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Autograph letter signed ("F.B. Sanborn") to Francis William Bird ("My dear Friend")....

Key Member of the Secret Six

Autograph letter signed ("F.B. Sanborn") to Francis William Bird ("My dear Friend").

Boston: July 13 1874. Key Member of the Secret Six. A heartfelt letter to his friend and fellow abolitionist, expressing his condolences for the loss of Bird’s son, and explaining that he cannot attend the funeral. Reading in part: “I heard on Saturday of your son’s sudden death, and in..... Read More about Autograph letter signed ("F.B. Sanborn") to Francis William Bird ("My dear...

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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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