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An autograph book (also known as an autograph album, a memory album or friendship album) [1] is a book for collecting the autographs of others. Traditionally they were exchanged among friends, colleagues, and classmates to fill with poems , drawings, personal messages, small pieces of verse, and other mementos .
An autograph is a person's own handwriting or signature. The word autograph comes from Ancient Greek (αὐτός, autós, "self" and γράφω, gráphō, "write"), and can mean more specifically: [1] [2] a manuscript written by the author of its content. [1] [2] In this meaning the term autograph can often be used interchangeably with ...
An autograph or holograph is a manuscript or document written in its author's or composer's hand. The meaning of "autograph" as a document penned entirely by the author of its content (as opposed to a typeset document or one written by a copyist or scribe other than the author) overlaps with that of "holograph".
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This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
An association with writer Harlan Ellison led to jobs doing book covers for his short story collections and both cover and interior woodcut illustration for his anthology Dangerous Visions. They illustrated a large number of mass market paperback book covers for the original Ace Science Fiction Specials, for which they won their first major ...
The Autograph Hound is a 1939 Donald Duck cartoon which features Donald Duck as an autograph hunter in Hollywood. [1] Many celebrities from the 1930s are featured. This is the first cartoon where Donald Duck is featured in his blue sailor hat.
Autograph collecting is the practice of collecting autographs of famous persons. Some of the most popular categories of autograph subjects are politicians, military soldiers, athletes, movie stars, artists, social and religious leaders, scientists, astronauts, and authors.