{"title":"Literature \u003e Archive","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"2086-nash-ogden-1902-1971-carnival-of-the-animals-signed","title":"Nash, Ogden. (1902-1971) \"Carnival of the Animals\" - Signed","description":"A fine copy of this wonderful work by Saint-Saens, an LP recording by Andre Koztelanetz with Noel Coward speaking the new verses by Ogden Nash, signed on the cover by Ogden Nash.  Cover in fine condition, with some light wear, a split at the bottom fold, and an ownernship signature on the verso corner.  Record itself is worn.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the time of his death, the NY Times wrote that Nash's \"droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.\"  His deliciously playful take on \"The Carnival\" begins: \"Camille Saint-Saens\/was wracked with pains,\/ when people addressed him, \/ as Saint-Saens.\/ He held the human race to blame,\/ because it could not pronounce his name, \/ So, he turned with metronome and fife, \/ to glorify other kinds of life. \/ Be quiet please - for here begins \/ his salute to feathers, fur and fins.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093150453919,"sku":"2086","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Ogden_Nash_Signed_LP_1.jpg?v=1722186243"},{"product_id":"3285-literature-dickens-charles-1812-1870-autograph-signature","title":"[Literature] Dickens, Charles. (1812 - 1870) Autograph Signature","description":"A bold autograph from the great Victorian novelist, in blue ink on an envelope paper addressed to Charles Kent at the office of \"The Sun.\"  7 x 12 cm.  With a later typed date (\"1869 - March 13\") at the head of the sheet, presumably added by a collector who separated this portion of the envelope from the postal cancellation and enclosed letter. In very fine condition.  Sold together with an undated ink drawing of Dickens and a fine original CDV photograph by Gurney \u0026amp; Son, 6.2 x 10.2 cm, mounting traces to verso, slightly trimmed. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharles Kent (1823 - 1902) was an English poet, biographer and journalist who was editor of the Sun from 1845 to 1870.   A close personal friend of Dickens, he contributed to Household Words and All the Year Round under Dickens's editorship. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093187416223,"sku":"3285","price":900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Dickens_Autograph_1.jpg?v=1722186475"},{"product_id":"3858-zweig-stefan-1881-1942-brennendes-geheimnis-burning-secret-signed","title":"Zweig, Stefan.  (1881-1942) Brennendes Geheimnis [Burning Secret] - SIGNED","description":"Boldly signed and inscribed by the Austrian writer who became one of the most highly regarded men of letters writing in German between the wars.  Zweig was also a prolific autograph collector and his massive collection of musical and literary manuscripts resides at the British Library.  Zweig and his wife, who left Europe together in 1940, committed suicide in 1942, largely in desperation over the horrors continuing in their homeland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e78 pp. 12mo. Full red leather in original paper wraps.  Inscription in purple ink, on the endpage verso opposite the title: \"Professor Dr. Arthur Burchard \/ in herzlichen gedenken \/ Stefan Zweig.\"  In very fine condition.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBurning Secret is set in an Austrian sanatorium in the 1920's. A lonely twelve-year-old boy is befriended and becomes infatuated by a suave and mysterious baron who heartlessly brushes him aside to turn his seductive attentions to the boy's mother.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093206192287,"sku":"3858","price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Zweig_signed_Brennendes_Geheimnis.jpg?v=1722186585"},{"product_id":"3859-zweig-stefan-1881-1942-sternstunden-der-menschheit-funf-historische-miniaturen-the-tide-of-fortune-signed","title":"Zweig, Stefan.  (1881-1942) Sternstunden der Menschheit : Fünf historische Miniaturen [The Tide of Fortune] - SIGNED","description":"78 pp.  12mo. Original red printed boards.  Signed in purple ink, on the first free endpage, \"Stefan Zweig.\"  Spine somewhat worn, else fine. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZweig's five historical portraits in miniature is among his most celebrated works.  The third of these portraits, \"Georg Friedrich Handels Auferstehung\" captures the moment of inspiration which resulted in the composer's Messiah.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093206257823,"sku":"3859","price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Zweig_signed_Sternstuden_1.jpg?v=1722186587"},{"product_id":"4171-literature-pound-ezra-1885-1972-the-cabinet-of-a-dream-and-congress-should-go-on-the-air-signed-and-annotated-manuscript","title":"[Literature] Pound, Ezra. (1885-1972) \"The Cabinet of a Dream and Congress Should Go on the Air\"  - Signed and Annotated Manuscript","description":"Annotated typescript, signed (twice), of an essay titled \"The Cabinet of a Dream and Congress Should Go on the Air.\" [1939].  On three  8-1\/2\" x 11\" sheets. Signed as \"E. Pound\" at the top of the first page and elaborately signed in full at the end of the essay.  Horizontal folds, paper clip indentations at top left of each sheet, small tears or remnants of prior mounting at top center verso of each sheet, overall fine.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The only place you can find those records is in the Congressional Record which is, by common knowledge, the last place that the American public ever looks for information as to what its government is doing (to it). And as I see no means to inducing the people to read the said record, I suggest (and HOW!) that Congress be put on the air.  With all this sickening blah about democracy I at any rate have the courage to say that the only way to maintain democracy is to use the modern means for that purpose, namely the air.\" [in part]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable item from the American modernist writer and critic whose works, particularly his poetry, occupy a central place in twentieth-century letters.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093216219295,"sku":"4171","price":8500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Pound_Essay_1413.jpg?v=1722186645"},{"product_id":"4188-literature-tolstoy-leo-1828-1910-signed-note-on-calling-card","title":"[Literature] Tolstoy, Leo. (1828–1910) Signed Note on Calling Card","description":"\u003cp\u003eScarce original calling card of the Russian writer widely regarded as one of the greatest novelists of all time.  Around his printed name (\"Comte Léon L. Tolstoy\"), he has written a note in English in pencil and signed in full: \"Please leave a word to the porter when I can find at home tomorrow or on Monday. Yours Truly, Tolstoy.\"  3.5 x 2 inches, slight paperclip indentation at top margin, overall in very fine condition.  Sold together with a vintage postcard photograph of the author.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093216972959,"sku":"4188","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Tolstoy_Sig_Card_1.jpg?v=1722186651"},{"product_id":"4461-literature-carlyle-thomas-1795-1881-autograph-letter-framed-with-original-julia-cameron-portrait","title":"[Literature] Carlyle, Thomas. (1795–1881) Autograph Letter, framed with original Julia Cameron Portrait","description":"A short autograph letter, declining a dinner invitation. Nicely matted and framed with a rare original hand-pulled photogravure portrait by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879), originally published in Camera Work, XLI (1913).  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fine set from the influential Scottish-born Victorian philosopher, essayist, and historian.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093225853087,"sku":"4461","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Carlyle_ALS_and_photo_1.jpg?v=1722186706"},{"product_id":"4777-literature-emerson-ralph-waldo-1803-1882-autograph-quotation-and-cdv-photograph","title":"[Literature] Emerson, Ralph Waldo. (1803 - 1882) Autograph Quotation and CDV Photograph","description":"Fine autograph signed quotation from the American poet, author and philosopher whose central role in the Transcendentalist movement earned him a place among the most influential figures in 19th-century literature and thought. His two collections of Essays, which encompass such wide-ranging topics as “Love,” “Self-Reliance,” “Experience,” “Nature,” and “Politics,” remain a fixture of the Western canon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAutograph signed quotation from his \"Quatrains and Fragments,\" being number 46, \"Heri, Cras Hodie,\" penned on a small oblong sheet. In full: \"Future or Past no richer secret folds, O friendless Present! then thy bosom holds. R. Waldo Emerson.\"  Mounting traces to verso, overall fine condition.  Sold together with an original 1876 CDV portrait photograph issued by G. K. Warren Portraits studio of Boston, Massachusetts.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093235945631,"sku":"4777","price":2400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Emerson_Quote_Photo459.jpg?v=1722186767"},{"product_id":"4827-vallejo-cesar-1892-1938-miller-dan-b-1928-cesar-vallejo","title":"[Vallejo, César  (1892 - 1938)] Miller, Dan. (b. 1928) César Vallejo","description":"Attractive original wooden block for a woodcut portrait of the influential modernist Peruvian poet. 15-1\/2 x 11 inches; light wear. Undated. Titled and signed by the artist in pencil on the right edge. \u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eThe Poetry of César Vallejo is unparalleled in movingly capturing the dislocation and frustrated passion of the early twentieth century. He lived in a world that was violently breaking and being born, and he depicts—in his masterpiece \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eTrilce\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e and in his posthumous poems—the shapes reality makes when molded to the contours of an individual consciousness. O\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003ene of the earliest and most consistently underrepresented of what we today call the modernists, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eTrilce\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e was published in the same year as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem style=\"\"\u003eThe Waste Land\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e, but it was published by an unknown writer in Peru and so wasn’t available in Europe or the U.S.. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003eAlthough its author later moved to Paris, where he got along well with both Lorca and Neruda and continued to write brilliant poetry, he would not publish another book of poems in his lifetime. Most of his poetry trickled into publication after he died in 1938, and English readers would not have easy access to his work until decades later.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093237387423,"sku":"4827","price":800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Vallejo_Carving_1.jpg?v=1722186776"},{"product_id":"4931-wells-h-g-1866-1946-autograph-letter","title":"Wells, H.G. (1866-1946) Autograph Letter","description":"Autograph letter from Wells to a Mr. Ralph, mentioning the famous Leopold and Loeb murder case. Dated 18th March, 1937. Small but legible handwriting, neat signature, headed note paper with author’s address at 13 Hanover Terrace, London NW1. 2 pp, writing on 2 recto sides. 28 x 18cm. Usual folds, in fine condition. In full: \"I'm very busy at present and it is difficult to make an appointment with you.  I will save time if you will let me know what you want to talk about.  I've heard a lot about the Loeb case but criminology isn't very much in my line. Will you write. Yours Sincerely, H.G. Wells.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurprisingly scarce autograph letter from the English novelist and social commentator, best remembered today for the science fiction novels he published between 1895 and 1901: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, and The First Men in the Moon. With Jules Verne, Wells is sometimes referred to as \"The Father of Science Fiction.\"","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093241122975,"sku":"4931","price":600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Wells_ALS024.jpg?v=1722186798"},{"product_id":"4987-literature-miller-henry-1891-1980-tropic-of-capricorn-inscribed","title":"[Literature] Miller, Henry. (1891 - 1980) Tropic of Capricorn - INSCRIBED","description":"8vo, 11-365 pp. Crimson cloth hardcover volume, bound with original front wrapper, and yellow errata sheet proceeding title page. Published in August 1945, the first post-war edition of the book, printed from plates of the First Printing (February 1939), but on cheap war paper. This copy boldly signed and inscribed on the title page: \"Henry Miller \/ for his friend Lillik as a forerunner of better things to come.  For Lillik even the best is none too good.  C'est un ami du coeur qui n'est rien d'un grand coeur. Henry 8\/17\/46 - After a whirlwind campaign - money, money, money, money, money.\"  In very good condition, with a few pages chipped at margins, binding worn, but otherwise fine. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTropic of Capricorn continues the autobiographical exploration of the self which Miller began in Tropic of Cancer, recounting, in his characteristically brutal and forthright style, the emergence of the artist from his early days of struggle in New York. Banned in many countries on grounds of obscenity, copies of Tropic of Capricorn were smuggled into the United States, contributing to the underground growth of his reputation in his native land.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093242663071,"sku":"4987","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Miller_Sig_Capricorn_1.jpg?v=1722186807"},{"product_id":"4985-lee-nelle-harper-b-1926-to-kill-a-mockingbird-signed-and-inscribed-to-lees-publicity-director","title":"Lee, Nelle Harper. (b. 1926) To Kill a Mockingbird - Signed and Inscribed to Lee's Publicity Director","description":"A fine association copy, signed and inscribed in blue ink on the first free end page to Isabelle Holland, “To Isabelle, With love and admiration of a grateful Nelle, May 4, 1961.” In fine condition, with minor light staining to front cover and spine, dustjacket with scattered small creases and edge wear, small paper losses at spine extremities. 5.75 x 8.25, 296 pages. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIsabelle Holland (1920 - 2002) wrote more than 50 books herself, and was especially known for her young-adult novels tackling serious subjects, though she also wrote gothic suspense and mystery thrillers and held various publishing jobs.  As publicity director at J. B. Lippincott Company, one of the first books she worked on was \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" by Harper Lee, with whom she began a lifelong friendship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLee's only published novel was instantly successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature.  In 2008, a Uk Guardian survey of librarians ranked the book ahead of the Bible as one \"every adult should read before they die.\"","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093242695839,"sku":"4985","price":6500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Harper_Lee_Signed_Mockingbird_1.jpg?v=1722186809"},{"product_id":"5075-literature-tocqueville-alexis-de-1805-1859-l-apos-ancien-regime-et-la-revolution","title":"[Literature] Tocqueville, Alexis de. (1805 - 1859) L\u0026apos;Ancien Régime et la Révolution","description":"\u003cp\u003eOctavo, 456 pp. First edition of Tocqueville's analysis, an analysis which Tocqueville expected no constituency of the Republic to find sympathetic, of the causes and results of the French Revolution.  For Tocqueville, the Revolution represented the triumph of a new set of interests, more egalitarian than those of the monarchy, to be sure, but nevertheless interests vested in class and retrograde in detail, resulting in the formation of the deadening beaurocracy for which France has been famous ever since.  A presentation copy, inscribed by Tocqueville: \"M. de Pontmartin de la part de M. de Tocqueville.\" The recipient, Armand Augustin Joseph Marie Ferrard, Comte de Pontmartin, was a journalist and critic known for his legitimist sympathies and his attack on the post-revolutionary order. Tocqueville's rather impersonal inscription might reflect his expectation of harsh treatment at the hands of Count Pontmartin, but in fact Pontmartin's review in L'Assemblée nationale was largely sympathetic, emphasizing the freshness of Tocqueville's ideas and originality of his style. We wrote, “This liberty that he cherishes would be certain to triumph, and this time its triumph would surely be our newest and most beautiful conquest, if all of M. de Tocqueville's contemporaries understood it the way he does.” He produced a series of three Causeries littéraires among some other twenty volumes of work, all published, incidentally, by Lévy Frères, and in his Deuxième série des causeries littéraires (1857), a series of attacks on prominent Liberals which caused some sensation, he dedicates an entire twenty-six page chapter to counter Tocqueville's views in L'Ancien Régime et la Révolution. The most famous of all his books is Les Jeudis de Mme. Charbonneau (1862), which in the guise of a novel offered a series of malicious and witty portraits of contemporary writers. A fine association copy. Light dampstain to the lower margin of the first few dozen pages, not affecting the text, otherwise very good. Bound in contemporary quarter calf and marbled paper-covered boards, with the original wrappers bound in.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093245317279,"sku":"5075","price":45000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Tocqueville.jpg?v=1722186823"},{"product_id":"5060-literature-wilde-oscar-1854-1900-autograph-quotation-and-original-cabinet-photograph","title":"[Literature] Wilde, Oscar. (1854–1900) Autograph Quotation and Original Cabinet Photograph","description":"Superb original Sarony cabinet photograph of Wilde, elegantly presented in an elaborate period mat together with an autograph manuscript quotation of one of Wilde's famous sayings, \"There is a fatality about all good resolutions. They are invariably made too soon.\" Photograph in fine condition, quotation sheet with corner torn and well repaired.  11 x 15 inches overall.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe present writing originally appeared in Wilde's \"Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young,\" first published in the 1894 December (and only) issue of the Oxford student magazine, The Chameleon.  In Wilde's famous libel trial of 1895,  the publication came under attack in Wilde's cross-examination by Defense Attorney Edward Carson.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093245415583,"sku":"5060","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Oscar_Wilde_Autograph_Quotation_Ensemble_1.jpg?v=1722186824"},{"product_id":"5076-literature-verhaeren-emile-1855-1916-les-aubes","title":"[Literature] Verhaeren, Émile. (1855-1916) Les Aubes","description":"Octavo, 162pp.  First edition of the great Belgian symbolist poet's first dramatic work, written partly in verse.  The play treats of the powerful and elegiac contemporary themes of social justice and the decline of rural life as against the burgeoning cities.  As in his verse of the period, Verhaeren's anarchist sympathies are well in evidence and the work offers a vision of a better life than that which has come to pass. A near fine copy in three-quarter cream-colored suede calf with morocco spine label,  top edge gilt.  Wrappers illustrated by Verhaeren's close friend, the painter Theo von Rysselberghe bound in.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVerhaeren was among the great lyric poets of his day, achieving an international renown and befriending many of the greatest artists and writers of the epoch.  He narrowly missed winning the Nobel Prize in 1911.  Inscribed by Verhaeren, “A Pierre d'Alheim Emile Verhaeren.”  Alheim was an author and translator, particularly known for his biography and support of the work of Modest Moussorgsky.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSold together with two additional volumes, similarly bound in three-quarter tan suede on gray\/green marbled boards, with original printed wrappers bound in, both very fine:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Petites Légendes.\" Bruxelles: Deman. 1900. 8vo. 76 pp. First edition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Les Visages de la Vie.\" Bruxelles: Deman. 1899. 8vo. 83 pp. First edition.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093245808799,"sku":"5076","price":950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Verhaeren_sig_books_1.jpg?v=1722186829"},{"product_id":"5158-literature-balzac-honore-de-1799-1850-le-livre-mystique-signed-and-inscribed-presentation-copy-to-comtesse-appony","title":"[Literature] Balzac, Honoré de. (1799 - 1850) \"Le Livre Mystique\" Signed and Inscribed Presentation Copy to Comtesse Appony","description":"Volume 1, large 8vo. Half brown leather with title plate on spine and 6 raised bands over green marbled boards.  Inscribed on the title page \"à Madame la Comtesse \/ Appony hommage de l'auteur \/ de Balzac\".  With the Alexandre Gourdon collection blindstamp at the lower right corner and overall in very fine condition. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rare presentation copy, inscribed to one of the author's closest female friends - the wife of the Austrian ambassador and the hostess of a celebrated salon at which Balzac was a frequent guest. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe present first volume of \"Le Livre Mystique\" includes \"Les Proscrits,\" and \"Louis Lambert.\" The first edition of  the book was sold in ten days, and the second followed it a month after, which, as Balzac remarked sardonically, was \"good fortune for an unintelligible work.\"","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093248200863,"sku":"5158","price":6500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Balzac_Le_Livre_Signed_1.jpg?v=1722186844"},{"product_id":"5447-embroidered-binding-new-years-gift-book-etrennes-mignonnes-pour-lan-de-n-seigneur-mdcclxxxv","title":"[Embroidered Binding] New Year's Gift Book Etrennes Mignonnes Pour l'An de N. Seigneur MDCCLXXXV","description":"52 leaves, partially interleaved with blanks.  Illustrated with woodcuts of coins and phases of the moon. 12mo. Contemporary French embroidered binding of light green silk and metal thread and spangles, flowers in pink and green silk in center of each cover, housed within 12mo marbled paper covered slipcase.  Minor soiling, generally sound and unsophisticated. With gilt-illustrated leather plate on inside front board, \"Ex Musaeo Hans Furstenberg.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Etrennes Mignonnes\" translates roughly as \"pretty New Year's Gifts.\" These almanachs seem to have been used frequently for these type of embroidered bindings","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093258490015,"sku":"5447","price":950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Etrennes_Mignonnes_New_years_book_1.jpg?v=1722186904"},{"product_id":"5469-wilde-oscar-1854-1900-baker-charlie-oscar-mazurka-original-sheet-music-with-mounted-photograph","title":"Wilde, Oscar. (1854–1900) [Baker, Charlie.] \"Oscar Mazurka\" - Original Sheet Music with Mounted Photograph","description":"Scarce original sheet music, including a mounted original photograph of Wilde in an attractive printed frame.  6 pp. First interior leaf of music partially torn (but fully present) and heavily creased, toned, but otherwise fine. Very scarce. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilde first came to America on a lecture tour arranged by the English impresario, Richard d'Oyly Carte (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame), arriving on the SS Arizona on January 3rd, 1882.  On a grueling schedule, Wilde lectured in a new town every few days and though the tour was originally planned to last four months, it was continued for over a year.  Though his press reception was hostile, Wilde's popularity among his audiences inspired the publication of several works like the present one, trading on his commercial success.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093258784927,"sku":"5469","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Wilde_Mazurka_-partial576.jpg?v=1722186903"},{"product_id":"5479-literature-dickens-charles-1812-1870-original-cabinet-photograph","title":"[Literature] Dickens, Charles. (1812 - 1870) Original Cabinet Photograph","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fine original cabinet photograph of the celebrated Victorian novelist. Without photographer attribution. 4 x 6 inches. Corners  broken, and with mounting traces on verso, else fine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093259800735,"sku":"5479","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/DickensPhoto170.jpg?v=1722186905"},{"product_id":"5664-literature-ginsberg-allen-1926-1997-signed-drawing","title":"[Literature] Ginsberg, Allen. (1926-1997) Signed Drawing","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fabulous signed item from the celebrated American poet of the \"Beat Generation\", author of \"Howl\" and \"Kaddish\". An ink drawing of a man's head executed on a 10\" x 8\" sheet, inscribed at top: \"Dreams are made of ink \u0026amp; air\", signed at bottom left. Light wear, a small fold tear or two, very good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093266026655,"sku":"5664","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/GinsbergDrawing143.jpg?v=1722186943"},{"product_id":"5832-literature-tennyson-alfred-lord-1809-1892-autograph-signature","title":"[Literature] Tennyson, Alfred Lord. (1809 - 1892) Autograph Signature","description":"Autograph signaure of the distinguished British poet  who was one of the most highly regarded and influential literary figures of the Victorian era. Ink signature, “A. Tennyson,” on an off-white card stamped \"Farringford\" and mounted.  Sold together with an original mounted oval Woodburytype photograph. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTennyson lived at Farringford House on the Isle of Wight from 1853 until the end of his life in 1892. Tennyson wrote of Farringford:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    “Where, far from noise and smoke of town\u003cbr\u003e    I watch the twilight falling brown,\u003cbr\u003e    All round a careless-ordered garden,\u003cbr\u003e    Close to the ridge of a noble down.”\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093271957663,"sku":"5832","price":275.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/TennysonAutograph167.jpg?v=1722186978"},{"product_id":"5834-literature-daudet-alphonse-1840-1897-inscribed-visiting-card","title":"[Literature] Daudet, Alphonse. (1840 – 1897) Inscribed Visiting Card","description":"\u003cp\u003eInscribed visiting card from the from the popular French novelist who has signed with his initials.  Tape remnants on upper corners, else fine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093272154271,"sku":"5834","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/DaudetCDV166.jpg?v=1722186978"},{"product_id":"5843-wilde-oscar-1854-1900-autograph-signature-ensemble","title":"Wilde, Oscar. (1854–1900) Autograph Signature Ensemble","description":"\u003cp\u003ePrecise ink signature, “Oscar Wilde,” on an off-white slip, nicely matted with a reproduction photograph of the Irish writer and leader of the Aesthetic Movement, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Happy Prince, etc., whose career and health were shattered by his imprisonment on charges of sodomy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093272481951,"sku":"5843","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Wilde_Sig_ensemble734.jpg?v=1722186984"},{"product_id":"5839-literature-collins-wilkie-1824-1889-autograph-signature","title":"[Literature] Collins, Wilkie. (1824 - 1889) Autograph Signature","description":"\u003cp\u003eScarce autograph signature from the British author regarded as first British detective story writer. Bold autograph, dated 1882 on a page measuring 10.5 x 7 cm. Tape remnants on upper corners, else fine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093272678559,"sku":"5839","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/CollinsAutograph165.jpg?v=1722186981"},{"product_id":"5868-cocteau-jean-1889-1963-autograph-letter","title":"Cocteau, Jean. (1889–1963) Autograph Letter","description":"Autograph Letter Signed (\"Jean Cocteau\"), in French, 1 p, 4to, n.p., December 31, 1953, to John Schmitz, regarding a film.  Mailing creases, else fine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA short but passionately worded letter to a young filmmaker, translated in part: \"You will do wonders in Mexico on the theme of races and turrets.  I became very ill in Madrid and I can't seem to find my equilibrium.  My only joy is to ensure that others put their strength and their youth in the service of an art rendered vile by the golden calf.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Schmitz worked as cinematographer or camera operator on many films, including Little Women, Quo Vadis and Ben-Hur.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093273366687,"sku":"5868","price":900.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/CocteauALS041.jpg?v=1722186987"},{"product_id":"6211-literature-frost-robert-1874-1963-bookplate","title":"[Literature] Frost, Robert. (1874 - 1963) Bookplate","description":"Original bookplate from the American poet and four-time Pulitzer Prize winner whose work was characterized by homey language and easy verse forms, mainly concerning life in rural New England. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhite paper measuring 3 5\/16\" by 4 3\/8\" illustrated with a Woodcut Engraving designed by John Julius Lankes with a black \u0026amp; white image that measures 2 3\/4\" by 3 7\/8\". \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Wood-Engraving is lettered in white with \"EX LIBRIS\" at the top of the woodcut and \"ROBERT FROST\" at the bottom of the engraving.  The illustration foreground shows a snowy country landscape scene at dusk with a dirt country road with wooden fence posts and a wire fence along the left side of the road leading up to a hill in the background with three trees and a farmhouse at the top of the hill set against a dark, cloudy sky. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis printed and illustrated book plate was designed by the noted Artist and Illustrator J. J. Lankes who cut the wood block for this bookplate during the 1920s while he was visiting Robert Frost and living on the Frost Farm, \"The Gulley,\" in South Shaftsbury, Vermont, just outside of Bennington, Vermont.  One of the actual bookplates that were pasted into Robert Frost's own personal books.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093285032095,"sku":"6211","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/FrostBookplate188.jpg?v=1722187052"},{"product_id":"6225-turgenev-ivan-1818-1883-terres-vierges-inscribed","title":"Turgenev, Ivan. (1818 - 1883) Terres Vierges - INSCRIBED","description":"5 x 7.5, 352 pages. Original pritned wrappers finely bound into three-quarter crimmson leather over red marbled boards. Signed and inscribed on the half-title page, in French (translated): “To Mr. Jules Claretié a tribute from the author.” In very good condition, with scattered foxing to signed page, light rippling to fore-edges, and a bit of light rubbing to boards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable copy from the highly influential Russian author, signed and inscribed to Jules Claretie (1840 - 1913), an important French literary figure and director of the Théâtre Français. A prolific critic, Claretie also wrote libretti for three of Massenet's operas (La Navarraise, Thérèse, and Amadis). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough Pauline Viardot was married to Louis Viardot, the Russian novelist Turgenev fell passionately in love with her after hearing her rendition of The Barber of Seville in Russia in 1843. In 1845, he left Russia to follow Pauline and eventually installed himself in the Viardot household, treated her four children as his own, and adored her until he died. She, in turn, critiqued his work and through her connections and social abilities, presented him in the best light whenever they were in public. The exact status of their relationship is a matter of debate.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093285589151,"sku":"6225","price":2800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Turgenev_sig_book_1.jpg?v=1722187061"},{"product_id":"6246-literature-twain-mark-samuel-langhorne-clemens-1834-1910-large-signed-photograph-with-famous-quotation","title":"[Literature] Twain, Mark. [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1834 - 1910) Large Signed  Photograph with Famous Quotation","description":"A sensational signed photograph from the American author of such classics as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSilver gelatin photograph inscribed in black ink at the top of the image \"A word to Mr. Clarence Brown:\/Always do right. This will gratify some people,\/\u0026amp; astonish the rest.\/Feb. 15 1901\/Truly Yours\/Mark Twain\". 12 1\/4 x 8 3\/4 inches (31 x 22 cm). A slight smudge (resulting from an overfull pen) to \"people,\" traces of mounting to verso, an exceptionally attractive image of Clemens, archivally matted and framed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unusually fine and large photograph of Twain, inscribed with one of his best-known (and cynical) quotations.  The accepted originating date for this most famous of all Twain quotations is February 16, 1901, when he first delivered this pearl of wit in a speach to the Young People's Society in Greepoint, Brooklyn.  The present inscription records the quotation as having originated at least one day prior!","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093286178975,"sku":"6246","price":14000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Twain_SP_framed_1.jpg?v=1722187065"},{"product_id":"6328-sandburg-carl-1878-1967-signed-photograph-playing-guitar","title":"Sandburg, Carl. (1878 - 1967) Signed Photograph Playing Guitar","description":"Large signed photograph inscribed by the poet to his  friend and editor, Catherine McCarthy at Harcourt Brace: \"Catherine McCarthy \/ who has heard all the songs and is a much cherished listener and friend, Carl Sandburg, 1948.\" 10.5 x 13.5 inches. A few tears and creases to edges and corners, overall very good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday we primarily remember Sandburg as the populist poet and Lincoln biographer, but he was also a folk song performer and frequently accompanied his own poems with guitar. In 1927 published his massive collection of folk songs, The American Songbag and in 1950, he published its sequel, The New American Songbag.  Of the guitar, he wrote in \"Some Definitions\": A small friend weighing less than a newborn infant, \/ ever responsive to all sincere efforts \/ aimed at mutual respect, depth of affection \/ or love gone off the deep end.\"","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093289291935,"sku":"6328","price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Sandburg_Sp_1.jpg?v=1722187080"},{"product_id":"6371-literature-dickens-charles-1812-1870-oliver-twist-or-the-parish-boy-s-progress-by-boz","title":"[Literature] Dickens, Charles. (1812–1870) OLIVER TWIST or the Parish Boy’s Progress by \"Boz.\"","description":"Three octavo volumes (4 7\/8 x 8 inches; 200 x 124 mm). Original mauve-brown fine diaper cloth with blind stamped arabesque design to boards and gilt titles on the spines. Volumes I and III in twelves and II in eights. [iv], [1]-331, [1, blank], [4, publisher's ads]; [iv], [1]-307, [1. blank]; [iv], [1]-315, [1, blank] pp. With half-titles to volumes I \u0026amp; II, no half-title called for in Volume III. With almost all internal flaws according to Smith present. Without the illustration list in volume I (not found in many copies). With twenty-four inserted engraved plates by George Cruikshank, including frontispieces. All three embossed brown cloth bindings somewhat faded around edges, spines or joints worn or chipped, Vol. 1 rear board clumsily reattached, scattered foxing.  Otherwise good,  with pages not loose. Ownership stamps to inner boards and two volumes with mounted visiting card\/book plate inscribed \"Mr. Lawrence, The Greenway.\" Eckel pp.59-63: \"The 3-Volume edition has become very scarce\"; Podeschi A27.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDickens’s second novel and a landmark of Victorian fiction. The book marks a departure for Dickens, from the anecdotal style used in The Pickwick Papers or Sketches by Boz, to a darker type of writing addressing social issues that affected the Victorian underclass, such as the Poor Law and child labour and criminality. For this novel, Dickens’s first in the standard three-volume form, Bentley divided the printing task between two firms: Volume I was printed in a 12mo format by Samuel Bentley; Volume II in 8vo format by Whiting; and Volume III preliminaries and signatures A-F and probably G by Whiting with the remaining text by Samuel Bentley, again in 12mo format.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSerialized in Bentley’s Miscellany from 1837 to 1839, curiously it was published in book form before its completion in his periodical, forcing Cruikshank to complete the last few plates in haste and without review by the author. The three-decker publication date was 9 November 1839, and within a week, at Dickens’s insistence, the title-pages were changed to include his name, and the \"Church\" version of the final plate (\"Rose Maylie and Oliver\") was substituted for the \"Fireside\" version.  Possibly in reflection of his new style of writing, Dickens disliked having \"Boz\" on the title page and the new title page was inserted into all copies not distributed in the first week of publication. This copy has both \"Boz\" on the title page as well as the original \"Fireside\" plate. The true first issue is quite rare.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093290799263,"sku":"6371","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Dickens_Oliver_Twist_1st_Ed_2.jpg?v=1722187092"},{"product_id":"6381-updike-john-1932-2009-interesting-signed-letter-to-henry-chapin","title":"Updike, John. (1932–2009) Interesting Signed Letter to Henry Chapin","description":"Typed letter, signed \"John Updike\" on the author's Georgetown, MA letterhead. November 25 [no year].  1 page. Very fine. A highly interesting letter about Chapin's manuscript of poems, the art of poetry and the market for poetry. In part: \"I have read here and there with pleasure and admiration, missing only perhaps the compression, the mad sudden verbal precision, that we get with the great poets, Shakespeare above all.  Lines like these from 'Morning Song' -- 'Someone set it going, wound up the small fowl \/ to loop the airs, mad with exuberance, swaying the lovely tree-tops with their song.' -- have something of the surprisingness and momentum I mean, and that I can recognize but can produce no more easily than the next man.  Poetry is a moot matter, especially nowadays, and though I can truthfully say your poems gave me more pleasure than many published volumes, this doesn't mean I can point to a sure path for their publication.  I myself would not be able to bring out an occasional volume of verse, I dare say, if it were not for the hope of profit that my prose holds out to my publishers.  Fine young poets like our firends Bailey have given it up entirely, I gather.  You are to be admired for remaining true to this most bewitching of muses.  My publisher, Knopf, would surely give your book scrutiny, but I know their own list of poetry and small-sales volums has shrunk like many another's under the new corporate focus on the bottom line (in accounting, not, alas, verse).\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA remarkable letter from the American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic, one of only three authors (the others being Booth Tarkington and William Faulkner) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenry Chapin (1894 - 1983), was the author of a half- dozen volumes of poetry and four books on the ecology of man and the sea.  In addition to Updike, his literary friends included Robert Frost and Robert Graves.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093290995871,"sku":"6381","price":600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/UpdikeTLS169.jpg?v=1722187092"},{"product_id":"6546-bull-ole-1810-1880-longfellow-henry-wadsworth-1807-1882-autograph-signed-letter-to-mrs-ole-bull","title":"[Bull, Ole. (1810-1880)] Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. (1807-1882) Autograph Signed Letter to Mrs. Ole Bull","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrief autograph letter from the American poet, signed \"Mr. Longfellow\" in the third person, one page, 8vo, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 30th January 1880. Longfellow accepts an invitation from Mrs. Ole Bull, wife of the important Norwegian violinist and composer, for the evening of Thursday, 5th February. With blank integral leaf. Some very light, extremely minor age wear, overall very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093296107679,"sku":"6546","price":375.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Longfellow_2C_Henry_Wadsworth_ALS_6546815.jpg?v=1722187121"},{"product_id":"6558-literature-yeats-william-butler-1865-1939-autograph-quotation","title":"[Literature] Yeats, William Butler. (1865 - 1939) Autograph Quotation","description":"A beautiful autograph quotation from the Irish poet and playwright recognized as one of the key figures in twentieth-century literature. AQS on an off-white 5 x 3 card. Yeats pens a quote from his 1918 poem \"Tom O'Roughley\": “For Wisdom is a butterfly, And not a gloomy bird of prey. W. B. Yeats, April 20, 1924.” In fine condition.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093296402591,"sku":"6558","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/YeatsAQS048.jpg?v=1722187125"},{"product_id":"6726-literature-fitzgerald-f-scott-1896-1940-the-evil-eye-a-musical-comedy-in-two-acts-presented-by-the-princeton-university-triangle-club","title":"[Literature] Fitzgerald, F. Scott. (1896–1940) The Evil Eye. A Musical Comedy in Two Acts. Presented by The Princeton University Triangle Club.","description":"Program and piano-vocal score. 92 pp. Folio, publisher's cloth-backed grey stiff cardboard paper wraps, decorated boards. 12\" x 9\". The orange decorated cover is clean and bright, both front and back boards with a few cracks\/tears repaired with tape from the verso and light stains around the edges, the orange cloth backing is bright and intact. Bruccoli A4. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA scarce copy of the Second Princeton Triangle Club show, for which Fitzgerald wrote all lyrics based on the book by E. Wilson Jr.. with music by Paul B. Dickey and F. Warburton Guilbert. The only edition of this scarce publication, preceding This Side of Paradise. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a freshman at Princeton, Fitzgerald won the 1914-15 competition for the Triangle Club show with his book and lyrics for \"Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi!\". Although a poor academic showing made him ineligible to perform in the show, his witty lyrics won high praise. The following year he collaborated with Edmund \"Bunny\" Wilson on another Triangle Club show, \"The Evil Eye\", again winning the competition, again being barred from performing because of his grades","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093302530207,"sku":"6726","price":1850.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Fitzgerald_Evil_Eye_1.jpg?v=1722187158"},{"product_id":"6751-literature-art-whitman-walt-1819-1892-photograph-as-a-young-man","title":"[Literature \u0026 Art] Whitman, Walt. (1819 - 1892) Photograph as a Young Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eVintage photograph of the American poet as a young man.  A later printing, ca. 1900.  5 x 6.75 inches. A few minor stains in the blank margins around the oval image, mounting remnants on verso but overall very good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093302694047,"sku":"6751","price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Whitman_2C_Walt_Photograph_6751824.jpg?v=1722187159"},{"product_id":"6889-literature-twain-mark-samuel-langhorne-clemens-1834-1910-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-tom-sawyers-comrade","title":"[Literature] Twain, Mark. [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1834 - 1910) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)","description":"8vo; 366 pages. Publisher's pictorial decorated green cloth binding, rebacked, titles to spine and front cover in gold and black.  Illustrated throughout with 173 illustrations by E. W. Kemble, photogravure portrait of Clemens by Karl Gerhardt. Rebacked, with the original spine laid down.  A few light edge stains or foxing spots in margins, 1.5-inch tear to lower margin of p. 155 and small tear to rear endpage, small name plate and warm gift iscription on first free endpages, dated April 14th, 1885 (\"with best wishes from his Papa, for many happy returns of the day\").   Overall a good copy of this classic American book.  BAL 3415; Grolier, American, 87; Johnson, pp. 43–50; Kevin MacDonnell, “Huck Finn among the Issue-Mongers,” Firsts; The Book Collector’s Magazine, vol. 8, no. 9 (September 1998), pp. 28–35.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe traditional and most important first issue points are all present here, as well as additional points: [2(1):] The cancelled title leaf shows copyright dated 1884; [1:] page 13: \"Him and another Man\" listed at page 88; [1:] page 57, 11th line from the bottom reads: \"with the was\"; [4:] page 283-84 is a conjugate, illustration with straight pant-fly; [3:] page 155 with final \"5\" in a different font and extending slightly below the first two numbers; [1:] page 161, no signature mark \"11\"; blank final leaf 238; [1:] frontispiece portrait showing drapery under the bust and imprint of the Heliotype Printing Company. Further first state points not identified in BAL include heading for chapter 6 reads \"Decided\" (later corrected to \"Decides\") on p9; page 143 with \"l\" missing from \"Col. \" at top of illustration; line 7 from the top: part of b in \"body\" is missing.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten over an eight-year period, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was harshly criticized from the moment of publication, attacked for its “blood-curdling humor,” immorality, coarseness and profanity. It nevertheless emerged as one of the defining novels of American literature, prompting Ernest Hemingway to declare: “All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. It’s the best book we’ve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing since.”","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093307281567,"sku":"6889","price":2500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Twain_Huckleberry_Finn_1st_ed_1.jpg?v=1722187190"},{"product_id":"6991-literature-visual-arts-russell-bertrand-1872-1970-history-of-the-world-in-epitome-for-use-in-marian-infant-schools","title":"[Literature \u0026 Visual Arts] Russell, Bertrand. (1872-1970) History of the World in Epitome (for use in Marian infant schools).","description":"\u003cp\u003e3.25 x 4.5 inches. A small volume bound in gold paper, the text reading in full: \"Since Adam and Eve at the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable\" and including a series of line sketches of Adam and Eve, and a battle, and concluding with a photograph of a mushroom cloud.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093310951583,"sku":"6991","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Russell_2C_Bertrand_Book_6991.jpg?v=1722187209"},{"product_id":"7003-literature-art-kaiser-georg-1878-1945-gondor-emery-1896-1977-signed-caricature","title":"[Literature \u0026 Art] Kaiser, Georg. (1878 - 1945) [Gondor, Emery. (1896 - 1977)] Signed Caricature","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginal caricature portrait of the influential German Expressionist dramatist who, along with Gerhart Hauptmann, was the most frequently performed playwright in the Weimar Republic. The portrait signed and dated 1921 by the artist, Emery Gondor and boldly signed by Kaiser. Edges worn, a few creases, else fine. 10 x 14 inches [25.5 x 35.5 cm].\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093311377567,"sku":"7003","price":375.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Kaiser_2C_Georg_sig_portrait_7003.jpg?v=1722187215"},{"product_id":"7008-film-amp-theater-rasputin-klabund-henschke-alfred-1890-1928-autograph-letter-about-rasputin","title":"[Film \u0026amp; Theater]  [Rasputin] \"Klabund\" Henschke, Alfred. (1890 - 1928) Autograph Letter about \"Rasputin.\"","description":"Autograph letter from the Expressionist poet, playwright, and novelist who influenced German literature with his adaptations and translations of Oriental literature. Henschke was a consumptive who spent much of his short life in sanatoriums, and autograph material is scarce. 1 page. 4 January, 1928. A short but interesting letter about the sale of his 1928 \"Rasputin\" to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the intention for the title role to be performed by Lon Chaney.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMGM eventually issued \"Rasputin and the Empress\" in 1932, four years after Klabund's death and starring the Barrymore siblings—John (as Prince Chegodieff), Ethel (as Czarina Alexandra), and Lionel Barrymore (as Grigori Rasputin). It is the only film in which all three appeared together. The film's inaccurate portrayal of Prince Felix and Irina Yusupov as Prince Chegodieff and Princess Natasha caused a major lawsuit against MGM.  Klabund is not mentioned in the literature about the film and presumably his book was not a major source for the final version. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093311574175,"sku":"7008","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Henschke_2C_Alfred_ALS_7008813.jpg?v=1722187218"},{"product_id":"7122-goethe-johann-wolfgang-1749-1832-krauter-theodor-1790-1856-autograph-letter","title":"[Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. (]1749 - 1832)] Kräuter, Theodor. (1790 - 1856) Autograph Letter","description":"An interesting and uncommon autograph letter from the \u003cfont style=\"\" size=\"\" face=\"\" color=\"\"\u003e\u003cfont class=\"goog-text-highlight\" style=\"\" size=\"\" face=\"\" color=\"\"\u003eWeimar librarian, Grand Ducal Council scribe and trusted secretary of Goethe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e. 1 page. Weimar. 17 October, 1853. Translated from the German in full: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Venerated Sir and friend, I was truly delighted to receive a sign of life from you, which confirms the continuity of your strength and ...(?) . I wish with all my heart that your new sphere will be as favorable as possible and will maintain your mental elasticity, yes, even rejuvenate it.  About myself I can report that, after fortunately overcoming severe illnesses, my condition is now  improved as best as can be, so that I am looking forward to the future full of confidence, but first looking towards winter – (which on account of the shortness of the days is becoming more and more disagreeable to me).  Let's congratulate our noble Nothingness and wish him well that he has been relieved from his pain and suffering. It was a hopeless situation! From the Schwarzburg (?), of which you used to have several, I hope to have found  the right thing according to your indications.  As for a voucher or receipt for this mailing, let's let it be for now, as I intend to use your dear note as such.  With the request to kindly be willing to have the insert sent to her address through your municipal post office, and (if you have an address book of Berlin available), please add the name of the street and the house number. I am yours truly, with the greatest respect, yours, H. Krauter.\"\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[\"Verehrtester Herr und Freund! Es hat mir ein wahrhaftes Vergnügen gemacht ein Lebenszeichen von Ihnen zu erhalten, welches den Fortbestand Ihrer Kraft und R...heit bestätigt. Ich wünsche von ganzem Herzen daß der neue Wirkungskreis so günstig wie möglich seyn und Ihre geistige Spannkraft erhalten, ja verjüngen möge. Von mir kann ich melden, daß, nach glücklich überstandenen schweren Krankheiten mein Zustand in soweit sich zum Besten gestaltet, daß ich voll Vertrauen der Zukunft und zunächst dem Winter  - (der mir, wegen der Tageskürze, immer ungenießbarer wird,) - entgegen gehe. Unserem edlen Wenig wollen wir Glück wünschen, daß er seiner Pein und seinen Leiden enthoben ist. Es war ein trostloser Zustand! Aus den schwarzburger Fumenlien(?, davon Sie vormals mehrere hatten, hoffe, nach Ihren Andeutungen das Richtige gefunden zu haben.  Mit einer Quittung über diese Sendung wollen wir es dießmal auf sich beruhen lassen, da ich Ihre liebe Zuschrift als solche zu benutzen gedenke. Mit der Bitte, die Beilage an ihre Adresse(?), durch Ihre Stadtpost, geneigtest befördern lassen zu wollen und – (wenn Ihnen ein  Addreßbuch Berlins zu Gebote steht,) - noch den Namen der Straße und die Hausnummer darauf zu setzen, verharrt in hochachtungsvoller Verehrung Ihr treuergebener H. Krauter. \"","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093314818207,"sku":"7122","price":500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Krauter_ALS.jpg?v=1722187235"},{"product_id":"7121-literature-amp-art-sacher-masoch-leopold-ritter-von-1835-95-autograph-letter-expressing-his-sympathies-for-judaism","title":"[Literature \u0026amp; Art] Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Ritter von. (1835 - 95) Autograph Letter expressing his \"sympathies for Judaism\"","description":"Autograph letter from the Austrian novelist, best known for his \"Venus in Furs\" (1870) and for the term \"masochism\" which was coined by Dr. Krafft-Ebing to describe a form of abnormality depicted in some of his novels. 1 page. Gratz, 13 April, 1878. Translated from the German in full: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Highly venerated Sir, My interest and my sympathies for Judaism inspire me to send to you my recently published „Judengeschichten“ (Jewish Stories), as well as the review of them in the „Jüdischen Literaturblatt“ (Jewish Literature Magazine). I would be happy to make your … acquaintance and therefore would like to ask you to name an hour where I would least be disturbing you.  Respectfully, Dr. Leopold  Ritter von Sacher Masoch.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSacher-Masoch edited the Leipzig-based monthly literary magazine Auf der Höhe. Internationale Review (At the Pinnacle. International Review), a progressive magazine aimed at tolerance and integration for Jews in Saxony, as well as for the emancipation of women with articles on women's education and suffrage.  Masoch's \"Jewish Stories\" was published in 1878.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093314982047,"sku":"7121","price":1200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Sacher-Masoch_2C_Leopold_Ritter_von_ALS_7121817.jpg?v=1722187235"},{"product_id":"7166-berg-alban-1885-1935-wedekind-frank-1864-1918-signed-letter","title":"[Berg, Alban. (1885 - 1935)] Wedekind, Frank. (1864 - 1918) Signed Letter","description":"Dictated letter signed at the conclusion by the influential German playwright whose work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism.  His plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box, 1904) were adapted by Berg to form the libretto of his \"Lulu.\" 1 page. Munich, January 12, 1917. In full: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dear Mr. Muehsam, I thank you very much for your complementary inquiry, and I am honored to convey to you that I am working on a kind of a destiny poetic work, in which the same or similar basic forms of the destinies of our fatherland and that of humanity are looked for and found. The material is taken from ancient mythology. Of the eleven songs in anthem which the completed work will entail, six are finished.  Please be so so kind and excuse the dictation, as I am currently not quite well and am resting in bed.  With best regards, Yours truly, Frank Wedekind\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[München, den 12.I.17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSehr verehrter Herr Dr. Mühsam!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMit verbindlichem Dank für Ihre auszeichnende Anfrage beehre ich mich Ihnen mitzuteilen, dass ich mit einer Art Schicksalsdichtung beschäftigt bin in der für die Geschicke unseres Vaterlandes und diejenigen der Menschheit gleiche oder ähnliche Grundformen gesucht und gefunden werden sollen. Der Stoff ist der alten Mythologie entnommen. Von den elf Gesängen in Wechselrede die das Werk umschließt sind sechs fertig.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWollen Sie bitte das Diktat damit entschuldigen, dass ich durch ein leichtes Unwohlsein ans Bett gefesselt bin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMit verbindlichen Grüßen und Empfehlungen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIhr ergebener\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrank Wedekind]","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093316489375,"sku":"7166","price":650.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Berg_WEDEKIND_ALS392.jpg?v=1722187247"},{"product_id":"7483-literature-twain-mark-samuel-langhorne-clemens-1834-1910-signed-savage-club-photograph","title":"[Literature] Twain, Mark. [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1834 - 1910) Signed \"Savage Club\" Photograph","description":"Portrait photograph boldly and clearly signed on the image, \"Mark Twain\", 6 July 1907. The photograph is a marvelous head and shoulders image of the famed American author by Ernest H. Mills of Hampstead, 5.5\" x 7.75\" (visible portion), set in a mount bearing printed inscription \"Mark Twain From his Brother Savages July 6th [19]07\" surrounded by printed signatures of more than 200 members of the Savage Club, 11\" x 14\". Both the image and the mount are in lamentable condition, with significant silvering to corners of image extending inward, moderate browning, with substantial tears and wear to mount. Still, only one of these has ever been seen at auction (Christie's London in 2008) until this one emerged, and as it holds such prominence in Twain's estimation, it remains an exceedingly rare and desirable photograph with outstanding association. It has been attractively and archivally matted and floated in a museum frame under UV glass.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Savage Club, founded in 1857, is a bohemian gentlemen's club in London, \"formed to supply the want which Dr Samuel Johnson and his friends experienced when they founded the Literary Club. A little band of authors, journalists and artists felt the need of a place of reunion where, in their hours of leisure, they might gather together and enjoy each other's society, apart from the publicity of that which was known in Johnson's time as the coffee house, and equally apart from the chilling splendour of the modern club.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SAVAGE CLUB DINNER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis portrait of Mr. Clemens, signed by all the members of the club attending the dinner, was presented to him, July 6, 1907, and his speech on that occasion opened with his appreciation of the gift: \"I am very glad indeed to have that portrait ... This is the best I have had, and I am glad to have your honored names on it.\" This visit to England was also the occasion of Twain's receiving a D.Litt. at Oxford University..\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Savage Club would inevitably want to entertain him on its own account, and their dinner of July 6th was a handsome, affair. He felt at home with the Savages, and put on his trademark white suit for the only time publicly in England. He wrote for them one of his reminiscent speeches, recalling his association with them on his first visit to London, thirty-seven years before. The speech, containing many of Twain's wittiest observations on literature and camaraderie, may be read in full at http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/6798562\/97\/THE-SAVAGE-CLUB-DINNER.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093326221471,"sku":"7483","price":3000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Twain_Savage_Club_SP_1.jpg?v=1722187310"},{"product_id":"7636-literature-eliot-t-s-1888-1965-signed-letter-to-george-platt-lynes","title":"[Literature] Eliot, T. S. (1888–1965) Signed Letter to George Platt Lynes","description":"\u003cp\u003eVery interesting typed and signed personal letter from Eliot, praising the photographs of himself taken by the important American photographer, George Platt Lynes (1905 - 1955), writing that \"the total effect gives me an impression that I look like a moderately good film actor in a variety of parts.  I prefer myself in the apparent role of big executive to my part as a kind of plain clothes man in a William Powell film.\" 1 page, dated 22 September, 1947. Unevenly trimmed along the upper and right edges, a couple of smudges, and repaired surface tears on verso, hinged at top edge to archival backing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093331267743,"sku":"7636","price":1400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Eliot_TLS172.jpg?v=1722187339"},{"product_id":"7637-literature-christie-agatha-1890-1976-signed-letter-about-her-writing-habits","title":"[Literature] Christie, Agatha. (1890 - 1976) Signed Letter about her writing habits","description":"\u003cp\u003eTLS, 2 pages, 5.5 x 7, Winterbrook House letterhead, 16th March, 1972. Christie writes to Roland Miles, a young Christie enthusiast, discussing her writing habits and mentioning what would be her final novel, the then-untitled \"Postern of Fate.\" In full: “I am glad that you read my books.  As to your questions: Books take varying times to write because it depends how much time you have to give.  I should say normally between 3-6 months, with possibly another month later for revision.  One works different times, different days, again depending on what other things are engaging your time or attention.  If you have a good 2 or 3 days on end, you could probably work 2 or 3 hours at a time, say in the morning, and I find a very good time to write is in the evening when you can easily put in 3 or 4 hours as there are not likely to be interruptions.  I am planning another book at the moment, but there is no title in my mind for it as yet. ” Accompanied by the original mailing envelope and a postcard portrait of Christie. In fine condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093331398815,"sku":"7637","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Christie_TLS170.jpg?v=1722187340"},{"product_id":"literature-moore-clement-clarke-1779-1863-poems-including-a-visit-from-st-nicholas-presentation-copy","title":"[Literature] Moore, Clement Clarke. (1779 - 1863) Poems [including \"A Visit from St. Nicholas\"] - PRESENTATION COPY","description":"A signed copy of the first appearance of \"T'was the Night Before Christmas.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition, collected and published at the request of Moore’s children. Contains the first appearance of his famous poem \"A Visit from St. Nicholas\" (\"Twas the Night Before Christmas\") in a collection of his own verse. 12mo (7 1\/4 x 4 3\/4 inches; 184 x 121 mm). xi, [1, blank], [13]-216 pp.  With a historically important presentation inscription by the author at the top of the half-title: “To His Excellency Baron Gerolt, Minister from Prussia to the United States, Washington. \/ With the respects of the Author. \/ April, 1846”. Publisher's original brown paper boards, printed paper spine label and upper 1.5 inch of spine cover perished, front hinge split and just barely attached. Interior, including presentation page, complete, tight and clean throughout.  Chemised in a quarter leather slip case with raised spine and green leather labels with gilt lettering. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A Visit from St. Nicholas\" appears on pp. 124-127. The poem was first published in The Troy Sentinel (N.Y.), circa 1830 and not seen by BAL. There has been only one copy of The Troy Sentinel in the last 35 years. It sold in New York in 2006 in poor condition for about $65,000. The first appearance of the poem in book form was in an anthology, The New-York Book of Poetry (New-York: 1837). Moore’s Poems is much rarer than The New-York Book of Poetry and is the desired first edition since it contains only Moore's poems. \"Moore, a professor of Hebrew, wrote this poem in 1822 as a Christmas gift for his children. A houseguest copied it in the fall of 1823, and later sent her copy to the editor of the Troy Sentinel, where it was first published, anonymously, December 23, 1823. It first appeared between covers in the New Brunswick, (N.J.) Almanack, for 1825.Calculated by Joshua Sharp, Philadelphia and New Brunswick, [1824]. It was quickly picked up by Readers and Anthologies, some of the more notable appearances being in The New York Book of Poetry, 1837, and in Bryant’s Selections from the American Poets, New York, 1840. The authorship was first disclosed in the Troy Budget, December 25, 1838\" (Grolier, 100 American). BAL 14348. Grolier, 100 American, 52. HBS 65100.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFriedrich Karl Joseph Freiherr von Gerolt (1797 - 1879) was Prussian Privy Councillor, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the United States for many years and a fixture in the Washington social scene from 1847 through 1872.  He is still regarded as the longest serving ambassador of Germany in the U.S.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093335101599,"sku":"7764","price":8000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Moore_2C_Clement_signed_poems_1.jpg?v=1722187369"},{"product_id":"7973-literature-theroux-paul-b-1941-important-letter-and-biographical-questionnaire","title":"[Literature] Theroux, Paul. (b. 1941) Important Letter and Biographical Questionnaire","description":"An important early letter and biographical questionnaire from the American travel writer and novelist, whose many works include The Great Railway Bazaar (1975) and The Mosquito Coast (1981) which was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and made into a feature film. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTLS, 1 page. Kampala, Uganda, East Africa. 16th Nov., 1966. Addressed to Anne Ford at Houghton Mifflin. In full: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dear Miss Ford, \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI enclose the biographical data and the pictures you asked for.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou will notice that some of the questions are not answered and others have flippant answers.  I didn't feel that these questions were important or, if I thought they were important, did not think I could answer them. Maybe someone else can.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou must understand that this is my first book, I am not an old writer, and I have been living out of the United States for some time.  I believe that it would be pompous of me to offer advice to other writers (unquote) or needless of me to explain my method of work (unquote). These questions lead nowhere and, while the answer of someone like Goethe or Mann or Melville would be fascinating to read, the answers I would give you I'm afraid would be insincere, unfelt, misleading and --let's call a spade a spade --totally irrelevant to what the book contains.  Novels really do exist apart from a writer and have a life of their own.  Or at least they should. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy book called Notes For a Curfew which Craig Wylie knows about might call for questions like these; I will have to submit my credentials for writing a book like that and prove that I know what I'm talking about (ie., Africa).  I shall be very happy to answer your questions when Houghton decides to publish the book.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut if there is any part of this that you think is important and that I have neglected please do not hesitate to fire back.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSigned \"Paul Theroux\" and adding an autograph postscript: \"I enclose a pile of pictures....Please send me any copies you make (enlargements) and keep these, as I may need the negatives some other time. P.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheroux has attached the Author Questionnaire, 7 pp. in length, with typed and handwritten replies to 23 questions and some additional questions crossed off, as per his apparent reservations about the enterprise. His answers are frequently revealing.  To the prompt of \"Present and Previous Occupations,\" he responds \"Nothing important or lucrative up to 1963...Let me add that I consider work a major interruption of my writing.\" About owing \"particular allegiance\" to a writer or school: \"No. I don't think so.  All my books -- I have written five -- are different.  If I were influenced, they would be the same, wouldn't they.  I can't think of anyone.\"  The replies include not only the mundane details of education and such but also lengthy replies about the process of writing his book, difficulties encountered, what he believes should be emphasized in the marketing of the book, reviewers who he thinks will be sympathetic etc. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn intriguing document from the very beginning of an important literary career. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093342408863,"sku":"7973","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/TherouxTLS187.jpg?v=1722187409"},{"product_id":"7994-literature-emerson-ralph-waldo-1803-1882-autograph-manuscript-page","title":"[Literature] Emerson, Ralph Waldo. (1803 - 1882) Autograph Manuscript Page","description":"Original unsigned autograph manuscript page from the Journal of the American poet, author and philosopher whose central role in the Transcendentalist movement earned him a place among the most influential figures in 19th-century literature and thought. His two collections of Essays, which encompass such wide-ranging topics as “Love,” “Self-Reliance,” “Experience,” “Nature,” and “Politics,” remain a fixture of the Western canon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Of course, The smallest increments of mental power in the man countervail the largest accumulations of physical impediment in the enterprise.  Shakespeare is only an accelerated process.  Good fortune is only another name for quick perceptions.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9 lines written in ink on lined paper with the embossed seal of P\u0026amp;P, corners mounted to paper backing, a few spots and stains around the edges not affecting the writing and otherwise fine. 19.5 x 25 cm. Probably one of the sheets originally bound into the “Author’s Centenary Edition” of Emerson’s writings, issued in 1903–04 in an edition of 600 sets, each including an original manuscript page.","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093342736543,"sku":"7994","price":1600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Emerson_MS173.jpg?v=1722187412"},{"product_id":"7995-literature-alcott-louisa-may-1832-1888-little-women-signed","title":"[Literature] Alcott, Louisa May. (1832 - 1888) Little Women - SIGNED","description":"RARE SIGNED COPY OF ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED AMERICAN BOOKS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e586 pp. green decorative boards with gold inlay, gilt page edges. Signed on the front free endpage in blue ink \"L. M. Alcott.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEx-library, with a 1917 library gift Ex Libris pasted to inner front board, a March 7, 1888 Alcott obituary newspaper clipping tipped to verso of half title and opposite facing blank (with resultant staining to pages), library punch-through stamps at lower edge of title page and blank upper edge of first page, small paper label to inner rear board. Despite these faults, a solid and overall attractive copy of a book which, though by far the author's most famous work, is extremely uncommon in signed copies. We found no record of any signed Little Women appearing at auction in the past 40 years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1868, Little Women follows the lives, loves and tribulations of four sisters growing up during the American Civil War. The story is based the childhood experiences Alcott shared with her real life sisters and explores the rich nuances of family and family relationships.  G. K. Chesterton has noted that in Little Women, Alcott \"anticipated realism by twenty or thirty years,\" and that Fritz's proposal to Jo, and her acceptance, \"is one of the really human things in human literature.\"","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093342834847,"sku":"7995","price":5500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Alcott_Little_Women_signed_1.jpg?v=1722187413"},{"product_id":"8035-literature-wilde-oscar-1854-1900-douglas-lord-alfred-1870-1945-autograph-letter","title":"[Literature] [Wilde, Oscar. (1854–1900) ] Douglas, Lord Alfred. (1870–1945) Autograph Letter","description":"\u003cp\u003eAutograph letter from the British author, poet and translator, better known as the intimate friend and lover of the writer Oscar Wilde. 1 page, signed \"yours sincerely, Alfred Douglas\" on the verso. N.p., n.d.. \"I don't know exactly what you want but I have copied out this sonnet of mine for you. It originally appeared in 1941 in the Daily Mail, and an autograph copy of it was sold at the  ---- sale for L 9.00, + another copy for L 15 at the Bazaar in aid of Yugoslavia.\" The sonnet, alas, is not included, but the letter is in very fine condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093344080031,"sku":"8035","price":375.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Alfred_Douglas_ALS_1.jpg?v=1722187420"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/collections\/Shopify_Collection_Cover_Cropped_15685.jpg?v=1721410644","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/collections\/literature-archive.oembed?page=24","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}