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

[ORDER OF THE COSTUMES, SUPPLIES CATALOG; MASONS MASONRY MASONIC] EASTERN STAR CATALOGUE NO.61 [cover title] / COSTUMES AND SUPPLIES FOR THE ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR, Catalog No. 61, Manufactured Ihling Bros. Everard Co., Kalamazoo, Michigan, undated/ca. 1900, company published trade catalog, paper wraps in homemade covering of clear plastic front and blue heavy paper spine and back with three staples at binding, color front cover illustration of an Arab/Middle East caravan riding camels heading toward a cross in the night sky filled with stars, 7-1/4"x 10-1/2", 64 pp., frontispiece color lithograph of Inhling Brothers Everard Co. manufacturing plant with motto "We Never Disappoint" at bottom, fold-out pages for "Jewels - Set of Seventeen Pieces with Hangars," pages 5-39 are costumes for women of the Order of the Eastern Star (a Masonic-related organization open to men and women) worn by women models, multiple illustrations or photographs on the other pages, index, order forms tipped in; CONDITION:… Read More

[HISPANIC LITERATURE, TEXT IN SPANISH; AUTHOR SIGNED COPY; WOMEN'S INTEREST; RARE] TRES CANTATAS AL MAR - Al Dormido Mar, Al Mar Que Despierta, Al Despierto Mar - Libro primero de las cantatas, by Ilka Krupkin, inscribed and signed by the poet to noted Cuban emigree poet Rita Geada, published by Editor El Maguntina, Buenos Aires, 1947, Segunda Edicion (stated on title page), inscribed and signed by the poet on the half-title page, "a Rita Geada, poeta, Cuba libre, recuedo de Ilka Krupkin, 1961/Vergara 1891, Florida (B.A.), Argentina", (detached but present) softcover/paper wraps, 7-1/2" x 9-3/4", 2-color/red-and-black text front cover and title page, 30 pages, some red text on interior pages; signature authenticated by seller with lifetime guarantee /// CONDITION: very good or better condition, detached cover worn with edgewear, small triangular chip at front beside bottom of spine, 1" closed tear at front edge of bottom of spine, loss of bottom 2" of spine, light fading to cover, small "91+T" in pen… Read More

[1850s PARTIAL LETTER NOME LACKEE INDIAN RESERVATION SCANDAL 2 PAGES] ca. 1850s 2-PAGE HANDWRITTEN LETTER, 7" x 8-3/4" with folds as mailed, from an unidentified individual (hand-signed, but name illegible) to unknown recipient about corruption, scandal, and mismanagement at the Nome Lackee Indian Reservation in the latter 1850s, first page of letter of unknown length begins, "Henley had also appointed a number of persons as employees of Stevenson…[excerpts of following content]…most of these Stevenson discharged on account of bad conduct and immorality…It was then [Henley] put J. W. Titus in charge of Nome Lackee. Titus is one of those superfine little Yankee tricksters…On the Nome Creek Farm are 250 or 300 hundred head of horses [etc.]…Henley's son and [illegible] claims this stock as belonging to them…yet they are taken care of by the Indians at the expense of government…The fact is that I think if the matter can be properly and honestly investigated that it will be found that… Read More

[JEREMY INGALLS, AMERICAN WOMAN POET, 5-PAGE HANDWRITEN LETTER/ALS 1945] JEREMY INGALLS, WOMAN POET, 5-page handwritten letter, 8-1/2" x 11"/about 950 words, dated Chicago, Illinois, November 14, 1945, to "Dear Jimmy" (author James R. Mellow, see below), Mellow wrote to Ingalls after gaining confidence in receiving a high-school award for something he wrote asking her to comment on and critique a group of sonnets he had written, Ingalls replies generously that they are "part of the record of your adolescence" having more personal than lasting or literary value, but which evidence good writing skills and talent, her lengthy letter involves literary critique, psychological observation, perspective, and encouragement, reading in part, "Your manuscript and letter arrive this morning…this particular group of sonnets should not be revised…You yourself recognize the Millay lines…and you probably recognize also the Wordsworth, Byron and Keats and other echoes…you probably recognize also the sequence… Read More

[FILM PRODUCTION ARCHIVE; SCREEN ADAPTATION; ISAK DINESEN STORY] THE DELUGE [screenplay working title, full title The Deluge at Norderney], from the story by Isak Dinesen, Screenplay by Gerald Kean, archive including 4-1/2" x 7" pages from a copy of the 79-page story in Dinesen's book "Seven Gothic Tales" taken apart and glued on front side only of 8-1/2" x 14" blank pages put in order in 4-ring binder, in the wide margins outside of the book pages the screenwriter Gerald Kean has added notes in red and black pen and in pencil for the screenplay he is writing for the film production; between some of the annotated book pages are lined pages of the screenwriter's handwritten notes and scene sketches, this annotated copy of the book pages is the screenwriter's first step in the writing of the screenplay, this ringed binder of the annotated book pages comes with a carbon copy of the final version of the screenplay and also a photostat copy of it, at the front of each is a page headed "In a letter to the… Read More

[1959 NEW HEARTS FOR OLD, HUMAN RIGHTS AND WORLD REFUGE YEAR, IVAN SMITH, UN RADIO PROGRAM] "NEW HEARTS FOR OLD" (Human Rights and World Refugee Year), written by: Ivan Smith, November 1959, from cover page with United Nations logo and letterhead, "American actor Charlton Heston narrates this drama, commemorating World Refugee Year, about what it means to be a refugee and the need for a new start and hope." (Radio Classics, UN Audiovisual Library) note for recording of the radio program at the UN site with date 01-Jan-1959, no mention of Charlton Heston in this script, at end of this copy "The program was narrated by……….", discrepancy between Jan. 1959 date of broadcast given at the UN site and Nov. 1959 date on cover page of this copy of the script probably explained by Nov. date was when the cover page was put on the script, 20 pages, 8-1/2" x 11", bound by three staples at pages' left edges, /// RARE, item authenticated by seller as described, acquired at Gerald Kean (1915-2002) estate sale… Read More