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Ottokar Fischer TLS to Dr. Samuel Cox Hooker.

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Clemens, Samuel Longhorne "Mark Twain" The Celebrated: Clemens, Samuel Longhorne "Mark Twain" The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County London: G. Routledge, 1867. First English edition, 4pp. advertisements at end, small 8vo, original yellow pictori

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Clemens (Samuel Langhorne), "Mark Twain". Autograph: Clemens (Samuel Langhorne, author, 1835-1910), "Mark Twain". Autograph Letter signed "S.L. Clemens" to Benjamin Holt Ticknor of James R. Osgood &co., publisher, and with the end of a letter as part of

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Lot of Stills and Photo: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Lot of Stills and Photo Negatives. Goldwyn, ca. 1920. Released as Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari and marketed in the United States in 1921. Including six 8 x 10” photo

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Samuel John Armstrong (1893-1977) California Washington: POLITICAL CARTOONS, thirty-four ink drawings on thin card, all signed, average sheet 27 x 22”. (34)

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Ottokar Fischer TLS to Dr. Samuel Cox Hooker.

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Fischer, Ottokar. Ottokar Fischer TLS to Dr. Samuel Cox Hooker. Dated Oct. 26, 1924, Fischer writes from Vienna, stating “David Bamberg…happened to spy the original orange tree trick of Robert-Houdin [in my collection].” He offers it for sale to Hooker, stating, “Regarding the price, I am no dealer in rare apparatus, therefore it is hard for me to judge what a piece of work like this is worth…”. On one 4to sheet of elaborate three-color letterhead, signed “O. Fischer.” Chips and folds.