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Big Chief White Horse Eagle, Indian Chief (1822[?]-after 1930). Autograph dedication signed, on printed portrait photograph. Adelaide Villa, Quarazze, Merano, Italy, [November 20, 1929].
Below the printed portrait, which occupies most of the cover page, Big Chief has penned the words, "How. Big Chief White Horse Eagle. Worlds Famous Chief Born 1822. Age 107". In the top left corner, his second wife, a white woman called "Queen Wa-The-Na" by the Indians, writes, "God bless you all", to which some illustrations are added (three tipis and a stylized Indian motif). The inside pages bear a printed poem, "The Indian's Lament", "By the Honorable Big Chief White Horse Eagle", in 26 rhyming couplets (with some passages reminiscent of Shylock's plea in "The Merchant of Venice"). On the back: ALS by the "Queen" to the Austrian autograph collector Maria Sander: "In looking over our mail I find your letter and request for Big Chief's autograph. [...] I know you will appreciate having this wonderful 'Lament' written by the Big Chief. [...] We are having a wonderful time in this beautiful country. Big Chief is a century of living history and the best known and best beloved man living to-day in the world. He joins with me in sending greetings and God's blessings that you may have health, peace and happiness." With pen drawing of an Indian feather. - White Horse Eagle traveled America, Europe, and Asia, claiming to be an Osage and chief of 105 Indian tribes and bestowing chief's honors on white celebrities wherever he came. He apparently attracted Maria Sander's attention during his Grand Tour of Germany in the Spring and Summer of 1929: he had made a sensational arrival in Berlin on April 18 in full chief's array and a feather head-dress of several meters in length. He requested to shake President Hindenburg's hand, as he allegedly had done with Bismarck during his first Grand Tour in 1887. He proceeded to visit the Berlin Anthropological Society and the grave of Karl May, Germany's cult writer of westerns. After hiring on a German Wild-West circus similar to that of Buffalo Bill's, he dictated an autobiography to the Nazi historian Edgar von Schmidt-Pauli, whose aim of proving the superiority of the 'Aryans' seems to have been neatly complemented by White Horse's stirring laments over the dying Indian race. The Viennese artist Steffi Ventura painted his portrait. Later, White Horse fell into disrepute: His alleged tribesmen complained that he spoke not a word of their native language, that he knew nothing of Indian culture and religion, and that the only God he held dear was alcohol. Finally, it was apparently proven that he had African Americans among his ancestors. His age had never been believed, anyway. - With envelope addressed in the "Queen's" hand. Fine autograph of this colorful, albeit dubious persona of American history.

1 p. Folded double leaf. Verso: ALS by White Horse Eagle's wife, Queen Wa-The-Na. 1p.

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Eastman Kodak Company: Kodak Professional Data & Technical Publications. Paper. Many available. Each.

Rochester: Eastman Kodak. Currently available: A Guide To Kodak Here's How Books, A Glossary of Photographic Terms, Accurate Exposure With All Types of Meters, Advanced Camera Techniques for 126 & 35mm Cameras, Adventures in Existing Light Photography, Astrophotography With Your Camera, Basic Copying, Basic Developing, Printing, Enlarging, Close-up Photography, Close Up Pictures With Kodak Instamatic Cameras and 35mm Cameras, Color Photography Under Fluorescent Lighting, Color Photography Under Fluorescent And High Intensity Discharge Lighting, Composition, Contrast Index,Contrast Index...Guide To Proper Development,Copying,Darkroom Design for Amateur Photographers, Equivlent Exposure Meter Settings, Exposure With Portable Electronic Flash Units, Filters for Black & White & Color Pictures, Filter Data For Kodak Color Films,Getting The Most Out of Kodak High Speed Ektachrome Films, Here's How, How To Check Your Exposure Meter and Camera, How To Develop and Print Black and White Films, How To Handle Kodak Sheet Film, How To Make and Use A Pinhole Camera,How To Process And Print Black And White Films,Introduction to Processing and Printing Kodak Color Films, Kodak Darkroom Equipment For Developing and Printing, Kodak Lumenized Enlarging Lenses, Kodak Materials For Use In Rear Projection Systems,Kodak Photographic Materials Guide,Kodak Professional Black & White Films, Kodak Tips on Taking Flower Pictures, Lunar Eclipse Photography, Maintaining Your Still & Movie Camera & Projector, New Adventures in Indoor Color Slides, Photo Reports Make It Happen, Photographing Photomacrography, Ultraviolet & Fluorescence Photography, Fireworks With Still and Movie Cameras, Pictures By Existing Light, Pictures Outdoors At Night, Pictures With Photolamps, Photography From Lightplanes and Heliocopters,Photographing Television and Computer Screen Images.Photography Under Arctic Conditions,Printing Color Negatives, Processing Chemicals and Formulas for Black and White Photography,Push Processing Kodak Black and White Films,Reciprocity Data: Kodak Films,Retouching and Spotting Negatives and Prints,Retouching Black and White Negatives and Prints,Selecting Slides For Color Prints, Slide Showmanship With A Carousel Projector, Solar Eclipse Photography For The Amateur, Some Questions & Answers About Camera Lenses, Student Pictures For School Publications, Small Lens Openings Destroy Image Sharpness,Special Effects For Photomechanical Reproduction.Storage and care of Kodak Films and Papers Before and After Processing,Successful Flash Operation With Battery Powered Flash, Surfaces and Contrast Grades Of Kodak Photographic Papers, Taking Pictures During An Airplane Trip, The ABC's Of Toning.The Eighth Here's How, Tips For Photographing Your Trip Abroad, Understanding Black and White Quality,Understanding Graininess and Granularity,Viewing A Print In True Perspective,Viewing color Transparencies,Winter Photography-Better Pictures In The Snow.

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(Munkacsi, M.) White & Esten, Nancy & John: Style In Motion. Munkacsi Photographs of the '20's, '30s, and '40s. 1979. Cloth with dustjacket. Inscribed by Nancy White.

New York: Clarkson Potter. 1979. First edition. Tall quarto. Cloth. Cloth has a trace of scuffing and fading to the edges (as usual) else near fine in fine dustjacket. This copy has been beautufully and neatly inscribed on the front fly in red felt tip pen (matching the dustjacket lettering color) in her distinctive hand by co-author Nancy White, "the white-gloved editor of Harper's Bazaar during the 1960's, when it captured the spirit of the decade with evocative photographs of models in bikinis, boots and big watches, not to mention spacesuits. Miss White edited Harper's from 1958 to 1971, at a time when there were only two major women's fashion magazines in America. The other, Vogue, was headed by Diana Vreeland, a far more visible personality". White was closely associated with photographer Martin Munkacsi. The inscription reads "___ Dear - Thank you/for all your help in making/this volume come about./Jove(?) & Merry Merry Christmas/Fondly - Nancy". White has additionally signed and dated her name in full at the bottom of the same page in the same hand in the year of publication.A wonderful copy of this profusely illustrated and excellent retrospective of the photography of Martin Munkacsi. Uncommon in this very nice condition and rare when inscribed by Nancy White.

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White, Betty. Here We Go Again: My Life in Televison. New York: Scribner, 1995. ISBN: 068480042X

First edition 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). 300 pages with index. Black & white photo illustrated. The book and dust jacket are in FINE condition. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. JMVINTAGE specializes in the Duke & Duchess of Windsor books, magazines and other curious subjects. The jacket reads: "'Here is Betty White-a woman who has been on television forever!' is generally how Betty White is introduced. And quite accurately, too, since she first appeared in 1949, when both she and television were rank beginners. Since then, Betty White has had one of the most amazing careers in TV, including Life with Elizabeth in 1952 (which brought her her first Emmy), The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and, in 1985, The Golden Girls, for which she won her fifth Emmy. In addition to many successful sitcoms, she also made innumerable visits, both as guest and host, to the popular shows of several eras-first game shows, then variety shows, then talk shows. She sang and danced with Carol Burnett and Sonny and Cher; guessed answers with Jack Paar and Allen Ludden (whom she later married); and chatted with Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, David Letterman, and many others. Here We Go Again gives an overview of television's golden era and is packed full of wonderful anecdotes about the many famous personalities with whom Betty has worked. It also gives a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at television over five decades, from Betty's first show Hollywood on Television, which ran live five and a half hours a day, six days a week (thirty- three hours per week!), to her current television work. In addition, the book talks about Betty's personal life-how her hectic career caused strain in her relationships and how she finally (found happiness with her third husband, the late talk show host Allen Ludden. Here We Go Again is just as warm and funny as its author and will thrill her many fans and delight all of those who are interested in the history of America's most popular form of entertainment. BETTY WHITE began her career in television after a brief start in radio. She produced and starred in her own syndicated television series, Life with Elizabeth, and subsequently starred in The Betty White Show in 1954 and Date with the Angels from 1958 to 1959. Following her portrayal of Sue Ann Nivens, the man-hungry television hostess on The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1973 to 1977, she appeared in the situation comedy The Betty White Show from 1977 to 1978 and played Ellen on Mama's Family in 1983. Most recently she has starred in The Golden Girls, for which she won her fifth Emmy award, and Golden Palace. She also narrated the Tournament of Roses Parade on network television for twenty years, and for ten years covered the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. A committed animal lover, she, has been honored by numerous organizations for her dedication to animal health and welfare; she has worked with the Morris Animal Foundation for twenty-five years. She is the author of three previous books: Leading Lady (with Tom Sullivan), Betty White: In Person, and Pet Love. She lives in Los Angeles." Hard Back condition: Fine in Fine dj

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