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Correspondence between John Quincy Adams, Esquire President of the United States and Several...

Correspondence between John Quincy Adams, Esquire President of the United States and Several Citizens of Massachusetts concerning the Charge of...

Boston: Press of the Boston Daily Advertiser, L. L. Lewis, Printer, 1829. First edition, with a period in imprint at end of “Congress-street”. The previous October the National Intelligencer had contained a statement made by the President denouncing “certain citizens of Massachusetts as having been engaged in a design to..... Read More about Correspondence between John Quincy Adams, Esquire President of the United States and Several...

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Typed Letter Signed ("Eric Ambler") to Westley S. Hartley, in response to the latter's question...

"Self-discipline is the professional writer's primary need"

Typed Letter Signed ("Eric Ambler") to Westley S. Hartley, in response to the latter's question regarding the value of Ambler's...

London: 1 November, 1957. "Self-discipline is the professional writer's primary need" Interesting letter from Ambler, in answer to the question, "How important to you was your high school education, and is college experience necessary for creative writing?" Ambler points out that in England "there is no real equivalent of 'high school'..... Read More about Typed Letter Signed ("Eric Ambler") to Westley S. Hartley, in response to the latter's...

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Autograph Letter, signed. To William Hayley Esq. "The character you sustain in the literary world...

Barlow to Hayley, Student to Mentor

Autograph Letter, signed. To William Hayley Esq. "The character you sustain in the literary world induces me to request your...

Hartford, Connecticut: June 14, 1787. Barlow to Hayley, Student to Mentor. An important letter on the state of art and literature in early America. Hayley was a major influence on Barlow. Read More about Autograph Letter, signed. To William Hayley Esq. "The character you sustain in the literary...

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Abdul. An Allegory. Armisted Keith Baylor

Abdul. An Allegory.

[New York]: Privately Printed by [The Derrydale Press], 1930. One of 500 copies. Memorial volume of verse privately printed by Connett and never intended for sale. "An extremely rare Derrydale book ... very scarce ... and very hard to come by" (Frazier). Read More about Abdul. An Allegory

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Abdul. An Allegory. Armisted Keith Baylor

Abdul. An Allegory.

[New York]: Privately Printed by [The Derrydale Press], 1930. First edition, one of 500 copies. Memorial volume of verse privately printed by Connett and never intended for sale. "An extremely rare Derrydale book ... very scarce ... and very hard to come by" (Frazier). Read More about Abdul. An Allegory

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Arnold Bennett. Mrs. Arnold Bennett

Portrait of "the genius in the home" by his wife

Arnold Bennett.

New York: Adelphi Company, 1925. First edition. Portrait of "the genius in the home" by his wife. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) began writing full-time in 1900 after publishing his first novel, A Man From The North, in 1898. His first widely successful novel, The Old Wives Tale, was published in 1908..... Read More about Arnold Bennett

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Holograph Letter of Charles I. Formerly in possession of John Evelyn. Later in the collection of...

Freer on Whistler

Holograph Letter of Charles I. Formerly in possession of John Evelyn. Later in the collection of Wm. Upcott and now...

Saint Louis: William K. Bixby [Printed by the Torch Press, Cedar Rapids], 1915. One of 200 copies printed. Freer on Whistler. With a very interesting 8-page 8vo autograph letter from Charles L. Freer, the eminent American collector written from London, May 1902, to W. K. Bixby regarding his visit with..... Read More about Holograph Letter of Charles I. Formerly in possession of John Evelyn. Later in the collection of...

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Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell (“Dora”) Private Correspondence between Charles Dickens...

Additional portraits

Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell (“Dora”) Private Correspondence between Charles Dickens and Mrs. Henry Winter (née Beadnell) the Original of...

Saint Louis: Privately printed for William K. Bixby [by the University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A], 1908. Privately printed “Second Edition,” Bixby having allowed the Bibliophile Society to print their edition for their members and then producing 250 copies for presentation to his friends. Additional portraits. The originals were in Bixby's extensive..... Read More about Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell (“Dora”) Private Correspondence between Charles Dickens...

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The Dickens-Kolle Letters. Supplemental to the Letters from Charles Dickens to Maria Beadnell...

Bixby's Copy

The Dickens-Kolle Letters. Supplemental to the Letters from Charles Dickens to Maria Beadnell [Introduction by Henry H. Harper]. Edited by...

Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1910. Firrst Edition. Limited to 483 copies. Bixby's Copy. Bixby had had privately printed in 1898 the “Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell Private Correspondence,” the originals of which were in his collection. The Dickens-Kolle letters were in Harry B. Smith's private collection. Henry William Kolle was..... Read More about The Dickens-Kolle Letters. Supplemental to the Letters from Charles Dickens to Maria Beadnell...

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Fourth Annual Banquet of the Bibliophile Society. William K. Bixby

Rare Testamonial, Printed on Vellum

Fourth Annual Banquet of the Bibliophile Society.

Boston: New Algonquin Club, January 11, 1906. First Edition. Rare Testamonial, Printed on Vellum. RARE. Never seen. Testimonial honoring William K. Bixby, the noted bibliophile. Includes remarks by Albert Bushnell Hart. A browned newspaper clipping regarding the affair is laid in. The presentation from the committee is printed on vellum..... Read More about Fourth Annual Banquet of the Bibliophile Society

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