[Rarebooks] FS: The Only Known Set SIGNED by Beckett, Solzhenitsyn, Calvino, Milosz, etc.

[Charles Agvent]

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 quires 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, Alexander 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. (#015532)        $6,000

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