Vol.1, Iss.2

12/1/2010

Dear Relic, Rare Book and Autograph Enthusiast,

Welcome to our latest newsletter, offering some of the finest items available in the marketplace. Below is a very small sample of the types of material we offer. Please visit the University Archives website to access our inventory, with over 20,000 items available for purchase.

Name	Thomas Jefferson	ID#	52986
Headline	Thomas Jefferson's copy of The Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, with his ownership initials in each of the eight volumes.
Date	1767	Price
Place	[Paris]	$128,000.00

Name	David Ben-Gurion	ID#	52963
Headline	A Life in Letters: a signed photograph, 9 Autograph Letters Signed, 18 Typed Letters Signed, all with exceptional content, signed 1920s Histadrut Teachers’ Union Membership Registrar, and 1948 Independence issues of “Ha’aretz” and “The Palestine Post.”
Date	1920s - 1972	Price
Place	Palestine / Israel	$48,000.00

Name	Theodore Roosevelt	ID#	52993
Headline	Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider’s Archive
Date	mostly 1898	Price
Place	Cuba & New York	$42,500.00

Name	Ernest Hemingway	ID#	25673
Headline	One of the most important literary relics of the 20th century, Ernest Hemingway's fully documented typewriter, on which he typed his last great work.
Date	n.d	Price
Place	n.p	$100,000.00

Name	Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig	ID#	52930
Headline	Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig darkly penned signatures on a 1931 Official American League Ball also signed by 19 teammates on the 1931 New York Yankees including Hall of Famers Lazzeri, Pennock, Gomez, Ruffing, Dickey, and possibly Combs and Sewell – no team had more HOF players (9) than the 1931 Yankees!
Date	1931	Price
Place	n.p.	$12,000.00

Name	Piotr I. Tchaikovsky	ID#	53014
Headline	The most attractive and finest content Tchaikovsky letter we have handled - "Francesca is languishing in the censorship committee..."
Date	[February 11, 1876]	Price
Place	[Moscow]	$17,000.00

Name	Thomas Alva Edison	ID#	52976
Headline	Thomas Edison stellar content letter all about the phonograph. He predicts about the competition “there is no doubt that the radio will become universal…” As far as pianos, “As the phonograph gets to be improved I feel sure the higher priced phonographs will replace pianos…”
Date	June 28, 1924	Price
Place	Orange, New Jersey	$10,000.00

Name	Abraham Lincoln	ID#	53016
Headline	Rare early court document signed by the 29-year-old lawyer “A. Lincoln” just a year after he formed his first law partnership with Mary Todd’s cousin, John Todd Stuart .
Date	September 19, 1838	Price
Place	[Springfield, Illinois]	$8,500.00

Name	Max Baer	ID#	52873
Headline	Boxing Champion Max Baer engraved gold money clip and signed photo taken with Bogey and Bacall, inscribed with a message to Humphrey Bogart, "...I'm giving Lauren Bacall what a great guy like Bogart should give her. An earful and a hug..."
Date	June 1947	Price
Place	Copacobana Night Club	$6,000.00

Name	Declaration of Independence	ID#	52903
Headline	Coolidge Declaration of Independence
Date	1844	Price
Place	Boston	$1,500.00

Name	West Point	ID#	52908
Headline	Signed by Superintendent Sylvanus Thayer and eight professors! West Point Diploma of Lieutenant John P. Center who was killed four years later in the Second Seminole War in the Battle of Okeechobee – one of three officers Col. Zachary Taylor recognized as having “no superior of their years in the service, and in point of chivalry ranked among the first in the army or nation…”
Date	July 4, 1833	Price
Place	West Point, New York	$1,200.00

Name	Willem de Kooning	ID#	52979
Headline	De Kooning agrees to allow the reproduction of his painting “Black and White Composition” in a forthcoming issue of the literary anthology magazine, “New World Writing.”
Date	August 24, 1953	Price
Place	n.p.	$550.00

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