An assortment of 19 vintage books on radio transmitting, broadcasting, telecasting, equipment/electronics, and history, including: Practical Radio, Including the Testing of Radio Receiving Sets, by Moyer and Wostrel (1924; First Edition/Third Impression); Radio Experimenter's Handbook, published by Radio News (1932); Beginner's Story of Radio, B. Francis Dashiell (1935); two International Textbook Company volumes, Radio Transmitters (1930), and Radio Transmitters Book II (1944); and Electronics In The West, The First Fifty Years, by Jane Morgan (1967, First Edition). Together with misc. ephemera: A Puck Magazine color cartoon, "Gambling by Wireless," illustrating mayhem that will ensue once the wireless takes over; Modern Electronics magazine (September 1911); two editions of General Electric Company comic, Adventures in Electricity, Number 4 and 6; an article from Modern Railroads, "Radio for the most Discriminating Passengers" [New Burlington "Zephyrs"]; printed booklet pages illustrating the V. Poulsen patent for "Method of Recording and Reproducing Sounds or Signals." THE HAROLD A. LAYER COLLECTION.
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![File of Walter Winchell Drafts with Edits: [THEATER; HOLLYWOOD; POLITICS; CRIME; ETC; WINCHELL MEMOIR.] WALTER WINCHELL. Circa 1950s-1960s; a "file" of period typescript working copies/carbons (possibly some original typed) of column,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/4473/434770/243499493_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791580942&width=181)
![Walter Winchell Inspired Movie Treatment, by Reynolds & Broun: [WALTER WINCHELL; VAUDEVILLE/THEATER.] HEYWOOD BROUN (1888-1939), AND QUENTIN REYNOLDS (1902-1965). Circa 1930s period copy of a typed manuscript movie treatment/script by Broun, an](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/4473/434770/243499602_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791580942&width=181)
![Box of Walter Winchell Drafts with Edits, and Misc. Ephemera: [THEATER; HOLLYWOOD; POLITICS, ETC.] WALTER WINCHELL. Circa 1950s-1960s; a box/"file" of original working typescripts and period copies/carbons of column, article, script drafts and revisions,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/4473/434770/243499480_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791580942&width=181)
![Winchell WWII-Era Telegrams (2), with Wartime Clippings/Ephemera: A box of 1930s-1940s ephemera related to Walter Winchell, politics, WWII era. Collection with varying levels of edge loss/crumbling. 1.) [ANTI-WAR.] TELEGRAMS (2). The first to Honorable Arthur](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/4473/434770/243499637_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791580942&width=181)
![Assorted Letters to Walter Winchell [Charity, Journalism, Publicity, etc.]: LETTERS FROM THE WALTER WINCHELL FILES. Some with Winchell and/or Rose Bigman marks and notations, overall good condition. 1.) HUGH E AGNEW, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. A typed letter signed by Agnew,](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/4473/434770/243499609_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791580942&width=181)


![Walter Winchell Autograph, with Burt Richman ALS: [LAS VEGAS.] 1.) WALTER WINCHELL. An autographed Hotel Tropicana, Las Vegas postcard, Paul Hesse portrait of Winchell; signed front and verso (4 3/4" x 8"); printed with "Broadway Ballad" by Winchell](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/4473/434770/243499461_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791580942&width=181)
![Ernest Cuneo TLS to Rose Bigman, with Walter Winchell Notations: [WALTER WINCHELL; ROSE BIGMAN.] ERNEST L. CUNEO (1905-1988). A single-page typed letter signed by Cuneo, addressed to Walter Winchell's secretary, Rose Bigman (1910-1997), c/o the Damon Runyon](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/4473/434770/243499675_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791580942&width=181)
![A TLS to Walter Winchell, New York "Hack Bureau" Favors: [NY POLICE DEPARTMENT HACK BUREAU; LESTER STONE; PROHIBITION ERA.] CHARLES GROSS (?). A single-page typed letter signed (sent from New York) that hints at favors and loyalties. Addressed to](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/4473/434770/243499434_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791580942&width=181)
![Dr. Dudley D. Shoenfeld TLS [Lindbergh Case; Walter Winchell]: [LINDBERGH CASE/CRIMINAL PSYCHOLOGY; WALTER WINCHELL.] DUDLEY D. SHOENFELD (1893-1971). A single-page typed letter signed by Dr. Dudley D. Shoenfeld, 116 West 59th St., dated September 29, 1934.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/4473/434770/243499444_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791580942&width=181)

![Lindbergh Case Court Scene Original Photo, with another: TRIAL OF BRUNO HAUPTMANN FOR CHARLES LINDBERGH, JR. KIDNAPPING/MURDER [DAVID T. WILENTZ; WALTER WINCHELL]. Original/vintage photograph, 1935 courtroom scene in Flemington, New Jersey, showing](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/4473/434770/243499486_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791580942&width=181)
![Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, Photo Signed to Winchell, with Letter [Lindbergh Case]: [LINDBERGH CASE; WALTER WINCHELL.] HAROLD GILES HOFFMAN (1896-1954). Original/vintage photo portrait of the 41st Governor of New Jersey (1935-1938); the matte signed and inscribed: "To Walter](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/4473/434770/243499677_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791580942&width=181)
![Two U.S. Press Secretary TLS, 1953/1968 [Walter Winchell]: 1.) JAMES CAMPBELL HAGERTY (1909-1981). A single-page typed letter signed by Dwight D. Eisenhower's Press Secretary, James C. Hagerty, on White House letterhead, dated July 9, 1953. Addressed to](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/4473/434770/243499433_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791580942&width=181)
![Sec. Stephen Early, TLS to Walter Winchell [FDR New Deal]: [FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT; NEW DEAL.] STEPHEN TYREE EARLY (1889-1951). A one-page typed letter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt's Assistant Secretary/Press Secretary Stephen Early, on White House](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/4473/434770/243499696_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791580942&width=181)
![Three 1960 Hollywood/Theater Photographs: [HOLLYWOOD, THEATER, LITERARY CELEBRITIES.] Three large-format original/vintage photographs, images 13 3/4" x 11"; two laid down, one tipped on at upper margin, on cardboard (18" x 14"). Two](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/4473/434770/243499560_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791580942&width=181)











![An assembled group of books on the mostly on the history of the Arts and Crafts movement: An assembled group of books on the mostly on the history of the Arts and Crafts movement, together with books on California arts [approx. 200 total]](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/306/434871/243574208_1_x.jpg?height=181&quality=70&sharpen=true&version=1791586802&width=181)

