Autograph collection of American historical interest, collected by the late Emil Edward Hurja ...
Subtitle: public auction sale Tuesday, April 27 [1954]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 73
Notes: 346 lots.

"Sale number 1516"--Prelim.

Date of sale: April 27, 1954.

" ... including an album with a leaf displaying the signatures of five presidents, collected sets of the autographs of the presidents of the United States, letters from presidents written to, or mentioning other presidents, a full A.L.s. by Herbert Hoover addressed to Emil E. Hurja, a review copy of Franklin D. Roosevelt's Looking forward inscribed to Emil E. Hurja by the author, an A.L.s. by Franklin D. Roosevelt to Alfred E. Smith with the salutation dear Al, and several books from the libraries of presidents. Sold by the order of the estate of Emil Edward Huja, deceased. Mrs. Gudrun A. Hujra, executrix and John Wattawa, attorney all of Washington D.C."

Place of sale: New York.