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: Père (1802-1870) French Writer whose works include The Three Musketeers. A curious A.L.S., A. Dumas, one page, 12mo, n.p., n.d., ...

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, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Monsieur Duteil, on Sand's blind...

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 good A.L.S., A. Dumas, three pages, 8vo, Paris, 28th January 1890, to Count Josep...

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 ...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Fils (1824-1895) French Author and Dramatist. An exceptional and lengthy A.L.S., A Dumas, four pages, 8vo, grid paper, Naples, 5t...

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...

LAFARGUE PAUL: (1842-1911) Cuban-born French revolutionary Marxist socialist, political writer, economist and literary critic, the son-in-law of K...

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...

MAUPASSANT GUY DE: (1850-1893) French Writer. A good A.L.S., Guy de Maupassant, two pages, 12mo, Paris, n.d., on his personal printed stationery c...

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´). ...

COLETTE: (1873-1954) French author, best known for her novella Gigi (1944). Autograph Manuscript signed, Colette, three pages (separate leaves), 4...

`I work constantly with Breton. This morning and this afternoon we wrote “The feeling of nature” ‘ ELUARD PAUL: (1895-1952) French Poet, widely c...

BEAUVOIR SIMONE DE: (1908-1986) French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist and feminist activist. A.L.S., S de Beauvoir, one page,...

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-...

GENET JEAN: (1910-1986) French Novelist, Playwright, and political Activist. A curious A.L.S., `Jean Genet´, one page, 8vo, Brighton, n.d. [1975],...

COCTEAU JEAN: (1889-1963) French poet, playwright, novelist, artist, filmmaker and critic. A brief A.L.S., Jean Cocteau, with a star beneath his s...

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...

COCTEAU JEAN: (1889-1963) French poet, playwright, novelist, artist, filmmaker and critic. A good, illustrated autograph letter, unsigned, two pag...

COCTEAU & PIAF: COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963) French poet, playwright, novelist, artist, filmmaker and critic & PIAF EDITH (1915-1963) French singer. A...

FRENCH WRITERS: A good selection of nine A.L.S., and one sketch, by various French Writers, most of one page and few of two pages, with four 8vo, ...

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,...

MANKELL HENNING: (1948-2015) Swedish crime writer, children's author and dramatist, the creator of Inspector Kurt Wallander. Collection of four id...

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

HASENCLEVER WALTER: (1890-1940) German Expressionist poet and playwright. A rare A.L.S., Walter Hasenclever, one page, oblong 8vo, Clamart, 14th D...

ZWEIG ARNOLD: (1887-1968) German writer and pacifist whose correspondence with the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was published in 1970. Signed 3.5 x...

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 ...

DURRENMATT FRIEDRICH: (1921-1990) Swiss author and dramatist. Signed 3.5 x 5.5 photograph of the writer in a close-up head and shoulders pose. Sig...

DURRENMATT FRIEDRICH: (1921-1990) Swiss author and dramatist. Signed 3.5 x 5 photograph of Durrenmatt in a close-up head and shoulders pose with o...

SOLIS Y RIBADENEYRA ANTONIO DE: (1610-1686) Spanish playwright, writer and historian, chronicler of the Indies. A.L.S., Don Ant. de Solis, one pag...

PALACIO VALDES ARMANDO: (1853-1938) Spanish novelist and critic. A.L.S., A. Palacio Valdes, two pages, 8vo, Capbreton, Landes, 29th July 1923, to ...

‘Your ideas……on the odious ownership of land, on the horror of patriotism, of wars and of the armed peace it engenders, are very dear to me’  TOLS...

‘I deeply regret that this matter cannot be leaked and made public as it should be’ TOLSTOY LEO: (1828-1910) Russian writer, regarded as one of th...

CHEKHOV ANTON: (1860-1904) Russian Playwright and short-story writer. Rare Vintage signed cabinet photograph by Chekhov, the Yug image from Yalta ...

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...

STEVENSON ROBERT LOUIS: (1850-1894) Scottish novelist of Treasure Island (1883), Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and Kidnapped (1886)...

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 (...

BAYLY ADA ELLEN: (1857-1903) English novelist and supporter of women's suffrage who wrote under the pseudonym Edna Lyall. A.L.S., A. E. Bayly, one...

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 small 8vo ruled page removed from a notebook bearing Doyle's hologr...