[Autograph Letter, Signed] by Cunninghame Graham, R. B - 1932

Paris, 1901. Autographe. Très bon. Aucune reliure. Signé par l'auteur. Ed. originale. in-24. 1 lettre autographe signée sur bristol vert à coins ronds, 2 pp. in-24, 16 juin 1901. On joint 1 billet autographe signé sur sa carte de visite à l'adresse du 136 rue de Longchamp, 2 pp. in-48, sd [ca 1901]. Dans le premier billet, il indique à son correspondant (Jean-Paul Brunet, critique à l'hebdomadaire "Le Mondain bordelais") que l'édition tirée à part de "Jeanne" est épuisée depuis longtemps mais que l'on peut trouver ses poésies chez Lemerre. Il regrette de ne plus voir son père, mais en a des nouvelles par Daniel de Sèze. Dans le second billet, il remercie Jean-Paul Brunet pour tout le bien qu'il dit de ses poèmes. Bel état. Nota : ces documents ne pourront être exportés en dehors de l'Union Européenne sans… Read More

2005. Dated "March 5, 2005" with Palahniuk's agent's NYC return address. Aprx 150 words. Palahniuk returns signed books and informs his correspondent that in the furure the "address in Vacouver, Washington will be unreliable. I'm seldom there." He recommends St Helen's Bookstore for future signed books. "It's a small one-room bookstore and I stop there once a month... It's good to support small, independent bookstores." Palahniuk adds that he is glad to return the books. "It would bum-me-out to think they'd sat in the 'dead-letter' office, or -- like a ton of my mail -- got left in the rain... You wouldn't guess the sad, wet mountain of mail that gets hauled away from my old house in Portland." He ends with "I'll shut up now." Signed in ink. Fine condition.. Signed by Author. Unbound. Fine. Typed Letter Signed.

Edinburgh: Printed for Alexander Donaldson, 1781. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 230 +9pp contents. Full leather, leather label. Covers worn and scuffed, free endpapers lacking, joints tender, contents tanned and foxed, minor dampstaining to last pages,drawing and doodling on front pastedown, strip torn from lower margin of last page, no loss of text, former owner's name on title page. A very early edition of this title, by the author referred to by James Boswell as the "Prodigious Vendor of Literature.

(np): (np) Aprx 9x12 inch 20 lb green stock dated "August 4 Bridgehampton." "Yes, it is a nice collection. A pleasure to sign. My regards to Ms Mason." Salter has signed with his initials "J.S" Folded in half with beginning toning at extremities. Very Good condition.. Signed. Unbound. Very Good/Not Issued.

Florence (1907) And Los Angeles (1917): Trinity Auditorium Villa Braggiotti, 1907. Original Documents . No Binding. Fine. Original Handwritten Two Page Letter To One Of His Students, A Miss Wilson, From Pianist Harold Bauer, 1907, On Villa Braggiotti, Florence Stationary, With Three Performance Programs At The Trinity Theatre, Los Angeles, 1917. Some Wear And Soiling. Harold Victor Bauer (1873 - 1951) Was A Noted Pianist Who Began His Musical Career As A Violinist. He Took Up The Study Of The Violin Under The Direction Of His Father And Adolf Pollitzer. He Made His Debut As A Violinist In London In 1883, And For Nine Years Toured England. In 1892, However, He Went To Paris And Studied The Piano Under Ignacy Jan Paderewski For A Year, Though Still Maintaining His Interest In The Violin. An Anecdote Reports That Paderewski Jokingly Told Bauer To Concentrate On The Piano Because "You Have Such Beautiful Hair". In 1893, In Paris, He And Achille Rivarde Premiered Frederick Delius's Violin… Read More

1971. Lettre. Très bon. Couverture souple. Ed. originale. Alger, 29 octobre 1971. 1 p. in-4p, 19 lignes dactylographiées signées, deux corrections et un ajout autographes. Belle et tendre lettre. Il relit depuis six mois la lettre que l'écrivain Christian Maurel lui a écrite. "[Ce qu'il] relit aussi, plusieurs fois, et ce n'est pas fini, ce sont les Canaris", un livre qu'il trouve riche au-delà de sa beauté formelle et qui "a la densité du creux des mains, appliquée à la chair d'autrui". Il lui commande de publier ce qu'il a écrit d'autre que les Canaris car "la beauté est faite pour être donnée à voir, c'est vrai des livres aussi bien que des corps, et d'ailleurs que c'est charnel ce que tu écris." Avant de signer, il ajoute à l'encre "et je t'embrasse"..

2005. Dated "March 5, 2005" with Palahniuk's agent's NYC return address. Aprx 150 words. Palahniuk returns signed books and informs his correspondent that in the furure the "address in Vacouver, Washington will be unreliable. I'm seldom there." He recommends St Helen's Bookstore for future signed books. "It's a small one-room bookstore and I stop there once a month... It's good to support small, independent bookstores." Palahniuk adds that he is glad to return the books. "It would bum-me-out to think they'd sat in the 'dead-letter' office, or -- like a ton of my mail -- got left in the rain... You wouldn't guess the sad, wet mountain of mail that gets hauled away from my old house in Portland." He ends with "I'll shut up now." Signed in ink. Fine condition.. Signed by Author. Unbound. Fine. Typed Letter Signed.

Manuscrit. Très bon. En Feuilles. Signé par l'auteur. In-8. 2 pp. in-8 signées et datées du 4 février 1940, sur papier à en-tête du cabinet du doyen de la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université de Paris. Condoléances suite au décès d'Edouard Pichon. "Je pense aussi avec angoisse à la perte que subissent les études linguistiques, où votre mari s'était fait une place éminente par l'originalité de ses vues et l'abondance de sa production. Dans notre société aussi il sera, vous pouvez le croire, universellement regretté, car il n'y comptait que des admirateurs et des amis."Nota : ce document ne pourra être exporté en dehors de l'Union Européenne sans autorisation préalable du ministère de la Culture, formalité pouvant prendre plusieurs jours..

Fold creases, but in fine condition. One page, 4to, on Masefield's Boars Hill letterhead, Oxford, docketed 2 May 1929, to E. J. Toms, secretary to Geoffrey Parsons, Editor of The Herald Tribune. With envelope address in Masefield's hand. Masefield thanks Toms for his letter of April 9th and for a clipping he sent. "Will you be so kind as to convey to the Editor my thanks for his courtesy in printing my appeal? With greetings, I am, Yours sincerely, John Masefield.

1880. Near Fine. 13 handwritten letters to Pennsylvania Representative William Ward. There are two topics addressed by these letters. One topic is who Ward will recommend for a position with the Internal Revenue under James Ashworth (1836-1882), a Philadelphian who had been a captain during the Civil War and as an Internal Revenue official favored appointing an ex-soldier from his district for the position. The other topic is local support for Ward running for the Republican nomination for Senate in 1881. John I. Mitchell was the ultimate Republican candidate; he won against the sitting Democrat, William A. Wallace. William Ward (1837-1895) was born in Philadelphia and attended Girard College, the boarding school established by Stephen Girard (1750-1831) for poor, white, male orphans. Ward learned printing while working at the Delaware County Republican in Chester, Pa., and then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859. He later served on the Chester City Council and represented… Read More