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(ALBUM.) Guestbook for the Isola Bella Restaurant, containing hundreds of items
Signed, or Signed and Inscribed: drawings, Autograph Musical Quotations, photographs
and Signatures, by artists, writers, musicians, politicians, and others, including a drawing
Signed by Léon Bakst and another by Alfred Munnings, an Autograph Poem Signed by
W.B. Yeats, Autograph Inscriptions Signed by T.S. Eliot, Theodore Dreiser, and Mary
Pickford, and a Signature by Guglielmo Marconi. Most written 10 to a page but some
items half- or full page, some items mounted to the page, most drawings graphite or ink
but some with watercolor. 2 volumes. Large folio and large 4to, uniform later morocco.
SHOULD BE EXAMINED
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London, 1919-33
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Léon Bakst. Graphite drawing Signed, “Bakst,” sketch of a “Sleeping Princess” in elaborate
dress. 11x11 inches; faint scattered staining. 1921 * Alfred Munnings. Graphite drawing
Signed, “AJMunnings,” sketch of man feeding horse seated at dining table. 11x11 inches. 29
October 1919 * William Butler Yeats. Autograph Poem Signed, “WB Yeats,” four lines
beginning, “Because this grisly year was wild.” 5 July 1920 * T.S. Eliot. Autograph
Inscription Signed, “In grateful recognition of a superb time. / T.S. Eliot.” Nd * Theodore
Dreiser. Autograph Inscription Signed, beginning, “Machiavelli himself would have been
delighted.” 2 February 1925 * Mary Pickford. Autograph Inscription Signed, “M. Pickford,
beginning, “If this is the goods the Gods give us.” 1929 * Guglielmo Marconi. Signature *
Jean du Bosschere. Illustrated Fools Day card, including ink drawings with watercolor, holo-
graph text, in French. Mounted. Nd * Edward McKnight Kauffer. Graphite drawing Signed,
“E. McKnight Kauffer,” sketch of a man in cubist style. 1919 * Robert Anning Bell. Ink
drawing Signed, “R. An. Bell,” showing a gnome or halfling. 6x6 inches; mounted. Nd *
Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia. Signature and date. 14 January 1920 * Muirhead
Bone. Small ink drawing Signed, sketch of acid bottle and etching stylus. Nd * Stephen Bone.
Graphite drawing Signed, portrait of Francesco Barberi. 11x11 inches. 2 October 1920 *
Arthur Machen. Autograph Inscription Signed, “With the highest praise for the Fritta Mista.”
25 June 1928 * Stephen Gooden. Small ink drawing Signed, showing a mermaid pouring
contents of cornucopia into mouth of dragon. 4 March 1932 * others.