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Lot #467
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Over 125 world literary autographs, including Samuel Beckett, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Chinua Achebe

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Over 125 world literary autographs, including Samuel Beckett, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Chinua Achebe

Large collection of more than 125 autographs by prominent literary figures, predominately consisting of signatures on off-white cards, some inscribed, including over 30 Pulitzer or Nobel Prize recipients. Signers include: Edward Albee (SP and signature), Walter Abish, Chinua Achebe, Peter Ackroyd, Alice Adams, Brian Aldiss, Jorge Amado, Kingsley Amis (2), Rudolfo Anaya, Maya Angelou, Jeffrey Archer (2), Margaret Atwood, Louis Auchincloss, Jean Auel, J. G. Ballard (2), James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Ann Beattie, Daniel Boorstin, Heinrich Boll, William Boyd, Anita Brookner, James McGregor Burns, William S. Burroughs, Erskine Caldwell, Thomas Carlyle, Adolfo Bioy Casares, John Cheever, Richard Condon, Catherine Cookson (2), J. M. Coetzee, Robertson Davies, Peter DeVries, E. L. Doctorow, Richard Dooling, Andre Dubus, J. P. Dunleavy, Odysseus Elytis, Umberto Eco, Walter D. Edmunds, Ralph Ellison, John Fowles, Ernest Gaines, Ernest Gann, Gail Godwin, William Golding, Alasdair Gray, Zane Grey, Nadine Gordimer, Gunter Grass, James Herriot, John Hawkes, Shirley Hazzard, John Hersey, Edward Hoagland, Russell Hoban, Paul Horgan (SP and signature), Christopher Isherwood, Dan Jacobson, Garrison Keillor, Thomas Keneally, Benedict Kiely (2), Michael Korda, Jerzy Kosinski, Milan Kundera, Mark Leyner, Astrid Lindgren (2), Halldor Laxness, Harper Lee, Doris Lessing, Alison Lurie, Nagiub Malfouz, Norman Mailer, Czeslaw Milosz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, John McPhee, James A. Michener (SP), Colleen McCullough, Thomas McGuane, Jessica Mitford, Jan Morris (2), John Mortimer, Penelope Ruth Mortimer, Toni Morrison, Iris Murdoch, R. K. Narayan, Hugh Nissenson, Robert Nye, Joyce Carol Oates, Edna O’Brien, Alan Paton, Norman Vincent Peale, Walker Percy, Roger Tory Peterson, George Plimpton, Chaim Potok, Anthony Powell, J. B. Priestley, V. S. Pritchett, Mordecai Richler, Tom Robbins, Irwin Shaw, Leslie Marmon Silko, Allan Sillitoe, Claude Simon, Georges Simenon (SP), Isaac Bashevis Singer, Wole Soyinka, William Styron, Glendon Swarthout, Gay Talese, Booth Tarkington, Alexander Theroux, Studs Terkel, John Willard Toland, Barbara Tuchman, Anne Tyler, Leon Uris, John Updike, Laurens van der Post, Gore Vidal, David Walcott, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, Herman Wouk, Angus Wilson, Tom Wolfe, and Marguerite Young. In overall fine condition, with occasional edge toning.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Fine Autographs and Artifacts
  • Dates: #510 - Ended October 11, 2017