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BRITISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS]. DUNSANY, Lord . Autograph letter signed to his publisher, Shoreham, 29 [Feb.?] 1918, 4 pages, 8vo , regarding his writings: "I hear you want the preface of Tales of War . It is not yet written, but my prefaces never occupy a whole page. Could the book not proceed without it..." -- DUNSANY. Autograph manuscript signed of a prose poem beginning "Her beauty was as a dream...," n.p., n.d., 1 page, 18mo, on stiff card -- MAUGHAM, WILLIAM SOMERSET. Typed letter signed to "My dear Rumsey," Cuernavaca, Mexico, 29 October 1924, 2 pages, 8vo , entirely on plays and theatre matters: "...I am going to try...whether I can make a better job of the dramatization of The Letter than your friend Miss Purcell. I very much hope that Peggy O'Neil has not been engaged to play in Rain ...I hope you are keeping an eye on Gilbert Miller's proposition to bring Our Betters over to New York..." -- POWYS, THEODORE FRANCIS. Autograph letter signed to The Argus Book Shop in Chicago, Dorchester, 1 September 1933, 1 page, 8vo, with envelope : "I hear outside my window the sound of sportsmen firing their guns off at the flying birds. Are these gentlemen the collectors of first editions? Who shoot down many a plump volume? But let them know that in a season or two L.L. Powys, J.C. Powys and T.F. Powys will be in the fashion..." -- SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD. Autograph postcard signed ("G.B.S.") to Doré Lewin, London, 1 July 1908, 1 page, 12mo, a little soiled : "...A tour of Arms & the Man is not possible. After the house you drew at Cambridge both Miss Harriman [and another] will extend their operations. I saw Mercutio -- the Mab scene only [in Romeo and Juliet ]...quite effective & characteristic." -- TYNAN, KATHARINE. Autograph manuscript signed (fair copy) of the poem "A Song of Christmas," Herts, n.d., 1 page, 8vo -- MASTERS, EDGAR LEE. Autograph manuscript of signed (fair copy) of the poem "John Bussey...From the New Spoon River ," n.p., n.d., 1 page, oblong 8vo, 13 lines, small tear repaired on verso -- A group of autograph letters signed (one each, except as noted) from Maurice Baring ( 4 pp., 4to , 1910, to H.G. Wells re the latter's book and socialism), Laurence Binyon (autograph quotation signed on card), Thomas Burke (TLS, "...I have never been able to read even half-way through anything of Scott, Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, George Eliot or Thomas Hardy .."), W.H. Davies (brief TLS, "The longer I live the more I think of my own wretched self..."), Dunsany, Galsworthy, Harley Granville-Barker, W.W. Jacobs, Masefield, Beverley Nichols, Hugh Walpole (2 ALS on literature), Hervey Allen (2 autograph quotations signed, one from Anthony Adverse ), Eugene Field (printed leaflet, BAL 5899), Louise Imogen Guiney (to P.K. Foley re books), Bret Harte (carte-de-visite style photo by Bradley Rulofson of San Francisco); and approx. 35 cut signatures of minor 20th-century Americans and numerous 19th-century Congressmen. Together, approx. 58 items . (58)