Signed and notarized 1930 contract selling Paramount the rights to one of his
stories
Typed Contract signed: "Dashiell Hammett", 4 pages, 8½x11, separate
sheets. No place, but County of Los Angeles, 1930 November 26. Contract
between Hammett and Paramount Publix Corporation regarding the sale of the
rights "to an original story entitled AFTER SCHOOL written by the seller
[Hammett]." Hammett was paid "the sum of Five Thousand ($5000.00)
Dollars, receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged." Countersigned by
the Executive Manager of Paramount Publix Corporation. Lightly creased. Nicked
at upper right blank corner of first page, file holes at blank left margins.
Fine condition. Accompanied by typed notarized statement signed:
"Alfred A. Grosser" as Notary Public, 1 page, 8½x11. Attesting
that "personally appeared DASHIELL HAMMETT, personally known to me to be the
person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument...." Lightly
creased, chipped at upper right blank corner. File holes at blank left margin.
Fine condition. After School became City Streets, released in
1931 and starring Gary Cooper.
Archive of 16 letters written by Tarzan's creator to his son Jack between 1923 and
1935, plus one letter from Burroughs to a film company. He writes in depth about
family matters, but also about the filming of a Tarzan movie. The letters are signed
"Papa" or "OB" (Old Burroughs). A rare insight into the private and public life of the
prolific author.
Collection comprised of 1) Autograph Letter signed: "Papa", 1 page, 8½x11. North
Platte, Nebraska, 1923 February 16. To "Dear Jack", in full: "We are just leaving
North Platte, Nebr. The train shakes so that I cannot draw very well. I couldn't if it didn't
shake at all, so what's the difference. Did I tell you that I found your valentine in my
grip? The one of the lady kicking. That must be the way she feels before breakfast. I
wired ahead for reservations on the Broadway Limited on the Pennsylvania RR so we will
arrive in New York at 9:40 Sunday morning. It will be nice & wintry and cold out. The air
feels & tastes & smells good. Love & kisses to my dear children." At the top of this letter
Burroughs has drawn a four-panel cartoon featuring his sons Jack and Hulbert.
The author's typed and signed 1937 letter about learning that Gone With the Wind had
won the Pulitzer Prize, addressed to the literary critic who had first predicted that it
would win the award.
Typed Letter Signed: "Margaret", 1 page, 6½x10. Atlanta, Georgia, 1937 May 4. To
Mabel and Edwin Granberry. In full: "Your telegram has just arrived and thank you so
very much for it. As soon as I got the news last night I thought of you two and Herschel
at the table last summer when you predicted it and I laughed so hard my glasses fell
into the gravy. Naturally, this is a happy day for me and a wire like yours adds greatly to
my happiness." Typed note by Granberry at lower margin: "(NOTE: GONE WITH THE
WIND had just won the Pulitzer Prize. - E.G.)". MARGARET MITCHELL (1900-1949)
had won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, Gone With the Wind, the day before she wrote
this letter. Mitchell, who had begun writing her epic about the Civil War and Reconstruction
South in 1926, finally submitted her manuscript to Macmillian Company in 1935. Uncertain of
its literary merit, she was delighted when they accepted it and launched a major advertising
campaign while Mitchell reworked the manuscript.
A unique collection of letters by two legendary authors! This set includes a typed
letter, signed by Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell in 1941, to the wife of
a hospitalized friend. In it, she relates how reading Dracula helped her husband John
Marsh recover from an illness: "Evidently the shock was beneficial, fro he began to
get well the next day." Accompanied by a 1903 handwritten letter by Stoker.
Comprises:
(1) MARGARET MITCHELL. Typed Letter Signed: "Margaret", 2p, 6½ x 9½. Atlanta,
Georgia, 1941 February 13. To Mabel Granberry. In full: "I cannot tell you how joyful
and relieved we were to have your letter of February 11th written from the hospital. I
read your letter at least six times to make sure I wasn't being guilty of wishful thinking.
How good it is to know that Edwin is 'likely to have good vision in both eyes.' What
you and Edwin, Senior and Edwin, Junior must have suffered recently is something I
do not like to contemplate. It seems to me that I have spent years in hospital rooms and
draughty hospital corridors with seriously ill friends and relatives, so I can understand a
little what you have undergone.…"
Scarce
Typed DS: "Ayn Rand" on page 3, 3p, 8½x11, separate sheets. New York City, 1976 June
12 (dated by Rand). Letter of Agreement to Rand from Palo Alto Book Service.
Begins: "Dear Ayn". In full: "This will serve as our Agreement for the Palo Alto Book
Service for the purpose of promoting and selling the remaining inventory of The Ayn
Rand Letter, The Objectivist, the bound copies of The Objectivist Newsletter, and the
pamphlets published by The Objectivist Newsletter and The Objectivist. We will
receive the physical inventory of the above as well as any remaining stock of your
novels and non-fiction works, including Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, all of
which are held by The Objectivist Book Service, Inc. The inventory will be shipped to us,
insured, via book rate, or by truck, if that method should prove less expensive. We will
share the cost of shipment with the Objectivist Book Service, Inc. The physical inventory
shall, at all times, remain your property. We agree to insure the inventory for its
replacement value, and shall share equally with you the cost of insurance. We shall be
charged with the responsibility of maintaining the inventory in sound condition.…"
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone
With the Wind, sends a letter to Edwin Granberry, who wrote one of the first
good reviews of her book. In it, she discusses life as a celebrated author
"has been such a hell".
Typed Letter signed: "Margaret", 1p, 7¼x10¾. Atlanta,
Georgia, 1936 October 29. On personal letterhead to Edwin (Granberry). In
full: "I forgot to say in my last letter that I admired very much your
tricky side stepping in that article you wrote. How neatly you evaded the fact
that you not only stood in the station of a North Carolina hamlet and waited for
me but you stood and stood and waited and waited. Dearie, till I die I'll get a
laugh at the memory of that day with me getting madder and madder as I waited
and you three loafing with your backs against the station while I charged in and
out, addressing strangers, asking questions, bargaining with taxi drivers for
the trip. Edwin, all the while I was up there with you all, I let you talk about
my work. Make up your mind that when next I see you, it will be your work that
will be talked about. Are you on your new novel now? Or is it polite to ask? For
all I know you may be one of those writers who do not like to speak of work in
progress.…"
Extremely rare clipped signature, accompanied by an unsigned postcard photo
of the author
Signature: "Herman Melville", 4x1 fragment clipped from a letter.
1¾x¼-inch portion torn at lower left blank corner, lightly stained, light
show-through from writing (not his) on verso. Overall, fine and rare.
Accompanied by unsigned postcard photograph. B/w, 4¼x6. Fine condition.
American novelist Herman Melville (1819-1891) first found fame with his
romances: Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) and Omoo, a
Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847). In 1851, his
masterpiece, Moby-Dick; or The Whale, dedicated to his friend Nathaniel
Hawthorne, introduced readers to some of literature's most enduring
characters -- Captain Ahab, the cabin boy/narrator Ishmael, and Moby Dick,
the great white whale. Two items.
Signed 4½x7 autograph letter from a London hotel, writing that he hopes to lecture in
Britain "if other & more necessary business shall permit."
ALS: "Saml. L. Clemens", 1 page, 4½x7. Langham Hotel,/Portland Place, London. W, no
year, October 18. To unknown recipient. Begins: "Sir". In full: "I think it will be 2 or 3
weeks before I shall really know whether I can lecture in Great Britain or not. So I am
obliged to be thus indefinite in my reply. I certainly shall lecture about 8 or 10 times in
this country if other & more necessary business shall permit." From the University of
California Press review of Volume 5 of Mark Twain's Letters prepared by the Mark Twain
Project at the University of California, Berkeley. "After beginning work on The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer, he [Clemens] set it aside to collaborate, almost as a lark, on a novel with Charles
Dudley Warner. After a few months of intense labor in the winter of 1872-1873, they produced
The Gilded Age, which gave a lasting name to the era it satirized.…"
Handwritten 1936 manuscript likely intended for publication in Esquire magazine,
vividly describing the horrors of war, with his third person signature in the text
Autograph Manuscript signed in text: "Mr. Ernest Hemingway" in pencil, 1 page, 8½x11. No
place, c. 1936. Headed by him: "Please Mr. Ernest Hemingway by Paul Harris, The
American Criterion, Dec 1935, about 'letters' appearing monthly in Esquire…."
Ernest Hemingway was a frequent contributor to "Esquire" magazine. He wrote a total
31 "letters" which were published in "Esquire" in the 1930s. In the September 1935
issue, he wrote: "Notes on the Next War: A Serious Topical Letter". This may be a
rough draft of one of the 31 "letters". Hemingway has made an "X", crossing out the
entire letter. In part: "Mr. Hemingway, you were at the front. You saw people die? I was
ten and I saw people, I saw something in them die and they had to go on making believe
they were alive still with their guts out of them. I saw people age. I saw the unseeable, the
drawn faces, the haunted eyes…A child is sensitive to change in those he knows [he is
referring to an aunt, a cousin, involved in changes resulting from life in wartime].…"Scarce
Typed DS: "Ayn Rand" on page 3, 3p, 8½x11, separate sheets. New York City, 1976 June
12 (dated by Rand). Letter of Agreement to Rand from Palo Alto Book Service.
Begins: "Dear Ayn". In full: "This will serve as our Agreement for the Palo Alto Book
Service for the purpose of promoting and selling the remaining inventory of The Ayn
Rand Letter, The Objectivist, the bound copies of The Objectivist Newsletter, and the
pamphlets published by The Objectivist Newsletter and The Objectivist. We will
receive the physical inventory of the above as well as any remaining stock of your
novels and non-fiction works, including Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology, all of
which are held by The Objectivist Book Service, Inc. The inventory will be shipped to us,
insured, via book rate, or by truck, if that method should prove less expensive. We will
share the cost of shipment with the Objectivist Book Service, Inc. The physical inventory
shall, at all times, remain your property. We agree to insure the inventory for its
replacement value, and shall share equally with you the cost of insurance. We shall be
charged with the responsibility of maintaining the inventory in sound condition.…"A unique collection of letters by two legendary authors! This set includes a typed
letter, signed by Gone With the Wind author Margaret Mitchell in 1941, to the wife of
a hospitalized friend. In it, she relates how reading Dracula helped her husband John
Marsh recover from an illness: "Evidently the shock was beneficial, fro he began to
get well the next day." Accompanied by a 1903 handwritten letter by Stoker.
Comprises:
(1) MARGARET MITCHELL. Typed Letter Signed: "Margaret", 2p, 6½ x 9½. Atlanta,
Georgia, 1941 February 13. To Mabel Granberry. In full: "I cannot tell you how joyful
and relieved we were to have your letter of February 11th written from the hospital. I
read your letter at least six times to make sure I wasn't being guilty of wishful thinking.
How good it is to know that Edwin is 'likely to have good vision in both eyes.' What
you and Edwin, Senior and Edwin, Junior must have suffered recently is something I
do not like to contemplate. It seems to me that I have spent years in hospital rooms and
draughty hospital corridors with seriously ill friends and relatives, so I can understand a
little what you have undergone.…"
Typed letter from Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and author of Gone With the Wind, to
Edwin Granberry (and wife), who wrote one of the first good reviews of her book. She
discusses the up roar of a Dutch publisher bringing Gone With the Wind out in Holland
without her consent
Typed Letter Signed: "Margaret", 1p, 7x11. Atlanta, Georgia, 1937 December 15. On
personal letterhead to Edwin and Mabel. In part: "By all means keep 'Co. "Aytch"' as
long as you like. Our plans, as usual, are in a snarl. Perhaps you've seen items in the
paper about a Dutch publisher bringing out 'Gone With the Wind' in Holland without my
consent. I have lost my case in the lower Dutch courts and have appealed. I took the
matter to the Department of State in Washington and they are working on it now. That
may mean we will have to remain in Atlanta in case we are needed.…" "CO. AYTCH",
MAURY GRAYS, FIRST TENNESSEE REGIMENT; OR, A SIDE SHOW OF THE
BIG SHOW , published in 1882, was written by Samuel R. Watkins. Watkins, a
Confederate private with Co. H, 1st Tennessee Infantry, fought in the western theatre of the war
and saw action in most of the major battles in the west.
Writing to friend and literary ally Edwin Granberry the year she won
the Pulitzer Prize, she declares herself "yearning for battle" against
"lawsuits, racketeers and chiselers". The author of Gone With the Wind
laments that "there are so few novels about happy married life."
Typed Letter signed: "Margaret", 2 pages (front and verso),
7¼x11. Atlanta, Georgia, 1937 August 8. On personal letterhead to
""Dear Mabel and Edwin", [Granberry], in full: "Yesterday I
sent Edwin, Jr. 'Microbe Hunters' and "two Little Confederates' and if they do
not arrive shortly, please let me know and I will get behind the book store. I
hope he likes them both. I found that John, during my absence, had not been
devoting his time to riotous living and making the most of his opportunities. He
and my brother had worked every night - and all night - on this and that and
both looked tired and frayed. The suit against Billy Rose isn't to open tomorrow
due to a delay in drawing up the papers and the suit against the Dutch pirate is
also held up due to some complication or other but the opening guns of both
should begin in a week or so. I found a stack of mail waiting and, among the
letters, some from England and they were about your (Edwin's) article in
'Colliers'.…"
Mitchell writes a friend and film reviewer Edwin Granberry mentioning the casting of
Scarlett O'Hara.
Typed Letter signed: "Margaret", 2 pages, 6½ x 9½. Atlanta, Georgia, March 24, 1937.
On personal letterhead to "Dear Edwin" [Granberry]. One ink correction in her hand. Matted
and framed to an overall size of 36x26. In part: “We are momentarily expecting the dam to
bust. Mr. Cukor, who is to direct “Gone With the Wind,” will be here in the next few days
with entourage and loud tooting trumpets. The only reason he is coming is sheer curiosity
to see what kind of woman I am who refuses a good salary in Hollywood. However, the
natives think he has come here on his knees to beg me to tell just who I think he should
pick as Scarlett. As nine-tenths of the natives have already picked themselves for
Scarlett, this complicates our lives a little. Of course I want to meet Mr. Cukor, but I will
be very glad when his visit is over. I wish he would hurry up and cast the picture, then
most of my troubles would be over.” Margaret Mitchell wrote this letter on 24, May 1937, to
her friend Edwin Granberry, a writer and reviewer for the New York Sun.
A long personal letter to friend and fellow author Edwin Granberry, mentioning several
literary friends and the exigencies of life in wartime
Typed Letter signed: "Margaret", 3 pages, 7¼x10. Atlanta, Georgia, 1942 September 21. On
personal letterhead to "Dear Mabel and Edwin" [Granberry], in part: "I have been laying off to
write to you for the longest and foolishly postponed doing so until I could write a long letter. That
time may never come, and so I am grabbing this opportunity while the house painters are out at
lunch. … I've just come back from a quick trip to New York where John had to be on business.
The only people I saw were the Clifford Dowdeys, who asked to be remembered to you. Clifford
has been having fits trying to get into the army, with no luck so far because his eyes are bad. He
has almost finished a new novel , which is about Memphis or Natchez in the 1830's. He told me
news of Kenneth Littauer which I am passing on to you. He has been in the air corps for nearly a
year, with the rank of major. His address is Headquarters 21st Bomb Group, MacDill Field,
Tampa, Florida.…"Authors | Baseballs
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