no date [1880]. Manuscript. One 7-5/8" x 9-3/4" lined sheet with an AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT on one side consisting of 24 lines (@220 words) completely in Alcott's hand. In part: "'That barking dog is for Boo, & the little yellow sled so Molly can drag him to school, he always tumbles.....
Washington DC: 8 April 1903. Letter. Three-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED in full to Colonel H. H. Sargent on three panels of one 10" x 7-3/4" sheet of paper folded. "I'm glad to know that you are still desirous of the place in the War College, and want to assure you.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1967. Michael Circy. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7-1/4" x 10-3/4") bound in heavy buckram. Translated from the German of Richard Voss by Gustav Adolf Danziger and adapted by Ambrose Bierce. With an introduction by Maurice Valency and watercolor illustrations by Michael Circy. Copy #970 of 1500.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Paul Landacre. Hardcover. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") imaginatively bound with a decorated linen center panel flanked by gilt-decorated dark sheepskin panels. Edited with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. Copy #665 of 1500 illustrated with original wood engravings by Paul Landacre printed directly.....
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., (1905). First Edition. Hardcover. Original green cloth. With 33 illustrations.
[New York]: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Copy #345 of 997 numbered copies SIGNED by the author on the limitation page.
13 January 1868. Letter. Two-page letter on 5" x 8" THE EVENING POST stationery addressed to "Dear Madam" and SIGNED "W. C. Bryant." Bryant turns down a poem by a previous contributor, stating that it is “not equal by any means to those which I once received from you.” He.....
19 February 1863. Letter. One page on a 5" x 7-7/8" sheet addressed to "Sir" and SIGNED "W. C. Bryant." A remarkable letter in which Bryant lists the names of a number of famous contemporaries. In full: "Enclosed is the photograph [not present] for which you have asked. Parke Godwin.....
3 May 1878. Manuscript. 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 dated "May.....
n.p. December 1872. Manuscript. 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 and a few punctuation changes.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Thomas Nason. Hardcover. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full black sheepskin leather with gilt lettering. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with lovely wood engravings by Thomas Nason, perhaps best known for his illustrations of several of Robert.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1947. Thomas Nason. Hardcover. Large octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full black sheepskin leather with gilt lettering. Selected and edited with a commentary by Louis Untermeyer. Illustrated with lovely wood engravings by Thomas Nason, perhaps best known for his illustrations of several of Robert.....
1872. Photograph. Sepia portrait photograph (4" x 5-1/2") mounted to a larger sheet of white stock where it is SIGNED by Bryant beneath the image and dated 25 January 1872. Framed to an overall size of 9-1/2" x 12"
Boston: James Osgood, 1881. First Edition. Dec. green cloth. 1st printing. BAL 2055. Early work by the author of LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY and THE SECRET GARDEN.
Manuscript. Seven 8-5/8" x 13-1/4" smooth-finished sheets (the first page about a third of that size) handwritten by Frances Hodgson Burnett of the ORIGINAL SIGNED MANUSCRIPT of most of her short story "A Little Faun" from her 1892 book GIOVANNI AND THE OTHER: CHILDREN WHO HAVE MADE STORIES, a collection.....
West Park, NY: 24 August 1893. Letter. A two-page handwritten letter to Robert Underwood Johnson ("Dear Johnson"), Associate Editor of CENTURY MAGAZINE, on two panels of a 10" x 8" sheet folded in half, SIGNED in full by Burroughs at the conclusion. In part: "I have not written an outdoor.....
West Park, NY: 15 November [1915]. Letter. A two-page handwritten letter to drama critic and author William Winters on one side of two sheets of 5-1/2" x 8-1/4" "Riverby" stationery, SIGNED in full by Burroughs at the conclusion. In full: "I have had one letter from you during my long.....
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895 - 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Several odd volumes from the Riverside Edition of THE WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS, limited to 1000 copies. Each volume has tipped or laid in MANUSCRIPT Material or Letters. Volume I contains a......
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1901. Edward Curtis. First American Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes in publisher's decorated green cloth with the scarce gilt-lettered green cloth dustwrappers. The first volume covers Narrative Glaciers, and Natives; the second History, Geography, and Resources with contributions by William H. Dall, Charles Keller, Henry.....
New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1847. First American Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes bound in one, publisher's black half morocco with matching corners. An account of the popular actress's year after leaving her husband, a wealthy Georgian plantation owner who ultimately divorced her. A 2-3/8" x 3-1/2" albumen photograph of Kemble.....
Northampton, MA: 30 November 1888. Letter. A one-page letter in Cable's hand and SIGNED by him as "G. W. Cable" to Mrs. Henry M. Phillips. In full: "Thank you kindly for your invitation to meet Professor and Mrs. Fiske, but Mrs. Cable's health is delicate. She is virtually confined to.....
New York: Scribner, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Original gilt-lettered red cloth. BAL 2385. INSCRIBED to "My dear Mrs. Baker: /Here let you and Louise and Lucy/and me and these lovers, all, join/hands. Ever--/Yours truly" & SIGNED by the author in Northampton in 1919. A desirable copy of Cable's last book.....
