Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888. H.M.R.C. Edition. Hardcover. ublisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering; x, 514, [iv] pages. The author of RAMONA advocates for Native American rights at a time when the federal government was increasingly taking them away.
New York: P. J. Kennedy, 1905. Twenty-Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Full red polished calf with double gilt-ruled borders, a gilt-decorated spine with gilt-lettered green morocco spine labels, gilt dentelles, pretty marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; xxxvi, 311 pages. The binding is not signed but a previous owner in a pencil note.....
[New York]. Letters. Two one-page handwritten letters on rectos of two 8-1/2" x 11" sheets SIGNED in full to a Mrs. Kimball. In part: "It was very kind of you to keep a library service just for me.... I'd feel too peculiar, sort of like the Emperor of Japan or.....
Key West: 17 July 1989. Document. Attractive First Day Cover with an image and stamp of Hemingway postmarked in Key West SIGNED by the American political novelist, author of THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and many other novels.
New York: 23 May 1929. Letter. On 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" personal stationery Cobb forwards his autograph. Cobb was a humorist and columnist who at one time was the highest paid staff reporter in the United States.
New York, Austerlitz and Paris: 1928-1929. Letter. Four unsigned handwritten love letters from Edna St. Vincent Millay to George Dillon, totaling 17 pages on 11 sheets in ink and pencil, with 4 envelopes addressed by Millay, dated 1928-1929. The first letter dated 17 December 1928, in part: “So you will.....
College Park, MD: 16 February 1972. Letter. A charming one-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) on a sheet of blue 5-3/4" x 7-3/4" paper to William S. Gray, an English professor at Randolph Macon College. In part: "That is a charming Valentine you sent me, and I remember the past as.....
Manuscript. 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.....
Sorrento: 10 March 1868. Manuscript. 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.....
Indre-et-Loire [France]: 17 July 1930. Letter. A two-page letter on both sides of Le Plessis stationery (5-7/8" x 4-3/4") SIGNED "Gene" to bookseller Terence Holliday. In full: "I've been meaning for a week or more to thank you for the razor. It is a peach and I am most grateful.....
18 January 1953. Photograph. Fine 7-1/4" x 9-1/2" gelatin silver photographic portrait by Carl Van Vechten of the author of THE YEARLING and CROSS CREEK in a regal pose wearing a fur coat. With Van Vechten's blindstamp in the lower right corner and ink stamp on the verso. Additionally in.....
26 September n.y. Letters. A two-page handwritten letter on rectos of two 8-1/2" x 11" sheets SIGNED in full to Dr. Smyth. In part: "God bless you a million times, not only for the May Sinclair review & the way in which it was played up, but for your immensely.....
[St. Louis, MO]: 15 November 1969. Framed Letter. SIGNED and dated as "10," his intimate signature, on an 8-12" x 9-1/2" sheet of paper, matted and framed with the original mailing envelope and a photo of Williams to an overall size of . To Danny [Stirrup], an old friend in.....
26 January 1919. Autograph. On a 4-1/4" x 4" piece of paper Gilman has written and SIGNED the following: "Sun. Jan. 26 -- 1919./With warm regards/of the author/Charlotte Perkins Gilman/after a nice chicken!" Perkins, a feminist writer and grand-niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe, is perhaps best known for her semi-autobiographical.....
New York: 9 May 1864. Hardcover. 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.....
[New York]: 25 March 1912. Letter. One-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED "W. D. Howells" to Mr. Barton, concerning his brother working at the Government Printing Office and forwarding his "best photograph." The silver print photograph is of Howells seated at a desk with pen in hand and measures 6-3/8" x 8-1/8".....
[17 January 1882?]. Manuscript. Twelve 5" x 8" pages written on 3 folded leaves, stitched together at the vertical fold, not signed but completely in Ruskin's hand. A presumably complete and untitled essay, possibly unpublished, on realism in art and its relation to morals. Ruskin begins, “Realism in any work.....
10 April 1877. Manuscript. 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.....
Baltimore: 1944 - 1946. Letter. Ten TYPED LETTERS SIGNED on personal stationery, ranging from 1 to 2 pages, addressed to Isaac Edgar Clark, concerning Clark's manuscript, “An Analysis of Ring Lardner's American Language: or Who Learnt You Grammar Bud?” Ring Lardner (1885-1933), American sports journalist and short story author, was.....
Cambridge, MA: 4 March 1935. Letter. A 1-1/2-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED on two sheets of 8-1/2" x 11" paper to a teacher, Carlton F. Wells, replying to his letter about a story he has written: "It is a comforting thing to know that someone has liked a story enough to.....
Kennebunk Beach, ME: 2 June 1938. Letter. One-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED to a Mrs. Woodruff on author's personal 8-1/2" x 11" stationery, @450 words with one sentence added in ink by Roberts. In part: "To understand Arnold, you must put yourself in his position." Roberts then makes an extensive argument.....
Southbury, CT: 13 January 1957. Letter. A fine two-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) on two sheets of blue 8-1/2" x 11" paper to journalism teacher Frank M. Flack of Pierce Junior College in Los Angeles, @400 words with several minor ink corrections. In small part: "...what are 'Communication Skills'? publicity.....
Deerfoot Farm: 11 January 1886. Manuscript. 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.....
Manuscript. Fair Copy Manuscript of his well-known poem "Speech to a Crowd" SIGNED in full beneath his typed name with minor ink corrections in the text.
[Cambridge, MA]: 28 October 1951. Letters. TYPED LETTER SIGNED as "A. MacLeish" on personal Harvard stationery to Charles Mullen of the Florida Grower Press apologizing for sending 6 of his volumes of poetry to him and explaining why he did so. With two small ink corrections.
