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Sell or Auction Your Madeleine L’Engle Wrinkle in Time Signed Letter for up to Over $5,000 or More at Nate D. Sanders Auctions

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Sell Your Madeleine L’Engle Wrinkle in Time Signed Letter

A Wrinkle in Time is a young adult novel written by American author Madeleine L’Engle. First published in 1962, the book won the Newbery Medal, the Sequoyah Book Award, the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and was runner-up for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. The main characters—Meg Murry, Charles Wallace Murry, and Calvin O’Keefe—embark on a journey through space and time, from galaxy to galaxy, as they endeavor to save the Murrys’ father and the world. The novel offers a glimpse into the war between light and darkness, and good and evil, as the young characters mature into adolescents on their journey. The novel wrestles with questions of spirituality and purpose, as the characters are often thrown into conflicts of love, divinity, and goodness. It is the first book in L’Engle’s Time Quintet, which follows the Murrys and Calvin O’Keefe.

Below is a recent realized price for a Madeleine L’Engle Wrinkle in Time signed letter. We at Nate D. Sanders Auctions can obtain up to this amount or more for you:

Madeleine L’Engle Wrinkle in Time Signed Letter. Sold for over $5,000.

Madeleine L'Engle Wrinkle in Time signed letter
First-edition dust jacket, click to enlarge

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Exceedingly Rare First Printing Dusjacket of ”The Great Gatsby” — Much More Rare Than the Legendary Novel It Houses

Rare first edition, first printing of one of the most desired books in the history of literature, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ”The Great Gatsby,” published by Charles Scribner’s Sons: New York: 1925, with the nearly impossible to find first printing dustjacket. Every point is present: 1925 is printed on title page; Charles Scribner’s Sons logo appears on the copyright page with no subsequent printing statements; ”chatter” appears on page 60; ”northern” appears on page 119; ”it’s” is printed on line 16 of page 165; ”sick in tired” is found on page 205; ”Union Street station” is mistyped on line 7-8 of page 211. Bound in dark green cloth boards with title and author’s name blind-stamped to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Francis Cugat’s scarce original unrestored first printing dustjacket has the lowercase ”j” in ”jay Gatsby” on the back panel hand-corrected in ink.  Sold for $50,000.

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Madeleine L'Engle Wrinkle in Time signed letter
Great Gatsby First Edition with Great Gatsby First Edition Dustjacket

Ayn Rand first edition, signed copy of “Anthem.”

Hardcover with dustjacket. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, LTD.: 1953. Copy given to Nathaniel Branden, her purported protege and lover. Signed and inscribed by Rand in blue ink, “To Barbara and Nathan – – who are now fully my children – to mark your first six-months wedding anniversary – Ayn / July 14, 1953.” Book, which measures 6″x 8.5″, runs 105pp. Thinly-veiled sci-fi-ish allegory supports Rand’s classic Objectivist thesis regarding the subjugation of the ego for the greater whole of society. Dust jacket in near fine condition with minor chips at top. Slight cloth board spotting and very mild toning to interior. A near-perfect signed Ayn Rand first edition copy. Our most expensive Ayn Rand first edition that we have handled. Sold for $22,500.

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Ayn Rand First Edition Signed of “Anthem”. Click to enlarge.

First Edition Set of Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” — “Fellowship of the Ring” & “Return of the King” Are First Printings; “Two Towers” Is Second Printing — All Three Are Near Fine

Very rare first edition, early printing set of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954 & 1955. All three are in extraordinarily near fine condition for both the books and their original dust jackets. “The Fellowship of the Ring” is a first edition, first printing (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) with map attached to rear flyleaf. Publisher’s red cloth with gilt spine titles. With signature mark “4” at the bottom of page 49. Original dust jacket priced “21s net”. “The Two Towers” is a first edition, second printing (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954) with map attached to rear flyleaf. Publisher’s red cloth with gilt spine titles. Original dust jacket priced “21s net”. “The Return of the King” is a first edition, first printing (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1955) with map attached to rear flyleaf. Signature mark “4” present on page 49, and all lines of type sag in the middle. Publisher’s red cloth with gilt spine titles. Original dust jacket priced “21s net”. All measure 5.75″ x 9″ with top edges red. A beautiful set with only minor edge wear, toning to endpapers and very light wear to jackets. One of the nicest “Lord of the Rings” sets available. Sold for $14,588.

Madeleine L'Engle Wrinkle in Time first edition 1st state dust jacket
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Ernest Hemingway Signed First Limited Edition of ”A Farewell to Arms” — Scarce in Original Slipcase

Ernest Hemingway signed limited first edition of his post-WWI classic, ”A Farewell to Arms”, housed in its original limited edition slipcase, with numbers matching. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929. Published on 27 September 1929 in a limited edition of 510 numbered copies, this being #214, signed boldly ”Ernest Hemingway” in black fountain pen. In matching slipcase with Charles Scribner’s Sons plate, again listing the limited edition as #214. Measures 6.5” x 9.5”. Some chipping to seams of slipcase, overall in very good condition. Chipping to spine label, otherwise book is near fine. Sold for $10,313.

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Ernest Hemingway Signed First Limited Edition of ”A Farewell to Arms”. Click to enlarge.

Louisa May Alcott Signed ”Little Women” — First One to Appear at Auction in Over 40 Years — With PSA/DNA COA

Louisa May Alcott signed ”Little Women,” published by Roberts Brothers: Boston 1880. Impossible to find, the author’s signature within her masterpiece reads: ”L.M. Alcott” upon the fly-leaf. An Alcott signed instance of ”Little Women” has not been sold at auction in over 4 decades. First published in 1869, Alcott’s spellbinding novel about four sisters coming of age in the Civil War era has since become a classic. This edition is bound in hunter green cloth boards with gilt and black lettering and design. All edges gilt. Measures 7” x 8.5”. Surface loss to exterior corners and edges. Cracking to interior front hinge, with detached front free endpaper. A bookplate affixed to the front pastedown indicates this volume was gifted to the Brookline Public Library in 1917. In addition, the library’s perforated label appears at the bottom of the title page. A news clipping of Alcott’s obituary has been affixed to integral blanks. A label affixed to the rear pastedown reads: ”This book is for use in the library building only” and a barcode label has been partially removed from the rear free endpaper, else very good. With PSA/DNA COA. Sold for $8,908.

Madeleine L'Engle Wrinkle in Time signed letter
Louisa May Alcott Signed ”Little Women” , click to enlarge

”To Kill a Mockingbird” Advance Reading Copy — One of Less Than 500 Printed, With Few Still Extant

Advance reading copy of Harper Lee’s ”To Kill a Mockingbird” with a letter by J.B. Lippincott Co. sales manager printed on the front wrapper. Letter reads, ”This first novel has hit the jackpot!…The novel will be published in July at $3.95…” Letter also contains blurb by Truman Capote. Previous owner’s name and address written in pencil to the front free endpaper, a former nun who bought for a religious bookstore in Boston. Copy is in very good to near fine condition; spine somewhat cocked, toning and light soiling to wrappers and overall light wear. It is estimated that between 400-500 advance reading copies of ”To Kill a Mockingbird” were printed, and only a handful are known to exist today. Sold for $8,098

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Ernest Hemingway Autograph Letter Signed Three Times, Including as ”Hemingstein”, Announcing the Birth of His Son — ”…This makes three boys – a matador – a banderellero and a sword handler…”

Ernest Hemingway autograph letter signed, announcing the birth of his son, Gregory Hemingway, to his friend Charles MacGregor. MacGregor was a founding member of the literary group Algonquin Round Table (or ”The Vicious Circle” as they called themselves), to which Hemingway belonged, along with Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and Donald Ogden Stewart, all of whom Hemingway mentions here. Written from Kansas City, Missouri, letter is undated, but includes the original envelope postmarked 16 November 1931, four days after Gregory was born. Two page letter on single sheet measures 8.5” x 11”. Folds and very small tears at a few folds. Overall in very good condition. Accompanied by envelope handwritten by Hemingway, measuring 6.25” x 4”. Sold for $7,500.

Madeleine L'Engle Wrinkle in Time signed letter
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Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind First Edition, First Printing Signed 

Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind first edition, first printing signed.  Elegantly signed ”Margaret Mitchell” on the front free endpaper in black ink. New York: The MacMillan Co., 1936, with the incorrect publishing date of ”May, 1936” on the copyright page identifying the first printing. Bound in ”Confederate grey” cloth boards, book measures 6” x 8.75”. Minor toning and foxing, separation starting along rear joint, and some damage to backstrip with piece torn (though still present) and staining. Overall very good condition. Sold for $6,050.

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Margaret Mitchell Gone With the Wind First Edition, First Printing Signed, click to enlarge

Robert Frost Signed Book with Handwritten Verse

Robert Frost signed book “A Further Range” with handwritten verse from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” New York: Henry Holt and Company: 1936. First edition, second impression. Original red cloth lettered in gilt with dustjacket. Signed and inscribed in ink in March, 1937 by Frost on the front free endpaper with the final verse from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” Inscription reads: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep / But I have promises to keep / And miles to go before I sleep / And miles to go before I sleep. / Robert Frost / For Mary Ellen Gombes San Antonio Texas March 1937.” Frost wrote this poem about winter in June 1922 at his house in Shaftsbury, Vermont that is now home to the “Robert Frost Stone House Museum.” Frost had been up the entire night writing the long poem “New Hampshire” and had finally finished when he realized morning had come. He went out to view the sunrise and suddenly got the idea for “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” He wrote the new poem in just a few minutes and later stated that “It was as if I’d had a hallucination.” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” was Frost’s favorite of his own poems and later called it his “best bid for remembrance.” Dustjacket shows minor chipping to head and tail of spine and to folds; some toning. Near fine condition. Sold for $5,000.

Robert Frost autograph with poem
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J.D. Salinger Hand-Addressed Envelope Signed

J.D. Salinger hand-addressed stamped envelope, signed “J. Salinger” in the return address. Envelope, postmarked 23 January 1967, from Windsor, Vermont, includes nearly 20 words in the author’s hand. Envelope is addressed to a Janice Lynton in Geneva, Switzerland: “Miss Janice Lynton / College du Leman / Versoix – Geneve / Suisse”. A copy of the letter that went with this envelope is included. Envelope, measuring 5.25″ x 4.25″, has minor tape residue along left edge and a small rip through signature, else very good condition. Sold for $2,749.

JD Salinger signature
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