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Item 314875Autograph letter signed ("W.H. Auden"), 1 p, to N. John Hall.

Auden, W.H.

Price: $450

Kirchstetten, Austria: June 1, 1970. Auden writes to literary scholar N. John Hall regarding the English wit Sydney Smith: "... I don't recognise the Sydney Smith quotation. The sentence "What happiness ... domestic shackles" could well be by him, but, if so, certainly meant sarcastically. Smith was very respectable in..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed ("W.H. Auden"), 1 p, to N. John Hall Add to Wish List

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Item 315038Little Lord Fauntleroy.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson.

Price: $300

New York: Scribners, 1886. First edition, later issue. A CHILDREN'S CLASSIC. Read More Item Details for Little Lord Fauntleroy Add to Wish List

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Item 314994Portrait of Hendrik Willem Van Loon in pen and ink.

Hokinson, Helen E.

Price: $750

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Item 315071The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testament...Authorized King James Version.

Price: $200

Oxford: University Press, nd, c 1935. INDIA PAPER ISSUE. Read More Item Details for The Holy Bible containing the Old and New Testament...Authorized King James Version Add to Wish List

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Item 3147763 typed letters signed ("H.C. Lodge"), two to John Hays Hammond and one to the assistant of Mrs. Hammond.

Lodge, Henry Cabot.

Price: $450

Washington D.C and Nahant, Mass: March 30, 1901; October 7, 1907; and May 21, 1920. In the first letter Senator Lodge thanks Hammond for the copy of "Mrs. Hammond's pamphlet on the Boer War," saying he is "very glad to have it and to hear about both sides of this..... Read More Item Details for 3 typed letters signed ("H.C. Lodge"), two to John Hays Hammond and one to the assistant of Mrs. Hammond Add to Wish List

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Item 314917An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with...

Malthus, Thomas.

Price: $1,500

London: Printed for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard, by T. Bensley, 1807. Fourth edition. Malthus is as controversial as he is influential. "The central idea of the essay ... was a simple one. The population of a community ... increases geometrically, while food supplies increase only arithmetically. If the..... Read More Item Details for An Essay on the Principle of Population; or, a view of its past and present effects on human happiness; with an inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it might occasion Add to Wish List

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Item 315037Of Human Bondage.

Maugham, William Somerset.

Price: $900

New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1936. Schwabe, Randolphe. First illustrated edition, no. 385 of 751 signed by the author and artist. With a typed note signed. Signed by Maugham and Schwabe, this copy with a typed note signed of Maugham mounted at back, dated 4th November 1964, thanking a Mr. Robertson..... Read More Item Details for Of Human Bondage Add to Wish List

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Item 314787Linda McCartney. Life in Photographs.

McCartney, Linda.

Price: $10,000

Taschen, 2011. No. 635 of 750 copies. signed by Paul McCartney. Read More Item Details for Linda McCartney. Life in Photographs Add to Wish List

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Item 314751Indian Snakes. An Elementary Treatise on Ophiology with a Descriptive Catalogue of the Snakes Found in India.

Nicholson, Edward.

Price: $400

Higginbotham and Co, 1893. Second edition. First published in 1874 in Bangalore without illustrations. Read More Item Details for Indian Snakes. An Elementary Treatise on Ophiology with a Descriptive Catalogue of the Snakes Found in India Add to Wish List

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Item 315034In the Night Kitchen.

Sendak, Maurice.

Price: $900

[New York]: Harper & Row, [1970]. First edition. Read More Item Details for In the Night Kitchen Add to Wish List

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Item 314898The Recreations with the Muses By William Earle of Sterline.

Sterling, William, Earl of.

Price: $2,000

London: printed by Tho. Harper, 1637. "Dooms-day, or, The great day of the Lords iudgement" has separate dated title page, pagination, and register. Within this, "Ionathan" has separate dated title page A couple of copies have an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by William Marshall, but Greg is doubtful..... Read More Item Details for The Recreations with the Muses By William Earle of Sterline Add to Wish List

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Item 314786Marilyn Monroe.

Stern, Bert, and Norman MAILER.

Price: $9,000

Taschen, 2011. No. 29 of 125 copies with color pigment print on archival paper (print "A"), signed by Stern. Lavishly produced volume with the text of Norman Mailer’s 1973 biography, Marilyn, and photographs of the legendary actress taken by Bert Stern in a photo session shortly before her death. Read More Item Details for Marilyn Monroe Add to Wish List

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