![Autograph Letter Signed [to novelist Mrs. Humphry Ward]. Thomas Hardy](/pictures/thumb/13001.jpg?v=1507051285)
[a lengthy literary letter] One leaf folded, on mourning stationery headed "Max Gate, Dorchester." Four pages of text, addressed to "My Dear Mrs Ward," signed "Yours sincerely, Thomas Hardy," and dated 24 March 1905. This long letter is Hardy's response to his receipt, from Mrs. Humphry Ward, of a copy...
![PRUNELLA [inscribed by Housman]. Laurence Housman, H. Granville Barker](/pictures/thumb/8678.jpg?v=1507051274)
[inscribed by Housman] Or Love in a Dutch Garden. London: A. H. Bullen, 1906. 1 page undated ads. Original mauve cloth. First Edition of this play, largely for mummers. It was issued both in cloth and, less seldom seen, in purple wrappers. According to the last page of text, the...
One page, on grey stationery lettered in red "34, De Vere Gardens, W." Dated "Mch 24th" [no year]. The text of the letter reads: On Monday 31st at 7:30 with great pleasure. Kind regards to your colleagues, & yours most truly [signed] Henry James Juliet Creed (1819-1899) in 1844 married William Frederick...
To "My dear Mrs. Wood." 4 pages (all sides of a bifolium). South Berwick [Maine]: 13 August 1878. Signed "Sarah O. Jewett." The text of this letter reads: Here is the Boat song for you, and it was very good of you to care for it. And I am very glad...
![A NATIVE OF WINBY [inscribed by Jewett]. Sarah Orne Jewett](/pictures/thumb/13492.jpg?v=1507051289)
[inscribed to Helena deKay Gilder] and Other Tales. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893. 6 pp undated ads. Original green cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition of this collection of eight tales from the coast of Maine. This is a very good copy (spine dulled with very...
![THE ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL [signed by Meredith]. George Meredith](/pictures/thumb/11317.jpg?v=1507051277)
[signed by Meredith] A History of Father and Son. In Three Volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. Original blind-stamped greenish-brown cloth. First Edition of Meredith's first full-length novel (preceded only by a volume of verse and two single-volume burlesques). FEVEREL is the tough tale of a father's "system" of raising...
![POEMS [inscribed by Meredith]. George Meredith](/pictures/thumb/11316.jpg?v=1536331978)
[inscribed by Meredith] London: John W. Parker and Son, n.d.[1851]. Original blind-stamped purple cloth. First Edition of George Meredith's first book, a volume of verse published when he was only 23 (and including many poems written at the age of 18 and earlier). Meredith had just married the widowed daughter...
![THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN [1/410 copies signed]. Arthur Rackham, Robert Browning](/pictures/thumb/12290.jpg?v=1507051280)
[1 of 410 signed copies] Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: George C. Harrap & Co., (1934). Original limp vellum lettered in gilt, in original paperboard slipcase. First (Rackham) Edition, being #124 of 410 copies signed by Rackham. This volume includes four color plates by Rackham, as well as numerous illustrations...
![THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER [and] THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. Illustrated by Norman...](/pictures/thumb/14071.jpg?v=1529343227)
[original drawings by Rockwell] [In Two Volumes, boxed.] New York: The Heritage Press, 1936 | 1940. Original green | orange cloth lettered on the spine in gilt, with front cover portrait, in original paper-covered board box with integral wraparound slip. Heritage Press editions, each with eight color plates tipped onto...
![THE LIFE OF CESARE BORGIA [inscribed]. Rafael Sabatini](/pictures/thumb/13505.jpg?v=1507051290)
[inscribed by Sabatini] A History and Some Criticisms. With a Coloured Frontispiece and Sixteen Other Illustrations in Half-tone. London: Stanley Paul & Co., n.d.[1912]. 32 pp ads, undated (but with this title listed second in the list of new announcements, and with 1910 and 1911 cited elsewhere). Original black cloth...
Two pages (both sides of one leaf), folded into thirds to fit inside a handwritten folded envelope (with red wax seal). "Castle Street [Edinburgh], Friday." The letter reads: Sir I am honourd with your card & much obliged by the polite expressions which it contains and am very happy you have found.....
![EAST OF EDEN [inscribed by Steinbeck]. John Steinbeck](/pictures/thumb/14268.jpg?v=1557344632)
[inscribed by Steinbeck] Melbourne :: London :: Toronto: William Heinemann, (1952). Original green cloth, with dust jacket. First English Edition, published the same year as the American. This is Steinbeck's tale of the Trask family in the Salinas Valley -- and of the two brothers Cal and Aron (for whom...
![Autograph Letter Signed, addressed to [antiquarian bookseller] John B. Day. Robert Louis Stevenson](/pictures/thumb/14065.jpg?v=1527789868)
One page, dated (by RLS) June 30th 1893. N.p. [but at Vailima Plantation, Apia, Samoa]. This letter is hand-addressed by Stevenson to: "John B. Day Esq. | 5 Blythwood Villas | Stroud Green | London N.", and reads as follows: Dear Sir, I am unfortunately confined to the house by influenza...
![THE SISTERS [inscribed by Swinburne]. Algernon Charles Swinburne](/pictures/thumb/8753.jpg?v=1536331978)
[from Swinburne to Meredith] A Tragedy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1892. 1 preliminary page ads plus 32 pp ads dated Oct 1891. Original dark blue-green cloth. First Edition, which consisted of only 1250 copies, of Swinburne's only verse play in contemporary speech. This copy is inscribed by Swinburne on the half-title...
![THACKERAY [inscribed by Trollope]. Anthony Trollope](/pictures/thumb/10054.jpg?v=1507051275)
[inscribed to Cardinal Manning] London: Macmillan and Co., 1879. 2 pp undated ads. Original red cloth decorated in black. First Edition, being the ninth volume in the "English Men of Letters" series edited by John Morley. This copy has the ad leaf in the earliest state, listing nine of the...
![AUTOBIOGRAPHIES [1/250 copies signed]:. W. B. Yeats](/pictures/thumb/12646.jpg?v=1507051282)
[signed by Yeats] Reveries over Childhood and Youth and The Trembling of the Veil. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Original light brown paper-covered boards with aqua cloth spine and printed labels. First American Edition, this being #174 of the 250 limited issue copies numbered and signed by Yeats. The...
