‘I have made my will and I leave you my Pucelle manuscript, more complete than the printed version’ VOLTAIRE: (1694-1778) Francois-Marie Arouet. ...

VOLTAIRE: (1694-1778) French Enlightenment Writer and Philosopher. Voltaire is a pseudonym, his name being François-Marie Arouet. Voltaire is know...

ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) French Writer and Philosopher. An interesting autograph manuscript, two pages, 4to, n.p., [Paris], n.d. (c.1745...

ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) French Writer and Philosopher. An interesting autograph manuscript, two pages, 4to, n.p., [Paris], n.d. (c.1745...

BATAILLE GEORGES: (1897-1962) French philosopher and intellectual. A.L.S., Georges Bataille, one page, 8vo, Orleans, 19th April 1956, to a gentlem...

CHATEAUBRIAND FRANCOIS-RENE DE: (1768-1848) French writer, politician, diplomat and historian. D.S., Chateaubriand, one page, folio, London, 5th J...

RACINE JEAN: (1639-1669) French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th century France. An extremely rare ownership signature ('Raci...

`I am neither a man, nor an angel, nor a devil. I am a kind of literary mechanic…´ BALZAC HONORÉ DE: (1799-1850) French Novelist and Playwright. B...

`..do not be surprised either by the brevity or by the rarity of my letters,  because my time belongs to immense interests… I work day and night.....

HUGO VICTOR: (1802-1885) French Poet and Novelist. A good A.L.S., `Victor Hugo´, one page, 8vo, n.p., 26th February [1847], to Ernest Alby et Lire...

HUGO VICTOR: (1802-1885) French novelist, poet and dramatist. An excellent, significant and attractive D.S., Vtr. Hugo, one page, large folio (33 ...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Pere (1802-1870) French novelist and playwright whose works include The Three Musketeers (1844). Manuscript D.S., A Dumas, one pa...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Pere (1802-1870) French novelist and playwright whose works include The Three Musketeers (1844). A.L.S., A Dumas, one page, 8vo, ...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE Pere: (1802-1870) French Writer whose works include The Three Musketeers. A.L.S., `Alex Dumas´, two pages, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Mr....

SAND GEORGE: (1804-1876) French novelist, memoirist and journalist. A.L.S., George Sand, one page, 8vo, Nohant, 4th January 1855, to [Henri Rouy],...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Fils (1824-1895) French Author and Dramatist. A very fine A.L.S., A. Dumas, four pages, 8vo, n.p., n.d. [circa 1886], to Adolphe ...

FLAUBERT GUSTAVE: (1821-1880) French novelist A.L.S., with his initials G F, two pages (written to the first and third sides of the bifolium), 8vo...

VERNE JULES: (1828-1905) French Novelist. Best known for his science-fiction and adventures novels. A.L.S., Jules Verne, one page, 12mo, n.p., Feb...

ZOLA EMILE: (1840-1902) French novelist, journalist and playwright. A.L.S., Emile Zola, one page, 8vo, Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris, 3rd Novembe...

‘je refuse’ ZOLA EMILE: (1840-1902) French novelist, journalist and playwright. A.L.S., Emile Zola, two pages (written to the first and third side...

ZOLA EMILE: (1840-1902) French novelist, a major figure in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted Alfred Dreyfus, summarised in Zola...

DURKHEIM EMILE: (1858-1917) French sociologist, one of the principal architects of modern social science along with both Karl Marx and Max Weber. ...

MIRBEAU OCTAVE: (1848-1917) French Novelist, travel Writer and Playwright. His work has been translated into 30 languages. A very fine autograph l...

PROUST MARCEL: (1871-1922) French Novelist and Essayist. Best known for his major novel A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (`In search of Lost Time´). ...

GENET JEAN: (1910-1986) French Novelist, Playwright, and political Activist. A.L.S., `Jean´, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. [1975], to Edmonde Charles-...

COCTEAU JEAN: (1889-1963) French poet, playwright, novelist, artist, filmmaker and critic. A.L.S., Cocteau, one page, oblong 4to, n.p., n.d. (June...

ZWEIG STEFAN: (1881-1942) Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer, himself a passionate collector of autograph manuscripts. T.L.S...

KUNDERA MILAN: (1929- ) Czech-French Writer. Best known for his work The Unbearable Lightness of Being. The communist regime in Czechoslovakia ban...

KOESTLER ARTHUR: (1905-1983) Hungarian-born British author and journalist. A correspondence collection of ten T.Ls.S., A. Koestler, each one page,...

KOTZEBUE AUGUST VON: (1761-1819) German Writer. Assassinated. A Dramatist who graduated and practiced as a lawyer in Weimar and also worked as Con...

MARINETTI FILIPPO TOMMASO: (1876-1944) Italian poet and art theorist, founder of the Futurist movement, best known as the author of the first Futu...

MORAVIA ALBERTO: (1907-1990) Italian novelist and journalist. T.L.S., Alberto Moravia, one page, 4to, Rome, n.d., to the editor of Playboy, in Ita...

CONSTANT BENJAMIN: (1767-1830) Franco-Swiss political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion. A.L.S., B Constant, one page,...

MEYER CONRAD FERDINAND: (1825-1898) Swiss poet and historical novelist, a master of literary realism who is remembered for his stirring narrative ...

Gorky writes of the  ‘creative tension which will undoubtedly burst in the greatest discoveries and inventions, and which promises to make the lif...

[JOYCE JAMES]: (1882-1941) Irish novelist and poet. An unusual partially printed document, completed and signed on behalf of Joyce in the hand of ...

SCOTT WALTER: (1771-1832) Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Manuscript docket signed, Walter Scott, to a slim oblong 8...

KENNAWAY JAMES: (1928-1968) Scottish screenwriter and novelist whose films include Tunes of Glory (1960), The Mind Benders (1963) and The Battle o...

FORSTER E.M.: (1879-1970) English author whose works include A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924), all of w...

[LORD BYRON]: (1788-1824) English Poet, one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and widely regarded as one of the greatest English po...

DODGSON CHARLES LUTWIDGE: (1832-1898) Lewis Carroll. English author, poet and mathematician whose works include Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (...

CONRAD JOSEPH: (1857-1924) Polish-British novelist. A good, large vintage signed and inscribed sepia 11 x 14 photograph, the striking image showin...

DOYLE ARTHUR CONAN: (1859-1930) Scottish author, creator of Sherlock Holmes. A very fine A.L.S., A Conan Doyle, four pages, 8vo, Maloja Hotel, Mal...

WELLS H. G.: (1866-1946) English writer, remembered for his science fiction novels. A.L.S., H. G. Wells, one page, 4to, St. James's Court, Bucking...

SHEPARD ERNEST H.: (1879-1976) English artist and book illustrator, particularly remembered for his work for Winnie-the-Pooh and The Wind in the W...

DU MAURIER DAPHNE: (1907-1989) English novelist. A.L.S., Daphne du Maurier, to the verso of a picture postcard of an aerial view of her home and s...

CHARTERIS LESLIE: (1907-1993) British-Chinese author of adventure fiction, creator of the charming hero Simon Templar, alias The Saint. Signed col...

LONDON JACK: (1876-1916) American novelist, a pioneer of commercial fiction whose works included The Call of the Wild and White Fang, both set in ...

CHANDLER RAYMOND: (1888-1959) American-British novelist and screenwriter, a founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction. A remarkable, ...

WILDER THORNTON: (1897-1975) American playwright and novelist. A.L.S., Thornton Wilder, one page, 8vo, New Haven, Connecticut, 9th June 1941, to M...

CAPOTE TRUMAN: (1924-1984) American novelist. A.L.S., Truman Capote, to the verso of a picture postcard depicting Mount Etna, with a blossoming tr...

PUZO MARIO: (1920-1999) American author and screenwriter of crime novels involving the mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969). Signed 8 x 10 pho...

MILLER ARTHUR: (1915-2005) American playwright. Signed 5 x 8 photograph of Miller seated in a three-quarter length pose. Photograph by Inge Morath...

LEE HARPER: (1926-2016) American Novelist. Best known for her novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) that won the Pullitzer Prize. Lee also assisted h...

PYNCHON THOMAS: (1937-     ) American novelist. An extremely rare book signed and inscribed, being a soft cover edition of The Secret Integration,...

AMERICAN WRITERS: Edward Albee (1928-2016) American playwright. Signed 10 x 8 photograph of Albee in a head and shoulders pose with his arms cross...

ANDERSEN HANS CHRISTIAN: (1805-1875) Danish author, best remembered for his literary fairy tales. A fine A.Q.S., H. C. Andersen, to an oblong 12mo...

ANDERSEN HANS CHRISTIAN: (1805-1875) Danish author, best remembered for his literary fairy tales. A fine pair of autograph fair copy manuscript ve...

MALLARME STEPHANE: (1842-1898) French symbolist poet. A good A.L.S., Stephane Mallarme, to two sides of a plain correspondence card, Fontainebleau...

VERLAINE PAUL: (1844-1896) French Poet. Considered one of the greatest in French poetry. A good A.L.S., `Paul Verlaine´, one page, 8vo, [Paris], 2...