Expansive hardcover autograph album, 7.75 x 5, and measuring an impressive 4.5 inches thick, containing 252 signatures of politicians, notables, authors, artists, and stars of the stage and screen. Signatures are on affixed clipped slips, cards, trimmed photos, and ALSs and TLSs (most with their original mailing envelopes), with some pages bearing multiple signatures, with just about all back-to-back as well. Signers include: George Ade, Viola Allen (2), Pasquale Amato, Edwin Arden, George Arliss, Harry A. Bailey, Ernest R. Ball, John Kendrick Bangs, Ted S. Barron, Blanche Bates, Richard Bennett, Sam Bernard, Holbrook Blinn, Mary Boland, William Booth, William A. Brady, Donald Brian (2), Earle Browne, Edmund Bruce, Albert Bruning, William Jennings Bryan, Billie Burke, Beatrice Campbell, J. G. Cannon, Richard Carle (2), Robert W. Chambers, Charles Cherry, Howard Chandler Christy, Winston Churchill (writer), Marguerite Clark, George M. Cohen, William Collier, Constantino, Leo Copeland, William Courtenay, Jane Cowl, William H. Crane, Henrietta Crosman, Victoria Cross, Walter Damrosch, Hazel Dawn, Countess Thamara de Swisrsky, Gaby Deslys (2), Emmy Destinn, Henry Dixon, John Drew, Walter Prichard Eaton, Robert Edeson, Thomas Edison, Julian Eltinge (Sketch), George “Honey Boy” Evans, Douglas Fairbanks (2), Dustin Farnum, Geraldine Farrar, William Faversham (2), Elsie Ferguson, Lew Fields (2), Harrison Fisher, James Montgomery Flagg (2), Justin Miles Forman (2), Justus Miles Forman, John Fox, Jr., Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Daniel Frohman, Johanna Gadski, Mary Garden, Charles J. Gebest, Adeline Genée, Grace George, Charles Dana Gibson (printed sketch), Charles Dana Gibson, C. Allen Gilbert, William Gillette, Lulu Glaser, Nat C. Goodwin, Helen Miller Gould (AQS), Fredrick Grant, Anna Katharine Green Rolphs, Herbert S. Hadley, Robert Haines, Sam H. Harris, Anna Held, Princess Helena, Victor Herbert (AMQS), Robert Hichens, Robert Hilliard, Raymond Hitchcock (11), Mabel Hite and Mike Doulin, William Hodge, Gertude Hoffman, Josef Hofmann, E. Burton Holmes, Anthony Hope, DeWolf Hopper, Henry Hutt (sketch), Isabel Irving, Elsie Janis, Theo W. Kelley (AMQS), Percival Knight, Henry Kolker, Wilton Lackaye, Lillie Langtry, Harry Lauder, William J. Locke, Hewey Lodge, Jack London, Harold MacGrath, Louis Mann, Mary Mannering, R. B. Mantell, Marceline, Julia Marlowe, Tully Marshall (2), John Mason, Edith Wynne Matthison, Bruce McRae (6), Henry Miller, George Monroe, Gouverneur Morris, Maurice Mouvet, Tim Murphy (Sketch), George Nash, Nazimova, Olga Nethersole, Fred Niblo, Julia Nielson, Lillian Nordica Young, Chauncey Olcott, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Anna Pavlova, Robert E. Peary, William Peck, Pol Plancon, Channing Pollock, Guy Bates Post, James Powers, James Whitcomb Riley, Blanche Ring, Theodore Roosevelt, Lillian Russell, Julia Sanderson, Henry W. Savage, Fritzi Scheff, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Jean Schwartz (AMQS), A. Scotti, Marcella Sembrich (2), Ernest Seton, Upton Sinclair, Otis Skinner, Francis Hokinson Smith, E. H. Sothern, Ruth St. Denis, F. Pope Stamper, Frances Starr (2), Julian Street, Mabel Taliaferro, Booth Tarkington, Marie Tempest, Luisa Tetrazzini, Katherine Cecil Thurston, Louis Tracy, Louis Joseph Vance, Marilyn Walker (AQS), Blanche Walsh, Helen Ware, David Warfield, H. B. Warner (7), Kate Douglas Wiggin, Harry Williams, Francis Wilson, Leonard Wood, Frank Worthing, Olive Wyndham, and Cecil Yapp (2).
In very good condition, with scattered toning and soiling, some moderate contrast to a few of the signed photos, some mirroring of signatures from opposite pages, and expected folds to letters. Album itself also rates very good, with inside separated from spine, and some scattered wear to covers. RRAuction COA.
