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Rare graduation photograph Signed from Harvard University, 4to, n.p. n.d. (1858)
ADAMS, HENRY BROOK (1838-1918) American journalist, historian, academic and novelist. He is best known for his autobiographical book, The Education of Henry Adams. Both his grandfather, John Quincy Adams, and his great grandfather, John Adams, had been U.S. Presidents, his grandfather was a millionaire, and his great grandfather, Nathaniel Gorham, signed the Constitution. After his graduation from Harvard University in 1858, he embarked on a Grand Tour of Europe, during which he also attended lectures in civil law at the University of Berlin.
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A.L.S., 2 separate pages 8vo, n.p., Jan. 16, 1890.
ALGER, HORATIO (1834-99). American writer of boys' stories. The theme of his 100 books for boys was that by leading exemplary lives, struggling valiantly against poverty and adversity, Alger's heroes gain wealth and honor.
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Autograph Letter Signed, in Danish two and a half 8vo pages, Copenhagen, January 15, 1870.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN (1805-1875). Danish author, best known for his fairy tales.
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Autograph Letter Signed, in Danish, one page, 8vo, Copenhagen, Dec. 12, 1837.
ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN (1805-75) Danish author, best known for his fairy tales.
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Autograph Letter Signed, 8vo, London, 15 September 1926.
BARRIE, JAMES MATTHEW (1860-1937) Scottish author and dramatist. He is best remembered for creating Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up, whom he based on his friends, the Llewelyn Davies boys.
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Autograph Note Signed, 8vo, n.p., September 15, 1980.
BARTH, JOHN SIMMONS ( b. 1930) American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.
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Autograph Quotation Signed, oblong small 4to, New York, April 3, 1911.
BERLITZ, MAXIMILIAN (1852-1921) German born, American founder of the language schools that bear his name, founded in Rhode Island in 1878.
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Autograph Poem Signed, 4to, in pencil, n.p., n.d.
BODENHEIM, MAXWELL (1891-1954) Internationally renown American poet and novelist, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s, called the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians.
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Typed Letter Signed, in German, 8vo, 2 pages, n.p., January 5, 1944.
BROCH, HERMANN (1886-1931) Austrian modernist novelist. Best known in America for 'The Death of Virgil' (1945), a lyrical stream-of-consciousness novel stylistically evoking James Joyce. Lived in the United States from 1938.
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The Death of Virgil.
BROCH, HERMANN (1886-1951) Austrian writer, whose best known work is "The Death of Virgil". He is considered one of the major Modernists.
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Autograph Card Signed, (2), both small 8vo, Chicago Illinois, n.d.
BROOKS, GWENDOLYN (1917-2000) African-American poet.
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Typed Letter Signed, 8vo, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, May 23, 1972.
BROWN, DORRIS ALEXANDER 'DEE' (1908-2002) American novelist and historian. His most famous work, "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" (1970) details the violent relationship between Native Americans and American expansionism.
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Autograph Letter Signed, in German, folio, on an Israeli aerogramme, Talbiyeh, Jerusalem 12.03.52.
BUBER, MARTIN (1878-1965). German Jewish scholar, philosopher and writer. Founded and edited the monthly "Der Jude". Evolved philosophy inspired by study of Hasidism.
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Autograph Letter Signed, 8vo, n.p., March 14, 1866.
BULFINCH, THOMAS (1796-1867) American writer, born in Newton, Massachusetts. He is most famous for his book, "Bulfinch's Mythology", an in-depth look at Greek and Roman mythology.
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Document Signed, oblong 8vo, Los Angeles, California, December 11, 1945.
BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE (1875-1950) American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero "Tarzan", although he produced works in many genres.
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Autograph Letter Signed, one and a half pages 8vo, West Park, N.Y., June 11, 1914.
BURROUGHS, JOHN (1837-1921) American naturalist an essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement.
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Autograph Note Signed, 8vo, with accompanying lithograph portrait of the author, signed, n.p., April 6, 1891.
BURROUGHS, JOHN (1837-1921) American naturalist an essayist important in the evolution of the U.S. conservation movement.
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Two important Autograph Letters Signed, each 3 sides small 8vo., the first on his blue notepaper with his Arabic heading, Consulate, Trieste, 19th June and 16th October 1876.
BURTON, RICHARD FRANCIS (1821-1890) English explorer, translator, writer, soldier, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He was known for his travels and explorations within Asia and Africa as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures. According to one count, he spoke 29 European, Asian, and African languages.
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Manuscript Document Signed in Italian, 8vo. Ravenna, February 4, 1821.
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.
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Typed Letter Signed, with Autograph Note unsigned, 4to, Hyattsville, Maryland, April 14, 1974.
CAIN, JAMES M. (1909-94) American novelist, journalist. He is considered to be of the hard-boiled genre of crime fiction writers. His most famous novels, such as ÒMildred Pierce,Ó and ÒThe Postman Always Rings Twice,Ó have been made into films.
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