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Signed book: Where the Wild Things Are. Later printing. NY: Harper & Row, 1963. Hardcover with dust jacket, 10.25 x 9.25. Signed and inscribed o...

Intense vintage matte-finish 3.75 x 5.5 portrait of Shaw in old age, signed and inscribed on the reverse in fountain pen, “To Edward Wellen, from Bern

TLS signed “G. Bernard Shaw,” one page, 6.75 x 4.25, personal letterhead, December 14, 1933. Letter to publishing firm George Allen & Unwin Ltd....

English artist and book illustrator (1879–1976) known especially for his human-like animals in illustrations for Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne. Rare

Autograph lyrics, signed “S. F. Smith,” two pages, 5.25 x 5.5, no date. Smith pens all four stanzas of his famous hymn, “America.” In part: “My countr

Crisp ink signature, “John Steinbeck,” on an off-white 2.75 x 2 card. Removably affixed to a mount and matted with a portrait of Steinbeck to an overa

ALS signed “H. B. Stowe,” one page, 5.25 x 7.75, November 24. Letter to a friend. In part: “Hattie still continues so unwell that I think it will not

Bengali poet, playwright, philosopher, and author (1861–1941) who became the first non-European to win a Nobel Prize (Literature) in 1913. Vintage 3.2

Dutch painter and one of the Fauves (1877–1968). ALS in French, signed “Van Dongen,” one page, 8.25 x 10.5, October 15. Letter to printer Louis Kaldor

Austrian novelist, playwright, and poet (1890–1945). Vintage glossy 4.5 x 8 publicity photo for his then-upcoming novel The Song of Bernadette, signed

Fanciful ALS in pencil in French, signed “T-Lautrec,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.25 x 7, no date [but June 1895]. Letter to an unidentifie

French writer (1828–1905) whose classic novels, including Voyage to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, helped lay the

Rare sepia 4.25 x 5.75 albumen portrait of Whitman in an iconic pose, boldly signed in black ink, “Walt Whitman, born May 31, 1819.” Affixed to a 4.25

Original 4.25 x 6.5 cabinet photo by Warren’s Portraits of Boston, signed in the lower border in black ink, “John G. Whittier.” On the reverse, Whitti

Artist best known for his illustrations in children’s books (1912–1996). Original vintage signed pencil sketch of mice dressed in Navy uniforms dancin

AQS on one lined page, 3 x 5, November 1, 1989, offering a thought on the mystery genre. In full: “As long as people prefer order to chaos, the myster

Signed book: An Autobiography. First edition. NY: Random House, 1993. Hardcover with dust jacket, 11.25 x 14.25, 250 pages. Signed on the first free e

FDC with a cachet honoring famous British women writers (George Eliot, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, and Elizabeth Gaskell), boldly signed in black ink

Signed book: The Martian Chronicles: 40th Anniversary Edition. First edition. NY: Doubleday, 1990. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.5, 205 pages. S

Four hard and softcover books, each signed on an opening page in ink or felt tip by Bradbury, adding small sketches to two of the pages. Books are: Th