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Surrealist poetry: an early game of exquisite corpse
Surrealist poetry: an early game of exquisite corpse
Drag legends at Finocchio's
Drag legends at Finocchio's
After Venetia: Revealing letters on love, literature and politics by H. H. Asquith
After Venetia: Revealing letters on love, literature and politics by H. H. Asquith
"Pennsylvania, the Promised Land": Emigration songs from the Harmony Society
"Pennsylvania, the Promised Land": Emigration songs from the Harmony Society
Unpublished plays by the young Madeleine L'Engle
Unpublished plays by the young Madeleine L'Engle
Beatrix Potter, original watercolor drawing of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter, original watercolor drawing of Peter Rabbit
Alan Turing and Tony Brooker, Programmers’ Handbook for the Ferranti Mark I computer
Alan Turing and Tony Brooker, Programmers’ Handbook for the Ferranti Mark I computer
H. P. Lovecraft, Despair: the holograph manuscript
H. P. Lovecraft, Despair: the holograph manuscript
Surrealist poetry: an early game of exquisite corpse
Surrealist poetry: an early game of exquisite corpse
After Venetia: Revealing letters on love, literature and politics by H. H. Asquith
After Venetia: Revealing letters on love, literature and politics by H. H. Asquith
Drag legends at Finocchio's
Drag legends at Finocchio's
Unpublished plays by the young Madeleine L'Engle
Unpublished plays by the young Madeleine L'Engle
"Pennsylvania, the Promised Land": Emigration songs from the Harmony Society
"Pennsylvania, the Promised Land": Emigration songs from the Harmony Society
Beatrix Potter, original watercolor drawing of Peter Rabbit
Beatrix Potter, original watercolor drawing of Peter Rabbit
Alan Turing and Tony Brooker, Programmers’ Handbook for the Ferranti Mark I computer
Alan Turing and Tony Brooker, Programmers’ Handbook for the Ferranti Mark I computer
H. P. Lovecraft, Despair: the holograph manuscript
H. P. Lovecraft, Despair: the holograph manuscript

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George Bernard Shaw ghostwrites a preface for Lawrence of Arabia

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Marcel Pagnol's draft for the unpublished screenplay of Carnaval (1953)

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Naomi Murdach and the golden age of trans pageantry in San Francisco

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Pennsylvania, the Promised Land: emigration songs from the earliest years of the Harmony Society in America

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