AYN RAND - DOCUMENT SIGNED 06/12/1976 WITH CO-SIGNERS - HFSID: 272394

AYN RAND - DOCUMENT SIGNED 06/12/1976 CO-SIGNED BY: ROBERT HESSEN, BEATRICE - HFSID 272394

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.…"

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MARGARET MITCHELL - COLLECTION WITH CO-SIGNERS - HFSID: 350431

MARGARET MITCHELL - COLLECTION WITH BRAM - HFSID 350431

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.…"

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STEPHEN CRANE - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED - HFSID: 285945

The author of The Red Badge of Courage knew conflict from football, not the battlefield. Rare AQS: "Stephen Crane", 1p, 5½x2¾. In full: "I have never been in a battle, of course, and/I believe that I got my sense of the rage/of conflict on the foot ball field." America's foremost "naturalistic" author had moved to England in 1897. Although he never served in the military, Crane won international acclaim with The Red Badge of Courage, his 1895 book that powerfully told the story of a young soldier during the American Civil War. He later served as a war correspondent, covering the Greco-Turkish War (1897) and the Spanish-American War for foreign newspapers. Crane, who suffered from tuberculosis, died in a German sanitarium at the age of 28. Crane's signature is virtually unobtainable in any form. Fine condition. Accompanied by PSA/DNA LOA.

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MARGARET MITCHELL - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 10/29/1936 - HFSID: 55677

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.…"

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LORD GEORGE G. BYRON - COLLECTION WITH CO-SIGNERS - HFSID: 354518

LORD GEORGE G. BYRON - COLLECTION - HFSID 354518

His handwritten quotation from an epic Celtic poem by Ossian and his signature. Autograph quotation unsigned: "Motto to Neustein, Adieu. Why dost thou build the hall, Son of the winged days? Thou lookest from thy towers today; yet a few years, and the blast of the Desert comes, it howls in thy empty Court. - Ossian". 6¾ x3½ page. Accompanied by his signature: "Byron", on a 2x1 slip of paper affixed to a 4½x2¾ card. GEORGE GORDON BYRON (1788-1824), the sixth Baron Byron, commonly known as Lord Byron was among the foremost English poets of the Romantic movement. Among his best-known works are the poems "She Walks in Beauty" (1814) and "So, We'll Go No More a Roving" (published 1830). Even more renowned are his narrative poems, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1818) and Don Juan, his 17-canto masterpiece (1819-1824). Byron was a political and social reformer, a defender even of the Luddites, but was also noted for his aristocratic excesses, which included huge debts, many love affairs and self-imposed exile from Britain (1816 to his death). He may even be considered the first celebrity; his wife Annabella even coined the term "Byromania.…"

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MARGARET MITCHELL - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 07/27/1937 - HFSID: 55688

The year she received the Pulitzer Prize for Gone With the Wind, she writes of fending off law suits, including a plagiarism suit, and desires to visit friends in Florida only if her visit can be kept secret from reporters and autograph seekers. Typed Letter signed: "Margaret", 2 pages(front and verso), 7¼x11. Atlanta, Georgia, 1937 July 27. On personal letterhead to ""Dear Mabel and Edwin", [Granberry], in full: "If your offer of hospitality still holds good I would like to come to visit you two for three days, preferably around the end of this week (arriving Saturday the 31st or Sunday the 1st). However, if this date is not convenient to you for any reason, please do not hesitate to tell me so and to fix your own dates. John will not be able to come with me. His own work at his office is very heavy at present and my business affairs which he is handling at night show no signs of slacking. We have two new lawsuits in addition to the plagiarism suit! I'll tell you about them when I see you. I think I know you two well enough to ask for frankness.

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MARGARET MITCHELL - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 09/23/1940 - HFSID: 55675

Pleased that friend and fellow author Edwin Granberry is writing again, the author shares with him her relief that the frenzy over the movie version of her book has abated with the outbreak of war: "The world has far more important things to think about these days than me." Several other literary notables are mentioned in this letter. Typed Letter signed: "Margaret", 3 pages, 7¼x10½. Atlanta, Georgia, 1940 September 23. To "My dear Mabel and Edwin [Granberry], you varmint". In part: "Here I've gone around feeling blue ever since I had the last news of you (Edwin) that you had given up any notion of writing any more. I had thought about what a waste of talent it was and had heroically restrined myself from writing and telling you so. Then, a month ago, vague rumors began trickling into my ears at parties that you were writing again. Don't ask me who told me because I don't know. I go places and meet two hundred strangers in thirteen and a half minutes, and some of them say, 'Oh, do you know Edwin Granberry who is doing some writing?' and before I could catch them they would disappear and twelve more strange faces would stand before me. I didn't believe a word I heard because I hear such remarkable stories about my own second book which is non-existent.…"

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HERMAN MELVILLE - AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED 03/08/1882 - HFSID: 350437

Autograph Quotation signed by Herman Melville, one of the rarest of all signatures, framed with a picture of Melville and an explanatory metal plaque. AQS: "Hours bright./Herman Melville/March 8, 1882.", 7¾x4¾. Herman Melville (1819-1891) worked at a young age as a cabin boy and sailor on merchant vessels. During an unsuccessful whaling expedition, he took part in a mutiny, was jailed and escaped. His seafaring inspired many of his later works, including Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846), Omoo, a Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847) and his masterpiece, Moby Dick (1851). Moby Dick, unlike his earlier works, was neither a critical or financial success. Melville's later writings, such as Pierre (1852), The Confidence Man (1857) and the short stories "Bartleby the Scrivener" and "The Encantadas" reflected his despair and contempt for society's corruption, hypocrisy and materialism. He wrote this quotation at a period during which he withdrew from the literary world and took work as a customs inspector on the docks of New York. Melville returned to writing and published a collection of poetry, John Marr, and Other Sailors, as well as With Some Sea-Pieces (1888) and wrote a new novel, Billy Budd, unpublished until 1924.

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MARGARET MITCHELL - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 02/03/1941 - HFSID: 55655

The author writes to close friend and fellow author Edwin Granberry about his new play, and mentions several prominent US actors and writers, including Alexander Woolcott and the Lunts. Typed Letter signed: "Margaret", 2 pages (front and verso), 7¼x10½. Atlanta, Georgia, 1941 February 3. On personal letterhead to "Dear Edwin and Mabel" [Granberry], in full: "The combination of Bretaigne Windust and Roual Pene duBois gave us as much delight as it did you. The show can't hep being 120 proof with two such names. I was inclined to agree with Frank Sullivan to agree with Frank Sullivan, however, and will have to see these two gentlemen myself before I believe in their names. We were so happy and proud at the good news and hope you will have time to keep us posted on progress. Naturally, we are bursting to know what the Lunts think. I am sorry they are on tour now because that will probably delay their decision, as their time is pretty well occupied with long jumps and one-night stands. Do I understand that the interest of Mr. W. and Mr. DuB. Means that someone has bought the play or intends to produce it if they can get the right stars? We hope so ardently for the Lunts and can hardly wait to know what happens. We have heard nothing from the Dowdeys either.…"

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SAMUEL L. "MARK TWAIN" CLEMENS - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 10/18 - HFSID: 285810

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.…"

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MARGARET MITCHELL - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 09/21/1942 - HFSID: 55661

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.…"

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JOHN STEINBECK - CONTRACT SIGNED 06/03/1946 - HFSID: 347986

This contract, signed by the American author, authorized a German production of Of Mice and Men Typewritten contract signed: "John Steinbeck", 2p, 7½x12½ New York, New York, 1946 June 3. John Steinbeck signed this contract, dated June 3, 1946, allowing German-speaking actors to perform Of Mice and Men, his 1937 novelette featuring the tragic characters of Lennie and George, two migrant laborers. The work had been chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club and quickly became a best seller, sparking both Broadway's and Hollywood's interest in adapting it into a play. While writing Of Mice and Men in 1936, Steinbeck was growing increasingly interested in the theater, believing it to be the best medium to reach the common working man. In fact, Steinbeck actually wrote the book with the intention of making it a novel/play - a novel which could be performed as it was without needing to be revised for the stage. However, this experiment failed, and Steinbeck was forced to adapt it - his first attempt at writing a screen play. He was advised and encouraged by dramatist George S.

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AYN RAND - DOCUMENT SIGNED 06/12/1976 WITH CO-SIGNERS - HFSID: 272394

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MARGARET MITCHELL - TYPED LETTER SIGNED - HFSID: 284119

The year the film version of her Gone with the Wind premiered (1939), Mitchell signed this typed letter, forwarding with skeptical comments a letter she had received. Framed with 2 pictures of Mitchell to an overall size of 29½x18. Typed Letter signed: "Margaret", 1 page, 5¾x9. Atlanta, Georgia, 1939 May 3. On personal letterhead to "Dear Franklin" [Garrett]. One strike-over and ink correction in her hand. Triple suede matted and framed with two portraits of Mitchell to an overall size of 29½x18. In full: "I am enclosing a letter I recently received [Item not included], for I thought some of the information in it might be of interest to you. Because of the manifold errors in the letter I have doubts as to the lady's statement that her father was the first white child born in Atlanta. You will notice that she says her grandfather had fifteen hundred slaves and the plantation covered the 'whole of Dahlonega County.' I believe at that time there were about five thousand people in the county of which Dahlonega is the seat. However, knowing your interest in such matters, I am passing the letter on to you. Please return it when you have finished reading it.…"

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MARGARET MITCHELL - TYPED LETTER SIGNED 12/15/1937 - HFSID: 55663

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.

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Authors | Ephemera

SAMUEL L. "MARK TWAIN" CLEMENS - EPHEMERA UNSIGNED - HFSID 209638

Embossed cigar box label for Mark Twain cigars with a full-color illustration of cigar fiend Clemens flanked by his two most famous characters, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Embossed cigar box label unsigned. Color with metallic gold ink, 9x7.

Price: $280.00
HUGH DOWNS - EPHEMERA SIGNED - HFSID 215087

Downs signs necktie as a souvenir! Necktie signed: "Hugh/Downs" on inside flap, 53x3. Brown man's necktie signed on inside flap.

Sale Price $135.00

$160.00
BENJAMIN ELKIN - EPHEMERA UNSIGNED - HFSID 215323

This taupe-colored pencil is personalized with the name of the author and in brand new condition Ephemera unsigned. 7½ inches long. Benjamin Elkin (b. 1911) was an elementary school principal who later became a well-known author of children's books.

Price: $25.00
JOHN DANN MacDONALD - EPHEMERA SIGNED - HFSID 221941

This round luggage tag from the Pacific Far East Line has the writer's name handwritten in blue ink Ephemera signed: “John D MacDonald” in blue ink with his address. 2½ in. round. Luggage tag from the Pacific Far East Line.

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JOHN DANN MacDONALD - EPHEMERA UNSIGNED - HFSID 221940

This personalized luggage tag belonged to the American short story and thriller writer Ephemera unsigned. Luggage tag from the Pacific Far East Line, “John D. MacDonald” stamped into tag with address label affixed with adhesive. 3½x1¾.

Price: $120.00
JOHN DANN MacDONALD - EPHEMERA UNSIGNED - HFSID 221942

This wooden nickel from a gift shop in Florida belonged to the author of well-known thrillers Ephemera unsigned. Wooden nickel from Indian Gift Shop in Sarasota, Florida. John Dann MacDonald (1916-1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories, known for his thrillers.

Price: $120.00
JOHN DANN MacDONALD - EPHEMERA UNSIGNED - HFSID 221943

This wooden nickel from a gift shop in San Francisco was a possession of the mystery and thriller writer Ephemera unsigned. Wooden nickel from Gems and Jewels of San Francisco, good for 5c in trade, marked with a buffalo on the front.

Price: $120.00
JOHN DANN MacDONALD - EPHEMERA UNSIGNED - HFSID 221944

This rubber stamp of the phrase “shove it” belonged to the award-winning thriller author Ephemera unsigned. Rubber stamp attached to a wooden block. Stamp reads “shove it” in bold type.

Sale Price $105.00

$120.00
JOHN DANN MacDONALD - EPHEMERA UNSIGNED - HFSID 221945

This lighter with “What have I done today for Seymour Dresner” printed on one side belonged to the acclaimed author Ephemera unsigned. Vintage Modern DeLuxe lighter with the phrase “What have I done today for Seymour Dresner” printed on one side. 2x1½.

Sale Price $105.00

$120.00
JOHN DANN MacDONALD - EPHEMERA UNSIGNED - HFSID 221946

This teal pencil with “Travis McGee” printed on the side came from the writer of crime and suspense stories Ephemera unsigned. Brand new pencil with “Travis McGee” printed in gold on the side. 7½ inches long.

Sale Price $105.00

$120.00
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER - EPHEMERA SIGNED - HFSID 177210

Bound volume containing roughly 115 issues of the newspaper from 1823 Ephemera Signed, approx. 460p, hard cover measures 18¼x21 and contains 15x20¾ sheets. Bound volume of newspapers from the National Intelligencer, a thrice-weekly publication based out of Washington, D.C.

Price: $4,400.00
ANNE RICE - EPHEMERA SIGNED - HFSID 252203

The distinguished author signs a purple velvet petal on a 26 inch artificial rose. Ephemera signed: "Anne/Rice," in silver felt tip pen. 26 in. purple artificial rose.

Sale Price $150.00

$180.00
LOWELL THOMAS - EPHEMERA UNSIGNED - HFSID 215089

Unsigned brown tie printed with black rings that was owned by radio journalist Lowell Thomas Ephemera unsigned. 31x2 brown tie with black interlocked rings. With tag from Marguerite of California, San Francisco, California.

Price: $200.00