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JOHN S.C. ABBOTT - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 07/14/1873 - HFSID 23101JOHN S.C. ABBOTT He handwrites and signs a familiar quotation whose original author is unknown. Autograph Quotation signed: "John S.C. Abbott", 3x1¾ card. Fair Haven, Conn., 1873 July 14.In full: "'Count that day lost whose low descending sun views at thy hand, no worthy action done''".
Sale Price $162.00
$180.00
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WILLIAM T. "OLIVER OPTIC" ADAMS - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED - HFSID 18408WILLIAM T. "OLIVER OPTIC" ADAMS Oliver Optic advised someone to "Aim High" with this card, signed with his pen name "Oliver Optic" and his real name Autograph quotation signed: "'Aim high."/William T Adams/"Oliver Optic.". 3x1¾. William T.
Sale Price $81.00
$90.00
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WILLIAM T. "OLIVER OPTIC" ADAMS - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 06/17/1876 - HFSID 89919WILLIAM T. "OLIVER OPTIC" ADAMS Adams signed and dated this card in Boston in 1876 with his pseudonym "Oliver Optic" and the quote "Aim High" Autograph Quotation Signed: "'Aim High'/Yours truly/William T. Adams/'Oliver Optic'/Boston June 17, 1876", 4x2½ card. William T.
Sale Price $81.00
$90.00
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GEORGE ADE - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 04/28/1904 - HFSID 174592GEORGE ADE. AQS: "George Ade", 5x2½ lined sheet. In full: "A government is the noblest work of the campaign committee." Beneath his signature, Ade has written: "Chicago - April 28 - 1904.
Sale Price $288.00
$320.00
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GEORGE ADE - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 05/25/1910 - HFSID 175027GEORGE ADE. AQS: "George Ade/May 25 - 1910", 5x2½ lined sheet. In full: "In uplifting, get underneath." In 1910, Ade published I Remember Him When: A Hoosier Fable Dealing With the Happy Days of Away Back Yonder.
Sale Price $288.00
$320.00
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EDWARD ALBEE - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 1989 - HFSID 255424EDWARD ALBEE He writes and signs a quotation from his play The Zoo Story, dated 1989 Autograph Quotation Signed: "Edward Albee/ (1989)", 6x4 card. In full: "'Sometimes you have to go a very long distance out of your way to come back correctly.
Sale Price $252.00
$280.00
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EDWARD ALBEE - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 1992 - HFSID 226496EDWARD ALBEE He signed this quotation from his play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, dated 1992 Autograph Quotation Signed: "Edward Albee/ 1992", 1p, 7¼x10¼. In Full: "'The least dishonorable defeat is the only honorable goal.'*".
Sale Price $252.00
$280.00
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EDWARD ALBEE - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 1992 - HFSID 226495EDWARD ALBEE He wrote and signed a quotation from his play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, dated 1992 Autograph Quotation Signed: "Edward Albee/ 1992", 1p, 7¼x10¼. In full: "You take the trouble to construct a civilization....
Sale Price $270.00
$300.00
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EDWARD ALBEE - TYPED QUOTATION SIGNED 1991 - HFSID 169006EDWARD ALBEE He signs a typed quotation from his March 26, 1989 interview in the The Los Angeles Times, dated 1991 Typed Quotation signed: "Edward Albee/ 1991", 1p, 8½x11. Headed: "* EDWARD ALBEE */Playwright/Interview/San Diego, California/The Los Angeles Times/March 26, 1989".
Sale Price $198.00
$220.00
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WINIFRED ARNOLD - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 1923 CO-SIGNED BY: BETH KENLEY - HFSID 88051WINIFRED ARNOLD, CO-SIGNED BY: BETH KENLEY This sheet of paper has two quotations handwritten, signed and dated by authors Winifred Arnold and Beth Kenley in 1923. Autograph quotations signed "Beth Kenley" and "Winifred Arnold". 5¼x8¼, with six binder holes on left edge.
Sale Price $288.00
$320.00
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CHARLES ASHMAN - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED CIRCA 1972 - HFSID 18379CHARLES ASHMAN He signs an autograph quotation, "Authors should be obscene, and so heard," on a page also containing a newspaper photo and article about him. Autograph Quotation signed: "Authors should be/obscene/and so heard/Charles Ashman", 6½x9¼.
Sale Price $108.00
$120.00
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LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS - INSCRIBED AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 01/14/1985 - HFSID 222678LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS He pens a quotation from the opening of The Rector of Justin for a fan Inscribed Autograph Quotation Signed: "Louis Auchincloss", 1p,5½x8½ personal letterhead. No Location, 1985 January 14. To: Mr. Glormeyer. In Full: "Dear Mr.
Sale Price $324.00
$360.00
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MONICA BALDWIN - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED - HFSID 143752MONICA BALDWIN The former cloistered nun paraphrases the title of her memoir, I Leap Over the Wall. A rare signature. Autograph Quotation signed: "Monica Baldwin/(Who 'Leapt Over the Wall/in 1941), 5¼x2½.
Sale Price $81.00
$90.00
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JOHN BARTH - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED - HFSID 16106Autograph quotation signed by author John Simmons Barth: "High school teachers are the most important people in the world - except maybe for junior high school teachers". With a small black ink doodle above his signature.
Sale Price $198.00
$220.00
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JOHN BARTH - TYPED QUOTATION SIGNED - HFSID 169105JOHN BARTH Signed yyped quote from a 1989 Time interview with author John Simmons Barth about variety in American literature and in literature in general Typed quotation signed "John Barth". 1 page, 8½x10¾. Headed: "* JOHN BARTH */Author/Interview/Time Magazine/November 27, 1989".
Sale Price $126.00
$140.00
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JIM BISHOP - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED - HFSID 222684JIM BISHOP. AQS: "Jim Bishop" at lower margin of ALS: "Hopefully,/Don Glossinger", 1p, 8½x11. In full: "Don't worry about nuthin'/'cause nothin's going to be all right." Written in response to a request from Glossinger of Michigan City, Indiana, dated "1-8-85".
Sale Price $288.00
$320.00
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EDWARD W. BOK - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED - HFSID 206133EDWARD BOK The Pulitzer Prize winner signs a personalized 5x3½ card, adding "Make you the world a bit more beautiful/or better because you have been in it.." Autograph Quotation signed: "Make you the world a bit more beautiful/or better because you have been in it../Edward W. Bok/August 1922", 5x3½ card.
Sale Price $216.00
$240.00
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EDWARD W. BOK - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED - HFSID 321471EDWARD W. BOK The editor and author signs a quote on an envelope bearing the name of the magazine he worked for, "The Ladies' Home Journal" Autograph quotation signed: "An obstacle is simply a difficulty/To overcome/Edward Bok", in black ink, 5½x3½.
Sale Price $216.00
$240.00
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EDWARD W. BOK - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 1927 - HFSID 297854EDWARD W. BOK Signed quotation on his personal letterhead "Thoroughness must go with every successful effort" Autograph Quotation signed: "Thoroughness must go with every successful effort-/Edward W. Bok/1927", 6x4 card. With "Mr. Bok/Philadelphia" letterhead. Edward W.
Sale Price $216.00
$240.00
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EDWARD W. BOK - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 1928 - HFSID 32685EDWARD BOK The Pulitzer Prize winner signs a personalized 6x4 card, adding "What is called good luck is simply good work." Autograph Quotation signed: "Edward W. Bok/1928", 6x4 printed card. In full: "What is called good luck is simply good work.
Sale Price $216.00
$240.00
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ERMA BOMBECK - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED - HFSID 305027ERMA BOMBECK Signed quotation about dieting, from her column "At Wit's End", penned on a First Day Cover Autograph Quotation signed: "'I have dieted so long, I/should be hanging from a/charm bracelet.' /'At Wit's End'/Erma Bombeck", 6½x3½.
Sale Price $126.00
$140.00
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PHILIP BOOTH - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION ON SELF CARICATURE SIGNED 08/27/1979 - HFSID 16159PHILIP BOOTH The poet has drawn himself as a tiny face in the cosmos to illustrate his claim, "My place in the universe is small ... but I exist, not without joy". Autograph Quotation on Self-Caricature signed: "Philip Booth", 6x9.
Sale Price $324.00
$360.00
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GAMALIEL BRADFORD - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 10/27/1926 - HFSID 101646GAMALIEL BRADFORD Small card signed "I botanize, I herbanize: I am a/Naturalist of Souls." by "psychographer" Gamaliel Bradford in 1926. Bradford named his first autobiography A Naturalist of Souls. Autograph quotation signed "'I botanize, I herbanize: I am a/Naturalist of Souls.'/Gamaliel Bradford/October 27, 1926".
Sale Price $324.00
$360.00
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CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 08/16/1902 - HFSID 79510CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY Author of Indian Fights and Fights signs a quote from his book For Love of Country in 1902. Extremely rare! Autograph Quotation Signed: "Love of Country!-- that was his/passion you understand!'/It is also one of mines!/Cyrus Townsend Brady/Aug 16th 1902" in brown ink on a 5x3 card 4¼x2½.
Sale Price $324.00
$360.00
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ART BUCHWALD - TYPED QUOTATION SIGNED - HFSID 190189ART BUCHWALD The famous political satirist signed this card that features a typed quotation Typed Quotation signed: "Art Buchwald", 6x4 card. His quote in full: "Any company
Sale Price $144.00
$160.00
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THORNTON W. BURGESS - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 11/15/1944 - HFSID 200591THORNTON W. BURGESS The American conservationist and children's story author signs this note from 1944 Autograph quotation signed: "Thornton W. Burgess" in black ink. 6x4½. November 15, 1944
Sale Price $288.00
$320.00
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HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 03/22/1886 - HFSID 27852HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH A quote signed by the American author in black ink, dated 1986 while in Boston Autograph quotation signed: "H. Butterworth/Boston. Mass/March 22/'86", in black ink, 4¼x3½. In full: "Live in the good thou dost create And Life shall glorious be".
Sale Price $288.00
$320.00
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GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 03/30/1886 - HFSID 27812GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE Cable signs his view of "Acadian maidens.." Autograph Quotation signed: "Yours truly/Geo. W. Cable/March 30 1886.", 4¼x3½ card, in brown ink. In full: "Acadian maidens are shy as herons. They always see you first.
Sale Price $198.00
$220.00
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WILL CARLETON - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED - HFSID 27810WILL CARLETON Card signed "Onward - upward - heavenward!" by the Michigan poet who wrote "Over the Hill to the Poor House" Autograph quotation signed: "Onward - upward -/Heavenward!/Will Carleton", 4¼x3½ card. Carleton (1845-1912) was an American poet whose principal theme was the life of ordinary Americans.
Sale Price $162.00
$180.00
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SARAH N. CLEGHORN - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 3/14 CO-SIGNED BY: WILLIAM ROSE BENET, WALTER PRICHARD EATON, S. K. RADCLIFFE, ISABEL DE PALENCIA - HFSID 17783SARAH CLEGHORN, WILLIAM ROSE BENET, WALTER PRICHARD EATON and others These literary figures sign a guest book - eloquently! Autograph Quotation signed: "Sarah Cleghorn - Jan. 1941", 1 page, 5½x8½ album leaf. Written in the lower half of a guest ledger. Also signed "S. K.
Sale Price $450.00
$500.00