$23,750
A handmade leather bound autograph book containing approximately one hundred and twenty individual signatures on over sixty pages. The signatures were obtained as early as 1926 and as late as 1981. Included are a number of foreign dignitaries, entertainers, artists, authors, military officials and other well known figures of their day including: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt dated January 30, 1944; radiotelegraph inventor Guglielmo Marconi Rome, May 10, 1926; Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Rome May 10, 1926; Thomas Edison reading "To Mary Pickford the sweetheart of the Americas"; author George Bernard Shaw "To Mary Pickford from Bernard Shaw 24th March, 1937"; entrepreneur Henry Ford; interior designer Elsie de Wolfe Mendl January 6, 1936; Grand Duke Alexander Mikailovich of Russia Paris November 6, 1926; author and Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck; actress Lillian Gish reading "My darling Pickford in remembrance of yesterday, today and tomorrow Lillian (Gish) September Third 1935"; aviator Amelia Earhart reading "After this morning's workout I am sure it is more difficult to make a good picture than to fly the Atlantic. My appreciation of your work and your hospitality. Amelia Earhart July 7, 1932"; author H.G. Wells reading "To Mary my life long devotion 22-11-40"; President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Mimi Doud Eisenhower both dated Washington March 30, 1953; scientist and Nobel Laureate Jonas Salk February 11, 1963; actor Maurice Chevalier Read more…
Auctioneer:
Juliens Auctions
Date:
2008-11-22
