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SIGNED ORIGINAL ETCHING

[LEWIS, Sinclair] HOOD, Richard Thomas · 0

$437.50 (€396.93 | £331.15 | ¥69,841)

An 8" x 11" ORIGINAL ETCHING (image size of 5-3/4" x 7-1/2") of Lewis by Richard Thomas Hood SIGNED by Lewis. From the Artists Series created by Richard Thomas Hood (1910-1993), Philadelphia artist and Director of the Pennsylvania Art Project (WPA).. Richard Thomas Hood. Mild ...

ARCHIVE Discussing Proposal for French Production of His Musical SIMPLY HEAVENLY

HUGHES, Langston · 1959

$10,625.00 (€9,639.82 | £8,042.26 | ¥1,696,136)

New York. Interesting archive consisting of 4 SIGNED (as “Langston”) items in green ink and various other pieces concerning a French production of his musical SIMPLY HEAVENLY, all to Léo Sauvage. Included are a TYPED LETTER SIGNED, two AUTOGRAPH NOTES SIGNED, and a SIGNED offp...

ARCHIVE OF 15 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) and Related Material to Henry Rago, the Editor of POETRY Magazine

ELIOT, T. S · 19571959

$25,000.00 (€22,681.93 | £18,922.97 | ¥3,990,909)

London. A series of 15 TYPED LETTERS SIGNED as "T. S. Eliot" to poet and editor of POETRY Magazine, Henry Rago, all but one on Faber and Faber stationery. The letters, which span the dates 7 January 1957 through 23 October 1959, primarily concern Rago's invitation to Eliot to ...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) about Christopher Robin

MILNE, A. A · 301939

$1,875.00 (€1,701.14 | £1,419.22 | ¥299,318)

(London). One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) on 5-1/2" x 7-3/8" personal 13 Mallord Street stationery to "Dear Sir." In full: "I am delighted to have a copy of your book, and thank you very much for it. I shall try to read every word in it before the school holidays begin;...

AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

LEWIS, Sinclair · 23

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

St. Augustine. One-page handwritten letter on a 6" x 10-1/4" sheet SIGNED in full to Mr Holt. In full: "I am grateful for your invitation, & I should be very happy to go to Rollins, which I have been watching from a far. But I have been summoned north, & I must leave today. Pe...

SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH

[HARDY, Thomas] EDIS, Olive · 0

$3,750.00 (€3,402.29 | £2,838.45 | ¥598,636)

Norfolk & Farnham, Surrey. Studios at Sheringham & Cromer. Sepia tone portrait photograph on original studio mount (image size 6" x 8"; overall size 6-11/16" x 9-1/8") SIGNED and dated 1913 by Hardy at the foot of the mount. A profile portrait of Hardy in his 73rd year, seated...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): Essay on Edward Upward

SPENDER, Stephen · 1987

$1,875.00 (€1,701.14 | £1,419.22 | ¥299,318)

Handwritten Manuscript draft in blue and red ink consisting of five 8-1/4" x 12" pages on rectos only dated and SIGNED by Spender at the bottom of the first page and INSCRIBED and INITIALED at the top of the first page: "Dear Mr Goddard Here are/some pages of my writing S. S."...

FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO. A HISTORY OF MY EARLY LIFE

HUDSON, William Henry · 1943

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

Buenos Aires. Limited Editions Club. Quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4"), illustrated with lithographs by Raul Rosarivo. Copy #960 of 1500 copies SIGNED by the designer, Alberto Kraft, and the illustrator. Perhaps the most unique LEC binding, the upper half consisting of smooth rawhide ...

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) Quoting from his Book STRENGTH TO LOVE, Matted and Framed

KING, Martin Luther, Jr. [Martin Luther King, Jr.] · 121963

$31,250.00 (€28,352.41 | £23,653.71 | ¥4,988,636)

Atlanta. Superb letter on Southern Christian Leadership Conference stationery dated 12 August 1963. "I want to personally thank you for the support which you have given to our nonviolent direct action movement to eliminate the immoral and shameful practice of racial discrimina...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel · 161858

$4,687.50 (€4,252.86 | £3,548.06 | ¥748,295)

Rome. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED as "Nath. Hawthorne" on a 10-1/2" x 8-1/2" sheet folded in half with integral transmittal leaf addressed in his hand. Hawthorne makes arrangements for a summer in Florence. After the end of his tenure as U.S. Consul at Liverpool, Hawthorn...

[VATHEK] AN ARABIAN TALE, From an Unpublished Manuscript: with Notes Critical and Explanatory

[BECKFORD, William] · 1786

$5,000.00 (€4,536.39 | £3,784.59 | ¥798,182)

London. J. Johnson. First Edition. Recent full period calf (5" x 8") with marbled endpapers and likely original gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label; vii, [i], 334 pages with page 48 misnumbered "84" and with errata leaf and final blank (often missing). Contrary to Beckf...

ROYAL AND HISTORIC GLOVES AND SHOES

REDFERN, W. B · 0

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.54 | ¥49,886)

London. Methuen & Co.. First Edition. Large book (10" x 12-3/4") in gilt-decorated and lettered red cloth. Illustrated throughout with 47 photographic plates of gloves (including 4 in color) and 33 photographic plates of shoes (including one in full color). The volume is divid...

HUN HOOFDEN ZIJN GROEN EN HUN HANDEN BLAUW [THEIR HEADS ARE GREEN AND THEIR HANDS ARE BLUE]

BOWLES, Paul · 1985

$937.50 (€850.57 | £709.61 | ¥149,659)

London. Veen, Uitgevers. First Dutch Edition. Plain wraps in pictorial dustwrapper (4-7/8" x 7-3/8"). An early novel translated into Dutch by Gideon den Tex. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "For Tim Hinterding--/If you read this, you/won't be able to...

THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE, June 1906

1906

$106.30 (€96.44 | £80.46 | ¥16,969)

Washington DC. National Geographic Society. First Edition. Printed wraps. Vol. XVII, #6. Features illustrated articles on the recent eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the San Francisco earthquake as well as the Diamond Mines of South Africa, Canadian Immigration, the Luray Cavern...

RAMBLES AND RECOLLECTIONS OF AN INDIAN OFFICIAL

[INDIA] SLEEMAN, Sir W[illiam] H[enry] · 1844

$2,000.00 (€1,814.55 | £1,513.84 | ¥319,273)

London. J. Hatchard and Son. First Edition. Two 6-1/2" x 9-3/4" volumes in publisher's gilt-decorated and lettered green cloth: xii, 478; vii, [i], 459, [1] pages. Housed in a green cloth clamshell box. Illustrated with 32 color chromolithographic plates with tissue guards. Li...

A JOURNEY THROUGH THE KINGDOM OF OUDE, IN 1849-1850 ... With Private Correspondence Relative to the Annexation of Oude to British India, & C

[INDIA] SLEEMAN, Sir W[illiam] H[enry] · 1858

$1,250.00 (€1,134.10 | £946.15 | ¥199,545)

London. Richard Bentley. First Edition. Two 5" x 7-1/4" volumes in modern half polished green calf with marbled boards and matching calf corners, gilt-decorated spines with contrasting gilt-lettered morocco spine labels: lxxx, 337; vi, 424 pages. Housed in a green cloth clamsh...

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED

BUCHANAN, James · 271849

$4,375.00 (€3,969.34 | £3,311.52 | ¥698,409)

Wheatland near Lancaster. Two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "James Buchanan" on the recto and verso of the first leaf of a single folded sheet (7-3/4" x 9-5/8") to John Y. Mason, former Secretary of the Navy under President Polk, regarding the aging Dolley Madison (who would di...

THE WRATH OF JOHN STEINBECK: OR, ST. JOHN GOES TO CHURCH

[STEINBECK, John] BENNETT, Robert · 1939

$4,375.00 (€3,969.34 | £3,311.52 | ¥698,409)

Los Angeles. The Albertson Press in association with Bunster Creely. First Edition. Publisher's red paper-covered boards, gilt label printed in black to upper cover (5-3/4" x 8-14"); (viii), 9 pages with tipped in frontispiece. The first published book about Steinbeck, written...

A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE in Five Volumes, EACH Signed by Wilson

WILSON, Woodrow · 1908

$9,375.00 (€8,505.72 | £7,096.11 | ¥1,496,591)

New York & London. Harper & Brothers. Five volumes in publisher's gilt-lettered black cloth; illustrated with many plates and engravings. A later printing of this set first published in 1902. This set is SIGNED by the author as governor of New Jersey on the front endpaper or h...

THE JUNGLE

SINCLAIR, Upton · 1965

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.46 | ¥79,818)

Baltimore. Limited Editions Club. First Illustrated Edition. Tall octavo (7" x 10-7/8") bound appropriately in embossed quarter pigskin and butcher paper sides; 384 pages. The First Illustrated Edition of this modern classic with a new preface by the author. Copy #887 of 1500 ...