Collection of eight souvenir typescripts, all one page, seven 8.5 x 11 and one 6.75 x 8.5, each signed at the conclusion in ink or felt tip by the author. Signers are: Paul Horgan (The Surgeon and the Nun); Jerome Weidman (Fourth Street East); Raphael Soyer (Diary of an Artist); Walker Percy (Lancelot); Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose); Malcolm Cowley (The Rocking Chairs); Erskine Caldwell (Uncle Henry’s Love Nest); and Toni Morrison (Song of Solomon, ins), which begins “The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o’clock. Two days before the event was to take place he tacked a note on the door of his little yellow house: At 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday the 18th of February, 1931, I will take off from Mercy and fly away on my own wings. Please forgive me. I love you all.” In overall fine condition. RR Auction COA.
