Lot 87
Authors -- Including Langston Hughes, Edith Wharton, Arthur Koestler, Emily Post, Margaret Sanger, Ralph Ellison, James Hilton, and Others. Group of 16 writers, who were among those chosen by the New York Public Library as having written a book of the (20th) century which had a lasting impact on the people who read them. They are: Langston Hughes, Edith Wharton, Ralph Ellison, Arthur Koestler, Toni Morrison, Tom Wolfe, James Hilton, Maya Angelou, Betty Smith, Joseph Heller, Timothy Leary, John Hersey, Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood, Emily Post, and Margaret Sanger. Items vary from signatures (Wharton, Ellison) to signatures with sentiment or date (Hughes, Angelou, Post, Heller), signed photos (Atwood, Roth), notes (Koestler), or quotations (Smith, Leary, Wolfe, Hersey), a signed title page (Morrison), a TLS (Hilton), and a signed envelope (Sanger). 17 items (Wolfe signed 2). Overall fine. Estimate Value $400 - UP
The Michael Hecht Autograph Collection.
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