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

[VERNACULAR 1879 MAINE LETTER HANDWRITTEN 4 PAGES WITH SMALL DRAWING OF FISHERMAN AND AMUSING ILLUSTRATION OF "CLEAR STREAM" WITH TWO FISHERMAN BEING ATTACKED BY MOSQUITOES] HANDWRITTEN LETTER dated August 8, 1879, 4 pages with illustration titled "Clear Stream" on page 4, 5" x 8" one sheet as folded, in part with text uncorrected, "Dear absent Brother and Sister, i now take my pen in hand to send you a few lines…We air [are] all well…i have been a clamin [clamming] 2 times…I have down to the Sea Shore 4 times…Caly [?] has been a huckleberin…how do you get a long hayin…have you bin a fishin…the Steamboat runs hear Sunday the same as she does threw the week…Would you like to go a fishin [small drawing of man with fishing rod with fish on the end of it]…i went and caned it [load of picked berries] over in Biddeford [ME]…give us a call when you go West…[start of page 4 below "Clear Stream" drawing in different, clearer handwriting] Dear absent brother and sister, As John has not… Read More

[IGOR STRAVINSKY PRINT, MUSIC BIENNALE ZAGREB 1963, RARE] IGOR STRAWINSKY dirigivo svoju "Simfoniju u tri stavka" Muziche Biennale u Zagrebu 12.V.1963 Malanus [artist signed in pencil:] Lt. 4/10 Malanus…last letters of the artist's name are unclear, Czechoslovakian title English translation: IGOR STRAVINSKY conducting his "Symphony in Three Movements" at the Music Biennale Zagreb 12.V.1963 [May 12, 1963] Malanus [?], print, black on white lighter paper of back view of Stravinsky conducting, 15" x 11-3/4" with image in the middle and title and signature underneath, general light rippling because of the lightness of the paper with some creases at the edges; RARE presuming pencil note with artist signature "Lt. 4/10" means number 4 of 10 copies as in English limited-edition identification; NOTES: the 1963 Music Biennale Zagreb was the second biennale, the first in 1961, besides Stravinsky, John Gage was another modern composer appearing at it; no information found on the artist presumed to be Croatian… Read More

CERTAMEN NACIONAL, ZARZUELA EN UN ACTO, Letra de Los Sres. Perrin y Palacios, Musica del mtro. [maestro] M. Nieto; on inside title page with title as on front cover: N. 6 Tango del cafe contado par la Srta [senorita] Pastor (Lucia) y coro de senores, published by Almacen de musica de Lodre Carrere de San Geronimo 15, Madrid, undated/but ca. 1888, WorldCat/OCLC cataloging (21813750, 3/18/21), Manuel Nieto oval stamp on inside title page "Manuel Nieto, Madrid" around what looks like a botanical image (grape leaves?), softcover/sheet music, 10-1/2" x 13-1/2", 12 pages including covers/wraps, engraved title page with imprint and engraved second same title page as page 1 with addition as noted above at the beginning of the score, blank reverse side, 4 pages of engraved music with border imprints of the printing plate, last page blank on both sides, back cover blank on both sides, RARE, WorldCat/OCLC, 3 copies only with Nieto [author], Certamen National [title], Tango [keyword] as search terms, California,… Read More

[1910ca. SCOTTISH FOLK MUSIC HANDWRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION] MARJORY KENNEDY-FRASER, KENNETH MACLEOD, 3 HANDWRITTEN MUSIC SCORES WITH LYRICS, handwritten by music folklorist Nelson Sprackling (occasionally worked with Alan Lomax on folk music preservation) in preparation for publication by Boosey & Co., undated, but about 1910, Boosey published music works by Kennedy-Fraser and Macleod starting about 1908 through the 1920s with later reprintings in various editions, three 4-page music composition sheets 9-1/2" x 12-1/2", (1) A HEBRIDEAN SEA-REIVER'S SONG (Na Reubarean), Old Gallic Works [?] and translation from Kenneth Macleod Air from Penelope MacDonald Eriskay, arranged by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser, 4 full pages, score with lyrics, Nelson Sprackling handwrittten signature in upper right corner of first page, (2) THE ROAD TO THE ISLES [A Tramping Song], Songs of the Hebrides, (by) M. Kennedy-Fraser and Kenneth MacLeod, (published) Boosey & Co., ca. 1916 (sheet music published in 1917), 3 pages (of 4),… Read More

[AMERICANA; CIVIL WAR MEMORABILIA; MEMORIAL/DECORATION DAY MEMORABILIA; PATRIOTIC MANUSCRIPT POEM] THE SOLDIERS MONUMENT, 3-stanza, 36-line handwritten/manuscript poem over three 5" x 7-1/2" pages written for Decoration Day with note "For The News" in upper left corner of first page by a Danbury, Connecticut, teacher whose last name was Cannon, date is sometime before 1880 since Decoration Day didn't become known as Memorial Day until the 1880s (wikipedia); the poem is written in the sentimental, idealized style of the late Victorian period, sample lines are, "Friends, whose dear ones died…We grant to you a sacred pride…Their life-blood drenched the Southern soil…And while we call the heroes ours…Our grief shall make more real…Our holiday emotion…This steadfast column that we raise…Let this soldier-figure stand…"; the poem is enclosed with a 2 page/about 180 words letter dated May 14, 1903, from Martha Stokes Hodge of Plumtree, Bethel (Connecticut) to Mrs. Samuel Miller of Cannon,… Read More

[1950 UNITED NATIONS ORIGINAL RADIO SCRIPTS ON ATOMIC ENERGY WITH SOME EINSTEIN CONTENT / HANDWRITTEN PRODUCER/DIRECTOR GERALD KEAN EDITING AND TIMING NOTES] THREE VERSIONS: THE YEAR OF DECISION [Atomic Energy Show] written by Mavor Moore, starring John Garfield, United Nations Radio in association with the Mutual Network, Sunday, June 18, 1950, (:00-10:00 PM EDST (Final pre-broadcast script), Director…Mavor Moore, Producer…Gerald Kean…Composer-Conductor…Louis Applebaum, in upper right corner in aqua ink "Kean work copy" [Gerald Kean, producer/director, see notes], going into aspects of nuclear energy both good and bad variously with remarks by Robert Oppenheimer, UN Secretary General Trygve Lie, president Truman, Bernard Baruch, disarmament expert Otto Frey, and other notables besides Einstein…THREE VERSIONS OF THE SCRIPT: (1) original ribbon copy of radio program script with copious director Gerald Kean's editing and timing notes, about 45 pages including a couple of identified inserts (e.… Read More

[SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM 1920s; LENIN, TROTSKY, GORKY, JOHN REED, etc.; PERIODICAL] THE LIBERATOR – A Journal of Revolutionary Progress, Vol. 3, No. 11 (Serial No. 32), November, 1920, Editors: Max Eastman [and others]; with a full-page photograph of John Reed with caption "John Reed - Died at his revolutionary post, October 17, 1920" across from small masthead noting Reed as a "foreign correspondent" and cover art by Lydia Gibson; other content includes a photograph captioned "Lenin laying the cornerstone of a memorial to Karl Marx (Moscow)"; "In Praise of Lenin" by Maxim Gorky with an illustration and a photograph of Lenin; interview with photographs with unnamed individual titled "Back Home in Russia"; captions of some of the 12 photographs are "Communists volunteering for service on the Polish front (Petrograd)", "Trotsky conferring with General Vatzetzis at the front", "Poor old Alexander [statue of Russian czar] topples", "Soviet Labor Registration Office - members of the bourgeoisie applying for… Read More

[JAYNE MEADOWS HANDWRITTEN LETTER WITH ARTICLES ON PSYCHIC FEELINGS 1985] JAYNE MEADOWS, 1919-2015, popular actress who was married to Steve Allen, original host of "Tonight Show", handwritten/holograph reply on original letter from Hollywood/celebrity reporter Hal Jacques seeking approval for publication of an article on her in the National Enquirer, with envelope with holes along one side for keeping in binder at one time, 1985, about 75 words in red ink signed "Jayne", "Yes, certainly you may republish this article. I have also had many other startling E.S.P. experiences…Thelma Moss wanted to study me…Edgar Casey's [sic, for Cayce] secretary was so fascinated…[if he could] write them up in a book he was doing….", with black ink handwritten postcard undated, "Have I ever written to thank you for the excellent story on my E.S.P?…", plus 17 pages variously original ribbon and photocopies of articles by Hal Jacques and National Enquirer on the celebrity's psychic nature and experiences, some… Read More

[1838 MAGOUN & SON BOSTON BUSINESS CORRESPONDENCE FROM ANTWERP] MAGOUN & SON, BOSTON: 4-page notice and letter, 8-1/2" x 10-1/2" with folds as mailed partly typescript form letter and partly handwritten letter dated August 15, 1838, unstamped ship's letter, notice to T. Magoun & Son, Boston, from Antwerp, Belgium, the four pages are: (i) handwritten address "Messrs. T. Magoun & Son, Boston" with Antwerp return address, date, and name of firm; (ii) form letter to T. Magoun & Son (handwritten) announcing that the firm "Mertens, Mosselman, & Co." is resuming business after having liquidated in 1832 with the intention of so resuming at a "more favourable period by the junior branches of the families"; (iii, left inside page) handwritten letter dated Antwerp August 25, 1838, to Magoun & Son, Boston, reading in part, "Gentlemen: At the recommendation of our mutual friend Baring Bros. & Co. of London we beg leave to refer you to the circulars and to offer you our best services…The demands for Sugars have… Read More

[1937 MIKE DOLAS ILLUSTRATION ART SIGNED MAGAZINE COVER RARE] MIKE DOLAS, ILLUSTRATION ARTIST, INSCRIBED/SIGNED MAGAZINE COVER TO WOMAN MODEL, color front cover of Liberty, Nov. 20, 1937, with original blue ink bold inscription, "To Margaret who helped again, Mike", with "Michael Dolas" signature in typescript at the lower right corner of the illustration, WITH an original Identification Card from the Palm Beach Police Department stamped May or Nov. [month unclear from surface loss] 14, 1943, for the model Margaret with the address Surfside Hotel, Palm Beach [in 1943 she was a 23-year-old wife of a military pilot working in the Caribbean area] and for "Employed" filling in "housewife", on the reverse side of the ID are a small snapshot, a right thumb print, and her signature in blue ink, ID card paper-clipped to photocopy of the magazine cover…Mike Dolas front cover illustration is a husband carrying blankets and a triangular flag with an "S" (presumably for their favored football team) and wife… Read More

[MIDWEST IOWA GENEALOGY REGIONAL HISTORY MEMOIR, MANUSCRIPT] WHERE THE TALL CORN GROWS - REMEMBRANCES OF GROWING UP IN DES MOINES, IOWA, by Evelyn Miller Bruder, published by author, undated but 1980s date of writing determined from dates in the manuscript, 108-page typed manuscript/not original typing but run off on teleprinter double-spaced on one side of 8-1/2" x 11" pages in green spring binder with gilded title on front, author Evelyn Miller Bruder "was born on October 17, 1909 in a little wooden house on the corner of West 5th Street and Laurel Avenue" with the address 1121 West 5th Street, Des Moines, Iowa…when she was 13 with the family's upward mobility, "she moved to 1304 West 11th Street, between Mary and Carpenter Avenues…she writes this memoir to finally fulfill a promise she has made to her two daughters "to write of my memories growing up in Des Moines" when she is 74 years old living in Lido Beach, Long Island /// CONDITION: well-preserved with minimal wear.

[1853 RAILROAD TIMETABLES WITH TRAIN IMAGES IN CONNECTICUT NEWSPAPER] MORNING JOURNAL AND COURIER, NEW HAVEN, Saturday Morning, July 16, 1853, Edited and Published by Carrington & Hotchkiss, 7 railroad timetable notices with small images of railroad locomotives and cars at the tops, 2-1/2" wide columns varyiny 5" to 8" in length, excerpts: NEW YORK and N. HAVEN RAILROAD…Summer Arrangement…Accommodation and Special — at 11:00 and 7:30 a. m. through to New Haven…Trains to New York…Boston Express Train leaves New Haven… / NEW HAVEN & NEW LONDON RAILROAD…The Quickest and Cheapest Inland Route Between New York, New Haven…Providence…New Arrangements…Hartford, and Stations on Conn. River, via steamer Island Belle, connecting with train at Connecticut River / NAUGATUCK RAILROAD…Trains out of Bridgeport / CANAL RAILROAD…Stages run to and from Collinsville and Burlington Stations /// CONDITION: ago-toned paper pliant/not brittle, scattered foxing, folds as original newspaper was folded… Read More

[PROMETHEUS IN NEW YORK; UNPUBLISHED POEM 1940s; JAMES N. MOSEL] JAMES NORMAN MOSEL, psychology professor at George Washington U. in the 1960s, and author of books on Thai society based on research there funded partly by the FordFoundation, a 4-page original ribbon typed poem titled "Prometheus on New York" written in the 1940s when he was a student at Columbia University, with two other, 1-page poems, one with the note "At Columbia May 1941", the cover page to the 4-page poem is, "Prolegomena for the Uninitiated…James Norman Mosel, who believes that all New Yorkers, like Prometheus, are eternally bound to the cliff of adversity, has given expression to this in: PROMETHEUS IN NEW YORK – AN IMPRESSIONISTIC FORM IN WHICH Prometheus, the character of Greek mythology, is transplanted to New York, and thereby permitted to experience the infinite and multifarious aspects of cosmopolitan complexity, and to compare these with the equally disturbing eventuality of having one's liver devoured eternally by… Read More

THE ARROW, Series 62, Model 2, Managing Editor Mrs. Mary B. Hecht, published by the Pierce Arrow Society, 1962, stapled-bound softcover, 7" x 5-1/4", 36 pages including covers/wraps, RARE issue of the Society's publication with content on membership and Pierce Arrows being offered for sale, want notices, and parts and memorabilia for sale in the section titled "Emporium – Sales and Needs" (pages 4-15), members by state headed by the respective state flag (pages 16-30); no copies found for sale /// CONDITION: fine, front cover lightly faded, negligible wear.