Auction Date:2013 Mar 21 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Hardcover guest book from an unknown town hall, 10 x 12, spanning the years of 1939–1945, signed inside by hundreds of guests, including authors, entertainers, composers, musicians, members of the military, and other notables. Signers include: H. G. Wells, Sinclair Lewis (2), the von Trapp Family, Arthur Balsam, Nelson Eddy, Egon Petri, Walter Damrosh, Aaron Copland, Virgil Thomson, Frank Buck, Bela Bartok, Elisabeth Schuman, Isabel Scionti, Walter Damerosch, Albert Spalding (violinist), Bertrand Russell, Moritz Rosenthal, Lauritz Melchior, Ernst Wolff, John Charles Thomas, Vladimir Padwa, Robert Goldsand, Martial Singher, Elissa Landi, Robert E. Sherwood, Gypsy Markoff, Olive Middleton, George Romney, Ruth Draper, Elaine Malbin, Giuseppe Bamboschek, Elsa Maxwell, Norman Vincent Peale, Herbert Graf, Narciso Figueroa, George Szell, Carlos Salzeda, Sir Thomas and Lady Beecham, Gregor Piatigorsky, Wanda Landowska, Elmer Davis, Louis Persinger, Edmund Kurtz, Erich Kahn, Jan Peerce, Anthony Tudor, Vladimir Heifetz, Channing Pollock, Roland Hayes, Marisa Regules, Alfred E. Smith, Jean Hersholt, Jose Iturbi, Earl Schenck, Quentin Reynolds, Latte Layman, Christopher Morley, Isidor Achron, H. H. Knickerbocker, Marjorie Lawrence, Alexander Brailowsky, Joseph Szigeti, Isaac Stern, Helen Traubel, Harry Hershfield, Otto Preminger, Arthur Loesser, George Gallup, Allan Roy Dafoe, Isaac Stern, Eleanor Roosevelt (2), Gertrude Ribla, Margaret Bourke White, Pearl S. Buck, Jacques Fray, Marco Rizo,Otto Klemperer, Leopold Mittmann, Mischa Elman, Frank Buck, Kerstin Thorborg, Enzio Pinza, George F. Eliot, Samuel Dushkin, and Igor Sikorsky. Missing portion of spine, binding loose, repaired on the inside pastedowns, some loose pages, and surface loss and chipping to covers, otherwise fine condition. A one-of-a-kind plethora of opera singers, composers, and musicians, with the enticing potential for some elusive finds.
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