Signed Authors' Photographs: Five Rare Photos for Collectors

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Jules Verne

Highlights from Swann Galleries' Important Signed Photographs from a California Family Collection auction being held today include:

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Jules Verne

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

Jack London

Signed photograph, half-length portrait by Genthe, platinum print, c. 1903. Additionally signed by the photographer in the image

Walt Whitman

Photograph dated and boldly signed on image used as frontispiece for his Two Rivulets (1876), half-length portrait by Pearsall, 1881

Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy

Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jack London
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Jack London

Walt Whitman
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Walt Whitman

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