![LOSER TAKES ALL [inscribed copy]. Graham Greene](/pictures/thumb/14535.JPG?v=1593711122)
London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1955). Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this novella about a man who devises a scheme to win big at Monte Carlo -- but his obsession causes him to lose his girl (whom he planned to marry there) in.....
![THE ROVER [1/377 signed copies]. Joseph Conrad](/pictures/thumb/14514.jpg?v=1585064942)
[1/377 copies signed] Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Original white parchment over blue boards, with both the tissue dust jacket and the blue-grey paper printed dust jacket. First Edition, limited to 377 copies numbered and signed by Conrad -- this being copy #70 (there was no English.....
![Autograph Letter Signed, to "Dear Sir" [the editor of Harper's New Monthly Magazine]. Walt Whitman](/pictures/thumb/14507.jpg?v=1584377770)
[Whitman writes his own epitaph] One page, "Camden New Jersey: Aug: 29 '89" [so handwritten by Whitman]. The text of this letter reads: Yr's of yesterday rec'd with picture suggesting piece (illustration in text). Will this do? I shall want proof (wh- don't forget) -- the price is $25. -- Respectfully.....
One page on light blue paper, with the handwritten heading "Consulate USA | Liverpool 2 Jany 1856". The text of this letter reads: I wrote to you on the 30 ult[im]o City of Washington that the Certificate of Registry of the SS Ericsson had been left behind. I now herewith enclose.....
Three pages (of a four-page single folded leaf). Signed "J.L. Kipling", with a [P.S.] that is additionally initialed "J.L.K.". No place and no date other than "Friday Morn," but a former cataloguer has indicated "[India]" and "[probably 1874]". This is a humorous letter penned by J[ohn]. Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911; he.....
Both on the stationery of the Lend a Hand Society (Rev. Edward E. Hale, President) of Boston. One is four pages (two leaves), dated July 9, 1907, with Boston lined out and replaced by "Matunuck, R. Island". The other is two pages (one leaf), dated July 2, 1908, also with.....
Text on one side of a post card imprinted with the address "10, Adelphi Terrace, W.C." Dated by hand "11th January 1901". Address on other side also written by Shaw (The Anglo-Saxon Review | 35 Great Cumberland Place W., altered by someone else to 127, Cambridge St. | Warwick Sq.....
Two pages (first and third pages of one folded leaf of stationery printed with the address "20, Carlton House Terrace, S.W." Dated by hand "5th May '99". The text of this letter reads as follows: Herewith I send you a programme of tonight's affair. You will witness that your name is.....
![Autograph Letter Signed, to "My dear Mr [John] Lane." Thomas Nelson Page](/pictures/thumb/14489.jpg?v=1581607925)
Two pages of stationery printed with the address "17 R Street, Corner | New Hampshire Avenue" [Washington DC]. Dated by hand "June 4, 1899". The text of this letter reads as follows: I have waited to answer your letter of a week or two ago. I refer to its receipt [?].....
One page, on stationery of "The Schuyler" at 59-61 West 45th Street, New York. Dated December 3, 1901. With accompanying Schuyler envelope, addressed by Le Gallienne. The text of this letter reads: Dear Madam: In answer to your letter, for which I thank you, I write to ask you to have.....
One 5"x8" printed receipt form, with the date, amount and applicable poems entered by secretarial hand, then signed in full by Stevenson. London: Cassell & Company, 23 December 1885. This receipt acknowledges payment of two guineas to Stevenson for "the use of my Poem entitled 'A Song of the Road'.....
One 5"x8" printed receipt form, with the date, amount and applicable poems entered by secretarial hand, then signed in full by Stevenson. London: Cassell & Company, 27 August 1884. This receipt acknowledges payment of four guineas to Stevenson for "the Use of my Poems entitled 'A Child's Fancies' IV &.....
![Autograph Letter Signed, to "Dear Mrs [Richard] Darcy", with accompanying photograph. Rudyard...](/pictures/thumb/14484.jpg?v=1581607925)
Both sides of a card, which bears the heading "The Elms | Rottingdean, | nr Brighton." Dated Dec 12, 1898. In its original envelope, which provides the recipent's address "The Cottage, Clifton," with both Rottingdean and Brighton postmarks. With accompanying sepia photographic portrait of Kipling standing on a sailing vessel.....
![THE DAY'S WORK. [signed by Kipling]. Rudyard Kipling](/pictures/thumb/14480.jpg?v=1581607925)
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1898. Original green cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this collection of twelve tales, illustrated with eight plates -- preceding the London edition by a week. Included are "The Devil and the Deep Sea," "An Error in the Fourth Dimension" and "The.....
![THE SEVEN SEAS. [with presentation note signed]. Rudyard Kipling](/pictures/thumb/14479.jpg?v=1581607925)
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. 6 pp undated ads. Original coarse mottled light-brown buckram cloth decorated in gilt, with dust jacket. First (American) Edition, published on 30 October 1896, the same day as Methuen's English edition. This volume of verse includes two of Kipling's better-known poems, "A Song.....
![WHEN THE WORLD SHOOK. [inscribed by Haggard]. H. Rider Haggard](/pictures/thumb/14477.jpg?v=1581607925)
Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot. London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, (1919). Original light brown cloth on semi-flexible boards, lettered in gilt and blind. First Edition of "the most original story he [Haggard] had written for many years... his last.....
![THE YELLOW GOD. An Idol of Africa. [inscribed by Haggard]. H. Rider Haggard](/pictures/thumb/14475_2.jpg?v=1581607925)
With Three Illustrations by A.C. Michael. London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1909. 8 pp ads dated Oct 1908. Original blue-grey cloth. First English Edition of this tale involving "crooked finance in England, thwarted romance, effectively functioning [tribal] fetishes, and erotic captivity in darkest Africa." Alan Vernon's.....
