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Christopher Isherwood Signed Postcard
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Lovely postcard dated September 3, 1974 from famed Anglo-American novelist Christopher Isherwood. To Robert Allen Jr of Lewiston, Maine, it...
Virginia Woolf Autograph Signature
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Virginia Woold (1882-1941) American author who wrote in the "stream of consciousness" style, perfected in To the Lighthouse, Orlando and...
Gertrude Stein Signed “Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas”
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Literary Guild First Edition Hardcover with facsimile first edition Dust Jacket and Various Vintage Articles Pasted In This copy of...
17th Century Antiphonal Musical Manuscript
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Liturgical musical manuscript on vellum, in Latin, 2pp. approx. 19 x 28 in., hand-painted in red and black with one...
Signature Framed
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A bold, clear autograph by the Irish poet Oscar Wilde, on beige paper beautifully framed in cherry wood with a...
Michael Cunningham Signed First Edition “The Hours”
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Signed First Edition, First Printing of the Pulitzer Prize winning book The Hours by Michael Cunningham. Effusively inscribed to one...
Tennessee Williams Signed First Edition “Knightly Quest”
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Signed first edition of Tennessee Williams's The Knightly Quest and Other Stories (New Directions, 1966), featuring "Cavalier of Death," the...
ALS Discussing Oscar Wilde
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Autograph Letter Signed. Sussex, England: January 12, 1933, by the English author, poet and intimate companion of Irish poet and...
Signed Book “My Friendship With Oscar Wilde”
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Hard-to-find, signed and numbered copy of the 1932 hardcover book, My Friendship With Oscar Wilde: Being the Autobiography of Lord...
Signed Book “Complete Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas”
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LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS (1870-1945) The Complete Works of Lord Alfred Douglas Publisher: Martin Secker, London Publication Date: 1928 Binding: Hard...