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ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
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Vicki Baum576 - Vicki Baum
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Austrian-born Jewish writer (1888–1960) best known for her 1929 work, People at a Hotel, which was made into the Academy Award-winning film Grand Hote
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George Bellows577 - George Bellows
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Lightweight print, 9 x 11.5, entitled Family Group, signed in pencil, “Geo. Bellows.” Print is affixed by its top edge to a 12.25 x 14.5 piece of arti
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Ray Bradbury578 - Ray Bradbury
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Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, the prologue to ‘Something Wicked This Way Comes,’ signed at the bottom in black felt tip, “Ray Bradbury, Alw
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George Braque579 - George Braque
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Visually striking print, 9.75 x 12.5, of a swan in flight, signed in the lower border in pencil, “G. Braque,” adding “H.C.” Print is affixed to a 16 x
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Max Brod580 - Max Brod
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Prague-born writer and composer (1884–1968) who was an associate and confidant of Franz Kafka and mentor to Franz Werfel. Brod’s own works include the
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Dan Brown581 - Dan Brown
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Signed book: The Da Vinci Code. First edition, first printing. NY: Doubleday, 2003. Hardcover with dustjacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 454 pages. Signed in black f
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Charles Bukowski582 - Charles Bukowski
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German American poet, novelist, and short story writer (1920-1994). Promotional poster advertising an appearance at the Contemporary Arts Museum, 10.7
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John Burroughs583 - John Burroughs
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Famed American naturalist (1837–1921) best known for his writings on nature and travel. ALS, one page, 5 x 8, November 14, 1894. Burroughs writes Edwa
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James M. Cain584 - James M. Cain
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American novelist (1892–1977) best known as the author of such crime/noir classics as The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity. TLS signed
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Willa Cather585 - Willa Cather
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Distinguished Pulitzer Prize–winning American author (1876–1947) of such classics as O Pioneers! and My Antonia. Signed book: Lucy Gayheart. Limited s
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Marc Chagall586 - Marc Chagall
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Print of one of his works, 11.25 x 14.75, depicting a starkly contrasted outdoor scene, signed in the lower border in pencil, “Marc Chagall.” Print is
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Samuel L. Clemens587 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Fountain pen signature, “Truly yours, Mark Twain,” on an off-white 3.25 x 2.25 card. Accompanied by a postcard pre-printed note, dated January 12, 189
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Samuel L. Clemens588 - Samuel L. Clemens
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Dignified vintage 3.25 x 5.5 full-length postcard photo of the author dressed in white holding his hat and walking stick, signed in the lower border i
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Salvador Dali589 - Salvador Dali
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Limited edition FDC, #6 of 85, with a cachet honoring the World Federation of United Nations Associations, originally created by Dali, signed on the f
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Salvador Dali590 - Salvador Dali
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Signed book: The Secret Life of Salvador Dali. Later printing (New Enlarged Edition). NY: Dial Press, 1961. Hardcover with dustjacket, 7.75 x 10.25, 4
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Salvador Dali591 - Salvador Dali
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Color 4.25 x 5.75 postcard photo featuring Dali’s painting, The Crucifixion, signed in the left border in green felt tip, “Dali.” Signature is a bit c
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Otto Dix592 - Otto Dix
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German artist (1891–1969) best known for his Expressionist depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war. Vintage 4 x 5.75 head-and-shoulders
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Charles Dickens593 - Charles Dickens
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Twice signed third-person ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, September 17, 1856. In full, “Mr Charles Dickens begs to inform Mr Scholl that he spoke to Mr Scholl
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Otto Dix594 - Otto Dix
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ALS in German, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 6 x 8.5, December 19, 1948. Letter to doctor and art collector Justin Oberzimmer acknowledging the
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Theodore Dreiser595 - Theodore Dreiser
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ALS in pencil signed “TD,” one page, 3.5 x 5.5, no date. Dreiser writes to Lengel. In full: “With these corrections—(Maybe not all) I seek U: OK. Very
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Alexander Dumas, fils596 - Alexander Dumas, fils
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French writer (1824–1895), the Illegitimate son of famed novelist Alexandre Dumas. The younger Dumas novel La Dame aux Camelias became the basis of Ve
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Alexander Dumas, pere597 - Alexander Dumas, pere
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Distinguished French novelist (1802–1870) of such historical classics as The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, and The Man in the Iron Mask
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Paul Laurence Dunbar598 - Paul Laurence Dunbar
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African-American poet (1872–1906), known for his colorful use of language and dialect, who died of tuberculosis at the age of 33. Scarce and desirable
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Gustave Eiffel599 - Gustave Eiffel
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French engineer best remembered for designing the tower that bears his name. ANS in French, signed “G. Eiffel,” one page, 6.25 x 4, March 20, 1891. A
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T. S. Eliot600 - T. S. Eliot
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Fountain pen signature, “T. S. Eliot,” on a pink 2.75 x 1.25 card. Double-matted with a photo of Eliot with a stack of books to an overall size of 11
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Edna Ferber601 - Edna Ferber
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Pulitzer Prize–winning American author (1885–1968) of such classics as Show Boat, So Big, and Cimarron. Ballpoint signature, “Edna Ferber,” on an off-
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James Thomas Fields602 - James Thomas Fields
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Publisher and author (1817–1881). Beginning in 1845 as Ticknor, Reed and Fields and later as just Ticknor and Fields, his firm published the original
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Eugene Field603 - Eugene Field
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American writer (1850–1895) best known for his poems of childhood, including “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod” and “Little Boy Blue.” Manuscript for the prob
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E. M. Forster604 - E. M. Forster
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British writer (1879–1970) best known for such novels as A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. Scarce ALS, 4.5 x 6.75, July 26, 195
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Egon Friedell605 - Egon Friedell
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Prominent Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist, actor, cabaret performer, and theatre critic (1878-1938). ALS in German, one page, 5 x 6, no da
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Harry Furniss606 - Harry Furniss
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Irish-born artist (1854–1925) best known for his satirical illustrations for Punch magazine. ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, personal letterhead, May 13, 1894
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Alexander Gardner607 - Alexander Gardner
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Photographer, born in Paisley, Scotland. Technical innovator and skilled manager of Mathew Brady’s Washington studio (1856–63), he left to take docume
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Hamlin Garland608 - Hamlin Garland
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American writer (1860–1940) who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1922 for his autobiographical volume, A Daughter of the Middle Border. Three ALSs, one dated
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Martha Gellhorn609 - Martha Gellhorn
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Novelist, travel writer, and journalist (1908-1998), considered to be one of the greatest war correspondents of the 20th century. She was also the thi
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe610 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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German writer, scientist, and philosopher (1749–1832) who takes a place among the central intellectual and artistic figures of his day. His poetry and
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Maxim Gorky611 - Maxim Gorky
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Important Russian/Soviet author and activist (1868–1936). Though his criticism of the Communist government led to a relationship marked by conflict an
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Ernest Hemingway613 - Ernest Hemingway
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ALS, seven pages on three sheets of 5.5 x 7 Hotel Ambos Mundos, Habana letterhead (Hemingway has used a folded sheet to pen the two pages of text and
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Ernest Hemingway614 - Ernest Hemingway
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ALS, one page, 8.5 x 11, Ketchum, Idaho, April 3, 1961. Letter to Joseph F. Lord, a representative of the Morgan Guarantee Trust Company regarding ban
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Ernest Hemingway615 - Ernest Hemingway
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Carbon DS, signed in ink “Ernest Hemingway Trustee for John Hadley Hemingway,” one page, 8.5 x 11, January 4, 1937. Pfeiffer begins “Dear Ernest, Purs
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John Hersey616 - John Hersey
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Signed book: The Call. Limited first edition for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: Franklin Library, 1985. H
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Victor Hugo617 - Victor Hugo
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Important French writer, artist, and statesman (1802–1885) best known for such canonical novels as Les Misérables and Notre-Dame de Paris (aka ...
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Franz Kafka618 - Franz Kafka
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Much lauded and influential Czech-born writer (1883–1924) whose man-turned-insect story Metamorphosis (1915) and novel The Trial (1925) have earned a
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Jack Kerouac619 - Jack Kerouac
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Highly influential American writer (1922–1969) widely acknowledged as the most dynamic and brilliant figure of the “Beat” movement. His classic autobi
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Jack Kerouac620 - Jack Kerouac
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Signed book: The House of Atreus (translated by E. D. A. Morshead). Later printing. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1924. Hardcover, 4.25 x 6.25, 185
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John LaFarge622 - John LaFarge
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American artist (1835–1910) best known for his paintings and watercolors of nature scenes and his imaginative, richly colored stained glass windows. A
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T. E. Lawrence623 - T. E. Lawrence
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ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, All Souls College letterhead, September 18, 1920. Letter to Miss Baird in London. In full: “I regret
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Harper Lee624 - Harper Lee
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Signed book: To Kill a Mockingbird. First edition, later printing. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1960. Hardcover with dustjacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 296 p
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John Leech625 - John Leech
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English caricaturist and illustrator (1817-1864). ALS, one page, 7 x 4.5, April 20, 1852. Letter to William Bradbury. In full: “I am sure you will be
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Jack London626 - Jack London
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Early bank check, 8.75 x 3.25, filled out and signed by London, payable to Cash for $20.00, August 8, 1904. Tiny paper separation just touching the fi
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Norman Mailer627 - Norman Mailer
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Souvenir typescript, one page, 8.5 x 11, from Tough Guys Don’t Dance, signed at the bottom in black felt tip. In part, “I was awakening alone in bed,
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