Search Results: Authors starting with S from Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc.

London England: Michael Joseph. Very Good. 1937. On offer is a super, autographed copy of the First Edition of the first book in the immortal Horatio Hornblower series: The Happy Return by C.S. Forester, signed on the fep, some light book dealer's pencil notes on another endpaper. Only 12,000 copies were printed of the First Edition thusly, signed, makes for an inordinately scarce title. This a VG copy, lacking the dustjacket, London green, silver gilt, crisp and save for a very slight cocking, very light sunning to the spine it would be near fine. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: AUTOGRAPH, C.S.FORESTER, THE HAPPY RETURN, FIRST EDITION, HORATIO HORNBLOWER, SIGNED, AUTOGRAPHED, NAVAL, ROYAL NAVY, NAVAL ADVENTURE, PATRICK O'BRIEN, CAPTAIN JACK AUBREY, NICOLAS RAMAGE, DUDLEY POPE, MARINE, NAUTICAL, ADVENTURE, HISTORICAL, NAVAL WARFARE, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, FRENCH REVOLUTION, TRAFALGER, LORD NELSON, AGE OF SAIL, FRIGATES, THE HAPPY RETURN, BEAT TO… Read More

Havana, Matanzas, Cuba: Chinese Coolie Trade Ship Manifest Cuba. Fair with no dust jacket. 1869. Non-Book. On offer is an arrival manifest recording the names, information and fates of 26 Chinese men who were transported on an complicated voyage of the Aurora, from the port of Macau to Havana, Cuba to complete their indentured servitude as “coolies”, working for Cuban sugar plantation owners. This manifest was created upon the arrival of the San Salvadorian ship, Aurora, in Havana, Cuba, once the coolies on board had their contracts sold to plantation owners. The Aurora departed Macau on November 24,1868 and arrived in Havana, Cuba on March 26,1869. 419 Chinese men boarded the ship and only 384 arrived in Cuba, for an 8.4% death rate on the voyage. The ultimate fates of 25 of the men who made the sailing to Havana can be found on this manifest. On the manifest, the coolie’s number (assigned at departure) , Chinese name, given Christian name, age, sex, work he is destined to… Read More

PLATTSBURG MISSOURI. Very Good+. 1887. Quarter Leather. On offer is a super original, manuscript 1887 - 1903 travel journal and personal diary handwritten by L.S. Fry of Plattsburg, Missouri who documents a major trip throughout California including Los Angeles, San Bernadino, San Francisco, Pasadena, Santa Cruz as well Texas, Colorado, Missouri, Arkansas via stagecoaches, steamboats and railroad. Fry mentions seeing the Queen of the Pacific steamer for which he had a ticket but it sank before his trip, storms, floods, hunting, killing rabbits at Long Beach, Woodwards Gardens, woman fighting on a train and friends passing away. Absolutely super Western Americana for collectors and historians of western travel. After this sensational trip Fry uses the book with the latest date being 1903. He notes milestones and highlights in his life and makes genealogical notes too. There are a total of 52 filled pages in the 6 x 3.5 inch leather flip style notebook. Overall G.; 12mo - over… Read More

TORONTO ONTARIO CANADA ZAHLAH SYRIA LEBANON. Very Good. 1921. On offer is an interesting and unique 1921 manuscript diary handwritten primarily by Rose Saba and sometimes, we believe, by her husband Saleem N. Saba. The free end paper states their names and 'Now in Zahlah Syria Former Res. Toronto Ont. Canada.' [We note that Zahlah is part of Lebanon today.] Entries are for the most part in English but there are entries in Arabic which we believe Saleem wrote. Rose writes many interesting entries which range from Saleem's travels throughout to Beirut, Damascus and her own doings at home from the mundane such as ironing, meals, visits and news from home. We also note that they are a Christian family as they frequently go to church. The diary was located in Toronto and we hypothesize that they moved back from Syria at some point. Historians and researchers of early independent Syria and Lebanon will no doubt find this diary an interesting and unique travel relic of the times.… Read More

TORONTO ONTARIO. Very Good. 1930. On offer is an archive of vintage, circa 1930s, handwritten and typed letters [20+], journal [1 item and titled the Weather Code] and log book [1]. All materials were used by Ernest Sadler Richardson as he was employed by the Canadian Department of Marine, Meteorological Division. Most material and data relates to the Toronto area. Overall G+.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; WEATHER, WEATHERMAN, METEORLOGICAL, PRECIPITATION, WRITER, HOLOGRAPH, SIGNED, Personal, Memoir, Handwritten, hand written, autograph, autographs, signed, letters, document, documents, manuscript, manuscripts, writers, writer, author, holograph, personal, antiquité, contrat, vélin, document, manuscrit, papier Antike, Brief, Pergament, Dokument, Manuskript, Papier oggetto d'antiquariato, atto, velina, documento, manoscritto, carta antigüedad, hecho, vitela, documento, manuscrito, Papel, science .

BAR HARBOR SAG HARBOR NEW YORK LONG ISLAND. Good. On offer is a collection of copied letters of and statements by Ebenezer Sage, a United States Representative from New York, all dealing with the War of 1812 and the state of American politics at that crucial time. The 22 page, handwritten gathering appears to have been taken out of a much larger manuscript dealing exclusively with the War of 1812, its lead up, and its aftermath. There are three letters by Sage to friends, and a collection of written statements made by him. The first letter is described as a “Copy of a letter written to Ebenezer Sage, M.C., 12th Congress of Sag Harbor, N.Y. to Dr. William Crawford of Gettysburg, Pa. July 24th, 1814.” It begins, “Dear friend. You must pay a pistareen to the Revenue for this letter, which is in greater want of the money than you are. I therefore ta you that sum pro bono publico, and as it respects yourself, I shall indeveour to give you the worth of the money in news.”… Read More

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA GLENDALE. Good+. 1925. On offer is an original 1925 - 1929 5 year diary authored by Katherine Sage, a young wealthy woman from Glendale, Los Angeles, providing a window into her life during economy boom of the Roaring twenties. The diary is a five-year Ward's diary titled "A Line A Day: a condensed, comparative diary for five years", it contains 365 pages, with 5 daily entries of 4 lines per page. The diary is 99% complete. The book is leather bound, with gilded edges, the cover shows reasonable age-wearing signs.. It measures 5.8' x 3.6', and is in good condition, handwriting is mostly legible. Katherine Sage was born in Minnesota in 1898 or 1896. In 1925, when she started the diary she was living with her husband C. D. (Dick) Sage, and a five months old daughter Jane. Dick Sage was a native of Iowa, graduate of Creighton University in Omaha, who came West in 1919. In 1922 he became an assistant sales manager of Bishop and Co Los Angeles and… Read More

CHAALONS CHAMPAGNE FRANCE, 1779. On offer is a superb archive of three [3] handwritten manuscript letters. Dr. Saguece travels to Chaalons under instruction from 'Monsieur Le Duc' for the purpose of reporting on hospital conditions and to treat a number of patients. It appears that the Duke is recognized as a kind and generous man taking good care of the inhabitants of hat appears to be a geriatric hospital.. Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Manuscript.

Atlantic Ocean. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1944. Softcover. On offer is a handwritten manuscript diary written aboard the USS Monticello AP-61. Very legible in pencil text block has fallen away from the rubber glue top. All 73 sheets are still inside. This comprehensive 5" x 8" Royalmont notebook journal has been well taken care of, as none of the 73 pages exhibit tears, creases, fragility, or foxing. All are completely full of first-hand historical and insider information. The journal is very factual, with only a few entries not pertaining to the ship. The nameless young man from Ohio does talk very fondly about his wife and baby, and about the ship's food. It measures 5" x 8". It begins on July 1, 1944, and ends on November 14 of the same year. Every page is easy to read. The first day of this trip for The USS Monticello, she had a convoy of 30 ships and blimp dirigible escorts. A quote from the first week:"We are going to England. I have heard that the… Read More

UNITED STATES BATON ROUGE LOUISIANA. Good. 1942. On offer is a fascinating collection of letters from an American soldier in WWII. The collection consists of 69 letters written between this soldier and a young woman in North Carolina. The letters were written from April 1942 through March 1944. The letters are in generally good condition and the handwriting is legible. William Sain is a soldier in the United States army Quartermasters Corp. He serves in a number of locations around the United States as evidenced by his return addresses or imprinted letterheads. He entered the army as a private but progresses and by late 1943 has attained the rank of Staff Sergeant. The letters mostly detail his growing affection for Mary Mitchell: "... I don't know whether you will want to hear this or not but i'm goin to say it anyway really life is different since I met you. You are the first girl that I met in several years that I cared anything about …" [Apr 27, 1942]. By 1944,… Read More

LONDON CAMBRIDGE LOWESTOFT ENGLAND UK. Good+. 1904. On offer is a fascinating, original manuscript relic of British life on the home front early on in World War I. The diary and in some ways a bit of a catch-all notebook filled with personal experiences and observations of life, religious prayers and quotes and the highlight being an extensive description of Zeppelin attacks suffered and endured during 1915 by Great Britain handwritten by Margaret Sainsbury Maris, age 23, of 5 Marine Parade, Lowestoft England. Starting in Cambridge, St Ives, Hunts with 17 pages or so from Jan 20th 1915 through Feb 11th 1915 in the undated journal. We note there is mention of a pending Zeppelin raid. There is a brief summary of before and after the raid including a prelude to the four week trip in Lowestoft from Cambridge to meet her family, includes booking pier tickets in Lowestoft, and a short piece about the British Naval occupation on the pier "looking through binoculars" and signalling with… Read More

ROME ITALY. Good+. 1945. On offer is an absolutely fascinating, significant extensive group of historic documents and correspondence, all related to the arrest and trial of the infamous propagandist tool of the Italian government run by the dictator Mussolini, Rita Zucca (1912-1998), an Italian-American singer and radio announcer whose vile propaganda broadcasts from Rome to Allied soldiers in North Africa, Sicily and Italy garnered her the nickname "Axis Sally", but who Allied courts were unable to try for treason due to her Italian citizenship. The group includes a typed document, 5pp. 4to., Rome, Aug. 24, 1946, a legal brief submitted to the Allied Command in Italy in Zucca's defense by her attorney, Ottavio Libotte. The document gives a thorough overview of the Zucca's current status and the circumstances by which she came to be appear in anti-Allied propaganda broadcasts, in small part: "... On June 5th, 1945, the Counter Intelligence Corps proceeded to arrest… Read More

ENGLAND BROADMOOR PRISON PARKHURST WAKEFIELD. Very Good+. 1995. On offer is an original, exciting, massive archive of correspondence, some hand-drawn art, other writings including poetry, articles, postcards, photos, greeting cards and both terrifying and humorous intimate personal letters, news clippings and ephemera relating to and created by Charles Bronson - born Michael Peterson, his named was changed by his boxing manager - who is considered to be Britain’s most feared, in/famous and notorious prisoner. He is also the author of ten books, a poet, armed robber, kidnapper, philanthropist, philosopher, boxer, award winning fitness expert and former circus strongman. Mr. Bronson, was first arrested as a 19 year old in 1974 and has been in prison for 34 years and over 28 years in solitary and has been free less than 120 days in that 34 years. He has been moved over 150 times to and within different prisons. Mr. Bronson has also committed some renowned, notorious acts while in prison… Read More

HAWAII. Very Good. 1923. On offer is the handwritten manuscript travel diary as stated - "Mrs. Sam Fox, Diary of Our Honalulu Trip Starting July 21, 1923" Cruising on the Steamship "DOROTHY ALEXANDER" [research suggests this is the same as owned by Alaska Steamship Co., Pacific Steamship Co. Admiral Line]. Mrs. Fox is a keen observer of human nature and has an eye for detail. She relates in over 110 pages shipboard accounts, specific reference to individuals by name, accounts in Honolulu, Hawaii, & Maui, etc. She also spends a great deal of time enjoying and observing Hawaiian culture and ceremony. She observes the King, an amazing Church service with a visiting Cleveland preacher who conducts the service in 'American'. Mrs. Fox paints an amazing picture of early Hawaii and its people. VG.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; KEYWORDS HISTORY OF, SAM FOX, AMERICANA, HANDWRITTEN, MANUSCRIPT, DOCUMENT, LETTER, AUTOGRAPH, DIARY, JOURNAL, LOG,… Read More

Chambersburg Pennsylvania Penn PA. Good with no dust jacket. Softcover. On offer is a small journal that offers a very stark picture of the life of many women in America who fell on the hardest of times at the beginning of the Great Depression. It also includes a reference to what became known as the “Crime of the Century”. The journal covers time periods in 1929 through 1933 but there are only sporadic entries made. The author of this journal is Mary Sample of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Our informal research has not been able to find any additional biographical information about her. However, there are a number of context clues that give us a picture of who she was. She was likely in her late 50s (based on her husband’s age, which is known). She did not have any children. What comes through very clearly is just how unhappy and dispirited she is. Her marriage to her husband has failed and any sense of security she may have had is gone. The journal, actually a small rent… Read More

NORTHWOOD LONDON ENGLAND ST IVES CORNWALL. Good. 1920. On offer is a densely written manuscript diary dated 1920 handwritten by Louisa Holdsworth Sampson, mother of artist Roger Hilton. Besides being a lovely account of daily life in a middle class family during the years immediately after the World War I in 1920 there is insight into the early life of Roger when he was still a child. [The book does not provide identification but this diary came from a larger archive providing provenance.] A total of 220 pages, the largish page a day, diary is over seventy percent full. Hilton came by his artistic abilities honestly as his mother trained as a painter at the Slade School where Hilton also studied 1929-31. BIO NOTES: One online source: Roger Hilton CBE (1911 - 1975) was a pioneer of abstract art in post-war Britain. He was born in 1911 in Northwood, London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London under Henry Tonks and also in Paris, where he developed links with painters on the… Read More

SHIP MCLELLAN, MAZATLAN TO NEW YORK. Good+. 1833. On offer is a fascinating, original 1833 logbook for the Ship McLellan (later purchased in 1846 and refitted as a whaling ship) from Mazatlan on the Pacific coast of Mexico to New York City. The volume is dated March 6, 1833 to August 8th, 1833. The 8 x 13 inch book produced specifically for the trade states: "Published and Sold by E. & G. W. Blunt, 154 Water-street, corner of Maiden-lane, where is constantly for sale, a complete assortment of the most approved Charts, Nautical Books and Instruments. Nautical instruments Repaired. / June, 1827". A lovely woodcut illustration of an American Clipper Ship under full sail graces the cover. While unknown the author, the log has 74 pre-printed pages of charts to be filled in and all 74 pages have been used with a loose leaf tucked in at the end for August 4th through August 8th, thus completing the entire journey from Mazatlan to New York. Typical of a log kept by the First Mate or… Read More

Rochester, New York. Good. 1931. On offer is an interesting diary detailing the last year in the life of a 1931 Rochester NY police officer. What makes this especially interesting is that mid-way through the year, as his health fails, his wife takes over keeping the daily journal. The diary is a hardbound book (6 1/2 inches by 4 3/4 inches) with about 210 pages. There are 180 pages of diary entries and they are 100% complete. The binding is loose but otherwise, the book is in good shape. The handwriting is quite legible. The author of the diary is 'Will', a police officer in Rochester, NY. His wife is always referred to as 'H' but there is an entry where she is identified as 'Harriet'. The diary chronicles the last year of Will's life. That he is ill is made clear from almost the first page. Each daily entry has a note about the weather and a reference to how he is feeling. Over the months, the reader can see a slow but steady decline. Included in the entries… Read More

Very Good. 1800. On offer is an exceptional relic of turn of the 19th Century scientific knowledge. The book in question is a large 260 page handwritten tome, touching on a tremendous array of subjects and topics, such as astronomy, cosmology, natural history, advanced mathematics, physics, and more. The book dates from somewhere between 1790 and 1810. It’s author is unknown. What is known is the author is a student of a “Professor Sanderson” who is mentioned quite often (“Sanderson’s Lectures upon Opticks”; “Sanderson’s Hydrostaticks”; “Sanderson’s Lectures on Sound”). Despite extensive research, who this Professor Sanderson is and where he taught could not be discovered. It is evident that he was an exceptionally learned professor, as the range of topics covered by him in this book are truly incredible. As stated there is a truly exceptional amount of information in this book, a compendium of scientific, physical, natural, and… Read More

ROYALSTON, MASSACHUSETTS. Good+. 1889. On offer is a super, original late 19th Century manuscript journal handwritten by Sarah E. Miller, Secretary, of the local chapter of the King's Daughters in Royalston, Massachusetts. Dated 1889 - 1896 the book details the various activities of the group: minutes from meetings, elections, Bible readings, inspirational messages, membership lists, monetary offerings, etc. There are also sections describing the founding and earliest times of this chapter of the King's Daughters. Established in 1886 as a Protestant non-denominational group consisting primarily of women, the King's Daughters distributed aid to the poor while raising awareness of their plight. The group experienced tremendous growth through the early part of the 20th Century, inspiring the formation of numerous other women's charity groups. Most of the material deals with the activities in northern Worcester County, Massachusetts but there are also reports of the… Read More