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At sea: Hillacre, September, 1917. First Edition. Manuscript. Occasional staining, some aging to paper, normal folds from mailing. Very Good. Nine pages typed on four 8-1/2" x 11" leaves of Hotel Brevoort letterhead and Scandinavian-American Line letterhead with Reed's name typed at the top right corner of the first page, and pages numbered at the tops of the following pages. With the original envelope addressed in Reed's hand, postmarked twice and stamped "Opened by Censor." Reed's important unpublished typescript was written while he was traveling on board a Danish liner from the United States to Norway during World War I. It was intended to be published in THE MASSES, but the delay in transit -- the first postmark is dated 3 September 1917, and received in Croton-on-Hudson on 11 August 1919, addressed to Mrs. B[oardman] Robinson -- as well as that magazine's legal battle under the Sedition Act must have precluded its publication. Reed begins his essay with a transcription of a notice that was…
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ACROSS THE WAR WORLD (UNPUBLISHED TYPESCRIPT)
by REED, John
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "Germany's True Greatness" with a TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
by BURROUGHS, John
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[August - September 1914]. Manuscript. Paper a little brittle, some pages with small chips and tears. Very Good. A 13-page working draft in pencil with corrections, mostly on rectos of 5-1/2" x 9" sheets, SIGNED by Burroughs at the conclusion. Written in response to a statement published by two German philosophers defending their country's invasion of Belgium at the outset of World War I. Burroughs contrasts Germany's cultural spirit with its military ambition, praising the country's many contributions to the arts and condemning its militarism. Burroughs notes that American public opinion is nearly unanimous in its opposition to the invasion of Belgium, and he predicts that great changes will occur in Russia as a result of its participation in "the war for the liberation of humanity.... A vast population however bound & tied cannot be set in motion & swayed by new & great impulse, without being in some manner emancipated from past conditions." Along with a letter dated 20 October 1920 to Rev. L. M.…
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT likely from FREDERICK THE GREAT
by CARLYLE, Thomas
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[1853]. Manuscript. Light creases from folding; writing dark and clear. About Fine and uncommon. HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT completely in Carlyle's hand but not signed of @250 words on the verso of a letter (8" x 9-7/8") addressed to the writer notifying him of his election to the Atheneum. Mostly in ink with additions in pencil, the notes appear to be historical and biographical research in preparation for the writing of his biography of Frederick the Great. The notes spill over to the bottom of the letter.
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AM) with SIGNED CARD
by BRYANT, William Cullen
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3 May 1878. Manuscript. Near Fine. Scarce and desirable. Handwritten conclusion of Bryant's most famous poem and one of the best-known poems of the 19th century--"Thanatopsis"--on a 4-7/8" x 3-3/4" sheet of paper laid down on a slightly larger album size sheet; together with a small calling card SIGNED "William Cullen Bryant" and dated "May 3d 1878. With an engraved portrait of Bryant. There are a few changes in punctuation from the published version. Any MANUSCRIPT excerpt of this poem, especially such a substantial one as this, is quite rare. So live that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan which moves To that mysterious realm where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of Death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him and lies down to pleasant dreams. "Thanatopsis," written when Bryant was…
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "A Song for New Year's Eve"
by BRYANT, William Cullen
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n.p., 31 December 1856. Manuscript. Near Fine. A handwritten poem on a 7-1/2" x 8" sheet of paper folded vertically SIGNED "W. C. Bryant" at the conclusion. The poem consists of 6 six-line stanzas with the second and third stanzas transposed from the final printed version and the second stanza here containing corrections and added lines. The poem's first and last stanzas: Stay yet, my friends, a moment stay Stay till the good old year, So long companion of our way, Shakes hands, and leaves us here. Oh stay, oh stay, One little hour, and then away. Even while we sing, he smiles his last, And leaves our sphere behind. The kind old year is with the past; Oh be the new as kind! Oh stay, oh stay, One parting strain, and then away. The word "good" as per the published version is struck through here with the word "kind" added above it.
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AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
by BRYANT, William Cullen
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10 April 1877. Manuscript. Minor wrinkling and creases from folding. Near Fine with an attractive engraved portrait of the poet. The second stanza of Bryant's poem "The Battle-Field" in the poet's hand, SIGNED "William Cullen Bryant" and dated by him at the conclusion on a 5" x 8" sheet of paper. Bryant, who was a founder of the Republican Party and fervent supporter of Abraham Lincoln, commemorates the Civil War dead: Ah, never shall the land forget How gushed the life blood of her brave Gushed warm with hope and courage yet Upon the soil they fought to save.
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS) Book Review
by PRITCHETT, V[ICTOR] S[AWDON]
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n.p., [@1970]. Manuscript. Small staple holes at upper left along with a faint paperclip impression. Fine. Handwritten Manuscript SIGNED "VS Pritchett" twice, at the upper left of the first page and again after the text. Complete draft of his book review titled "Victorian Studies in Scarlet," with numerous additions and deletions throughout: 4-1/2 pages written on the rectos of separate 8" x 11" sheets. This essay, likely published in his "Books in General" column in the NEW STATESMAN, is a review of Richard D. Altick's VICTORIAN STUDIES IN SCARLET, 1970.
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AM): Two Pages from JACK AND JILL: A VILLAGE STORY
by ALCOTT, Louisa May
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no date [1880]. Manuscript. Minor soiling, Near Fine. Housed in a Fine custom-made blue half-morocco slipcase with raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine. Two 7-5/8" x 9-3/4" pages of AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT on two lined sheets of paper consisting of @300 words completely in Alcott's hand. In part: "'Jill goes wherever Jack does & he lets her. He's such a good-natured chap he can't say No.' 'To a girl,' shyly added one of the boys who had wished to borrow the red sled & been politely refused because Jill wanted it. 'He's the nicest boy in the world for he never gets mad,' said the timid young lady recalling the many times Jack had shielded her from the terrors which beset her path to school in the shape of cows, dogs, & boys who made faces & called her 'Fraid cat.'" Much more.
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS)
by POWYS, John Cowper
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[circa October 1933]. Manuscript. Paperclip staining at upper edge of first and terminal pages, occasional small tear or chip. Near Fine. Holograph MANUSCRIPT, 23 pages written on rectos of separate 8-1/2" x 11" sheets, SIGNED in the byline. Complete draft of his essay titled "Detachment," with numerous additions and deletions throughout, and with a holograph note at upper right of the first page: "Published in 'The Aryan Path' (for the Bombay Editors)." Powys begins his important essay on spirituality: "Real Detachment begins when we think of our soul as a wayfarer from a far-off country, lodged for a while, 'hospes comesque corporis,' guest and companion of the body," among the tribes of men and upon this satellite of the voyaging sun." He concludes: "It is in relation to individual human beings that Detachment is most necessary of all. The wise man spends his life running away. But luckily he can run away without moving a step. We are all -- men and women alike -- teased by the blue-bottle flies…
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "The Love Of God"
by BRYANT, William Cullen
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New York, 9 May 1864. Hardcover. Contents Fine; front cover and first two blank pages neatly detached, leather on spine deteriorated. Overall Very Good. A handwritten poem on an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper SIGNED "William Cullen Bryant" and dated at the conclusion. Bound in 3/4 dark blue morocco leather and blue cloth titled in gilt on the front cover containing the poem, an engraved portrait of Bryant, a hand-lettered calligraphic title page in red and black, and a typed transcript of the poem which consists of 18 lines with a number of differences in punctuation only from the printed version. FROM THE PROVENCAL OF BERNARI RASCAS All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye. The forms of men shall be as they had never been; The blasted groves shall lose their fresh and tender green; The birds of the thicket shall end their pleasant song, And the nigthingale shall cease to chant the evening long. The kine of the pasture shall…
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AMs) From THE WATER WITCH
by COOPER, James Fenimore
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[1828]. Manuscript. A few small holes affecting text repaired with tissue, minor scattered foxing and soiling. Very Good. Unsigned handwritten fragment of his working draft of this novel about the abduction of a woman by a pirate. Two pages in dark ink in his small hand, approximately 600 words, on both sides of an 8" x 3-1/4" sheet. With a separate card SIGNED by the author's daughter, also an author, Susan Fenimore Cooper, dated Aug. 1889 and stating: "From the 'Water-Witch,' written at the 'Casa Tasso,' Sorrento, in 1828." Cooper manuscript material is scarce in the trade.
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT
by WELLIVER, Neil
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Lincolnville, ME, [1998]. Manuscript. Folded to fit into the envelope, otherwise Fine. A two-page AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT, not signed, on Welliver's stationery to a collector, date taken from envelope. Welliver writes out a complete 24-line poem, "Binsey Poplars," by Gerard Manley Hopkins. With the envelope addressed by Welliver. An interesting piece.
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AM) on Realism in Art and Literature and its Relation to Morals
by RUSKIN, John
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[17 January 1882?]. Manuscript. Minor staining. Near Fine. Twelve 5" x 8" pages written on 3 folded leaves, stitched together at the vertical fold, not signed but completely in Ruskin's hand. A presumably complete and untitled essay, possibly unpublished, on realism in art and its relation to morals. Ruskin begins, “Realism in any work of art ... is by no means a modern attribute. We find it in the paintings of Raphael just as unmistakably as in those [of] Meissonier or Duran.... We may very properly call it the natural -- the human -- element of a work of art, and no doubt it is this element which pleases us most in all masterpieces.... But realism is not the sole end, nor even the chief end of artistic creations; if it were, we should prize a photograph more than one of Turner's landscapes.... Now contemporary fiction must be subject to the same laws as past fiction, only its worth must vary according to the merits of the present novelists.... The three greatest English novelists -- Thackeray,…
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT: "After Sunset"
by SWINBURNE, Algernon
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n.p., n.d. Manuscript. Some edgewear to the paper with a small piece, containing part of the title, detached but present. Paper somewhat fragile but still Very Good. HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT Poem in Swinburne's hand of 25 lines titled "After Sunset" on two sides of a 5-3/8" x 11-3/4" sheet of plain paper. The poem is identical to the version published in Swinburne's collection TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE AND OTHER POEMS, but for one word which is crossed out with the published version above it and the omission here of the last three lines of the poem.
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "A Young Girl's Song"
by SITWELL, Edith
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n.p., n.d.. Manuscript. Creases, otherwise Near Fine. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS) on both sides of yellow lined legal paper of a poem of 34 lines titled "A Young Girl's Song." In part: "The King of Nowhere said to me--/Nodding his wintery crown/that seemed an ass's crown of ears/Or a broken town---/'Young girl, your love begs 'Give to me/your body, for your soul/Is only an illusion! But,'/Said the winter air/(The aged King of Nowhere)/'You must lay your body by,/As other women may lay bare/Their bodies to the foolish air/That they call 'Love'; Nowhere, alone,/Shall then be Lovers' Town."
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "Judgment Day"
by HOWELLS, W[illiam] D[ean]
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n.p., 1919. Manuscript. Slight creasing. Near Fine. A handwritten poem on a 6-3/4" x 8-1/4" sheet of paper SIGNED "W. D. Howells" at the conclusion with the dates 1895 and 1919. The eight-line poem was first published in the book STOPS OF VARIOUS QUILLS in 1895. Before Him weltered like a shoreless sea The souls of them that had not sought to be, With all their guilt upon them, and they cried, They that had sinned from hate and lust and pride, "Thou that didst make us what we might become, Judge us!" The Judge of all the earth was dumb; But high above them, in His sovereign place, He lifted up the pity of His face.
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THE CHEER
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Meredith's own copy of the uncorrected proof in printed wraps. Laid in on a 7" x 5" card is a MANUSCRIPT poem from the book, "Country Stars," written by Meredith and dated January 1975.
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THE CHEER
by MEREDITH, William
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. A copy of the Limited Edition, this being #5 or 100 SIGNED by the poet, from the poet's own library. Several pages have yellow post-its, possibly to mark poems for readings.
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THE HARP OF THE BIRCHES AND OTHER POEMS
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n.p., 1909. Softcover. Very Good and absolutely one of a kind. A unique manuscript (5" x 8-1/2") accomplished in a decorative calligraphic style with small illustrations by Anita Helen Parkhurst of poems presumably written by the author when he was 11 years old, seven years before his first commercially published book, BLOWN LEAVES of 1916, and presented to his parents at Christmas. Bound in black limp leather held together with a leather strap in a spiral fashion and with a holograph paper title label on the front cover. The contents consist of ten leaves of stiff brown paper stapled to the binding at the gutter. The title page includes author, title, the name of the calligrapher and illustrator, the dedication to Peattie's parents, and the date of 25 December 1909. The eleven poems include the title poem, Spring and Summer, Savior, We Die, Irish Drinking Song, Moon Rise, Sorrow, Mid Night and Dawn, Pompei, The Storm, and The Ruined City. While the poems are what one might expect of an 11 year old,…
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THE ILIAD OF HOMER With 5 Pages of MANUSCRIPT and 2 Pages of Corrected Page Proofs
by (BRYANT, William Cullen) HOMER
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Boston: Fields, Osgood, & Co., 1870. First Edition. Hardcover. Light rubbing to bindings. Near Fine. Two quarto (7" x 9-3/4") volumes in contemporary half brown morocco leather with marbled boards and matching corners, spines with gilt lettering and decorations, marbled endpapers; [2], [xx], 398; [viii], 426 pages. Bound for politician and newspaper editor Whitelaw Reid, with his name stamped in gilt on the base of the spines. Reid corresponded with many major figures of the 19th century including Bryant who was a long-time editor of the NEW YORK EVENING POST. Blank verse translation of THE ILIAD by Bryant. Tipped in to the first volume opposite the corresponding printed pages are 2 pages of Proofs corrected in Bryant's hand. Tipped in and laid loosely in the second volume are 5 pages of MANUSCRIPT on 2 sheets. The larger sheet, tipped in, contains the text for the last 7 pages of Book V of the printed text. The loose sheet contains lines from Book XVI beginning "He spake, and mingled in the…
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