commodore nutt (6 risultati)

4 x 2-1/2 inches. Fine. With printed facsimile signatures on verso.

Paperback. Condizione: Good- condition. First Edition. [ii], 48 pages of text, [ii]. Printed salmon paper wrappers with minor chipping to extremities, several small tears and creases, and minor staining and soiling. Several pages creased at corners, with thumb-creases at page edges; several pages with tiny tears. Several pages are almost detached from binding, which is failing. Illustrated with several woodcuts. An uncommon pamphlet. Title continues "and Minnie Warren; With Some Account of Remarkable Dwarfs, Giants, and other Human Phenomena, of Ancient and Modern Times. Also, Songs Given at their Public Levees." Size: Tall 12mo. Book.

George Washington Morrison Nutt (1848-81) and Minnie Warren Bump (1842-78) were famous little persons who toured the U.S. and overseas with Barnum & Bailey; Nutt served as best man at the wedding of his friend, midget Charles "Tom Thumb" Stratton, and Warren was the sister of the bride, little person Lavinia Warren. Uncommon carte-de-visite photograph, 2½" X 4", New York, NY, n.y. [ca. 1865]. Very good. Mild age toning and slightest bit of wear. Title cited above bottom margin of recto. With a gilt double rule is a 2 1/8" X 3 1/8" albumen full-length portrait showing Nutt and Warren side by side. Center of verso bears the decorative backstamp of E. & H.T. Anthony ("Manufacturers / of the best / Photographic Albums"), "From / Photographic Negative / By Brady." Above are facsimile printed signatures of Nutt and Warren. A most handsome and rather uncommon Brady image.

unbound. Condizione: very good. 2 1/2 by 4 inches, laminated. New York: E & HT Anthony, no date, ca. 1860. Fine, and unfaded. The pair were famous "little people" who toured the U.S. and Europe with Barnum & Bailey. The card is signed by both of them on the verso.

unbound. Condizione: fine. 2 1/2 x 4 inches, laminated. New York: Charles D. Fredericks, no date, ca. 1870. Fine & unfaded. Signed on the front. G.W. M. Nutt was a famous "little person" who toured the U.S. & Europe with Barnum and Bailey.

No Binding. Condizione: Very Good. (not signed) on a full length portrait of George Washington M. Nutt and Minnie Warren arm and arm, captioned "Commodore Nutt and Miss Minnie Warren". Photograph is by E. & H.T. Anthony & Co., 591 Broadway, New York with their imprint on the verso and is on heavy weight stock; 2 3/16" x 3 1/2" on stiff mount 2 1/2" x 4 1/4". Very good. With printed signatures and sentiment on the verso.