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[WHITMAN, WALT. 1819-1892.] WINNER, GLADYS LOGAN.

ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. 1876-1941. Death in the Woods. New York: Liveright, [1933].

[ANDERSON, SHERWOOD. 1876-1941] San Francisco at Christmas. San Mateo: Quercus Press, 1941.

AUSTER, PAUL. [The New York Trilogy] City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, [1985-1986.]

BISHOP, ELIZABETH. 1911-1979. The Fish. [Seattle: Printed by John Sollid for David Ishii, 1974.]

BOWLES, JANE. 1917-1973. Two Serious Ladies. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1943.

BOYLE, KAY. 1902-1992. Typed Mansucript with annotations, 30 pp, 4to, [Oregon], April 30 to June 15, 1983, comprising 7 drafts of her preface to the reissue of Being Geniuses Together,

BRADBURY, RAY. BORN 1920. 8 Documents Signed ("Ray Bradbury"), 9 pp, 4to, New York, Jul;y 26, 1955 to December 4, 1956, granting NBC radio the rights to one time broadcasts of adaptations of his works,

BUBER, MARTIN. 1878-1965. Die Legende des Baalschem. Frankfurt am Main: Literarische Anstalt/Ruetten & Leoning, [1908].

BUCK, PEARL S. 1892-1973. Typed Manuscript, 109 pp, 4to, New York, [c.1963], being the playscript for Flight Into China

BUKOWSKI, CHARLES. 1920-1994. Notes of a Dirty Old Man. North Hollywood: Essex House, [1969].

BUKOWSKI, CHARLES. 1920-1994. Horsemeat. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982.

BUKOWSKI, CHARLES. 1920-1994. The Last Night of the Earth Poems. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992.

BURROUGHS, EDGAR RICE. 1875-1950. GARRETT, OLIVER. Typed Carbon, 97 pp, 4to, [Los Angeles], May 10, 1933, being an early draft of the screenplay for Tarzan and His Mate,

CAIN, JAMES M. 1892-1977. Mimeographed Manuscript, 186 pp, 4to, n.p., [1946], being the text of the novel Nevada Moon,

CARVER, RAYMOND & JOEL GARDNER. Batavia. Lunenburg, VT: Meriden-Stinehour Press, 1986.

[CASSADY, NEAL. 1926-1968] HOLDER, WAYNE and CAROLYN CASSADY. Typed Manuscript, 93 pp, 4to, [British Columbia, c.1978], being a draft of Holder's scenario for a film about Neal Cassady, heavily annotated throughout by Carolyn Cassady,

CATHER, WILLA. Death Comes for the Archbishop. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927.

CRANE, STEPHEN. 1871-1900. The Black Riders. Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895.

DURRELL, LAWRENCE. 1912-1990. Ten Poems. London: Caduceus Press, 1932.

DURRELL, LAWRENCE. 1912-1990. Transition: Poems. London: Caduceus Press, 1934.

DURRELL, LAWRENCE. 1912-1990. Pied Piper of Lovers. London: Cassell and Company, [1935].

[DURRELL, LAWRENCE. 1912-1990.] Panic Spring. London: Faber and Faber, [1937].

DURRELL, LAWRENCE. 1912-1990. The Black Book. Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1938.

DURRELL, LAWRENCE. 1912-1990. The Parthenon: for T.S. Eliot. [Rhodes: 1944 or 1945.]

DURRELL, LAWRENCE. 1912-1990. Private Drafts. Nicosia, Cyprus: Proodos Press, 1955.

DURRELL, LAWRENCE. 1912-1990. 1. 2 Autograph Letters Signed and 7 Typed Letters Signed ("Larry"), 10 pp, legal folio and 4to, various places including Cairo and Sommieres, July 4, 1942 to January 10, 1979, most (7) to Henry Miller regarding writing, etc.,

EVERSON, WILLIAM. 1912-1994. San Joaquin. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1939.

EVERSON, WILLIAM. 1912-1994. The Masculine Dead. Prairie City, IL: Press of James A. Decker, [1942].

[EVERSON, WILLIAM. 1912-1994.] WHITMAN, WALT. American Bard. Being the Preface to the First Edition of Leaves of Grass, Now Restored to its Native Verse Rhythms and Presented as a Living Poem. [Santa Cruz]: Lime Kiln Press, 1981.

[FAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962.] Ole Miss: The Year Book of the University of Mississippi. Volume XXII: 1917-1918.

FAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962. Sartoris. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1929].

FAULKNER, WILLIAM, et al. Mimeographed Manuscript, 49 pp, legal folio, n.p., 1955,

FAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962. RAVETCH, IRVING, and HARRIET FRANK, JR. Mimeographed Manuscript, 150 pp, 4to, [Los Angeles], February 27, '957, being the screenplay for The Sound and the Fury marked "final,"

FAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962. POE, JAMES. Mimeographed Manuscript, 138 pp, 4to, [Los Angeles], July 15, 1960,

FAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962. Photograph Signed and Inscribed ("Bill"), 3 by 5 inch silver print portrait of Faulkner with pipe, inscribed on the verso,

FAULKS, SEBASTIAN. B.1953. A Trick of the Light. London: Bodley Head, [1984].

FIELDS, W.C. 1880-1946. 2 scripts from early Fields movies:

FITZGERALD, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY. 1896-1940. Fie! Fie! Fi-Fi! * The Evil Eye. * Safety First! Cincinnati, New York, London: The John Church Company, 1914-1916.

FOOTE, HORTON. 1916-2009 and MARLON BRANDO. HELLMAN, LILLIAN. Mimeographed Manuscript, 168 pp, 4to, n.p., March 30 to April 26, 19645, being Hellman's screenplay of The Chase, based on the novel by Foote,

GREENE, GRAHAM. 1904-1991. Mimeographed Manuscript, approx 110 pp, 4to, n.p., 1948, being the dialogue cutting continuity script for The Fallen Idol,

GREENE, GRAHAM. 1904-1991. 5 Mimeographed Manuscripts, approx 350 pp, legal folio and 4to, n.p., March 1950 (and possibly later), being various versions of scripts for The Third Man,

[HAMMETT, DASHIELL, after.] FISHER, STEVE and NAT PERRIN.

HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. 1899-1961. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.

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