Search Results: Authors starting with E from Henry Berry, books/ephemera

[KENTUCKY GOVERNOR NED BREATHITT SIGNED PHOTO 1967; KENTUCKY DERBY ASSOCIATION; CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER] EDWARD T. BREATHITT / NED BREATHITT, KENTUCKY GOVERNOR 1963-67, Kentucky Derby association signed photograph 1967, inscribed "To Betty and Vern, With Best Wishes, Edward T. Breathitt, Gov. of Ky., Derby 1967", taped on typed slip on back "At the Ky. Derby 1967, Breakfast with the gov. of Kentucky", black-and-white photograph, 8" x 10", group of 5 persons with Breathitt standing in the middle /// POINTS OF INTEREST: "Edward Thompson Breathitt, Jr. (November 26, 1924 – October 14, 2003) was an American politician from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. A member of one of the state's political families, he was the 51st Governor of Kentucky, serving from 1963 to 1967…His major accomplishment as governor was the passage of the Kentucky Civil Rights Act, the first desegregation law passed by a southern state…Breathitt was one of three [Southern] governors to oppose George Wallace's proposed constitutional… Read More

[1897 FATHER OF BALLISTICS J. M. INGALLS CIVIL WAR US ARMY SIGNATURE] PROJECTILES DE CAMPAGNE DE SIEGE ET DE PLACE, FUSEES par E. Vallier, Chef d'escadron d'Artillerie, Correspondant de l'Institut, published by Gauthier-Vallers et Fils, Paris, undated (but 1897, WorldCat/OCLC record), text in French, quarter-leather marbled board cover (loss of spine), 4-3/4" x 7-1/2", 178 pages, illustrations, charts, diagrams, mathematical formulas (ballistics), Providence Athenaeum discard with library and discard notations and stampings, James M. Ingalls, Capt. 1st Arty (artillery) ownership signature in ink on front blank endpage facing inside front cover with plate with type print "Presented to the Providence Athenaeum by Col. James M. Ingalls, U.S.A (U. S. Army), Ingalls has been called the "Father of Ballistics" (see below), association/presentation copy from book's author Frédéric Marie Emmanuel Vallier (E. Vallier) in French in pen at top right of half title page, "To Capt. James Ingalls, Compliments of… Read More

[1931 ENRICO PRAMPOLINI COLOR COSTUME PRINTS / COCKTAIL PANTOMIME BY MARINETTI, PARIS 1927] ENRICO PRAMPOLINI 4 small color prints, partly pochoir, handcolored, 2 masks 2-1/2" x 3" and 2 costume 4" x 2-1/4" identfied and signed in the 2 costume iplates, plus in the middle 4-3/4" x 6" black-and-white photo Mouvement de Scene, Photo Nakarayama (presumably the Japanese photographer Iwata Nakayama who was in Paris 1926-27), plate #34, preserved page from a mostly deteriorated copy of the rare theater book TENDANCES NOUVELLES DU THEATRE – CHOIX DE DECORS, COSTUMES, etc. [rest of long subtitleomotted], by Leon Moussinac, published by Les Editions Albert Levy, Paris, 1931, limited edition 600 copies /// CONDITION: generally lightly age-toned somewhat more at edge, light crease at upper left cutting a little into one color mask.

[OLGA SAMAROFF, JULLIARD SCHOOL, MUSIC TEACHER; MANUSCRIPT DISSERTATION BY MUSIC PROFESSIONAL] THE TEACHING AND ARTISTIC LEGACY OF OLGA SAMAROFF STOKOWSKI – A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate School in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Arts by Geoffrey Eugene McGillen, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, May, 1989, inscribed to Natalie Ryshna Maynard (Mrs. H. E. Maynard, see Provenance below) and her husband by author McGillen and naming his wife Mary also at the top of the title page dated June 15, 1989, comb-bound manuscript/typescript, 8-1/2" x 11", xvi+485 pages, text with footnotes pages 1-267, extensive back matter pages 268-485 Appendices A-D plus Bibliography, Appendix A – Repertoire of Olga Samaroff pages 268-75, Appendix B – Technical Studies Compiled by Madame Olga Samaroff, Collection of Lesley Cathcart Munn pages 276-281 (with music bars), Appendix C – Lesley Cathcart Munn Notebook of Olga Samaroff Stokowski Piano Classes pages 282-309,… Read More