CARTESIAN SONATA AND OTHER NOVELLAS
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Uncorrected Proof in printed white wraps with publisher's material stapled to inside front cover.
New Arrivals
IN THE LAKE OF THE WOODS
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author on the title page: "Peace,/Tim O'Brien."
THEY WHISPER
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Attractively SIGNED by the author on the title page of this erotic novel.
IN A FATHER'S PLACE
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. His first book, a fine collection of stories. Blurbs by Andre Dubus and Richard Ford. SIGNED by the author on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page in the year of publication: "with deep gratitude/for.....
THE ART IN PAINTING
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1937). Reprint. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the famous collector to a noted New York School artist: "To Nick Marsicano,/a painter & a personality of fine talents/Albert Barnes." Marsicano was educated at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later was accepted at.....
FAMOUS PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, (1985). First Edition. Softcover. Advance Review Copy Excerpt of the Southern author's second book, "a seriocomic autobiography in the form of a gallery of portraits of the great and small Ed McClanahan encountered in thirty peripatetic years of wandering the fringes of the academic and.....
ROUNDERS
New York: Hyperion/Miramax Books, (1998). First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. A trade paperback original based on the movie screenplay by David Levien and Brian Koppelman. This copy SIGNED on the title page by Canty, Levien, and Koppelman.
THE LAST GOOD TIME
Garden City, NY: The Dial Press/Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. His third book. SIGNED by the author on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the half-title page.
MR. FIELD'S DAUGHTER
New York: The Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "For Dick,/this hardest one I've/tried-- 1993."
THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER
Hartford, CT: The American Publishing Company, 1876. First American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST PRINTING on wove paper and with half-title and frontispiece with blank versos and with "THE" on the half-title page in 10-point rather than 14-point type. Original blue cloth with peach endpapers with front and rear triple flyleaves of.....
AUTOGRAPH LETTER (AL) of Consolation for the Loss of a Brother at Sea
Boston: 9 November 1870. Letter. Two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER on both sides of a 4-1/2" x 7-1/4" sheet to "My Dear Davis," possibly Lt. Charles Henry Davis whom Dana had previously represented in court. In addition to being the author of TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, Dana was a practicing lawyer.....
ARCHIVE OF TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) with Fine Content to Frank Holme with Material from the Bandar Log Press
Riverdale on the Hudson and New York City: 4 January 1902 and 29 July 1904. Letters. Archive of 6 pieces including two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED with excellent content, one letter referencing a famous passage of his and the other a poignant unpublished letter pertaining to his wife Olivia who had.....
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "Judgment Day"
n.p. 1919. Manuscript. 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.....
AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
1875. Manuscript. On a 5" x 5-1/2" piece of paper Taylor has written the last two lines of his poem "May-Time" and dated and SIGNED it below. Better the nest than the wandering wing, the loving possession, Intimate, ever-renewed, than the circle of shallower changes. On the verso is pasted a......
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "A Song for New Year's Eve"
n.p. 31 December 1856. Manuscript. 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.....
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to Mary Mapes Dodge
The Holt Convent Station: 28 September 1898. Letter. A four-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED in full with to author Mary Mapes Dodge on one 9" x 7" sheet of paper folded to make four pages. Stockton begins with a lengthy question about why he hasn't heard from her: "I mean why.....
TYPED MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (TMS)
28 - 29 January 1940. Manuscript. A six-page TYPED MANUSCRIPT in French SIGNED "Colette" at the conclusion on 8-1/4" x 10-3/4" sheets of paper. One of several lectures Colette gave on Radio Mondial. This one concerns her views of mondanité or worldliness.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
n.p. n.d. Letter. A two-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "Colette" written in French on both sides of one 8-1/4" x 5-1/4" piece of blue paper to Monsieur and Madame Albert, neighbors to whom she gives thanks.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) by the Author of FRANKENSTEIN
Rome: 6 April [1843]. Letter. 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.....
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) Mentioning Civil War Battles He Participated In
Washington DC: 26 October 1907. Letter. A fine four-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED in full with a postscript initialed "A. B." to Col. Sargent at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, on four 5-1/2" x 9" sheets of paper folded to fit into the envelope which is present and addressed in Bierce's hand.....
AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS) with a CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH
6 February 1892. Manuscript. 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. Alas for the loved one, too spotless and fair The joys of his banquet to chasten.....
TYPED MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (TMS): ADLAI STEVENSON
8 July 1974. Manuscript. A three-page Typed Manuscript on 7-1/2" x 11" onionskin paper SIGNED "Archibald MacLeish" at the top along with the date and the annotation "(not proof-read)" in MacLeish's hand. He has also, under the printed title, written "Memorial Address at the U.N." MacLeish's tribute was read by.....
ARCHIVE OF FOUR TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) and FOUR AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs)TO ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
Hamden, CT: 1974 - 1977. Letters. Four handwritten letters and four typed letters, all SIGNED variously in full or as "Al," on different stationery, all addressed to "Mr. MacLeish," totaling 15 pages. Poulin covers much ground including his open-heart surgery, a proposed anthology of American poetry to coincide with the.....
AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT and TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs)
Hamden, CT: 27 February 1978 and 4 March 1978. Letters. Two handwritten two-page letters on both sides of an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet SIGNED "Robert" to MacLeish along with a page of notes handwritten in pencil by MacLeish and a small card in pencil and ink written by MacLeish. The.....
ARCHIVE OF THREE TYPED LETTERS SIGNED (TLSs) TO ARCHIBALD MACLEISH
Munich: 1965-1966. Letters. Three typed SIGNED letters, single-spaced on onion-skin paper totaling 4 pages, to MacLeish about translating his play HERAKLES into German, all SIGNED as Eva. Informative letters about translating for a German theater audience with insights also into her previous translation of MacLeish's Pulitzer Prize winning play J.B......