Autograph letters (13 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 36 pages. Sotheby's "Modern First Editions" prices realised for their 10-11 May,1971 auction (8 pages) / Tauchnitz Of Leipzig publications 2001-3 to 2100-1 / "Autograph Letters prices realised at Sotheby's 22 April 1971 auction / Frederic Prokosch - specially printed books for him, Sotheby's 11 May 1971 / Nine Lives + Nonesuch Press / Brian Gould "Visits To Arthur Waley.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 32 pages. B Hutchison "The Anatomy of Remainders" / Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849-1924 - publications/ Tauchnitz Of Leipzig publications 3402 to 3500 / Sotheby's "The Property of Mrs.Madeleine Buxton Holmes" (8 pages) / Sacheverell Sitwell booklets / Autograph Letters and Historical Documents (6 pages).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 32 pages. Autograph Letters and Historical Documents sold by Sotheby's on 27 June 1972 (3 pages) / R E Bodle "Swiss Family Robinson" / J S Fletcher 1863-1935 published works (4 pages) / Tauchnitz Of Leipzig numbers 3501 to 3600 / Modern First Editions sold at Sotheby's 17 July 1972 (10 pages).…

HC. 426pp very good, green cloth (hardcover) light edgewear. B&W illustrations (illustratore).

Ephemera. Autograph letters signed, Sarah Rodman to Waring Jones: 1. Dated March 31, 1974. Letter offers Waring the use of a house while he is on tour in London. About 260 words. 2. Dated May 9, 1974. Letter discusses the successful musical 'Billy' and urges Waring to see it when he is in London. About 40 words. Typed letter, carbon copy, unsigned, from Waring Jones to Sarah Rodman, dated 4 April 74. Letter discusses details of the house, owned by Philip, but occupied by Waring and Sarah who share the rent. About 500 words. …

Octavo: 21 pp. Leaf of prices and buyers' names loosely inserted. Stapled. In original yellow printed wraps. Somewhat creased and chipped, on aged, spotted paper. Two-page foreword. Maggs were the main buyers, but the three highest sellers among the 105 lots, all Shelley letters, went to other dealers: lot 13, 'quoting 36 lines of original verse', for £155 to Pickering; lot 55, 'describing the origins and method of his elopement with Mary Godwin', £175 to Quaritch; lot 65, 'dealing with many topics', £360 to W. H. Robinson.…

Sotheby - Catalogue of Valuable Autograph Letters. Literary Manuscripts and Historical Documents. London. 1979. 305, [3] S. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. 4°. OBroschur. . Gutes Exemplar.

Cloth. Condizione: Very good. Limited Edition. Quarto, 202pp, [6]. Publisher's brown cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine. Illustrated with facsimiles of fifty-two historic documents, with English translations. Text was edited by Metchie J. E. Budka. Light wear to cloth boards, internally clean. This is copy number 178, presumably a second copy from the library of Dan Rostenkowski, after delivering "Copy #1" to President Carter. Includes a photograph inscribed by President Carter after receiving the book. The inscription reads: "To my good friend Danny Rostenkowski - Thanks for the American-Polish history! Jimmy Carter 10-27-77." "Dziennik Zwi zkowy," a Chicago Polish-language newspaper, reported on April 20, 1978, that immediately after publication "the first copy was dedicated to President Jimmy Carter and presented by Congressman Dan Rostenkowski". It also noted that numbered copies were distributed to institutions, libraries, and prominent public figures. A gift from Congressman Dan Rostenkowski to President Jimmy Carter, the limited edition of "Autograph Letters of Thaddeus Kosciuszko in the American Revolution," with a signed photograph from President Carter. (illustratore). Signed.…

Paper. Condizione: Near fine. Handwritten Manuscript. In total, this collection includes 12 legal page leaves, written in pencil by Steinbeck on rectos only, and one typed letter from his editor. All in near fine condition, with faint toning to edges and small paperclip indentations. (Goldstone & Payne C90, article) With an 11-page typed transcription of the drafts and letters, bound in chronological order of appearance. Housed in a custom brown cloth clamshell case, title printed on paper label affixed to spine. (Provenance: Christie's 1986; Christie's 1999) John Steinbeck's article "Autobiography: Making of a New Yorker," begins in Part One (not included here) with his first unhappy (and short-lived) experience in New York City in 1925, at the age of 23. Part Two, handwritten here, details his second "assault on New York" in the fall of 1935, in which he begrudgingly transforms from a "Country Boy" into a true "New Yorker." At first, Steinbeck writes: "It is so strange to look back. I was going to live in New York but I was going to avoid it." Near the end of the installment, his anecdotes change. He writes: "Everything fell into place. I saw every face I passed. It was beautiful - but most important - I was part of it, I was no longer a stranger." In the final section, handwritten here, Steinbeck describes the broad dichotomy of the city, and romanticizes city life. He writes: "New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But. once you have lived in New York and it has become your home - no place else is good enough. All of everything is concentrated here, population, theatre, art, painting, publishing, importing, business, murder, mugging, luxury, poverty. It is all of everything." The correspondence between Steinbeck and NYTM editor Seymour Peck primarily discusses deadlines for the article drafts. In the first letter, Steinbeck tells Peck of his plans for the three-part article. Peck responds on November 26, 1952, asking for all writing to be completed by December 24, 1952. The second letter is inserted at the end of Part Two, informing Peck that Part Three will be along shortly. The third letter, dated December 17, 1952, accompanies Part Three, in which Steinbeck says the article "isn't very good, but it is heart-felt." A truly exceptional collection of autobiographical writings from a classic American author. Despite his reputation as a Californian, John Steinbeck spent nearly half his life living in New York City. In 1925, he left Stanford University without a degree and moved to the city for roughly one year. He returned to New York with his then-girlfriend Gwen, living for a while in Sneden's Landing. They stayed in New York until the birth of his first son, Thom, and the publication of Cannery Row (1945). He later returned to the East Coast with his third wife, Elaine, and bought a home in Sag Harbor in 1955. Steinbeck remained in New York City until his death in 1968. Handwritten by John Steinbeck, parts two and three of his three-part article for The New York Times Magazine titled, "Autobiography: Making of a New Yorker." Together with three autograph letters signed by Steinbeck to NYTM editor Seymour Peck, and o (illustratore). Signed. …

London, Sotheby's, 1934, small in-4°, 24,5 x 18 cm, 39 pp., 141 lots, bound in marbled paper covered boards, original printed wrapper retained. Copy from the hand library of Maggs Bros. Paris subsidiary, ( owners's stamp on front cover).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Cartas de Indias. Publicalas la primera vez el Ministerio de Fomento. Madrid, Manuel G.Hernandez, 1877. Folio. [3]f including half-title, title & dedication leaf + 10[numbered vii-xvi] + 877 + [1 blank]p + [1] + 67 leaves with facsimiles of 29 letters + [1]f + 22 numbered plates + [1] plate + [1 + 1 blank + 2]f + 4 maps (3 folding in colour) + [10]p. Contemporary calf, gilt, top edges gilt; worn; preserved in slip case. First publication of selected outstanding historical autograph letters relating to the American discoveries held in the Spanish national archives. The contents are transliterated, followed by excellent facsimile reproductions of the originals, many showing the writer' s seal. Beginning with letters by Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, Bartolomé de las Casas (Apostle of the Indies), and Bernal Díaz del Castillo (Cortés chronicler). The remainder are by viceroys, Mexican Indian chiefs, clerics and lawyers serving in the Americas (one in the Philippines), writing to Spanish royalty or high government officials. 22 numbered plates reproduce autograph signatures & seals in the same context; an unnumbered plate contains an illustration from a manuscript showing a Peruvian town with details of a system of mineshafts for storing Inca treasure. Including geographical notes (pp669-699), biographical detail (pp701-871), and a linguistic glossary (pp837-877). Facsimile maps at the end represent Australia, the Amazon River and its tributaries, the Antilles, the Gulf of Mexico and the Straits of Magellan. Isolated toning, folds of maps neatly repaired in places without loss, otherwise in good condition. Leclerc 2688; Palau 46394 (' sumptuous publication' ; faulty collation of plates).…

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).

Condizione: Scace V.G. Catalogue of the valuable collection of autograph letters of the well known amateur William Wright, Esq to be sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge 16th to 19th June 1899. p.p. 91. Royal octavo. Many of the letters have an Irish connection including Edmund Burke, R. Brinsley Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Moore, William O'Brien and Laurence Sterne. Catalogue is neatly priced with buyers names written in. Fine quarter calf with discreet stamp on title page of University Library, Belfast.…