4to. � page. To a former employee whom he provides with a ticket to an arena box at his show: "My dear Lou: Will be awfully glad to see you. I enclose you a requisition that will admit you and party to an Arena box but [autograph insertion: 'fill in date'] you can fill it in. When you be sure and ask for me and any of my men will bring you to me after the performance. Your old boss [.]". - "Buffalo Bill's Wild West" was one of the most successful American variety shows of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1909 Cody merged with a former rival, Gordon William Lillie ("Pawnee Bill", 1860-1942), to create "Buffalo Bill s Wild West and Pawnee Bill s Great Far East". The combined production, sometimes called the "Two Bills Show", featured traditional frontier acts with more exotic attractions like elephants, camels, and belly dancers. Mounting debt and a series of poor investments eventually forced Buffalo Bill to declare bankruptcy and shut down the show in 1915. - On colour-illustrated headed stationery of "Buffalo Bill's Wild West combined with Pawnee Bill's Great Far East", including Cody's and Lillie's portraits in profile. Folded. Seller Inventory # 53747

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Title: Typescript letter with autograph insertion ...

Publisher: No place, 29. IV. 1909.

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We have been dealing in valuable books, manuscripts, and autographs since 1883. As members of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB), the Verband der Antiquare �sterreichs (Austrian association of antiquarian booksellers), as well as the Verband deutscher Antiquare e.V. (German association of antiquarian booksellers), we are bound by these organizations' code of ethics. A large proportion of our customers is made up of institutions, including renowned international universities and major state libraries. We keep contact with our private customers at international book fairs and through our online catalogues. You are welcome to visit us on our business premises from Monday to Friday, 10 AM to 6 PM. We are happy to take buying orders for the important book auctions in Germany and Austria, which we attend regularly. We dedicate special attention to the estates and archives of important personalities of the arts and sciences in European and world history. Through specially prepared archive catalogues we have been able to sell the archives of Viktor L�on (librettist, 1859-1940), Leo Fall (operetta composer, 1873-1925), Lotte Lehmann (singer, 1888-1976), Otto Tressler (actor, 1871-1865) and Max Reinhardt (director, 1873-1743), as well as the last privately owned important original manuscripts by Ludwig Wittgenstein (philosopher, 1889-1951). Along the lines of this specialization our buying policy concentrates especially on these fields.

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Inlibris, Handelsgesellschaft f�r antiquarische B�cher und Drucke GmbH
Rathausstrasse 19/27, Wien, A, 1010, Austria

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