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20913. [Henie, Sonja. (1912-1969)].
"Sonja Henie with Her Hollywood Ice Revue" - Souvenir Program

Souvenir program from the Norwegian figure skater's 1943-1944 Hollywood Ice Revue tour, which includes photographs of Henie in her "daily life," her trophy collection, and numerous stills from the 1943 musical Wintertime, in which she starred alongside Cesar Romero.  16 pp.  Red velvet cover with gold embossed design.  In fine condition.  9 x 12 inches (22.9 x 30.5 cm.). Read More...

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23383. [Ballooning] Green, Charles. (1785 - 1870).
Three Ballooning Flyers, 1838 - 1845

A intriguing group of three ballooning flyers advertising the United Kingdom's most famous balloonist of the 19th century. Experimenting with coal gas as a cheaper and more readily available alternative to hydrogen for lifting power, Green's first ascent was in a coal gas balloon on 19 July 1821 and he had made 200 ascents by 1835.  In 1836, he set a major long distance record in the balloon Royal Vauxhall, flying overnight from Vauxhall Gardens in London to Weilburg, Duchy of Nassau (Germany), a distance of 480 miles (770 km). By the time he retired in 1852, he had flown in a balloon more than 500 times. The present broadsides are all very rare, with only a few recorded similar examples in WorldCat. As follows: Read More...

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9667. [Songs of the American Civil War] [Copperheads].
Handwritten Civil War Union Soldiers Hymn (Parody) and Shape-Note Manuscript

Intriguing musical manuscript penned on July 4, 1863, a date many consider to be the turning point of the American Civil War. Luzerne Township, Fayette County [Pennsylvania]. One leaf, apparently disbound. Various hands. Read More...

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18764. [Mask] [World War II].
Japanese Type 99 Small Box Respirator Mask

Japanese Type 99 World War II gas mask, with original tubing and respirator pack, displayed on a custom stand, rendering into a striking sculptural element.  The ‘99’ in its name comes from the 2599th anniversary from when the first Japanese emperor took the throne.  Fine, 16 w x 17 h x 3 d inches (40.6 x 43 x 7.6 cm.). Small area of glue repaired tear to the tubing, else fine. 

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12758. [Thanksgiving] [Farmyard Orchestra].
"Playing the Death March of Mr. Turkey Gobbler" - Original 1927 Photograph

Amusing original press photograph showing a band, "Pa Sam Brown's Orchestra," playing in a farmyard for an audience of turkeys.  Dated November 28, 1927. Chipping and wear to the edges and slight discoloration; otherwise in fine condition.  25.6 x 20.4 cm.

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20908. [Streisand, Barbra. (b. 1942) & Matthau, Walter. (1920-2000) & Kelly, Gene. (1912-1996) & Armstrong, Louis. (1901-1971)].
"Hello Dolly" - Souvenir Program

Souvenir program for the 1969 film adaptation of Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly and starring Barbra Streisand alongside Walter Matthau, with a memorable cameo from Louis Armstrong.  The program includes numerous stills from the film alongside behind-the-scenes photographs and essays.  48 pp.  In fine condition.  8.5 x 11.25 inches (21.6 x 28.6 cm.). Read More...

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21220. [Authors, Artists, Directors, Explorers etc.] Baldwin, James. (1924-1987) & Heller, Joseph. (1923-1999) & Allen, Woody. (b. 1935) & Simon, Neil. (1927-2018) & Vidal, Gore. (1925-2012) etc. .
Signed Deck of Playing Cards

Complete deck of blue Bicycle Rider Back playing cards, each signed by a prominent writer, entertainer, musician or other public figures of the 1970s-80s, including James Baldwin, Allen Gisberg, Richard Rodgers, James Michener, John Fowles, Peter Benchley, Katharine Anne Porter, Daphne du Maurier, Woody Allen, James Dickey, Michael Crichton, Thorton Wilder, Richard Condon, Ira Levin, Walker Percy, William Golding,  Rumer Godden, Robert Penn Warren, Faith Bigelow, Joseph Heller, James Herriot, Edmund Hillary, Richard Llewellyn, Garson Kanin, Art Buchwald, Alison Lurie, Neil Simon, Gore Vidal, Irving Stone, Louis Untermeyer, Herman Wouk, Mary Renault, Theodore H. White, Arthur Miller, among many others.  Slight fading or smudging to a few signatures, overall in fine condition.

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20072. Eltinge, Julian. (1881–1941).
Signed Photographs

Two photographs of the actor and female impersonator in costume for Cousin Lucy and The Crinoline Girl, two of his most successful shows from the mid-1910s.  Eltinge has signed each to verso, identifying the respective shows below the signature.  Light wear along edges, else in fine condition.  3.5 x 5.5 inches (8.9 x 14 cm.); together with a trimmed card advertising Eltinge's 1927 farewell tour.  Unevenly trimmed, else in very fine condition.  3.5 x 5.5 inches (8.9 x 14 cm.); and together with a larger format signed half-length large-scale portrait in male formal clothing and a hat, inscribed, "To Miss Eltinge / A reminder of / Julian Dalton Eltinge."  By Strauss-Peyton, [Kansas City,] 1922.  10 x 8 inches (25.4 x 20.3 cm).  In very good condition, somewhat unusually signing with the middle name "Dalton," his actual last name.  Read More...

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12184. [Dixie Jubilee Concert Company].
Ferguson's Dixie Jubilee Concert Company, The Best Company of Colored Talent in the World - RARE SHEET MUSIC & POSTER

Ferguson's Dixie Jubilee Concert Company, The Best Company of Colored Talent in the World. Chicago: W. H. Gage. ca. 1890. Large 4to, original pictorial wrappers printed in black and white and red, 16 pages of printed music with lyrics. A scarce collection of classic spirituals and a few seculuar Southern gems. In fine condition, with one loose central page, small separations at spine head and foot. Only one copy recorded by Worldcat and only one copy having appeared at auction. Read More...

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17002. [Protest and Strike].
Collection of 1960's–1970's American Political Memorabilia

Collection of ten well-worn American marching protest posters from the 1960's–1970's, from groups including the All-Peoples Congress, New York newspaper unions, and the Campaign for a People's Fightback. Slogans include "KKK Racism Hurts All Poor Working People," "We Say Fight Back," "Unity is Strength," and "Strike against the New York Daily News." Sizes range from 23 x 17.5 inches to 28 x 24 inches, various materials. 

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21516. Dylan, Bob. (b. 1941).
"Long-distance Operator" - Original Drawings and Autograph Lyrics from the recording of the Basement Tapes

Important and extremely rare early original drawings by the legendary singer-songwriter, who has penned a series of three captioned drawings on the blank side of a Columbia Records Handelok record bag during the historic "Basement Tapes" recording sessions at Big Pink, and including a variation of the opening of the song "Long Distance Operator."  Obtained by Bonnie Diamond, then girlfriend of Levon Helm (drummer and vocalist of The Band), West Saugerties, NY, Summer 1967, and with her autograph shopping list to the verso of the bag. 8 x 10.5 inches. Rear Columbia logo panel with some rears, a few small stains, overall in very fine condition. We have not located any examples of original Dylan drawings having appeared on the market in over 30 years of records.  Read More...

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20850. Chaplin, Sydney. (1926-2009).
Signed Postcard Photograph

Signed Rüdel-Verlag postcard photograph of the American actor, son of Charlie Chaplin and Lita Grey, who won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1957 for Bells Are Ringing.  Mild issues with ink adhesion, overall in fine condition.  3.5 x 5.5 inches (8.9 x 14 cm.). Read More...

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20997. [Harmonica].
"How to Play the Harmonica" - Instructional Booklet

Instructional booklet on how to play the harmonica, sold by Von Hofe's Music Shop in Johnson City, Tennessee.  The booklet includes instruction on various techniques, several short pieces for the instrument, historical information ("Abraham Lincoln played but one instrument—the harmonica. He called it his 'band.'"), and a guide to the different types of harmonica that exist.  24 pp.  In fine condition.  3.5 x 8.25 inches (8.9 x 21 cm.).

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13028. [Child, Julia. (1912-2004)] Lerner, Alan Jay. (1918-1986).
My Fair Lady - JULIA CHILD'S COPY OF NORWEGIAN EDITION

Oslo: H. Ashehoug. 1959. Norwegian edition of Lerner's classic play, adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, signed by the legendary American chef, author, and television personality. Text in Norwegian and with photos of cast members from a Norwegian production of the play. Signed by Julia Child on the front cover and further signed "P. And J. Child, Oslo, 19 Jan 60" on front free endpaper. This date corresponds with the time that the Childs lived in Oslo during Paul's waning years as an American diplomat. Amusingly, the dialogue entries for Henry Higgins and Eliza, pp. 49 - 58, have been "X"-marked in the margins, beginning with the line "En perfekt siggarett gir sollid appetit," which corresponds to and here replaces the famous line in which Eliza mispronounces her vowels, leading then to the celebrated song "Just you wait, Henry Higgins." It is charming to imagine the Childs together hamming it up in this scene, perhaps entertaining friends in their Norwegian home.  Read More...

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21215. Astaire, Fred. (1899-1987) & Powell, Jane. (1929-2021).
Signed Photograph in "Royal Wedding"

Signed photograph of the American dancer movie stars mid-dance in the 1951 musical comedy film Royal Wedding.  Powell and Astaire have both signed to the lower portion of the image.  In very fine condition.  8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm.). Read More...

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22276. Moondog [Hardin, Louis Thomas]. (1916–1999) [Gahr, David. (1922–2008)].
Original 1967 contact sheet

Original silver gelatin contact sheet, showing 25 images of the legendary musician, who defied any categorization, on Sixth Avenue in New York City in 1967.  By the eminent American photographer David Gahr, then in Brooklyn; Gahr's hand stamp to verso.  9.25 x 7.75 inches (23.8 x 18.5 cm).  In fine condition.   Read More...

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21633. [Planet of the Apes] [John Chambers, 20th Century-Fox].
Screen-used Background Actor Ape Mask, 1968

Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. Brown-faced rubber ape mask with attached mohair black hair, with a flap on the back lower part of the hair which lifts and reattaches with Velcro. This allowed the actors who wore the masks to easily put them on and take them off. The mask is mounted permanently to a mannequin head and shoulders and housed in a custom-made shadow box. Shadow box: 12 x 14 x 19.75 in.; mask: 10 x 10.5 x 16 in. Read More...

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8261. [Einstein, Albert. (1879 - 1955) ] Avidom, Menachem. (1908 - 1995).
Symphony No. 2 "David" Dedicated to Albert Einstein, with Presentation Broadside to Einstein and Original Photograph

Tel-Aviv, Israel [New York]: Israeli Music Publications [Independent Music Publishers]. [1951]. First edition. Large format published facsimile manuscript orchestral score. 85 pages. Folio (14 x 19 inch; 35 x 49 cm), spiral bound, plain boards; covers detached, generally sound internally. Together with an elaborate painted calligraphic presentation broadside (14 x 21 inch; 36 x 54 cm) of the Symphony to Albert Einstein by Sol Nodel (1951), "Symphony No. 2 'David' dedicated to Albert Einstein For his inspiration to the Jewish people and to all humanity by the composer Menahem Avidom and presented by the American Fund for Israel Institutions on the occasion of the American tour of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, January, February, March 1951," additionally inscribed by the composer in black ink upper left, "To the greatest man in our generation / Prof. A. Einstein / humbly / From the Composer / M. Avidom / Princeton 10/1/51." Together with an original 8 x 8 inch original photograph of the presentation to Einstein and a photocopy of a 1986 letter from Louise F. Sayen later presenting the score and broadside to a Mr. Benamy, noting that "Miss Margot Einstein made this gift to you in gratitude for your thoughtful help in arranging for the distribution of her father's library.  It gave her great comfort that you were the designated representative for the Friends of Hebrew University in Jerusalem." In fine condition.  Read More...

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18583. [Vietnam] Spock, Benjamin. (1903–1998).
"I am spending all of my time speaking in American universities against the war in Vietnam" - Typed Letter Signed

TLS from the pediatrician and author addressed to Professor Irma Antonetto of the Associazione Culturale Italiana in Turin, responding to her invitation to have the doctor speak. April 18 1971; 1 pp., on a trimmed piece of Dr. Spock's stationary.  "Dear Prof. Antonetto, I wish I could accept your flattering invitation.  However, I am spending all of my time speaking in American universities against the war in Vietnam, except for one month each year in other countries.  This June I will be in Australia, and next June 1972 [handwritten] in Sweden.  I hope you will invite me another year.  Sincerely, [Signature]."  Some vertical creases, likely from mailing, else fine. Read More...

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20576. Kelly, Gene. (1912–1996).
"Words and Music" - Signed Promotional Photograph

Signed MGM promotional photograph of the American dancer and actor from the 1948 film Words and Music.  Kelly has inscribed "To Paul / Gene Kelly" in black ink.  Very fine condition.  8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm.). Read More...

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