VERY RARE PAIR OF GRAEME PARK PHILADELPHIAQUEEN ANNE C...1740-1760, each with scrolled and shell carved crest over a figured splat with four scrolled volutes, set on shell carved legs with trifid feet, upholstered...
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[LITERATURE]. A group of 28 works ofart, history, and literature, including:
DRYDEN, John. The Works. NY: Croscup & Sterling Company, n.d. 10 volumes (of 18, vols., lacking vols. I-II of Drama, vols. I-II of...
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James Purdy (1914-2009) Letters ShortStories and Books When James Purdy died 13 March 2009 the New York Times referred to his work as ?wayward and unclassifiable.? Playwright poet author of short stories and...
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Tennessee Williams Archive (AmericanWriter/Playwright, 1911-1983), circa 1950-1980, twelve signed items including typed materials by Williams, photographs, record albums, magazine articles and reviews, many...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)Autograph Letter, one page, duodecimo, signed and dated June 17th, 1844, no place given, to Cornelius Mathews (1817-1889), reading: "My Dear Mr. Mathews, I send you the...
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[Literature History] Selection of Englishand American authors most cloth-bound including: 27 vols. of the ''Aldine Poets'' Series; Hume's History of England; Macaulay's History of England; Milman's Gibbon's Rome...
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Lot. Hewson, Mary (Polly) Stevenson.Unbound collection of manuscript poems. [Philadelphia], ca. 1787-1795. 140 4to pp., loose in contemp. vellum casing. Fair copies, most likely in Mary Stevenson Hewson's...
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4 vols. Modern American & British Poets:Hill, Geoffrey. For The Unfallen. London: A. Deutsch, (1959). 1st ed. 8vo, orig. bds.; minor wear, d/j (price clipped, minor edge wear). Scattered light internal foxing. *...
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3 vols. American Poets: Whitman, Walt.Leaves of Grass. Philadelphia: David McKay, 1894. 8vo, orig. green cloth, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed; new endpapers. Internally generally clean. * Frost, Robert. A Witness...
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5 vols. American Poets & Poetry: (Coffin,Robert S.) Oriental Harp: Poems of The Boston Bard. Providence, R.I.: Smith & Parmenter, 1826. 8vo, contemp. 1/4 straight-grained red morocco & bds.; joints & extremities...
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3 vols. American Poets, including SignedBooks: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Hyperion. Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1869. Revised edition, 1st ptg. 12mo, contemp. 1/2 red morocco & marbled bds. & edges; scuffed, joints...
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