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Signed "Isabel Allende". Photograph: 6 x 4", head shot of the writer who looks directly out, her left hand at her right shoulder and a black top set off by a necklace of large gem stones. An attractive image of the writer.
PUBLICITY PHOTOGRAPH, SIGNED
Allende, Isabel.
[NP]: , [ND].
Price: $35.00
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Christmas greeting signed in blue ink, "Richard & Annie Dillard". Christmas card: single sheet, 6-3/4 x 10", folded to 6-3/4 x 5", "Charles Dickens", an unfinished watercolor by Robert William Buss reproduced at the front leaf in color with the greeting "All Good Wishes of the Season" at the inside leaf. Minor use. Near fine. The Buss watercolor depicts the great English author sitting in his study at Gad's Hill with his various literary characters emerging from the books which line the room. Given Dickens' Christmas tales in particular, an apposite literary reference for the season.
Christmas Card, Signed
[Christmas] Dillard, Annie.
[NP]: , [ND].
Price: $45.00
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Color photograph, 4 wide x 6" high, of a pastel portrait of Marian Anderson as she sings. Signed by Marian Anderson with a soft-tip pen on the reverse with a flourish beneath her name. BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA, pp. 29-33.
COLOR PHOTOGRAPH OF PASTEL PORTRAIT, SIGNED
Anderson, Marian.
[N.P.]: , [N.D.].
Price: $100.00
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HOMEWORK FOR JAMES, Fair Holograph Copy of the Poem, Signed
Van Duyn, Mona.
[NP]: , [ca. 1974].
Price: $100.00
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CARTE PORTRAIT, SIGNED
(Murdoch, Iris).
[London]: National Portrait Gallery, [ND].
Price: $125.00
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TRAVELS WITH ALICE
Trillin, Calvin.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989.
Price: $125.00
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First edition. 1/26 lettered copies, this being copy &#x93;P&#x94;, signed at the colophon as called for (out of a total edition of 326 copies, with 300 numbered, signed copies in addition to the 26 lettered copies). 8vo, <64>pp; mottled orange paper over boards with black cloth spine; title and author stamped in orange metallic at the front cover; glassine wrapper. Mild age-toning and touches of use to glassine. Fine. With a foreword by Elizabeth Spencer who describes the origin of Marilee, the central force of the three stories: "A Southern Landscape"; "Sharon"; and "Indian Summer".
MARILEE Three Stories
Spencer, Elizabeth.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1981.
Price: $150.00
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First edition. Presentation copy to Annie Dillard, inscribed at the title page: "January 1, 1992 / To Annie Dillard, / With gratitude for all / I&#x92;ve learned of life from your / work, / Mona Simpson". 8vo, 506pp; tan boards with turquoise cloth spine stamped in silver; pictorial dust jacket. With review slip laid in. Front flap creased at lower corner; jacket shows minute touches of wear. Near fine. The writer's second book.
THE LOST FATHER
Simpson, Mona.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Price: $150.00
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Special collector's edition. With printed bookplate tipped in at the front flyleaf signed by both Lady Bird Johnson and Carlton B. Lees. Published the same year as the first trade publication. Oblong 8vo, 293pp; + Selected Bibliography, Sources of Regional Wildflower Seed Mixtures and Index of Flowers Illustrated and Index; bound in white fabric with repeating design of a small purple wildflower (reddish-purple dotted swiss background), the fabric from the Hinson Collection's "Wildflowers of America" inspired by Lady Bird Johnson; publisher's slipcase accompanies. A love copy, fine in all respects. . Lavishly illustrated throughout with full-plate photographs and color prints and smaller ones at text margins. Mrs. Johnson's campaign for the beautification of America and for the planting of wildflowers has resulted in pockets of wildflower gardens in parks, at forest edges, down median strips, around hotels - a sudden, happy touch wherever they occur. The text provides an overview by Mrs. Johnson of her efforts and of the National Wildflower Research Center and Mr. Lees gives concise, informative accounts of the whys and wherefore of wildflowers. Illustrations are grouped picturing the wildflowers which grow in each region of the United States. The illustrations and the endmatter contain much useful information. A thoroughly charming book.
WILDFLOWERS ACROSS AMERICA
Johnson, Lady Bird and Carlton B. Lees.
New York: Abbeville Press, (1988).
Price: $175.00
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
Sedgwick, C[atharine] M[aria].
Lenox [Massachusetts]: To Mrs. Appleton, 6 Nov. 1857.
Price: $200.00
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Reprint of a photograph taken in 1939 at Eudora Welty's home in Jackson, Mississippi, signed by her in the white margin below, "Eudora Welty". Black-and-white photograph, 7 x 5". Fine. George Marion O'Donnell (1914-1962), born and raised in Midnight, Mississippi, formed a close association with the Agrarian School while studying at Vanderbilt University. By 1940 his writings of poetry, fiction and criticism had attained sufficient recognition within literary circles to win him inclusion in the well-known New Directions anthology FIVE YOUNG AMERICAN POETS. The anthology, however, proved to be the apogee of his writing career. While his career as a writer flagged, another as an academic thrived. He served on the faculties of a number of institutions successfully promoting the work of William Faulkner and other Southern writers. Friends and fellow writers, O'Donnell and Welty saw each other and corresponded. This snapshot of the two young writers together, seated on a sofa in Miss Welty's living room, suggests the warmth of their relationship. Though the photograph is a reproduction only, it is an attractive image of these two Mississippi writers and, of course, nice with Miss Welty's signature.
Photograph of Eudora Welty and George Marion O'Donnell, signed by Miss Welty
Welty, Eudora.
[Jackson, Mississippi]: , [ND].
Price: $250.00
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Four Typed Pages, Original Typescript of RED SILENCE
Norris, Kathleen.
[NP]: , [ca. 1928].
Price: $250.00
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
Dodge, Mary A[bby].
Hamilton, Massachusetts: , January 3, 1894.
Price: $250.00
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Holograph letter in which Ella Bloor Reeves recommends the work of a suffrage activist. Single sheet: 6-1/2 x 10", folded to 6-1/2 x 5", 4pp; buff stationery with engraved decorated initial "E" at the first leaf; written at the first and third leaves. Folded to fit an envelope; 1/4" closed tear (not affecting text) to right edge; scattered ink stains to blank opposite p. 3; "1909" supplied in pencil above the date. About very good. . Mrs. Bloor writes as the 'State Superintendent, Department - Women In Industry' for the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. She warmly recommends a suffrage activist whom the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association recently has hired: "I want to tell you how much your Assoc. is to be congratulated in acquiring Mrs. W. H. Garner as one of your active workers. [Para] In Conn. she was President of The Political Study Club of New Haven and when we went before the Legislative Committee in the House of Representatives to plead for our Municipal Suffrage Bill - her speech before the Committee impressed them more than almost any other &#x97; ". Ella Reeve Bloor (1862-1951), "Mother Bloor", labor organizer, radical, suffragist, and writer, is best known, or rather notorious, as a labor organizer and cofounder of the American Communist Party. Unlike many radicals, Ella could trace her American roots back to the 17th c. on her mother's side, whose forebears settled in Connecticut, and to the 18th c. on her father's side, whose Dutch and English forebears settled on Staten Island (where Ella was born). A great-uncle, Dan Ware, an active abolitionist, Unitarian and freethinker, counter weighed the conservative cast of her parents. As a young married woman, she became involved in reform movements which supported women's rights. And, while she later focused more on labor unions and political issues, Ella Bloor continued throughout her life to lobby for women's equality whether by walking in the 1913 Washington, DC parade or arguing for women's status in the Socialist and Communist parties. The letter documents the kind of legislative lobbying the suffragists poured such energy at the national and state level from the 1870s to passage and ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1919-1920. For a full profile of Ella Reeve Bloor, see NOTABLE AMERICAN WOMEN The Modern Period, p. 85-86. The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith holds her papers; and its catalog records relatively few letters documenting her suffrage activity and even fewer predating 1910.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
Bloor, Ella Reeve.
[Connecticut]: to "Friends of N.J.W.S.A.", Nov. 15h [1909].
Price: $250.00
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED
West, Rebecca [pseud. of Cicily Isabel Fairfield].
Ibstone House: Mr. [Joyce] Carey [sic], December 22, 1947.
Price: $300.00
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER, regarding Myrtilla Miner's 'The Colored Girls School"
[African-American], [Miner, Myrtilla] Burgess, D.
New York: to Messrs. G & C Merriam, Sept. 22 1852.
Price: $350.00
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AUTOGRAPH CARD SIGNED
Porter, Katherine Anne.
[N.P.]: [to Paul Porter], October 10, 19_.
Price: $400.00
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
Howe, Julia Ward.
Newport, R.I.: To Miss [Elizabeth Stuart] Phelps, Aug. 18th 1881.
Price: $450.00
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
Martin, Anne.
[Washington, D.C.]: , 9 November 1915.
Price: $450.00
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Two holograph letters signed "Stevie Smith" and "Stevie". (1) Two sheets: 7 x 5-1/4", pale gray stationery, written on three sides in blue ink. Folded once to fit an envelope. Very good. (2) Two sheets: 7 x 5-1/4"; pale gray stationery, written on all four sides. Folded once to fit an envelope. Very good. Also present is an envelope addressed in Smith's hand to James Turner with the ink notation at the reverse, "missing letter". To fellow poet and writer James Ernest Turner (1909-1975). The first letter is more reserved and from Smith's opening, apparently they had met only once: "Dear James, (If this not too beastly familiar - but I remember that party)". She is delighted he likes her poem, "Pretty", which, one infers, the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT recently printed. "Oh what labour, oh Prince, what pain" to get anything out in the Times Lit... A thousand ages in their signed seems much what it is in God's only rather less". She encourages him to send her his poems and praises his SHROUDS OF GLORY, "that I must say I did like". The second letter, written early the following year, suggests the growth of warmth between the two writers; Smith closes the letter with "Love, Stevie". She thanks him for his poems [possibly THE INTERIOR DIAGRAM and Other Poems published in 1960] and, in turn, tells him she appreciates "the kind things you say about my two". He is recovering from a nasty injury to his heel and while off his feet he has been reading Smith's poems aloud to himself. "It's nice of you to have been reading these poems aloud, & funny too in a way, as I have been doing quite a lot of it (reading them) lately, & I wonder how a writer can mark, or punctuate, his poems so as to get the accent & emphasis & all of it, firmly fixed, & timed, &#x97; as you can with music". In a postscript she enthuses, "You are good at seeing things in your poems, an absolute march of magnificent visions ... the thought comes in pictures. I'm not much good about poetry, can't think why, it's odd somehow, as I never seem to stop writing it". Very nice content.
TWO AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED
Smith, [Florence Margaret] Stevie.
Palmers Green [London]: To James [Ernest] Turner, May 2nd 1959 and Jan. 17th 1960.
Price: $450.00
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