[Rarebooks] FS: Complete set of 44 signed canceled royalty checks: Kerouac, Olson, O'Hara, Ginsberg, Whalen, Ashbery, etc

[Charles Agvent]

KEROUAC, Jack; O'HARA, Frank; OLSON, Charles; GINSBERG, Allen; CORSO, 
Gregory; JONES, LeRoi; ASHBERY, John; WHALEN, Philip; etc. COMPLETE SET 
OF 44 ROYALTY CHECKS, ALL SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS ON VERSO.  Complete set 
of canceled 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. 		$7,500.00

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