London: John Camden Hotten, 1869 [-1873]. First edition, with supplementary signatures G & H. Presentation Copy of the First Baudelaire in English. Presentation copy, with inscription in recipient's hand on the front pastedown: "John R.P. Kirby, From the Author," followed by a bibliographical note. The 1869 Hotten edition of English..... Read More about Translations from Charles Baudelaire. With a Few Original Poems

Hog Hollow, Langata, [Kenya]: 26 April 1982. An exuberant, humorous letter. The rebus greeting, illustrating "Dear Iris, Don and Kewine [?]" makes this letter a work of art in its own right. Reading in part, "Warmest greetings from the land of hogs—Heaven's choicest blessings Shower upon us in the form..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("Patrick"), to Don and Iris Hunt

New York: Houghton Mifflin, [1946]. First edition, second printing, one of 500 copies. Bishop's first book, signed. Signed by the author on the title-page. Bishop's first book, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award. The publishers asked Bishop to submit a manuscript for the prize after reading her "Songs for..... Read More about North & South

London: Smith, Elder, & Co, 1876. First edition. Presentation copy to Browning's dear friend, "Fanny Haworth from her old & affectionate friend RB. July 18 '76."Euphrasia Fanny Haworth (1801-1883) was an artist and writer who Browning first met in 1835 at the home of the actor William Macready; she had..... Read More about Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper: With Other Poems

London: Hamish Hamilton, [1953]. First edition. A fine copy of the first edition of the sixth Philip Marlowe novel, published the year before the American edition. Read More about The Long Good-Bye

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. First edition, with "this" for "their" on p. 26, l. 31; "Absolution" for "ablution" p. 110, l. 12; "9" missing on p. 129; and "hate" for "fate" on p. 356, l. 26. Presentation Copy, Inscribed. Presentation copy of the first edition, inscribed "From the author"..... Read More about An Outcast of the Islands

Los Angeles: December 20, 1914. "… You mention a copy of Sister Carrie 1st Edition at $10.00 …" Dreiser writes a Philadelphia bookseller to request a copy of the first edition of his most important novel, Sister Carrie (1900). "Dear Sir: A letter dated Nov. and addressed to me at..... Read More about Autograph Letter Signed ("Theodore Dreiser"), to Philadelphia bookseller Jeremiah F....

[Oxford, Miss: Oxford Eagle, 1950]. First edition. Single leaf broadside, regarding the Oxford attempt to ban beer, with a letter from the original collector of the sheet, who was a graduate student at the time that Faulkner left it in his car; his wife saved it. He also states that..... Read More about Beer Broadside, To the Voters of Oxford

Pigotts, North Dean, High Wycombe: June 9, June 17, and July 2, 1933; and May 13, 1936. To the secretary of the Men's Dress Reform Party. Three letters to Dr. Alfred Charles Jordan (1872-1956), British radiologist, co-founder of the New Heath Society, and Honorary Secretary of the Men's Dress Reform..... Read More about A group of 3 Autograph Letters Signed and 1 Typed Letter Signed ("Eric Gill"), to Dr....

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by William Cadman, et al, 1684. First English edition. The Classical Treatise of the 17th-Century French Drama. First English translation of this key treatise which codified the rules of 17th-century French dramatic classicism. It was first published in French as La pratique du..... Read More about The Whole Art of the Stage. Containing Not Only the Rules of the Drammatick Art, but Many Curious...

Various places: 1981-1996. Hepburn to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. The friendship of Douglas Fairbanks, Jr and Katharine Hepburn spanned the entirety of their long careers; the two starred together in Morning Glory in 1933 — Hepburn's third film, for which she won her first Oscar. The present group of letters testifies..... Read More about A group of 7 Autograph and Typed Letters Signed ("Pete"), to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr and...

New Haven: S. Babcock, [1845]. First American edition, second issue (with Preface dated 1845). Shipwrecked in the Torres Strait. Early American chapbook printing of this first-hand account of the wreck of the Charles Eaton off the north coast of Australia and the subsequent capture and massacre of most of the..... Read More about The Shipwrecked Orphans: A True Narrative of the Shipwreck and Sufferings of John Ireland and...

[New York: Vincent Fitzgerald & Co, 1987]. One of 50 numbered copies, from a total edition of 65 (including fifteen artist's proofs), signed by Susan Weil and Marjorie Van Dyke. The Weil - Van Dyke Epiphanies. A stunning visual meditation upon the texts of Joyce's epiphanies, executed in original etchings..... Read More about Epiphanies