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Bellow, Saul

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:300.00 USD Estimated At:600.00 - 900.00 USD
Bellow, Saul
<Our item number 98538><B>Bellow, Saul.</B> &#40;1915 -&#41; Canadian-born American novelist; Nobel Prize winner &#40;1976&#41;; author of novels such as <I>Adventures of Augie March</I> &#40;1953&#41;, <I>Herzog</I> &#40;1964&#41;, and <I>Humboldt&#39;s Gift</I> &#40;&#40;1975&#41;. Autograph Letter Signed &#34;<I>Saul</I>,&#34; 5 pp &#40;3 sheets of yellow legal pad&#41;, 12½x8&#34; &#40;Minneapolis, Minnesota&#41; &#40;11 May 1959&#41;. Very Fine. With holograph envelope addressed to Herbert Gold and &#34;<I>Bellow</I>&#34; in the return address. Bellow discusses Gold&#39;s novel <I>The Optimist</I> and makes some incisive comments on his own works. In part: &#34;<I>The Optimist is the best novel you&#39;ve written….I was glad to see you take a Balzacian turn, into social interests, into politics….An old fellow, a Yiddish journalist…told me…&#39;Your pen has powerrr.&#39; This I bequeath to you…. I&#39;ve always avoided hurting my favorites. I&#39;ve given all the injuries to the poor Wilhelms, the men of burlap.The men of fine silk I&#39;ve overprotected</I>….&#34; Much more interesting content. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;600-900. <BR><BR>Our item number 98538<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN=CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/38jpegs/098538.jpg"> </P></IMAGES> "