Collection of 27 programs, most for American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters ceremonies, 8.5 x 11, dated throughout the 1970s and 1980s, each signed on the front cover by notable authors or artists at the event. Signers are: Tom Wolfe, John Updike, Roy Lichtenstein, John Cheever, Eudora Welty, Robertson Davies (2), Paul Cadmus, Chaim Gross, Barbara Tuchman, Larry Rivers, James Hester, Ralph Sockman, Stanley Kunitz, Yevgeny Yevtushenko (2), Richard Eberhart (2), Alfred Kazin, Roberto B. Marx, Cynthia Ozick (2), Bernard Malamud, Raphael Soyer, James Ingo Freed, Mary Frank, William H. Gass, John Ciardi (2), Malcolm Cowley, George Segal, Robert Motherwell, Malvina Hoffman, Hortense Calisher (2), Braj Kumar Nehru, Julius Mark, and Terence Cardinal Cooke. Various light scattered foxing, otherwise overall fine condition. RR Auction COA.
