ELLIOTT ERWITT SIGNS A LIMITED EDITION PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK SNAPS WITH A SILVER GELATIN PRINT OF MARILYN MONROE

ELLIOTT ERWITT (1928- ).  Erwitt is a documentary photographer known for his photographs of famous people and ironic moments.

SB. 2001. New York / London.  A limited edition Snaps by Elliott Erwitt (number 161 of 250), complete with the beautiful silver gelatin print of Marilyn Monroe (also number 161 or 250).  It was printed by Phaidon in 2001.  The book contains over 500 pictures by Erwitt, and is arranged in nine chapters (Look, Move, Play, Read, Rest, Touch, Tell, Point, Stand).  The book is signed by Erwitt on the special limited edition page.  The book is housed in a dark green cloth clamshell box with silver lettering.  A truly beautiful photography book.

JOY ADAMSON INSCRIBES AND SIGNS HER SECOND BOOK, LIVING FREE

FRIEDERIKE VICTORIA “JOY’ ADAMSON (1910-1980). Adamson was an Austrian naturalist, author, and wildlife conservationist. She is best known for Born Free, her book about her experiences raising an orphaned lion cub named Elsa, and its two sequels, Living Free and Forever Free.

SB. 161pgs. N.d. N.p. An American first edition of Joy Adamson’s second book, Living Free: The Story of Elsa and Her Club, with a lengthy inscription and signature “Joy Adamson” on a free front page. The book is in good condition, with wear and tear to the dust jacket, some of which has been repaired with tape.

A BUZZ ALDRIN SIGNED REACHING FOR THE MOON

BUZZ ALDRIN (1930- ).  Aldrin, a member of the Apollo 11 crew, was the second man to walk on the Moon.

SB. No date. No place.  Reaching For The Moon signed signed “Buzz Aldrin” on the title page.  This children’s book was published in 2005 for Harper Collins.  It is in very fine condition.

BILL CLINTON (1946- ).  Clinton was the Forty-Second President.

SB. 1000pg. No date. No place.  My Life signed by President Bill Clinton on a bookplate attached to the first endpage.  The bookplate was produced by Knopf and has the initials "WJC" and a golden border.  This is a second printing and the book is in very fine condition.

PADRAIC COLUM SIGNS A COPY OF HIS COLLECTED POEMS

PADRAIC COLUM (1881-1972). Colum was a notable Irish Revival poet and author.

SB. 214 pgs. A copy of The Collected Poems of Padraic Colum, inscribed and signed “For Virginia Follin Padraic Collum”. The collection of Colum’s poems was published by Devin-Adair in 1953. It lacks a dust jacket, and it has noticeable wear and tear to the spine and edges of the covers. Some of the pages are slightly yellowed, and some have minor stains.

NINETEENTH CENTURY LAWYER AND ACTIVIST RICHARD HENRY DANA JR. SIGNS SPEECHES AND ADDRESSES BY PELEG SPRAGUE, LL.D

RICHARD HENRY DANA JR. (1815-1882). Dana was a Massachusetts lawyer, writer, and abolitionist politician who successfully argued the Prize cases.

PELEG SPRAGUE (1793-1880). Sprague was a United States Representative and Senator from Maine and a United States district judge for the District of Massachusetts.

SB. 486 pgs. 8” x 10”. A book signed by “Rich H Dana Jr.” on the first page and again on the title page and by “P Sprague” in an accompanying autograph letter signed to “Richard H Dana Jr, Esqr” pasted on the second page: “I send you the accompanying volume without intending to impose upon you any obligation to read speeches or addresses upon occasions which have passed by & upon questions which in a great degree are now merely historical. I ask your acceptance of the volume, only as a mask of my personal regard P Sprague”. The book, Speeches and Addresses, By Peleg Sprague, LL.D., was published in 1858 by Boston’s Phillips, Sampson, and Company. It is divided into two parts: “Part I: Speeches in Congress from the Year 1825 to the Year 1833” and “Part II: Speeches and Addresses Not Congressional, Between the Years 1825 and 1853”. Notable texts include several congressional addresses in opposition to Indian Removal, his opposition to nullification, eulogies for Presidents Adams and Jefferson and Daniel Webster, and his 1835 speech celebrating the creation of the Abolition Party. It was likely through his abolitionist activism that he first met Dana. Respectfully to Sprague, this volume of speeches and addresses does have value for relitigating many of the most prominent political debates and characters of the early Nineteenth Century. The binding of the book is loose, and the cover is worn.