Signed Authors’ Photographs: Five Rare Photos for Collectors
Jules Verne
Highlights from Swann Galleries' Important Signed Photographs from a California Family Collection auction being held today include:
Photograph dated Dune 27, 1900, and signed "Lev Tolstoy" in Cyrillic characters, vignetted cabinet card bust portrait by Scherer and Nabholz
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Exceedingly uncommon signed photograph of Hawthorne signed "Nath'l Hawthorne", vignetted carte-de-visite bust portrait by Brady. No date.
Photograph (August 16, 1900) signed and inscribed "To Mr. Dudley Payne Lewis, as a token of / sympathy and esteem" in French, cabinet card bust portrait by Nadar
Signed photograph, half-length portrait by Genthe, platinum print, c. 1903. Additionally signed by the photographer in the image
Photograph dated and boldly signed on image used as frontispiece for his Two Rivulets (1876), half-length portrait by Pearsall, 1881
