[Rarebooks] FS: EPHEMERA

[Norman Kane]

                                                     EPHEMERA



IDA LEWIS.  SIGNATURE. “Miss Ida Lewis”dated 1881. With an account of her exploits from Appleton’s Encyclopedia. She saved many from drowning near the Lime Rock Lighthouse at Newport where her father was the Keeper of the Lighthouse. $10



STOP McCARTHYISM ! YOUR STAKE IN THE FIGHT … Pioneer Publishers (Socialist Workers Party),1954.  16pp, lightly soiled. $20



YATES, PETER WALDRON.  A. L. S. , Feb.1809.  Full page letter giving detailed instructions for “a parcel of fruit trees to send to one of my lots in the western country.”Yates, an attorney, died in Caghnawaga, N, Y.,in 1826. He was a member of The Committtee of Correspondence in 1775, a member of the Continental Congress and the U. S. Congress.  $20



WALNUT ST. THEATRE CO. {PHILA?]. CONTRACT      engaging the services of Chas. Morton, 1903.  Folio, printed form completed in hand. WITH: a Walnut St. Theatre Co. cancelled check, 1908.   The 2, $20



WEICHLEIN. CHECKLIST OF AMERICAN MUSICAL PERIODICALS 1850-1900.  

Detroit, 1970. Orig. wrappers, ex library. $10



H. M. TOMLINSON.  NICE SIGNATURE, with a flourish, on a 2.5 X 4.5 card. $10



MacARTHUR, JEAN (Mrs. Douglas MacArthur.)  T. L. S., Nov., 1964. On Waldorf Astoria Letterhead, thanking “for all that you wrote of my beloved husband. Such tributes paid him touch me greatly.”  $15



HENKELS, STAN V., auctioneer.  ADDENDA  TO SALE 1231 OF … FRANKLIN IMPRINTS. Mar. 21,1919. Orig wraps, light  wear.  A handful of very rare imprints. $15



GILBERT, Linda.  AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED.  1 page, 8vo, N.Y., Feb. 5, 1880. To Mr. Burdett. A note vouching for a former prisoner, C.B. Malone:"[He is] we believe ... striving to lead an honest & upright life... & [needs] a start in life again." Gilbert, 1842-1895, established the Gilbert Library for prisoners & the Prisoners Aid Society.) Tipped to a lithographed portrait of Mrs. Gilbert, signed, on the verso, in pencil.  $10



SMITH, CHARLOTTE.  RECEIPT SIGNED, July 30, 1791 for payment of 5 guineas received from her London publisher, Cadell.   (Cadell published her “Celestina, a Novel” in 1791, and her “Elegiac Sonnets” in 1792.)   $20



LEA, HENRY C., (historian).  AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to [Chas. Eliot] Norton, Phila., 1899.  One octavo page, Oct. 24th, 1899. Neat and quite legible.  The eminent historian  thanks Eliot for the gift of Eliot's "Letters from Ralph Waldo Emerson to a friend, 1838-1853", 1899: "I shall read it at the first opportunity with the pleasure always to be anticipated from the unconscious self-revelations of such a thinker."  $15



JONES, J. GLANCY.  Short AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, Reading, Pa., 1865, re an account.  (Penna. Congressman, Minister to Austria.) $5



BUTLER, WM. ALLEN.  AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, 1-1/2 pages, Newburgh, 1859, to Otis Allen, concerning the disposition of a case at law. Slight damage. Both Allen  (who was President of the ABA) & Allen were attorneys. Allen was also an author, notably of the famous “Nothing to Wear.” $10



KENNEDY, JOHN P.  Mounted signature, with “Baltimore”.  (19 C. novelist.) $15





THE RISE OF THE CODEX BINDING.  N.Y.: Manhattan Hand Bookbinders, 1984.  “First Year Commemorative Imprint.”  Orig. 4to wraps plus 10 pages of text, corner-stapled, illus. on rear wrapper. $20



SINCLAIR.  A LETTER FROM MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR (Mrs. Upton Sinclair) TO EVE FOX, Jan. 24th, 1933.  8 pages, stapled.  (Wm. Fox, the motion picture industry, & Upton Sinclair’s book, “Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox.”)  Only 4 locations in OCLC. $25



PARIS BOOK AUCTIONS (10). Expensive productions, orig. 4to wraps, much detail & many illus. **18th C. books, &c. (2): 1979 &1980.  **Poetry library, 1986.  **Early books. 1985. **Library of a collector. 1974.  **100 illustrated books. 1977.  **Manuscripts, correspondence. 1977. Hugo to Valery.**550 rare books, autographs. 1987. (Boards).   **others. $20



CATALOGS.  **French Literature. Maggs, 1928. 869 items. **John Howell inventory, pt. 2. Swann, 1985. 536 items,    illus.**The work of Arthur Rackham. Swann, 1981. Illus. + a dozen other Swann cats: Fore-edge paintings, medicine,

stage, Bibles, geology, incunables, kids’ books, FDR’s books, Americana, &c.  **5 others: Andrew Jackson, 

photography, &c.  $15



STEVENS.  BIBLIOTHECA HISTORICA, auctioned by Leonard, 1870. 2 COPIES, orig wraps; one in chipped wraps, the other without front wrapper, but priced.  2545 items. (Stevens’ library.  Judging from the prices, he took a beating.) $15



WEBSTER, DANIEL.  DISCOURSE ... FIRST SETTLEMENT OF NEW ENGLAND.Boston, 1821. Disbound.  $15



OAKLEY, VIOLET.  Phila. Museum of Art, 1979. Illus.  Laid in is a lengthy letter (regarding perspective ?) with 

diagrams, from “Max”, London, 1921, to Oakley and her companion, the artist Edith Emerson. $20



GREEN, Elizabeth Shippen. [Illustrator].  SONGS OF BRYN MAWR COLLEGE.  Phila., 1903.  Nice copy.  Very attractive color-illustrated boards covers and early designs/illustrations by noted artist Elizabeth Shippen Green, who      was a student of Howard Pyle.  Includes the class songs, pageant songs and songs from college life dating from 1892 to 1906. $10



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