This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/1/2013
Offered is a collection of 14 notecards, 1 letter and 1 poster which have been signed and inscribed by a variety of authors, politicians, religious figures and poets dating to the 1930's. Fourteen of the signatures are present on 3.5" x 5" index cards which have been removed from a vintage scrapbook, while the Vachel Lindsay signature appears on a 7.5" x 9.5" poster and the Alexander Woollcott autograph is on a letter which is a subtle advertisement for "Seagram's Pedigree, that rare eight year old Imported Bonded Whiskey". Full breakdown is as follows...
Poet Vachel Lindsay, New Yorker Magazine Critic Alexander Woollcott, New York Governor Alfred E. Smith, Protestant Pastor Harry Emerson Fosdick, Poet Thomas Curtis Clark, Bishop G.D. Batdorf, Preacher William Melvin Bell, Journalist Nina Murdoch, Mystery Writer Mary Roberts Rhinehart, Author Henry Van Dyke, Author Zona Gale, Author Joseph C. Lincoln, Poet Edgar Guest, Author Albert Payson Terhune, A.B. Stratton and one unidentified. (G0399)