Collectibles and Original Historical Documents

We will serve the Lord. Manuscript leaf from a mediæval Bible, c. 1250, containing text from Joshua 21-24, "As for me and my house, we wil...

Emile Zola. French novelist, famous for his work to free Dreyfus, officer in the French Army. Zola's article, "J'accuse," was inst...

Arthur Conan Doyle. Author of popular Sherlock Holmes stories and his associate Dr. Watson, the latter probably modeled on Doyle himself, who was also

Edna St. Vincent Millay. A printed tribute by her sister, Norma Millay, 1969, 8 pp., Camden Herald Publications, Camden, Maine. "Mayflowers, a ...

Odyssey of "My Pious Friends & Drunken Companions." Archive spanning three decades, 1920s to 1950s, of this book by Frank Shay and Joh...

Owen Wister. American novelist, author of The Virginian, Members of the Family, Roosevelt - The Story of a Friendship. The Virginian sold 1,500 copies

James Jones. Author of From Here to Eternity, which was made into a hit film in the mid twentieth century. T.L.S., Paris, Apr. 27, 1959, 1 p., to corr

Fannie Hurst. American novelist (17 works), nine volumes of short stories, plays, several films, etc. A.L.S. in red ink, 2 pp., on her printed letterh

John Masefield. British Poet Laureate, playwright, fiction writer. A.L.S., Boar's Hill, Oxford, Oct. 27, 1919, on both sides of 31/2 x 41/2 card...

Maxwell Anderson. American playwright and Pulitzer Prize winner, author of What Price Glory (1924), Saturday's Children (1927), Elizabeth the Qu...

Paddy Chayefsky. American playwright of Broadway, TV and films. T.L.S., 1951, carbon copy signed by him, approving royalty arrangements made with Mrs.

Elmer Rice. American playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner. Two T.Ls.S., 1949, carbon copies to The Theatre Guild, N.Y., from Rice, each authentically sig

Sidney Howard. American playwright, author of The Knew What They Wanted, which won Pulitzer Prize in 1925, and numerous other plays. Wrote film script

Lowell Thomas. Author of many books on travel; radio news commentator for decades; appointed by Pres. Wilson to prepare a historical record of World W

Helen MacInnes. Best-selling author of mysteries and adventure stories. Inscription and signature on sheet, 5 1/2x 8, below which she has written eigh

Edgar A. Guest. Popular poet of 1920s, his work syndicated. T.L.S. on Detroit Free Press letterhead, 1935, advising that he is sending "a bit o...

Edgar Lee Masters. Lawyer who turned to writing, producing such classics as Spoon River Anthology (1915), Lincoln - The man (1931), Blood of the Proph

James Purdy. Author of Malcolm, The Nephew, etc. T.L.S., Brooklyn, N.Y., no date, advising that he is sending "a line from The Nephew...Malcolm...

Edward Everett Hale. Author of The Man Without a Country. A.Q.S., "Look up and now Down, Look Forward and not Back, Look Out and not In Lend A ...

Alex Haley. Author of Roots, the TV version of which drew more than 130 million viewers, the book selling 1.6 million copies in its first six months.