Category: Autographs

Collection of Silent Film Star Letters to Fans, including letters from Vilma Banky, Sydney Chaplin (the older brother of Charlie), Colleen Moore and Alberta Vaughn

Price: $75.00

Publisher: : 1924

Seller ID: 005725

Condition: Very Good

All letters are dated 1924 except Banky letter which dates to 1926. Moore letters, there are two, relate to the release of "Irene", a movie remade in the forties. Five letters in all.
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Fan letter signed by Movie Star Ronald Colman regarding "Stella Dallas"

Price: $50.00

Publisher: : 1925

Seller ID: 005678

Condition: Very Good

Standard typed fan letter on Samuel Godwyn stationary regarding the release of the first movie version of "Stella Dallas", which starred Colman, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Jean Hersholt, etc. The second (of three versions) starring Barbara Stanwyck is the best known shootings of this story of a mother who gives up her daughter so that the daughter can be brought up surrounded by wealth
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Movie Actor's Scrapbook with SIgned Letters from Mary Martin, Cole Porter, Joan Crawford, Joan Evans, etc. etc.

Price: $1,500.00

Publisher: Hollywood, etc., : 1949-1955

Seller ID: 006939

Binding: CLoth. String ties.

Condition: Very Good

Oversized scrapbook, elephantine in size (61 by 49.5 cm, or 24 by 16.5 inches), with 84 pages of content, which is comprised of newsclippings, contracts, publicity releases, photos, and of greatest interest, countless letters, with their envelopes carefully mounted and the letters themselves preserved in their original envelopes. The scrapbook was kept by then young actor, James Frasher, who was reputedly encouraged to go to Hollywood by Jinx Falkenburg McCrary (1919 - 2003), who was once a major league celebrity, credited, along with her husband, for inventing the celebrity talk show, first...
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[Autographs] The Whales of August

By: Berry, David

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: New York, : 1986

Seller ID: 007019

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

Signed screenplay, on title page, by the movie's stars Bette Davis, Lillian Gish, Ann Sothern, and Harry Carey, Jr., its director, Lindsay Anderson, the screenplay author David Berry, and producer Mike Kaplan. The screenplay was based on the play of the same name by David Berry. The story concerns two bickering elderly sisters and whether they should sell the summer cottage in Maine. The
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[Inscribed Association Copy] Gigi

By: Colette, [Sidonie Gabrielle]. Illustrations by Christian Brard. Lithography by Mourlot Freres, with illustrations applied to stone by Roger Weyl.

Price: $1,950.00

Publisher: Paris, Paul Dupont : 1950

Seller ID: 006949

Binding: Chemise. Slipcase.

Condition: Near Fine

Insription is to Gilbert Miller: Gilbert Miller, penchez-vous un peu, Monsieur, que je vous embrass: Colette. Miller was a well-known Broadway producer who mounted a production of an adaptation of the famous novel on Broadway in 1951, starring the then newcomer Audrey Hepburn. The adaptation by Anita Loos came eight years after the issue of the original novel and seven years before the great movie musical. This inscribed copy of the book had come from the estate of Kathryn Bache Miller, the producer's widow and heiress of a large Wall Street fortune. Number 295 of limitation of 535 copi...
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Handwritten and signed amusing Heureux Noel (Xmas) Card from Noel Coward

By: Coward, Noel

Price: $1,250.00

Seller ID: 006925

Condition: Fine

A folded Christmas card, custom made for Coward, measuring 15 by 10 cm. The front of the card features a witty photo of the mature, regal Coward on a thrown of sorts with a wall hanging behind creating the impression that he has wings attached at his side. Inside, on the verso, Coward writes in blue ink, "Just to let you know I'm still thinking of you. Love Tangerine )'. Dialogue -- Me --"Why are you wearing those wings God?" God -- "Because they amuse me!" On the recto, beneath a red printed "Heureux Noel", Coward signs "Love Noel", in his swoosh illegible signature. The card was sent...
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[Inscribed] Post-Mortem. A Play in Eight Scenes

By: Coward, Noel

Price: $275.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd. : 1931

Seller ID: 006940

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Signed and Inscribed on FFEP, in ink, by Coward, with written: "For Constance, With my love, Noel Coward", signed in Coward's distinctive signature. We suspect that the inscription was written to the renowned actress Constance Collier, for whose autobiography Coward wrote a preface two years prior to the publication of this play. (The play was published in 1931 but Coward decided not to have it staged. It was first performed in a prisoner--of-war camp in 1944, and it wasn't professionally staged until long after Coward's death.) 12mo. 19 by 12.5 cm. 83 pp. Condition: light wear to upp...
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La Fiaccola sotto il Maggio. Tragedia di Gabriele d'Annunzio

By: D'Annunzio, Gabriele. Designs by Adolphus di Carolus.

Price: $850.00

Publisher: Milano, I Fratelli Treves : 1905

Seller ID: 004457

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Very Good

With signed inscription by d'Annunzio, to unknown recipient: "Questo poema e offerto in segno della mia riconoscenza pel suo alto fervore. Gabriele d'Annunzio. Roma: Aprile 1905." 8vo. 18.5 by 12 cm. 151, [1] pp. Top quarter of prelim leaf with inscription is neatly cut-out, probably to remove the identity of the recipient of the inscription. The pages are age toned, as per normal for the paper stock used. Some soiling of the vellum cover, which nonetheless remains handsome.
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Kate Greenaway Signed Letter Dated 29 December, 1889

By: Greenaway, Kate

Price: $850.00

Publisher: : 1889

Seller ID: 003948

Binding: NA

The letter, presumably to S. S. McClure, the founder of "McClure Magazine", is written from Hampstead, is as follows: "Dear Sir, I have my time completely filled up for some months. Therefore I can't undertake anything else at present. The proofs of illustrations and prospectus which you said you had forwarded to me never came. Yours truly, Kate Greenaway." The letter is written in a hasty but still legible hand. McClure's became a popular illustrated general interest magazine in America, especially noted for its muckraking journalism. Samuel Sidney McClure (1857-1949) was its co-foun...
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[Inscribed Association Copy] Act One. An Autobiography

By: Hart, Moss

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1959

Seller ID: 006947

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

Inscribed and signed by Hart to Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. Hart writes in ink: "This book comes to you, dear Ruth and Garson, with increasing admiration and affection. Always -- Moss. July 1959." 8vo. 23 by 15 cm. 444, [1] pp. "Act One" is considered one of the best, if not the best, theatrical memoirs of all time. In it, Hart recounts his struggle to break into show business. The book can be divided into two parts, both highly entertaining and illuminative. The first half largely concerns Hart's experience as a drama coach at adult summer camps, which were a popular sort of vacat...
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Image for The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830. (Three Volumes) With Portrait.

The Croker Papers. The Correspondence and Diaries of the Late Right Honourable John Wilson Croker, LL.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty from 1809 to 1830. (Three Volumes) With Portrait.

By: Jenkins, Louis J., ed.

Price: $2,800.00

Publisher: London, John Murray : 1885

Seller ID: 003220

Binding: Half Morocco

Condition: Very Good Plus

A "Grangerized" copy -- extra-illustrated and augmented with many original letters and autographs by a virtual who's who on the English political and literary scene of the day tipped into the text. Among these are Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington (when he was known as Arthur Wellesley and the Field Marshall in Spain), George Canning, Lord Holland, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Isaac Disraeli, Queen Victoria, Sir Charles Napier, Lord Melbourne, the Duke of Newcastle, Gladstone, Lord Bentinck, Lord John Russell. Also included is a short inscription from Metternich. In addition, ...
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[Inscribed] Quo Vadis

By: Sienkiewicz, Henry. Translated from the Polish by Jeremiah Curtin

Price: $225.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlop

Seller ID: 007141

Binding: Cloth. Buckram.

Condition: Very Good

A copy inscribed, in ink, by Deborah Kerr and Robert Taylor, who starred in the 1951 movie version of the novel. 8vo. 421 pp. Corners with frayed fabric. Spine lightly soiled. Pages age toned.
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The Four Georges (Four volumes bound in two)

By: Thackeray, William Makepeace

Price: $1,950.00

Publisher: London, Smith, Elder, and Co. : 1866

Seller ID: 005869

Binding: Full Morocco

Condition: Near Fine

Extra-illustrated, with autographs of George I through George IV. 8vo. [5], 105, 105-226 pp., with 92 and 108 additional illustrations in the two volumes, respectively. Signatures of George I and II in the first volume, III and IV, in the second.
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Snow-bound. A Winter Idyl.

By: Whittier, John Greenleaf

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Boston, Ticknor and Fields : 1866

Seller ID: 005025

Binding: Quarter Leather slipcase. Cloth boards. Book its

Condition: Very Good

With a tipped in signed autographed letter from Whittier tipped into the prelims. The letter, dated 1883, states that the "Household Edition" and the "Red Luxe Edition" are both complete, along with a few other words. 8vo. 18.5 by 12 cm. 52 pp. Light wear to book itself. Slipcase has moderate wear, with some rubbing of the leather. Still an asset.
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Category: Autographs