<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">HELEN KELLER''S JOURNAL 1936-1937, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company. 1938. Hardcover, stated First Edition. 8vo, 313pp, Inscribed on FFEP "To Pearl / With grateful memories / of her sweet hospitality / Sincerely / Helen Keller / October [24]th 1939" (possibly Pearl S. Buck, with whom Keller had an ongoing friendship). […]
Lot 593: Leon Trotsky Signed Book, "The Revolution Betrayed" First Am. Edition
THE REVOLUTION BETRAYED: WHAT IS THE SOVIET UNION AND WHERE IS IT GOING? Leon Trotsky, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1937. 8vo, 308 pp. First American Edition; translated by Max Eastman. Signed in the year of publication on a bound-in blank leaf "Leon Trotsky Coyoacan, 2 Apr. 1937". Black cloth with spine lettered in black […]
Lot 591: Picasso, The Recent Years, Signed Limited Edition
<p style="margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in">PICASSO, THE RECENT YEARS, by Harriet and Sidney Janis; Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. Hardcover limited to 350 signed copies, of which this is number 268. Signed by Picasso on the limitation page. 4to, 211pp, original cloth with gilt-stamping to spine and front cover; with 135 plates, 5 in color. […]
Lot 589: Barflies and Cocktails, Harry McElhone, First Edition Mixology Book
BARFLIES AND COCKTAILS: OVER 300 COCKTAIL RECIPES by "Harry and Wynn" with contributions from Arthur Moss. Paris: Lecram Press, 1927. 12mo. 122pp, rare First Edition of this early mixology book, in original (conserved) pictorial boards. Contains cocktail recipes amidst numerous illustrations by Wynn, with bar-related advertisements scattered throughout. "Harry and Wynn" are Harry McElhone of […]
Lot 590: Lithograph Book, The Last Works of Matisse 1950-1954,ÃÂ Verve
Henri Matisse''s (French, 1869-1954) The Last Works of Matisse 1950-1954, book of color lithograph plates consisting of lithographs from Verve no. 35/36 (Summer 1958), some double, triple, and quadruple-paged, along with heliogravures of related drawings plus text by Pierre Reverdy and Georges Duthuit. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1958, with lithographs printed […]
Lot 587: 7 Eleanor Roosevelt TSL plus 5 Secretary Signed, 1934-41
1st-7th items: Seven (7) Eleanor Roosevelt typed signed letters written on White House stationery between November 16, 1940, and May 8, 1941. The letters, addressed to Eleanor Roosevelt''s friend Harriet Hoyt, include commentary on a wide variety of subjects including President Franklin Delano Roosevelt''s 1940 reelection, public criticism levied at the First Lady, the President […]
Lot 588: 3 Elvis Presley Autographed Items
Three (3) Elvis Presley items, including 2 signed photographs and 1 signed International Hotel folder. Pictured in the photographs are Jim and Gladys Tipler, who owned Crown Electric in Memphis, celebrating Mrs. Tipler''s birthday with friends at two separate Elvis performances at the Las Vegas Intercontinental Hotel, in the early 1970s. (note: On April 20, […]
Lot 585: 3 Slave Documents, TN and Connecticut
Slavery and Abolition: Three (3) 19th century documents, concerning slaves sales in Tennessee plus abolitionist Rev. David Root of New Hampshire and Connecticut. 1st item: Williamson County, TN receipt for the Feb. 8,. 1821 sale of 5 slaves, names and approximate ages Willis (19), Nelson (12), Nelly (30), Mary (10) and Lucy (16), by John […]
Lot 586: Thomas Lewis Family Letter Archive; Boston, Massachusetts
Archive of 30 letters and documents pertaining to the early Boston, Massachusetts family of Thomas Lewis (1750 -1813) and his descendants. Thomas Lewis founded Lewis Wharf in Boston, having obtained the property from John Hancock in 1793. With his son Thomas III (1771 -1824), he operated the merchant firm of Thomas Lewis & Son, sending […]
Lot 583: 17 Early Wilson County TN Documents including Public Square Deed 1802
1st item: One of the first Lebanon TN Deeds dated August 16, 1802, for "a certain lot… North 13 in the South East Square" of the newly established town of Lebanon, Tennessee, to James Peacock, purchased "at public sale." Signed by 5 original Wilson County commissioners Christopher Cooper, Hanson Trigg, John Doak, Matthew Figures, and […]
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