Instalments; Balls, Weddings, &c. at Court; Also receipts for making of Soupes, Jellies, Bisques, Ragoos, Pattys, Tansies, Forc'd-meats, Cakes, Puddings, &c. By Patrick Lamb, Esq; Near Fifty Years Master-Cook to their late Majesties King Charles II. King James II. King William and Queen Mary, and Queen Anne. To which are added, bills of fare for every Season of the year
Author: Lamb, Patrick
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: London: Printed for Abel Roper and sold by John Morphew, near Stationer's Hall, 1710. Octavo (19 x 12 cm.), [12], 127, [12], [12] pages. 35 plates, mostly folding. The final, unnumbered pages include bills of fare and bookseller's advertisements. All edges marbled. FIRST EDITION, published a year after the great chef's death. Maclean describes an additional printing of the first edition, printed for and sold by Maurice Atkins. "Lamb brought a touch of French snobbery to traditional English recipes for an increasingly prosperous group of wealthy merchants, urban professionals, and rural gentry. His recipes show a preference for French-style stewed and braised dishes over the boiled staples of seventeenth century England" (Anne Willan The Cook Book Library, page 197). As cook to five kings and queens of England, "few others could possibly afford to emulate the vast spreads of exotic and costly foods which Lamb so often called for in his book of Royal recipes." (Eric Quayle, Old Cook Books). ~ Internally sound, pages a bit darkened throughout. Some plates with browning to some creases or with an early and neat reinforcement at creases. In later, full brown calf, blind- and gilt-paneled and compartmented, with gilt-titled red morroco spine label. New endpapers. Binder's ticket of Period Binders of Bath, England pasted-in at rear. [OCLC records eighteen copies of this Roper printing and five of the Atkins printing; Bitting page 271 (calling for 34 plates only); Cagle 809; Maclean page 88; Pennell page 144; Simon 939 (the third edition of 1731; Vicaire, page 490; ESTC T91554].

Ronald Reagan Signs on to Appear in Milton Berle's Popular Texaco Star Theater in 1953 by Ronald Reagan

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Title: Ronald Reagan Signs on to Appear in Milton Berle's Popular Texaco Star Theater in 1953
Author: Ronald Reagan
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 5/12/52. Reagan had been sent to New York to see Berle by the producers of a film Reagan was starring inAt the time, the future president, though president of the Screen Actors Guild, was little involved in national politics, outside of the issues related to that organization's interests. He was, however, an outspoken opponent of supposed communist influences in the entertainment field.Reagan would go on to greater prominence among the general and political audiences in late 1953, when he was hired as the host of General Electric Theater, a series of weekly dramas that became very popular. His contract also required him to tour General Electric (GE) plants 16 weeks out of the year, which often demanded that he give 14 talks per day. He earned approximately $125,000 (equivalent to well over a million dollars in 2021) in this role. The show ran for ten seasons from 1953 to 1962, which increased Reagan's national profile.Texaco Star Theater was an American comedy-variety show, broadcast on radio from 1938 to 1949 and telecast from 1948 to 1956. It was one of the first successful examples of American television broadcasting, remembered as the show that gave Milton Berle the nickname ""Mr. Television"". At that time Reagan was seeking out national appearances and took advantage of an opportunity to appear on Berle's popular show.Document signed, 3 pages, December 5, 1952, between Reagan and Sagebrush Enterprises, to appear on January 13, 1953, on the Texaco Star Theater for compensation of $3,000.Berle's guests on that show included not only Reagan but singer/actress Dolores Gray. How did Reagan come to be on Berle’s show? Needing $150,000 to finish a movie that starred Reagan, the film's producers sent Reagan to New York to ask Berle to furnish the necessary funds as an investment. Milton misunderstood, thinking he had been offered a starring role in Reagan's movie. He arrived at the movie studio under that misapprehension, completely disrupting production.

Little Hill, The by Behn, Harry

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Title: Little Hill, The
Author: Behn, Harry
Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1949 58 pgs. Pictorial boards, multi-page gift inscription, foxing to endpapers; matching dust jacket with dusting and mild darkening, original price intact ($2.00). Verse for children with nice little woodcut illustrations.. Stated First Edition. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Harry Behn. 12mo.

Players in a Game [aka "Play With Fire"] by Wasserman, Dale

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Title: Players in a Game [aka "Play With Fire"]
Author: Wasserman, Dale
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Dramatists Play Service. Near Fine. (c.1989). Unstated edition. Softcover. [very light smudging at top of front cover, minor soiling to rear cover; otherwise clean and unmarked]. (B&W photo frontispiece) A lesser-known work by ths American writer, who made his name in live TV drama in the 1950s, then segued into a somewhat fitful screenwriting career -- but whose name is probably most strongly associated with the hit 1966 musical "Man of La Mancha," for which he wrote the libretto, which was derived from his own 1959 television play "I, Don Quixote." This play, an anti-totalitarian piece set in Prague in the year 1316, was "suggested by an actual event as dramatized in the Czech language by Oldrich Danek" (that work, entitled "I Shall Return to Prague," had in fact been banned in that city). Although this printing bears only a 1989 copyright date, the first (and possibly only) production (for which the cast list, including Victor Buono and Carrie Snodgress, is printed herein) was actually mounted way back in 1978, at the Westwood Playhouse in Los Angeles, under the title "Play With Fire." The one review I was able to find (from The Los Angeles Times) was uncomplimentary, stating that it "tries several things at once and never quite decides which one it means to be: a comedy, a straight dramatic play, a satire, a musical, a mini-'La Mancha' (those overtones are strongest) or all of the above." Whoever wrote the Wikipedia entry on Wasserman seems to have been unaware of the 1978 staging, making reference to the play (under the title used here) as being included with some "fine and thought-provoking work [that was] ready to be produced" at the time of his death in 2008. .

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