autographed letter signed (399 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 1 page, 7 x 6", folded, corner creased and slightly yellowed. On Hamlin's letterhead discussing plans for the summer. Nicely SIGNED BY HAMLIN. Pulitzer Prize winner.

First edition thus, in deluxe black leather binding, gilt. Two sided handwritten letter, signed by Drummond, tipped-in at front, to A. E. Huestis, Chairman of the Toronto Public Library. Also included is signed compliments slip signed by Frechette (who introduced this complete collection) attached to front pastedown. Spine worn and rubbed, edges also rubbed, contents clean and fresh. VG.

Zustand: VG. New York. Jan 1924. 3 p. 8x 5-1/2 inches. Fully manuscript. Detailed letter about books and some suggested editorial corrections. VG. folded n thirds. Charles De Kay, writer, lived 1848 - 1935.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. EWING, Juliana Horatia (nee Gatty) (1841-1885). Autograph letter signed, with an inserted autographed poem and ink sketches. Ecclesfield, Feb. 27, 1864. 1 sheet of blue paper, 110 x 190 mm, folded once, written over two pages and signed by Juliana Horatia Gatty. With a folded cream bifolium of a poem and two ink sketches, inserted and fixed to the rear page. Old folds, mounting residue to the last page, pin hole loss to last page not affecting sketch.  The letter by children's writer Juliana Ewing, to Miss Woodall, concerns the commissioning of an engraved seal, specifying onyx or cornelian and giving instructions as to size and shape, referring to an enclosed sketch. The inserted bifolium contains two pen-and-ink drawings with accompanying manuscript verses. The poem is about ladies that lose one of their group, who then springs up out of a box, to their shock and surprise. The drawings illustrate the poem, showing a group gathered around playing croquet and then shocked as the girl pops out of a box. The letter is written by Ewing; the drawings and verse either Ewing or one of her sisters. Signed by Author(s).

Zustand: Good. 10.5" x 8.5" Facsimile of letter signed in ink by Queen Victoria, from Windsor Castle, 1884. VG.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. [52 pp.]. Very Good. Soft covers, stapled wraps. Handwritten marking on top of front cover, and penciled notes on inside front cover. Pages clean. Scarce. No. 146 of 300 copies printed. Includes signed/autographed letter from Herman Abromson on letterhead.

Zustand: VG. Dated New York, 1797. Concerns a debt. One paragraph long, ink manuscript. VG. Guaranteed original. Pictures available . Early New York item.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. [12 pp.]. As New. Soft Covers. Stitched wraps. Pages fine. Includes letter addressed to Ruffner, signed by William Wadsworth.From the collection of the late Frederick G.Ruffner, Jr., founder of Gale Research, Detroit.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 9 x 7", plain cream stationery, written on one side. Light creasing and scattered spotting else very good. "Dear MadamI have much pleasure in sending an autographed photo of myself". The recipient is not identified, no photo comes with this letter. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson served his country for forty-seven years being in many conflicts including the Second Boer War, WWI, WWII where he was the Commander-In-Chief of the Middle East and soon thereafter he succeeded General Dwight Eisenhower as the Supreme Commander in the Mediterranean.

unbound. Autographed letter signed, regarding the installation of a propeller in the steamboat "Experiment" in 1845 -- a time when the propeller was just being introduced. In part: ".Resolved, That Messrs. Betts & Lloyd, of Wilmington, be permitted to place a New Engine, boiler, and propeller in the steamboat 'Experiment', without being restricted to the weight of two tons." 1 page, 4to, 9.75 x 7.5 inches, with an addendum on verso by Lloyd and Betts, engineers concerned in the matter. Address, wax seal, and postmarks on verso. Philadelphia, June 7, 1845. Several folds; very good condition.

unbound. 2 pages (front and back), 10.5 x 7.25 inches, New York, accompanied by the original envelope (paperclip stain) postmarked November 4, 1949. Signed "Peg" by the right-wing journalist known for his blistering attacks on the Roosevelt administration, to a friend, in part: ".I am simply flummoxed by the disunity of the Catholics, especially the Irish, in this country on political issues which threaten the U.S.A. with communism or Marxism Nazi-Fascism. We have been used and exploited and still we have no integrity and snarl among ourselves." Natural folds; very good condition.

unbound. 2 pages, 8 x 6 inches, New York, May 17, 1940, in part: ".I want to thank you for your telegram you sent me to the opening." Stamped by the recipient in the top right corner; one horizontal fold. Very good(+) condition.

Very Good (usual mailing folds, little browning right-edge of letter's second page). Autograph Letter Signed. Two pages on a folded, four-page sheet of stationery from the St. Botolph Club, Boston, dated April 9, 1925. To ?Mr. Langfeld?: Merwin thanks Langfeld for his letter and review. ?It is a pleasant relief to be handled by a reviewer who has really taken the pains to read one?s work and write of it with background.? He writes about no reviews picking up on his theme of ?The Moment Of Beauty,? which he says ?is the dominant moment.? He writes how he tries to represent the ?people of the theatre as not is in the familiar sensational way but as intelligent, sensitive human beings working hard in a field where the difficulties are little short of in sufferable. And in this book I have tried to show some of them as I have seen them and lived around with them- essentially decent folks, artists, soberly fighting it out.? About more and then thanks Langfeld for his ?careful handling you gave the book is what we meet with all too seldom. I am grateful for it. Yours faithfully, Samuel Merwin.? Samuel Merwin, Sr. [1874?1936] was an American author and playwright, writing about 30 works. Between 1905 and 1911, he worked as associate editor and then editor of SUCCESS magazine. In 1907 the magazine sent him to China to investigate the opium trade. He died of a stroke while dining at The Player's Club in Manhattan on Oct. 17, 1936. Signed.

unbound. Handwritten note on personal stationery from Charlie Rose to Washington Post columnist Tom Shales. Date unknown. Charles Peete Rose Jr. is an American journalist and talk show host. From 1991 to 2017, he was the host and executive producer of the talk show Charlie Rose on PBS and Bloomberg LP. On the show, he interviewed writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, businesspersons, leaders, scientists, intellectuals, and fellow journalists. The show was known for its distinguished stature and intellectual tone. This is a new item from the collection of Television critic Tom Shales (1944 - 2024). Shales was an incisively funny Washington Post columnist, he earned the nickname Terrible Tom and had the clout to make or break shows. Shales won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1988. During his three-decade career those in the industry considered him both a kingmaker and a high executioner in an era when network television's hold on American culture was at it's peak. Time magazine called him "brilliant, thoughtful, incisive and screamingly funny.also, vicious, infuriating, cruel and unfair". His thrice-weekly Washington Post TV column, 'On the Air,' syndicated in 59 other newspapers. The Tom Shales collection includes letters, cards and correspondence from celebrated television and entertainment legends, newscasters and politicians, including letters from Norman Lear, David Letterman, Johnny Carson, Conan O'Brien, Garry Shandling, Fred Rogers, Carol Burnett, David Brinkley, Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, Edward Kennedy, Nancy Reagan and many more. Please inquire for more information. Signed.

2p. ALS by Scottish artist and novelist Hume Nisbet. He is best known for Australian bush themes in his works. The letter is dated Sept. 29, 1894 and is a reply to a person requesting a copy of "A Colonial Tramp.".

unbound. 2 pages together measuring 6.75 x 10.75 inches, Lyric Theatre, Philadelphia, 1912. Signed "E.H. Southern," apparently regarding a visit to the theatre by the recipientm, in part: ".Remember that our work is very serious here & that amid all the apparent chaos there is a certain kind of order. We are easily upset & any new element is apt to make us hissy." One horizontal fold; very good condition.

hardcover. 2 pages (front and back), 9 x 7.25 inches, Bolton, January 3, 1825. In this letter, Frederick recommends a military appointment that would have great consequences for the United Kingdom, in part: "I beg to offer you, but I fully concur in opinion.to the propriety of recommending Sir Combermere for the Chief command in the East Indies." Note: as a result of this letter, Combermere, who at the time was Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, was transferred to India (1826) where he besieged and took Bharatpur. Twenty-two years earlier, this fort had defied the genius of General Gerard Lake and was deemed impregnable. For this service, his last in the field, he was created Viscount Combermere. Several folds; very good(+) condition. Second son of George III; Commander-in-Chief of the British Army.

Letters. Fine group of letters from Lewis SIGNED in full to critic Selden Rodman. Two of the letters are brief social exchanges. Another is a two-page typed letter dated 22 October 1930 from Vermont. In part: "I'm delighted by the HARKNESS HOOT [Yale University campus magazine co-founded by Rodman in 1930]. I'm sure that whether it lives to be a grand old Etruscan ruin like the LIT. [THE YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE, the oldest literary magazine in the United States], or whether it lasts only a few years, it will have an -- no, I won't say an 'enlivening' but rather, a maturing effect on the (decreasingly) immature mind of Yale. I was once on the LIT.; I know what your revolt must have been." Lewis then expounds on co-founder William Harlan Hale's essay in the first number of the magazine, "Twenty or Over," saying that he thinks Hale "is wrong in saying that 'the literary movement begun a decade ago by Lewis, Dreiser, Anderson, and Mencken.a movement of disillusioned intellectuals.its spiritual father was the war.' In the first place, Mencken and Dreiser or Anderson and Lewis have about as little in common as Cabell and Willa Cather. In the second place, I don't think the war was the spiritual father of any of these -- certainly it wasn't of Dreiser. His SISTER CARRIE was published, first, thirty years ago, in 1900! -- and it is characteristic of all his work." The one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER, from Austria, dated 9 December [1932], regards Rodman's initiating the magazine COMMON SENSE. In full: "Good luck to your magazine. But I haven't much optimism for it. I have seen far too many new periodicals started of late. And I don't see anything in your program that won't, between them, already be covered by NATION, NEW REPUBLIC, + NEW MASSES. But I shall be delighted if you prove me wrong." Accompanied by two envelopes hand addressed by Lewis. Selden Rodman was a prolific writer of creative and critical works, an editor of several important anthologies, and a co-editor of the socialist magazine COMMON SENSE. We in years past had a collection of letters from Robert Lowell to Rodman that also showed signs of surviving a fire. Both long letters are scorched in the margins to varying degrees, the handwritten one with some loss of letters. Both envelopes are also scorched. Condition ranges from Fair to Near Fine.

Letter. AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED of 4 pages. About personal matters but primarily concerned with making corrections in an interview eventually published in the WEBSTER REVIEW in 1985. Adams mentions Kipling, Dickens, Trollope, and others, as well as his being president of the British Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Regarding his WATERSHIP DOWN and a character from De la Mare's THE THREE MULLA-MULGARS, Adams says, "Nod & Fiver are similar in remaining weak, but in developing authority as their story develops. I did not say that Fiver's vision of man derived from the Nod-Andy Battle episode." Along with a copy of the magazine containing the interview, copies of the interviewer's letters to Adams, and two copies of the manuscript of the interview--one the final copy and the other with some questions and answers not used in the final version. Crease marks from folding. With original envelope. Near Fine.

unbound. Zustand: very good(+). A.L.S. 4to. 2 full pages, personal letterhead, New York City, July 16, 1964, sending the recipient Ex-Libris plate designs, in part: ".Dr. Paul de Zarn (was the physician to President Kennedy) and is our doctor and is one of the best specialists for allergies. All I have at this point is this print (made by hand on Chinese paper). I hope you do not mind. William G. Donovan was a General. He died a few years ago. The center of his design was supposed to be used without lettering. as a kind of Coat of Arms." Boldly signed and in very good condition. German-born American artist and graphic designer who studied under Rudolph Kock. *Donovan was the founder of the OSS- the precursor of the CIA.

unbound. Zustand: very good(+). A.L.S. "Willie Ley", 4to. 1 page, embossed blind-stamp personal stationary, New York City, April 29, 1942, thanking the recipient for assistance, in full: "Just a short note to thank you for your letter of April 23. Some of these titles were not known to me and I'll try to get these books as soon as I start actual work on my new book." Fine condition. German-American science writer and spaceflight advocate who helped popularize rocketry in both Germany and the United States.

unbound. Zustand: very good(+). A.L.S. "Charles Voysey", 8vo. 1 page, embossed stationary, St. Valery, Finchley Road, Hampstead, September 16, 1895, forwarding a package, in part: ". May I beg you kindly to visit the enclosed? I forward two copies of the book here within." Light foxing, otherwise in very good condition. English theistic theologian and founder of the Theistic Church in London.

unbound. Zustand: very good(+). A.L.S. 8vo. 2 pages, 150 E. 34th St., c. 1880's, concerning a perspective commission, in full: "I send you a circular which may give you the information. The price is $125. I have not yet filled the week beginning April 10th and you can have your choice of dates. Kindly let me know if you with me to come so that I may arrange other dates with regards to it." Very good condition. American artist and engineer best remembered for designing the base (pedestal) for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.

unbound. Zustand: fine. A.L.S. 4to. 1 page, Boston, November 26, 1838, as Representative from Massachusetts, in part,".I write in much haste . and I shall write you in Washington. I am now extremely busy." Fine condition. American politician and jurist considered one of the best trial attorneys of his generation, his greatest triumph being the Charles River case.

unbound. Zustand: very good(+). A.L.S. 2 pages, Hotel Antoinette, New York City, December 1, 1910. Having completed his new play "The Gamblers". Jones solicits opinions on the worthiness of the script. In part: I have written Alexander, Lewis Hallen, and Leslie Faber about the play. They will be asking you to see the script I think. If there is any chance of one of them doing it? I will do all I can to fit the play to the English stage as I think it ought to have a good chance in London." Evenly toned and in very good condition. English dramatist.

unbound. Zustand: good. 1 page, 10 x 8 inches, Boston, December 1825, written to the publishing house of Carey & Lea regarding the publication Atlantic Souvenir,in part: ".to secure the greatest degree of patronage, it will be wise to have all the engravings illustrate American scenery, all the tales confined to American subjects, and your writers from every part of the Union." Uneven toning with fraying along the right-hand margin. Good condition. American historian who served as President of Harvard University from 1849 - 1853.

unbound. Zustand: fine. 1 page, 6.5 x 4.25 inches, Watertown, Massachusetts, December 4, 1915, to advanced autograph collector Howes Norris, in full: "I am honored in being represented in your collection, and hope that this print of the Green Mountain Boy statue at Rutland Vermont (not included) will serve as the sentiment, since sculpture is my means of expression." Fine condition. American sculptor best known for his historical statues such as the Green Mountain Boy in Rutland, Vermont.

unbound. Zustand: near fine. 2 pages, 11 x 8.5 inches, New York, January 8, 1935, sending the recipient biographical information, in part: ".I was very much interested in receiving your letter -- and so was Mrs. Grant, who as you may be interested to know is Violet Goodall. We were married in 1901. You are wrong about the address of the dress making shop. It was here on the East side somewhere in the Eighties." Natural folds; near fine condition. American artist best remembered for his marine watercolors.

unbound. Zustand: very good. 1 page, 8 x 5 inches, Simsbury, Connecticut, August 19, 1884, contesting a bill for photography, in full: "I have your notice of due draft $68.50. It is made to cover amount Blanks' bill (including Mr. Fulkerson's services) for photographing certain views. I consider the invoice excessive and have consulted my publishers. When I have heard from them I shall communicate with Mr. Blanks, but I am not going to pay the current charge unless my publishers advise me to do so, which I do not think they will do." *In the 1980s a series of letters by Cable came to market via Charles Hamilton whereby the author had established a precedent for not paying various bills due to his dissatisfaction, i.e. the hotel room was damp, the meal was tasteless, the engravings were poorly executed, etc. Faint uneven toning, but still in very good condition. American author who served in the Confederate Army and later became one of the dominant voices of Southern life, especially in Louisiana.

unbound. 1 page, 8 x 5 inches, Parliament Hill, London, February 2, 1925, sending thanks to the recipient, in part: ".Please accept my warm thanks for the copy of one-act plays for stage study which I have received this morning from your London office. It is, indeed, a most handsomely produced volume." Very good condition. English playwright best known for his work "Hobson's Choice." He was also a prominent member of the Manchester School of dramatists.