Fine Books & Manuscripts

A VERY FINE COMPOSITE ATLAS MAGNIFICENTLY ILLUMINATED AND HEIGHTENED WITH GOLD IN A FINE CONTEMPORARY HAND THROUGHOUT OTTENS, REINER 1698-1750 and...

ALCOTT AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY. 1832-1888. Autograph Manuscript, being the printer's copy of 'Jerseys, or the Girl's Ghost,' 54 p...

FANNY BURNEY'S GROUNDBREAKING FIRST NOVEL. BURNEY, FRANCES, MADAME D'ARBLAY. Evelina, Or a Young Lady's Entrance into the World. London: T. Lownde...

WORKS OF FANNY BURNEY. BURNEY, FRANCES, MADAME D'ARBLAY. Collected Works, including: 1. Evelina: Or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance into ...

CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE. 1547-1616. Vida y hechos del ingenioso cavallero don Quixote de la Mancha.... parte primera. Brussels: Juan Mommart...

PAGE PROOFS FOR CHANDLER'S LANDMARK ARTICLE, 'THE SIMPLE ART OF MURDER.' CHANDLER, RAYMOND. 1888-1959. 'The Simple Art of Murder.' From: The Atlan...

CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. 1340?-1400. The Works of our Ancient, Learned, & Excellent English Poet, Jeffrey Chaucer. London: ['J.H.'], 1687. Folio (324 x...

CHURCHILL PRESENTATION COPY FOR ELEONORA SEARS. CHURCHILL, WINSTON. 1874-1965. Painting as a Pastime. London: Odhams Press Ltd/Ernest Benn Ltd, [1...

'ALL MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE COMES FROM ONE BOOK BY MARK TWAIN CALLED HUCKLEBERRY FINN.' CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE ('MARK TWAIN'). 1835-1910. T...

SAMUEL CLEMENS CLIMBS OUT OF BANKRUPTCY. CLEMENS, SAMUEL (MARK TWAIN). 1835-1910. And OLIVIA CLEMENS. 1845-1904. Letter and 2 Documents Signed, re...

TWAIN DINNER MENU SIGNED AND AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED. CLEMENS, SAMUEL ('MARK TWAIN'). 1835-1910. Printed Menu Signed ('Mark Twain'), 'Dinner to...

DICKENS ON THE DEATH OF LITTLE NELL. DICKENS, CHARLES. 1812-1870. Autograph Quotations Signed ('Charles Dickens') including the Death of Little Ne...

FINE COPY OF FELIX HOLT. ELIOT, GEORGE. 1819-1880. Felix Holt: The Radical. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1866. 3 volumes. 8vo...

LANGSTON HUGHES POEMS SIGNED. HUGHES, LANGSTON. 1901-1967. Three Autograph Poems Signed ('Langston Hughes'), two in autograph 'written out' for Ma...

FIRST ISSUE OF HIS MOST IMPORTANT WORK. JAMES, HENRY. (1843-1916). The Portrait of a Lady. London: Macmillan and Co., 1881. 3 volumes. 8vo. 180 x...

HENRY JAMES TITLES 'THE WINGS OF THE DOVE.' JAMES, HENRY. 1843-1916. Autograph Letter Signed ('Henry James'), to Will Meredith, mentioning The Win...

JAMES JOYCE INSCRIBED TO MICHAEL FAKTOROVITCH. JAMMES, FRANCIS. 1868-1938. Les Robinsons basques. Paris: Mercure de France, 1925. 8vo. Later brow...

JOYCE, JAMES. 1882-1941. AFTER BERENICE ABBOTT. 1898-1991. Vintage photograph, James Joyce, in Abbott's Paris studio, 219 x 176 mm, gelatin silver...

KAFKA'S EARLIEST EXTANT PIECE OF WRITING KAFKA, FRANZ. 1883-1924. Autograph Note Signed ('Franz Kafka'), in German, 2 lines in a liber amicorum. P...

RARE AUTOGRAPH FICTION. LONDON, JACK. 1876-1916. Autograph Manuscript Signed ('Jack London'), entitled 'A Curious Fragment,' 39 pp, 4to, Oakland,...

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM PORTRAIT. FREETH, HUBERT ANDREW. 1912-1986. Portrait of William Somerset Maugham. Etched portrait, titled and signed in pencil...

SOMERSET MAUGHAM IN SATURDAY REVIEW. EVANS, POWYS. 1899-1981. Ink on paper, 'Mr. W. Somerset Maugham,' with traces of underlying original pencil s...

EARLY SELF-PORTRAIT INSCRIBED TO ANAÏS NIN IN CLICHY. MILLER, HENRY. 1891-1980. Watercolor on paper, Self-Portrait, inscribed to Anaïs Nin (1903-1...

EARLY HENRY MILLER SELF-PORTRAIT. MILLER, HENRY. (1891-1980). Watercolor on paper, Self-Portrait no. 25, 324 x 248 mm, matted and framed to 510 x...

PRESENTATION COPY TO ARTIST MARIA IZQUIERDO. NERUDA, PABLO. 1904-1973. Canto General. [Mexico City: Printed by Talleres Gráficos de la Nación, 195...

SYLVIA PLATH'S COPY OF JOY OF COOKING. ROMBAUER, IRMA S. 1877-1962. The Joy of Cooking. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs Merrill, 1953. 8vo. Publ...

UNPUBLISHED LETTER ON 'PLATINUM SUMMER.' PLATH, SYLVIA. 1932-1963. Typed Letter Signed ('Sivvy') to 'Dear mother...', unpublished, noting the subm...

RILKE, RAINER MARIA. 1875-1926. Autograph Letter Signed ('Rainer Maria'), to Elisa ('Du, Liebe'), near Zurich, December 13, 1920, 3 pp, 8vo bifo...

SAINT-EXUPÉRY'S REVISED ENDING FOR WIND, SAND AND STARS. SAINT-EXUPÉRY, ANTOINE DE. 1900-1944. Annotated Carbon Typescript Signed ('Antoine de Sai...

SALINGER ON THE GLASS FAMILY AND ON DETACHMENT. SALINGER, J.D. 1919-2010. Three early letters, two typed and one autograph, signed ('Jerry Salinge...

SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. 1797-1851. Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831. Small 8vo (164 x...

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF 'DESIDERATA'. STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS. 1850-1894. Autograph Manuscript Signed ('Robert Louis Stevenson'), a fair copy of h...

PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. STOKER, BRAM. 1847-1912. Dracula. New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. 8vo. Half-title. Publ...

STOKER ON CAGLIOSTRO. STOKER, BRAM. 1847-1912. Autograph Manuscript for 'Cagliostro,' his brief biography of Joseph Balsamo, known as 'Cagliostro,...

SWIFT ON THE GRAMMAR OF VERBS, NOUNS, AND ADJECTIVES. SWIFT, JONATHAN. 1667-1745. Autograph Manuscript, being a note on the instruction of the use...

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, TEERINK 'A.' SWIFT, JONATHAN. 1667-1745. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver L...

SWINBURNE'S SONNET TO VICTOR HUGO. SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. 1837-1909. Autograph Manuscript for his 'Sonnet to Victor Hugo' and 'Birthday Ode ...

TENNYSON PORTRAIT. Portrait of Lord Alfred Tennyson. Oil painting on card, unsigned, dated 1870, 137 x 104 mm, float mounted, matted and framed to...

EDITH WHARTON'S GOLD MEDAL FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND LETTERS, 1924. WHARTON, EDITH. 1862-1937. WEINMAN, ADOLPH ALEXANDER, designer. ...

GRABHORN PRESS WALT WHITMAN. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Leaves of Grass. New York: Grabhorn Press for Random House, 1930. Folio. Printed in black ...

WOOLF REGARDING HER FIRST TRANSLATED WORK. WOOLF, VIRGINIA. 1882-1941. Autograph Letter Signed ('Virginia Woolf') to Paul Colin sending her books ...

WHITMAN TO JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Letter Signed ('Walt Whitman') to James Russell Lowell at the Atlantic offer...

MAKING WALT WHITMAN. O'CONNOR, WILLIAM DOUGLAS. 1832-1889. The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication. New York: Bunce & Huntington, 1866. 8vo (230 x 157 ...

ANNE GILCHRIST'S INFLUENTIAL VIEW OF WHITMAN. ROSSETTI, WILLIAM MICHAEL, editor. 'A Woman's Estimate of Walt Whitman. Letters to W. M. Rossetti.' ...

WHITMAN TO BURROUGHS ON RIVERBY. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Letter Signed ('Walt Whitman') to John Burroughs recommending his brother Geo...

WHITMAN'S ELEGANT CONDOLENCES TO JOHN BURROUGHS. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Letter Signed ('Walt') to John Burroughs on the death of Burr...

THE GENESIS OF HIS LINCOLN LECTURES. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892 Autograph Letter Signed ('Walt Whitman') to John Burroughs agreeing in principle to ...

SELLING THE LINCOLN LECTURES. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Letter Signed ('Walt Whitman') to John Burroughs, working to promote his Lincol...

WHITMAN FORWARDS A NOTE FROM TENNYSON. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Letter Signed ('Walt') to John Burroughs enclosing a letter from Tennys...

WHITMAN GATHERS A FIRST-HAND ACCOUNT OF LINCOLN'S DEATH. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Letter Signed ('Walt Whitman') to Alfred Janson Bloor...

WHITMAN ON THE STAFFORDS AND BURROUGHS PEPACTON. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Letter Signed ('Walt Whitman') to John Burroughs reporting on...

WHITMAN'S PROTEST AGAINST THE PIRACY OF LEAVES OF GRASS. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Letter Signed ('Walt') to John Burroughs asking for h...

WHITMAN ON EMERSON AND CARLYLE. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Letter Signed ('Walt Whitman') to John Burroughs regarding Emerson and Carlyle...

RARE LEAVES OF GRASS BROADSIDE. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Printed broadside, 'Republished! The Suppressed Book! Walt Whitman's Poems: Leaves of Gr...

WHITMAN ON THE 1882 SUPPRESSED LEAVES OF GRASS. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Letter Signed ('Walt Whitman') to John Burroughs providing det...

WHITMAN ON SPECIMEN DAYS AND CARLYLE'S 'CUSSEDNESS.' WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Post Card Signed ('W.W.') to John Burroughs on Specimen D...

WHITMAN CONCEIVES NOVEMBER BOUGHS. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Letter Signed ('Walt Whitman') to John Burroughs on his conception for Nove...

WHITMAN'S LECTURES ON LINCOLN. Printed program, 'Walt Whitman on Abraham Lincoln,' for the performance at the Chestnut Street Opera House, Thursda...

WHITMAN'S 1886 LINCOLN LECTURE IN PHILADELPHIA. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Letter Signed ('Walt Whitman') to Thomas Donaldson (as 'TD') s...

WHITMAN AND MORSE CASTING. WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892. Autograph Post Card Signed ('Walt Whitman') to William Sloane Kennedy regarding Sidney Morse'...