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Ink signature, “Truly yours, Mark Twain,” on an off-white 3.75 x 2 card. Card is affixed to a slightly larger off-white slip. In fine condition, with

Original unsigned personal calling card bearing Dickens’s name and Gad’s Hill Place address, 2.75 x 1.75, with Dickens adding his current address in b

ALS signed “J. Fenimore Cooper,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, January 22, 1841. Letter to Boston publisher George Roberts. In part: “I cannot help you to a

Partial self-contained ANS signed “Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens,” one page, 4 x 2, no date. Last paragraph of a longer letter which reads, in par

Ink signature, “Yours very truly, Arthur Conan Doyle,” on an off-white 4.5 x 1 slip; and an ink signature, “Yours sincerely, Jerome K. Jerome,” on a 3

ALS signed “A. Conan Doyle,” one page, 4.5 x 7, Windlesham letterhead, no date but a notation at bottom indicates letter was received on August 17, 19

African-American poet (1872–1906), known for his colorful use of language and dialect, who died of tuberculosis at the age of 33. Scarce vintage ink s

Signed book: Complete Poems of Robert Frost. First edition. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1949. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.5, 666 pages. Signed and inscribed un

Ink signature, “Nath’l Hawthorne, Surveyor,” on an off-white 4 x 1.75 lightly-lined slip. In fine condition.

ANS signed “J. W. Howe,” one page trimmed to a size of 4 x 2, no date. Howe writes, in full: “I did not write ‘Hail Columbia.’ I did write the ‘Battle

ALS in French, one page, 5 x 7.75, September 27, 1869. Letter to a gentleman. In part (translated): “I do regret that you left Guernesey without me be

ALS in French, one page, 4.25 x 5.5, no date. Untranslated letter to a gentleman. Reverse of second integral page is addressed in Hugo’s hand. In very

Original vintage 4.25 x 6.5 three-quarter length cabinet photo of the spectacled and heavily whiskered playwright sternly eyeing the camera by Joseph

Vintage ballpoint signature, “Jack Kerouac (Whee!),” on an off-white 5.5 x 1.5 card, bearing a notation below, “and family,” in another hand. Nicely d

ALS, one page both sides, 4.25 x 3.5, Somerset Club, Boston letterhead, September 16, 1889. Letter to “Mrs. DeForest,” likely the wife of artist and f

ALS, one page, 3.75 x 6, Bateman’s Burwash letterhead, October 16, 1906. Letter to a gentleman marked at the top, “Private.” In part: “I felt that as

Austrian artist and sometime writer (1877–1959), a member of the Blaue Reiter group, best known for his expressionistic illustrations for works by Poe

Distinguished vintage matte-finish 5.5 x 7.5 portrait of Kipling in profile, affixed to its original 9.25 x 12.5 J. Russell photographer’s mount, sign

ALS, one page, 4.5 x 7, November 30, 1926. Letter written from Florence to Edgell Rickword. In full: “Thanks for the Cunninghame Grahame book—I'...

AQS on an off-white 7 x 4.25 sheet, signed in black ink, “Henry W. Longfellow, Nov. 16, 1879.” Longfellow pens a the final stanza of ‘A Psalm of Life.