Search Results: Autographs from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

Armand Tokatyan / Anne Roselle / Maria Jeritza
3 signed/inscribed photographs of Golden Age opera singers, 1927-28.
One 6.5x9.5", two 3.5x5.5" b/w photos, one signed two inscribed.
Armand Tokatyan (Tenor, 1894 –1960). 6.5x9.5" b/w, inscribed in black ink to Rudolph Pauw. As a young man, Tokatyan travelled to Egypt with his parents where he sang in cafés to favorable response. He was then sent to Paris to study tailoring, but instead sang in Left Bank cafés. In 1914, he returned to Egypt and earned his living by again singing in the cafés. He took up operetta, soon becoming a matinee idol, then in 1919 went to Milan to pursue an opera career. His operatic debut was in 1921 at the Teatro Dal Verme in Puccini's Manon Lescaut. With the help of Italian conductor Giuseppe Bamboschek, he joined the touring Scotti Opera Company in the United States and was soon noticed by the Metropolitan Opera where he debuted in 1923. For many years he performed there and at many other opera houses in the US and… Read More

ALS with remnants of envelope, dated Mch 11th, 1920, addressed to J.D. Baker, Pasadena. Two pp. 8.5x11".
"Dear 'D'. I address you as 'D' since you were so kind as to ask me to do so, and also because I want to do so. I have that beautiful cigarette can ….. you know you wrote] Jack [Frost's son] that you had spent that fifty cents and you were going to save up to replace it. Knowing that 'saving up' in these times is close to the impossible I made up my mind that all that money was gone…..Now my dear boy, lay your hand on your heart, wear a beatific look and try hard to tell me the truth about that cigarette can. WHAT DID YOU PAY FOR IT? I know I look rather like a tamed hayseed at times but honest, I aint [sic] as green as I look…..Fifty cents! ….you left a gap that has not been filled, …..bright peiple [sic] are not in the majority here…..I wish you were coming back……..Jack is out on the desert painting a picture. I know he would send his love to you……We have a horned toad… Read More

ALS to Hon. J.R. Lewis, Sept 20, 1863, 7.5x10". Declining [Judge] Lewis's invitation to attend a Washington D.C. political event in support President Lincoln. "Our soldiers in the field will look with great anxiety at the endorsement which their friends give at the ballot box, when I and confident Iowa will heartily respond favorably to their cause. /// Hoping that you will cast a united vote for the Union ticket and thereby convince the rebels that we of Iowa stand firmly in favor of our cause and country."
Samuel Ryan Curtis [1805-1866] was the most successful union general west of the Mississippi, remembered mostly as the victor at the battles of Pea Ridge [1862] and Westport [1864]. But Curtis was far more than just a successful general. He played a key role in the opening and exploitation of the American West, as an engineer, politician, railroad advocate. He was also one of the first Republicans elected to Congress, serving three terms the 1st Iowa congressional district In September,… Read More

Large contemporary scrapbook containing 292 autographs of members of Britain's House of Lords; clipped from franked envelopes and correspondence. 14"x17" leather covers with embossed onset label, a.e.g. Approximately 80 leaves, each with one to six clipped signatures. Penciled headings indicate Dukes, Earls, Viscounts, Barons, Marquesas' galore.
Note: Given the format and vintage, we presume all signatures are genuine. About 30 clipped signatures were removed before we obtained this; we do not know when this happened or who was removed -- it is being sold as is, as we obtained it.
Condition: The clipped signatures are all Very Good-Fine. Covers are damaged with front cover detached, lacking spine.
Shipping: Included for domestic sales; International shipping via USPS Global Priority mail estimated at $80. Note that some countries may require the buyer to pay VAT or duty.

1948 Souvenir Theater Program for a charity production of "Oedipus" and "The Critic" signed by Lawrence Olivier and eight other members of the cast. 8.5x11", stitched wrappers. 16 pp.
A special production in aid of King George's Pension Fund for Actors and Actresses, Theatre Festival Week, April 10, 1948, with H.R.H. The Princess Elizabeth in attendance. Signed inside the front cover by Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Ralph Richardson, George Relph, Miles Malleson, Nicholas Hannen, Margaret Leighton, and one unidentified. Gorgeous cover by portrait artist and illustrator Anna Zinkeisen who, with her sister Doris, painted the murals on the RMS Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth.
CONDITION: Very good; light wear to extremities

[Black Fury] Archive of film-related correspondence by Sacco-Vanzetti/Nuremberg Justice Michael A. Musmanno
A remarkable archive of nearly 41 original letters from noted judge/author/screenwriter Michael A. Musmanno concerning the 1935 Warner Brothers film "Black Fury" starring Paul Muni. The letters are written to his ghostwriter/script doctor/amanuensis Bruce Lockwood. With another five letters from Lockwood to Musmanno.
The film was based on an actual 1929 incident in which John Barkoski, a miner agitating for recognition of the United Mine Workers of America, was beaten to death by company police. His killing and the subsequent acquittal of his murderers provoked public indignation and eventually led to the end of Pennsylvania's private anti-labor Coal and Iron Police system. The New York Times called the film "a notable experiment in social drama" masterfully acted by Muni. The film was controversial, with the National Coal Association attempting to stop production through political pressure… Read More

The Gene Krupa "Autograph Book", signed by nearly seventy 1940's swing, dance, and band musicians and singers.
A small autograph booklet published by Gene Krupa to allow fans to gather signatures of their favorite musicians and singers. SIZE. 16 pages. Although this copy is not signed by Krupa himself, the first six pages are signed by nearly 70 musicians and singers with 1940s dance bands.
Even unsigned, this booklet is very scarce – we are aware of no other copies on the market and have located no sales records, other than an old Ebay listing for an unused copy. None in Worldcat; one copy in the Henry S. Bukowski Big Band Collection at the Smithsonian.
The six orchestras represented were led by Ted Fio Rito, Bob Wills, Bob Saunders, Jimmy Grier, Jack Teagarden, and Freddie Slack. Unless you are a big fan of the period, most of the signatures will likely be unfamiliar – but, among the more notable are: Ted Fio Rito, Hugh Hudgings, Billy Mayo, Charlie Teagarden, Abe Aaron, Tony Antonelli, Freddie… Read More

First edition, 18 pp. 8vo, stitched wrappers; disbound from a larger volume of serial publications; lacking any wrappers if issued.
Special Session, March 5, 1877. Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 1.
A detailed account of the fighting between the Modoc Indians and US troops in Northern California during the first half of 1873, following the alleged murder of unarmed peace commissioners sent by President Grant. This includes accounts of battles with Modoc leader Captain Jack and his band near what is now Lava Beds National Monument. Gillem offers both a detailed report on the battles of Sand Butte and Dry Lake. as well as a defense of his actions at the "Lava Beds" for which he was later criticized. Howes G175: "Earliest Account of this disastrous campaign…"
A good+ copy with several nicks on the binding edge, toning and substantial chipping to last tpage, creasing to last four leaves.

Presentation copy to actor Basil Rathbone, with lengthy inscription from Wood and [wife] Sara Bard Field explaining why they call this the 'Emma Goldman edition.'
Charles Erskine Scott Wood [C.E.S. Wood (1852 –1944)] was a successful author, civil liberties advocate, artist, soldier, and attorney. He served as a lieutenant with the 21st Infantry Regiment, fought in the Nez Perce War in 1877, and was present at the surrender of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. It was Wood who transcribed, and perhaps embellished, Chief Joseph's famous speech, which ended with: "My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." The two men became close friends.
Following his military service Wood became a pacifist and self-proclaimed anarchist. He did a brief turn as Mark Twain's publisher [1601] and offered advice and money to radical journalist John Reed. After attending Columbia University, Wood moved to Portland Oregon where he became a prominent attorney with both a… Read More

Signed photograph of Gov. Earl Warren [1891-1974; California] correcting a document or speech at his desk. April 10, 1953, six months before his appointment as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. 10x8", b/w.
A more personal signature than we are accustomed to seeing, inscribed "from Pop" to his secretary Stella Pauw. The unusual signature suggests a warm familial relationship between the two. We are aware of no other documents signed with this moniker and have seen no other copies of this particular photo. Provenance: A family photo obtained from Pauw's granddaughter.

Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Good. Cloth. 1866. 1st ed., second state. Signed by Orson Welles . First edition, second state -- lacking the page number at the bot tom of p.52 . 12mo Brown-Maroon cloth, gilt titles. 52 pp., engra ved title page and frontis. Ex-libris RKO Studios Research Libra ry, with the studio logo and inkstamp on the FEP and second flyle af. Orson Welles’ inked signature at bottom of fep, and possibl y a second time above -- the lower signature is clearly Welles -- the upper signature has indicial of Welles’s wide variety of s ignatures, but also some unfamiliar characteristics. One can onl y speculate on the connection -- but the presence of snow plays s mall but vital roles in both Citizen Kane and the Magnificent Amb ersons and this, one of Whittier’s most famous poems is present ed as a series of stories told by a family while sitting out a sn owstorm. #### . , chipping to upper spine; some soiling. Interior: RKO Studios… Read More