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(CORNWELL, DEAN.) Group of 30 items Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, by
writers, musicians, entertainers, actors, industrialists, sports figures, and others, each a letter
to illustrator Dean Cornwell, or an inscription on a letter from him, most concerning a
commemorative heraldic frieze he was designing for the Warwick Hotel in 1936-37. Most
4to; generally good condition.
Vp, 1919-57
[400/600]
Eddie V. Rickenbacker * Max Reinhardt * Peter B. Kyne (3) * William Randolph Hearst *
Robert Moses * Bernard F. Gimbel * Albert Spalding * Prince Serge Obolensky * Bernard
Sobel * Margaret E. Sangster * George Gordon Battle * Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr. * Edward F.
Fisher * Evangeline Adams * Norman Bel Geddes * Rudolf Bing * Fred Waring * Guy
Lombardo * Glenn Gray * Jessica Dragonette * André Kostelanetz * Vincent Lopez * Eddy
Duchin * Ben Bernie * Vinton Freedley * Teresa Helburn * Kenneth M. Murchison * Erno
Rapee.
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DELACROIX, EUGÈNE. Autograph Letter Signed, “EugDelacroix,” to an
unnamed recipient (“Sir”), in French, acknowledging a recent invitation to a society: “. . . I
hasten to express my gratefulness and look forward to the moment I may express this to
the other gentlemen. . . .” 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank. Np, 5 March 1852
[500/750]
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FLAGG, JAMES MONTGOMERY. Ink drawing with watercolor, Signed
“J.M.F.,” at lower right, showing a seated man [illustrator Harry Beckhoff?] holding a stick
of butter to his neck, with a typed caption: “A pleasant young artist named Beckhoff / Was
trying to saw his dam neckhoff / I heard the guy mutter / ‘Tho I’ve used the BEST butter
/ I cant seem to get a dam speckhoff!’” 11x8
1
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2
inches; folds.
Np, nd
[500/750]
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GOLDBERG, REUBEN LUCIUS (“RUBE”). Ink drawing, Signed and
Inscribed, “To Florence E. / Hunter R.N. / Rube Goldberg / May / 1938,” at left edge
and bottom edge of a correspondence card, showing the head of a young woman in a hat.
4
1
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4
x5
1
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2
inches; remnants of prior mounting at all corners recto and overall verso.
Np, May 1938
[100/200]
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