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Illustrated Autograph Letter Signed with Exceptional Content by HOMER, WINSLOW

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Seller: Schulson Autographs

Title: Illustrated Autograph Letter Signed with Exceptional Content
Author: HOMER, WINSLOW
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: Homer instructs a gallery owner how to hang one of his paintings that he particularly loves. Autograph Letter Signed, Illustrated, 4 8vo pages on 2 separate sheets, Scarboro, Maine, Jan. 22, 1907, Illustration on page 3. Homer writes to art gallery owner William Clausen, asking Clausen to bill him for the "frame 24 x 28...." then explains how to frame the painting. "I shall send the picture for it soon...As I am in love with it and have been for thirty years, I put a price on it so that it will not be sold at present. I know all the faults in it, but they are useful to the whole thing...hang it up high to keep people...at their proper distance. Three times its width. I should say that would be a good hint to them...[drawing at bottom of page 3]...This must net me $2400 as now I can afford to have it hanging in my own house...The years of money are all right but pictures are scarce...." Homer's drawing shows the gallery wall with railings in front demonstrating how his painting should be hung. The description that came with the letter explains that the painting was likely "Shall I Tell Your Fortune," painted in 1876 and depicting a pretty fortune teller sitting on the ground holding cards. Signed in full, "WInslow Homer." Fine in art related content. Condition: Light staining at left margins of pages 1 and 3 and transferring to pages 2 and 4 lightly affecting the words at the margins which remain clearly readable; chip to upper left corner of third page and paper clip stain on upper left margin of first page showing on the three subsequent sheets, uneven fading to various areas of text on each page.

Catlett Signed Photograph with Original Art by CATLETT, WALTER

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Title: Catlett Signed Photograph with Original Art
Author: CATLETT, WALTER
Seller: Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description: The comic actor much loved in his time has signed and illustrated this sepia toned bust length photograph showing his characteristic expression. Catlett has drawn a black cat with a large red bow below his full signature, "Walter Catlett, Hollywood Oct. 30, 1937." The sketch is a play on his name. Catlett was a comedic actor appearing in many movies as a flustered scatterbrain but best known for his roles in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "Bringing Up Baby." His face is more recognizable than his name. Catlett was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960. Our photograph measures 7 1/4 x 7 1/2. Condition: tape stains on verso with minor docketting; in overall very good condition.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's “Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu” by Franklin D. Roosevelt|Eleanor Roosevelt

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Seller: The Raab Collection

Title: President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's “Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu”
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt|Eleanor Roosevelt
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 1/1/30. FDR had a great interest in Father Damien, who devoted his life to helping lepers, and got the U.S. Navy to transport Damien’s casket to Belgium for reburial.Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Kidnapped.Stevenson is also remembered because of his famous reply, in the form of a published letter, to the Rev. Doctor Hyde of Honolulu about the Catholic martyr Father Damien, undertaken because of Hyde’s attack on Damien, who he called, to Stevenson’s displeasure, “a coarse, dirty man, headstrong and bigoted…He had no hand in the reforms and improvements inaugurated, which were the work of our Board of Health, as occasion required and means were provided. He was not a pure man in his relations with women, and the leprosy of which he died should be attributed to his vices and carelessness.”Stevenson’s response has attained the stature of a small classic. Damien’s extraordinary devotion to the lepers of Molokai moved Stevenson to compose a response to the offensive charges hurled against Damien. The letter holds the reader with the incisive beauty of its diction, with its irony, its mockery, and its sarcasm. Measured in words, it is brief; but gauged in terms of the scene it evokes, the truths it states, the man it portrays, it is long.Robert Louis Stevenson wrote it with the same clear and accurate insight into human motives and the same depth of sympathy found in all of his great novels and essays. Many books and pamphlets have been written about Father Damien, but this letter is surely the most profoundly moving work about his courageous, dedicated, inspiring life.Originally written in 1890, in 1930 “Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu“ was published privately for William Andrews Clark, Jr., and John Henry Nash. In the mid-1910s, Clark, a noted philanthropist, began collecting antiquarian and fine press books as a serious hobby. In 1919, he hired bibliographer Robert E. Cowan to consult on book-buying purchases and to help with the compilation of a printed library catalog. The first volume of this was printed in 1920 by San Francisco printer John Henry Nash, who did other books for Clark as well, including the Open Letter.This is Franklin D. Roosevelt’s copy of “Father Damien: An Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde of Honolulu.” Eleanor Roosevelt has written an ownership signature in her husband’s name, and she has added “his book.” Below that she has written own her initials.On his death in 1889 Damien was laid to rest by and among his leper friends on Molokai. 46 years later his remains were transferred to his native Belgium. President Franklin D. Roosevelt provided a United States Navy ship to transport the casket, which was welcomed at Antwerp by the Cardinal Archbishop, King Leopold III and more than 100,000 people.

THE MISCELLANEOUS POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH by WORDSWORTH, William

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Title: THE MISCELLANEOUS POEMS OF WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Author: WORDSWORTH, William
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Splitting to one or two joints, a few hinges fragile, but all covers secure; text quite clean. Very Good or better
Description: London: Longman, Hurst et. al, 1820. First Edition. Hardcover. Splitting to one or two joints, a few hinges fragile, but all covers secure; text quite clean. Very Good or better. Four volumes bound in contemporary half black morocco leather with matching corners and marbled boards. Complete with an engraved frontispiece in each volume and half-title pages in the second and third volumes. Includes some revised poems as well as a selection of new sonnets.

The Braque catalogue raisonne Five volumes from 1924 to 1957

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Title: The Braque catalogue raisonne Five volumes from 1924 to 1957
Seller: Marninart, Inc (ABAA-ILAB) (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: Paris: Maeght, 1959–1962. Catalogue de l'Œuvre de Georges Braque, Vol. 1 (1924–1927); Vol. 2 (1928–1935); Vol. 3 (1936–1941); Vol. 4 (1942–1947); Vol. 5 (1948–1957).A set of five volumes from the complete series of seven, quarto format. Each volume features a photographic frontispiece of Braque and is richly illustrated with numerous black-and-white and color plates throughout.Bound in the original decorated buckram ring binders.

[Movie Press Book] The Norman Studios Present the Super Feature Photoplay The Flying Ace. Sensation of the Year. "The Greatest Airplane Mystery Thriller Ever Produced Co-Starring Kathryn Boyd and Lawrence Criner. . . . All Colored Cast . .

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

Title: [Movie Press Book] The Norman Studios Present the Super Feature Photoplay The Flying Ace. Sensation of the Year. "The Greatest Airplane Mystery Thriller Ever Produced Co-Starring Kathryn Boyd and Lawrence Criner. . . . All Colored Cast . .
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good Plus
Description: Arlington, Florida: The Norman Manufacturing Company, 1926. First Edition. Very Good Plus. The press book for a "Race" movie produced by white-owned Norman Film, which specialized in Race movies in the last decade of the Silent Era. This is the only one of eight full-length films made by the Jacksonville Florida studio that has been fully restored by the Library of Congress. It was also the second to last of of eight full-length Race films produced by Norman Film. Making the film required considerable ingenuity, as the budget studio used a single plane to shoot its dogfight scenes. The film also did not have a basis in history, as the U.S. Army did not allow African Americans to fly planes during the First World War. The publication, meant to excite exhibitors about the movie and to guide them then in promoting the film, is essentially a large folded sheet of newsprint paper, and thus four pages each 56 by 36 cm, is illustrated with photographs of clips, promotional posters, lobby cards and the like. This press book, though, relies more on fewer, but larger, photos than its prior press books. The window card on the front cover is shown again almost as large on the third page. The excitement of aviation may have been a reason -- a few dramatic shots more than equal a plethora of smaller images of many scenes. Also the large lobby card had multiple images with insets and a collage arrangement. This particular press book has less advice on promotional gambits exhibitors could do, less in the way of sober-toned promotional plans, and is almost entirely about hyping the movie's daring, and also the Norman Film brand. The publication also sought to generate interest in its small inventory of its earlier movies. We will observe that while Norman Film proudly promoted its movies as having "All Colored Casts", and did indeed seek to present positive role models of blacks in its films, the female star, Stella Mayo, was a very fair black woman who could easily at the time "passed", and this was the pattern at Norman Film and other companies making Race movies into the 1950s. This press book is held by Yale and Virginia according to OCLC First Search. And four institutions hold a publication that may be a smaller format version of this, with essentially the same content -- Temple, Texas A & M, U. of Florida and Florida State Library. Still uncommon, and arguably scarce, especially in as nice condition as our copy. As to Norman Film Mfg. Co., it stopped making movies with the advent of sound and switched over to distribution, since it was not in a position to invest in the new technology needed for sound. Condition: The front page has a few short closed tears and a small chip. The tears, while small, require one to handle the page with care, especially when trying to open the publication, lest one accidentally expands the tears.

Sequential Analysis by Wald, Abraham

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Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB

Title: Sequential Analysis
Author: Wald, Abraham
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: Wiley & Sons, 1947 First edition. Original navy cloth. Octavo. Sixteen figures, seven tables. A very good copy. Abraham Wald pioneered the science of decision analysis and, in particular, that of sequential decision making. Before Wald, the traditional style of statistical decision was to posit a hypothesis, make a predetermined number of measurements, then make a decision whether to accept or reject the hypothesis. Wald realized that this procedure is quite wasteful, and that many measurements could be saved if given the option to decide at every step whether to continue or stop the measurement process. This idea revolutionized the art of statistical testing and was later developed in the hands of computer scientists into a field known as on-line algorithms. "Most, although not all, of [Wald's] results were summed up in Sequential Analysis (1974). With minor exceptions, the entire contents of this book were obtained by him. Such a phenomenon is rare in mathematical books and indicates the extent to which he founded and dominated the field of sequential analysis" (DSB).

Going Texan: The Days of The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (Signed First Edition) by WINNINGHAM, Geoff & William C. Martin

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Title: Going Texan: The Days of The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (Signed First Edition)
Author: WINNINGHAM, Geoff & William C. Martin
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: (Houston, TX): Mavis P. Kelsey Jr., 1972. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 168 pages. Features text by William C. Martin. A striking collection of black and white photographs taken by Winningham at the Livestock show. A tight near fine copy in cloth boards in a near fine photographically illustrated dust jacket with some toning and minor wear. Signed by Winningham. A very nice copy of this underappreciated book from Winningham who is best known for his terrific book "Friday Night in the Coliseum.

Crooked River Burning by WINEGARDNER, Mark

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Title: Crooked River Burning
Author: WINEGARDNER, Mark
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Harcourt, 2001. First edition. Softcover. 65 pages. Advance excerpt of Winegardner's second novel. A fine copy in stapled wrappers.

A Little Tin Drum Musik by ALLIKAS, Barry

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Title: A Little Tin Drum Musik
Author: ALLIKAS, Barry
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: Montreal, Canada, The Author, 1985., 1985. First edition. 8vo. Illustrations by the author. 40 pages. Original stiff covers. Very good. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and inscribed by Allikas in blue ink on the title page: "Thank-you, Peggy Christian, Barry/23-4=85." TOGETHER WITH: An Autograph Letter Signed ("Barry Allikas") in blue ink, April 23, 1985 and hand address envelope with metered stamp, postmarked, Montreal, Canada, 1985.. Signed by Author(s). F. Soft cover.

WHATLEY'S QUEST : An Alphabet Adventure by Whatley, Bruce; Smith, Rosie

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Title: WHATLEY'S QUEST : An Alphabet Adventure
Author: Whatley, Bruce; Smith, Rosie
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN: 9780060262914
Condition: Fine.
Description: (USA): HarperCollins, 1994. Fine.. Inscribed first US edition of this Australian alphabet puzzle book with lush, expressive '90s illustrations. 12'' x 9.25''. Original color pictorial boards. In original unclipped ($14.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Whatley throughout. [48] pages. Inscribed by Whatley on copyright page in blue ink: "Best wishes / Bruce Whatley.

Origins, Invention, Revision: Studying the History of Art and Architecture. by Ackerman, James S.

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Title: Origins, Invention, Revision: Studying the History of Art and Architecture.
Author: Ackerman, James S.
Seller: Ars Libri Ltd (United States)
Description: New Haven (Yale University Press), 2016.. xvii, (1), 177pp. 118 color illus. 4to. Cloth. D.j.

The Eighth Day by Wilder, Thornton

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Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA

Title: The Eighth Day
Author: Wilder, Thornton
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, clipped, rubbed and bumped at the edges, a few short closed tears. Quarter blue cloth with blue cloth on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

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