Five items signed by American authors, including John Updike, Eudora Welty, James Whitcomb Riley, Robert Penn Warren, and Will and Ariel Durant.
Signed book: Rabbit Redux. First edition, limited issue, numbered 226/350. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. Hardcover with acetate jacket and slipcase, 5.75 x 8.25, 407 pages. Signed on the colophon in blue ink, "John Updike." In fine condition.
Signed book: Acrobats in a Park. First edition, limited issue, numbered 295/300. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1980. Hardcover with acetate jacket, 7 x 9.75, 13 pages. Signed on the colophon in blue felt tip, "Eudora Welty." In fine condition.
Signed book: Old-Fashioned Roses. Seventh edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1892. Hardcover, 4 x 6.5, 145 pages. Signed on a free end page in ink, "Very truly your friend, James Whitcomb Riley, Rochester, N.Y., Mch 18: 1893, I like 'em, 'cause they kindo' / Sorto' make a feller like 'em!" In very good condition, soiling, scuffing, and splitting to spine.
Signed book: Rumor Verified, Poems 1979-1980. First edition, limited issue, numbered 111/250. Hardcover with slipcase, 6.25 x 9.5, 97 pages. Signed on the colophon in black ballpoint by Warren. In fine condition.
Color glossy portraits of writers Will and Ariel Durant affixed to a black 19 x 12 cardstock mount, signed and inscribed in white crayon by the husband and wife to noted screenwriter Budd Schulberg, "From Ariel Durant for Budd Schulberg" and "From Will Durant to Budd Schulberg." In fine condition, with wear to edges of the mount. In very good to fine condition.
