1890-1897. Frazer to Grant Allen on Animism and His Creative Process. A fascinating group of letters whose scope ranges from animism and tree worship to private topics. In one letter, Frazer thanks Allen “for the kind present of ‘The Attis’” (Allen's translation of The Attis of Caius Valerius Catullus …..... Read More about Four Autograph Letters, signed, to Grant Allen

v.p: 1920-1922. American Impressionist Garber Encourages A Young Artist. An interesting and rather heartening correspondence between an established artist, the American impressionist Daniel Garber, and his pupil and protégé, Austin Purves. It includes a letter from Garber to the even more established artist Edward Howland Blashfield, decorator of the Great..... Read More about 6 Autograph Letters, signed, to Austin M. Purves Jr, plus one addressed to [E.H.] Blashfield...

[ca. 1950 - 1993]. A rich collection of photographs, autographs, personal records, LPs and ephemera from the personal collection of bebop pioneer Dizzy Gillespie, which amply records the trumpter's outsized personality and his importance as a global jazz ambassador. Includes Dizzy's own collection of mostly larger format photographs of other..... Read More about Archive of photographs, ephemera, memorabilia, etc., relating to the life and career of Dizzy...

New York: Henry G. Langley, 1844. First edition, second issue, with a dual New York and London imprint in volume one. A cornerstone account of the Sante Fe trail, and a landmark book in Western Americana. Often reprinted. The folding map "Indian Territory, Northern Texas, and New Mexico" has been..... Read More about Commerce of the Prairies: or the Journal of a Santa Fé Trader, during Eight Expeditions Across...

New York: Harper & Brothers, [1922]. First edition, G-W (July 1922) on copyright page. Inscribed, in Presentation Binding. Tales of outdoor travel and hunting in the West: Colorado, Arizona, and California. Inscribed by the author on first blank, in his characteristic purple ink, "To Edna from Zane Gray Christmas 1923"..... Read More about Tales of Lonely Trails

[Carmel, Calif: 1927]. Hagemeyer Portrait of Suffragist Sara Bard Field. Magnificent portrait of the great suffragist, reformer, activist, free-thinker, and poet, Sara Bard Field (1882-1974). Bard was also the passionate lover of the anarchist C.E.S. Wood, and the couple lived together in a celebrated "free union" first in San Francisco..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Sara Bard Field

London: George Routledge, 1913. First combined edition. Presentation Copy to John Henderson, With Correspondence. AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY to angling author and master fly tyer John Henderson (senior) who contributed a chapter "Dry-Fly on Lough Arrow" (an outstanding trout fishery in Ireland) illustrated with three photogravure plates from his negatives. Several..... Read More about The Dry-Fly Man's Handbook. A Complete Manual. Including The Fisherman's Entomology and the...

London: Vinton, 1902-1903. Halford’s Dry Fly Series. A complete set of Halford's “Dry Fly Series”, in uniform publisher’s cloth. The first title is inscribed to W.H. Pope, acknowledged by Halford in the preface as one of the “best dry-fly fishermen of the day.” With Nathaniel Lloyd, Pope “undertook the arduous..... Read More about Halford’s Dry Fly Series, complete, comprising:] Dry-Fly Fishing in Theory and Practice [with:]...

[Cambridge: Harvard University, 1866]. George Kendall Warren (1824-1884) was a distinguished northeastern landscape photographer and the most highly-regarded collegiate yearbook photographer to elite northeastern institutions: Dartmouth, Williams, Brown, Weslyan, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, West Point, Union, and Harvard.The Class of 1866 graduated George A. Glass and Frank Wright, founders of the..... Read More about Harvard Class of 1866 Photographic Yearbook

New York: Dutton, 1930. First edition, one of 100 copies SIGNED by the artist. John Held Jr.'s Caricatures of Sport. A fine example of Held's humorous line and superb draftsmanship. Shown are ladies and gentlemen enjoying the following pursuits: Hunting, Fox Hunting, Fishing, Golf, Water Skiing, Snow Skiing, Parachuting, Tennis..... Read More about Outlines of Sport [with:] original pen and ink drawing of a fishing scene, the third picture in...

Finca Vigia San Francisco de Paula Cuba: August 7, 1941. The Hemingways on a Diet. George Brown owned a gym in New York City where Hemingway worked out when he was in the town, and he and George Brown became fast friends, Brown serving as his trainer and boxing coach..... Read More about Typed Letter, signed (“Ernie”), to George Brown, his boxing coach and trainer

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1882. Abbey, Edwin A. First edition thus. William Merritt Chase to His Wife. Inscribed from William Merritt Chase to his wife-to-be Alice "Pansy" Gerson on Christmas 1884. The two were family friends and eventually were married in 1886 after an extended courtship of seven years..... Read More about Selections from the Poetry of Robert Herrick