HERMAN MELVILLE His clipped signature, with his portrait, two first day covers of stamps honoring him, and a picture of a whale. One of the rarest of all signatures! Signature: "Herman Melville", 4½x4, with four unsigned items: a printed portrait of Melville; two first day covers of stamps honoring him; and a color illustration of a whale, presumably Moby Dick. Herman Melville (1819-1891, born in New York City) 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. Melville took a break from writing to work as a customs inspector on 
LORD BYRON 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 byhis 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).
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS (MARK TWAIN) The author writes a humorous response to an autograph seeker. ALS: "Saml L. Clemens/Mark Twain," 1p, 5 x 8. Buffalo, 1871 February 17. To Miss Fannie Dennis, Brooklyn. In full: "To write an autograph is no trouble at all, when a body is used to it, but I never have tried to add a 'sentiment' in my life, & so I assure you it comes awkward enough. Therefore, let us judge just dodge the difficulty entirely & make use of somebody else's sentiment. Now I always admired that neat & snappy thing which good old John Bunyan said to the Duke of Wellington: 'Give me liberty, or give me death!' Isn't it pretty?" Fine condition. Accompanied by TLS: "Robert H. Hirst," General Editor, Mark Twain Project, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, regarding this letter. In part: "I cannot identify Fannie Dennis except to say that she was obviously an autograph collector and possibly a young one.
MARGARET MITCHELL Letter to fellow author and literary booster Edwin Granberry, accepting congratulations for her Pulitzer Prize but expressing a desire to preserve at least a little personal privacy. Typed Letter signed: "Margaret", 1 page, 7¼x10½. Atlanta, Georgia, 1937 May 12. On personal letterhead to ""Dear Edwin", [Granberry], in full: "That was certainly a grand, long letter and John and I appreciated it immediately. Thanks again for the congratulations about the Award. I am just beginning to come up for air and realizing that it is really true. Since the news came so much has happened - flashlights going off, reporters slithering out of the cracks in the floor and the house full of people - that I have had no chance to really think. One of the nice features of the affair was that Harold Latham, who dug up the book, just happened to be in Atlanta on the day the Award was announced. He gave me a party complete with newspaper friends, as many orchids as a Kentucky Derby winner and barrels of Champaigne. While you and Herschel kept telling me last summer that it would undoubtedly work out this way, I just couldn't believe it.
LORD BYRON Rare, signed autograph letter from 1814, to lifelong friend and fellow poet Francis Hodgson, discussing Byron's impending visit. Rare ALS: "Byron", 1 page, 7x9. No place, 1814 July 18.To Mr. Hodgson.In full: "Tomorrow (Tuesday) or Wednesday at farthest expect in all -- Capt. Byron (whom you know or will know) accompanies us. If there is not convenient room - we can dispose of him at the Hostel. Excuse haste -- in the hope of seeing you&c&c." Handwritten postscript: "P.S. Many thanks for today's epistle. I shall be happy to see you so." LORD GEORGE GORDON BYRON, 6th Baron Byron of Rothdale, wrote this letter to Reverend FRANCIS HODGSON (1781-1852), a poet and scholar whom he had met when he began studying at Trinity College in Cambridge in October 1805.By the time this letter was written, Byron had been lionized in Whig society after the 1812 publication of the first two of his four cantos of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-1818). The opening lines of the canto had first been written to Hodgson on board a ship bound for Lisbon.
JOHN STEINBECK 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.
JOHN STEINBECK. Steinbeck authorizes the French production of a war-time play. Typewritten contract signed: "John Steinbeck", 3p, 8x12½ Paris, France, 1947 February 24.John Ernest Steinbeck Jr. signed this contract, dated February 24, 1947, to permit Madame Rose Belin, the Director of the Saint George Theater, to finance productions of his play, The Moon Is Down, in France and Belgium. The contract also provided for the translation of the play into French. Steinbeck had written the play during World War II (1939-1945); it had opened on Broadway on April 8, 1942. After completing the play, Steinbeck immediately adapted it into a novelette with the same title. The Moon is Down deals with the Nazi occupation of a European country; Steinbeck wrote it as a contribution to the war effort while working with the Coordinator of Information, an agency created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) to combat Nazi propaganda with Allied films and literary works. The play was criticized in the United 
STEPHEN CRANE The author of The Red Badge of Courage writes from England, where he had settled two years earlier. Calling Card Signed: "Yours faithfully/ Stephen Crane/ March 16, 1899", on verso of his personal 3x1½ card, printed: "Stephen Crane./ Brede Place./ Sussex” (not visible in frame). Also includes a black and white 3x4½ photograph of the author, 2x3½ visible. America's foremost "naturalistic" author Stephen Crane (1871-1900) moved to England in 1897. Although Crane never served in the military, he won international acclaim with The Red Badge of Courage, his 1895 book that 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 Spanish-American War (1898) for foreign newspapers. Crane's signature is virtually unobtainable in any form. The one offered here is especially desirable as it was penned by him on his calling card. Crane suffered from tuberculosis and died in a German sanitarium the year he signed this card. He was 28. Card lightly toned. Otherwise, fine condition. Framed in the Gallery of History style: 20½x11.
MARGARET MITCHELL 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 how sorry she is for not writing them sooner describing herself as "oafish of oafs", explaining how busy she has become and will send a lengthier letter when the time is allowed Autograph Letter Signed: "M. M. M", 4p, 7x11. No place, 1936 July 27. To "Mabel and Edwin" [Granberry, an early reviewer of Gone With the Wind]. In full: "You two have every right to think me the most oafish of oafs for not having written you sooner to thank you for sanctuary, good food and best of all, marvelous company. Each morning I've risen, bent on writing to you and, as Hell began to pop before I even got my coffee down, I'd think 'No, I'll wait till I get time for a long letter.' And the time hasn't come. I don't know when it will come as John and my brother Steve, after a five hour conference about this so-and-so contract, sprung on me tonight a plan to go to N.Y. tomorrow and settle the thing in person. I have no clothes, no hats, not a change of underwear or an extra pair of stockings, but it seems that I'm going to N.Y.
SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, KATHERINE LEE BATES, IRVING BERLIN, AND SARAH M. WILSON Amazing collection of items signed by Americans who paid tribute to Old Glory. Framed collection consisting of: 1.) Sarah M. Wilson: Annotated Flag Signed. 4/1/1914. 10x6, red, white and blue silk U.S. American flag, made by Sarah M. Wilson (great granddaughter of Betsy Ross), signed on the white border, left side "Made by Sarah M Wilson great granddaughter of Betsy Ross/East Wing of Independence Hall Philadelphia April 1st 1914" Fine condition. 2.) Francis Scott Key: Autograph Check Signed "F.S. Key". In black ink, 6 x 2½. Paper check drawn on Corcoran and Riggs Bank, Washington City, in the amount of $100 payable to himself. Fine condition. 3.) Samuel Francis Smith: Annotated Poem Signed. 1 page, 4½ x 7½, printed copy of all 4 stanzas of his most famous poem "America" signed and dated at lower center at conclusion, "1832 S.F. Smith". Ornately bordered in black. Fine condition. 4.) Irving Berlin: Currency Signed "I. Berlin" WWII-era one-peso Philippine bank note picturing Mabini. 6 x 2½.
MARGARET MITCHELL and BRAM STOKER 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.
HERMAN MELVILLE Author Herman Melville wrote this letter to publisher George P. Putnam from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It accompanied a proof of one of his stories. Melville's signature is one of the rarest of all, and handwritten letters by him are highly desirable. Autograph letter signed "H Melville". 1 page, 4¾x7½, with embossing in top left corner. Pittsfield, Massachusetts, dated "Jan 27th". Addressed to George P. Putnam, Esq., 10 Park Place, New York City. In full: "Dear Sir: Re-enclosed is the proof [not included]. Very Truly Yours". We believe this letter was written between 1852 and 1855, when Putnam's publishing company G. Putnam Broadway was based at 1010 Park Place, New York City. Melville published a number of short stories through Putnam's Monthly Magazine during this time, including Bartleby the Scrivener (1853), The Encantadas, or: Enchanted Isles (1854) and Benito Cereno (1855). GEORGE PALMER PUTNAM (1814-1872, born in Brunswick, Maine) published many important American authors, like Melville, through his publishing house of G. Putnam Broadway, which later became G. P. Putnam's Sons.
HERMAN MELVILLE 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. 
MARGARET MITCHELL 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.
MARGARET MITCHELL 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.Authors | Other
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W. HARRISON AINSWORTH - AUTOGRAPH FRAGMENT SIGNED - HFSID 18384W. HARRISON AINSWORTH He pens this autograph fragment cut from an envelope addressed in his hand Autograph Fragment signed: "W Harrison Ainsworth", 4¾x2. Cut from envelope addressed in his hand to "George Deubley Esq/8 New Darlington St.".Sale Price $162.00
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W. HARRISON AINSWORTH - AUTOGRAPH FRAGMENT SIGNED - HFSID 73250WILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTH Final five lines from an autograph letter signed "Yours truly" by British author and magazine publisher William Harrison Ainsworth Autograph fragment signed: "Yours truly/W Harrison Ainsworth", 1p, 4x4¼. With five lines of autograph text.
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EDWARD ALBEE - AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED 1981 - HFSID 153506EDWARD ALBEE The playwright signed this manuscript from A Delicate Balance in 1981 Autograph Manuscript Signed: "From 'A Delicate Balance'/by/Edward Albee (1981)", 1p, 8½x11. Headed: "Agnes:". In Full: "Time. Time happens, I suppose. To people.
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EDWARD ALBEE - COLLECTION 02/19/1988 - HFSID 269487EDWARD ALBEE The Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright wrote this letter to a Baltimore acquaintance in 1988, saying that they wouldn't be able to meet in New York City Autograph letter signed "Edward Albee". 1 page, 8½x11. Feb. 19, 1988. In full: "Dear Henry: Nice to hear from you.
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EDWARD ALBEE - FLYER SIGNED - HFSID 221064He signed this flyer promoting a U.S. 10-cent stamp honoring Robert Frost, featuring a facsimile of Frost's handwritten copy of his popular poem "Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening" and a printed excerpt from the poem identified as President Kennedy's favorite lines
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JOSEPH W. ALSOP JR. - SPECIAL COVER SIGNED - HFSID 252893JOSEPH ALSOP. JR Joseph Alsop, Jr. signs a special cover honoring the Apollo 15 lunar mission. Special Cover signed: "Joseph W Alsop", 6½x3½. Special Cover honoring the Apollo 15 lunar mission, postmarked Taipei Earth Station, Taiwan, Republic of China (date illegible), two R.O.C. stamps affixed.
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LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS - ADVERTISEMENT SIGNED - HFSID 221056LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS He signs this advertisement for a U.S. 10-cent stamp honoring poet Robert Frost Advertisement Signed: "Louis Auchincloss", 1p, 7x11. Promotional flyer for a U.S.
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EDWARD BAINES - AUTOGRAPH FRAGMENT SIGNED - HFSID 81146EDWARD BAINES The British historian and politician signs his name with a sentiment in this letter fragment Autograph fragment signed: "I am,/Dr Sir,/Yours truly,/Edward Baines" in black ink. 3¼x1¾. Edward Baines(1774-1848) was an English newspaper proprietor, politician, and author.
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CLARENCE D. BATCHELOR - INSCRIBED CARTOON SIGNED CIRCA 1941 - HFSID 29861CLARENCE D. BATCHELOR The Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist inscribes a drawing Original cartoon inscribed and signed: "To Miss Carla Becker/with the cordial/good wishes/of this/cartoonist/C.D. Batchelor/Editorial Cartoonist/The News," 1p, 41/4x6.
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WILLIAM ROSE BENET - COLLECTION - HFSID 324128WILLIAM ROSE BENET "DUNKERQUE" COLLECTION Three-piece collection featuring a signed newspaper clipping of Benet's poem Dunkerque, inscribed to a Mrs. J.M. Wainwright alongside an accompanying handwritten letter and envelope
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ROBERT A. BLOCH - AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED 12/04/1991 - HFSID 175223ROBERT ALBERT BLOCH Hugo-winning horror author Robert Bloch wrote and signed this statement - "we can live in peace if we learn the truth about ourselves" - on his personalized stationery in 1991. Autograph manuscript signed "Robert Bloch/Dec. 4, 1991" in blue ink. 1 page, 6x7, on Bloch's personalized stationery.
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HERBERT L. "HERBLOCK" BLOCK - STAMP(S) SIGNED - HFSID 281128HERBERT BLOCK Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist signs stamps honoring The Bill of Rights Stamps signed: "Herb Block", at blank margin. 2¼x4 overall, four 5-cent US postage stamps honoring 175th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights.
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RAY BRADBURY - ADVERTISEMENT SIGNED CIRCA 2001 - HFSID 265632RAY BRADBURY Ray Bradbury signs a color advertisement for his play Falling Upward! or To Eire is Human, To Forbid Divine. Advertisement signed: "Ray Bradbury". Color, 8½x5½.
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RAY BRADBURY - ADVERTISEMENT SIGNED CIRCA 2004 - HFSID 265631RAY BRADBURY Ray Bradbury signs an advertisement for his play Drunk and in Charge of a Bicycle. Advertisement signed: "Ray Bradbury". Color, 8½x5½. Postcard promoting a new play by Bradbury, Drunk and in Charge of a Bicycle, Theatre West, Los Angeles California, January 24-February 28, 2004.
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PEARL S. BUCK - ANNOTATED TYPED MANUSCRIPT UNSIGNED - HFSID 28002PEARL BUCK Pearl Buck makes revisions to a review of THE GREAT CHALLENGEby Louis Fischer. Anotated typed manuscript, unsigned, 3p, 8½x11. Titled: "THE GREAT CHALLENGE/By Louis Fischer/Review by Pearl S. Buck". Pencil title added: "All Peoples Alike". Buck has made ink revisions to her review of Fischer's book.
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PEARL S. BUCK - AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED - HFSID 14087This undated manuscript - handwritten and signed "P.S.B." by Buck - is a book review of John W. Vauderwork's King Cane, An Epic of Sugar. Buck praises the book and Hawaii's sugar industry, which she writes is "an almost perfect picture of what can and should be done in a modern industry". This document reveals a facet of Buck's life forgotten by many: reviewer and essay writer.
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PEARL S. BUCK - AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT UNSIGNED - HFSID 251392PEARL S. BUCK Two very rare handwritten, autograph manuscript pages from Buck's short story The Rainbow Autograph manuscript unsigned. 2 pages, 8½x11, ruled paper. Titled on first page: "The Rainbow". This is from a short story entitled The Rainbow.
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PEARL S. BUCK - FRAGMENT SIGNED - HFSID 18489PEARL S. BUCK This fragment is the salutation and mailing address of a typed letter, signed by Buck, to the Director of Special Events at KMLA Broadcasting Corporation. Fragment signed "Pearl S. Buck", 7¼x3. Clipped salutation and mailing address of undated typed letter signed by Buck, addressed to George R. Sanders, Jr.
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED MANUSCRIPT SIGNED - HFSID 28003PEARL S. BUCK Typed book review for With My Heart in My Mouth, edited and signed "P.S.B." by Buck. This document reveals a facet of Buck's life forgotten by many: magazine editor. Typed manuscript signed: "P. S. B." in pencil, with editorial marks and corrections. With "E. W." and "Conrad [illegible]/167pp. . $2.
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED MANUSCRIPT SIGNED 1940 - HFSID 28001PEARL BUCK She writes book reviews, adding handwritten annotations in the margins. Multi-signed. Typed Manuscript signed three times: "PSB" on last page, 6p, 8½x11. Titled Asia column, this text is a lively review of several books about Asia. Pencil note (unknown hand) at top of page 1: "October, 1940, Book-Shelf".
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PEARL S. BUCK - TYPED MANUSCRIPT UNSIGNED 1952 - HFSID 28000PEARL BUCK Discusses the interaction of communism with China's ancient culture Typed Manuscript, unsigned, 2p, 8½x11. Titled "Foreward", the text appears to be an introduction to the first edition of Dr. Francis L. K. Hsu's classic book, Americans and Chinese: Two Ways of Life, originally published in 1953.
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WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. - TELEGRAM UNSIGNED - HFSID 9011357The host of Firing Line sends this telegram to John R. Norpel Jr., director of research for the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, apologizing for not being able to attend Benjamin Mandel's retirement party
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ROBERT (EARL OF LYTTON I) BULWER-LYTTON - AUTOGRAPH FRAGMENT SIGNED - HFSID 73328ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON, EARL OF LYTTON I The British diplomat who successfully served as Viceroy of India signs his name in black ink Autograph Letter Signed: "80 C. [illegible]/ 12 hosp. Sq. Lytton" in black ink, 3¼x1. Affixed to 3¾x1¼ piece of white paper.
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EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS - COLLECTION - HFSID 291794Archive 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.
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JOHN BURROUGHS - COLLECTION - HFSID 270860Naturalist John Burroughs wrote this letter in pencil from New York City, saying that he was sic with the flu and malaria and asking the recipient for a $250 fee for one of his pieces because "I have earned no money this winter".
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NIVEN BUSCH - INSCRIBED SELF-CARICATURE SIGNED - HFSID 16154NIVEN BUSCH. Self-Caricature inscribed and signed: "For Bob Hemminger/[5½x5 ink drawing of a face]/A caricature by/Niven Busch", 1p, 8½x11. Niven Busch (1903-1991), associate editor at
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LORD GEORGE G. BYRON - COLLECTION - HFSID 354518LORD BYRON 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".
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HALL (THOMAS HENRY HALL) CAINE - INSCRIBED MENU SIGNED 11/01/1895 CO-SIGNED BY: LT. GENERAL HENRY C. CORBIN, EDWARD EGGLESTON, EDWIN ARNOLD, WILLIAM HENRY APPLETON, ARTHUR HAWLEY SCRIBNER, THOMAS N. PAGE, ROBERT U. JOHNSON, FRANK R. STOCKTON, GEORGE HAVEN PUTNAM, GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE, FRED L. "THE SINGING BUCKAROO" SCOTT, JAMES B. "J. B." POND, FRANCIS HOPKINSON SMITH, SAMUEL SIDNEY McCLURE, HAMILTON W. MABIE, WILLIAM H. MCELROY, JULIAN RALPH, RIPLEY HITCHCOCK, WILLIAM HALSTED WILEY, ROSSITER W. RAYMOND, ALBERT SHAW, JOHN BRISBEN WACKER, JAMES THORNE HARPER, WILLIAM HENRY RIDEING, SAMUEL MACAULEY JACKSON, ALEXANDER WILSON DRAKE - HFSID 18504HALL CAINE As guest of honor at an Aldine Club dinner, he signs the menu, as do 34 literary guests, mostly celebrated writers and publishers. Menu inscribed and signed: "To Major Pond/with fondest greetings/Hall Caine", 12x8½ open flat, 6x8½ closed. Signed on outside cover. Also signed on verso: "Hamilton W.
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HALL (THOMAS HENRY HALL) CAINE - THIRD PERSON AUTOGRAPH TELEGRAM 11/15/1922 - HFSID 100104HALL CAINE (THOMAS HENRY HALL) The English novelist signs on this telegram speaking of church interviews from London Third person autograph telegram signed: "Sir Hall Caine would appreciate brief statement church interviews fleet London", in pencil, 7¼x5 telegram affixed to a 7½x5 card (2 surfaces).
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HENRY FRANCIS CARY - AUTOGRAPH FRAGMENT SIGNED 11/05/1821 - HFSID 81151HENRY FRANCIS CARY The scholar and religious figure known for his translations of Dante's entire Divine Comedy signs this fragment from a letter, dated 1821 Autograph fragment signed: "Believe me your affectionate & faithful/H. F. Cary/Chiswick-/Novm 5th/1821" in brown ink. 7¼x1. Rev.
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