John Steinbeck Autograph on a Copy of The Suffolk County Whaling Museum of Sag Harbor, Long Island, N.Y.
(John Steinbeck)
Sag Harbor, New York: Mr. Steinbeck has here autographed in pen, a folding brochure for the town of Sag Harbor, Long Island's Whaling Museum, with an article on "The Sag Harbor Whalers" by Clother Hathaway Vaughn; about 9" x 4" size; light edge, tips wear to pamphlet, tipped-on to a black cardstock matteboard; very good condition, no date but circa mid-1960's; signature with fading, legible enough; obviously given when Steinbeck resided in the town and wrote his novel "The Winter of Our Discontent", a story reputedly based on the area and its characters and places; an interesting association and significant autograph of one of the twentieth century's most respected and prominent writers, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Very good condition overall. Very Good (Item ID: 13405)
$450.00
