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WHITTIER, John Greenleaf · 101881

$1,250.00 (€1,134.09 | £945.99 | ¥199,633)

Oak Knoll, Danvers, MA. Fine three-page letter on a 9" x 7" sheet folded into quarters SIGNED "John G. Whittier" to Marshall Pickney Wilder, President of the Massachusetts Senate and longtime president of the American Pomological Society, addressed as "Dear Friend." Whittier ...

SUNSET GUN

PARKER, Dorothy · 1928

$1,875.00 (€1,701.13 | £1,418.99 | ¥299,449)

New York. Boni & Liveright. First Edition. Purple boards with a gilt-lettered white cloth spine. Parker switched titles at the last moment from the rather cheerful SONGS FOR THE NEAREST HARMONICA to the darker SUNSET GUN, a reference to the cannon that is traditionally fired ...

SUNSET GUN

PARKER, Dorothy · 1928

$1,500.00 (€1,360.91 | £1,135.19 | ¥239,559)

New York. Boni & Liveright. First Edition. Purple boards with a gilt-lettered white cloth spine. Parker switched titles at the last moment from the rather cheerful SONGS FOR THE NEAREST HARMONICA to the darker SUNSET GUN, a reference to the cannon that is traditionally fired ...

MADAME DE TREYMES

WHARTON, Edith · 1907

$18,750.00 (€17,011.32 | £14,189.91 | ¥2,994,491)

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. Original gilt-decorated and lettered brown cloth. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper with a MANUSCRIPT variant version of the poem “Belgium” in Wharton's hand:Not with her ruined silver spires,Not with her cities sha...

AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)

WHITTIER, John Greenleaf · 101883

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

Oak Knoll Danvers. The penultimate stanza from his 1880 poem "St. Martin’s Summer" on a 4-1/2" x 7" sheet SIGNED and dated "John G. Whittier." The mystery of the untried days I close my eyes from reading;His will be done whose darkest ways To light and life are lead...

KNULP. Drei Geschichten aus dem Leben Knulps

HESSE, Herman · 0

$1,250.00 (€1,134.09 | £945.99 | ¥199,633)

Zürich. Fretz und Wasmuth. First Edition thus. Light blue cloth with printed paper labels on the front cover and spine, in the original dustwrapper. With 16 full-page illustrations by Niklaus Stoecklin. These three stories were first published in 1915. Laid in is a very person...

THE LOST WORLD with a Complete MANUSCRIPT of His Poem "The Player Piano," the Poet's Last Poem

JARRELL, Randall · 0

$6,250.00 (€5,670.44 | £4,729.97 | ¥998,164)

New York & London. The Macmillan Company & Collier-Macmillan Limited. First Edition. This collection of poems is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the half-title page "For Harry and Elizabeth/with all best wishes from/Randall and Mary." This is likely Harry Ford and his fir...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS) of Concluding Lines of THANATOPSIS

BRYANT, William Cullen · 1872

$6,250.00 (€5,670.44 | £4,729.97 | ¥998,164)

n.p.. Handwritten sixteen-line conclusion of Bryant's most famous poem and one of the best-known poems of the 19th century--"Thanatopsis"--on a 6-1/4" x 9" lined sheet of paper SIGNED "William Cullen Bryant" and dated "December 1872" at the conclusion. There are several word a...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

TOKLAS, Alice B · 61947

$2,187.50 (€1,984.65 | £1,655.49 | ¥349,357)

Paris. Superb closely written four-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED composed within a year after Gertrude Stein's death on an 8" x 10-1/2" sheet folded into fours to friend Tony Scott SIGNED "Alice Toklas." With the original envelope addressed in Toklas's hand and SIGNED by her. F...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AM) of THANATOPSIS with SIGNED CARD

BRYANT, William Cullen · 3

$5,625.00 (€5,103.40 | £4,256.97 | ¥898,347)

Handwritten conclusion of Bryant's most famous poem and one of the best-known poems of the 19th century--"Thanatopsis"--on a 4-7/8" x 3-3/4" sheet of paper laid down on a slightly larger album size sheet; together with a small calling card SIGNED "William Cullen Bryant" and da...

THE SECOND TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE. September 1909 to September 1929. With a Record of a Growing World Consciousness

ADDAMS, Jane · 1930

$1,062.50 (€963.98 | £804.09 | ¥169,688)

New York. The Macmillan Company. First Edition. Illustrated with drawings by Norah Hamilton and Morris Topchevsky. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "'Compliments of the author'/Jane Addams/Hull-House/Chicago." Uncommon in dustwrapper.. Slight offsetting to endpapers...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS) with Partial Manuscripts

LOWELL, James Russell · 1845

$937.50 (€850.57 | £709.50 | ¥149,725)

On a 3-1/2" x 6" sheet of paper Lowell has written out his poem “A[n] Epigram on Certain Conservatives,” and SIGNED it below with his initials and a closing: "So, ending with a piece of/nonsense for a stopgap/I remain yours as always/J.R.L." On the verso is the first stanza of...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS)

TAYLOR, Bayard · 101868

$937.50 (€850.57 | £709.50 | ¥149,725)

Sorrento. On a 5" x 7-1/2" piece of paper Taylor has written his complete poem "Proposal" and dated and SIGNED it below. The poem was first published in the November 1859 issue of HARPER'S MONTHLY and is one of the best known by the Quaker poet. ...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "The Love Of God"

BRYANT, William Cullen · 9

$2,250.00 (€2,041.36 | £1,702.79 | ¥359,339)

New York. A handwritten poem on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper SIGNED "William Cullen Bryant" and dated at the conclusion. Bound in 3/4 dark blue morocco leather and blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover containing the poem, an engraved portrait of Bryant, a hand-letter...

AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)

BRYANT, William Cullen · 101877

$625.00 (€567.04 | £473.00 | ¥99,816)

The second stanza of Bryant's poem "The Battle-Field" in the poet's hand, SIGNED "William Cullen Bryant" and dated by him at the conclusion on a 5" x 8" sheet of paper. Bryant, who was a founder of the Republican Party and fervent supporter of Abraham Lincoln, commemorates the...

AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)

LOWELL, James Russell · 111886

$750.00 (€680.45 | £567.60 | ¥119,780)

Deerfoot Farm. On a 4-1/2" x 6-3/4" sheet of paper Lowell has written out the last 8 lines of his long poem “Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865,” written for and read at the Commemoration Day exercises at Harvard College on that day, an event especially ho...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "Judgment Day"

HOWELLS, W[illiam] D[ean] · 1919

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.10 | ¥69,871)

n.p.. A handwritten poem on a 6-3/4" x 8-1/4" sheet of paper SIGNED "W. D. Howells" at the conclusion with the dates 1895 and 1919. The eight-line poem was first published in the book STOPS OF VARIOUS QUILLS in 1895.Before Him weltered like a shoreless sea The souls of them...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "A Song for New Year's Eve"

BRYANT, William Cullen · 311856

$1,875.00 (€1,701.13 | £1,418.99 | ¥299,449)

n.p.. A handwritten poem on a 7-1/2" x 8" sheet of paper folded vertically SIGNED "W. C. Bryant" at the conclusion. The poem consists of 6 six-line stanzas with the second and third stanzas transposed from the final printed version and the second stanza here containing correct...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) by the Author of FRANKENSTEIN

SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft · 61843

$10,625.00 (€9,639.75 | £8,040.95 | ¥1,696,878)

Rome. A three-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Mary Shelley" written in Italian on one sheet of an 8" x 5" piece of paper folded to 4" x 5," dated 6 April [1843]. A rough translation: "Esteemed Sir. Thank you so much for your card -- and your kindness. I feel ashamed thinking ab...

AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS) with a CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell · 61892

$750.00 (€680.45 | £567.60 | ¥119,780)

On a small (4-1/8" x 2-7/8") piece of paper Holmes has written the third stanza of "Song. For A Temperance Dinner" and dated and SIGNED in full "Oliver Wendell Holmes" below. ...