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Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was an American poet, historian, novelist, balladeer, and folklorist. He was born in Galesburg, Illinois of Swedish parents and died at his home, named Connemara, in Flat Rock, North Carolina. H. L. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every pulse-beat." He was a successful journalist, poet, historian, biographer, and autobiographer. During the course of his career, Sandburg won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his biography of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln: The War Years) and one for his collection The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg. Sandburg was awarded a Grammy Award in 1959 for Best Performance - Documentary Or Spoken Word (Other Than Comedy) for his recording of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait with the New York Philharmonic.

Original Carl Sandburg Autograph signed on Cut Paper. Dated 1931. Approx. size 3 x 4 1/2 inches. Regular Price - $ 599.99 / Sale Price - $ 295.00.

Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard (June 21, 1850– June 11, 1941) was an American illustrator, author, and social reformer who was one of the founders of the Boy Scouts of America. He merged his organization into the Boy Scouts of America when it was founded in 1910. Beard became one of the first National Scout Commissioners of the Boy Scouts and served it for 30 years. The work of both Beard and Ernest Thompson Seton are in large part the basis of the Traditional Scouting movement. Beard also helped his sister organize the Camp Fire Girls and became president of the Camp Fire Club of America. Beard was a Freemason in a New York Lodge, and an award for Masonic Scouters has been named in his honor. Prior to the establishment of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Dan Beard was recipient of the first and only "gold Eagle badge" awarded at the Second National Training Conference of Scout Executives held in 1922 in Blue Ridge, North Carolina.

Bonus 1938 Boy Scouts Souvenir Certificate with purchase of Dan Beard autographed photo.

Original Dan Beard Autographed Photo, dated 1931. Dan Beard has written: How would a jazz band or a brass band do? I do not use tobacco. Printed in Bottom left corner is: National Scout Commissioner Boy Scouts of America Daniel Carter Beard. DANIEL BEARD CURRENTLY HAS A BOOK ON THE BEST SELLERS LIST! Approx. size 3 1/2 x 6 inches. Regular Price - $ 450.00 / Sale Price - $ 325.00.

Fannie Hurst (October 19, 1889 - February 23, 1968) was an American novelist. Although her books are not well remembered today, during her lifetime some of her more famous novels were Stardust (1919), Lummox (1923), A President is Born (1927), Back Street (1931), and Imitation of Life (1933). Hurst was born in Hamilton, Ohio, the only child of a well-to-do Jewish family. She spent the first twenty years of her life in St. Louis, Missouri, where she attended Washington University in St. Louis and graduated in 1909. In 1915 she married Jacques S. Danielson of New York, a pianist, but the marriage was not announced until five years later. In 1921, Hurst was among the first to join the Lucy Stone League, an organization that fought for women to preserve their maiden names. She was active in the Urban League, and was appointed to the National Advisory Committee to the Works Progress Administration in 1940. She was also a delegate to the World Health Organization in 1952. Hurst is now best known for the screen adaptations of her works, such as the 1934 film Imitation of Life and the 1959 remake. F. Scott Fitzgerald presciently described her as one of several authors "not producing among 'em one story or novel that will last 10 years.

Original Fannie Hurst Autograph Signed with red ink on Card Stock, dated 1933. Approx. size 3 x 5 inches. Regular Price - $ 399.99 / Sale Price - $ 198.00.

Zane Grey (January 31, 1872 – October 23, 1939) was an American author best known for his popular adventure novels and pulp fiction that presented an idealized image of the rugged Old West. As of June 2007, the Internet Movie Database credits Grey with 110 films, one TV episode, and one entire TV Series based on his novels and stories. He became especially interested in the West in 1907, after joining a friend on an expedition to trap mountain lions in Arizona. Grey wrote steadily, but it was only in 1910, and after considerable efforts by his wife, that his first western, Heritage of the Desert, became a bestseller. It propelled a career writing popular novels about manifest destiny and the "conquest of the Wild West." Two years later he produced his best-known book, Riders of the Purple Sage (1912). He formed his own motion picture company, but in a few years sold it to Jesse Lasky who was a partner of the founder of Paramount Pictures. Paramount would make a number of movies based on his writings. It is also speculated that two of his creations, Lone Star Ranger (a novel later turned into a 1930 film) and King of the Royal Mounted (popular as a series of big little books and comics, later turned into a 1936 film), were later used as an inspiration for two radio series by George Trendle (WXYZ, Detroit) which later made the transition to television: The Lone Ranger and Challenge of the Yukon (Sgt. Preston of the Yukon on TV). The Zane Grey Show ran on the Mutual Broadcasting System for five months in the late 1940s.

Original Zane Grey Autograph signed on Card Stock, dated 1931. Approx. size 3 x 5 inches. Regular Price - $ 399.99 / Sale Price - $ 199.99

Edward Franklin Albee III was on born March 12, 1928. Edward is a three time Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright known for works including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, The Sandbox and The American Dream. His works are considered well-crafted and often unsympathetic examinations of the modern condition. His early works reflect a mastery and Americanization of the Theatre of the Absurd that found its peak in works by European playwrights such as Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and Eugène Ionesco. Younger American playwrights, such as Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel, credit Albee's daring mix of theatricalism and biting dialogue with helping to reinvent the post-war American theatre in the early 1960s. Albee's dedication to continuing to evolve his voice — as evidenced in later productions such as The Goat: or, Who Is Sylvia? (2002) — also routinely marks him as distinct from other American playwrights of his era. According to Magill's Survey of American Literature (2007), Edward Albee was born somewhere in Virginia (contrary to the popular belief that he was born in Washington D.C.). He was adopted two weeks later and taken to Westchester County, New York. Albee's adoptive father, Reed A. Albee — himself the son of vaudeville magnate Edward Franklin Albee II — owned several theaters, where young Edward first gained familiarity with the theatre as a child. His adoptive mother was Reed's third wife, Frances. Albee attended the Rye Country Day School in New York, then the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, where he was expelled. He then was sent to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1945 at the age of 17. He next enrolled in the graduate studies program at Choate prep school in Connecticut, graduating in 1946. His formal education continued at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was expelled in 1947 for skipping classes and refusing to attend compulsory chapel. Albee left home for good when he was in his late teens, later saying in an interview: "I never felt comfortable with the adoptive parents. I don't think they knew how to be parents. I probably didn't know how to be a son, either." More recently, he told interviewer Charlie Rose that he was "thrown out" because his parents wanted him to become a "corporate thug", and didn't approve of his aspirations to become a writer. The less than diligent student later dedicated much of his time to promoting American university theatre, frequently speaking at campuses and serving as a distinguished professor at the University of Houston from 1989 to 2003. A member of the Dramatists Guild Council, Albee has received three Pulitzer Prizes for drama — for A Delicate Balance (1967), Seascape (1975), Three Tall Women (1994); a Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement (2005); the Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (1980); as well as the Kennedy Center Honors and the National Medal of Arts (both in 1996). Albee is the President of the Edward F. Albee Foundation, Inc., which maintains the William Flanagan Creative Persons Center, a writers and artists colony in Montauk, New York. Albee's longtime partner, Jonathan Thomas, a sculptor, died on May 2, 2005, the result of a two year-long battle with bladder cancer. In 2008, in celebration of his eightieth birthday, numerous Albee plays are being mounted in distinguished Off Broadway venues, including the historic Cherry Lane Theatre, where the playwright himself is directing two of his one-acts, The American Dream and The Sandbox, which were produced at the theater in 1961 and 1962, respectively.

Original Edward Albee Autograph, signed on a 3 x 5 inch Index Card. Regular Price - $ 85.00 / Sale Price - $ 44.95.

Russell Wayne Baker was born August 14, 1925. Russell Baker is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose, as well as for his autobiography, Growing Up. Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Russell Baker, was the author of the nationally syndicated "Observer" column for the New York Times from 1962 to 1998. In addition, the noted journalist, humorist, essayist, and biographer has written or edited seventeen books. Original Russell Baker Autographed Note, signed on The New York Times Stationary. Approx. size 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. The New York Times 229 WEst 43 Street New York, NY 10036 Russell Baker Letterhead. Written: Dear Moise - Me Autograph Russell Baker 3/29/88. Regular Price - $ 135.00 / Sale Price - $ 44.95.

Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveller best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. So varied were Thomas's activities that when it came time for the Library of Congress to catalog his memoirs they were forced to put them in "CT" in their classification - biographies of subjects who don't fit into any other category. Since 1980, the Explorers Club, which Thomas was a member of, annually presents the Lowell Thomas award to "honor men and women who have distinguished themselves in the field of exploration". The awards are presented at a yearly dinner to a select group of people having made particular contributions in the specific area chosen to be that year's focus. Past awardees include Edmund Hillary, Isaac Asimov, David Doubilet, Mary Cleave, Buzz Aldrin and Bertrand Piccard.

Original Lowell Thomas Autograph signed on Card Stock. Top right corner slightly worn. Approx. size 2 x 3 1/2 inches. Regular Price - $ 149.99 / Sale Price - $ 89.95.

Hugh Malcolm Downs (born February 14, 1921) is a retired American broadcaster, television host, producer, and author. He served as anchor of 20/20, host of The Today Show, announcer for the Tonight Show with Jack Paar, host of Concentration game show, and co-host of the PBS talk show Not for Women Only. Original Hugh Downs Autograph Signed on Fly Leaf (from a book). Approx. size 5 x 8 inches. Regular Price $ 39.99 / Sale Price $ 18.95.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher (February 17, 1879 – November 9, 1958) was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the Twentieth century. She was named by Eleanor Roosevelt one of the ten most influential women in the United States. Dorothy Canfield brought the Montessori method of child rearing to the United States, presided over the country's first adult education program, and shaped literary tastes by serving as a member of the Book-of-the-Month Club selection committee from 1925 to 1951. Her best-known work today is probably Understood Betsy, a children's book about a little orphaned girl who is sent to live with her cousins in Vermont. Though the book can be read purely for pleasure, it also describes a schoolhouse which is run much in the style of the Montessori method, for which Canfield was one of the first and most vocal advocates. The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award, named after her, is a unique award for new American children's books, as the winner is chosen by the vote of child readers.

Original Dorothy Canfield Fisher Autograph, Signed on a Fly Leaf. (Each corner of the Fly Leaf has been trimmed on an angle). Approx. size 4 x 6 inches. Regular Price - $ 60.00 / Sale Price - $ 38.95.

Hamilton Cochran was born September 9, 1898 in Philadelphia, Pa. His father Joseph was a clergyman, sought to give his son a good education and sent him to Swarthmore Preparatory Scholl. April 1917 after the United States declared war on Germany, Hamilton at age 18 left school within a week and enlisted in the United States Coast Guard. Hamilton served on the Coast Guard Cutter ALgonquin, which was one of six warships that the Coast Guard sent to fight in Europe. Cochran attended the University of Michigan and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism. Hamilton after college sailed the Red Star and Munson lines in passenger and freight vessels, worked for Ronald Press as a salesman, served as a vice president of the Diamond Wax Paper Company in Rochester, New York. He also accepted a job as the Commissioner of Public Welfare for the government of the Virgin Islands. In 1937, he wrote is first book entitled: These are the Virgin Islands. In 1941 his first novel was released: Buccaneer Islands. This would be one of thirteen books. Most well known for Blockade Runners of the Confederacy. During World War II at the age of 44 Hamilton again joined the Coast Guard. Hamilton Cochran died in 1977.

Original Hamilton Cochran Autographed, signed on a Typed Letter. Typed on Hamilton Cochran 109 Stratford Road Wallingford, Pa.: September 5, 1963 Dear Frank: Thanks for your complimentary letter. It is always nice to hear from those who like my books. Here is the complete list: Windward Passage,novel Captain Ebony,novel Silver Shoals," Rogues' Holiday," The Dram Tree," Buccaneer Islands (juvenile) These are the Virgin Islands ( travel ) Pirates of the Spanish Main ( history ) Blockade Runners of the Confederacy ( history ) Noted American Duels and Hostile Encounters (history) All are out of print except: The Dram Tree, Blockade Runners, Pirates of the S.M. Noted American Duels. You can obtain the 1st two noted, form The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 4300 W. 62nd St, Indianapolis 6, Ind. Dram Tree is $3.50; Blockade Runners, $ 6.00. Pirates of the Spanish Main is published by American Heritage Junior Library, 551 - 5th Ave, New York, NY. I believe the price is $3.75. I am enclosing a notice of Noted American Duels which is just off the press. The only way of getting any of the other books is to keep your eyes peeled at Leary's Book Store and other 2nd hand places. I have an English Edition of Silver Shoals I can sell you. Also a paperback of Windward Passage. Sincerely, Hamilton Cochran. The letter is typed and in a few places typing errors have been corrected with a blue ink pen. Appro. size 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. Regular Price - $ 85.00 / Sale Price - $ 64.95.

Original Hamilton Cochran Autograph, signed on Book Plate. Approx. size 2 5/8 x 3 1/4 inches Regular Price - $ 85.00 / Sale Price - $ 19.95.

Nellie Snyder Yost Was born in a sod house in Northwest Lincoln County and grew up on her parents ranch in the beautiful Sandhill lake country of McPherson County, Nebraska. Taught one year in a rural McPherson County school riding horseback, six miles a day, to her school. After spending two years in Salem, Oregon, where she worked in the Miller Dep't store office. She married David Harrison Yost in 1929 and returned to Maxwell, Nebraska. She has one son, Thomas Snyder Yost, She wrote the Fort McPherson Centennial Pageant, produced in North Platte in 1963, and was Grand Marshal of the Old Glory Blowout that same fall, the only woman to date to be chosen for that honor. Appointed a Colonel in the Cody Scouts of North Platte in 1965. Has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Nebraska State Historical Society since 1966 and served as president of the Board from October, 1974, to October, 1976. She is also a trustee of the State Historical Society Foundation. She is a past president and life member of the Nebraska Writers Guild and was Secretary- Treasurer of the western writers of America, Inc., from 1972 to 1979. Is a charter member of the North Platte Buffalo Bill Corral of Westerners (Secretary 1969-1970) and an honorary member of the Omaha Westerners Corral. She is a member of Chapter GO, P.E.O. of North Platte and a State and National Cow Belle. She was appointed to the Fort Robinson Centennial Commission by Governor Exon in 1973, and was a member of the Nebraska Hall of Fame Commission from 1974 to 1981; was appointed by the Nebraska Legislature to the Poet Laureate Commission in March of that same year (commission now expired), Was first listed in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA in 1972 and was the recipient of the Nebraska optometric Society's "Eyes on Nebraska" award in 1970. In 1972 was selected Beta Sigma Phi's first "First Lady of the Year" in North Platte and made an Honorary International Member of that organization that same year. She received the Golden Saddleman in June, 1975, highest award given by the Western Writers of America for bringing Dignity and Honor to the History and Legends of the West. Was made an honorary member of the Buffalo Bill Stamp Club of North Platte in 1976. Appointed to the board of directors of Westerners International of Tucson in 1977 and awarded the WRANGLER trophy by the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City for BUFFALO BILL, the best non-fiction book published in 1979. Re the same book was interviewed by the CHICAGO TRIBUNE and UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL and invited to New York to appear on GOOD-MORNING AMERICA with David Hartman. Won the 1979 Society of Midland Authors award for the best biography (BUFFALO BILL) published in 1979. Accept the award at the awards program held in the Drake Hotel, Chicago, in June, 1980. Travel extensively giving lectures and programs in many states, as well as Nebraska. Was appointed an Honorary Colonel in the Nebraska National Guards in 1980 and have been a member of the Little Big Horn Association since 1978. She is a Baptist and a Republican.

Original Nellie Yost Autographed Typed Letter. Approx. size 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. Typed on Letter: 1505 West D. St. North Platte, NE 69101 4-8-80 Dear Mr. Barry: Received your note of April 2. I am a bit puzzled and would like some more information. I placed an add in the January-February issue of The White Tops, hoping to sell a fair number of my Buffalo Bill books. I have had orders for only three. Since it seems to be the magazine of the "Circus Fans," I am wondering why they are ordering the book ( Buffalo Bill ---") from you instead of from me. Would you mind telling me how well the book is selling from your store? I am glad you liked the book, and it is the only one about Buffalo Bill that I have written. Don Russell wrote the other one, the Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill. I think it is still in print by Oklahoma University Press. Sincerely, Nellie Yost. Regular Price - $ 65.00 / Sale Price - $ 34.95.

Courtney Riley Cooper Born in 1886 - died 9/29/1949 by suicide. Courtney was the Press agent for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. Cooper wrote Screen Plays, Novels and Short Stories. He also worked with the FBI Narcotics Bureau to write on the dangers of illiit drugs, writing Marijuana Assassin on Youth. Original Courtney Riley Cooper Autograph, signed on a Fly Leaf. Dated 1935. Approx. size 5 x 6 3/4 inches. Regular Price - $ 68.00 / Sale Price - $ 34.95.

Mario Gianluigi Puzo was born October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999. Mario was a two time Academy Award-winning Italian American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, especially The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film with Francis Ford Coppola. Original Mario Puzo Autograph, signed on a First Day Cover Envelope. Sinclair Lewis A brilliant satirical novelist, he won the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature. Postmarked: Sauk Centre, MN March 21 1985. Approx. size 3 5/8 x 61/2 inches. Regular Price - $ 195.00 / Sale Price - $ 98.95.

James Albert Michener was born February 3, 1907 – died October 16, 1997. Michener was an American author of more than 40 titles, the majority of which are novels of sweeping sagas, covering the lives of many generations in a particular geographic locale and incorporating historical facts into the story as well. Michener was known for the meticulous research behind his work. Michener's major books include Tales of the South Pacific (for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948), Hawaii, The Drifters, Centennial, The Source, The Fires of Spring, Chesapeake, Caribbean, Caravans, Alaska, Texas, and Poland. His nonfiction works include his 1968 Iberia about his travels in Spain and Portugal, his 1992 memoir The World is My Home, and Sports in America.

Original James Michener Autograph, signed on a Large Format Magazine Page such as Life or Look. Close up view of James Michener Autograph on a Ad Page for Lord Calvert. Approx. size 10 3/8 x 13 3/8 inches. Regular Price - $ 365.95 / Sale Price - $ 144.95. Also check out our Autographed Copy of Chesapeake on the Autographed & Rare Books Page.

Forrest J. Ackerman was born November 24, 1916 - died December 4, 2008. Forrest J Ackerman or Mr. Science Fiction, was for over seven decades one of science fiction's staunchest spokesmen and promoters. Ackerman was a Los Angeles, California-based magazine editor, science fiction writer and literary agent, a founder of science fiction fandom and possibly the world's most avid collector of genre books and movie memorabilia. He was the editor and principal writer of the American magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, as well as an actor and producer (Vampirella). Also called "Forry," "The Ackermonster," "4e" and "4SJ," Ackerman was central to the formation, organization, and spread of science fiction fandom, and a key figure in the wider cultural perception of science fiction as a literary, art and film genre. Famous for his word play and neologisms, he coined the genre nickname "sci-fi". In 1953, he was voted "#1 Fan Personality" by the members of the World Science Fiction Society, a unique Hugo Award never granted to anyone else. He was also among the first and most outspoken advocates of Esperanto in the science fiction community.

Original Forrest J. Ackerman Autograph, signed on a 8 x 10 Inch Black & White Photograph. Hand written: Beast Witches Forrest Ackerman. You will also receive the shown Famous Monster of Filmland Magazine - Just like the one he is holding in the Photograph. Regular Price - $ 365.00 / Sale Price - $ 198.00.