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DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN. 1859-1930. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("A Conan Doyle"), entitled "The Problem of Thor's Bridge" and "Continuation of 'The Problem of Thor's Bridge'," 48 pp in two parts, 8vo and 4to, Crowborough, East Sussex, c.1922,DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN. 1859-1930. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("A Conan Doyle"), entitled "The Problem of Thor's Bridge" and "Continuation of 'The Problem of Thor's Bridge'," 48 pp in two parts, 8vo and 4to, Crowborough, East Sussex, c.1922,. Sold for US$269,000 inc. premium
WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE. 1866-1946. Autograph and Typed Manuscript Signed ("H.G. Wells"), being chapters 12-25 of the novel When the Sleeper Wakes, 423 pp, 4to, Heatherlea, Worcester Park, London, c.1898-99,WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE. 1866-1946. Autograph and Typed Manuscript Signed ("H.G. Wells"), being chapters 12-25 of the novel When the Sleeper Wakes, 423 pp, 4to, Heatherlea, Worcester Park, London, c.1898-99,. Sold for US$143,000 inc. premium
COLLINS, WILLIAM WILKIE. 1824-1889. Autograph Manuscript, being working drafts of the play "The New Magdalen. A Dramatic Story in Three Acts,"COLLINS, WILLIAM WILKIE. 1824-1889. Autograph Manuscript, being working drafts of the play "The New Magdalen. A Dramatic Story in Three Acts,". Sold for US$100,000 inc. premium

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GRAY, THOMAS. 1716-1771.
AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON. 1805-1882. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("W. Harrison Ainsworth"), entitled "True Account of Jack Sheppard the Housebreaker...," 359 leaves (most recto only), 4to, London, 1837-38,
STENDHAL (MARIE-HENRI BEYLE). 1783-1842. Le Rouge et le noir. Chronique du XIXe siecle. Paris: A. Levavasseur, 1831.
COLLINS, WILLIAM WILKIE. 1824-1889. Autograph Manuscript, being working drafts of the play "The New Magdalen. A Dramatic Story in Three Acts,"
COLLINS, WILLIAM WILKIE. 1824-1889. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Wilkie Collins"), entitled "Fie! Fie! or, The Fair Physician: (Edited, Under the Instructions of Mrs. Crossmichael)," 20 pp, 4to, London, c.1882,
BURTON, RICHARD. 1821-1890. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi. Translated and Annotated by his Friend and Pupil, F.B. London: Privately printed (but Bernard Quaritch), [1880].
DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE (LEWIS CARROLL). 1832-1898. The Game of Logic. London: MacMillan and Co., 1887.
LADY FRANCES, COUNTESS WALDEGRAVE. 1821-1879, and CHICHESTER SAMUEL FORTESCUE (LATER LORD CARLINGFORD). 1823-1898. An archive of approximately 8,000 Autograph Letters Signed and Notes Signed, approximately 3,500 to the Countess Waldegrave, and approximately 4,500 to Lord Carlingford, various sizes, various places, 1839-1898,
TURGENEV, IVAN SEGEEVICH. 1818-1883. Photograph Signed ("Ivan Turgenev" in Cyrillic) and dated in Cyrillic "St. Petersburg, March 1879,"
CHEKHOV, ANTON PAVLOVICH. 1860-1904. Povesti i Razskazy [Stories and Tales] Moscow; I.D.Sytin, 1894.
WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE. 1866-1946. Autograph and Typed Manuscript Signed ("H.G. Wells"), being chapters 12-25 of the novel When the Sleeper Wakes, 423 pp, 4to, Heatherlea, Worcester Park, London, c.1898-99,
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN. 1859-1930. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Conan Doyle"), entitled "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter," 34 pp, 4to, South Norwood, London, c.1893,
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN. 1859-1930. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("A Conan Doyle"), entitled "Rodney Stone: A Reminiscence of the Ring," 531 pp, various sizes 12mo to 8vo, Pall Mall, London, c.1896,
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN. 1859-1930. Autograph Manuscript, a single leaf from The Hound of the Baskervilles, 1 p, 4to, n.p., c.1902,
LONDON, JACK. 1876-1916. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Jack London"), entitled "A Curious Fragment," 39 pp, 4to, Oakland, California, April 16, 1907,
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN. 1859-1930. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Arthur Conan Doyle"), entitled "The Prisoner's Defence," 13 pp, 4to, Crowborough, East Sussex, c.1916,
DOYLE, SIR ARTHUR CONAN. 1859-1930. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("A Conan Doyle"), entitled "The Problem of Thor's Bridge" and "Continuation of 'The Problem of Thor's Bridge'," 48 pp in two parts, 8vo and 4to, Crowborough, East Sussex, c.1922,
MILNE, ALAN ALEXANDER. 1882-1956. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("A:A: Milne"), entitled "Mr. Pim Passes By," 82 pp, 8vo, Chelsea, London, c.1919,
MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER. 1880-1957. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Christopher Morley"), entitled "Where the Blue Begins. A Divine Comedy," 172 pp, mostly rectos, 4to, New York, 1925,
LAWRENCE, DAVID HERBERT. 1885-1930. Autograph Manuscript, entitled "The Flying Fish," 39 pp recto and verso, 4to, Oaxaca, Mexico, 1925,
FAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962. Light in August. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, [1932].
WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE. 1911-1983. The Glass Menagerie. New York: Random House, [1945].
NABOKOV, VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH. 1899-1977. Stikhotvoreniya 1929-1951 [Poems from 1929 to 1951]. Paris: Rifma, 1952.
PASTERNAK, BORIS LEONIDOVICH. 1890-1960. Typescript Carbon Signed ("Pasternak" in Cyrillic ) and Inscribed, entitled "Stikhi iz romana v proze" [Poems from a Novel in Prose], 20 pp, small 4to, n.p., 1948,
PASTERNAK, BORIS LEONIDOVICH. 1890-1960. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Boris Pasternak" in Cyrillic) and Inscribed, being a draft of chapters 3 and 4 of vol 1 part IV of Dr. Zhivago, 13 pp recto and verso, small 4to, n.p., c.1956,
MILLER, HENRY. 1891-1980. Typed Manuscript with Holograph Annotations, entitled "The World of Sex," 68 pp, 4to, Big Sur, California, February-April 1957,
KEROUAC, JACK. 1922-1969. Typed Manuscript with Holograph Annotations, being a draft chapter of Desolation Angels, 8 pp, 4to, n.p., [1961-64],
BLOCH, ROBERT. 1917-1994. Typed Manuscript Signed ("Robert Bloch"), entitled "But the Serpent was Cunning," 198 pp, 4to, [n.p., c.1978],
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