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BALZAC, HONORE DE . (1799-1850). French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.
Autograph Letter Signed, in French, 8vo, Paris, n. d. but ca 1842-43.
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BARTH, JOHN SIMMONS. ( b. 1930) American novelist and short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictive quality of his work.
Autograph Note Signed, 8vo, n.p., September 15, 1980.
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BLIXEN, KAREN [DINESEN, ISAK]. (1885-1962). [Pseudonym of Karen Blixen-Finecke]. Danish writer, who incorporated supernatural elements and erotic undertones with an aristocratic view of life. Best known for her 'Out of Africa'.
Typed Letter Signed, in Danish, 2 separate pages folio, Rungstedlund, September 24, 1953.
Price: $1,750.00
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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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BODENHEIM, MAXWELL. (1891-1954) Internationally renown American poet and novelist, during the Jazz Age of the 1920s, called the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians.
Autograph Poem Signed, 4to, in pencil, n.p., n.d.
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BROCH, HERMANN. (1886-1951) Austrian writer, whose best known work is "The Death of Virgil". He is considered one of the major Modernists.
The Death of Virgil.
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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.
Typed Letter Signed, 8vo, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, May 23, 1972.
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BUBER, MARTIN. (1878-1965). Austrian-Israeli-Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator, whose work centered on theistic ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal relations, and community; best known for his I and Thou (1923) and translating the Hebrew Bible into German
Autograph Letter Signed, in German, two pages on one 4to sheet, Deir Abou Tor, Jerusalem, November 30, 1946.
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BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. (1875-1950) American author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero "Tarzan", although he produced works in many genres.
Document Signed, oblong 8vo, Los Angeles, California, December 11, 1945.
Price: $325.00
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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 “Mildred Pierce,” and “The Postman Always Rings Twice,” have been made into films.
Typed Letter Signed, 4to, Hyattsville, Maryland, April 27, 1974.
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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.
Price: $750.00
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CHANDLER, RAYMOND THORTON. (1888-1959) Author of crime stories and novels of immense stylistic influence upon modern crime fiction, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now characteristic of the genre. His protagonist Philip Marlowe, is synonymous with "private detective", along with Dashell Hammett's "Sam Spade".
Typed Document Signed, 4to, on watermarked "Paramount Pictures" onionskin paper, Hollywood, California, February 14, 1944.
Price: $3,500.00
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COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE . (1789-1851) American author whose most successful works were romantic novels of frontier life known as the Leather Stocking Tales, which included The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer.
Autograph Letter Signed two pages 8vo, Cooperstown, NY, August 20, 1849.
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COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE. (1789-1851) American writer of the early 19th century. He is best remembered for his “Leatherstocking Tales” and “The Last of the Mohicans”.
Autograph Letter Signed, on vellum, small 8vo, n.p., n.d
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DILLON, GEORGE. (1906-68) American editor and poet. His "The Flowering Stone" won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He was the editor for Poetry Magazine from 1937 to 1949.
Autograph Letter Signed, in pencil, 4to, Paris, France, April 7, 1945.
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DINESEN, ISAK (KAREN BLIXEN). (1885-1962) Danish author also known under her pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen wrote works both in Danish and in English and is best known, at least in English, for "Out of Africa", her account of living in Kenya.
Autograph Letter Signed, in Danish, on picture postcard of New York City, postmarked Feb. 2?, 1959.
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DINESEN, ISAK. (1885-1962). [Pseudonym of Karen Blixen-Finecke]. Danish writer, who incorporated supernatural elements and erotic undertones with an aristocratic view of life. Best known for her 'Out of Africa'.
Postcard Signed, in Danish, on the correspondence side of the picture postcard, Rome, May 5, 1912.
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DODGSON, C. L. (LEWIS CARROLL). (1832-98) English mathematician and writer, most famous for his books, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the Looking Glass", "Phantasmagoria", and "Hunting of the Snark".
Autograph Letter Signed, oblong 8vo, Christ Church, Oxford, March 17, 1892.
Price: $5,600.00
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DODGSON, C. L. (LEWIS CARROLL). (1832-98) English mathematician, photographer and writer, most famous for his books, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the Looking Glass", "Phantasmagoria", and "Hunting of the Snark".
Autograph Letter Signed, 2 pp on one 8vo sheet, Christ Church, March 18, 1879.
Price: $7,000.00
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ELIOT, GEORGE (MARY ANN (MARION) EVANS). (1819-80) English novelist. 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 perspective.
Third person ALS one page, 8vo on printed letterhead of The Priory, 21 North Bank, Regents Park (letterhead crossed through by Eliot and replaced in her holograph with "The Heights / Witley / Godalming"), 25 July 1877.
Price: $2,600.00
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