[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED by Beckett, Solzhenitsyn, Calvino, Milosz, Pinter, Brodsky, Walcott, Woody Allen, etc.

[Charles Agvent]

One of many interesting items from our Summer Miscellany of 71 items 
ranging in price from $15 to $7500.

BECKETT, Samuel; SOLZHENITSYN, Aleksandr; CALVINO, Italo; BRODSKY, 
Joseph; MILOSZ, Czeslaw; PINTER, Harold; WALCOTT, Derek; ALLEN, Woody; 
LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude; et al. THE KENYON REVIEW, special issues for a 
patron. (Gambier, OH): (Kenyon College), 1979-1982. First Edition. The 
first sixteen issues of the New Series of this important American 
literary magazine. These are special issues with loose signatures laid 
into the covers. According to a letter from the editors dated 1990, 
included here, these issues were specially done for a patron who donated 
$100 per issue in exchange for autographed copies. A later note from an 
editorial assistant at the time states that the donor actually 
contributed much more than the stated amount per issue, more like $8000, 
and that only four years of signed copies were done, thus making this 
complete and the only known set. Nearly every contribution is SIGNED by 
the author, a total of more than 200 signatures, including duplicates, 
and including several winners of the Nobel Prize. Some of the better 
known authors: Samuel Beckett, Aledsandr Solzhenitsyn (3), Italo 
Calvino, Joseph Brodsky (2), Czeslaw Milosz, Harold Pinter, Derek 
Walcott, Claude Levi-Strauss, Woody Allen (2), James Merrill (2), George 
Crumb, Amy Clampitt (4), Ursula Le Guin (3), William Gass, Robert Hass, 
James Dickey (2), Sharon Olds, Rita Dove, W. D. Snodgrass, Joyce Carol 
Oates (3), Robert Bly, E. L. Doctorow, Barry Hannah, Michael Harper, 
David Ignatow, Mary Jo Salter, Christopher Logue, Anthony Hecht (2), Guy 
Davenport (2), Robert Pinsky, Harold Bloom, Tom Disch, Patricia Hampl, 
John Hollander, Alfred Corn, Brad Leithauser (2), etc. Two issues are 
missing a leaf with writings by Gunter Grass in one and Derek Walcott in 
the other. We suspect that these were never returned by the authors. 
Near Fine and quite exceptional, likely unique. 	$5,000.00

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