Collection of approximately seventy mostly mid-20th century literary and journalistic autographs, including ANSs, ALSs, TLSs, signed cards, and signed photos. Signers include: Conrad Aiken; Joseph Alsop; Cleveland Amory; S. N. Behrman; Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet; Catherine Drinker Bowen; Samuel Bowles (pre-1878); Van Wyck Brooks; Bennett Cerf (2); Frank Crane; Milton J. Cross; George William Curtis; John Dos Passos; Leon Edel; Edna Ferber; George Gallup; Frank Gannett; Allen Ginsberg and Richard Eberhart; Harry Golden; Ben Grauer; Edgar A. Guest; John Gunther; Julian Hawthorne; William Randolph Hearst, Jr.; Ben Hecht; John Hersey; Fannie Hurst; Robinson Jeffers; Howard Mumford Jones; H. V. Kaltenborn; Kenneth Koch; Joseph Wood Krutch; Louis L’Amour; Max Lerner; Walter Lippmann; Amy Lowell; Robert Lowell; Leonard Lyons; Archibald MacLeish (2); Marshall McLuhan; Norman Mailer; Edwin Markham (2); H. L. Mencken; James A. Michener; Marianne Moore; Drew Pearson; Elmo Roper; Robert St. John; Carl Sandburg; William Saroyan; Upton Sinclair (2); Frank Sullivan; C. L. Sulzberger; Louis Untermeyer; John Updike (2); Mark Van Doren (2); Pierre van Paassen; Timothy Fay Walsh; and Kate Douglas Wiggin. Also included are unsigned envelopes addressed by Washington Irving, Henry W. Longfellow, and Theodore Dreiser; and cut signatures of George Ade, Edward Bellamy, Edgar Lee Masters, Lincoln Steffens, and Owen Wister. In overall very good to fine condition. RR Auction COA.
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