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Rare 1957 financial statement signed by both Hollywood Icon Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller
MONROE, Marilyn and Arthur Miller.
Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller Signed Financial Statement.
Rare original 1957 Woodbury Savings Bank financial statement signed by both Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller in the beginning of their five-year marriage. One page, partially printed, the statement is dated September 9, 1957 and lists the couple’s joint annual income as $50,000+, total expenses as $30,000+ or -, and amount of life insurance as $50,000+. The preparer has also listed Monroe as self-employed and President of Marilyn Monroe Production with a suit pending against the company as a corporation. Monroe and Miller’s ages are also listed respectively as 31 and 41. Signed at the conclusion of the document, “Arthur Miller” and “Marilyn Monroe Miller.” In very good condition. Accompanied by a mimeograph of the loan agreement for $35,000 for which the statement was prepared.
Price: $7,500.00 Item Number: 114025
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“Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price": First Edition of Amelia Earhart's The Fun of It; Signed by Her
EARHART, Amelia.
The Fun of It.
New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932.
First edition of Earhart’s account of her childhood, her fascination with aviation, and her life through her 1932 flight across the Atlantic. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout, with the original record in the rear pastedown. Signed by Amelia Earhart on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $6,200.00 Item Number: 112423
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Original Hilary Knight Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration
KNIGHT, Hilary.
Hilary Knight Original Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration.
Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Vanity Fair. Knight was flown to Paris by Vanity Fair in 2006 to attend Paris Fashion Week, where he illustrated models from Armani, Dior, Givenchy, Christian Lacroix and Riccardo Tischi. The present illustration features supermodel Mariacarla Boscono wearing Givenchy by Tischi at the Musee Bourdelle. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 17 inches.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 95324
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Original Hilary Knight Chanel Watercolor Illustration
KNIGHT, Hilary.
Hilary Knight Original Chanel Watercolor Illustration.
Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Chanel. In an envelope affixed to the rear of the framed piece is the original tissue guard featuring an inscription in Knight’s hand, “A Chanel School Girl stops for a spring sniff of the camelia trees outside of the Place Vendome Step” and “A construction worker takes a smoke break to admire the astonishing set piece in the newly refurbished Grand Palais.” In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 17 inches.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 95329
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Original Hilary Knight Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration Depicting designer John Galliano
KNIGHT, Hilary (John Galliano).
Hilary Knight Original John Galliano Watercolor Illustration.
Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Vanity Fair. Knight was flown to Paris by Vanity Fair in 2006 to attend Paris Fashion Week, where he illustrated models from Armani, Dior, Givenchy, Christian Lacroix and Riccardo Tischi. The present illustration features a portrait of Dior designer John Galliano brandishing a saber at his curtain call. The Christian Dior Show which opened the Paris haute couture season in January 2006 was marked by Galliano’s daring and cryptic show: “Red is the New Libertine. Platinum is the New Marie Antoinette. Leather is the New Luxury. Veiling is the New Seduction. Dior is the New Erotica.” The show featured blood-splashed leather garments dedicated to the memory of Marie Antoinette. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 17 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 95325
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Original Hilary Knight Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration Depicting designer John Galliano's Red is the New Libertine show for Dior
KNIGHT, Hilary (John Galliano).
Hilary Knight Original John Galliano Watercolor Illustration.
Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Vanity Fair. Knight was flown to Paris by Vanity Fair in 2006 to attend Paris Fashion Week, where he illustrated models from Armani, Dior, Givenchy, Christian Lacroix and Riccardo Tischi. The present illustration titled “Blood and Grommets” features three models on the runway of the Dior show at Polo de Paris. The Christian Dior Show which opened the Paris haute couture season in January 2006 was marked by designer John Galliano’s daring and cryptic show: “Red is the New Libertine. Platinum is the New Marie Antoinette. Leather is the New Luxury. Veiling is the New Seduction. Dior is the New Erotica.” The show featured blood-splashed leather garments dedicated to the memory of Marie Antoinette. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 17 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 95326
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Original Hilary Knight Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration
KNIGHT, Hilary.
Hilary Knight Original Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration.
Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Vanity Fair. Knight was flown to Paris by Vanity Fair in 2006 to attend Paris Fashion Week, where he illustrated models from Armani, Dior, Givenchy, Christian Lacroix and Riccardo Tischi. The present illustration features three models in black Givenchy gowns by Riccardo Tischi and Sophia at Armani behind a model in a silver dress. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 17 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 95327
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Original Hilary Knight Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration
KNIGHT, Hilary.
Hilary Knight Original Christian LaCroix Watercolor Illustration.
Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Vanity Fair. Knight was flown to Paris by Vanity Fair in 2006 to attend Paris Fashion Week, where he illustrated models from Armani, Dior, Givenchy, Christian Lacroix and Ricardo Tischi. In an envelope affixed to the rear of the framed piece is the original tissue guard featuring an inscription in Knight’s hand, “Jan 24 5pm Christian LaCroix Ecole Nationale 14 Rue Bonaparte” and an arrow pointing to the gold glitter beneath the model’s feet, “actual gold dust used on the runway.” In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 17 inches.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 95330
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Rare autograph note signed by German-American actress Marlene Dietrich to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio; with an 18-page astrological chart created for DiMaggio
DIETRICH, Marlene. (Joe DiMaggio).
Marlene Dietrich Autograph Note Signed to Joe DiMaggio.
Rare autograph note signed by German-American actress Marlene Dietrich to baseball legend Joe DiMaggio. The note accompanied an 18-page Astrological Horoscope report by Hollywood astrologer Carroll Righter which Dietrich arranged to have made for DiMaggio. Signed by Righter at the conclusion of the report and with an additional inscription by Dietrich which reads, “M. Righter does not know your name. If you should want to ask him anything specific you must refer to your birth date and place. M.” A close friend of DiMaggio’s, German-American actress Marlene Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a marquee live-show performer. She received several honors from the United States, France, Belgium, and Israel and in 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema. In fine condition. A unique association.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 102561
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Original Hilary Knight Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration
KNIGHT, Hilary.
Hilary Knight Original Vanity Fair Watercolor Illustration.
Rare original watercolor fashion illustration by American artist Hilary Knight for Vanity Fair. Knight was flown to Paris by Vanity Fair in 2006 to attend Paris Fashion Week, where he illustrated models from Armani, Dior, Givenchy, Christian Lacroix and Riccardo Tischi. The present illustration features model Maria Carla, Givenchy designer Riccardo Tischi’s muse. In fine condition. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 22 inches by 17 inches.
Price: $2,200.00 Item Number: 95328
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“First we eat, then we do everything else”: First Edition of M.F.K. Fisher's Classic Work The Art of Eating; Signed by Her
FISHER, M.F.K.
The Art of Eating.
Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1954.
First edition of Fisher’s classic work. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by M.F.K. Fisher on the front free endpaper. Light rubbing to the bottom boards, very good in a very good dust jacket with some wear to the spine crown. Jacket design by Leo Manso. With an introduction by Clifton Fadiman. Rare and desirable signed by M.F.K. Fisher.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 12060
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"In order to consult the oracle with advantage, the enquirer must state the nature of his question to and Lady in the company": Rare first edition of Madame le Normande's The Oracle of Human Destiny
LE NORMANDE, Madame Victorine.
The Oracle of Human Destiny; Or, Book of Fate: Being an Unerring Fortune-Teller and Accurate Interpreter of Mystical Signs & Heavenly Bodies.
London: Printed for the Wholesale Booksellers, 1854.
Rare first edition of this early book of fortune telling and divination through card reading. Octavo, bound in original cloth, folding hand colored chart of a card spread, hand-colored frontispiece portrait of Madame Le Normande, wood engraved pictorial borders. In very good condition. Scarce.
Price: $1,800.00 Item Number: 92800
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First Edition of Dorothy Hartley's Food In England; in the uncommon dust jacket
HARTLEY, Dorothy.
Food In England.
London: Macdonald, 1954.
First edition of this classic work by the social historian Dorothy Hartley, which is both a cookery book and a history of English cuisine. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with Hartley’s own strong, detailed and lively illustrations. Bookplate, near fine in a very good dust jacket. Uncommon in the original jacket.
Price: $1,500.00 Item Number: 95798
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"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it": First Edition of Diane Vreeland’s Autobiography; Inscribed in the Year of Publication
VREELAND, Diana.
D.V.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
First edition of Diana Vreeland’s autobiography. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed in the year of publication by the author, “Love to Pauline Diane V 1984.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 3737
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Zonta Club Album; Signed by Amelia Earhart
EARHART, Amelia.
Amelia Earhart Autograph in 1932-1934 Scrapbook for Columbus, Ohio Zonta Club.
Zonta Club, .
Embossed boards, mainly clippings and other memorabilia charting the activities of the Zonta Club in Columbus from 1932-34, including a dinner honoring Amelia Earhart and with her autograph on a card (from 1934) affixed to one of the pages. Zonta International, founded in 1919, with clubs in multiple cities by the 1930s, was founded as a women’s advocacy group. In very good condition. The album measures 11 inches by 8 inches.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 111337
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"The secret of good summer food is the freshness of ingredients": Elizabeth David's Summer Cooking; Signed by Her
DAVID, Elizabeth.
Summer Cooking.
London: Dorling Kindersley, 1985.
First edition of the re-issue of this classic work. Quarto, original illustrated boards, illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by Elizabeth David on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Line drawings by Adrian Daintrey. Photograph of Elizabeth David by Cecil Beaton.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 105488
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First Edition of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Cross Creek Cookery; Signed by Her
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan.
Cross Creek Cookery.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943.
First edition of Rawlings’ heartwarming cookbook. Octavo, original pictorial calico-textured cloth. Signed by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings on the front free endpaper. Bookplate to the front pastedown, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Illustrations by Robert Camp.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 100731
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"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased": First edition of Me: Stories of My Life; inscribed by Katharine Hepburn
HEPBURN, Katharine.
Me: Stories of My Life.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.
First edition of Katharine Hepburn’s revealing autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with 165 photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Ron Herring good luck Katharine Hepburn.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson and Chip Kidd.
Price: $475.00 Item Number: 119057
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First Edition of Aline Bernstein's Masterpieces of Women's Costume of the 18th and 19th Centuries; From the library of Vivien Leigh
BERNSTEIN, Aline.
Masterpieces of Women’s Costume of the 18th and 19th Centuries.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1959.
First edition of Aline Bernstein’s great work on the history of costume design, published posthumously. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with 32 color plates and 51 correlated line drawings. In fine condition. From the library of actress Vivien Leigh.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 110285
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"The Best Way to Learn about Wine is the Drinking": First Edition of Alexis Lichine's Guide to the Wines and Vineyards of France; Inscribed by Him
LICHINE, Alexis.
Alexis Lichine’s Guide to the Wines and Vineyards of France.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.
First edition of America’s foremost wine connoisseur’s comprehensive guide to the wines of France. Octavo, original half cloth, with 8 pages of photographs and 22 maps. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Ian White who was able to see at Chat. Prieure-L that the 1980’s will be quite promising. Best wishes, Alexis Lichine. Margaux Vendauge 1980.” The recipient, Ian White, received the book during a visit to Lichine’s estate and vineyard in Maurguax, Chateau Prieure-Lichine. Lichine purchased the estate in 1951, the wine produced from its vineyards was classified as one of only ten Fourth Growths in the historic Bourdeaux Wine Official Classification of 1855. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Dust jacket photograph by Neal Slavin.
Price: $400.00 Item Number: 72050