Price: $5,750 English essayist, poet and statesman; with Richard Steele produced the non-political Spectator. Document Signed, one page, quarto, Whitehall, January 29, 1717/18. Addison, signing on the verso of an account of Henry Worsley’s extraordinary expenses on behalf of the King, makes a two-line statement authorizing payment. The lower left corner has been torn off, … [ Read More ]
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Bacon, Sir Francis
Price: $25,000 English philosopher, essayist and historian. Document Signed, Fr. Bacon, five lines on a legal folio page, January 2, 1616/17. “Know that the honorable Sir Francis Bacon, Knight, hath borrowed and received of Sir Arthur Ingram, Knight, the sum of five hundred pounds…. I do promise to repay…the 22nd of February in witness hereof … [ Read More ]
Bates, Katharine Lee
Price: $7,500 American poet. Typewritten Manuscript Signed and Inscribed, “Katharine Lee Bates, With Friendly Greetings to Mr. and Mrs. Benson and Barbara,” one page, quarto, undated. The typewritten manuscript is of Bates’ patriotic hymn, America the Beautiful. “O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! … [ Read More ]
Bierce, Ambrose
Price: $4,750 American journalist and short story writer; disappeared into Mexico in 1913. Letter Signed Ambrose Bierce, two pages, octavo, Washington, October 30, 1911. To Neale. “Enclosed is Newbegin’s check for $278.47. I hold also his note to you at four months for $536.54 which, with your bill for the books, I will send on … [ Read More ]
Browning, Elizabeth and Robert
Price: $6,500 English poets. Autograph Note Signed Elizabeth and Robert Browning, one page, octavo, London, October 21, 1856. On card stock, to the Women’s Hospital in New York. Written in the hand of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Robert Browning adds the place and date, “London, October 21. ’56” beneath his signature. “With the most earnest wishes … [ Read More ]
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Price: $7,500 English poet. Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, octavo, 43 via Bocca di Leone [Rome], Friday, undated. To “My dear Reverend Hanna.” With the original black-bordered mourning envelope addressed in her hand. “Will you allow us to introduce to you Mrs. Hamilton and her daughter, country-women of your own, who will commend themselves to … [ Read More ]
Browning, Robert
Price: $6,750 English poet. Autograph Letter Signed, three pages, octavo, London, February 14, 1882. To “My dear Leighton,” the British painter Sir Frederic Leighton. “I do more indeed than ‘care to have’ a copy of that address which I certainly had ‘interest enough in to listen to.’ I think, did the case relate to any … [ Read More ]
Buck, Pearl S
Price: $1,750 American novelist. Typewritten Manuscript, seven full pages, quarto, undated. Buck’s speech, concerning relations between the United States and the Asian countries and her peoples, is heavily revised and corrected by the author in ink and pencil [these are shown in italic]. With a carbon copy of the corrected draft, six and a half … [ Read More ]
Byron, George Gordon
Price: $22,500 English poet; wrote Childe Harold. Autograph Note Signed, initials, one page, oblong octavo, July 28, 1813. [To John Murray.] “The enclosed lines you will insert in paragraph named after the line ‘That wakes and wafts the fragrance there.’” The verse quoted by George Byron comes from his poem, The Giaour, which was published … [ Read More ]
Chandler, Raymond
Price: $1,750 American novelist; creator of the Philip Marlowe detective series. Document Signed, a carbon typescript signed in ink, one page, quarto, April 12, 1945. An agreement with Paramount Pictures in which Raymond Chandler accepts a $5000 bonus “in recognition of the excellence of the quality of your services and for your zeal and enthusiasm … [ Read More ]
Chekhov, Anton
Price: $37,500 Russian dramatist and novelist. “MY PETITION WAS JUST A CRY IN THE DESERT. I AM NOT A FIGHTER, IT’S NOT IN MY NATURE.” Autograph Letter Signed, A. Chekhov, two and one-half pages, octavo, February 11, [no year, but after 1897]. In Russian. To Nikolai Nikolaevich. “Due to my sickness, I am a little … [ Read More ]
Christie, Agatha
Price: $4,750 English mystery writer; creator of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Typewritten Letter Signed, one and a half pages, octavo, Greenway House, South Devon, May 5, 1954. To Joyce Lambert, in London. “Thank you for your letter of 23rd February which I have not had time to answer until now. I am so glad … [ Read More ]
Christie, Agatha
Price: $6,750 English mystery writer; creator of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Typewritten Letter Signed, Agatha Mallowan, one page, octavo, Churston Ferrers, near Brixham, South Devon, June 12, 1972. To Dear Mrs. Frink. “As I will have written 82 books on my 82nd birthday this year and they have been translated into over 80 languages … [ Read More ]
Christie, Agatha
Price: $3,250 English mystery writer; creator of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Typewritten Letter Signed, Agatha Christie, two pages, quarto, Winterbrook House, Wallingford, Berkshire, October 23, 1972. To Michael Underwood, Esq., Riverbank, Datchet, Bucks. “I got your letter this morning. As far as my own personal feelings are concerned I have always enjoyed the private … [ Read More ]
Clemens, Samuel
Price: $7,500 Mark Twain. American author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Autograph Quotation Signed, Truly yours Mark Twain, two lines on an oblong octavo sheet, dated “Dec./05.” “Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it.” Matted in beige and cocoa with a bust-length portrait photograph … [ Read More ]
Clemens, Samuel
Price: $8,500 WRITING IN HIS HEAVENLY BED Mark Twain. American author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Superb oversize photograph, Signed, “Mark Twain, Jan./06,” showing the author at work on a manuscript, wearing his pajamas and propped up in bed. The black and white photograph, by Underwood & Underwood, New … [ Read More ]
Clemens, Samuel
Price: $2,500 Mark Twain. American author of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Autograph Letter Signed, S.L. Clemens, postcard, Hartford, Connecticut, [January 10, n.y.]. To Arthur Bell, in New York. In pencil. “No — shall lecture nowhere this year.” Matted in celadon and navy blue with a portrait of Samuel Clemens as a … [ Read More ]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Price: $3,750 English poet and critic; author of the Ancient Mariner. Document Signed, two pages, legal folio, Malta, June 19, 1805. Headed Affidavit of the Pay Master and signed by Coleridge as Public Secretary to the Governor of Malta. “I…do swear that on the twenty-fourth day of March, 1805 I mustered the Maltese Artillery under … [ Read More ]
Collins, Wilkie
Price: $4,750 English novelist; wrote The Woman in White. Autograph Quotation Signed, one page, octavo, London, February 17, 1883. From The Woman in White, Collins writes: “Women can resist a man’s love, a man’s fame, a man’s personal appearance, and a man’s money; but they cannot resist a man’s tongue when he knows how to … [ Read More ]
Cooper, James Fenimore
Price: $17,500 American author of The Last of the Mohicans. Autograph Letter Signed, J. Fenimore Cooper, four full pages, legal folio, [May 20-27, 1848]. To Messrs Editors [George Pope Morris and Nathaniel Parker Willis] of The Home Journal. The Battle of Long Island that James Cooper discusses in the present letter took place on August … [ Read More ]
Coward, Noel
Price: $7,500 English actor, playwright and composer. Autograph Musical Quotation Signed, one page, on a 3 by 8 inch sheet, undated. Noel Coward writes seven measures of his song, “I’ll Follow My Secret Heart,” with words to the refrain, “I’ll follow my secret heart my whole life through.” Inscribed to Lionel Aucoin. Noel Coward’s song, … [ Read More ]
Coward, Noel
Price: $6,750 “…THE BIGGEST SMASH HIT IN NEW YORK.” English actor, playwright, and composer best known for highly polished comedies of manners. Typewritten Letter Signed, May 21, 1958, octavo, on stationary with the address 404 East 55th Street, New York. To “My dear Bink” (Hugh Beaumont). “Thanks ever so for your letter. “Yes, I am … [ Read More ]
Crane, Stephen
Price: $17,500 American author of the Red Badge of Courage. Autograph Sentiment Signed and dated by the author: Yours sincerely Stephen Crane Athens May 11, 1897. A fine example. Framed in sand, sienna, and gilt with a studio photo of the author Stephen Crane. Framed dimensions: 13 inches wide by 12 inches high. This item … [ Read More ]
de Balzac, Honore
Price: $6,500 French novelist; author of La Comédie Humaine. Autograph Letter Signed, de Balzac, one page, small octavo, n.d. In French, to a lady. “Would it be a great disturbance to you if I paid you a call on Sunday? I have a good memory for all good things, and I know you told me to … [ Read More ]
Dickens, Charles
Price: $12,500 English author of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist. “MARCH ON AND FIGHT IT OUT.” Autograph Letter Signed, one page, octavo, Adephia Hotel, Liverpool, October 15, 1868. On imprinted stationery, Gad’s Hill Place, Higham by Rochester, Kent. To “My Dear Muspratt.” “I hope your remarkable discovery will be duly and particularly grateful, by … [ Read More ]
Dodgson, Charles L
Price: $12,500 Charles Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll. English author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Autograph Letter Signed, C. L. Dodgson, one page, small octavo, May 18, 1880. “I shall be very happy to come on the 26th instead of the 27th.” Framed in an antique silver frame measuring 20 inches wide by 12 … [ Read More ]
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Price: $4,750 English novelist and detective story writer; creator of Sherlock Holmes. Autograph Letter Signed, one page, octavo, August 6, 1894. “Very many thanks for the charming book which you have sent me. I shall value it very highly. I have always been intensely interested in the fighting Puritan [Oliver Cromwell] and have endeavoured to … [ Read More ]
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Price: $35,000 English novelist and detective story writer; creator of Sherlock Holmes. Document Signed, three times (twice with initials), three pages, quarto, May 14, 1926. Dolye’s agreement to grant Everleigh Nash and Grayson, publishers, “the right of printing and publishing in book form in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, its Colonies and Dependencies and … [ Read More ]
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Price: $2,750 English novelist and detective story writer; creator of Sherlock Holmes. Autograph Manuscript, unsigned, one page, octavo, undated. Fine condition. “From the Uncle Remus story of talking snakes at the beginning of Genesis down to the absolute raving lunacy of the Apocalypse at the end of the volume, what a singular collection of documents. … [ Read More ]
Faulkner, William
Price: $7,500 American novelist Document Signed, two and a half pages, legal folio, April 9, 1936. An agreement between Faulkner and RKO Studios, Inc. in which RKO engages William Faulkner “…to write, compose, prepare and/or revise a treatment and/or adaptation and/or continuity, with dialogue, of a story presently entitled ‘Gungha Din,’ suitable for reproduction as … [ Read More ]
Fielding, Henry
Price: $22,500 English novelist and playwright. Document Signed, one page, oblong octavo, June 27, 1750. Fielding attests that “William Moncke late of Northend in the parish of Fulham and county of Middlesex Esq. maketh oath that his son John Moncke and his daughters Anna-Marie and Dorothy nominees in three annuity orders 1745 and also nominees … [ Read More ]
Fleming, Ian
Price: $8,750 Creator of James Bond. “I BARELY BUDGE WHEN I AM WRITING. OTHERWISE I JUST DON’T GET ON WITH IT.” Autograph Letter Signed, “Yours Ever, Ian,” one page, quarto, undated. On imprinted stationery, Goldeneye, Oracabessa, Jamaica, to “Dear Allou”. “A thousand thanks but I barely budge when I am writing. Otherwise I just don’t … [ Read More ]
Frost, Robert
Price: $950 American poet. An invitation from the Pan American Union, Signed by Frost in the upper portion, below the emblem of the Organization of the American States. “The Pan American Union cordially invites you to hear the renowned American poet Robert Frost in readings from his poems on Thursday evening, October the twenty-eighth at … [ Read More ]
Frost, Robert
Price: $3,750 American poet. Signed Photograph. Frost is shown standing up before a podium, reading from a book. He is wearing a smile as he puts his finger up to his face, as if the hush the audience. Inscribed “To Barbara Zahner from her friend Robert Frost” on the mount below. The black and white … [ Read More ]
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Price: $12,500 German poet; wrote Faust. Autograph Note Signed, Goethe, three lines on a card in German, to the noted German-Jewish painter Moritz Oppenheim, Weimar, May 8, 1827. “Herr Oppenheim is courteously requested to have his painting of Felsner collected.” Oppenheim traveled to Weimar in 1827 where he painted Johann von Goethe’s portrait. That same … [ Read More ]
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Price: $8,500 German poet; wrote Faust. Autograph Note Signed, G, five lines in German, octavo, Weimar, June 12, 1821. On a rose-colored, floral-embossed sheet of paper, to an unnamed friend. “May the enclosed, as it is written for the love of the friend of my heart, also when sung give her love and pleasure!” Johann … [ Read More ]
Greeley, Horace
Price: $1,750 American journalist and political leader. Autograph Quotation Signed, two lines from Milton on an octavo sheet, New York, December 15, 1863. “They also serve who only stand and wait.” This item is associated with these categories in our inventory: Civil War Literature – American Western Americana
Greene, Graham
Price: $7,500 English writer. Collection of 8 Mimeograph Manuscripts for the motion picture, The Third Man, based on the novel by Graham Greene, comprising the Treatment, the Screenplay, the Second Draft Script, the Synopsis and Dialogue Screenplay, Dialogue Cutting Continuity Script, Release Script Reels 1 – 12, Narrator Portuguese Script, and Spanish Script. The 1949 … [ Read More ]
Grimm, Jacob
Price: $8,750 German mythologist; with his brother wrote Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Autograph Note Signed, Jac. Gr., on an oblong small octavo sheet, n.d. “Please send me as much as has come out of Plautus by Ritchel, Bonn, care of Konig.” A fine example. Framed in tan, chocolate and antique gilt, with a formal bust-length portrait … [ Read More ]
Hammett, Dashiell
Price: $3,500 Dashiell Hammett. American writer; creator of ‘hard-boiled’ school of detective fiction, which included novels that were made into movies such as The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man. Typewritten Letter Signed, Dash, one page, legal folio, [Aleutian Islands], Alaska, October 23, 1943. To Florence [Monash] in Bronx, New York, with the original envelope. … [ Read More ]
Harte, Bret
Price: $1,750 American short story writer. Autograph Letter Signed, one and one-half pages, octavo, [Scotland], July 14, 1880. To M. D. [Conory]. Fine condition. “Many thanks for your flattering and most kind suggestion. But I am not yet pregnant with any English novel, at least, sufficiently to be an object of solicitude to any publishing … [ Read More ]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Price: $5,000 American novelist; author of The Scarlet Letter. Partly printed Document Signed, two pages, legal folio, Liverpool, November 22, 1853. “…I, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Consul to the United States of America, at the Port of Liverpool, do declare that the facts set forth in the preceding certificate subscribed by A.F.W. Maxwell…merchants, are in my opinion … [ Read More ]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Price: $5,000 American novelist; author of The Scarlet Letter. Autograph Letter Signed, Nathl. Hawthorne, one full page, octavo, Liverpool, October 17, 1853. To Thomas George Morton, in Philadelphia, sending his autograph. “Your note, addressed to me at Concord, has just reached me on this side of the Atlantic. I take pleasure in complying with your … [ Read More ]
Housman, A E
Price: $5,000 English poet. Autograph Letter Signed A E Housman, octavo, Cambridge, June 25, 1935. On stationery of “The Evelyn Nursing Home.” With original envelope. To J.R. Brussell. “I must postpone answering your letter till I am out of this place.” In fine bold pencil. This item is associated with the following category in our … [ Read More ]
Howe, Julia Ward
Price: $3,750 Author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Julia Ward Howe. Autograph Quotation Signed, “Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,” on a 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inch card, dated by the author “January, 1896.” With a printed copy of the first song book appearance of the … [ Read More ]
Ibsen, Henrik
Price: $8,750 Norwegian playwright; author of “A Doll’s House.” Partly printed Document Signed, one page, quarto, Kristiania, April 22, 1897. In French. Ibsen signs a post office receipt for a registered package. Framed in cream, claret and gilt with a portrait photograph of Henrik Ibsen. Framed dimensions: 19 inches wide by 15 inches high. This … [ Read More ]
Kipling, Rudyard
Price; $5,000 English writer. Autograph Letter Signed, six and one-half pages, octavo, Engelberg, [Switzerland], June 14, 1911. On imprinted stationery of the Hotels Cattani, to [C. H. S.] Taylor. “Our honour has been saved! I sit down to give you a more or less full account of this years match against our hockey-playing little friends … [ Read More ]
Lawrence, T E
Price: $9,500 Lawrence of Arabia. British archaeologist, soldier and writer. Document Signed, T.E. Shaw A/c, two pages, quarto, September 6, 1933. A Royal Air Force engine test form, recording data concerning oil pressure, water and oil temperature, and fuel consumption. The sheets were used in the testing of marine engines that powered dinghies used to … [ Read More ]
Maupassant, Guy de
Price: $3,750 French novelist and literary journalist especially known for his realistic short stories. Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, correspondence card, n.d. To Monsieur and dear colleague. When I left Paris, I had so many sad and troubling things in my head that I left your volume of sonnets on my desk. Scarcely had I … [ Read More ]
Millay, Edna St Vincent
Price: $27,500 American author. A Collection of twenty-eight Typewritten Manuscripts, twenty-eight pages, quarto, [ca. 1920 and earlier]. Three of the manuscripts are signed by Edna St Vincent Millay at the conclusion; one bears a holograph correction in the text; and in another she has changed the title. Accompanied by a typewritten letter from her mother, … [ Read More ]
Mitchell, Margaret
Price: $15,000 American author. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, quarto, Atlanta, Georgia, September 26, 1936. To Almira B. Taylor in Hyde Park, Massachusetts. With the original envelope. “Thank you so much for your letter about ‘Gone With the Wind.’ I appreciated it so much. Authors write books and send them out into the world and … [ Read More ]
Mitchell, Margaret
Price: $10,000 American author of Gone with the Wind. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, quarto, Atlanta, Georgia, January 7, 1936. On her name-imprinted stationery, to Dr. Mayos. “Thank you so much for your New Year’s note and all your good wishes. I had it on my mind to send you a Christmas card, but everything … [ Read More ]
Morris, William
Price: $7,500 English poet and artist; founded the Arts and Crafts Movement. Printed Proof Sheet Signed, with initials in purple ink in the upper left margin, one page, quarto, undated. With handwritten corrections in purple and black ink. The proof sheet, bearing a large decorated woodcut initial W, is page 78 of the Kelmscott edition … [ Read More ]
Neruda, Pablo
Price: $7,500 Chilean poet; won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1971. Autograph Letter Signed, three pages, quarto, Isla Negra, Chile, undated [January 4, no year]. In English. To Dear Friend. I was absent and was not able to answer you. Sorry but I am most difficult to communicate. Program: I am scheduled until the … [ Read More ]
Neruda, Pablo
Price: $15,000 Chilean poet; winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971. Autograph Manuscript Signed, six pages, quarto, Paris, February 1972. In Spanish. Written in green ink. “Volcanoes and blizzards of the great south of America-of South America-all have been good teachers for us, little guards born in that distant silence. I will never … [ Read More ]
Pasternak, Boris
Price: $12,500 Russian poet and author; wrote Doctor Zhivago. Autograph Letter Signed, one page, quarto, [Moscow], July 12, 1959. In English. “I was unfeignedly sorry to learn [of] our mutual unsuccess. Please kindly accept this little reparation. I thankfully return you the cheque (I’ve torn the precedent), since it is unrealisable[sic.] in our conditions and … [ Read More ]
Porter, Katherine Anne
Price: $15,000 American essayist, short story writer, novelist; wrote Ship of Fools. Typewritten Letter Signed, Katherine Anne Porter, three densely typed pages, on blue paper, quarto, August 18, 1958, Outpost Inn, Ridgefield, Connecticut. With corrections in her hand. To Mr. Clemons. “ I am towards the end of the triple-copy stage with my Ship of … [ Read More ]
Richardson, Samuel
Price: $6,500 English novelist; author of Clarissa Harlowe. Partly printed Document Signed, one page, legal folio, January 2, 1743. Samuel Richardson signs a statement headed, “Tonnage, 1694 &c.”, saying that he has received six pounds from the Treasury, funds paid out to him as the assignee of George Churchill and Hugh Chudleigh and by virtue … [ Read More ]
Sackville-West, Vita
Price: $4,750 English poet and novelist. Autograph Letter Signed, “V. Sackville-West,” one page, quarto, December 12, no year, on her engraved Sevenoaks stationery. “Dear Sir / I must thank you for your letter about Passenger to Teheran. I expect I was wrong to say cowardly. I had in mind a life of scholarly retreat, rather … [ Read More ]
Salinger, J D
Price: $12,500 Typewritten Letter Signed, initials, one page, large quarto, [Windsor, Vermont], January 4, 1979. To Amy Kassak in Japan. With the original envelope, and with a postscript in J D Salinger’s hand. “Must write back to you directly-to tell you that I think your resistance to joining that new religious movement/cult strikes me as … [ Read More ]
Salinger, J D
Price: $15,000 Typewritten Letter Signed, initials, one page, large quarto, [Windsor, Vermont], September 29, 1978. With original envelope. To Amy Kassak in Japan. With the original envelope. “Please excuse this late reply. (The truth be told, I’m usually later still. I’m the world’s worst correspondent, and I usually can manage about one letter to a … [ Read More ]
Salinger, J D
Price: $2,500 Photograph of a group of diners at New York’s Copacabana Club, signed J D Salinger, and inscribed on the inside left cover of the photo’s presentation folder to Bob Wright: Old “Grand Dad” to you Bob. I’m full of it. J.D. Also signed by Salinger’s wife Claire Douglas, Claire’s half brother William Sholto Douglas … [ Read More ]
Sayers, Dorothy Leigh
Price: $5,750 English mystery novelist; creator of the memorable sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey. Typewritten Letter Signed Dorothy Leigh Sayers, three pages, quarto, Witham, Essex, July 25, 1947. To Dr. James Bridie. Fine condition. “…I said that one statement of yours, which I quoted, was…’venomously said.’ It is venomous, because it is one of those accusations, … [ Read More ]
Scott, Sir Walter
Price: $1,750 Scottish poet, novelist, and historian. Autograph Letter Signed, quarto, no date [watermarked 1827]. “I am a good deal alarmed by Anne threatening to come to town. I think you can furnish me with an answer to Clarkson whose letter I delivered when I came to town. I would prevent her coming even yet … [ Read More ]
Scott, Sir Walter
Price: $6,500 Scottish poet, novelist, historian and biographer. Autograph Manuscript, two pages, oblong quarto, undated. Headed The Earl [afterwards Duke] of, the manuscript comments on various topics, including a play about Queen Elizabeth, inventions, universal corruption, and historical events. “They cannot for example but be delighted to learn that the account of the new play … [ Read More ]
Service, Robert W
Price: $4,750 Canadian writer; author of The Shooting of Dan McGrew. Autograph Letter Signed, Robert Service, one full page, octavo, Monte Carlo, November 3, 1954. To W.C. Goodson, with original envelope. After thanking Goodson for his letter, Robert Service asserts, “I am afraid I have no favorite passages in my work and I dislike it … [ Read More ]
Shaw, George Bernard
Price: $6,750 British playwright, author and critic. Very fine signed photograph of Shaw in his study, speaking with a gentleman. On the lower mount he writes: “This is my celebrated performance as a genial and charming old man./ ‘Blessings on his kindly voice and on his silver hair.’/ And Hoppe pretending to be taken in.” … [ Read More ]
Shaw, George Bernard
Price: $8,500 British playwright, novelist and critic. Autograph Letter Signed, initials, two pages, oblong octavo, Ayot St. Lawrence, Welwyn, June 22, 1909. On his imprinted stationery, to My dear Emerica [Erica Cotterill]. “It is no use calling on me: I am engaged up to the last minute every afternoon this week after my return to … [ Read More ]
Shaw, George Bernard
Price: $6,750 British playwright, author, and critic. Typewritten Manuscript Signed twice, By Bernard Shaw, below the title, and with his initials at the conclusion, nine pages, large quarto, January 27, 1923. On green paper, entitled The Unprotected Child and The Law. With extensive revisions and corrections in George Bernard Shaw’s hand (shown in italic). Bound … [ Read More ]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Price: $22,500 English poet. Autograph Document Signed, one page, 2 1/2 by 7 1/4 inches, London, December 23, 1815. Percy Bysshe Shelley requests Messrs. Brookes & Co. of Chancery Lane to “Pay to Mr. Clairmont three Pounds….” Pen cancellations passing through, but not seriously affecting the signature. Written shortly after completing (in mid-December) his long … [ Read More ]
Simenon, Georges
Price: $1,250 French novelist; creator of the series of detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret. Autograph Letter Signed, one page, octavo, January 31, 1959. On his name imprinted stationery to Albert-Jean. I apologize for being so late in replying to your letter. I was in the middle of working on my novel. I dont know … [ Read More ]
Stael, Madame de. Anne Louise Germaine Necker
Price: $1,750 Anne Louise Germaine Necker. French writer; exiled by Napoleon I. Autograph Letter Signed, Necker Stael de Holstein, one full page, octavo, 28 messidor, no year. To Citizen [Paul] Barras, a member of the Directory. I was deeply affected by the misfortune suffered by Citizen Barras. I must know if his health was affected. … [ Read More ]
Stael, Madame de. Anne Louise Germaine Necker
Price: $2,750 French writer; exiled by Napoleon I. Autograph Letter, unsigned, one page, octavo, n.d. Fine condition. “I miss you very much, my dear sir, you are for me beautiful England, that of wit and soul. don’t forget that I am expecting you and Lady Mackintosh tomorrow for dinner. You will give me my festive … [ Read More ]
Stein, Gertrude
Price: $12,500 American author. Autograph Letter Signed, four pages, quarto, Azay-le-Rideau, France, [July 19, 1926]. On imprinted stationery of the Hotel du Grand Monarque, to Gertrude Stein’s friends, Allan Taumer and [Trututueff]. With the original envelope. Not a squeak out of you. Where are you and how are you, we are here. We came near … [ Read More ]
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Price: $6,750 Scottish novelist and poet. Autograph Letter Signed, initials, one page, quarto, undated. To My dear Moors. “Our inevitable fellow has turned up. It seems he has been fired from the place he was in and is now staying with Folau at a cheaper rate: suppose we applied our money $5 each, as far … [ Read More ]
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Price: $4,750 English novelist. Pen and ink sketches, unsigned, two pages, octavo, [n.d.]. William Makepeace Thackeray has drawn three profile heads of a man wearing a top hat; a cat; two Egyptian pyramids with a fierce, crouching lion in the foreground; a begging dog; a crowing rooster; and a mouse. On the verso, he has … [ Read More ]
Thoreau, Henry David
Price: $27,500 American essayist, poet and naturalist; wrote Walden. Autograph Manuscript, two full pages, quarto, undated [1854]. “As we grow old we live more coarsely, we relax a little in the disciplines, and to some extent cease to obey our first instincts. We are more careless about our diet & our chastity. But we would … [ Read More ]
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Price: $3,750 French author of Democracy in America. Alexis de Tocqueville. Autograph Letter Signed, two pages, quarto, April 17, 1841. “I received the last volume of the Academy of Caen as well as the yearbook of the Department of La Manche, which you announced to me by your letter of March 26. I cannot thank … [ Read More ]
Tolstoy, Leo
Price: $17,500 Russian author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. A pensive Cabinet Card Photograph Signed, “Leo Tolstoy / 29 March 1901,” in Russian on the mount. The sepia tone photograph measures 4 inches wide by 5 * inches high; overall 4 1/16 inches wide by 6 5/16 inches high. Leo Tolstoy joined the … [ Read More ]
Tolstoy, Leo
Price: $25,000 Russian author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. Bust-length postcard Photograph of Leo Tolstoy, Signed and Dated, “Leo Tolstoy / 24 Febr. 1910” in the lower portion. The photograph by C. Kraft is captioned “Tolstoi.” The black and white photograph measures 3 ½ inches wide by 5 ½ inches high. Matted in … [ Read More ]
Toynbee, Arnold
Price: $750 English historian. Signature and date, December 4, 1960, on a quarto sheet, written on the mount below a half-tone print of his photograph which measures 3 1/2 by 2 1/4 inches. Fine condition. This item is associated with the following category in our inventory: Literature – English/Irish
Trollope, Anthony
Price: $4,750 English novelist. Check Signed, July 1, 1868, drawn on his account at the Union Bank of London, payable to Edward Dicey in the amount of £25. Customary ink cancellation through signature. One of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era, Anthony Trollope was greatly influenced by the genteel … [ Read More ]
Washington, Booker T
Price: $25,000 Black American educator; founded the Tuskegee Institute for practical training of blacks in trades and professions in 1881. Autograph Manuscript, fifteen pages, undated, Booker T Washington. The pages are numbered 1-7 (two are numbered “5”), 22, 24, 28 and 29, and three pages are unnumbered. Written on the verso of imprinted stationery of … [ Read More ]
Washington, Booker T
Price: $10,000 Black American educator; founded the Tuskegee Institute for practical training of blacks in trades and professions in 1881. Autograph Letter Signed Booker T Washington, one page, large quarto, Tuskegee, Alabama, March 13, 1897. On imprinted stationery of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, to a supporter, Ella Kent in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Booker T … [ Read More ]
Wells, H G
Price: $2,750 English novelist nest known for his science fiction stories such as The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. Typewritten Letter Signed H G Wells, one and one-third pages, octavo, London, October 20, 1943. On his imprinted stationery, to [Joseph] McCabe. Fine condition. ”Help! Im having a hot time … [ Read More ]
Whitman, Walt
Price: $9,500 American poet. Printed Poem Signed Walt Whitman, one page, small oblong octavo, undated [ca. 1884-1885]. Entitled Of that Blithe Throat of Thine. Of that blithe throat of thine from arctic bleak and blank/ I’ll mind the lesson, solitary bird – let me too welcome chilling drifts,/ E’en the profoundest chill, as now – … [ Read More ]
Wilde, Oscar
Price: $9,500 Irish poet, dramatist and wit. Autograph Letter Signed Oscar Wilde, three pages, octavo, no date [ca. 1878], on his imprinted stationery from Magdalen College, Oxford, to “My dear Sir” [Rev. Matthew Russell]. Referring to “my recent success.” “I am sure you will excuse my not thanking you before for verses which in their … [ Read More ]
Williams, Tennessee
Price: $500 American playwright. Playbill for The Night of the Iguana Signed by Tennessee Williams and Bette Davis. Signed on the credits page where Tennessee Williams is listed as the author of the new play and Bette Davis and margaret Leighton as the Stars. The playbill is from the Royale Theatre. This item is associated … [ Read More ]
Williams, Tennessee
Price: $1,750 American playwright. Autograph Letter Signed, Tom, two full pages, octavo, [June 21, 1980]. With original envelope bearing his signature Tennessee Williams on the verso, to his cousin Jim Adams. A candid letter concerning his problems with his lover Henry Faulkner, a young painter from Kentucky. After asking about Rose, Jims sister Stell, and … [ Read More ]
Woolf, Virginia
Price: $4,750 English novelist and critic. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, octavo, Tavistock Square, December 9, 1928. To [André] Chaumeix, the editor of Le Figaro. …I heard from Miss Halford and told her that I should be ready to give the French rights of my articles from time to time to the Figaro on the … [ Read More ]
Woolf, Virginia
Price: $4,250 English author. Typewritten Letter Signed, one page, octavo, [London], January 16, 1929. To an unnamed editor. “I enclose an article as I promised for the Figaro. I have arranged that it will not appear here before Feb. 7th. I hope this suits you, and that the article is the kind that you wish … [ Read More ]
Wordsworth, William
Price: $6,750 English poet. Autograph Quotation Signed, three lines from his poem The Fountain, boldly penned on an oblong octavo sheet dated Easter Sunday, 1843 from Rydal Mount. Often glad no more/ We wear a face of joy because/ We have been glad of yore. William Wordsworth wrote The Fountain. A Conversation in 1799 and … [ Read More ]
Wordsworth, William
Price: $12,500 English poet. Autograph Manuscript Signed, six lines from John Milton’s Paradise Lost, penned on a quarto sheet, Rydal Mount, October 4, 1825. Wordsworth adds an amusing note below. “What call’st thou solitude? Is not the Earth With various living creatures, and the air Replenish’d, and all these at they command To come and … [ Read More ]
Wordsworth, William
Price: $4,750 English poet. Autograph Letter Signed, one page, quarto, Rydal Mount, September 21, 1846. To The Rev. Dr. Parkinson, introducing Mr. Pemberton Bartlett a student of St. Bees and recommending him to any attention which it may fall within your province to be able to give him the benefit of. He is a friend … [ Read More ]
Yeats, William Butler
Price: $4,750 Irish poet and dramatist. Autograph Letter Signed, WBYeats, three pages, octavo, 3 Upper Ely Place, Dublin, September 4, no year [1890]. To [W. E.] Henley, the influential editor of the National Observer. “I sent you a book of sonnets by Rhys with drawings by my brother who is about 19 years old & … [ Read More ]
Yeats, William Butler
Price: $2,750 Irish poet and dramatist. Typewritten Letter Signed, WB Yeats, one-half page, quarto, Riversdale, Rathfarnham, Dublin, May 21, 1933. On his imprinted stationery, to [Derek] Verschoyle, editor of the Spectator. “I send you that review and it is the last I shall ever write. I havent that gift, my writings have to germinate out … [ Read More ]
Yeats, William Butler
Price: $1,750 Irish poet and dramatist. Autograph Note Signed, WB Yeats, one page, octavo, London, Saturday, undated. To [Sir Hugh] Lane, Lady Augustus Gregory’s nephew, who was a picture-dealer whose career was of mythological importance to Yeats. “With pleasure-Tuesday ” Sir Hugh Lane, a gifted, arrogant man planned to give his great collections of 39 … [ Read More ]
Yeats, William Butler
Price: $3,500 Irish poet and dramatist. Autograph Letter Signed, WB Yeats, one page, octavo, Riversdale, Rathfarnham, Dublin, Saturday, May 29 [1930s]. On his imprinted stationery, to his young associate, the poet [F. R.] Higgins. “Please come Tuesday as usual. I go to England on the 7th. I was delighted beyond all my hopes by your … [ Read More ]