Clare Leighton et al: autographs & inscribed pamphlets, off-prints, booklets, private press

A miscellaneous grouping of signed or inscribed printed items, including a scarce Clare Leighton piece. 

(WWII; NAVY). Robert M. Pennoyer, Ensign, USNR, USS Pensacola.  A Memoir. NY:  Institute for Democracy Studies, 2001.  20,(2)pp.  Hardcover.  Fine.  Inscribed by author with handwritten letter to recipient. Scarce, privately issued remembrance of a young seaman’s experiences during WWII, as Ensign aboard the USS Pensacola, before becoming an accomplished attorney.   Pennoyer’s autobiography was published in 2015,  titled, As It Was: A Memoir. 

Leighton, Clare. Thomas W. Nason 1889-1971: A Tribute by Clare Leighton...Two hundred copies printed. Inscribed by Leighton to Bill Covington, bookseller. 

Taves Ernest H. “Two Mechanisms for the Perception of Visual Numerousness.”  NY: September 1941.  Archives of psychology; 265. Issued also as thesis (Ph. D.) Columbia university./ Includes bibliographical references (page 46). Inscribed on cover, initialed E. T.  Water drip on inscription.

(POEMS) Wood Henry A. Wise. Fancies. W.J. Ritchie 1903. Hardcover, paper spine, stained, chipped.  Inscribed by author.  

Clark Harry Hayden. Thomas Paine's Relation to Voltaire and Rousseau. Les Presses Universitaires De France 1932. Printed wrappers, chipped; long author’s inscription in first page.  Harry Hayden Clark was a professor of English, specializing in American literature. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1931–1932. Wikipedia 

[POETRY] Popowski, Harriet Seymour. Twenty Christmases.  36 pp., Has light wear.  Signed on title page.

Earls, Michael.  From Bersabee to Dan and Other Ballads. The Holy Cross Press.   O'Connor, Roderick and Padraic, ILLUST.  95 pp., Black cloth spine w/ green paper covered boards, clear plastic jacket, clean text, signed on endpaper by Earls.

Hirsh, Joseph. First Score. NY: The William-Frederick Press, 1953. 47 pp., Blue cloth covers in chipped and torn glassine wrapper, signed and inscribed on endpaper by author, clean text.