Salinger, J.D.  American author of Catcher in the Rye. Two typed letters, one signed “Jerry” and the other signed “JDS”. June 17, 1978 (two pages) and December 10, 1971 (one page). To Eileen Paddison, a close friend and aspiring writer who maintained a correspondence with Salinger for over 15 years.....

Langston Hughes. Signed contract with the Dramatists' Guild of the Author's League of America. Signed "Langston Hughes" above line designated "Author" on the "second day of September, nineteen hundred and thirty five." Measures 8" x 11" inches. The same year Hughes signed with the guild his play Mulatto debuted on.....

John Ball. In the Heat of the Night. First edition. Harper and Row: New York. 1965. Original purple dust jacket design by Luiz Woods. 184 pages. Measures 8.25" x 6" inches. The story follows Virgil Tibbs, a Black police detective solving a murder case in notoriously racist small town South.....

Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man. First edition. Simon and Schuster: New York, 1964. Measures 5.5 x 8 inches. 186 pages. Original dust jacket with title in attractive mid-century orange text box. Black boards with title imprinted in stylish black font. Silver title on spine. Back of jacket shows artistic black.....

Ann Bannon. Journey to a Woman. First edition. Fawcett Publications: 1960. Measures 4.25 x 7 inches. 223 pages. Front cover shows blonde woman with tussled hair gazing over one bare shoulder, red-tipped fingernails grazing her shoulder, figure bathed in soft, rosy glow. The fifth novel in iconic lesbian pulp series.....

I, Robot, Isaac Asimov. Signet books: New York, 1956. Measures 4.25" x 7". Soft cover reprint of original hardcover edition. 192 pages. Front cover illustration shows large gray robot carrying smaller body of a human in astronaut gear while another robot watches from behind them, feet planted on a foreign.....

James Weldon Johnson. The Book of American Negro Poetry. Harcourt, Brace and Company: New York, 1922. First edition. Original brown boards with paper spine label. 5.5 x 8 inches. 217 pages. The first of its time, this anthology, compiled by James Weldon Johnson, contains the work of 31 poets, all.....

E.T. The Extra Terrestrial. William Kotzwinkle. G.P Putnam's Sons: New York, 1982. First edition. Blue boards with gold gilt title on spine. Original dust jacket shows the lights of a spaceship beaming through thick cloud cover with the text across bottom "based on the screeplay by Melissa Mathison." Under archival.....

Mark Tryon. The Fire That Burns. Berkley Publishing Corp: New York, 1954. First Edition. 6.5 x 4.25 inches. 143 pages. Pulp Fiction Cover has several attractive women with a photographer shining a spotlight on a woman in bra and underwear, laughing. Another woman with legs crossed and dress falling off.....