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MARK TWAIN AUTOGRAPH

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humanist, humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists and European royalty. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain "the father of American literature." Twain used different pen names (pseudonyms or "noms de plume") before deciding on "Mark Twain". He signed humorous and imaginative sketches "Josh" until 1863. Additionally, he used the pen name "Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass" for a series of humorous letters. He maintained that his primary pen name came from his years working on Mississippi riverboats, where two fathoms, a depth indicating "safe water" for the boat to float over, was measured on the sounding line. A fathom is a maritime unit of depth, equivalent to two yards (six feet, approximately 1.8 metres); "twain" is an archaic term for "two". The riverboatman's cry was "mark twain" or, more fully, "by the mark twain", meaning "according to the mark [on the line], [the depth is] two [fathoms]", that is, "there are 12 feet of water under the boat and it is safe to pass". Twain claimed that his famous pen name was not entirely his invention. In Life on the Mississippi, he wrote: Captain Isaiah Sellers was not of literary turn or capacity, but he used to jot down brief paragraphs of plain practical information about the river, and sign them "MARK TWAIN," and give them to the New Orleans Picayune. They related to the stage and condition of the river, and were accurate and valuable; ... At the time that the telegraph brought the news of his death, I was on the Pacific coast. I was a fresh new journalist, and needed a nom de guerre; so I confiscated the ancient mariner's discarded one, and have done my best to make it remain what it was in his hands—a sign and symbol and warrant that whatever is found in its company may be gambled on as being the petrified truth; how I have succeeded, it would not be modest in me to say. Twain's version of the story regarding his nom de plume is not without detractors and has been called into question by biographer George Williams III, the Territorial Enterprise newspaper and Purdue University's Paul Fatout. These sources claim that "mark twain" refers to a running bar tab that Clemens would regularly incur while drinking at John Piper's saloon in Virginia City, Nevada.

Original Mark Twain(Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Autograph, signed on Cut paper. Approx. Size of Paper 1 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches. Regular Price - $ 1895.00 / Sale Price - $ 1495.00.

ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT AUTOGRAPH

Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. He was the inspiration for Sheridan Whiteside, the main character in the play The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, and for the far less likable character Waldo Lydecker in the classic film Laura. He claimed to be the inspiration for Rex Stout's brilliant detective Nero Wolfe, but Stout discounted this. Woollcott's review of the Marx Brothers' Broadway debut, I'll Say She Is, helped highlight the renaissance of the group's career and started a life-long friendship with Harpo Marx. Two of Harpo's adopted sons are named William (Bill) Woollcott Marx and Alexander Marx after him.

Original Alexander Woollcott Autograph, hand signed on Heavy Card Stock. Approx. Size of Paper 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Regular Price - $ 395.00 / Sale Price - $ 250.00.

ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE

Albert Bigelow Paine (10 July 1861 – 9 April 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. Paine was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres, including fiction, humour, and verse. Paine was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts and moved to Bentonsport, Iowa at the age of 1. He later moved to St. Louis, where he trained as a photographer, and became a dealer in photographic supplies in Fort Scott, Kansas. Paine sold up in 1895 to become a full-time writer, moving to New York. He spent most of his life living in Europe, including a time in France where he wrote two books about Joan of Arc. This work was so well received in France that he was awarded the title of Chevalier in the Légion d'honneur by the French government. Paine wrote several children's books, the first of which was published in 1898. He went on to write about his travelling adventures, including The Tent Dwellers, written about a trout fishing trip to Nova Scotia. His 1901 book The Great White Way written about the Arctic indirectly gave New York City's Broadway the name "Great White Way" He was the official biographer and literary executor for Mark Twain, and worked with him (and on his behalf after his death) on various projects. His work on Twain's unfinished story The Mysterious Stranger saw him combine three versions of the story into one. Paine was married to Dora and had three daughters.

Original Albert Bigelow Paine Autograph, signed on a Hand Written Letter on St. Nicholas Editorial Rooms 33 East 17th St. N.Y. Approx. Size 5 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches. Regular Price - $ 125.00 / Sale Price - $ 65.00.

WILLA CATHER AUTOGRAPH

Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is an eminent author who grew up in the state of Nebraska in the United States. She is best known for her depictions of frontier life on the Great Plains in novels such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop. Cather received both national and state honors. In 1973, the United States Postal Service honored Willa Cather by using her image on a postage stamp. In 1981 the US Mint created the Willa Cather medallion from a half-ounce gold coin. Cather was elected to the Nebraska Hall of Fame. In 1986, Cather was inducted into the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame. Her alma mater, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, named residence halls after both Willa Cather and her college friend Louise Pound. Pound had a lifelong career as professor of English at the university and was the first woman president of the Modern Language Association.

Original Willa Cather Autograph, signed on Blue Cut Card Stock. Approx. Size 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Regular Price - $ 195.00 / Sale Price - $ 145.00.

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW AUTOGRAPH

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", "A Psalm of Life", "The Song of Hiawatha", "Evangeline", and "Christmas Bells". He also wrote the first American translation of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy" and was one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets. Longfellow was born and raised in the region of Portland, Maine. He attended university at an early age at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. After several journeys overseas, Longfellow settled for the last forty-five years of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. He was such an admired figure in the United States during his life that his 70th birthday in 1877 took on the air of a national holiday, with parades, speeches, and the reading of his poetry. He had become one of the first American celebrities. His work was immensely popular during his time and is still today, although some modern critics consider him too sentimental. His poetry is based on familiar and easily understood themes with simple, clear, and flowing language. His poetry created an audience in America and contributed to creating American mythology.

Original Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Autograph, signed on Cut Paper mounted to card stock. Approx. Size 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Regular Price - $ 595.00 / Sale Price - $ 395.00.

WASHINGTON IRVING AUTOGRAPHS

Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" (both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon), he was also a prolific essayist, biographer and historian. His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th century Spain dealing with subjects such as Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra. Irving and James Fenimore Cooper were the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving is said to have encouraged authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Edgar Allan Poe. Irving was also the U.S. minister to Spain 1842–1845. Washington's home - Sunnyside - is still standing, just south of the Tappan Zee Bridge in Tarrytown, New York. The original house and the surrounding property were once owned by 18th-century colonialist Wolfert Acker, about whom Irving wrote his sketch Wolfert's Roost (the name of the house). The house is now owned and operated as an historic site by Historic Hudson Valley and is open to the public for tours. Irving popularized the nickname "Gotham" for New York City, later used in Batman comics and movies, and is credited with inventing the expression "the Almighty dollar".

Original Washington Irving Autographed Black & White Photograph and a Autographed Card Stock. Both Autographs are displayed in a Washington Irving Collectors Folio. Regular Price - $ 595.00 / Sale Price - $ 325.00.

SAX ROHMER AUTOGRAPHED POST CARD

Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (February 15, 1883 - June 1, 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is most remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. Born in Birmingham he had an entirely working class education and early career before beginning to write. His first published work was in 1903, the short story The Mysterious Mummy for Pearson's Weekly. He made his early living writing comedy sketches for music hall performers and short stories and serials for magazines. In 1909 he married Rose Knox. He published his first novel Pause! anonymously in 1910 and the first Fu Manchu story, The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu, was serialized over 1912-13. It was an immediate success with its fast paced story of Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie facing the worldwide conspiracy of the 'Yellow Peril'. The Fu Manchu stories, together with those featuring Gaston Max or Morris Klaw, made Rohmer one of the most successful and well-paid writers in of the 1920s and 1930s. But Rohmer was very poor at handling his wealth. After World War II the Rohmers moved to New York. Hand written: with all good wishes Sax Rohmer. Approx. Size 3 3/8 x 5 1/2 inches. Regular Price - $ 745.00 / Sale Price - $ 495.00.

EARL DERR BIGGERS AUTOGRAPH

Earl Derr Biggers (August 24, 1884 - April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright. He is remembered primarily for adaptations of his novels, especially those featuring the Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan. The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, he was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907. Many of his plays and novels were made into movies. He was posthumously inducted into the Warren City Schools Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. His novel Seven Keys to Baldpate led to seven films of the same title (each largely forgotten) and at least two with other titles but essentially equivalent plots. George M. Cohan (better known as a songwriter, and vaudeville and Broadway song-and-dance man) adapted the novel as a stage play, which undergoes occasional revivals as of the decade of the 2000s. He starred in the 1917 film version (one of his rare screen appearances) and the film version he later screenwrote (released in 1935) is perhaps the least forgotten of the seven films. Biggers lived in San Marino, California, and died in a Pasadena, California, hospital after suffering a heart attack in Palm Springs, California.

Original Earl Derr Biggers Autograph, signed on Blue Cut Paper. Hand written: Sincerely yours Earl Derr Biggers Pasadena, Calif. Feb. 27, 1931. Also included is a cigar band from one of Earl Derr Biggers Cigars(Antonio Y Cleopatra Habana). Approx. Size 3 x 5 1/2 inches. Regular Price - $ 345.00 / Sale Price - $ 149.95.

MILTON C. WORKS AUTOGRAPHED TYPED LETTER & AUTOGRAPHED PLAYING CARD

Original Milton C. Work Autographed Typed Letter, Milton C. Work Letterhead. Latest book on contract one hundred and one celebrated hands - President U.S. Bridge Association - Member of Committee that drafted the international contract laws. Milton C. Work. Typed on Letter: March 16, 1934. Mr. Frank Trickler, 5656 Beaumont Avenue, West Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Mr. Trickler: In reply to your recent request for an autograph, I am enclosing one on a card that you sent me and hope that my wish for good luck will come true. I am not a smoker so it is impossible for me to enclose a cigar band, and I do not happen to have any of my photographs at hand. With my best wishes, I am Yours very sincerely, Milton C. Work. The playing card is autographed & dated 3/16/34. Approx. Size 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Regular Price - $ 135.00 / Sale Price - $ 95.00.

FRANK L. PACKARD AUTOGRAPH

Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 - February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and as a young man went to work as a civil engineer for the Canadian Pacific Railway. His experiences working on the railroad led to his writing a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale. Frank Packard died in 1942 in Lachine, Quebec and was buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal. Novels by Frank L. Packard: Coogan's Last Run The Miracle Man (1914) - (Project Gutenberg book) The Sin That Was His (1917) The Wire Devils (1918) From Now On (1919) The Night Operator (1919) The White Moll (1920) - (Project Gutenberg book) Pawned (1921) Doors of the Night (1922) The Four Stragglers (1923) The Locked Book (1924) Running Special (1925) Broken Waters (1925) The Red Ledger (1926) The Devil's Mantle (1927) Two Stolen Idols (1927) Shanghai Jim (1928) The Big Shot (1929) Tiger Claws (1929) Gold Skull Murders (1931) The Hidden Door (1933) The Purple Ball (1933) The Dragon's Jaws (1937) More Knaves Than One (1938) Original Frank L. Packard Autograph, signed on a Heavy Card Stock. Hand written: Very Sincerely Yours Frank L. Packard. Approx. Size of card 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Regular Price - $ 75.00 / Sale Price - $ 25.00.

EDGAR ALBERT GUEST AUTOGRAPHED FLY LEAF

Edgar Albert Guest (August 20, 1881, Birmingham, England – August 5, 1959, Detroit, Michigan) (aka Eddie Guest) was a prolific American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People’s Poet. In 1891, Guest came with his family to the United States from England. After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared December 11, 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades. From his first published work in the Detroit Free Press until his death in 1959, Guest penned some 11,000 poems which were syndicated in some 300 newspapers and collected in more than 20 books, including A Heap o' Livin' (1916) and Just Folks (1917). Guest was made Poet Laureate of Michigan, the only poet to have been awarded the title. His popularity led to a weekly Detroit radio show which he hosted from 1931 until 1942, followed by a 1951 NBC television series, A Guest in Your Home. When Guest died in 1959, he was buried in Detroit's Woodlawn Cemetery. His work still occasionally appears in periodicals such as Reader's Digest, and some favorites, such as "Myself" and "Thanksgiving," are still studied today. Guest received a mention in Lemony Snicket's The Grim Grotto, though not in a particularly favorable manner. His great-niece Judith Guest is a successful novelist who wrote Ordinary People.

Original Edgar Albert Guest Autograph, signed on a A Heap o' Livin' Fly Leaf. Written on fly leaf: Sincerley yours Edgar A Guest Dec. 22, 1916. Approx. Size of Fly Leaf 5 x 7 3/8 inches. Regular Price - $ 95.00 / Sale Price - $ 42.00.

HOWARD PEASE AUTOGRAPHED FLY LEAF

Howard Pease (1894 - 1974) wrote from personal experience reflected in how Tod Moran (about 15 of his works were based upon the character William Todhunter Moran) first started to sea, as a summer job while he was attending Stanford University in Palo Alto CA. Even as a small boy the sea always attracted Howard Pease. Maybe because he lived on inland soil, out of sight of the fogs of the coast, yet on a river that flowed into San Francisco Bay. Born in Stockton, California, he finished high school there and then entered Stanford University. At the end of his freshman year he found himself enlisted in a university unit which was sent early to France. Two years later he returned to Stanford where he remained off and on until graduation. Writing had been Mr. Pease's main object and interest ever since the sixth grade and because he had no wish to write and starve in a garret, he now chose teaching as a profession, since it gave him long vacations in which to work at his typewriter. The sea, too, still attracted him. One summer he shipped out as a wiper in the engine room of a freighter-one of the few ship jobs an inexperienced youth can get. During Mr. Pease's first year of teaching school he started The Tattooed Man. It was the result of two voyages, together with a walking trip from Marseilles along the coast to Italy. The Jinx Ship was the result of another voyage. His book, The Ship Without a Crew, was written after a tropical winter in Tahiti and Highroad to Adventure after an automobile trip along the Pan-American Highway to Mexico. With his wife and son, Mr. Pease lived in San Francisco on a hill near the Golden Gate, where he devoted all his working hours to writing. Original Howard Pease Autograph, signed on a Heart of Danger Fly Leaf. Approx. Size of Fly Leaf 3 3/8 x 7 3/4 inches. Regular Price - $ 95.00 / Sale Price - $ 42.00.

LOWELL THOMAS AUTOGRAPHED FLY LEAF

Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveller best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. So varied were Thomas's activities that when it came time for the Library of Congress to catalog his memoirs they were forced to put them in "CT" in their classification -- biographies of subjects who don't fit into any other category. Books by Lowell: With Lawrence in Arabia, 1924 The First World Flight, 1925 Beyond Khyber Pass, 1925 Count Luckner, The Sea Devil, 1927 European Skyways, 1927 The Boy's Life of Colonel Lawrence, 1927 Adventures in Afghanistan for Boys, 1928 Raiders of the Deep, 1928 The Sea Devil's Fo'c'sle, 1929 Woodfill of the Regulars, 1929 The Hero of Vincennes: the Story of George Rogers Clark, 1929 The Wreck of the Dumaru, 1930 Lauterbach of the China Sea, 1930 India--Land of the Black Pagoda, 1930 Rolling Stone, 1931 Tall Stories, 1931 Kabluk of the Eskimo, 1932 This Side of Hell, 1932 Old Gimlet Eye: The Adventures of General Smedley Butler, 1933 Born to Raise Hell, 1933 The Untold Story of Exploration, 1935 Fan Mail, 1935 A Trip to New York With Bobby and Betty, 1936 Men of Danger, 1936 Kipling Stories and a Life of Kipling, 1936 Seeing Canada With Lowell Thomas, 1936 Seeing India With Lowell Thomas, 1936 Seeing Japan With Lowell Thomas, 1937 Seeing Mexico With Lowell Thomas, 1937 Adventures Among the Immortals, 1937 Hungry Waters, 1937 Wings Over Asia, 1937 Magic Dials, 1939 In New Brunswick We'll Find It, 1939 Soft Ball! So What?, 1940 How To Keep Mentally Fit, 1940 Stand Fast for Freedom, 1940 Pageant of Adventure, 1940 Pageant of Life, 1941 Pageant of Romance, 1943 These Men Shall Never Die, 1943 Out of this World: Across the Himalayas to Tibet (1951) Back to Mandalay, 1951 Great True Adventures, 1955 The Story of the New York Thruway, 1955 Seven Wonders of the World, 1956 History As You Heard It 1957 The Story of the St. Lawrence Seaway, 1957 The Vital Spark, 1959 Sir Hubert Wilkins, A Biography, 1961 More Great True Adventures, 1963 Book of the High Mountains, 1964 Famous First Flights That Changed History, 1968 Burma Jack, 1971 Doolittle: A Biography, 1976 Good Evening Everybody: From Cripple Creek to Samarkand, 1976 So Long Until Tomorrow, 1977

Original Lowell Thomas Autograph, signed on a Beyond Khyber Pass Fly Leaf. Autograph is in green ink. Approx. Size of Fly Leaf 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Regular Price -$ 145.00 / Sale Price - $ 99.00.

BOOTH TARKINGTON AUTOGRAPH
	Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.

Original Booth Tarkington Autograph, Signed on Card Stock. Approx. Size 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Regular Price - $ 300.00 / Sale Price - $ 149.00.

JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD AUTOGRAPH

James Oliver Curwood, (June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927), was an American novelist and conservationist. A great number of his works were turned into movies, several of which starred Nell Shipman as a brave and adventurous woman in the wilds of the north. Many films from Curwood's writings were made during his lifetime, as well as after his passing through to the 1950s. In 1988 French director Jean-Jacques Annaud used his 1916 novel, The Grizzly King to make the film The Bear. Annaud's success generated a renewed interest in Curwood's stories that resulted in five more films being produced in 1994 and 1995. Born in Owosso, Michigan he left high school without graduating but was able to pass the entrance exams to the University of Michigan where he studied journalism. In 1900, Curwood sold his first story while working for the Detroit News-Tribune. By 1909 he had saved enough money to travel to the Canadian northwest, a trip that provided the inspiration for his wilderness adventure stories. The success of his novels afforded him the opportunity to return to the Yukon and Alaska for several months each year that allowed him to write more than thirty such books. By 1922, Curwood's writings had made him a very wealthy man and he fulfilled a childhood fantasy by building Curwood Castle in Owosso. Constructed in the style of an 18th century French chateau, the estate overlooked the Shiawassee River. In one of the home's two large turrets, Curwood set up his writing studio. Curwood also owned a camp in a remote area in Baraga County, Michigan, near the Huron Mountains. An advocate of environmentalism, Curwood was appointed to the Michigan Conservation Commission in 1926. The following year, while on a Florida fishing trip, Curwood was bitten on the thigh by what was believed to have been a spider and had an immediate allergic reaction. Health problems related to the bite escalated over the next few months and infection set in that led to his death from blood poisoning. Interred in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Owosso, his Curwood Castle is now a museum. During the first full weekend in June of each year, the city of Owosso holds the Curwood Festival to celebrate the city's heritage . Also in his honor, a mountain in L'Anse Township, Michigan was given the name Mount Curwood, and the L'Anse Township Park was renamed Curwood Park. Original James Oliver Curwood Autograph, Signed on Cut Paper. Approx. Size 3 x 4 3/4 inches. Hand written: James Oliver Curwood Owosso Michigan 1922. Regular Price - $ 135.00 / Sale Price - $ 95.00.

THOMAS PARKINSON AUTOGRAPHED LETTER

Thomas P. Parkinson held impressive careers as a journalist, editor, arena manager, circus historian, and public facilities consultant. In his early life he joined the army and became an Operations Sergeant, in the 80th infantry division, third army, in Europe. He received his bachelor degree in political science and history from the University of Illinois in 1943 and was senior editor of the Daily Illini, the campus newspaper. In 1947 he received his masters degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Evanston, married and began his career as a city hall reporter for The Shreveport Times in Shreveport, LA. Parkinson contributed to the history of the circus though research, authorship, and professional involvement. He took leadership roles in circus organizations including serving on the board of the Circus World Museums and serving as president of the Circus Historical Society, 1978-1981. He was also a member of the Showmen’s League of America. In connection with the Circus World Museum, he narrated two editions of the Milwaukee Circus Parade on public television. Parkinson worked with Charles Philip Fox to document the history of the circus, in the books, The Circus in America published in 1969; The Circus Moves by Rail, published in 1978; and Billers, Banners, and Bombast: The Story of Circus Advertising published in 1985. Another work the duo co-authored, Circus: Mighty Monarch of All Amusements, was never published. Original Thomas Parkinson Hand Written Autographed Letter, written on Tom Parkinson 42 Lange Avenue Savoy, Illinois 61874 Letter head. Hand written on Letter: Dear Frank: I am delighted to sign the book plates for you. Here they are. No "bother". Yes, we have several new books in the works. Maybe one in the spring, and a little later, on in the fall. But those are guesses. When you have lists of old circus books or other items, I would like to see it. Approx. Size 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches. Best Regards Thomas. Regular Price - $ 99.00 / Sale Price - $ 42.00.

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS AUTOGRAPHED LETTER

Gouverneur Morris is the great-grandson of Gouverneur Morris (January 31, 1752 – November 6, 1816) who was an American statesman that represented Pennsylvania in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and was an author of large sections of the Constitution of the United States. He is widely credited as the author of the document's Preamble: "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union...". Gouverneur Morris (1876-1953), was an author of pulp novels and short stories during the early twentieth century. Several of his works were adapted into films, including the famous Lon Chaney, Sr. film The Penalty. Original Gouverneur Morris Autographed Hand Written Letter, Approx. Size 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Gouverneur Morris Letterhead: Dated Nov 7 - 33 Dear Mr. Tricker - I have no photographs signed or otherwise & I don't smoke cigars. This is careless of me and I am sorry - Sincerely yours Gouverneur Morris. He has also drawn a cute little duck. Regular Price - $ 135.00 / Sale Price - $ 95.00.

KRISTIN HUNTER AUTOGRAPHED TYPED LETTER

Kristin Elaine Hunter (b. September 12, 1931) is an African American writer from Pennsylvania. She has sometimes written under the name Kristin Hunter Lattany. Hunter was born Kristin Eggleston in Philadelphia, attended the University of Pennsylvania, and wrote for the Pittsburgh Courier, a black newspaper, until 1952. Her first novel, God Bless the Child, was published in 1964; like most of her work, it confronts complex issues of race and gender. Books written by Kristin Hunter: God Bless the Child, 1964. The Landlord, 1966. The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou, 1968. Guests in the Promised Land (stories), 1973. The Survivors, 1975. The Lakestown Rebellion, 1978. Lou in the Limelight, 1981. Kinfolks, 1996. Do Unto others, 2000. Original Kristin Hunter Autographed Typed letter, Approx. Size 8 1/2 x 11. Typed on Letter: 1233 Pine Street Philadelphia 7, Pa. October 31, 1963 Mr. John Wilcock 26 Perry Street New York City. Dear Mr. Wilcock: I may be more than you're bargaining for, but I'm answering your ad anyway. This September I accepted a job writing for the Philadelphia city government, and learned only two weeks later that Scribners had bought my first novel. Yesterday I learned that my agent has also sold the book to a British publisher. So a few dollars and pounds will be coming in, and I'm wondering... ...Just what am I doing facing another cold winter in Philadelphia, with another career job on my hands(I spent nine years in advertising), when I obviously ought to be in a lovely warm place like Mexico or Puerto Rico, finishing that play and those poems, and starting another novel? Well, because it's hard for a girl to take off for the unknown alone, and also because I have trouble overcoming my upbringing, i.e. the middle-class habit of making money. Your assignment might be just the incentive I need. You should be fully warned that I'm always involved in creative projects of my own. But I would give respectful and responsible attention to your work. I'm a fast typist, though I don't know shorthand, and a superb writer. I'm divorced, 30 and getting younger, slightly colored and extremely healthy. My new job is fun, possibly because I tend to think most things are fun, and my new apartment is elegant, but Philadelphia is a graveyard, as the Voice and your lively column remind me every week. So I invite you to induce me to leave it all behind. I'll be in New York soon to see my publisher, and would look foward to meeting you then, even if nothing further comes of it. Sincerely yours. Kristin Hunter. Regluar Price - $ 185.00 / Sale Price - $ 125.00.

GEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND AUTOGRAPHED FLY LEAF

American author George Allan England was born in Nebraska in 1877 and died in New Hampshire in 1936. In between he was educated at Harvard University, where he received a masters degree in English Literature in 1903. England roamed the world as an explorer/journalist and many of his articles appeared through the 20's in The Saturday Evening Post. It was as a journalist that England first came to Newfoundland. He later wrangled his way on to a sealing vessel and wrote what Ebbitt Cutler, in his introduction to the 1969 reprint of Vikings of the Ice under the title The Greatest Hunt in the World described as "... the only detailed eyewitness description of day-by-day life aboard a wooden wall ever to be written." In 1912, England began publishing his still popular science-fiction trilogy, Darkness and Dawn. His other books include The Golden Blight (1912), The Air Trust (1915), Bill Jenkins, Buccaneer (1917), Cursed (1919), Keep Off the Grass (1919), The Flying Legion (1920), The White Wilderness (1922), Adventure Isle (1925) and Isle of Romance (1929). Original George Allan England Autograph, hand signed on a fly leaf. Approx. Size 4 3/4 x 7 3/8 inches. Written on fly leaf: Yours for the Revolution - now! George Allan England, Mar 11, 1915. Regular Price - $ 95.00 / Sale Price - $ 48.00.

P.C. WREN AUTOGRAPHED LETTER

Percival Christopher Wren (1875–1941) was a British writer, mostly of adventure fiction. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924 involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, and its sequels, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal. Born, as plain Percy Wren, in Deptford, South London, England in 1875, Percy was the son of a schoolmaster. His literary influences included Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, and H. Rider Haggard. After graduation with an Master of Arts degree from St. Catherine's College, Oxford, a non-collegiate college for poorer students, Percy worked as a boarding school teacher for a few years, during which he married Alice Shovelier, and had a daughter (Estelle, born 1901). In 1903 he joined the Indian Education Service as headmaster of Karachi High School (now Pakistan). While in India, he joined the Poona Volunteer Rifles with the rank as Captain, before his service was terminated in October 1915 after sick leave. He resigned from the Indian Education Service in November 1917. It is presumed that his wife died in India, for no record of her return has been found, his daughter having died in England in 1910. From there it is claimed that he joined the French Foreign Legion for a single tour of five years. He lived out the remainder of his life in England concentrating on his literary career. One of the few photographs of Wren known shows a typical British officer of the Edwardian era with clipped moustache, wearing plain dark blue regimental dress. Wren was a highly secretive man, and his membership of the Legion has never been confirmed. When his novels became famous, there was a mysterious absence of authenticating photographs of him as a legionnaire or of the usual press-articles by old comrades wanting to cash in on their memories of a celebrated figure. It is now thought more likely that he encountered legionnaires during his extensive travels in Algeria and Morocco, and skillfully blended their stories with his own memories of a short spell as a cavalry trooper in England. While his fictional accounts of life in the pre-1914 Foreign Legion are highly romanticised, his details of Legion uniforms, training, equipment and barrack room layout are generally accurate. This may however simply reflect careful research on his part. Wren dedicated an early edition (no date known) of "The Snake and the Sword" to "my wife Alice Lucille Wren". An early edition of "Driftwood Spars" reads "To the memory of my beloved wife". When Wren died, his widow was Isabel. However, copyrights taken out in her name after Wren's death read variously as Isabel and Isobel. "Isobel" was the heroine of "Beau Geste". At his death Wren was also survived by his son Percival Christopher Wren Jr., presumably born of Isobel - Isabel. He was married to an American actress, Judith Wood. Original P.C. Wren Autographed Typed letter, Approx. Size 5 1/4 x 7 inches. Typed on Westwood House, Talbot Woods, Bournemouth Letterhead. Typed on letter: 28th Sept. 1933 Dear Mr. Frank Tricker, Very many thanks for your letter of the 14th Sept. which I have just received. I have pleasure in sending you my autograph and, to make it a little more personal, have signed it on a small photograph of myself which you care to have. I am also sending you the band of one of my cigars, as you ask. With best of good wishes, Yours very sincerely, P.C. Wren. (The autographed photo & cigar band mentioned in this letter are available - price upon request) Regular Price - $ 135.00 Sale Price - $ 95.00.

WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS AUTOGRAPH

William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. In 1856, Howells was elected as a Clerk in the State House of Representatives. In 1858, he began to work at the Ohio State Journal where he wrote poetry, short stories, and also translated pieces from French, Spanish, and German. He avidly studied German and other languages and was greatly interested in Heinrich Heine. In 1860, he visited Boston and met with American writers J. T. Fields, James Russell Lowell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Said to be rewarded for a biography of Abraham Lincoln used during the election of 1860, he gained a consulship in Venice. On Christmas Eve 1862, he married Elinor Mead at the American embassy in Paris. Upon returning to the U.S., he wrote for various magazines, including Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine. From 1866, he became an assistant editor for the Atlantic Monthly and was made editor in 1871, remaining in the position until 1881. In 1869, he first met Mark Twain, which sparked a longtime friendship. Even more important for the development of his literary style--his advocacy of Realism--was his relationship with the journalist Jonathan Baxter Harrison, who in the 1870s wrote a series of articles for the Atlantic Monthly on the lives of ordinary Americans (Fryckstedt 1958). He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1872, but his literary reputation took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which described the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). He was particularly outraged by the trials resulting from the Haymarket Riot. While known primarily as a novelist, his short story "Editha" (1905) appears in many anthologies of American literature.

Original William Dean Howells Autograph, Signed on Card Stock. Approx. Size 2 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches. Regular Price - $ 195.00 / Sale Price - $ 145.00.

GENE STRATTON - PORTER AUTOGRAPH

Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 - December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, and one of the earliest women to form a movie studio and production company. She wrote some of the best selling novels and well-received columns in magazines of the day. Born Geneva Grace Stratton in Wabash County, Indiana, she married Charles D. Porter in 1886, and they had one daughter, Jeannette. She became a wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the lower Great Lakes Basin. The Limberlost and Wildflower Woods of northeastern Indiana were the laboratory and inspiration for her stories, novels, essays, photography, and movies. Although there is evidence that her first book was "Strike at Shanes", which was published anonymously, her first attributed novel, The Song of the Cardinal met with great commercial success. Her novels Freckles and A Girl of the Limberlost are set in the wooded wetlands and swamps of the disappearing central Indiana ecosystems she loved and documented. She eventually wrote over 20 books. Although Stratton-Porter wanted to focus on nature books, it was her romantic novels that made her famous and generated the finances that allowed her to pursue her nature studies. She was an accomplished author, artist and photographer and is generally considered to be one of the first female authors to promulgate public positions — in her case, conserving the Limberlost Swamp. Catherine Woolley, author of the "Ginnie and Geneva" series of children's books, may have named her character of Geneva Porter after Geneva Stratton-Porter. One of her last novels, Her Father's Daughter, was set outside of Los Angeles, California where she had moved in the 1920s for health reasons and to expand her business ventures into the movie industry. This novel presented a unique window into Stratton-Porter's personal feelings on WWI-era racism, especially relating to orientals. She died in Los Angeles in 1924, along with her driver, when her limousine was struck by a streetcar. A building at Purdue University Calumet in Hammond, Indiana is named in her honor. A rest stop along the Indiana Toll Road (U.S. Interstate 90) also shares her name. Her Wildflower Woods home on Lake Sylvan, Rome City, Indiana, and her Limberlost home in Geneva, Indiana, are now museums operated by the Indiana State Museum. Original Gene Stratton - Porter Autograph, Hand signed with Green ink on Card Stock. Approx. Size of Card stock 3 1/2 x 5 inches. Reuglar Price - $ 125.00 / Sale Price - $ 75.00.

HAMLIN GARLAND AUTOGRAPH

Hamlin Hannibal Garland (September 14, 1860 – March 4, 1940) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers. Born in West Salem, Wisconsin, he lived on various Midwestern farms throughout his young life, but he settled in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1884 to pursue a career in writing. His first success came in 1891 with Main-Traveled Roads, a collection of short stories inspired by his days on the farm. He serialized a biography of Ulysses S. Grant in McClure's Magazine before publishing it as a book in 1898. The same year, Garland traveled to the Yukon to witness the Klondike Gold Rush, which inspired The Trail of the Gold Seekers (1899). A prolific writer, Garland continued to publish novels, short fiction, and essays. In 1917, he published his autobiography, A Son of the Middle Border. The book's success prompted a sequel, A Daughter of the Middle Border, for which Garland won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. After two more volumes, Garland began a second series of memoirs based on his diary. Garland died at age seventy-nine, after moving to Hollywood, California, where he devoted his remaining years to investigating psychic phenomena, an enthusiasm he first undertook in 1891. He was buried in Neshonoc Cemetery in West Salem, Wisconsin. In his final book, The Mystery of the Buried Crosses (1939), he tried to defend such phenomenon and prove the legitimacy of psychic mediums. Hamlin Garland lived on a farm between Osage, and St. Ansgar, Iowa for quite some time. Many of his writings are based on this era of his life. The Hamlin Garland House in West Salem is a historical site.

Original Hamlin Garland Autograph, Signed on Heavy Card Stock. Approx. Size of Card 2 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Written on Card: Very Sincerely yours Hamlin Garland Dec. 4, 1907. Regular Price - $ 125.00 / Sale Price - $ 75.00.

ROSEMARY TAYLOR AUTOGRAPH
	Original Rosemary Taylor Autograph, signed on a cut Fly Leaf. Approx. Size of Cut Fly Leaf 5 x 5 1/2 inches. Hand written: All good luck to you, Rosemary Taylor. Regular Price - $ 125.00 / Sale Price - $ 75.00.

HOWARD FAST AUTOGRAPHED FLY LEAF

Howard Melvin Fast (11 November 1914, New York City - 12 March 2003, Old Greenwich, Connecticut) was a Jewish American novelist and television writer, who wrote also under the pen names E. V. Cunningham and Walter Ericson. Two Valleys (1933) Strange Yesterday (1934) Place in the City (1937) Conceived in Liberty; a novel of Valley Forge (1939) The Last Frontier (novel) (1941) The Unvanquished (1942) Citizen Tom Paine (1943) Freedom Road (1944) The American: A Middle Western Legend (1946) Clarkton (1947) The Children (1947) My Glorious Brothers (1948) The Proud and the Free (1950) Spartacus (1951) The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, a New England legend (1953) Silas Timberman (1954) The Story of Lola Gregg (1956) Moses, Prince of Egypt (1958) The Winston Affair (1959) The Golden River (1960) April Morning (1961) Power (1962) Agrippa's Daughter (1964) Torquemada (1966) Sally (1967) The Crossing (1971) The Hessian (1972) The Immigrants (1977) Second Generation (1978) The Establishment (1979) The Legacy (1981) Max (1982) The Outsider (1984) The Immigrant's Daughter (1985) The Dinner Party (1987) The Pledge (1988) The Confession of Joe Cullen (1989) The Trial of Abigail Goodman (1993) Seven Days in June (1994) The Bridge Builder's Story (1995) An Independent Woman (1997) Redemption (1999) Greenwich (2000) Bunker Hill (2001) The Masao Masuto Mysteries (as E. V. Cunningham) The Case of the Angry Actress (first titled Samantha 1967) The Case of the One-Penny Orange (1977) The Case of the Russian Diplomat (1978) The Case of the Poisoned Eclairs (1979) The Case of the Sliding Pool (1981) The Case of the Kidnapped Angel (1982) The Case of the Murdered Mackenzie (1984) Original Howard Fast Autograph, signed on a Fly Leaf. Approx. Size of fly leaf 5 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches. Regular Price - $ 135.00 / Sale Price - $ 95.00.

EDWIN MARKHAM AUTOGRAPHED ENVELOPE
	Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet. Poetry The Man With the Hoe and Other Poems - (1899) Lincoln and Other Poems - (1901) Gates of Paradise - (1920) Eighty Poems at Eighty - (1932) The Ballad of the Gallows Bird - (published 1960) Prose Children in Bondage (1914) California the Wonderful(1914)

Original Edwin Markham Autograph, Signed on an Envelope. Approx. Size of Envelope 3 3/4 x 5 1/2. Postmarked Staten Island Aug 1 6:30 pm 1934 N.Y. Hand written: Edwin Markham West New Brighton, NY Staton Island. Regular Price - $ 125.00 / Sale Price - $ 75.00.

WALT MASON AUTOGRAPHED FLY LEAF

Walt Mason - Born at Columbus, Ontario, April 4, 1862; son of John and Lydia Sarah (Campbell) Mason; self-educated; came to United States in 1880. Connected with Atchison Globe, 1885-87, later with Lincoln (Neb.) State Journal and other papers; editorial paragrapher Evening News, Washington, 1893; associated with William Allen White on Emporia Gazette 1907 to present. Believed to have the largest daily audience of any living writer; prose poems are published daily in more than two hundred newspapers in the United States and Canada. Republican. Unitarian. Author: Rhymes of the Range, 1910; Uncle Walt, 1910, Walt Mason's Business Prose Poems, 1911, Rippling Rhymes, 1913Original Walt Mason Autograph, Hand signed on a Rippling Rhymes Fly Leaf. Approx. Size of Fly Leaf 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches. Regular Price - $ 125.00 / Sale Price - $ 75.00.