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To Hans Dieter Zimmermann. "yes, I agreed in the beginning, but I can't find the time now. Lectures out of town, classes starting soon, editorial work on new material for the intended complete edition . Maybe you could print something from my just published 'Disassociations 1' (Suhrkamp Bibliothek, p. 218 line 15 from the bottom to page 219. Starting with 'Quite easy is the more profound hope' . to 'one has never existed.' Then, after a paragraph, continues: 'Nothing is more human' . to 'with humani alienum - all of them.'" Nicely signed, Ernst Bloch." With holograph envelope.
BLOCH, ERNST. (1885-1977) German philosopher who broke from an orthodox Marxist philosophy and developed a "Philosophy of Hope." He fled East Germany for West Germany in 1962.
A.L.S., in German, 12mo, 2 pp,Tübingen, Oct. 15, 1962.
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Byron acknowledges receipt of fifty pounds sterling from Pellegrino Ghigi, in exchange for a note for the same amount issued by Byron's London bankers, Morland Ransom & Co. A beautiful and rare document from Byron’s Italian years. Signed “Byron.” This document is preserved in a blue buckram flap-case.
BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, Lord Byron . (1788-1824). British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, We'll Go No More A Roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest European poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond. LR books
Manuscript Document Signed in Italian, 8vo. Ravenna, February 4, 1821.
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On the first two lines at upper right of the sheet, he writes, “English, Capote.” Two lines after this near the center, he titles the page, “Book Slogan,” and writes the slogan: “The Foundation of a nation is built on Books.” He is claimed to have found his calling as a writer at a young age, and this quotation would lend testimony to that notion.
CAPOTE, TRUMAN. 1924-84) American author, whose works include Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the thriller, In Cold Blood.
Autograph Quotation Signed on 4to sheet of lined notebook paper, n.p., n.d., but from him childhood.
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To Charles Lee Lewes , "Dearest Boy", mentioning her work. "Have you seen any article on The Psychology….” She complains of her health, discusses financial affairs, and suggests plans for the summer. "I am writing in bed, where I have been almost constantly since Sunday, owing to a troublesome pain…Thank you for sending me the poetic address and the extract from the Standard. A rather bulky fruit of 'Merman' [Proteus Merman, the unhappy hero of 'How We Encourage Research, Theophrastus Such] has come to me in a letter of I don't know how many pages from one who feels himself wronged by critics. It is a curiosity worth preserving. Last week I received a letter from Mr. Warren [Eliot’s solicitor] saying that the next court of Manor is to be held on the 26th and sending me Beddoes' account of the Fines and Fees to be paid on the Copyhol…Mr. Cross has managed the matter for me, as he is constantly at the Bank…I am ruminating over the possibility of having Eliza and the 2 children along with you and Gertrude etc. in July…I was glad to know Mr. [Frederic] Harrison's opinion, for naturally though he has written to me about other things he, no more than other friends, writes about…And now I am alone I need the more assurance that I have not published superfluously…." Signed, "Mutter.”
ELIOT, GEORGE [Marian Evans Lewes] . (1819-1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot. She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological insight.
Autograph Letter Signed in purple ink, on mourning stationery, 4 pages on one 12mo sheet, The Heights, Witley, Nr. Godalming, June 18, 1879.
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GREENAWAY, KATE. (1846-1901). English children's book illustrator and writer. New techniques of photolithography enabled her delicate watercolors to be reproduced in beautiful color.
Autograph Letter Signed, on “Hampstead”, stationery, two pages 8vo, London, February 19, 1898.
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The photograph taken on a hunting expedition in Africa shows a lion standing. Hemingway has signed on verso, “Photograph Ernest Hemingway copyrighted.”
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST M. (1899-1961). American writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1954. He is best remembered for novels include, “The Sun Also Rises,” “A Farewell to Arms,” and “The Old Man and the Sea.”
Important original photograph, signed on verso, 4to.
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Hughes pens his note in a bold hand on the title page of the poems typed on onionskin paper. In full, “For Paul [Breman]-an interesting (I think) but mostly unpublished Negro poet.” He signs boldly, “Langston Hughes.” Hughes refers to Ray Durem whose early poems attracted Hughes. He tried to find a publisher for Durem, and after Durem’s death, included the poem, “Award” in his anthology, “New Negro Poets USA,” (1964). Hughes writes his note on the title page of Durem’s group of poems titled, “Poems by Ray Durem…1954.” Paul Bremen (1931-2008) is the Dutch born bookseller, writer and publisher whose help Hughes sought on behalf of Durem. Included is Bremen’s soft cover publication of Durem’s “Take no prisoners,” published in London in 1971. Bremen published three of the typed poems in the group offered here.
HUGHES, LANGSTON . (1902-67). American poet, novelist, playwright, short story writer, and columnist. Hughes is known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. DUREM, RAY (1914-63). American poet.
Autograph Note Signed on a group of typed poems by Ray Durem, 11 separate pp of 4to and oblong 8vo sheets, n.p., n.d. but circa 1954.
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“Owing to the fact that a long-standing defect of vision causes me to read slowly, I regret that I must say no to your kind invitation: for I am engaged on a piece of work involving much research and permits no extra-curricular activities…It was kind of you to pass on my request, about the anthology for the Britannica…I am wondering whether, if the Britannica doesn’t want to publish the anthology, the firm would be willing to allow it to come out elsewhere. It seems hardly fair for an author to permit a year’s work and 20,000 words of original writing to lie indefinitely on the shelf….”
HUXLEY, ALDOUS . (1894-1963) English writer that spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1963. Best known for his novels and wide-ranging essays, he also published short stories, poetry, travel writing, and film scripts.
Typed Letter Signed, with numerous holograph insertions, corrections and editing marks, 4to, Los Angeles, July 1, 1950.
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MACLEISH, ARCHIBALD. (1892-1982) American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernist school of poetry and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times.
Photograph Signed, 4to, n.p., n.d.
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To Henry Reeve, the editor of the Edinburgh Review, Mill discusses his proposed review of a new book about trades unions, titled, On Labour, by William Thomas Thornton, who was a friend of Mill's. Mill also raises some questions by a report just issued by the Royal Commission on Trades Unions. In the course of this long letter, Mill provides considerable information about his own views on labor unions. “I shall have much pleasure in writing a notice of Mr. Thornton’s book for the Edinburgh Review, and shall of course put what I have to say in a form somewhat different from that in which I should write for another publication,” Mill remarks. “My own point of view does not exactly coincide either with that of Mr. Thornton or with that of the Edinburgh Reviewer to whom he refers, and of course I must be free to express my own view and that only. Mr. Thornton is certainly a defender of Trades Unions to the extent of thinking that their existence is an important defence and protection to the operatives, and that they often cause a rise of wages when, though right and desirable, it would not otherwise have taken place. On these points I think Mr. Thornton has fully made out his case. On the other hand, he condemns some of the aims and rules of Trades Unions; and is quite alive to their liability to carry their legitimate aims (rise of wages and diminished hours of work) to a length which may injure both themselves and their employers, by driving the trade elsewhere. For the correction of this evil he looks to the lessons of experience, and increased intelligence, and to amicable discussion between the parties. In these various opinions I entirely agree….” Mill declares, “and I should feel bound to express them in anything I write on the subject. It is for you to decide whether they would be unsuitable for publication in the E. Review…With regard to your suggestion for reviewing the Report of the Commission [the Royal Commission on Trades Unions], do you propose that this should be done in the same or in a separate article? If in the same, it would greatly widen the scope of the article; since in that case it would be necessary to express an opinion on the question of prohibiting by law those employments of Trades Union funds which may be decided to be illegitimate; and moreover of giving efficacy to the legal prohibition by the appointment of a public prosecutor expressly for its enforcement… These are very grave questions…and I am not yet prepared to give a final opinion on every part of them; though I am clearly against adopting some of the recommendations of the majority of the Commission, as reported in today’s papers. I think that the systematic enforcement of legal penalties against strikes even for undesirable objects, would be the commencement of a feud between employers and workmen, and between workmen and the Government, more internecine than we have ever yet seen…” Signed, “J. S. Mill.”
MILL. JOHN STUART . (1806-1873). British philosopher, political economist, and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century.
Autograph Letter Signed, six pages 8vo, on his monogrammed stationery, Blackheath Park, Kent, 18 March 1869.
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A remarkable letter from Nabokov to his literary agent, Doussia Ergaz, (at the Bureau Litteraire Clairouin in Paris), in which he wonders, “if you might not have some news for me” regarding six of his books. DESPAIR (La Meprise)- “There was some talk of a reprint, as I recall. What’’s become of that?”/ SHORT STORIES (Nouvelles)- “Have you tried to get them translated by Karl Priel? Have you managed to get them published—either in a magazine or book form?”/ INVITATION TO A BEHEADING (Invitation au Supplice)- “Where do we stand with this book? Who have you tried since Albin Michel turned it down”/ NIOCOLAI GOGOL- “What’s going on with this one?”/ THE DEFENSE (La Course du Fou)- “Didn’t you write that there was talk of a new edition? I may be wrong about that—it’s been so long since you last wrote me about it” and GLORY (Exploit)- “I don’t know if you’re still handling this book as well. I’d like to put some order in my affairs and I would be extremely grateful to you if you would bring me up to date in regard to the French rights of all these books. Also, tell me if you think it likely that you’ll be able to find French publishers for them.” Signed, “I hope you are well, Vladimir Nabokov”.
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR . (1898-1977). Multilingual Russian-American novelist and short story writer. Nabokov wrote his first nine novels in Russian, then rose to international prominence as a master English prose stylist. Nabokov’s “Lolita” (1955) is frequently cited as his most important novel and is his most widely known, exhibiting the love of intricate wordplay and descriptive detail that characterized all his works.
Rare Typed Letter Signed, in French, regarding six of his books. One page, on integral address leaf stationery. 4to, Cambridge, Mass. May 15, 1948.
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This manuscript is titled: "SHOULD THE NEGRO BE ENCOURAGED TO CULTURAL EQUALITY?" It is corrected and unedited with Pound's idiosyncratic prose. "No! And nobody else should either. This 'encouraging' people to cultural equality has made the U.S. hell on earth; it has made possibly Bryan, Wilson, Volstead, Harding, and all the other vermin that have clouded the native scene. If a man black, white, pink, orange or any other damn colour can't get his equality, or equality plus, then to hell with him. Roland Hayes has already obtained cultural superiority to 90 percent of American people. Why not deal with what is?". Pencil emendations, Signed, "Ezra Pound".
POUND, EZRA . 1885-1972) American poet, editor and critic and a major influence on Joyce, Eliot, Hemingway and Frost.
Original Typed Manuscript Signed, 4to., "Via Marsalla" stationery, [Rapallo, Italy, n.d.].
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He writes to Erica Cotterill (1881-1950), in full. “Yes, yes; but oh! So unimportant. Dreadfully dull.” He signs with initials, “GBS.”
SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD . (1856 -1950). Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
Autograph Note Signed, on a post card photograph of Shaw, postmarked London, (?) 1908.
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Shelley wrote this payment order made out to "Mssrs. Brookes & Co." for "twenty-one days after date pay Mr. W. Batger on order Thirty Pounds for fixtures in Mr. Tyleck's house." The payment order bears light pen cancelation marks which touch Shelley's full signature, "Percy Bysshe Shelley."
SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. (1792-1822) Romantic British poet, known for his philosophical poem "Queen Mab," (1813), and lyrical drama, "Prometheus Unbound," (1820).
Autograph Document Signed, oblong 8vo, Great Marlow, July 15, 1817.
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To the publisher Henry Oscar Houghton (1823 –1895). "I can't remember about this. Of course I am not denying or repudiating the subscription; I merely have no memorandum of it, & there may be some error. I can forget things; once forgot to die, when four doctors said I was going to...." He signs, "S.L. Clemens." Letter bears publishing house stamp indicating day letter was received. With bust length photograph, unsigned. A fine showing the acclaimed writer's humor.
TWAIN, MARK pseudonym of SAMUEL L. CLEMENS. (1835-1910) American author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Autograph Letter Signed, 8vo, Hartford, Dec. 8, 1890.
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To a Friend, It is a matter of real regret to me that I am not able to be with you on the occasion of the birthday of our worthy friend, Edwin Thompson [abolitionist]. I have known him as a faithful and self-sacrificing advocate (of) all good causes. More than 50 years ago, I met him at the convention which formed the First Temperance Society in Essex County, and about the same time, at the formation of the Essex Anti-Slavery Society. Since then, his genial face and cheering voice has been rarely missed wherever the Friends of Temperance and Freedom met together. He was always a welcome speaker. Like President Lincoln, he had the gift of story-telling, and his stories were always to the purpose, putting to shame his opponents with ready wit and humor. Through the long Anti-Slavery struggle, his labors were unremitting, but he was always brave and hopeful and, in the midst of persecution, never posed as a martyr. His enthusiasm of humanity was remarkable healthful; there was no whine or cant in it, and he heartily enjoyed it, for it was its own exceeding great reward. It is fitting that we should honor him and congratulate him that his 78th birthday finds him the same cheerful, warm-hearted man we have known so long; and, (it) will not be amiss if we give him some substantial and unsolicited assurance of our esteem and love. O this end, I enclose my mite with the best wishes for his health and happiness. Signed, ÓI am, truly thy friend, John G. Whittier"
WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. (1807-1892) American poet and reformer.
Autograph Letter Signed, three pages 8vo, Centre Harbor, N.H.Written as Quaker date of 7th mo., 20, 1887 (July 20, 1887)
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This document is a signed check on his account, showing his name printed twice. He signs in full under his printed name, "Tennessee Williams." Fine for display.
WILLIAMS,TENNESSEE. 1911-1983) American playwright who received many of the top theatrical awards for his works. He moved to New Orleans in 1939 and changed his name to "Tennessee", the state of his father's birth. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Streetcar Named Desire in 1948 and for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. In addition, The Glass Menagerie (1945) and The Night of the Iguana (1961) received New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. His 1952 play The Rose Tattoo received the Tony Award for best play.
Document Signed, oblong 8vo, August 31, 1978
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Zola writes on his visiting card with printed address, in full, "Dear friend, please send me Mr. Vincent's address (correct spelling?), the army surgeon who is a friend of Daudet's. Cordially, Emile Zola." Zola refers to fellow author Alphonse Daudet (1840-97).
ZOLA, EMILE . (1840-1902) French writer and a major figure in the political liberalization of France.
Autograph Note Signed, in French, small 12mo, n.p., n.d.
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He encloses a check and writes some accounting information, then continues, “I am most pleased to see how well your piece went – I could not see us having been indulging in mustard cravats since Tuesday….” He signs at the bottom of the first page, “M. Lemon.”
[PUNCH Magazine] LEMON, MARK. 1809 – 1870). British writer best known as the editor the weekly paper Punch and The Field. He also wrote plays and operettas which were produced in London.
A.L.S., on blind embossed stationery, folded 8vo, 2 pp., n.p., n.d.
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