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Guglielmo Marconi Signed Sentiment
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Autograph sentiment dated 6 April 1905, signed by Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi in black ink on album page; measures 6"...
Signed Check Endorsement
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Signed check endorsement. Bruno Richard Hauptmann (1900-1936) was an American criminal, a German carpenter convicted in 1935 of the March...
Helen Keller Typed Letter Signed on Personal Stationery
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Typed Letter Signed, "Helen Keller," in pencil on pale green watermarked, personal stationery, New York, August 24, 1946, one page,...
Signed Navy Commendation Citation
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Official U.S. Navy Commendation Citation signed by Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid, Commander of the Seventh Fleet during World War II....
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Autograph Note Signed for Soldier’s Fair
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Autograph Note by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in which he includes his signed name as a contribution to fundraising efforts for...
Ernest Hemingway Signed “A Farewell to Arms” Grosset First Edition
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Incomparably rare First Edition of the coveted 1932 Grosset & Dunlap imprint of Ernest Hemingway's classic "A Farewell to Arms,"...
TLS to Screenwriter Peter Viertel
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A revealing and richly-packed letter filled with references to Ernest Hemingway's equally exotic life. This letter, dated July 19, 1954...
Signed First Edition “The Fifth Column”
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Unusually scarce signed First Edition of Ernest Hemingway's The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories, published in 1938. Second...
St. Christopher Money Clip
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Of the more distinguished items we have ever offered, few have come to us with such a significant historical pedigree...
Ernest Hemingway Signed First Edition “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
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This is a magnificent signed first edition of Hemingway's 1940 masterpiece For Whom the Bell Tolls, sumptuously encased in a...