Bruce Springsteen Handwritten Lyrics

A sheet of handwritten song lyrics from the Queen of Pop Madonna (1958-) is one of the most iconic figures in pop music history. Known si...

A Claude Monet handwritten & signed letter dating from 1840 With exceptional content regarding his famous 'lost' painting Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe Claude Monet (1840 - 1926) is one ...

A revealing handwritten letter, signed by the pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh (1902 – 1974). The letter comprises five pages, each measuring 5...

An unsigned handwritten letter from Beatle George Harrison. George Harrison (1943-2001) was lead guitarist in The Beatles. He began playing with...

A handwritten note by Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson, dated July 7 1801. Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson (1758-1805) was a British naval officer famous for his...

A James Stewart handwritten letter to John Wayne, circa 1979. James Stewart (1908 – 1997) was an American actor regarded as one of the greatest Hol...

“By the end of Darkness, I had found my adult voice.” In 1977, dismissed by the press as a one-hit wonder, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band entered the studio to record the album that transformed a “kid from New Jersey” into America’s poet laureate of life’s underdogs. The tour that followed would come to be regarded as one of the most legendary in rock ‘n’ roll history, propelled by the nervous intensity of a group determined to prove itself. Present throughout the recording, release, and tour of Darkness on the Edge of Town, Lynn Goldsmith tracks these memorable steps in Springsteen’s journey to becoming an American icon. With illuminating forewords from both artists, the book gathers hundreds of photographs—classic, rare, and previously unseen—that bring to life a star at his hungriest. In Springsteen’s words, “These photos remain a record of a time when I truly played for my life, night after night.” It was a standard matched by the E Street Band, seen here in its historic lineup of Roy Bittan, Clarence Clemons, Danny Federici, Garry Tallent, Steven Van...

A beautiful Zaehnsdorf-bound collection of the poetry of Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837 – 1909) whose works often handled Victorian taboos, such as lesbianism, sado-masochism, and ...

Bruce Weber by Bruce Weber. Published by Twelvetrees Press, Los Angeles, 1983. Stated 1st Limited Edition (1/5000) hardcover with dust jacket. Beautifully illustrated with over 50 full-page photogravure plates of male models and actors, a few tinted with halftone colors. Contains subjects: Brothers, Matt...

A rare letter signed by Winston Churchill dated March 1950. The letter reads: “Thank you so much for your message of goodwill at this anxious time for our country.” This letter i...

First edition, Phaidon Press, 2006. Hardcover Eliot Noyes: A Pioneer of design and architecture in the age of American Modernism This book presents E...

Sinke & van Tongeren exhibited this extremely rare Auzoux Gorilla by carefully taking apart the model and creating an exploded view of this historically important piece. When viewed from a particular angle all pieces come together to form the original shape. It was part of the exhibition called ‘TIER’ at MOA in The Netherlands The story of a remarkable 19th century anatomical model created just four years after Darwin unleashed a political storm with his theories on human evolution. The publication of Charles Darwin’s controversial On the Origin of Species in 1859 caused debates to rage about human evolution, debates which witnessed the politicisation of a creature whose existence had only recently been confirmed by modern science. On one side of the argument was the Darwinian camp; on the other were those opposed to Darwin’s theory, such as Richard Owen, the famed Director of the Natural History Museum and a man who, interestingly, coined the word ‘dinosaur’. Tales of the creature in question had endured for centuries, but up until 1847 it remained a myth, an unknown. This all changed thanks to the missionary Thomas Savage and the anatomist Jeffries Wyman who wrote a paper for the journal of the Boston Society of Natural History in which they described a new species: Troglodytes gorilla. (Later, in 1929, Harvard zoologist Harold Coolidge would apply the synonym Gorilla gorilla...