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VIRGINIA WOOLF $1,000.00
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(1882 - 1941) American author who wrote in the "stream of consciousness" style, perfected in To the Lighthouse, Orlando and Between the Acts. Her book Beau Brummel(New York: Remington & Hooper, 1930), limited edition no. 427/500 signed, signed "Virginia Woolf" in purple ink on the blank page opposite the title page. Very light, scattered foxing to covers, else very good, with slipcase which is discolored a bit and bears worn bumps at corners and a 1" chip at top.
BLATTY, WILLIAM PETER $50.00
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(b. 1928) American author, best known for his novel The Exorcist, later turned into a screenplay which garnered him an Academy Award for the durable horror film.His popular volume The Exorcist (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), first edition, boldly signed on the first free endpaper. No dustjacket. Light spotting to signature page, otherwise very good condition.
BLANDING, DON $30.00
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(1894 - 1957) American poet who sentimentalized warm climates and was described as the "Poet Laureate of Hawaii".His book of poetry Vagabond's House, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1936, boldly signed adding "Aloha" beside his frontis portrait. Spine sunned, else very good.
HOLME, CONSTANCE $30.00
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Her book, Four One Act Plays, Pinker & Son, London, ca. 1920, with notation in her hand: "First performed by the Green Room Rag Society, London" and an A.N.S. presentation slip looseley laid-in. Very good.
NEAL, JOHN $100.00
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(1793 - 1876) American author and literary figure who published the first works of Edgar Allan Poe and John G. Whittier. Poe remarked in 1829 that Neal's were "the very first words of encouragement I remember to have heard".A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo., Portland, Aug. 24, 1870 to a manufacturer regarding a broken pump. Left margin ragged, mounting remnants on verso, otherwise very good.
SPENDER, STEPHEN $50.00
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(1909 - 1995) British poet associated with other poets and socialists, such as Auden and Isherwood, his early poetry was often inspired by social protest.A.L.S. 1p. 8vo., London, [n.d.], a polite note declining an invitation, citing the fact that he would be abroad. Very good.
KREYMBORG, ALFRED $35.00
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(1883 - 1966) American poet and anthologist, originally one of the imagists, he wrote poems collected in Mushrooms (1916), Manhattan Men (1929), Selected Poems (1945), and Man and Shadow (1946).His book Funnybone Alley, MacAuley Co., New York, 1927, illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff, with many color plates, nicely inscribed and signed on the front flyleaf. Very good.
KEROUAC, JACK $2,000.00
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(1922 - 1969) American novelist whose publication of On the Road made him the foremost figure of the Beat generation of the Fifties and Sixties.Exceptional A.L.S. "Jack" with an additional original verso of haiku poetry added by Kerouac on verso, written in pencil on both sides of a postcard, Hyannis, Sep. 26, 1966 to his psychiatrist and close friend, Dan DeSole. DeSole was treating Kerouac but also supplying him with amphetamines, allegedly for weight loss purposes. Kerouac writes in full: "Dear Danny - If you come to Brockport Stella's [Kerouac's third wife] gonna keep the Hyannis house, Tony'll [Tony Sampas, Stella's nephew and also a close Kerouac friend] be in Lowell where I'll meet him around Saturday the first or Sunday the second of October so he can drive us back to Hyannis & pick up Stella - I'll be in Italy 3 days. SEE YA! Jack" On verso Kerouac pens some original poetry in haiku style: "What is life? When you get formal a cow moos in Japan". Some marginal flaws, else very good to fine condition. Kerouac's lasst book was dedicated to DeSole.
JEWETT, SARAH ORNE $500.00
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(1849 - 1909) Best known for her novel A Country Doctor, Jewett's work features the people she was most familiar with-- the inhabitants of Maine, of the everyday world of villages and ordinary people.Rare A.Q.S. "Sarah Orne Jewett", 1p. 8vo. [n.p., n.d.], a 14-line excerpt from her short story "Decoration Day". In part: "The fife and drum struck up gallantly together, and the little procession moved away slowly along the country road. It gave an unwanted touch of color to the landscape - the scarlet, the blue, between the new-plowed fields and budding roadside thickets...Such processions grow more pathetic year by year: it will not be so long now before wondering children have seen the last..." Very good. "Decoration Day" was published in Harper's, May 1892.
JACK LONDON $200.00
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(1876 - 1916) American novelist and short-story writer, author of The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, and White Fang. A.D.S., a partly-printed check drawn on Central Bank, Oakland, Jan. 3, 1905 making a $150.00 payment to "Cash". Ink and slash cancel well clear of signature, else fine.
COUNTEE CULLEN $250.00
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(1903 - 1946) Black American poet and a leader in the Harlem Renaissance. His first book, a collection of poetry, Color, Harper & Bros., New York, 1925, signed on the front flyleaf: "Very cordially, Countee Cullen Kearney, July 25, 1932". Spine a bit abraded, else very good.
AUSTIN, ALFRED $150.00
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(1835 - 1913) English Poet Laureate and author of twenty volumes of verse.Superb A.Ms.S. 1p. folio, [n.p., n.d.], the text of his poem "Spartan Mothers" penned in his hand and signed at conclusion. In part: "...Who fights for England, fights for God...And should it be his happy fate, Hale to return to home & rest, She will be standing at the gate, To hold him to her trembling breast. Or should he fall, By ridge or wall, And lie 'neath some green Southern sod, 'Who dies for Country, sleeps with God'..." Near fine, mounted.
UPHAM, CHARLES W. $60.00
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(1802 - 1875) Unitarian clergyman and author of Salem Witch Craft, said to be the model for Judge Pyncheon in Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables. Portion of an A.L.S. and signature, mounted.
PORTER, NOAH $80.00
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(1811 - 1892) American clergyman and author, editor of Webster's Dictionary.A.L.S. on Yale letterhead, 1p. 8vo., New Haven, Apr. 20, 1876 expressing his pleasure that his correspondent had read one of Porter's works. Very good.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES $300.00
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(1809 - 1894) American man of letters; a poet, novelist and doctor who wrote "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table" and "Old Ironsides". Fine A.Ms.S. 1p. oblong 8vo., Boston, Apr. 28, 1891, a fair copy of the final stanza of his poem, "The Chambered Nautilus". In part: "Build thee more stately mansion, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!". Light even toning, mounted to a larger sheet, else very good to fine condition. Offered with Holmes' personal bookplate and with a small portrait engraving, all mounted in a similar manner
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