[Rarebooks] FS: Signed by Kerouac, Ginsberg, O'Hara, Olson, and 40 other poets

[Charles Agvent]

KEROUAC, Jack; O'HARA, Frank; OLSON, Charles; GINSBERG, Allen.... 
COMPLETE SET OF 44 ROYALTY CHECKS, ALL SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS ON VERSO.
Complete set of cancelled royalty checks made out by editor Donald Allen 
to 44 authors who appeared in the landmark poetry anthology THE NEW 
AMERICAN POETRY: 1945-1960, all SIGNED on the verso by the individual 
authors. In addition to his check, which he endorsed on the wrong end, 
Kerouac has written "For Sterling Lord Agency to re-process." The check 
for James Schuyler has been SIGNED by him as well as by his lover, 
artist Fairfield Porter. Denise Levertov has SIGNED both her maiden and 
married names. Many like Lew Welch, Philip Whalen, and Brother Antonius 
have added their addresses or an endorsement. Along with a TYPED NOTE 
SIGNED by Donald Allen and dated 1998 explaining the contract he signed 
with Grove Press for the anthology and how he pro-rated the royalties 
earned by the poets and continued to do so until the book went out of 
print in 1980. A very scarce collection, one of apparently only two in 
existence, with a fine collection of autographs of many of the important 
new poets of the time. Expected wear. Fine           $6500.00
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