The two-time Pulitzer Prize winning novelist sends a cryptic note: "Dear Ed, I hope some of you got your mail" The letter is signed "Norman !*@" Typed on white bond typing paper. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. Signed in blue ink. Folded for mailing, else near fine.
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A friendly letter, following up on a request from Lady Wavertree (1873–1952) for information about one of her direct ancestors, the dramatist Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Olivier also refers to "many happy memories of our visit with you in New Zealand." The letter is typed on blue letterhead with just the actor's.....
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A wonderful letter from one of America's best-selling novelists at the time—his novel, The Winning of Barbara Worth, outsold Jack London's The Call of the Wild*, and in all his books sold millions of copies and were made into many films. This letter, addressed to a police officer, responds to.....
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A three-page letter signed "Bob" from Bloch to "Max" (probably Max Rosenberg) extolling the merits of Fritz Leiber's 1943 novel, Gather, Darkness, and suggesting it could be a science fiction blockbuster directed by Robert Wise. Wise was the rare Hollywood director who worked on mainstream blockbusters like Westside Story and.....
Price: $400
![Writers and Places [Significant Handcorrected Typescripts]. P. D. James, Phyllis Dorothy](/pictures/thumb/307600.jpg?v=1613885421)
Two versions of the teleplay for a half-hour BBC documentary about P.D. James's use of place in her fiction, both with manuscript changes and both differing from the program that eventually aired. These scripts, written and edited by James, are significantly longer than the final program and offer insight into.....
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A wonderful letter by the author of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy touching on poems about dragons, Beowulf, and fellow Inkling C. S. Lewis. This letter to Prof. Henry Bosley Woolf thanks him for sending a copy of a paper he had written on Beowulf, a......
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First Edition. With an annotated checklist of 250 books, pamphlets, and broadsides acquired from 2003 to 2009, or, white men explain American history. With 80 full-page color illustrations. One of 1000 letterpress copies. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy; no jacket, as issued.
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Eleanor, a teacher, writes to Harry, a friend or possibly a relative. She writes about planned trips to San Francisco for shopping and about her parents. Then she starts complaining about Eureka: "Eureka is on the fritz. The lumber industry is nil & Humboldt is dead—Eureka looks deserted & forlorn.....
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Two pages (single sheet). 8 by 10 inches, on ruled paper. A nice California business letter. This letter details a number of speculative business ventures in Southern California, and the writer and the recipient appear to be partners in a number of investments. There is a lengthy discussion of the purchase.....
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![Hereafter Gang [Typescript; Rejection Letters; First Edition; and Proof]. Neal Jr Barrett](/pictures/thumb/9181.jpg?v=1602819192)
This novel, set in Texas, focuses "on the churning psyche of a middle-aged man in crisis [and] turns into a sharp and garish parody of a sentimentalized small-town past over which it is easy, but dangerous, to pine."--Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. The book came out shortly after Through Darkest America.....
Price: $750
![Interstate Dreams [Dedication Copy and Typescript]. Neal Jr Barrett](/pictures/thumb/9180.jpg?v=1601938408)
Barrett's Interstate Dreams is a comic novel set in Austin, Texas, published in 1999 by Mojo Press. "Interstate Dreams (1999) – set like most of his best work in his native Texas – is a gritty, eyes-open fantasy about the condition of America at the end of its century."--Encylopedia of.....
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![O.K. for Keats [typescript poem]. Louis Simpson](/pictures/thumb/5234.jpg?v=1604692972)
Two leaves, original ribbon-copy typescript. This poem appeared in Searching for the Ox (1976). Old paperclip stain; folded for mailing, else fine. With a carbon-copy typed letter to Bill (William Cole, an editor and anthologist) signed "Louis." Simpson writes, "The two or three people who have seen this poem tell.....
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Three typed letters, signed, on Caldwell's full-sheet letterhead, addressed to "Cap" (Charles A. Pearce of Caldwell's publishers, Duell, Sloane and Pearce). The letters are five to seven lines and each is signed "Skinny", Caldwell's childhood nickname. The letters serve no business purpose, they are chatty, joke-y notes dashed off in.....
Price: $400
![Sallie C. [Original Typescript]. Neal Jr Barrett](/pictures/thumb/676.jpg?v=1602359440)
35 leaves; ribbon-copy typescript, with extensive corrections with Wite-Out and retyping. This story is an alternate history in which the Wright Brothers, a young Erwin Rommel and Sheriff Pat Garrett meet in a shabby hotel in the West. The story was first published in The Best of the West, edited.....
Price: $500
![Rhido Wars [Typescript]. Neal Jr Barrett](/pictures/thumb/675.jpg?v=1604167337)
57 leaves, laser-printed. 8-1/2 by 11 inches. A novella set in an alternate world where humans are enslaved by rhino-riding creatures. The story first appeared in the Redshift anthology edited by Al Sarrantonio and then in the 19th Annual Year's Best Science Fiction (edited by Gardner Dozois, 2002). Whether this.....
Price: $100
![Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus [Original Typescript]. Neal Jr Barrett](/pictures/thumb/672.jpg?v=1602359439)
29 leaves; 8-1/2 by 11 inches. An original riboon-copy typescript, with many corrections with Wite-Out and overtyping. The story was a finalist in the novelette category of both the Hugo and Nebula awards. Near fine, housed in a custom folding archival paper sleeve. Inscribed and signed twice by Barrett, in.....
Price: $750
Geis was a prolific writer of soft-core pornographic novels, which for many years was his main source of income. As a hobby, he published several fanzines, the best-known of which was Science Fiction Review (SFR). According to the Fancyclopedia 3, Geis's various fanzines were among the most influential in science.....
Price: $850
![Vigilia [Inscribed with Autograph Letter]. Enrique Anderson Imbert](/pictures/thumb/441.jpg?v=1604164905)
First Edition. 147 pages. First book by this Argentinean novelist. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author to Spanish scholar Ramon Martinez Lopez, with an autograph letter signed by Imbert to Martinez enclosing the book.
Price: $100
