Friday, November 30, 2007

Announced: HPL's Letters to Barlow


Wow. Only $40.0


Joshi and Schultz, the leading scholars of Howard Phillips Lovecraft's life and work, have assembled all of Lovecraft's letters to his friend, Robert H. Barlow of DeLand, Florida, in this impressive volume. Though the two corresponded for only seven years, Lovecraft's side of the exchange totals nearly 500 pages. The editors have annotated the letters exhaustively, clarifying hundreds of references to people, places, literary works, and history. Their long introduction provides the reader with the essential story of the friendship between Lovecraft and Barlow, and their relationships with friends and colleagues in the worlds of amateur journalism, fandom, pulp fiction, and others.
There is also available a signed, slipcased edition limited to only 50 copies.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Lovecraft's Legacy: 1971 (Tom Collins)


The Seller States: IS #4 October 1971. Fanzine published by Tom Collins, who was a major force in Lovecraft fandom in the '70s. This is a special tribute issue to AUGUST DERLETH, who had just died. It contains original articles by RAY BRADBURY, ROBERT BLOCH, FRITZ LEIBER, AVRAM DAVIDSON, LIN CARTER, FRANK BELKNAP LONG, ROBERT A.W. LOWNDES, JOSEPH PAYNE BRENNAN, EMIL PETAJA, PETER RUBER, A.E. VAN VOGT, MARK SCHORER, COLIN WILSON, GAHAN WILSON, MANLY WADE WELLMAN and a couple others. Also, a short, satirical piece, "The Last Necronomicon" by LARRY NIVEN. Nice portrait of Derleth by Tim Kirk. Quite good condition. This is offset-printed, on good quality paper. Minor wear to the covers.

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Lovecraft's Legacy: 1963 (Symposium)



5.5 x 8.5-in., 16-page booklet in paper covers (w/footnotes inside rear cover). It is in very Fine, as issued condition; read once and carefully stored. H.P. Lovecraft: A Symposium: [Los Angeles] Sponsored by the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society. Printed by the Riverside Quarterly, [1964], 1964. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1] 2-17 [18: blank]; First edition. Errata leaf laid in. The discussion was recorded on 24 October 1963. Symposium panelists were Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Sam Russell, Arthur Jean Cox and Leland Sapiro, with corrections and annotations to the transcript by August Derleth.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Lovecraft's Legacy: 1957


Resounding Science Fiction, One-Shot?, 1957. This 5 1/2" x 8 3/4", 62 page fanzine is in near fine condition with light dust soiling to the spine. Articles include "The Difference Library" by P. Schuyler King, "The Writing of Science Fiction" by James Gunn, "H.P. Lovecraft: The Books" and "H.P.Lovecraft: The Old Gods" by Lin Carter, and others. Cover by Frieze.
(Could P. Schuyler King = P Schuyler Miller? - CP)
(Note the Robbie the Robot type image on the cover - CP)

Lovecraft's Legacy: 1953



Bacchanalia No. 1, April, 1953. Published by Race Mathews. Art Director: Dick Jenssen, who did the cover art. This 8 1/4" x 10", type-written fanzine is in VG-/VG condition. The wrappers are a heavy duty cardboard type of material. The fanzine was glued inside of the wrappers, but it has some loose from the wrappers, but is still stapled together. Dust soiling to the wrappers, mainly at the edges. Some rubbing along the spine. Interior pages were printed using yellow paper, and they have some light tanning at the far margins. This issue contains "Random Notes on H.P. Lovecraft" by T.G.L. Cockcroft. This includes a bibliography of articles on HPL. Other articles include "Reflections of a Mirrorman" by Terry Jeeves, "The Master" by Roger Dard, "Fragment of Memory" by David Cohen and "And the Shades will Fall" by John Ditmar.

Lovecraft's Legacy: 1974



Nyctalops, Vol. 2, No. 2 (#9) July 1974
Front Cover by Dennis Tiani
The Four Faces of The Outsider by Dirk Mosig
In Search of Yig by John Koblas
The Horror Film Yith by Walter DeBill, Jr,
Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Sex by R. Alain Everts
Artfolio by Hermut Weske
Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Photographs by R. Alain Everts
H. P. Lovecraft: The Early Years (Part 2) by Kenneth Faig, Jr.
Priced at $9.50

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Providence 1913



It seems to em that it would be unlikely that Lovecraft (about age 23) would have attended this lecture. He was a stalwart supporter of the South after the fact. His racial proclivities are well known. We just don't know a lot about his daily activities in this early stage of his life.

Still, it was a prominent event and he would have known of it.

Here is what the seller states:

OFFERED: is a vintage and original invitation card to a lecture by Mrs. Maud Howe Elliot, a renowned Rhode Island Pulitzer prize-winning author, and member of an abolitionist family. The lecture, Artists' Life In Rome, occurred in 1913 at the Providence Art Club. On the verso are peculiar written notes in period ink pertaining to St. Francis of Assisi (patron saint of animals). CONDITION: nice with moderate wear and patina

RESEARCH: “Maud Howe Elliott (b. November 9, 1854, Boston, Massachusetts; d. March 19, 1948, Newport, Rhode Island) was an American writer, most notable for her Pulitzer prize-winning collaboration with her sister, Laura E. Richards, on their mother's biography The Life of Julia Ward Howe (1916). Her other works included A Newport Aquarelle (1883), Mammon, Roma Beata (1904), John Elliott, The Story of an Artist (1930), and This Was My Newport (1944). She married English artist John Elliott in 1887.”


”Julia Ward Howe (May 27, 1819 – October 17, 1910) was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet most famous as the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Born Julia Ward in New York City, she was the fourth of seven children born to Samuel Ward (1786 – 1839) and Julia Rush Cutler. Her father was a well-to-do banker. Her paternal grandparents were Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Ward (May 1, 1756 – November 27, 1839) of the Continental Army and Phoebe Greene. Her maternal grandparents were Benjamin Clarke and Sarah Mitchell Cutler. Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Ward was a son of Samuel Ward, a colonial Governor of Rhode Island and later a delegate to the Continental Congress, and his wife Anna Ray. Phoebe Greene was a daughter of William Greene, Governor of Rhode Island and his wife Catharine Ray. In 1843 she married a hero of the Greek revolution, physician Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe nicknamed Chev, who founded the Perkins Institute for the Blind. The couple made their home in South Boston, had six children (five of whom lived to adulthood), and were active in the Free Soil Party. She was a member of the Unitarian church. Howe died of pneumonia at her home, Oak Glen, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, at the age of 91. She is buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Social activism Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic", set to William Steffe's already-existing music, was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862 and quickly became one of the most popular songs of the Union during the American Civil War. In 1870 Howe was the first to proclaim Mother's Day, with her Mother's Day Proclamation. After the war Howe focused her activities on the causes of pacifism and women's suffrage. From 1872 to 1879, she assisted Lucy Stone and Henry Brown Blackwell in editing Woman's Journal. Honors On January 28, 1908 Howe became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Howe was inducted posthumously into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970.”

W Paul Cook & Walter John Coates Publication






{CP: Walter Coates and Paul Cook were closely associated for years in printing and publishing}


Rare Recluse Press
"Land of Allen And Other Verse" by Walter John Coates. Published by W. Paul Cook. The Recluse Press MCMXXVIII (1928). W. Paul Cook (1880-1948) is best known as a friend and publisher of H. P. Lovecraft.Cook was an important member of the Lovecraft Inner Circle. In 1928 W.Paul Cook printed approximately 250 unbound sets of Lovecrafts "The Shunned House" for The Recluse Press.However, the sheets were not bound at that time. Approximately 150 sets of unbound sheets eventually found their way into the possession of Arkham House in 1959 where they were offered for sale in an unbound state. About 50 copies were sold in that state. The remaining 100 copies were bound by Arkham House and offered for sale in 1961. Cook also printed Donald Wandrei "Ecstasy & Other Poems" (The Recluse Press, 1928 Ltd to 322 copies.) The Recluse Press only lasted from 1925-1929.

Walter John Coates was born near Lowville, NY, on November 9, 1880. He died of a heart attack on July 29, 1941, aged sixty. Coates was a Universalist minister, storekeeper, poet, printer and bibliographer. W. Paul Cook was a close family friend. The Vermont Historical Society published his Bibliography of Vermont Poetry and has a Coates collection.
Book is in very good condition, nice tight bindings.

Providence: Nice View of Hayward Park (1906)




Chrispy's Copy of Driftwind (December 1936)



As you can see, the evidence is presented that the publisher used wallpaper for the cover. Unfortuntately, the cover has become detatched. This was a former library copy as can be seen in the images.

Driftwind



{Two copies have surfaced. Chrispy also has a copy, and the remarkable thing is that the cover of mine and the Nov. 1932 pictured here are made out of wallpaper. -CP}


DRIFTWIND FROM THE NORTH HILLS. November 1932 (volume 7, number 3). Edited by Walter John Coates. . North Montpelier, Vermont: Walter John Coates, November 1932 (volume 7, number 3). Small octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers, sewn. Includes "The Howler" by H. P. Lovecraft, the first printing of this poem. Joshi I-B-iii-53. A fine copy. (#108438) Price: $75.00


DRIFTWIND FROM THE NORTH HILLS. March 1931 (volume 5, number 5). Edited by Walter John Coates. . North Montpelier, Vermont: Walter John Coates, March 1931 (volume 5, number 5). Small octavo, single issue, printed wrappers, sewn. Includes "The Lamp" by H. P. Lovecraft, the first printing of this poem. Joshi I-B-iii-47. A fine copy. (#108437) Price: $75.00

Happy Thanksgiving !!

This is the card front of a vintage image of 24 November 1913 - when Lovecraft would have been 23. It was mailed (not by or to HPL but by an anonymous family) from Providence for Thanksgiving. Lovecraft was just about to emerge from his hermitry and into the amateur journalism movement.


Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The Lovecrafter (Another Copy) 1936


{The story: CP}


Book Description: No Place( Oakman, AL.? ): Donald Wollheim & Wilson Shepard ( Shepherd ), 1936, 1st and Only Edition, 1st Printing, 1936. Broadside . Book Condition: Good. ........ (illustrator). First Edition. .......Please see: Joshi I-B-iii-71; III-G-i-5 and Currey, p. 330.. Lovecraft, Howard Phillips, ( H. P. ) A SONNET ( The Lovecrafter), Publisher. No place: Wilson Shepherd and Donald A Wollheim,( Printed with the deep gratitude and best wishes of Wilson Shepherd and Donald A. Wollheim), August 20, 1936. 1st and only edition, issued with Fourty-Sixth mis-spelled, offered as a filler copy, originally issued at the following size .126 x 203 mm ---this copy has been trimmed and glued to a piece of white card, this has been trimmed to about 125 mm x 173 mm, why it was trimmed I do not know, there are some closed tears, browning to paper as usual (and in fact this paper might have started out as a brown paper ), broadside printed on wood pulp stock which is prone to browning, There were 16 copies printed, 1 on rag paper, the rest on paper. The rag copy and 1 of the paper copies were given to HPL and are now in the Lovecraft Collection at the John Hay Library. The remaining 14 copies were sent to friends and early science fiction enthusiasts I suspect that I know where this copy has come from, but I cannot prove its provenance.I believe it is from the collection of an early fanzine publisher ). This sonnet is number XXX (30) in the Fungi from Yuggoth poetry cycle. This is the only issue of The Lovecrafter and was prepared for Lovecraft's forty-sixth birthday (August 20th). The broadside is from 1936. The date on the broadside is in honour of HPL's birthday, not the actual day and month of publication. Of the 14 remaining copies, they are RARE!!! an

Autograph "You For The Eban Tide: Ech-Pi-El"


Description: ......a souvenir fold-out booklet of various views of nantucket, MA., post card size with images on both sides, a Very Good+ copy, postmark is stamped Nantucket and dated 1934, 2 original 1 cent stamps on folder, addressed in Lovecraft's hand to Clark Ashton Smith's Auburn California address, signed on the inner flap of the folder by Lovecraft, the signature reads, " Yrs for the Ebon Tide -- Ech-Pi-El --, in a plain brown envelope which was used by an earlier seller to keep the folder safe, included is an original bill of sale dated 1988 from one of the most respected SF/Fantasy booksellers in California, a very nice item, in spite of the thousands of hand written letters and such forth that HPL penned in his lifetime, signed material remains elusive, this is particularly nice as he uses his KALEM Club moniker and of course this being addressed to CAS makes this even nicer

Rare Copy of The Lovecrafter (1936)


Description: .......Please see: Joshi I-B-iii-71; III-G-i-5 and Currey, p. 330.. Lovecraft, Howard Phillips, ( H. P. ) A SONNET ( The Lovecrafter), Publisher. No place: Wilson Shepherd and Donald A Wollheim,( Printed with the deep gratitude and best wishes of Wilson Shepherd and Donald A. Wollheim), August 20, 1936. 1st and only edition, issued with Fourty-Sixth mis-spelled, 126 x 203 mm, NEAR FINE, browning to paper (although I suspect that this was issued on a brown coloured paper), broadside printed on wood pulp stock which is prone to browning, There were 16 copies printed, 1 on rag paper, the rest on paper. The rag copy and 1 of the paper copies were given to HPL and are now in the Lovecraft Collection at the John Hay Library. The remaining 14 copies were sent to friends and early science fiction enthusiasts. This sonnet is number XXX (30) in the Fungi from Yuggoth poetry cycle. This is the only issue of The Lovecrafter and was prepared for Lovecraft's forty-sixth birthday (August 20th). The broadside is from 1936. The date on the broadside is in honour of HPL's birthday, not the actual day and month of publication. Of the 14 remaining copies, they are RARE!!! and rarely come on the market,

Signature (1919)


Description: .......holographic (hand written) manuscript for the poem, Despair, with a nice clear Lovecraft signature and date at the end, purchased from the granddaughter of the publisher ( Horace L Lawson ) of the Wolverine magazine, a periodical which published at least 5 H P Lovecraft pieces, the Wolverine published Arthur Jermyn in March 1921 ( Joshi 1-B-i-2 1), The Nameless City in November 1921 ( Joshi 1-B-i-37 ), The Street in December 1920 (Joshi 1-B-i-45), The Vivisector in June 1921 (Joshi 1-B-ii-238) and On the Return of Maurice Winter Moe, Esq. in June 1921 ( Joshi 1-B-iii-137 ). there is no record of Despair having been published by The Wolverine, this 2 page poem is completely holographic, written on brown paper (the reverse is actually an order form for a Book Club) and has the date 192__, Lovecraft has signed this as H P Lovecraft and dated the piece February 1919, as well he has written a note in the corner stating that this poem appeared in Pine Cones June 1919, this is certainly from 1919, or at least 1920 when The Wolverine was publishing HPL pieces, the poem is completely legible although some of the letters are a bit faded, the 2 pages have been paper taped on the verso as this was framed by Lawson, there is no bleeding or show through from the tape, the handwriting is undeniably Lovecrafts, the condition overall is VERY GOOD ... $17,500.


{!! CP. }

Original Limited Print of The Shunned House (1928, 1961)


Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips]. THE SHUNNED HOUSE. Athol, Mass.: Published by Paul Cook The Recluse Press, 1928. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-58 [59] [60: blank], unbound sheets. First edition. Lovecraft's first book of fiction. 300 copies were printed but the book was not published. A few copies were circulated among members of the tiny Lovecraft circle prior to August Derleth's acquisition of approximately 150 useable sets of sheets from Robert Barlow, Lovecraft's literary executor. Although the original 1928 Cook copyright statement is not canceled with an Arkham House copyright label, this is probably one of about fifty sets of sheets Derleth distributed prior to 1961 before 100 were bound in the black cloth uniform with other Arkham House bindings. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1037. Joshi I-A-5. Top and bottom edges trimmed, fore-edges untrimmed, sheets glued along spine edges. This copy was prepared for binding by Barlow and tiny stab holes near the spine edge indicate that this was perhaps one of the handful of copies Barlow bound in paper covers, now removed. The title leaf is foxed and there are tiny marginal stains to fore-edge margins of first two leaves, otherwise this is a nice copy. (#110361) Price: $6,500.00

Printed Lovecraft Commonplace Book (1938)


Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips]. THE NOTES & COMMONPLACE BOOK EMPLOYED BY THE LATE H. P. LOVECRAFT INCLUDING HIS SUGGESTIONS FOR STORY-WRITING, ANALYSES OF THE WEIRD STORY, AND A LIST OF CERTAIN BASIC UNDERLYING HORRORS, &C., &C., DESIGNED TO STIMULATE THE IMAGINATION. Lakeport, California: The Futile Press, 1938. Small octavo, pp. [1-6] 1-14 [14a] [15] 16-45 [46] [47: blank] [48: errata] [49: blank], original boards with wood-grain pattern. First edition. Limited to 75 numbered copies (this being copy number 31). Perhaps half the edition was bound in boards, the remainder comprise gathered and padded sheets lacking the board casing. Joshi I-A-14-a (this binding not seen). Currey, p. 329. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. Rare in this condition due to the method of binding (unsewn signatures were adhered to the board binding with binder's glue). Most extant bound copies of this book have defective spine panels; this copy is virtually as new and is the best copy we have seen. The Futile Press Catalogue Number Three announcing the publication of THE NOTES & COMMONPLACE BOOK (with specimen page) is laid in. (#110362) Price: $5,500.00

1937 Lovecraft Item of Poems


Rare Lovecraft Item Surfaces.


Lovecraft, H[oward] P[hillips]. HPL. [Belleville, N. J.: Corwin F. Stickney, 1937.] Small octavo, 12 unnumbered leaves, printed on rectos only, printed paper wrappers (in imitation of leatherette), stapled. First edition. Limited to 25 copies. Published by Corwin F. Stickney (Belleville, N.J.) in 1937, although no printing information appears anywhere in the book. Twenty-five copies were printed and given free to whoever paid a year's subscription of 25¢ to Stickney's AMATEUR CORRESPONDENT. The book was announced in the Lovecraft Memorial issue of AMATEUR CORRESPONDENT (May / June 1937) on page [29]: "These poems -- all favorites of Lovecraft -- have been combined to form a tribute to this man's poetic genius, which, while not so generally appreciated as his ability for writing prose, was nevertheless greater than that of most living fantasy writers. The size of this volume is four by six inches, and it is printed on an excellent grade of book paper with an attractive leatherette cover. The frontispiece carries Virgil Finlay's portrait of HPL used on this month's cover of the CORRESPONDENT. Every admirer of Lovecraft will undoubtedly want a copy of this petite volume. Obviously, however, it cannot be placed on sale; and it would be much beyond our means to send a copy free of charge to everyone who would write in for one. We therefore believe the only logical method of distribution is to give a free copy with every subscription to the CORRESPONDENT, at the regular rate of twenty-five cents for a year. We reason that practically every one who would be interested in such a booklet reads the CORRESPONDENT and would be willing to obtain a copy in this manner. Inasmuch as a very limited number of copies of the first edition of this volume are being printed, we urge you to reply with your subscription by return mail, mentioning this advertisement to insure your receipt of a copy." Pavlat and Evans, Fanzine Index (1965), p. 53. Joshi I-A-12. A fine copy. Accompanied by the mailing envelope. (#110364) Price: $5,500.00

Rare Copy of Bound Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936?)


Starting Bid: $1500.00 !!

Seller States: LOVECRAFT, H[oward] P[hillips] (1890-1937). The Shadow Over Innsmouth.Everett, Pennsylvania: Visionary Publishing Co., 1936. 8vo. Illustrated by Frank A. Utpatel. First and last leaves are used as front and rear pastedown endpapers. Scarce printed errata slip laid in. Original black cloth, lettered in silver on front cover and spine (the present copy with lettering on the front cover in upper and lower case letters, one of two known bindings with no priority established). In the rare publisher's dust jacket, white paper with silver lettering on the front panel and spine matching that from the cloth binding, with no illustration. Condition: A few small areas of cloth slightly soiled, else a fine, bright copy in a like dust jacket. h.p. lovecraft's first published book and the only published during his lifetime, preceded only by the pamphlet The Sunned House (1928). According to publisher William H. Crawford, of the approximately 400 copies printed, perhaps 200 copies were bound with the remainder destroyed at a later date. Adding to the scarcity of the present copy, Crawford notes that the dust jacket and errata slip were prepared after publication, and copies are often found with one or both lacking. "No writer since Poe has had more influence on the field of macabre fiction than Howard Phillips Lovecraft. His tales of Cthulhu-malevolent beings from another dimension bent on invading our world and destroying mankind-have inspired dozens of writers (among them August Derleth, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner and J. Ramsey Campbell) to perpetuate the mythos with tales of their own. However, Lovecraft also wrote other types of horror and supernatural stories, some of the best of which are Poesque in design and effect." (Pronzini, Malzberg & Greenberg, Great Tales of Horror & The Supernatural, page 177).

Rare Lovecraft Volume of The Shadow Over Innsmouth




The seller states: LOVECRAFT, H[oward] P[hillips] (1890-1937). The Shadow Over Innsmouth.Everett, Pennsylvania: Visionary Publishing Co., 1936. 8vo. Illustrated by Frank A. Utpatel. First and last leaves are used as front and rear pastedown endpapers. Scarce printed errata slip laid in. Original black cloth, lettered in silver on front cover and spine (the present copy with lettering on the front cover in upper and lower case letters, one of two known bindings with no priority established). In the rare publisher's dust jacket, white paper with silver lettering on the front panel and spine matching that from the cloth binding, with no illustration. Condition: A few small areas of cloth slightly soiled, else a fine, bright copy in a like dust jacket. h.p. lovecraft's first published book and the only published during his lifetime, preceded only by the pamphlet The Sunned House (1928). According to publisher William H. Crawford, of the approximately 400 copies printed, perhaps 200 copies were bound with the remainder destroyed at a later date. Adding to the scarcity of the present copy, Crawford notes that the dust jacket and errata slip were prepared after publication, and copies are often found with one or both lacking. "No writer since Poe has had more influence on the field of macabre fiction than Howard Phillips Lovecraft. His tales of Cthulhu-malevolent beings from another dimension bent on invading our world and destroying mankind-have inspired dozens of writers (among them August Derleth, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner and J. Ramsey Campbell) to perpetuate the mythos with tales of their own. However, Lovecraft also wrote other types of horror and supernatural stories, some of the best of which are Poesque in design and effect." (Pronzini, Malzberg & Greenberg, Great Tales of Horror & The Supernatural, page 177). A key title to any collection of fantasy, horror and supernatural fiction.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Addendum: August Derleth's Signature



















As part of my behind the scenes research, I've been tracking down Derleth's signatures. One never knows (without certification) about real signatures and false ones. Above are a collection of the ones I've found.

Addendum: Theodore Roosevelt Jr Letter






WE ARE OFFERING A THEODORE "TEDDY" ROOSEVELT II SIGNED LETTER
THIS LETTER IS DATED OCTOBER 29, 1924
TO MR. A.L. HALL
ON THE ROOSEVELT ESTATE LETTERHEAD & ENVELOPE - OYSTER BAY, LONG ISLAND
AUTHENTIC SIGNATURE - SIGNED BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT II - SON OF THE FAMOUS PRESIDENT "TEDDY" ROOSEVELT.
TEDDY JR. ALSO ENJOYED QUITE A PRESTIGIOUS PAST - - SEE BELOW.
POSTED WITH THE GEORGE WASHINGTON PROFILE 2CENT STAMP.
THE CANCELLATION READS "GREAT NECK, N.Y.
OCT. 30, 1924."


This went for $199.00


CONDITION: EXCELLENT ORIGINAL ANTIQUE CONDITION - TWO MINOR TINY TEARS TO THE EDGE OF ENVELOPE - LETTER ITSELF INTACT. SOME APPROPRIATE AGE DISCOLORATION.

Addendum: Theodore Roosevelt Jr

OK, I know this is far afield, but you have to alow me a little room - it's my blog after all. :) This one sold for $399.00.




THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR. ALS: "Theodore Roosevelt Jr", 1p, 5x6½. 14 Wall Street, New York, [1916 April 1]. To Miss Colville. In part: "Grosvenor has told me the splendid news of your engagement. I wish to congratulate both of you on your great happiness. Grosvenor was a class mate of mine at Harvard and I cannot wish him too many of the good things of life. The first and by far the most important of these in my opinion is a wife and home...." Ink transfer from being folded. Lower right of letter water stained touching 3 words of text and smudging the salutation and signature. With original postmarked envelope, stamp removed, addressed by Roosevelt to Maud E. Colville, New York City. Soiled. Lightly stained. Torn top edge. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, JR. served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1921-1924), Governor of Puerto Rico (1929-1932) and Governor General of the Philippines (1932-1933). Theodore Jr. served in both WWI and WWII, earning the Congressional Medal of Honor for his bravery and valor during WWII. He died of a heart attack shortly after leading his men onto Utah Beach, Normandy, France, during the D-Day Invasion and is buried in Normandy alongside his brother Quentin, killed in World War I. Two items.

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