autograph book (12 Ergebnisse)

8°, DJ, cloth, 252 pages DJ with tears, bit spotted, disty, owner's name, else fine. With dedication by Michael Lindsay, dat. January 1961.

Hardcover. Will Vawter (illustrator). First edition. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light green cloth over boards lettered and ornamentally stamped in gilt, white and green. Deckled fore edges and decorative endpapers. Illustrated frontispiece with tissue guard. Illustrations by Will Vawter. Designs by Franklin Booth. Good plus condition. The extremities are mildly rubbed, bumped and soiled. The text block is cracked here and there, however the book is still sturdy. With numerous mounted contemporary photographs, and enduring inscriptions from fellow soldiers and military personnel. The inscriptions were written in November of 1918. This particular copy belonged to Captain Milo O. Bennett from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and includes signatures and friendly musings from Barney Blumenthal (Bugler), Sergeant Joseph P. Kelly, Corporal Sam Gordon, Corporal Martin D. Agostino, among many others.

, approximately 86 pages, with watercolour, pencil and, black and white illustrations dated from 1925-1932, one illustration tipped in, some pages of autographs in black ink, gilt name of owner Beryl Vernon on front cover , hinges cracked but holding, light impressions made on covers, in good condition , soft brown padded leather, gilt titles, gilt dentelles oblong, 13 x 19 cm Hardback ISBN:

Size: 84 x 128mm. [46]ff. Red cloth. In ink and pencil; a third used. Containing, amongst others, signatures of: Henry Wood (dated Albert Hall [Proms], 5 August, 1943) (1869-1944), Adrian Boult (1889-1983), Ruth Gipps (1921-1999), Sidonie Goossens (1899-2004), Max Rostal (1905-1991), Esther Salaman (1914-2005), Frederick Grinke (1911-1987), Harry Blech (1910-1999), Harold Craxton (1885-1971) and Reginald Jacques (1894-1969).

Oblong 16mo. 10x15cm, (84)p., hand-written, lacking upper card cover & backstrip, rearcover soiled, internally very good. (On) A fine example of a Victoriancollecting hobby: philography.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Square octavo, unpaginated, multi-color pages, full black morocco with brown calf inserts to both covers, bevelled edges, extremities worn, lack top inch of spine. Inscribed to Florence E[liza?] Whitney [Burbank] (1849-1936) by her cousin, Florence [Eliza] [Weston] Whitney (ca. 1851-1910), later a physician. Florrie E was living at Lowell, Massachusetts. This album has numerouse signatures from the 1860s, including Joseph Cushing Whitney of Baltimore, who may have been a bookseller in Massachusetts, or by his son (also a cousin to Florrie E.). Numerous inscriptions from Ashburnham and Lowell and elsewhere in Massachustts; and Pawtucket, Rhode Island; and Baltimore. 'Steel engravings by Sartain, A. H. Ritchie, E. T. Parris, O. F. Felton.

8°, softcover, 115 pages, illus. bit spotted, minor traces of use, else fine. Contents page with handwritten dedication by Paul Hansen, "with the best wishes from a friend and student".

Hardcover. oblong8vo, 12x 19cm, 129p., colour decorated title-page, some colour illustrations, blind-stamp decorated cloth, a.e.g., covers & spine heavily worn, internally good. (Atl) A young girl's personal autograph book with over one hundred entries with poems and quotes in typical 19th century romantic style. A quaint example of a popular Victorian pastime.

Zustand: Very Good. Original autograph book of Fred Bason. Dimensions 195mm x 150mm. Original leather binding in green with gilt fore edge and decorative endpapers in pink. Covered in brown paper with inscription: 'Owner Fred Bason Album of Autographs.' Pages in pastel colours; many pages unused. Autographs 1912-1951 clearly written in ink. with neat minutely-written notes giving background detail on each and occasional comment. Signatures include: Naunton Wayne (+ photo) Yves Montard (+ photo clipping) Graciela Riviera (+ photo) "a very wonderful singer," Cornelia Otis Skinner (+ photo) Peter Brough (+ photo) Jeannie Tourel (Carnegie Hall clipping) Dave Crowley (+ photo) Gilbert Vernon, Raymond Hartley (+ photo) Freddie Mills (+ photo clipping) Dale Carnegie (+ message) Jimmy Moore, Jacklin Potts, Jack Buchanan (+ photo) Jack Carrick, Jim Brady (+ clipping) Syd Worgan, Jack London (+ clipping) Freddie Mills (+ clipping) Jock McAvoy (+ clipping - a boxer g) Billy Stevens, Jackie Patterson, Michael Sadleir, Hazel Dwes signed photocard 1912, Gilbert Odd, E. H. Sergeant. Loosely inserted 3 x stamped addressed envelopes to Fred Bason Esq./Fred Bason (1907-1973) was An English Bookseller, Writer And Broadcaster Most Famously Known For His Collection Of Diaries That Were Published In Four Volumes In The Early 1950s. Very good. Very slight wear. Covers protected by brown paper wrapping. Signedes.

Hardcover. Zustand: VERY GOOD. 89, 32pp. Two autograph manuscripts in fine longhand by Abraham Leisy. The first is a transcription of the Gerrit Roosen's Mennonite Catechism; the second text is a 32-page collection of pious tales. The books were bound together with a signature inlaid from a letter by Abraham Leisy and pasted to the title page of the first volume. Bound in black finished cloth with 'Biblische Fragen' stamped to the front cover. The FFEP bears a note by Leisy's sister, Babette, reading 'Babette Leisy. / Cleveland. / Dieses Buch brachte meinen topfchen Diana [?] im Jahr 1895. von Deutschland, Friedelsheim [?] das hat alles [?] Bruders Abraham Leisy geschrieben.' 'The Abraham and Katarina Leisy family emi grated to America in 1855 from Friedelsheim, Germany. They settled on a farm outside of Donnellson, Iowa. The Leisys were members of the West Zion Mennonite Church of Donnellson.' (Mennonite Life, April 1976). Abraham's sons notably founded the Leisy Brothers' 'Union Brewery' in 1862 in Keokuk, Iowa. When the state of Iowa banned manufacture of alcoholic beverages in 1884, the brewery was moved to Peoria, Illinois and renamed 'Leisy Brewing Company,' a major regional beer producer and known as the last Mennonite-operated brewery in the U.S.

Zustand: Very Good. Original autograph book of Fred Bason. Dimensions 185mm x 110mm. Original wooden boards with string ties and the wor "Autograph" in gilt on cover and Fred Bason's trade card pasted to inner cover l Pages in pastel colours; many pages unused. Autographs late 1940s early 1950s Signatures include:Graham Greene, Werner Heisenberg, Dick Henderson, Tommy Trinder, Ann Ziegler, Gracie Fields, Winifred Atwell, Harry Secombe, L A G Strong and about 20 boxers from the period, some of them champions. The Green signature reads: 'For Fred Bason who seems to crop up everywhere from Stockwell to Oxford to Cecil Court. From Graham Greene.' The Weisenberg autograph is loosely inserted on a deckle edged card. Fred Bason (1907-1973) was An English Bookseller, Writer And Broadcaster Most Famously Known For His Collection Of Diaries That Were Published In Four Volumes In The Early 1950s. Very good. Very slight wear. Signedes.

2. London, J. Pearson & Co, s.d. (ca. 1930 ?), in-8°, 48 pp, folding b.w. facsimiles, 118 lots , sewn, orig.wrapper. (Wrapper dusty and soiled).