Search Results: Manuscripts from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

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

First Edition. 8vo, 156pp.
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Signed presentation copy from the author to the famous actor/producer Arnold Daly, of one of her most successful plays. Poet/librettist George Turner Phelps has used the covers, pastedowns and end sheets to write a long letter to Daly urging him to produce the play with Dorothy Donnelly, who played opposite Daly in Shaw's Candida. An added note by Peabody on the rear flyleaf approves.
Condition: Fair. A clean, tight copy internally; moderate wear to covers, title label on spine rubbed, end papers toned. But who cares -- it's a $15 book enhanced immeasurably by the extras.
Peabody was an American poet and dramatist. The Stratford-on-Avon prize went to her in 1909 for her drama The Piper, which was produced in England in 1910; and in America at in 1911. Arnold Daly was an American actor, playwright, and producer. He was noted for introducing the early Shaw plays to American audiences. With the advent of silent film, Daly became a matinee idol. Phelps was a poet and… Read More

Handwritten notebook --author(s) unknown, comprising 22 pages on the above subject and 29 pp. on "Pyrolatry or Fire-Worship".
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The article "An Arabic Pompeii [Medina Azzahra] documents part of a trip by the correspondents to Spain to trace the roots of Arabic art and architecture for a proposed book. While there, they heard rumors of the excavation of an early Arabic site. This site and its contents were kept secret by the Spanish government, and the writers of this journal detail how they stumbled upon the site, the problems they had in visiting, and the denial of permission to photograph anything in the area. The correspondents make oblique references to the possibility that some of the treasures will never get much farther than the Spanish officials responsible for the excavation.
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See Median Azzahara y Almiriya by D. Ricardo Velazquez Bosco, published in Madrid 1912 for a full account of the Spanish archeological exploration & excavation of the site.
The Caliphate city of Medina… Read More

Burbank: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Very good. 1939. Title Page: “Preliminary Detail Specification for the Lockheed ‘49’ [Model 49-47] Submitted Under Information for Approval o f Design - [Copy No] 14” ##### . in custom two-hole binder. 30 pp., consisting of 23 mimeographed pages of specifications, printed one side only and 7 photostatic plan sheets including 2 foldout plans of the cabin layout -- plu s From the foreword: “This detailed specification overs the gen eral requirements and design of the Lockheed ‘49’, a long ran ge, substratosphere, day or night transport airplane. …Upon th e negotiation of a contract for this airplane, a revised detail s pecification will be prepared describing as nearly as possible th e proposed airplane.” Specs prepared by Peter A. Beck and appr oved by Hall L. Hibbard, one of the… Read More