Search Results: Authors starting with A from Schulson Autographs

Siskind used his well known abstract photograph as a Christmas Card for 1952, inscribed and signed, "GREETINGS XMAS 1952 - and love and love Aaron." Attached to hard card stock, measuring in full 6.25 by 4. 75 inches, slight chipping on edges. Autograph

Printed and Signed Photograph cover for a menu from "The Ahwahnee" restaurant, 8vo,4 pages folded, Yosemite National Park, August 4, 1953. The cover of this attractive and scarce dinner menu is illustrated with a print of Adams' photograph titled, "Winter Sports in Yosemite," A full explanation of the image is printed on the back cover where Adams has signed in full, "Ansel Adams." To the right of the signature, the front image is explained, "El Capitan, Merced River, Yosemite National Park California From a Photograph by Ansel Adams." The menu, which includes "Lobster a la Newburg" as well as a "Cheese omelet," opens to 4to, ideal for displaying the photograph, explanatory text and signature. Very attractive for display. Autograph

Ansel Adams Archive. Three Typed Letters Signed, 1957 and 1968. Adams refers to photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Stiechen and his Family of Man exhibit at MOMA in the second letter and Stieglitz. Edward Weston, Minor White and himself in the third letter. He gives advice on a film developing process in the first and second letters. Each letter is on different personalized printed address stationery and all are addressed to Steurat Oring who was photography student at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) at the time. April 11, 1957, San Francisco, 1 page, 4to. "Now, about your Pyrocatechin Project...I do not have any Zone-system data on this developer which could be of use... especially with the modern films. It is a 'tanning' developer and you might have serious trouble with it used on the new thin-emulsion films...." He offers five suggestions, asks to know how his suggestions turn out and signs in full with black crayon, "Ansel Adams." In is own hand he adds,"and 'normal' developing… Read More

Aiken composed a charming Christmas poem which opens with an appealing sketch of a mouse's face. "The Mouse upon the Christmas day/Bends his little knees to pray/ O dear Jesus/ Please to cheese us/That is all I have to say." He signs with his initials, "CA," and adds at the top of the folded card stock, "With love from C [he draws a face in the C] and M [and draws eyes and mouth within the letter] to Maurice and Betty." A particularly charming holiday greeting card by the poet and novelist. Autograph Poem Twice Signed with Abbreviations on folded card stock, 11x 8 1/2 inches opened, n.p., n.d. Condition. Edges show slight soiling, back of card especially along edges and center fold show soiling. Autograph

Little Women" author is shown seated at a writing desk with pen in hand. Pencil docketing on verso. Autograph

1-A sketchbook of 119 drawings mainly of people but also several circus animals, dated "28 Feb. 46, Los Angeles. " Many of the sketches show men in military uniform, one at the USO in Union Station, people outdoors dressed in coats, one woman on strike, others indoors, sleeping in chairs, ironing, waiting around, several musicians. The sketches appear to capture people unknown to the artist engaged in every day life in Los Angeles in 1946. Most pages are dated with month and day. The sketchbook titled, "The Scribble In Book," is bound in gray worn boards, loose, cracked spine, all pages in tact. ($250) 2-Anatomical Sketchbook, 1888, "Gatten [?]", titled on first free end paper, "Anatomy, Anatomy of the Human Figure." Attached to the inside cover is a newspaper clipping about applicants for the Royal Academy of Painters. The sketchbook includes handwritten anatomical information about the human body. Sketches of the anatomy are interspersed throughout. Some drawings are pasted in, others are drawn… Read More

Known for his work at Mad Magazine and the comic, "Groo the Wanderer," Aragones sketched Groo, bust length next to a smaller self portrait. He rendered his cartoons on a 4 x 5 inch printed card which reads, "This is a quick hand drawn sketch or diagram of my past or current work." He inscribed and signed with date, "To...MAD-LY Aragones 95." Autograph

Publicity photograph, silver gelatin print, featuring the great jazz musician holding his trumpet and measuring 8 x 10 inches. Armstrong inscribed and signed his smiling image, "Best Wishes to June from Louis Armstrong." "Direction Joe Glaser, RCA Building...New York" is printed on lower margin. Joseph G. Glaser (1896 - 1969) who managed the careers of several jazz musicians and singers including Billie Holiday became Armstrong's manager in 1935. Armstrong, also known Satchmo, gained importance in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player as well as an improvisational jazz singer. His popularity and importance continued throughout his lifetime. Condition: slight crimping to lower left corner and slight browning at upper margin. Autograph