ERNEST HEMINGWAY 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.
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).
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.
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS.Scarce Cabinet Card Photograph signed: "Faithfully yours:/Joel Chandler Harris". Sepia, 4¼x6½ overall, image 4x5¾ (two surfaces). Photographer's imprint beneath image and on verso: "C.W. Motes/Photographer,/No. 34 Whitehall St./Atlanta/GA." In the 1880s, Harris, a former journalist for Georgia newspapers, became one of the first American writers to use original dialects in his stories rooted in Black folklore. His lead character was Uncle Remus, a servant who entertains the young son of his master with tales of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and Brer Bear, animals with distinctly human qualities. His books, which are credited with preserving the African-American heritage of the old South, include Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings (1880), Nights with Uncle Remus (1883) and Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit (1906). Fragile condition. The photo had split, touching the "d" in Chandler. It is repaired by conservator's tape on verso. Stained on verso. Upper corners chipped, edges worn. Pencil notes on verso (unknown hand). 
EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS 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.
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS (MARK TWAIN) Visiting Sweden in search of a cure for his daughter's epilepsy, Clemens asks a bookseller to send him some "the very best of Clark Russell's sea-tales". Autograph Letter Signed: "SL C.", 1p, 5½x8½. Sanna, Rosendala, Sweden, 1899 July 16. "Telegraphic address: Sanna Jonkoping, Sweden". To bookseller "C&W". In full: "Please send me a couple of the very best of Clark Russell's sea-tales that you've got in stock. If any of my photos are only about as big as this page, we shall be glad to have them here - but bigger ones we prefer to leave with you for the present. If you haven't heard from Clara when this reaches you, please drop her a line. Jonkoping is pronounced Zhenshepping - think of that!" Samuel, his wife Olivia and their daughter Jean had arrived in Sweden early in July 1899, and remained until October. JEAN CLEMENS (1880-1910), then 19 years old, suffered from epilepsy. Clemens had heard of an osteopathic treatment as practiced by Heinrick Kellgren in Sanna. Kellgren's method was known as the "Swedish movements".
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 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.
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 
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 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.
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS (MARK TWAIN) 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.
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 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.Authors | Programs
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LOUIS ADAMIC - PROGRAM SIGNED 1942 - HFSID 223488LOUIS ADAMIC He signs the program for his World War II lecture: "This Crisis is an Opportunity." Program signed: "Louis Adamic/1942", 20 pages, folded to 5½x8½. Program for a lecture he presented to the International Institute of Milwaukee County [Wisconsin] and cooperating organizations, 1942 November 16.Sale Price $108.00
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EDWARD ALBEE - PROGRAM SIGNED - HFSID 203286EDWARD ALBEE He signed on this program for an "Edward Albee Festival" at the Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, dated 1978 Program Signed: "Edward Albee/1978", 4p, 5½x8½. Las Vegas, Nevada, 1978 October 22. Program for an "Edward Albee Festival" at the Artemus W.
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RAY BRADBURY - PROGRAM SIGNED - HFSID 304046RAY BRADBURY He signs the cover of the program for an American Film Institute Conference Program signed: "Ray Bradbury", 2 pages, 8½x11. Program for an American Film Institute National Conference on Film and Television, Los Angeles, October 11-14, [year unknown].
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LOUIS BROMFIELD - PROGRAM SIGNED - HFSID 297357LOUIS BROMFIELD The Pulitzer Prize winner signs a program from the bulletin of the Cleveland Advertising Club, announcing his speaking engagement. Program signed: "With the best wishes/of/Louis Bromfield", 6x9, 4 pages. Program from The
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GWENDOLYN BROOKS - PROGRAM SIGNED - HFSID 50387GWENDOLYN BROOKS The Pulitzer Prize winning poet signs this symposium program Program signed: "Sincerely,/Gwendolyn/Brooks" on front cover, 4p, 5½x8½. Garden City, New York, 1974 March 12.Titled: "Symposium: Five Roads to Reality/Significance of the Word".
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ELIOT CRAWSHAY-WILLIAMS - PROGRAM SIGNED 08/15/1951 - HFSID 52843Program for a 1951 "Presentation of the Honorary Freedom of the Borough" of Deal, England for former Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Signed by Eliot Crawshay-Williams, a former Member of Parliament and Churchill's former employee in the Colonial Office.
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ROBERT FROST - PROGRAM SIGNED CIRCA 1949 - HFSID 171199ROBERT FROST The Pulitzer Prize winning poet signs the cover of this program Program signed: "Robert Frost" on front cover, 8p, 6½x10. New York, 1949 November 16.
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ADOLPH GREEN - PROGRAM COVER SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: BETTY COMDEN - HFSID 224494ADOLPH GREEN and BETTY COMDEN Signatures from the musical writing duo on the cover of a program for their Party With Betty Comden and Adolph Green Program Cover Signed: "Betty Comden", "Adolph Green" 6x9.
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ERIC IDLE - PROGRAM SIGNED - HFSID 298885ERIC IDLE The British comedian signs next to his image inside a souvenir program for his show Liverdance Program signed: "Eric Idle" on page 19, 27 pages, 9x12. Souvenir program for his show Liverdance. British comedian Eric Idle (b. 1943) gained fame as a member of the comedy group Monty Python (1969-1983).
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HENRY MILLER - INSCRIBED PROGRAM SIGNED 04/21/1950 - HFSID 76264HENRY MILLER The author inscribes a program for Exhibition of oil paintings by Bezalel Schatz at the San Francisco Museum of Art Inscribed Program signed: "This copy for/L. G. Hellstrom/of Solna/with warm greetings/Henry Miller/Big Sur, Calif./4-21-50", 24p, 8¼x10½.
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IVOR NOVELLO - PROGRAM PAGE SIGNED - HFSID 153784IVOR NOVELLO Ivor Novello signs the front page of the program for the Charles the Second Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, production of Glamorous Night. Program page signed: "Ivor Novello", 5½x8½. Program from the Charles the Second Theatre Royal Drury Lane, London, production of Glamorous Night.
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WILLIAM PETT RIDGE - PROGRAM SIGNED CIRCA 1910 - HFSID 73172WILLIAM PETT RIDGE The English novelist signs 1910 program featuring his readings in black ink Program signed: "W. Pett Ridge" in black ink. 2 page integral leaf, 4½x6½ folded, 9x6½ flat. Program from a Reading of Ridge's Poems titled "Little London" in Bloomsbury, London, England on March 18, 1910.
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PAUL A. SAMUELSON - PROGRAM SIGNED 1980 - HFSID 207277PAUL SAMUELSON The Nobel Prize-winning economist signs the program of a dinner honoring JFK. Program signed: "Paul A Samuelson/MIT, March 1980", 8½x11 front cover of a single sheet folded into four segments. Signed on front cover.
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NEIL "DOC" SIMON - PROGRAM SIGNED - HFSID 88674NEIL SIMON The playwright signs this program for his first play, Come Blow Your Horn! Program signed: "Neil Simon", 4p, 5x7¼. Program for Come Blow Your Horn. Signed on cover. Come Blow Your Horn ran on Broadway for 677 performances (1961-1962) and was made into a film in 1963.
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CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER - PROGRAM SIGNED - HFSID 254313CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER She signs the cast page of a program from the Sombrero Playhouse in Phoenix. Program signed: "Cornelia Otis Skinner", 20 pages, 6x9. Program for performances of The Irregular Verb to Love, co-starring Cyril Ritchard, performed at the Sombrero Playhouse, Phoenix, week beginning February 18, 1964. Signed on the cast page (page 7).
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EMLYN WILLIAMS - PROGRAM SIGNED - HFSID 79031EMLYN WILLIAMS Emlyn Williams signs a program for Dylan Thomas Growing Up. Program signed: "Emlyn/Williams" on front cover, 2p, 6x14, front and verso. Headed: "A Special Presentation of The Chelsea Theatre Center by/Arrangement with Arthur Cantor/EMLYN WILLIAMS/as/DYLAN THOMAS GROWING UP".
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EMLYN WILLIAMS - PROGRAM SIGNED CIRCA 1956 CO-SIGNED BY: HARRY ANDREWS, DIANA CHURCHILL, MARGARET JOHNSTON, PRUNELLA SCALES, ALAN BADEL, DILYS HAMLETT, MARK DIGNAM, GEORGE HOWE, BASIL HOSKINS, JEANNETTE STERKE, ANDREW FAULDS, JOHN GARLEY, TOBY ROBERTSON, PETER CELLIER, EMRYS JAMES - HFSID 155241SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS: EMLYN WILLIAMS, HARRY ANDREWS, ALAN BADEL, PETER CELLIER, DIANA CHURCHILL, MARK DIGNAM, ANDREW FAULDS, JOHN GARLEY, DILYS HAMLETT, BASIL HOSKINS, GEORGE HOWE, EMRYS JAMES, MARGARET
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