Books, Maps & Manuscripts (1551) September 30, 2016 EDT, Main Floor Gallery Lot 298

Estimate: $1000 - $1500 (plus Buyer's Premium) Lot - Autograph material and c. - Collection of 14 autograph books assembled by the Broadway and Off-Broadway set designer Andrew Greenhut between 1949 - 1953. Lot also includes set design photos. 14 autograph books, each 4 ¾ x 6 inches; 120 x 150 mm, original leatherette: 1) January – November 1949, signatures include: Hildegrade; Eddy Duchin; Alive Tyrrell; Abe Burrows; Bill Robinson; Bruce Bennett; Alan Hale; Linda Darnell; Sophie Tucker; Kathryn Grayson; Mario Lanza; Lena Horne; Beatrice Lillie; Rhonda Fleming; John Agar; Rory Calhoun; Louis Jordan; et al. (including band leaders, radio performers), - all presumed in person signatures; lot also includes post card signed in pencil by Cid Caesar. 2) October 1949 – January 1950, signatures include: Ted Mack; Louis Jordan; Rhonda Fleming; Billy De Wolfe; Ted Lewis; Sonja Henie; Bert Wheeler; Xavier Cugat; Abbe Lane; Shelley Winters; Lauritz Melchior; Tallulah Bankhead; et al. (including singers and radio performers), - all presumed in person signatures; lot also includes card signed and inscribed by Jackie Robinson. 3) January - May 1950, signatures include: Wendell Corey; Harry Richmond; Chester Morris; Jerry Colonna; Oscar Levant; Vivian Blaine; Rudy Vallée; Peggy Lee; Bob Hope; Marilyn Maxwell; Gigi Durston; Sophie Tucker; Gordon Jenkins; et al., - all presumed in person signatures. 4) May - October 1950, signatures include: Helen Jepson; Ritz Brothers - Jimmy, Harry, Al; Maureen O'Hara; Jack Benny; Danny Thomas; Gloria Swanson; James Mitchell; Oscar Hammerstein; Ann Blyth; José Ferrer; Henny Youngman; Evelyn Knight; Richard Eastman; Janet Blair; Gene Autry; Xavier Cugat, with drawing; Percy Faith; et al., - all presumed in person signatures. 5) October 1950 - January 1951, signatures include: Phil Silvers; Jerry Lewis; Shirley Booth; John Payne; Joyce Holden; Katherine Hepburn; Harpo Marx; Andrew Sisters [Patty signing, ""Sincerely Andrew Sisters""); Margot Fonteyn; Red Skeleton; et al., - all presumed in person signatures. 6) January - May 1951, signatures include: Harry Carey Jr.; Edgar Buchannan; Ward Bond; Frederick March; Lane Wyatt; Florence Eldridge; Sarah Churchill; Robert Sterling; Eddie Cantor; Eddie Fisher; Mercedes McCambridge; Yuma Sumac; Nat King Cole; Ester Williams; et al., - all presumed in person signatures. 7) May 1951 - October 1951, signatures include: Emmett Kelly; Sid Caesar; Jean Wallace; Bert Lahr; John Derek; Jane Russell; John Ericson; Edmond O'Brien; Robert Cummings; et al., - all presumed in person signatures. 8) October - December 1951, signatures include: George Abbott; Martha Scott; Dane Clark; Phil Silvers; Coleen Gray; Charles Laughton; Charles Boyer; Cedric Hardwicke; Julie Harris; Gregory Ratoff; Gloria Swanson; et al., - all presumed in person signatures. 9) December 1951 - March 1952, signatures include: Rosalind Russell; Dennis Price; Dorothy Sands; Judith Evelyn; Leueen MacGrath; Richard Kiley; Basil Rathbone; Edward G. Robinson; Rosemary Clooney; Tony Martin; Sammy Kaye; Constance Bennett; Judy Holiday; et al., - all presumed in person signatures. 10) March 1952 - June 1952, signatures include: Melvin Douglas; Miriam Hopkins; John Ireland; Joanne Drew; Dorothy Dandridge, et al., - all presumed in person signatures. This album also holds original signed cards whose signatures were to be reproduced by the Ward Wheelock Company for Whitman's Candy and Campbell Soup advertisements: Betty Hutton; Jimmy Stewart; Kirk Douglas; Alan Ladd; Danny Kaye; Bing Crosby; Bob Crosby; Jeanne Crain; Walter O' Keefe; Robert Young. 11) September - December 1952, signatures include: Mindy Carson; Sylvia Field; Jack Fina; Frank Sinatra; June Lockhart; John Dall; et al., - all presumed in person signatures. 12) January - February 1953, signatures include: Dick More; Pat O'Brien; Richard Egan; Kay Francis; George Tobias; Larry Parks; Julia Adams; Kim Stanley; Ralph Meeker; Eileen Heckart; Sally Forrest; Leslie Nelson; Patty Page; et al., - all presumed in person signatures. 13) February - April 1953, signatures include: Jack Carson; Richard Rodgers; Wayne King; Allan Jones; Margaret O'Brien; Harry Belafonte; Jerry Ross; Joan Blondell; Gwen Verdon; et al., - all presumed in person signatures. 14) May - June 1953, signatures include: Jack Cassidy; Paul Valentine; et al., - all presumed in person signatures. Lot includes orig photos of stage sets presumably designed by Andrew Greenhut. 5 silver prints, 7 x 13 1/2 inches; 175 x 340 mm and smaller, University of Miami Photo Center, ca. 1970's.