Fine Autographs and Artifacts Featuring Art and Literature

Unsigned book: Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll with Fifty Illustrations by John Tenniel. Later printing. London:

Signed book: The Beautiful and Damned. First edition, first printing (Scribners colophon NOT present on copyright page), Bruccoli A 8.I.a. NY: Charles

Rare early printing of Casino Royale by Ian Fleming. First edition, second impression. London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. Hardcover with crisp black cloth b

Signed book: New Hampshire: A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes by Robert Frost with Woodcuts by J. J. Lankes. Fourth printing. NY: Henry Holt, 1924. Ha

German philologist, jurist, and mythologist (1785–1863) best remembered as the elder of the Brothers Grimm and the editor of Grimm's Fairy...

Hand-annotated typescript of a plot and chapter outline by Dashiell Hammett for the original version of The Thin Man, two pages (both headed "T...

ALS, one page both sides, 8.25 x 10.5, [February 1930]. Handwritten letter to lawyer Milton S. Leidner, a collector who evidently desired to obtain al

Magnificent handwritten draft of seven lines of poetry by Victor Hugo, unsigned, no date, penned on an off-white 4.25 x 2 sheet, containing multiple v

ALS in French, one page, 5.25 x 8.25, no date. Handwritten letter to the lawyer Jean-Baptiste Duvergier, in full (translated): “If you deem i

French actress (1806-1883) who abandoned her career after becoming the mistress of Victor Hugo, to whom she acted as a secretary and traveling compani

Scarce 14-volume hardcover set of The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., A New Edition, In Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthu

Two unsigned French-language books published in Paris by Mercure de France in a series entitled ‘Works of Rudyard Kipling’—

Unsigned book: Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph. Later printing. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Cloth-bound hardcover with gilt l...

Superb ALS, one page, 7 x 4.5, November 18, 1922. Handwritten letter to “Gore,” in full: “Congratulations, first on getting

ALS signed “H. Melville,” one page, 4.75 x 8, December 11, [1887?]. Handwritten letter to author and editor Rossiter Johnson, in ful

Scarce unsigned book: The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton; with Explanatory Notes, and a Life of the Author by the Rev. H. Stebbing, A. M. To W

Rare ALS signed “Edgar A. Poe,” one page, 8 x 10, November 12, 1836. As editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, Virgi

Autograph manuscript for a play entitled "Squirrel Nutkin," signed and inscribed inside the front cover in ink, "E. L. Choyce, from B...

British author and illustrator (1866–1943) whose Edwardian-era tales of naughty rabbits, bad mice, and other amusingly mischievous animals ta

TLS signed “Jerry,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 11, postmarked December 29, 1971. Insightful letter to Eileen Paddison, a close frien