Apr 03, 2003 - Sale 1965

Sale 1965 - Lot 2

Price Realized: $ 1,150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(AUTOGRAPH ALBUMS.) Two autograph albums belonging to American playwright Jules Eckert Goodman, containing over 150 clipped signatures or letters, chiefly from literary and theatrical persons, but also others. Letters vary in length from a few lines to 3- and 4-page letters; some duplication. Albums approximately 10x8 inches; contents variously tipped in, laid down, or loose. An interesting miscellany covering a long period of American literary and theatrical life. should be examined. Vp, 1890s-1940s

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Many signatures are unidentified, but includes ALsS of Otis Skinner, Richard Harding Davis, Earl Derr Biggers, Owen Wister (2), George Arliss, Israel Zangwill, Oliver Herford, Peter Newell, Minnie Maddern Fiske (2), Paul Muni, and J.C. Leyendecker; TLsS of Edna Ferber, Arthur Train, Lucius Beebee, Oliver St. John Gogarty, George S. Kaufman, and Robert Sherwood; clipped signatures of W. S. Maugham, Norman Douglas, Carl Van Vechten, Gellett Burgess, and William Gillette. And many, many others.