This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/24/2024
DANTE (Harry Jansen, 1883 – 1955). Large Archive of Dante the Magician Ephemera. 1920s – 40s, and primarily from his British and European tours, and including a small INSCRIBED AND SIGNED half-length portrait, several photographs (including one image of Dante’s show in performance on stage), theatre programs, die cut table tents (two sizes), advertising postcards, handbills, advance flyers, souvenir programs, handwritten Christmas sentiments from Dante’s chief assistant Moi-Yo Miller-Montes, unused pictorial and printed Dante letterheads, box office statements, and mailing covers of varying designs, a brochure bearing Thurston’s endorsement of Dante as “the master,” magazine and news clippings, as well as a host of material related to Allan Tipton’s 1980 Dante production, copies of original material, and Phil Temple’s book, Dante: The Devil Himself, and more. Over 100 items, in generally good condition or better.