Weekly Autograph Specials

Photograph signed: "Jack/Lemmon". Color, 10x8 overall, image 9½x7 (one surface). Movie still from Avanti!. Captioned at bottom blank margin. A private school-educated everyman who could play outrageous comedy and wrenching tragedy, Jack Lemmon (1925-2001) burst onto the movie scene as a 1950s Columbia contract player and remained a beloved star until his death. Whether through humor or pathos, he excelled at illuminating the struggles of average men against a callous world; as director Billy Wilder once noted, "There was a little bit of genius in everything he did." Lemmon won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his role as Ensign Pulver in Mister Roberts. He also won the 1973 Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying garment manufacturer Harry Stoner in Save the Tiger. Lemmon received Best Actor Oscar nominations for Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses, The China Syndrome, Tribute and Missing. Slightly creased at corners. Fine condition.

Color publicity photograph of James Doolittle dressed in his dress uniform. Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Art Garry:/With every good wish./J. H. Doolittle". Color, 8x9¾. Publicity photo for Mutual of Omaha. In 1922, Jimmy Doolittle (1896-1993) made the first transcontinental flight in less than 24 hours. In the 1920s and 1930s, he set various speed and flight records. In World War II, Doolittle and 79 other fighter pilots ("Doolittle's Raiders") bombed Tokyo on April 18, 1942, the first air attack on the Japanese capital. Also hit were targets in Yokohama and other cities, scoring a huge victory for United States morale at a time when Japan's position in the Pacific seemed impregnable. Doolittle was promoted to Brigadier General the next day and was later awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for the raid. Fine condition.

Each cartoonist has signed this American League baseball, and also drawn a cartoon character on the ball. Original Art inscribed and signed on a Baseball: "For/Rick/[drawing of "Zonker" from the comic strip Doonesbury]/Cheers,/Gary Trudeau", "Keep on Woofin'/Marmaduke/[who is drawn here]/Brad Anderson". "[drawing of "Ziggy"]/Tom Wilson". "To Rick Kain/with/love/from/the/Family/Circus/[drawing of "Billy" from that strip]/1-14-08/Bil Keane", "I think/I'll take a/nap here/[drawing of "Beetle Bailey"]Mort Walker". Official Rawlings American League baseball, Gene A. Budig, President, signed in various inks by the 5 cartoonists. In 1975, GARRY TRUDEAU (b. 1948) of the Universal Press Syndicate, became the first comic strip cartoonist to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning. He has been drawing "Doonesbury" since 1970, taking a year off in 1983-1984. BIL KEANE (1922-2011) has drawn Billy from his popular comic strip "Family Circus," which first appeared in February 1960 and is now syndicated in over 1,500 newspapers. Billy is based on Keane's own son, Glen, who is now an animator for the Walt Disney Company.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer signs this photograph titled "1987/88 AT&T American Encore Composers" Photograph inscribed and signed: "For/Raymond Lawing/Cordially/Aaron Copland". B/w, 8x10. Aaron Copland wrote ballets including Billy the Kid (1938), Rodeo (1942), and Appalachian Spring (awarded 1945 Pulitzer Prize in Music) and music for films, the best known being Of Mice and Men (1939), Our Town (1940), The Red Pony (1948) and The Heiress (1949). His major orchestral works include El Salón México (1936) and Fanfare for the Common Man (1943). Light beading of ink. Fine condition.

Clarence Darrow signs a second edition of his book Farmington. Book signed: "To remember a pleasant/day/Clarence Darrow" on first blank flyleaf of Farmington by Clarence S. Darrow, 277p, hardcover, 5x7½. Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co.": 1904. Second Edition. Above Darrow's inscription in another hand: "Elizabeth Hauser/yours sincerely/Henry (illegible)/Oct 9th 1909". "Hauser" bookplate affixed to inside cover opposite inscription page. Further inscription on half-title page: "A Happy New Year/to/Julius from E.J.H./Jan. 1-1948". Farmington, a novel of small town boyhood, was first published in 1903. Attorney Clarence Darrow (1857-1938), who specialized in corporate law, shot to fame in 1894, when he defended American Socialist leader Eugene V. Debs, President of the American Railroad Union, arrested on a federal contempt of court charge arising from a strike at the Chicago Pullman Palace Car Company. Although Darrow lost the case, he won a national reputation as a champion of radical causes. A brilliant orator and a master of reforming the law, framing pleas and eliciting evidence, he became one of America's most renowned defense lawyers, and he used his position to campaign against capital punishment.…"

In the aftermath of the New York City draft riots of 1863, Tweed and other City officials sign authorization to pay the price of a draft substitute with city funds. Partly Printed DS: "W.M. Tweed" as Supervisor, 1 page, 8½x7. New York, 1863 September 26. Headed: "Certificate in favor of Drafted Member of the Active Militia Force of the State in this City, showing that he has obtained a/Substitute and that he is entitled to have the Money therefore paid by the Comptroller". Staple holes at upper left. 2-inch diagonal stain above staple holes. 2-inch separation at horizontal fold (all intact). Slight tears at right edge. Tweed signs as a member of the "New York County/Substitute and Relief Committee" as has two other supervisors and New York City Comptroller "Matthew T. Brennan". August Ford of I Company, Sixth Regiment, has been drafted and has found a substitute named Henry Eiring (misspelled as "Iring") who is "entitled to have the sum of $300 paid to him". Accompanied by a second Partly Printed DS: "Henry Eiring", 1 page, 8¼x7. New York, 1863 September 26. Acknowledgment of the receipt of $300. Light smudging of ink. Creased.

Autograph Letter signed: "Horace Greeley", 1 p, folded to 5x5¾. On letterhead of New York Tribune. New York, 1870 January 18. To "Dear Sir". In full: "The bearer is my friend H. L. Stuart Esq. Of this city, who visits Washington on business, and wishes to claim your attention. I commend him to your consideration. Yours." GREELEY founded the "New York Tribune" in 1841 and edited it until his death. His newspaper, competitive in price with the "penny press" but less sensational, was the first to give its writers individual by-lines and the first with a literary and book review department. The "Tribune" had wide readership and influence, and many of his editorial quips became famous. ("Go West, young man," was one.) He was steadfast in support of many causes, such as antislavery, temperance, and the rights of labor, but he could be mercurial at times. (His swift reversal of opinion on the secession of the southern states is reflected in two 1861 "Tribune" editorials: "Go in Peace, Errant Sisters," followed shortly by "On to Richmond.") He served as a Whig in Congress for three months (1848-1849) to fill a vacancy and did not seek reelection.

Official NASA photograph of the first man to walk on the Moon Inscribed Printed Photograph Signed in Ink: "To William Rorst-/Best Wishes/Neil Armstrong". Color, 8x10. Official NASA photograph. Captioned in lower margin and on verso. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon's surface. Civilian Neil Alden Armstrong (1930-2012) had entered the U.S. space program as a senior NASA research pilot. A fan of aviation from the age of nine, Armstrong had his pilot's license by the age of 16, and, after studying aeronautical engineering at Purdue for two years, went to Pensacola, Florida for Navy flight training. Serving in Korea at the age of 21, Armstrong flew 78 combat missions and won three Air Medals. For the seven years prior to his selection by NASA, Armstrong was a civilian pilot at Edwards Air Force Base, testing experimental aircraft and working as an engineer. A veteran of Gemini 8, Armstrong thrilled the world when he stepped off the ladder of the Lunar Excursion Module Eagle and spoke the first words heard from the surface of the Moon: "That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind."Slightly creased at corners. Fine condition. Accompanied by PSA/DNA LOA.

Small sepia publicity photograph of Barbara Stanwyck leaning on her elbow. Photograph signed: "With best wishes/Barbara Stanwyck". Sepia, 5x7. Orphaned at four, a Ziegfeld chorus girl at 15, Stanwyck (1907-1990) was a Broadway star by the late 1920's. Moving to Hollywood after 1930, she was often cast as a tough-minded working girl who rarely met a happy ending. She received Oscar nominations for Stella Dallas (1937), Ball of Fire (1941), Double Indemnity (1944) and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). She earned renewed popularity on television, especially as the star of the Western series Big Valley (1965-1969) for which she won an Emmy. ¾-inch tear at mid-right margin. Corners trimmed. Fine condition.

Offset lithograph titled "The Captain's Table" 615/950 signed by artist Offset lithograph titled "The Captain's Table" signed in pencil "Charles Bragg" at lower right, numbered "615/950" at lower left, titled "The Captain's Table" at center. Painter, sculptor, and author Charles Bragg (1931-2017) was a satirical artist. His art has been exhibited in museums and galleries, commissioned by Playboy, and documented in a PBS program. He won a Gold Medal from the National Society of Illustrators and an Award of Merit from the Art Directors Guild of New York. His publications include Charles Bragg on Medicine (1984), Charles Bragg: The Works! A Retrospective (1999), and Asylum Earth (2013).  Fine condition.  27x18.