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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Important and rare Civil Rights document from the original files of the SCLC, the Civil Rights organization King founded after the Montgomery Bus Boycotts. First Edition. Dated October 30, 1967, the day of King’s return to Birmingham, the locus of one of his most triumphant.....
SALINGER, J.D. Typed Letter Signed “Jerry” with accompanying, unpublished draft for the dust jacket for Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenter and Seymour: An Introduction. The draft was typed by Salinger and also includes a correction in his hand. Dated Sept. 9, 1962. Although Salinger was preparing for the publication of.....
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Crisis in America’s Cities; An Analysis of Social Disorder and a Plan of Action Against Poverty, Discrimination and Racism in Urban ” First Edition unpublished mimeograph draft. 5 pages plus cover. King’s nationwide call to action against urban poverty, the most ambitious Civil Rights Campaign.....
PROUST, Marcel. Du Coté de Chez Swann. Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1913. Bourdeaux crushed morocco by J. Antoine Legraine, gilt edges, original wrappers and spine bound-in, matching morocco edged slipcase. First Edition, First Issue, Inscribed By Proust To Madame Catulle Mendes On A Tipped Leaf, bound into the volume following the.....
J. D. Salinger. Signed Junior High Yearbook . Possibly the most important J.D. Salinger piece ever to come to market, as it is Salinger’s only yearbook from the same age as Holden ever recorded as coming to market. It contains the only known handwriting of Salinger at the age of.....
Salinger, J.D. American author of The Catcher in the Rye. Typed letter signed “Jerry”. 2 pages. January 21, 1975. To Eileen Paddison, a close friend and aspiring writer who maintained a correspondence with Salinger for over 15 years. A fascinating and personal letter to the woman whom Salinger considered to.....
Salinger, J.D. American author of The Catcher in the Rye.Typed letter signed “Jerry” and with two hand-written pencil corrections. 2 pages. Dec. 23, 3 PM [1971]. To Eileen Paddison, a boarding-school girl and aspiring writer who struck up an unlikely lifelong friendship with the author, and over time became the.....
Salinger, J.D. [Jerome David]. Typed letter signed by J.D. Salinger as “Jerry” with an accompanying, unpublished Hand Annotated typed draft for the dust jacket for Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenter and Seymour: An Introduction. Dated Sept. 10, 1962. This letter is part a correspondence between Salinger and his publisher at.....
“The Rights of Woman” [Profound Influence on the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments] within The New World, Vol. II, No. 19, May 8, 1841]. Benjamin Park, Editor. New York attorney and legal reformer E.P. Hurlbut’s article “The Rights of Woman” appeared in the May 8, 1841 issue of The New.....
Reclusive U.S. Author, famous for his ground-breaking coming of age novel "The Catcher in the Rye." Extremely important 2 page publishing contract 8.5" x 20" signed "J.D. Salinger" and dated "9th February, 1965" for the right to publish his most important work "The Catcher in the Rye" in Portugese for.....
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.....
Salinger, J.D. American author of The Catcher in the Rye.Typed letter signed “Love Jerry.” 1 page. Feb. 29, 3 PM [1972]. To Eileen Paddison, a close friend and aspiring writer who maintained a correspondence with Salinger for over 10 years. In this personal letter, Salinger opens up about why he.....
Salinger, J.D. American author of Catcher in the Rye. Typed letter signed “Jerry”. Two pages. June 17, 1978. To Eileen Paddison, a close friend and aspiring writer who maintained a correspondence with Salinger for over 15 years. The intensely private author shares here with uncharacteristic openness about his most closely.....
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Autograph letter signed ("R.W. Emerson"), 5 pages, 5" x 8", Concord, 26 May 1858. A very good literary letter addressed to Mrs Watson ("My dear friend"; likely Mary Russell Watson, former governess to Emerson's son Waldo, paramour of Thoreau, and a lifelong friend of the transcendentalists), offering.....
Important Maya Angelou Archive. 10 historically relevant books from Angelou’s personal library; also includes 5 Maya Angelou-owned pre-publication copies preceding the first editions of 5 of her own books. Also comes with Maya Angelou’s Personal Photo album documenting her philanthropic work with UNICEF and 2 Original Honorary PhD degrees awarded.....
DS, signed “J. D. Salinger,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 14, February 25, 1964. Agreement between Salinger and the publisher Ediciones AT of Barcelona regarding “the work by J. D. Salinger entitled: Franny and Zooey,” in which the author grants the “sole and exclusive license to translate, print, publish.....
Brando owned original "Say it in Tahitian: Tahitian - English Dictionary" . Glazed illustrated Soft cover depicting a sailboat with Tahiti in the background. About 5 in x 7 in. 70 pages. Marlon Brando first visited Tahiti in 1960 to scout film locations and later shoot "Mutiny on the Bounty,".....
CARE, Henry. English Liberties: Or, the Freeborn Subject's Inheritance, Containing I. Magna Charta. First edition of one of the very first law books printed in colonial America. Contains the first American printing of the Magna Carta and other fundamental documents of individual liberty in Anglo-American law, including "seminal documents on.....
Francis Ford Coppola. THE GODFATHER, PART II original screenplay. September 1973. Quarto. Brad bound, pictorial wrappers. Rare second draft of one of the most influential American films, which won six Oscars including for Best Screenplay and Best Picture. 200 pages. This script belonged to a stuntman, and has various notations.....
JAY, John. Founding father and important negotiator and statesman during the infancy of the United States. 3 page unsigned manuscript letter to his wife Sally dated July 6, 1794. It was at this time that Jay was residing in England to negotiate the now infamous "Jay Treaty," which Jay and.....
This is the only known surviving My Fair Lady original film script to come to market. The script, which would have been used on set during rehearsals, is dated on its cover as March 15, 1963. In addition to containing the most iconic and memorable lines spoken by Hepburn in.....
Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Impressionist painter. Rare photographic reproduction, 6.25" x 10.5", of one of Renoir’s paintings of a nude woman kneeling, The image has an original signature on the lower border in black ink, “Renoir.” The photograph was originally part of the archive of Renoir's art dealer, the great Ambrose Vollard.....
Salinger, J.D. American author of The Catcher in the Rye. Typed Letter signed “Jerry”. 1 page. April 5, [1972]. To Eileen Paddison, then a high school student living at boarding school, she would become a close friend and confidante of Salinger over the next several years. A striking letter in.....
Important Archive of 2 Harry S. Truman Presidential Typed Letters Signed on Truman's battle against McCarthyism. At the time of these letters in July of 1951, Senator Joseph McCarthy had radically expanded his anti-Communist investigations into the private lives and political beliefs of American citizens, attempting to take alleged Communist.....
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Representative Men. Seven Lectures. First London Edition: 1850. The Lord Lovelace presentation copy, inscribed “Right Honble Earl of Lovelace With the Author’s Compliments” on the front free endpaper (likely in the hand of Emerson's publisher). Original plum cloth, elaborately decorated in blind (Myerson’s binding A), spine gilt.....