Impressive collection of more than 300 items—predominately comprised of signed cards, but also including a few letters and photographs—signed by notable figures from a variety of fields, including scientists, writers, jurists, athletes, entertainers, politicians, and world leaders.
Highlights include: Hugo L. Black, Frank Buck, Thornton W. Burgess, Dale Carnegie, Willa Cather, Douglas Corrigan, Jack Dempsey, William O. Douglas, Theodore Dreiser, Daphne du Maurier, Felix Frankfurter, Robert Frost, David Lloyd George, Charles Dana Gibson, Ferde Grofe, Andrei Gromyko, J. Edgar Hoover, Robinson Jeffers, Rockwell Kent, Fritz Kreisler, Fiorello La Guardia, Oscar Levant, Allan Lockheed, Glenn L. Martin, W. Somerset Maugham, Aimee Semple McPherson, Robert Millikan, Ogden Nash, Eugene Ormandy, Mary Pickford, Cole Porter, Emily Post, Stanley Reed, Norman Rockwell, Sax Rohmer, Alexander P. de Seversky, Igor Sikorsky, Upton Sinclair, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Harlan F. Stone, Arthur Szyk, James Thurber, Gene Tunney, Fred M. Vinson, Earl Warren, H. G. Welles, Orson Welles, Thornton Wilder, and Wendell Willkie. In overall fine condition.
A video of 95% of the collection is online. Due to the large quantity several secretarial and/or printed signatures may be included. Interested parties are encouraged to view the video as this collection is sold as is and no returns will be accepted. From the James A. Bowman Collection.