Autograph Manuscript, Signed (341 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Hardcover, full green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine, inscribed by Fichter on ffep, 247 pages. Clean and square copy. Occasional pencil marginalia, some shelf wear. 0.0 0.0 0.0. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Good. No Jacket. SIGNED presentation copy to Ronald Hilton, 20th century journalist, specialist in Romance languages and Stanford professor. Pages are clean with solid binding. Pages have tanned. Flecks of white to rear cover and a few small brown spots to page ends. Signed by Author(s).

Folio. Original publisher's dark orange printed wrappers. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (foreword in German, English, and French), 2-7 (Urtext), [i] (blank) pp. + 1f. (recto publisher's advertisements verso blank) pp. + 4 pp. facsimile laid in. Signed.

Folio. Original publisher's wrappers. 1 p. introduction, 4 pp. autograph manuscript document, 2 pp. textual commentary. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Illustrated by Illustrated with Facsimile of the Autograph Manuscript (illustrator). First Edition. Beige colored cloth covers with gold lettering on spine in illustrated dust jacket with portrait of de Vega on front cover. Dust jacket is worn and chipped but intact; the book has a faint musty smell and the spine is slightly cocked. The page edges are a bit spotted and the endpages are a bit browned. The contents are tight. The book is inscribed by both Reichenberger and Foley to prominent Spanish Golden Age scholar Edwin S. Morby. The book provides a critical analysis of de Vega's play "Benavides" along with a facsimile of the entire holographic manuscript. ; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Number 395 of 500 signed book plate. CLEAN Fine 2007 2nd edition hardcover with fine dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. One page. 5 x 8 inches, No place or date, but circa 1900. McElory (1838-1918) was a newspaper man, writer and lecturer. This manuscript consists of a poem titled "To Beauty and the Beast." It is about an ugly monster with many "eyes" who is driven off by a beautiful woman who attacks him with her many "I's". Signed by Author(s).

Oblong folio. Original publisher's printed wrappers. vii pp. introduction by Eric Simon + 61 pp. facsimile. Signed.

Folio. Original publisher's green boards. 25 pp. textual commentary + 12 pp. autograph musical manuscript facsimile. Binding slightly worn and rubbed. Faksimile-Reihe Bachscher Werke und Schriftstücke herausgegeben vom Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Band 12. Signed.

Oblong folio. Original publisher's light blue patterned boards with printed paper label to spine. In slipcase. 1f. (recto half-title, verso blank) 1f. (recto tipped-in color portrait, verso blank), 1f. (recto title, verso copyright), 7 (notes by Ernst Fritz Schmid), 8 (blank), 9-11, (introduction by Dent), [i] (blank) pp. + 4ff. facsimile printed on rectos only, 13-20 (textual commentary by Erich Valentin with prints tipped-in), 1f. (blank), 23-50 pp. printed music. Spine and slipcase slightly worn. Signed.

Fifth Bishop of Calcutta (1778-1858). 2 pages, 8vo. In very good condition. Signed 'Daniel Calcutta'. Fisher's note reads 'I sanction the return of the Rev Mr Lincke back again to Burdwan his former station pending the confirmation of the Bishop on his return | Henry Fisher | Commissary | 22d. Sept. 1838'.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. MARTIN (Sir Theodore, 1816-1909). Autograph Manuscript Leaf Signed, quoting Heinrich Heine, dated June 1889. 1 p., 8vo, in ink on laid paper, the verso with old paper adhesions, crease and an old fold. Good.  From Heinrich Heine's Poems and Ballads in Martin's hand, written out and signed is this quotation: "The rose, the lily, the sun, and the dove, I loved them all with a passion of love. That is past; now one only is dear to me, My pretty, my witty, pure, peerless she; She herself, source of all that is worthy love, Is rose, and lily, and sun, and dove." From Heine, by Theodore Martin. June 1889. Sir Theodore's acclaimed English translation of Heine's Buch der Lieder (1854) introduced the German poet's lyrical romanticism to Victorian readers and influenced later Anglophone verse renderings. This autograph transcription?made thirty-five years later?shows Martin's lasting affection for Heine's poetry. Sir Theodore Martin was a Scottish poet, translator and man of letters, best known for his translations of Heine, Horace, and Catullus, and for his monumental Life of the Prince Consort. He was also the husband of the celebrated Shakespearean actress and author of On Some of Shakespeare's Female Characters, Lady Helen (Faucit) Martin. It is rare to find a manuscript leaf like this from him. . Signed by Author(s).

Rose Macaulay - Pleasure in Ruins. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1953. First edition. In original dust jacket. One of Macaulay's most distinctive late works, Pleasure in Ruins blends travel writing, cultural history and meditation on time, decay and memory. Moving from classical antiquity and the dissolved monasteries of Henry VIII to the bomb-damaged churches and cities of post-war Britain and Europe, Macaulay treats ruins not as picturesque curiosities but as records of belief, ambition and destruction. Written after the Blitz - in which her own London home was destroyed - the book combines wit, irony and deep classical learning with a modern awareness of cultural fragility. It stands close in spirit to The Towers of Trebizond and is widely regarded as a major work of mid-twentieth-century English nonfiction. An uncommon first edition in the scarce original jacket, offered with significant association material linking Macaulay to Roger Senhouse of Secker & Warburg. Association material included: Autograph postcard from Rose Macaulay to Roger Senhouse, postmarked London W1, 8 PM, 9 March 1954, sent from 20 Hinde House, W1. The message reads approximately: "Very many thanks for the card. I very rarely go to see the pictures - I couldn't remember what gallery they were in. Thanks for your sympathy re burglars - The Glasgow repairman who came to mend my fridge, & to whom I told the story, said, with contempt, 'Och! no one knocks me down & gets away with it,' so I felt small & contemptible. I see that two burglars have now murdered a hotel porter (must have been the same, I fear). I hope you are well again. Everyone but me seems to have been in high fervour at the Reform that evening - Rose." The reference to burglars who had "now murdered a hotel porter" almost certainly alludes to the widely reported killing of George Frederick Smart, night porter at the Aban Court Hotel, Kensington, in the early hours of 9 March 1954. The exact alignment of the postmark with the date of the murder strongly suggests Macaulay was reacting to contemporary newspaper reports. Invitation card from Macaulay to Senhouse for cocktails (6-8) at the Lansdowne Club, Berkeley Square, signed "his Rose Macaulay", with RSVP address at 20 Hinde House. Mounted and overpainted engraving of Piazza Colonna, inscribed on the reverse "Christmas Greetings & Love from Rose". Four contemporary newspaper clippings relating chiefly to Macaulay. Two pages of pencil autograph notes by Roger Senhouse to the rear endpapers, dated 20 July 1958, reflective and personal in nature, mentioning E. M. Forster as "my best living novelist". Handwriting consistent with known examples. From the library of William St Clair (1937-2021), historian and author, with his signature to the front free endpaper. Condition: Very good in green cloth with red and gilt spine label. Light wear to boards. Original dust jacket not price clipped (25s net), with chipping and small losses at extremities and some toning; now protected in removable clear cover. Internally clean and sound, minor spotting and offsetting to endpapers. xvii + 466pp + plates (71 images plus 4 illustrations in the text). 224mm x 150mm x 42mm. A highly appealing association copy, linking Rose Macaulay with Roger Senhouse and the Secker & Warburg circle, and offering a vivid documentary glimpse of literary London in 1954.

Oblong folio. Original publisher's decorative boards with decorative dark red leather title label gilt to upper. In slipcase. 8ff. facsimile, 1f. (recto title, verso copyright), [3] pp. critical commentary, [i] (copyright) pp. Slipcase worn. Signed.

Oblong folio. Original publisher's printed wrappers. 1f. (title), [iii]-vii pp. textual commentary by W. Hordynski in Polish, Russian, French, and English + 32 pp. facsimile. In dustjacket. Wrappers partially split at spine with slight loss; dustjacket worn and torn, with loss. Signed.

8vo: 12 pp. Very good, in original blue cloth account book of twelve leaves, with title on label on front board. Label of Waterlow & Sons inside front cover. The entries spread across six sets of two facing pages, all ruled with red printed lines and in boxes and with the following seven categories printed at the head: 'No. on Plan'; 'DESCRIPTION.'; 'State of Cul[ivatio]n.'; 'Value per Acre'; 'Statute | A. R. P. [i.e. acreage]'; 'Value. | £ s. d.'; 'REMARKS.' The first entry, 'House Outbuildings, Garden &c', has the following under 'REMARKS': 'The House is old and does not meet modern requirements, but is in nice tenantable order'. Another entry ('Dan Briggs'), carries the comment 'Field on Grindle low side of Ribble, part of North E. Side of fence quite down, part of this is very liable to flood. Very badly washed by River & wants weiring full length of River side'. The value is carried forward, and the account ends, 'I have very carefully gone over this Farm and I estimate the top Market Value at £6335. | [signed] William S. Airey | Land Agent Whalley | 15 April 1904'.

Both items signed 'Arthur Mee'. Typed Letter Signed: 5 August 1924. 1p., 12mo. Good, on lightly-aged paper. It would be a 'great pleasure' to him to be able to make use of the article she has sent him, 'but my papers are almost entirely in the hands of a staff of regular contributors', and he has 'very little opportunity of using outside contributions'. In a postscript he expresses pleasure at the fact that his 'papers come your way', and sends his regards to 'Patricia and David'. Manuscript Letter: 11 August 1924. Written by a secretary and signed by Mee. 1p., 12mo. Good, on lighly-aged and creased paper. He is not 'acquainted personally with any of the agencies for assisting people to write for publication', and so cannot recommend one. 'They may be useful, & money spent on their advice well spent, but I do not know. [last four words underlined] My experience is that people learn to write by their own practice of writing.'.

Folio. Original publisher's gray speckled paper boards with printed title label to upper. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 5-[7] foreword by Heinz Krause-Graumnitz, [8] (blank), 1f. (recto facsimile title, verso blank), 12 ff. facsimile. Binding slightly worn and rubbed. In three acts to the composer's own libretto, Lohengrin was first performed in Weimar at the Grossherzogliches Hoftheater on 28 August 1850. "Lohengrin is the last of Wagner's works that can fairly be described as an opera rather than a music drama. It contains, however, the seeds of future developments and is a powerfully conceived, imaginatively scored work in its own right." Barry Millington in Grove Music Online. Signed.

Large oblong octavo. Original publisher's ivory linen-backed boards. 30ff. facsimile + 1f. textual commentary in German by Georg Schünemann and in English Ralph Kirkpatrick. Bookseller's handstamp to foot of front free endpaper. Signed.

Though little is known about this American writer, he had a following as a horror and sci-fi writer of such short stories as "The Caller in the Night" (1917) and other oft-anthologized ghost tales; his "In the Open Code" appeared in "The Best Short Stories of 1918," and he also published novels such as "The End of the Flight" (1917) and "Gallant Rogue" (1921). Two items: First, a TLS, 1p, 8½" X 11", New York, NY, 1923 March 2. Addressed to Professor Albert Johannsen, author of "The House of Beadle and Adams and Its Dime and Nickel Novels" (University of Oklahoma Press, 1950), the definitive reference work and bibliography on the subject. Near fine. "I feel truly honored by your wish to include something of mine in your collection of autographs and manuscripts," he begins. "If the scribble I am sending you is not to your taste, you must let me know. My book manuscripts are the property of the publishers, and magazine editors never save or return the 'copy' of stories; hence this scrap from an unfinished yarn is the only thing at hand." Second is the accompanying "scrap" -- labeled "Rough draft" in red pencil at the upper left in Kline's hand -- which is titled "Sunk Without a Trace" and is an AMS, 1p, 8½" X 11", n.p., n.y. Near fine. It consists of one very full page of bold and legible text, beginning: "On the 15th of every March I regularly receive a line from my friend Dr. Carver. Regularly his letter commands me to dine with him at the ___ Club on the 21st of the month. This annual feast has become a fixture between us. The dinner is not to herald the technical, and sometimes the actual, arrival of Spring. It is to celebrate, it may be the fourth, the sixth -- this year it was the seventh -- anniversary of Dr. Carver's divorce." Could become a horror tale -- but in any case, it's an attractive and interesting rough draft example that makes you want to read more. Also present is Johannsen's original 8½" X 11" file folder, bearing a printed "Collection of Albert Johannsen" label (partly filled in by Johannsen).

Oblong folio. Original publisher's stiff blue printed wrappers with titling within decorative border to upper. [iv] pp., v-xvi pp. ("Preface" by Charles Ryskamp and "Introduction" by J. Rigbie Turner).1f., 85 pp. (facsimile), [i] blank pp. Signed.

FURNESS, William Henry. Autograph Manuscript Signed. On a single 4.5-inch by 7-inch sheet. "Time flies fast when laughing Childhood throws/ Handfuls of roses at him as he goes/ But how much faster does old Graybeard fly/ When youth is gone and all the roses die! (1820). W. H. Furness. July 3, 1892." Very Good (few folds). $45.00.

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Manuscript document handwritten on beige lined paper in black ink about the Betts family. Cover letter datelined May 9, 1895 in Fulton, New York and signed, "Mrs. H. L. Stout," in black ink. 8" x 10." Eleven pages. Pages are very clean and intact except for a few horizontal and vertical fold lines, age toning, some wrinkling, and a few minuscule splits along fold lines at the edges. A Very Good copy. This is a handwritten genealogy which begins with a two-page cover letter to Mr. G. K. Betts of Syracuse, New York by Mrs. H. L. Stout. The nine pages after the letter were also written by Stout. In her letter, she explains how the genealogical information in this document was obtained from her Aunt Jennie Betts of Missouri and a newspaper article Jennie had given her about an ancestral Betts family estate in England known as Hampton Heath. The genealogy begins with the name of John Burwell of England. John was the father of Hannah Burwell who married John Betts. The genealogy continues with the family lineage and briefly describes where different family members of the lived and settled. Much of the genealogy is in list form and includes many names but few dates. Signed by Author(s).

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Fine. Both dated June 13, 1895. Both 4 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches. The letter is written to a Miss Savage and is flirtatious in nature. In part: "Would it not be fitting that the two poets our Sunday Evening Circle can boast of should each possess an edition of de luxe of the works of the other?" The letter is one page and is from Ithaca, NY. The manuscript is titled "Tune: Live L'amour, in key pitched by Miss Colegrove." It consists of eight couplets, concerning eight professors at the University of Pennsylvania. Edmonds was a Philadelphia author, teacher, professor and lawyer. He was elected to the Philadelphia Board of Public Education (1906-11) and to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1921-25). Signed by Author(s).

Folio. Original publisher's black cloth-backed patterned paper boards with dark red oval title label gilt to upper. 2 pp. textual commentary, 20 pp. autograph manuscript facsimile. Binding slightly worn. Signed.

Condition: Good. ALS. Mary Anne Everett Green writes to the Society of Antiquaries about the discovery of a new document in the hand of Oliver Cromwell's wife Elizabeth Cromwell as 'I understand that the society of Antiquaries pleases itself somewhat upon being possessor of what has been supposed to be the only known autograph of Elizabeth Cromwell, the protectress.' Writing on three sides of a bifolium in May 1859 from the 'State Paper Office' where she was then working, Green describes the discovery among 'an immense mass of petitions' and appends a copy of the document (not present) with her inferences about the handwriting as well as a second copy of a document by Henry Cromwell and further explanation of her discovery. Green signs off with a hint of gloating: 'I think these papers will possess some interest for the Society' and signs her name in full. The letter was heavily revised during writing; there is a stain to the first page and a note above the address in another hand: 'read 9. June '59'. Green helped oversee the establishment of the Public Record Office as well as writing extensively on British history. Good Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Three-quarter calf and blue cloth. 8vo. 141pp. Portrait. Limited to 750 copies. Inscribed by the author's mother. Posthumously published account of the author's experiences during World War I. Laid into this copy are two autograph wartime letters to his uncle Clinton Gilbert. Cornelius Winant (1896-1928) served with the American Ambulance Field Service in France beginning in June 1916. In January 1918 he enlisted in the French Foreign Legion, serving as Aspirant, in the 236th Field Artillery. His Battery was overrun and he became a prisoner of war. He escaped and was captured and escaped again. Crossing the countryside he reached Rotterdam and reported to the French consul. He was assigned to the 18th Artillery outside of Paris and given six weeks leave for being an escaped prisoner. The first letter is dated March 13, 1918 and is 4 pages long. He has just returned from leave in Paris and writes from the front. He talks about enemy shelling and how comfortable his "dugout" is. The second item is a one-page note on a postcard dated Oct. 12, 1918. It is written from a Dutch military camp after his escape from a German prison. In it he writes "Just a few lines to tell you I am once more a free man.I sneaked off alone and walked across Westphalia taking ten nights and hiding during the day". The book is in rather worn condition with much scuffing and wear to the leather spine and corners. The spine has been taped to hold the front cover on. The text is in very good condition with some minor soiling. The two letters are good with some creasing at the corners and light soiling. Signed by Author(s).

One page. Dimensions of paper roughly eight inches by six and three-quarters. Trimmed but with no loss to text. Very good on aged paper. 'Received by me [Lady Anne Silvius] Of the Honourable Richard Hampden Esq; One of the Four Tellers of His Majesty's Receipt of Exchequer, the Sum of [Fifty pounds] in full of all former Directions, and for Three Months Annuity, due at [Xmas] last past, of [200] Pounds per Annum'. Signed 'Ann: Sylvius', and with the signature [slightly trimmed] of 'Eliz Jones'.

Condition: Fine. Grosse Pointe, Michigan, July 11, 1966., 1966. Fine. - Over 400 words penned on 4 sheets of 11-1/4 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide creamy white paper. The artist Domingo Saglimbene writes to Fridolf Johnson, the executive editor of American Artist magazine, inquiring as to whether they might be "interested in the possible publication of a manuscript dealing with the development of an artist. I thought perhaps, since the work gives an altogether unusual insight into the creative process, you might consider it suitable for the magazine." He goes on to explain that most of what is published regarding artists is written by people other than the artist himself. Titling the work "The Flight of Swallows", he describes the various aspects of the work which has four chapters, starting with the artist's boyhood and the artist's relationship to other people and women. Signed in full "Domingo Saglimbene". The pages are stapled together at top left and folded for mailing. Near fine. Born in Catina, Sicily, the artist Domingo Saglimbene (1920-2016) moved to Detroit in 1932. A self-taught artist from the age of 6, he started painting full time in 1952 after serving in World War II. His paintings were exhibited yearly at the Detroit Institute of Art, and were also exhibited by the University of Michigan. Saglimbene had several one-man shows in New York City and Detroit but subsequently shunned the commercial aspect of the art world and retired to a basement studio to immerse himself in painting. Three of his paintings were exhibited at the Midwest Museum of American Art in 2017 in a show titled "No Bounderies: Outsider, Fold, and Art of the Self Taught". One of his paintings is in the museum's permanent collection. An illustrator and artist as well as a fine pressman, the recipient Fridolf Johnson was an editor of American Artist Magazine until his retirement in the 1970's. As a graphic artist, he designed title panels for Hollywood movies and art & typography for advertising as well as dust jacket illustrations. He wrote and illustrated his own children's books in addition to other works. He also compiled and edited the Knopf book "Rockwell Kent: An Anthology of His Work".

Condition: About fine. First edition. Two pages, (21.5 x 14.5cm), in ink on Appledore House, - Laighton Brothers, letterhead. About fine. Hutton (1843 1904) was an American poet, essayist and critic born in New York City on August 8, 1843, and educated privately there. From about 1870 he contributed continually to periodicals and was the dramatic critic of the New York Evening Mail from 1872 to 1874. From 1886 to 1898 he was the literary editor of Harper's Magazine. From 1901, until his death from pneumonia in New York City in 1904, he was a lecturer of English at Princeton. Appledore House was an informal island artists' colony that was active in the late 19th to the early 20th century, and home of Celia Laighton Thaxter, whose poetry and gardens drew her literary, artist, and musician friends for decades. Childe Hassam painted Celia in her famed garden. Thaxter died and was buried on the island in 1894, the poet Hutton was a pallbearer at her funeral. This poem was written to Celia's brothers, Oscar (also a poet) and Cedric Laighton, who are directly named in the poem: "The Lay of the Long Lost Cable / Down under the sea to / Oscar / Through the haunts of / the Codfish & Shark / I've brought you, to lead / the [undecipherable] / From the shore all / electrical spark /Down under the sea to / Cedric / From the stern of a / boat I was paid, / There I lie, like a long / sea-serpent / And I'll lie there, as / Long as I'm laid. / Laurence Hutton / Aug 19th 1893. .