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Signed First/First The Da Vinci Code Hardcover

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[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Signed First Edition, First Printing of The Da...

 


Autograph Musical Qutation Signed

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Autograph Musical Quotation Signed by Harry Thacker Burleigh, dated July 1905, with lyrics and musical notations also in his hand...

 


Bold Signature, Conservation Framed

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Scarce ink signature, "Byron," on a brown slip of paper presumably clipped from a letter. Archivally conserved in a carved,...

 


Truman Capote Signed Typescript Page from “In Cold Blood”

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Typescript signed: "Truman Capote," 1p, 8x10. The first typewritten page of the opening of his 1966 "nonfiction novel," In Cold...

 


Truman Capote Signed Book “A Tree of Night”

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Scarce signed first edition of Truman Capote's first collection of short stories, A Tree of Night. Signed on the half-title...

 


Custom Portfolio of “In Cold Blood” New Yorker Magazine Set

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ANNALS OF CRIME: IN COLD BLOOD: THE NEW YORKER SEPT. 25 - OCT. 16, 1965 (FOUR ISSUES). Capote, Truman. New...

 


Autograph Letter Signed discussing his son Pen

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Autograph Letter Signed by Robert Browning to an unknown correspondent, dated March 31, 1884, proffering an invitation to see his...

 


Autograph Dated

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Autograph dated less than six months before the poet died, June 29, 1889, on watermarked laid paper. ROBERT BROWNING (1812-1889)...

 


Signed Limited Edition of Hemingway’s Selected Letters

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A fine limited edition copy of Ernest Hemingway's Selected Letters: 1917-1961. Signed by editor Carlos Baker, #268 of 500 copies....

 


“My Crowd” First Edition Signed

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Signed First Edition of the darkly humorous cartoon collection My Crowd by the legendary cartoonist Charles Addams, simply autographed at...