[Rarebooks] FS: Christmas Card from and Signed by Flannery O'Connor

[Charles Agvent]

An example from our upcoming Fall list to be posted on our website very 
soon. It will contain a fine miscellany of 50-75 items, most of this 
caliber, in a variety of fields including Literature, Presidential, 
Hand-colored Plates, Early Printing, Americana, etc.  We will be 
bringing many of these items to the Boston Book Fair, Nov. 13-15 at the 
Hynes Auditorium, where we will cohabit booth 503.

   O'CONNOR, Flannery. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS). Brief letter on 
two sides of a generic Christmas card. In full: "I appreciated those 
kind words in the Commonweal - an excellent selection of adjectives, 
said I to myself. Did you see the editorial in America about Rabbit Run? 
Nausesous [sic]. I hope your various projects are going well and I wish 
you a Merry Christmas. Flannery OC."  Although the recipient is not 
named and the date not given, the reference to the review of Updike's 
book dates this to 1960. The card (4-3/4" x 5-1/2") is matted with a 
photograph of O'Connor (-4-1/4" x 6-1/4") and framed to an overall size 
of 14-1/4" x 19-3/4" with a cutout on the reverse side to show both 
sides of the card. Fine and attractively framed. $2,500.00	

A unique piece capturing the gentle and humorous spirit of this great 
author of Wise Blood, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and The Violent Bear 
It Away - a writer who had a deep impact on the literature of the South, 
despite a debilitating handicap and a tragically short life.

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