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Modernist Journals

• Blast - June 1914, July 1915 - (AP4 .B605 Nos. 1-2 OVRSZ)
• Broom - April 1922 - (NX4 .B69 Vol 2, No. 1 Connolly OVRSZ)
• Camera Work - April 1913 - (TR1 .C5 Nos. 42-43 OVRSZ)
• The Little Review - March 1918 - (AP2 .L647 Vol. 4, No. 11 Weaver)
• The Owl - May 1919 - (PR1226 .O85 No. 1 RHD OVRSZ)
• Rhythm - June 1912 - (AP4 .R98 RHD)
• Scribners - June 1920 - (AP2. S4 Vol. 67, No. 6)
• The Seven Arts - July 1917 - (AP2 .S48 Vol. 2, No. 9)

James Joyce

• Richard Ellmann Papers – 1988.012
• James Joyce by Richard Ellmann - (PR6019.O9 Z5332 1959 Léon)
  • Inscribed by the author to Lucie Léon
• Bronze casting of James Joyce's death mask - 2022.014
• Paul and Lucie Léon collection of James Joyce, 1920-1971 - 1984.005
  • Porcelain lion gifted to Paul Léon by James Joyce - 1984.005.4 porcelain lion
  • Neck tie gifted to Paul Léon by James Joyce - 1984.005.neck tie OVRSZ
• James Joyce correspondence - 1000-012
• Finnegan's Wake proofs - (PR6019.O9 F5 1939 Leon Ovrsz)
• Tales Told of Shem and Shaun proofs - (1988-017)
• Autographed guestbook belonging to Herbert and Suzanne Hughes - (PR6019.O9 J6931 1924 Ovrsz)
• Ulysses by James Joyce - (PR6019.O9 U4 1922 VL1)
  • First edition intimately inscribed by the author to his Aunt Josephine
• Ulysses by James Joyce - (PR6019.O9 U4 1922a Weaver)
  • First edition inscribed by the author to his patroness Harriet Shaw Weaver
• Ulysses by James Joyce, with illustrations by Henri Matisse - (PR6019.O9 U4 1935 Leon Ovrsz)
• Six signed proofs of original etchings by Henri Matisse - (NE2210.M38 A5 1935 Weaver Ovrsz)
• Ulysses first draft screen play - (2009-024)
• Livermore Brothers marquee - (2022-010 OVRSZ)

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Jean Rhys

• Jean Rhys archive - 1976.011
  • Jean Rhys personal items - 1976.011.4.1.5-8
  • Jean Rhys photographs - 1976.011.3
  • Wide Sargasso Sea typescripts - 1976.011.1.5.18
  • Wide Sargasso Sea corrections to text - 1976.011.1.6.1
  • Wide Sargasso Sea page proofs, 1963 Dec - 1976.011.1.6.2
  • Wide Sargasso Sea scripts - 1976.011.1.6.4
  • Wide Sargasso Sea review - 1976.011.1.6.4
  • Wide Sargasso Sea press cuttings - 1976.011.1.6.5-6
• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (first edition) - (PR6035.H96 W52 1966)

Ezra Pound

• John Hamilton Edwards collection of Ezra Pound, 1901-1962 - 1977-002 
• Ripostes by Ezra Pound (first edition, signed by the author, pages uncut) - (PS3531.O82 R57 1912 Connolly Undrsz)
• Lustra by Ezra Pound (first edition, signed by the author) - (PS3531.O82 L87 1916 Connolly)
• Lustra by Ezra Pound (first American edition, second issue) - (PS3531.O82 L872 1917 Wilson)

T.S. Eliot

• T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot collection - 1978-009
• Prufrock: and other observations by T.S. Eliot (first edition, signed by the author) - (PS3509.L43 P7 1917 Connolly)
• The waste land by T.S. Eliot (first edition, signed by the author) - (PS3509.L43 W3 1922 Connolly)
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot (first edition) - (PS3509.L43 O55 1939 Connolly)
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot (first American edition) - (PS3509.L43 O55 1939b Wilson)

Virginia Woolf

• Virginia Woolf correspondence - 1981.010.6
• The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf (first published novel, first edition) - (PR6045.O72 V69 1915 RHD)
• Night and Day by Virginia Woolf (first edition) - (PR6045.O72 N5 1919)
• Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf (first edition) - (PR6045.O72 J32 1922 RHD)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (first edition) - (PR6045.O72 M77 1925b Connolly)
• Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (first edition) - (PR6045.O72 M77 1925b RHD)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (first edition) - (ELL 000774)
• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf (first edition) - (PR6045.O72 T6 1927 RHD)
• Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (first edition) - (PR6045.O72 O7 1928 RHD)
• Orlando: A Biography by Virginia Woolf (first American edition) - (PR6045.O72 O7 1928c)
• The Waves by Virginia Woolf (first edition) - (PR6045.O72 W3 1931 RHD)
• The Waves by Virginia Woolf (first American edition) - (PR6045.O72 W3 1931b)

D.H. Lawrence

• D.H. Lawrence papers, 1913-1977 - 1976-013
  • Men bathing by D.H. Lawrence (oil painting) - 1976.013.3 OVRSZ
  • Needlework of an Etruscan figure - 1976.013.3.2.4
• Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence (first edition) - (PR6023.A96 S6 1913 RHD)
• Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence (first American edition) - (PR6023.A93 S6 1913b)
• Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence (first edition privately printed for subscribers) - (PR6023.A93 W63 1920 Connolly)
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (Orioli edition, signed by the author) - (PR6023.A93 L3 1928 Connolly)
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (pirated edition published in Florence) - (PR6023.A93 L3 1928xc)
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (pirated edition published in Florence possibly by Samuel Roth) - (PR6023.A93 L3 1928xd)
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (pirated edition published in New York) - (PR6023.A93 L3 1928b)
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (pirated edition published in San Francisco) - (PR6023.A93 L3 1928x)
• Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (pirated edition possibly published in England) - (PR6023.A93 L3 1928xb)

William Faulkner

• William Faulkner ephemera collection - 1963-005
• The Marble Faun by William Faulkner (first published work, first edition) - (PS3511.A86 M3 1924)
• Soldiers' Pay by William Faulkner (first published novel, first edition) - (PS3511.A86 S65 1926)
• Mosquitoes by William Faulkner (first edition) - (PS3511.A86 M67 1927 Undrsz)
• Sartoris by William Faulkner (first edition) - (PS3511.A86 S37 1929)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (first edition) - (PS3511.A86 S7 1929)
• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (first edition, third printing) - (813 F263So 1931 Connolly)
• The Sound and the Fury by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank (revised final film script) - (PS3511.A86 S72 1958 Ovrsz)
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (first edition) - (PS3511.A86 A85 1930)
• Light in August by William Faulkner (first edition) - (PS3511.A86 L5 1932)
• Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (first edition) - (PS3511.A86 A65 1936)
• A Green Bough by William Faulkner (no. 58 of 350, signed by the author) - (811 F263 G)

Ernest Hemingway

• Ernest Hemingway ephemera - 1977-003
• Senior Tabula, June 1917 [Ernest Hemingway's senior high school yearbook] - (AY12 .S4 1917)
• Three stories & ten poems - Ernest Hemingway (first published work) - (PS3515.E37 A6 1923 Connolly)
• in our time by Ernest Hemingway (original chapbook vignettes, no. 65 of 170) - (PS3515.E37 I5 1924 Connolly)
• In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway (republication with 14 additional short stories) - (PS3515.E37 I5 1925)
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (first edition) - (PS3515.E37 S8 1926)
• A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (first edition, signed by the author) - (PS3515.E37 F3 1929 Connolly)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway ("A code" edition) - (PS3515.E37 F6 1940b)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls by A.H. Hotchner (film script) - (PS3515.E37 F62 1959)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (first edition) - (813 H488O Connolly)
• The Old Man and the Sea by Peter Viertel (film script) - (PS3543.I326 O53 1955)

Additional Modernist Materials

• Miscellaneous literary manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs - 1981-010
• Bifur archive - 1979-011
• Katherine Mansfield collection - 1963-003
• Brenda Maddox papers - 2007-008
• Dorothy Miller Richardson papers, 1909-1959 - 1975-003
• Edward Charles (E.C.E. Hemsted) papers, 1921-1961 - 1979-010
• Du côté de chez Swann [Swann's Way] by Marcel Proust (first edition, signed by the author) (PQ2631.R63 D83 1914 Connolly)
• The apes of God by Wyndham Lewis - (PR6023.E97 A64 1930 Ellmann)
• Sea Garden by H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) - (813 D691S Connolly)
• Voltaire by Richard Aldington - (B2177 .A5 1925)
• Pointed roofs. Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson (first edition) - (PR6035.I34 P54 1915 Undrsz)
• Spring and All by William Carlos Williams (variant edition published in Paris) - (PS3545.I544 S7 1923 Connolly Undrsz)
• Collected Poems, 1921-1931 by William Carlos Williams - (PS3545.I544 A17 1934 Connolly Undrsz)
• One Man's Initiation--1917 by John Dos Passos (first edition) - (PS3507.O743 O53 1920 Undrsz)
• Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos (first edition) - (813 D722Th)
• Manhattan Transfer by John Dos Passos (first edition) - (813 D722Ma 1925)