Boston: [From THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY], 1912. [2],[243]-333pp. Original printed wrappers. Spine backed at an early date with heavier paper, wrappers chipped at lower edge and lightly spotted, but a good, internally very good, copy. First edition. Tipped to the preliminary blank is a 2 1/2pp. autograph...
![Autograph Letter, Signed "Dover," to Alaric A. Watts]. George James Welbore Agar, 1st Baron Dover](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT77769.jpg?v=1498154792)
Dover House, Whitehill, 29 September 1831. 1 1/2 pp. on recto and verso of one panel of a folded lettersheet. Blank verso of conjugate tipped to mounting sheet otherwise very good. Baron Dover (1797-1833), British art patron, collector and editor of Walpole's letters, writes to British poet and anthologist Alaric...
![PERMIT ME VOYAGE AND OTHER POEMS [altered to: THE COLLECTED POEMS OF....]. James Agee](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT23663.jpg?v=1488345445)
Boston: Houghton, 1968. Original uncorrected long galleys of the first edition, edited with an introduction by Robert Fitzgerald. This copy bears a number of manuscript corrections and revisions by Fitzgerald in his introduction, and bears his alteration of the original title to the published title. Very good.
![Group of Seven Lightly Corrected Typescripts]. Clarissa Lorenz Aiken](/images/noimage.png)
Boston. nd. but ca. 1970s-1980s. 43 leaves. Quarto. Original and carbon typescripts, lightly corrected and occasionally revised in type and manuscript. Secured individually with paperclips (rusty), but very good. A sequence of essays and reviews by Clarissa Lorenz Aiken (d. 16 May 1992), second wife (1930-37) of poet and novelist...
London: Cape, [ 1972]. Gilt cloth boards. Paperclip rust mark on pastedown, otherwise a very good copy in dust jacket. First edition. Louis Untermeyer's copy, with a t.pc.s. ("Joan A.") from Aiken to him laid in, responding to his praise for the books and expressing hopes for a visit either...
![THE MAN FROM BLANKLEY'S AND OTHER SKETCHES [REPRINTED FROM "PUNCH"]. F. Anstey, pseud. of Thomas...](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT30013.jpg?v=1488345478)
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1893. Small quarto. Half gilt vegetable parchment and decorated boards. Twenty-five illustrations by J. Bernard Partridge. Spine a bit darkened and rubbed, as usual, occasional foxing, corners bumped, else a good copy. First edition, bound uniform in format to the second series of VOCES POPULI...
London: Trübner & Co., 1889. 12mo. Decorated vegetable parchment and cloth, t.e.g. Portrait. Illustrations and decorations. Considerably foxed early and late, spine a bit tanned and lightly rubbed, else good and sound. "New edition." Laid in is a one-page a.l.s. from Arnold to S. Compton, Grand Hotel, "Tuesday," [ny], arranging.....
![Corrected typed manuscript of] AT THE JERUSALEM. Paul Bailey](/pictures/thumb/wrclit36926.jpg?v=1488345492)
[ Np]. [nd. but ca. 1967]. [3],253 leaves. Quarto. Carbon typescript (prelims and final leaf of text in original typescript), typed on rectos only, with occasional insertions in manuscript. Very good. A late draft of the author's first novel, subsequently published by Cape (and Atheneum in the U.S.) in 1967...
![Autograph Letter, Signed ("Whitney")]. Whitney Balliett](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT68100.jpg?v=1488345715)
New York. 15 May 1986. One and 3/4 pages, on recto and verso of small octavo sheet of NEW YORKER letterhead. Ca. 150 words. Folded for mailing, a couple small smudges; very good. To "Dear Joe" [i.e. Jazz historian and critic, Joe Goldberg]. Balliett thanks him for pointing out a....
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1844. viii,[17] -167,[9]pp. Contemporary boards, printed spine label. Engraved frontis. Endsheets foxed, spine extremities worn (with surface chips), still a sound copy. First U.S. edition, with a "Notice of the Author," by "R.W.G." and dated at Philadelphia, Nov. 1843, suggesting the edition may not simply be.....
New York: Harper & Bros. 1906. Pictorial cloth. Frontis and plates. Small mark on two facing pages, otherwise near fine. First edition of the author's second, and most popular novel. THE SPOILERS was adapted to the screen on at least five occasions, first in 1914 and lastly in 1955. The...
New York: Abelard-Schuman, [ 1966]. The original production archive for this work by the American novelist and crusading journalist, comprised of the following:. a) Beals's provisional outline consisting of three chapters, titled tentatively "The Grass Roots Revolt," 109 leaves, quarto, original typescript, with manuscript corrections and insertions; b) an original...
![Autograph Letter, Signed]. Max Beerbohm](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT74698.jpg?v=1488345862)
48, Upper Berkeley Street, London. "Dec: 18 : '00" [1900]. One page, plus salutation. In ink, on folded octavo sheet of letterhead. Folded for mailing, scattered foxing, cryptic ink docket on last blank panel, otherwise about very good. To an indefinite "Dear Sir" [but presumably a theatrical manager]. Beerbohm regrets...
![Autograph Letter, Signed]. Max Beerbohm](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT77485.jpg?v=1488346018)
48, Upper Berkeley Street, London. Thursday, [no year]. Two pages on folded quarto sheet of letterhead. Pale residue from having been at one time mounted on blank verso of conjugate, otherwise very good. To a Mr. Thomas (first name indistinct): "I never have seen Mr. Nicol Dunn, and therefore cannot...
[ Np]. [nd. but prior to 1915]. Portrait format (25.5 x 16 cm). Pen and ink, and watercolor wash on paper. Surface matted and framed under glass. Slight toning to paper, but in visible very good to fine condition (not examined out of frame). A whimsical portrait by Beerbohm of...
New York. 25 February, 8 April and 6 December 1960. Three pages, on octavo and quarto folded stationary lettersheets, accompanied by envelopes. Very good. Behrman writes a party who, evidently, has provided some anecdotes or information helpful in the writing of PORTRAIT OF MAX, and has as well requested inscriptions...
![Three Typed Letters, Signed "Ludwig"]. Ludwig Bemelmans](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT69493.jpg?v=1488345743)
Paris & New York. 15 & 16 October 1951 and 3 June 1952. Three leaves, octavo and quarto. Folded for mailing, light use, else very good. Three letters to his representative, "Fred" [i.e. Frederic Newlen Price, of Feraragil Galleries] about business matters, all short and to the point, accompanied by...
New York. 24 Feb., 1965, and 4 & 16 April 1966. Each a quarter page, on quarto sheet of personal letterhead. Folds from mailing, otherwise about fine. To "Mr. Seward," thanking him for his comments about his books ("It is letters like yours that bring cheer into dark corners"), and...
Minneapolis. 2 May 1945. One page, quarto, and postcard size, in ink, signed respectively 'Eric' and 'ERB.' With envelope for former. Two detailed communications from Bentley to Arthur Mizener, both about Mizener's upcoming novel course at the University of Minnesota (then being taught by Bentley), including suggestions for texts, means...
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd., 1911. Gilt cloth. Minor wear, corners bumped, gutter of endsheet abraded (from the mounted letter - see below), otherwise a good copy. First edition. The first novel by this prolific fiction writer, described by Kunitz and Haycraft "as essential a part of the social education...
Venice: Galleria dell'ala Napoleonica, September 1950. Printed invitation, on stiff card (11.5 x 16 cm). Very good. An invitation to the opening of an exhibition of works by Berman, inscribed and signed by him in English: "Hope you can come today at 6 or later. Sincerely E. Berman."
![Two Autograph Letters, Signed]. George Biddle, 1885 - 1973](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT71134.jpg?v=1488345783)
Croton-on-Hudson. One undated, the other 21 December 1937. Two pages, octavo, written in ink on rectos only of Biddle's printed letterhead. Accompanied by one envelope, addressed in his hand. Envelope snagged while being opened, otherwise very good. Two brief letters to fellow artist Willis Birchman, the dated letter thanking him...
![HEIMARBEIT-AUSSTELLUNG FRANKFURT A/M FRÜHLING 1908 [binding caption title], Binding and Calligraphy](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT69790.jpg?v=1488345751)
Frankfurt. 1908. Two leaves in manuscript, on stiff card. Folio. Laid into, and formerly sewn into, handcrafted full soft calf presentation album, stamped and decorated in blind, with pictorial vignette, with silk moiré endsheets. Spine quite rubbed, with short crack, but sound, lower edge of one endsheet frayed, binding very...
![Typed Letter, Signed, About Editorial Work on Blake]. William Blake, Ruthven Todd](/pictures/thumb/WRCLIT81562.jpg?v=1547159531)
Edinburgh. 9 June 1942. 2pp., very densely typed on recto and verso of octavo air lettersheet. Partial break at horizontal fold, not affecting text, otherwise very good. Poet, novelist and editor Todd writes to Prof. Tinker, following up on the possibility that the copy of his edition of Gilchrist's LIFE...
Boston: Little, Brown, [1999]. Large octavo. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Cheap paper tanned, otherwise fine. "Proof ... Made from the Author's Manuscript ...," but in format and function, an advance reading copy of the first edition. Laid in is an autograph note, signed "Peter," on printed letterhead, from the author to...
