Item #8874 George Ade ephemera collection. George ADE.
George Ade ephemera collection
George Ade ephemera collection
George Ade ephemera collection
George Ade ephemera collection
George Ade ephemera collection
George Ade ephemera collection
ADE, George (1866-1944)

George Ade ephemera collection

Place Published: various
Publisher: various
Date Published: 1900 to 1930
Binding: No binding

George Ade was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, and playwright. Ade is considered a humorist, satirist, and a moralist with keen observational skills, as well as and "one of the greatest writers of his time."

This collection contains 10 items dating from 1900 to 1930, specifically 4 cabinet card photos, 1 Typed Letter Signed (TLS), 1 Holograph letter signed, 1 sheet music and 3 clipped signatures on paper.

• TLS to Mrs. C.F. Wertz, 12 January 1930, 7-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches, letterhead The King Cole Miami Beach Florida, re his inability to comply with her request, suggests that her boy read Emerson’s essay on “Compensation”, the most useful lesson for a young man is to learn that he will not get something for nothing.

• 4 b&w cabinet photos, circa 1903, two of them signed by Ade: Burr McIntosh Studio, New York; the Root Studios, Chicago; Funk & Wagnalls Company; Brown Brothers, New York.

• The Sho Gun (New York etc.: M. Whitmark & Sons, 1914), 11 x 13-1/2 inches, sheet music from the comic opera in two acts, lyrics by Ade, music by Gustav Luders, “She’s Just a Little Different from the Others That I Know”.

• Holograph 5-7/8 x 7-3/4 inches letter signed to Mr. Plumb dated Chicago Oct. 21, 1900

• End of 5 x 3 inches letter, “Again thanking you, I am, Sincerely yours, George Ade”.

• Cut paper 4-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches signed, Chicago,17 October 1902.

• Cut paper 4-1/2 x 1-1/2 inches signed.

Collection on consignment with LDRB
Good. Item #8874

$700.00 USD
$954.28 CAD

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