PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT AMERICANA

Lots 248–297

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248 [BOWEN, NATHAN] The New-England Diary; or, Almanack for the Year of Our Lord Christ, 1729. By a Native of New-England. Boston: Printed by B. Green, 1729.

12mo, rebound in modern mottled calf boards, spine lettered in gilt. With an additional 16pp. of contemporary manuscript. Minor rubbing to boards; intermittent light foxing. Property from a Private Chicago-area Collection $200-400

249 CLARKSON, T. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species: Particularly the African. Georgetown, (KY): Published by the Rev. David Barrow, 1816.

12mo, contemporary speckled calf, gilt-lettered spine. Early Kentucky imprint of a rare anti-slavery tract. Edgewear and rubbing to boards; minor dampstaining to endpapers; light foxing throughout. $200-400 249A FOWLER, ROBERT LUDLOW, ed. Facsimile of the Laws and Acts of the General Assembly for their Majesties Province of New York. At New York Printed and Sold by William Bradford, Printer to Their Majesties King William & Queen Mary, 1694. New York: Theodore Low de Vinne for the Grolier Club, January 1894.

Folio, blind-stamped vellum, gilt-lettered spine, slipcase. First edition, one of 312 copies on handmade paper. With engraved vignettes by Max Rosenthal to Fowler’s historical introduction. Vellum copy retained by the printer and one of the founders of the Grolier Club, Theodore de Vinne, for his personal collection, with his bookplate tipped to front pastedown. Light soiling to vellum; wear to slipcase. $2,000-4,000

250 SEWEL, WILLIAM The History of the Rise, Increase and Progress, of the Christian People Called Quakers; with Several Remarkable Occurrences Intermixed. Burlington, NJ: Isaac Collins, 1774.

Folio, contemporary calf, rebacked, gilt-lettered spine. Third edition, corrected. Wear to boards; darkening to some leaves; wormholing to extremities of some pages. Property from a Private Chicago-area Collection $200-400 251 WASHINGTON, GEORGE Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress, Written during the War between the United Colonies and Great Britain, by his Excellency George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Forces, now President of the United States. London: Printed for Cadell Junior and Davies, G.G., et. al, 1795.

2 vols. 8vo, rebound in modern 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. First edition, second issue. Scattered brownspotting; otherwise fine. $300-500

252 THOMAS, ISAIAH The History of Printing in America. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1810.

2 vols. 8vo, rebound in modern 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. Illustrated with five plates, two fold-out. Ex-library copy with blind-stamp to title pages; few minor brown spots; lacking page 101/102; darkening to some leaves; otherwise fine. $400-600

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253 WELLER, CHARLES FREDERICK Neglected Neighbors: Stories of Life in the Alleys, Tenements and Shanties of the National Capital. Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1909.

8vo, publisher’s pictorial green cloth. First edition. With numerous illustrations and reproduction photographs throughout. $100-200 254 (REVOLUTIONARY WAR) Extracts from the Registers of Liquidated Debts - received from John Hopkins Esq., late Loan Officer of Virginia . . . Account of Certificates for Liquidated Debts of the United States presented at the Continental Loan Office for the State of Virginia, and of Interest paid there on, pursuant to Ordinances of Congress, of September 17th, 1785-1786.

12 leaves. Oblong folio, contents loose in custom slipcase, sewn in modern paper wraps. Register of Revolutionary War debt certificates issued by the state of Virginia to help pay for costs incurred during the War. Recorded and assembled by John Hopkins, loan officer for Virginia. Signed by Joseph Nourse, first United States Register of the Treasury, Treasury Department Register’s Office, September 5, 1792. Marginal chipping and browning to leaves; horizontal fold with splitting at creases on some leaves. $3,000-5,000 255 MADISON, JAMES Acts Passed at the First Session of the Twelfth Congress. Together with Acts Passed at the Second Session of the Twelfth Congress of the United States. Washington City: Roger C. Weightman, 1811 and 1813.

2 parts in one. 8vo, rebound in modern cloth, giltlettered spine. Darkening to some leaves; intermittent brownspotting. $200-400

256 DEL PILAR, (JACOBO MARIA) Mapas Espanoles de America, Siglos XV-XVII. Madrid: s.n., 1951.

Portfolio, contents loose as issued in 3/4 greenishblue cloth over marbled boards, pictorial paper pastedown label to upper board, gilt-lettered spine, string ties. First edition, number 135 of 262 numbered copies from a total edition of 312. With 78 facsimile maps, many color, many full-sheet. Wear to boards; ends lightly frayed; bookplate tipped to front pastedown; marginal chipping to some leaves. $800-1,200

257* FISKE, JOHN The Historical Writings, 12 vols. [with] The Miscellaneous Writings, 12 vols. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1902.

24 vols. total. 8vo, uniformly bound in brick red giltlettered cloth. Standard Library edition. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $80-120 258 HELPS, ARTHUR The Spanish Conquest in America and its Relation to the History of Slavery and to the Government of Colonies. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856.

2 vols. 8vo, 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt-tooled and -lettered red morocco spine labels. First edition. $100-200

259 JOHNSTON, CHARLES A Narrative of the Incidents Attending the Capture, Detention, and Ransom of Charles Johnston. New York: J. & J. Harper, 1827.

8vo, rebound in modern brown leather, gilt-lettered spine. First edition. Moderate foxing; darkening to some leaves; dampstaining affecting pp. 213-264. $200-400 260 (LEWIS AND CLARK) JACOB, J.G. The Life and Times of Patrick Gass, Now Sole Survivor of the Overland Expedition to the Pacific Under Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6; Also, A Soldier in the War with Great Britain, from 1812 to 1815, and a Participant in the Battle of Lundy’s Lane. Wellsburg, VA: Jacob & Smith, 1859.

12mo, original green embossed cloth-backed boards, gilt titles to spine. With frontispiece engraving of Gass with facsimile signature and three engraved plates. Ex-libris Hervey Allen tipped in front pastedown. Evenly foxed pages; wear to boards with some loss at top outer hinge of spine; corners bumped; otherwise fine. $600-800

261 WILKES, CHARLES Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845.

5 vols., lacking atlas volume. 8vo, publisher’s brown cloth stamped in gilt and blind. With eight double-page maps and 42 steel-engraved vignette illustrations. Wear and fading to boards; ends chipped; intermittent foxing; bookplates tipped to front pastedowns. $200-400

261A (JACKSON, WILLIAM) SCHMIDT, CARL E. A Western Trip. [Detroit: Harold Press]: For Private Circulation Only, n.d. [c. 1904]

8vo, original brown calf, upper board gilt-decorated with cowboy with lasso on a rearing horse, red silk endpapers, t.e.g. Illustrated with 12 full-page photochrome process prints. Light wear to boards; spine faded; offsetting from plates; some tearing to endpapers. $800-1,200

262 (NATIVE AMERICAN) CATLIN, GEORGE North American Indian Portfolio. Chicago: Sage Books, Swallow Press, 1970.

Portfolio, contents loose as issued in publisher’s gilt-lettered black chemise. Facsimile of the 1844 edition of Catlin’s annotated illustrations of the daily pursuits, customs and ethos of North American tribes. Limited edition, number 109 of 1,000 numbered copies. With 22 plates with tissue-guards. Wear to slipcase; finger smudges to title page. $200-400

263 (NATIVE AMERICAN) HORDON, REV. JOHN A Grammar of the Cree Language. As Spoken by the Cree Indians of North America. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge , 1881.

12mo, original blue-green cloth. First edition. $80-120

264 (WESTERN AMERICANA) COBURN, WALLACE Rhymes from a Round-Up Camp. Great Falls, MT: W.T. Ridgley, 1899.

8vo, original gilt-decorated green cloth. First edition, second state. With frontispiece and seven black and white plates. $100-200

265 (WESTERN AMERICANA) GREY, ZANE A group of 14 books by Zane Grey and two by Romer Grey, five of which are signed or inscribed. $200-400

266 (WESTERN AMERICANA) LAWRENCE, A.B., ed. A History of Texas, or the Emigrants Guide to the New Republic, by a Resident Emigrant, Late from the United States. New York: Nafis & Cornish, 1844.

8vo, contemporary calf, gilt-tooled and -lettered spine. Third edition. With engraved bird’s eye view lithographed frontispiece of Austin in 1844. Hinges starting; darkening and some dampstaining to pages with minor intermittent foxing; endpapers starting to detach; library stamp to title page. $300-500

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267 (WESTERN AMERICANA) REMINGTON, FREDERIC Drawings by Frederic Remington. New York: R.H. Russell; London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1897.

Oblong folio, original cloth-backed pictorial boards signed twice by Remington on upper board and front pastedown with a drawing of a mustang. First edition, with numerous reproductions of Remington’s drawings. Boards detached and worn; text block detached from spine. [Together with:] Done in the Open: Drawings by Frederic Remington. New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1902. Folio, original cloth-backed pictorial boards. First edition, later issue. With numerous reproductions of Remington’s drawings. Wear to boards; spine deteriorated; text block detached from backstrip; previous owner’s manuscript ex-libris to f.f.e.p. $1,000-2,000 268 (WESTERN AMERICANA) STIFF, EDWARD The Texan Emigrant. Cincinnati: George Conclin, 1840.

8vo, original calf, housed in custom silk slipcase and chemise. First edition, with fold-out color map of Texas and two full page in-text wood engravings. Boards worn; spine deteriorated; hinges cracked; intermittent foxing; lacking lower third of folding map. $800-1,200 269 KING, EDWARD The Southern States of North America… London: Blackie & Son, 1875.

8vo, rebound in 3/4 calf over marbled boards, giltlettered spine. First English edition in book form. With lithographed frontispiece, three plates, and double-page color map of the United States. Minor rubbing to boards; light soiling to extremities of leaves. [Together with:] King’s Handbook of New York City. Boston: Moses King, (1893). 8vo, rebound in brown morocco, gilt-lettered spine. Scattered light brownspotting. $200-400

271 270 (CIVIL WAR) [HOLABIRD, SAMUEL BECKLEY] Flags of the Army of the United States Carried during the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865, to Designate the Headquarters of the Different Armies, Army Corps, Divisions and Brigades. [Philadelphia]: By the Author; Burke & McFetridge, Lith, 1888.

Folio, contemporary 2/3 brown morocco over pebbled boards, title in gilt to upper board and spine, a.e.g., marbled boards. Complete with title page and 87 chromolithograph plates. With Burke & McFetridge ad tipped in. $100-200

271 (CIVIL WAR) MILLER, FRANCIS T., ed. The Photographic History of the Civil War. New York: The Review of Reviews, 1911.

10 vols. 4to, 3/4 blue morocco over cloth, giltlettered spines, t.e.g. First edition. Profusely illustrated with photographic reproductions. Wear to boards at spines; ends chipped with loss to some vols.; interiors clean. $800-1,200

272* (CIVIL WAR) OFFICIAL RECORDS The Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1894-1917.

27 vols. 8vo, original navy cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

273 (WWI POSTER) WWI Lithograph propaganda poster, in the manner of Frank Brangwyn, featuring Belgian refugees. Linen-backed. 40 x 59 1/2 inches. $200-400

274 MACARTHUR, DOUGLAS Reminiscences. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.

8vo, publisher’s cloth, slipcase. Limited edition, number 91 of 1750 copies signed on the limitation page. Light wear to slipcase. $300-500

275 (MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE) Bound volume of 24 pages including numerous photographs, comprising the proceedings of the House of Representatives of the state of Massachusetts for the year 1875. Oblong 8vo, 3/4 brown morocco over gilt-lettered cloth. Rubbing to boards; light soiling and brownspotting affecting margins of plates. $150-250

276 TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD Black and white portrait photograph by Harris & Ewing, signed in the margin (“Wm. H. Taft”). Framed and matted. Size of frame 14 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches. $100-200

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277 HOOVER, HERBERT The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover. New York: Macmillan, 1952.

2 vols. 8vo, gilt-lettered blue cloth, original dust jackets laid in. Second printing, inscribed by Hoover on the f.f.e.p. both vols. Spines bumped; original jackets in pieces; otherwise good. $200-400

278 (KENNEDY, JOHN F.) LA GRANGE, JACQUES Drama and Color in the America’s Cup Races as Told in Woodcuts by Jacques La Grange. New Brunswick, NJ: Christie Press, (1934).

Oblong folio, original brown morocco lettered in silver. Deluxe edition, number 67 of 500 copies signed and numbered by La Grange. With six original woodcuts signed by the artist and four additional woodcuts signed by Helen La Grange. President John F. Kennedy copy. A gift inscription on the f.f.e.p. reads, “To Pres. John F. Kennedy - with all good wishes, Lester Bensinger.” Additionally, a bookplate tipped to the front pastedown reads “Sotheby’s: Property from Kennedy Family Homes.” Boards detached and worn; marginal chipping to tissue guards. $300-500 279* KING JR., MARTIN LUTHER Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? New York: Harper & Row, (1967).

8vo, publisher’s quarter black cloth over yellow boards, dust jacket. First edition of Dr. King’s fourth and final book. Signed by King on the f.f.e.p. Light wear and marginal chipping to jacket; numeric notations to front pastedown; light soiling to boards. Property from the Collection of Vira L. Turner, Atlanta, Georgia $1,500-2,500

280 NIXON, RICHARD Real Peace: A Strategy for the West. New York: s.n., (1983).

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth, dust jacket. First printing, signed by Nixon on the f.f.e.p. [Together with:] The Real War. (New York:) Warner Books, (1980). 8vo, publisher’s red cloth, dust jacket. First printing, signed by Nixon on the half-title. Property from the Friends of the Lake Forest Library, Lake Forest, Illinois $100-200 281 NIXON, RICHARD The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978.

8vo, publisher’s gilt-stamped blue cloth. First edition, second printing. Signed by Nixon on the f.f.e.p. Light wear and soiling to boards. Property of a Palm Beach Estate $100-200

282 OBAMA, BARACK Dreams From My Father. New York: Kodansha International, (1995).

8vo, pictorial paperback boards. First paperback edition. Inscribed and signed by Obama on the halftitle. Small chip to heel of spine; otherwise fine. $400-600

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284 283 (ILLINOIS) BLANCHARD, RUFUS Two guide maps.

Guide Map of Illinois. Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1872. 12mo, original printed wraps. Folding map of Illinois bound in. With original publisher’s advertisements and index leaflet tipped to front pastedown. Light wear to wraps; two 3-inch tears to map at right on center folds; small separations at creases; otherwise fine. [Together with:] Guide Map of Michigan. Chicago: Rufus Blanchard, 1872. 12mo, original printed wraps. Folding map of Michigan bound in. Light wear to wraps; otherwise fine. $1,000-2,000

284* (CHICAGO) Three original maps of the Chicago River by W.J. Stone, comprising Map of Chicago River Accompanying the Annual Report of Tho. Jefferson Cram Capt. U.S.T.E., Sep. 1839; Chicago River...at the close of the year 1837; and A Plan of Chicago Harbor, Lake Michigan, Accompanying the annual report of Tho. Jefferson Cram, Capt. U.S.T.E. Sept. 1839. Uniformly matted. Marginal chipping and light soiling. 12 x 15 inches each. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

285* (CHICAGO) ANDREAS, A.T. History of Chicago. From the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Chicago: A.T. Andreas, 1884.

3 vols. Folio, publisher’s brown morocco, gilt-lettered spines. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographic reproductions. Wear to boards; corners and joints rubbed; newspaper ephemera laid into each vol. [Together with:] History of Cook County, Illinois. Chicago: A.T. Andreas, 1884. Folio, publisher’s brown morocco, gilt-lettered spine. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographic reproductions. Wear to boards; ends chipped. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

286* (CHICAGO) The Lakeside Memorial of the Burning of Chicago, A.D. 1871. Chicago: University Publishing, 1872.

4to, original gilt-lettered green cloth, a.e.g. Only edition. Illustrated with 11 engravings 12 mounted albumen photos, each with printed caption and within a printed red lined border. Wear to boards; ends chipped; light foxing mainly affecting tissue guards; two albumen photos beginning to detach from page. Property from the Collection of Lethorne Mulder, Schererville, Indiana $800-1,200

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287* (CHICAGO) MOSES, JOHN AND KIRKLAND, JOSEPH Aboriginal to Metropolitan. History of Chicago Illinois. Chicago: Munsell, 1895.

2 vols. Thick 4to, gilt-lettered brown morocco, a.e.g., decorative endpapers. Profusely illustrated with black and white plates. Inscribed by Joseph Kirkland on the frontispiece, vol. 1. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $100-200

288 (CHICAGO) TRIBUNE TOWER COMPETITION The International Competition for a New Administration Building for the Chicago Tribune MCMXXII. Chicago: The Tribune Company, 1923.

4to, thick brown cloth, title labels to front board and spine. Illustrated throughout with photographs of architectural proposals for the Tribune Tower, including designs by Adolf Loos, Walter Gropius, Bruno Taut, Daniel Burnham and many others. Fine. $400-600 289* (CHICAGO) A group of 11 books pertaining to Chicago history.

Twenty Years at Hull-House. By Jane Addams. New York: Macmillan, 1910. Chicago: Past, Present, Future. By John S. Wright. Chicago: s.n., 1870. Inscribed. Fabulous Chicago. By Emmett Dedmon. New York: Random House, (1953). History of Cook County Illinois. Edited by Weston A. Goodspeed. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association, (1909). 2 vols. Growing Up With Chicago. By Carter H. Harrison. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, (1944). Inscribed. Chicago Medium Rare. By Robert J. Casey. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1949). Chicago: A Portrait. By Henry Justin Smith. New York: Century, (1931). Bygone Days in Chicago. By Frederick Francis Cook. Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1910. The Great Chicago Fire. By Paul M. Angle Chicago: Chicago Historical Society, 1946. Inscribed. The Great Conflagration. Chicago: Union Publishing, 1871. The Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Representative Men of Chicago and the World’s Columbian Exposition. Chicago: American Biographical, 1892. Property from the Collection of Richardson and Janice Spofford and the Thomas Edward Wilson House, Chicago, Illinois $200-400

290 (BASEBALL) Three baseballs signed by major league baseball players Hank Aaron, Bob Feller and Minnie Minoso. Each in plastic displays. $100-200

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292 291 (BOXING) JOHNSON, JACK Typed letter signed (“John A. Johnson”), 2 pages, Leavenworth, Kansas, Valentine’s Day, 1921. Together with original envelope signed (“Jack Johnson”) in return address. Marginal chipping; light toning.

John Arthur “Jack” Johnson was the first African American world heavyweight champion. Known as “the Galveston Giant,” Johnston made headlines in and out of the boxing ring as a fierce competitor and as a frequent target of racial discrimination. Johnson was arrested in October 1912 based on charges alleging that Johnson’s marriage to Lucille Cameron, who was white, violated the Mann Act, against “transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes” and accused Cameron of being a prostitute.

Johnston and his wife fled the country exiling to Canada and later to Europe, South America and Mexico, where they lived to avoid his prison sentence. Upon returning to the United States, Johnson surrendered to the authorities on July 20, 1920, and began his sentence of one year at Leavenworth Penitentiary; he was released on July 9, 1921.

In the present letter, Johnson writes from prison to his friend, Chicago jazz club owner William Bottoms, accepting his request to enter him into a boxing exhibition against a yet undecided opponent: “I am doing this to help you and to help myself, and I think it is a fair proposition, because just now it does not make any difference whom I may box or fight, I am sure to receive great returns... Now, Bill, I consider myself doing you a great favor, by giving you this golden opportunity. I am turning down good guarantees and perhaps losing many good friends, but, nevertheless... you know that when I make my mind to do something I will do or die.”

Together with typed legal document signed (“Wm. Bottoms,” “B.G. Clay,” and “Chas. Jackson”), one page, March 8, 1921, finalizing the legal details between Bottoms, Clay and Jackson for the proposed exhibition on August 1st, 1921. Due to legal disagreements over the present document, the boxing exhibition never took place. $2,000-4,000

292 (BOXING) Two pairs of boxing gloves including a red and yellow pair of Franklin gloves each signed by Sugar Ray Leonard, with a smiley face, and a pair of brown and white Everlast gloves each signed by Joe Frazier on the interior underneath the Everlast logo. Property of a Palm Beach Estate $300-500

293 (JONES, BOBBY) O.B. KEELER AND GRANTLAND RICE The Bobby Jones Story. Atlanta: Tupper & Love, (1953).

8vo, original gilt-stamped blue cloth, dust jacket, unclipped. Illustrated with black and white reproduction photographs. First edition, inscribed by Eleanor Keeler and additionally signed by Robert “Bobby” Jones on the f.f.e.p. Light soiling to jacket; ends bumped and worn; ephemera laid in to front. $1,500-2,500 293A (SPORTS) A group of three books signed by major league baseball players, including one signed by Mickey Mantle.

The Mick. With Herb Gluck. Garden City, New York, 1985. Signed by Mantle on the half-title. Rookie. By Dwight Gooden. Garden City, New York, 1985. Signed by Gooden on the half-title. Throwing Heat. By Nolan Ryan and Harvey Frommer. New York, 1988. Signed by Ryan on the half-title.

8vo, uniformly bound in varying shades of blue cloth over red boards, gilt-lettered spines. Light wear and fading to boards; otherwise fine. Property of a Palm Beach Estate $200-400

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294 HEPBURN, KATHARINE Typed letter signed (“Katharine Hepburn”), one page, on personal letterhead, n.d., to Dr. Fessenden. Framed and matted together with an inscription (“For Millard Fessenden, Jr. Katharine Hepburn”) and a color portrait. Size of frame 17 x 23 inches. $100-200

295 HITCHCOCK, ALFRED AND BEN HECHT Original screenplay for the film Notorious, 92 pp., 4to, [Los Angeles], April 16, 1945, marked “Dialogue Treatment/Ben Hecht” to upper cover, with Vanguard Films title page, lacking receipt attachment, bound with brads in original blue wraps. Light toning and marginal chipping to wraps; upper wrap detached from upper two brads. Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois $600-800 296 HOPE, BOB They Got Me Covered. Hollywood: Bob Hope, 1941.

8vo, quarter cloth over original pictorial boards. First edition, signed and inscribed “Honestly! It’s nothing but the truth/Bob Hope” on the f.f.e.p. $100-200

297 (FILM) A set of eight original lobby cards for the film East of Eden (Warner Brothers, 1955). Light soiling; evidence of tape removal to margins of some. Size of each 11 x 14 inches. $300-500