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Unpublished Screenplay about UFW Farmworkers

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Peter Matthiessen
The Valley / Original Typescript about migrant farmworkers in California, 1972 -- with holographic annotations
$1,500

A Complete Set

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward [Lord Lytton]
THE WARWICK EDITION OF BULWER'S NOVELS
$1,440

1st ed, second state in dust jacket.

Jack London
The Abysmal Brute
SOLD

And another book illustrated by Edward Gorey

Doris Orgel - Drawings by Edward Gorey
Merry, Rose, And Christmas- Tree June (Hardcover, 1969)
$99 $100 or less
Italo Svevo
The Nice Old Man and the Pretty Girl and other stories
$99 $100 or less

Rare J.M. Barrie Fine Press Item

Barrie, J.M.
[Fine Press] George Meredith 1909, Box Hill--May 22, 1909
$125

Three-volume 18th-century work on rhetoric

Gibert, Balthazar
JUGEMENS DES SAVANS, 1713-1719, RHETORIC, FRENCH LITERATURE, Vellum bindings, Qui ont traité de la Rhétorique, avec un précis de la doctrine de ces auteurs
$300

Leaf Book - With Two Original Chaucer Leaves

Muscatine, Charles (1920-2010)
THE BOOK OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER, AN ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLICATION OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER'S WORKS FROM THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY TO MODERN TIMES
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Burns, Robert
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS, CONTAINING THE POEMS, SONGS, CORRESPONDENCE
$125

Deluxe Limited First Edition, Prassinos' binding

CAMUS, Albert
L'Exil et le Royaume
$150

killed many of his warriors, and took him prisoner

Irving, Washington
Original Manuscript Page from Author's Autograph Edition of Irving's Works as published by G.P. Putnam's Sons in 1895
$100 $100 or less

Poet, Essayist & Naturalist John Burroughs

Burroughs, John
Manuscript Excerpt Signed from the Poem "Waiting" by John Burroughs 1887
$125

1954 American Edition

FLAUBERT, Gustave
Bouvard and Pécuchet
$70 $100 or less

A Curious Relic

Muriel Spark
A Lock of Her Hair, Cut and Given to Derek Stanford
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"J. G. Whittier to the 'Rustic Bard'" at 19 Years

Dinsmoor, Robert
[John Greenleaf Whittier] Incidental Poems, Accompanied with Letters, And A Few Select Pieces, Mostly Original, For Their Illustration, Together with a Preface, And A Sketch of the Author's Life
$350

Joyce's First Novel

Joyce, James
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
$225

Somerset Maugham's First Play 1st American Edition

Maugham, William Somerset
A Man of Honour
$250

A NOVELIST AT SEA

Michener, James A. (1907–1997)
SIGNED Postcard by James A. Michener [Radisson Diamond Cruise, 1992] [Malacca, 23 September 1992], SIGNED BY PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING NOVELIST JAMES A. MICHENER ABOARD THE RADISSON DIAMOND AT MALACCA, MALAYSIA, SEPTEMBER 23, 1992.
$45 $100 or less

A PLAYWRIGHT'S VERDICT ON TIME ITSELF

Shaw, George Bernard (1856–1950)
George Bernard Shaw — Autograph Response on Calendar Reform, 1922, GEORGE BERNARD SHAW'S SIGNED 1922 RESPONSE TO W. ARNOLD'S PROPOSAL IN BANK HOLIDAYS FIXED: FATHER TIME INTERVIEWED.
$425

A RUSSIAN SOUL IN FINE PRESS

Dostoevsky, Fyodor (1821–1881); Translated by Garnett, Constance (1861–1946)
A Gentle Spirit: A Fantastic Story. [Harrison of Paris] [Limited Edition of 50], ONE OF ONLY 50 COPIES PRINTED ON IMPERIAL JAPANESE VELLUM, BRINGING DOSTOEVSKY TO LIFE THROUGH THE ART OF HARRISON OF PARIS.
$1,600

The Bollingen Series No. XXV

Linda Fierz-David, Mary Hottinger (translation)
The Dream of Poliphilo related and interpreted by Linda Fierz-David, A study and psychological interpretation of the HYPNEROTOMACHIA, a work of the early renaissance.
$75 $100 or less

All 1st Editions with dj. (with some small damage)

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Four of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's 'Diaries and Letters' - ALL SIGNED, Bring Me a Unicorn (1922-1928), Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead (1929-1932), Locked Rooms and Open Doors (1933-1935), The Flower and the Nettle (1936-1939)
$645

SAMPLE COPY / PROMOTIONAL ISSUE WITH SALES LETTER

Clason, George S.
The Richest Man in Babylon Tells His System, AN EARLY FINANCIAL EDUCATION BOOKLET MARKED SAMPLE COPY, WITH ORIGINAL PROMOTIONAL SALES LETTER DOCUMENTING THE MARKETING OF CLASON'S FAMOUS BABYLONIAN PARABLE.
$75 $100 or less

A LUSTY, PICARESQUE NOVEL OF OLD WYOMING

Roy Chanslor
The Ballad of Cat Ballou, First Edition
SOLD

Literary Woman on Literary Women

Laura L. Hinkley
Louis and Fanny: The Stevensons [Carbon Typescript with Correspondence]
$850

PORTRAIT OF JEWISH IMMIGRANT LIFE IN AMERICA

M. Salmonsen
Among Jews, First Edition
$100 $100 or less

LANGSTON HUGHES ON RACIAL INJUSTICE AND RESISTANCE

Langston Hughes
Fire..., Limited Edition #33 of 50 copies
$75 $100 or less
John Muir
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf (1916), Muir's journal of his walk from Kentucky to the Gulf of Mexico at age 28.
$99 $100 or less

A fine copy, free of foxing.

François RABELAIS, Gustave DORÉ (illustr.)
Oeuvres de François Rabelais. Contenant la vie de Gargantua et celle de Pantagruel. - Illus. Gustave DORÉ (1854), Doré’s first major work as an illustrator of literary masterpieces. comprising: a frontispiece, 14 separate plates, 89 vignettes
$525

16 full page color lithographs by M. LAURENCIN.

Katherine Mansfield, Marie Laurencin (illustrations)
The Garden Party and Other Stories (Ltd. The Verona Press Edition 1939), - designed by Hans Mardersteig and printed at his Officina Bodoni in Verona in 1939
$325

T.L.s. to her Nephew and Biographer, Quentin Bell

Woolf, Virginia
Typed Letter signed to her nephew, Quentin Bell.
$4,500

Incl. letter with drawing from Akira to 'Chris'

Edward Greey (book), Akira (manuscript and letter)
THE BEAR-WORSHIPPERS OF YEZO: And the Island of Karafuto [Saghalin] or The Adventures of the Jewett Family and Their Friend Oto Nambo + Manuscript version of similar story., 1883 book + letter + photos + a manuscript translation/version of THE BEARS IN MT. NAMTOKO, by Kenji Miyazawa, by a Japanese writer/teacher as a birthday gift to a friend.
$425