Auction Date:2010 Oct 13 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Psychiatrist and best-selling author (1936–2005) best known for writing The Road Less Traveled, published in 1978. Thirteen piece archive consisting of four ALSs, eight TLSs (seven with lengthy handwritten postscripts), and a birthday card with a handwritten message. The letters, dating from 1978 to circa 2003, are all signed “Scotty” with most addressed to Sister Ellen Stephen of the Convent of St. Helena in Vails Gate, New York. Peck writes on a variety of mostly faith-based or publishing topics. A 1978 letter references his famed book and reads, in part: “Thanks a lot for your recent letter and thanks also so much for the way that you have been pushing the book. As far as praying for it, I am glad for that also, as long as it is God’s will for the book and not mine that you are praying for. You might also pray for me to have patience. My difficulties with my publisher not only continue, but seem to get more Kafka-esque ever day. It certainly will be God’s will if the book does well, because it certainly won’t be theirs.” A postscript to a 1979 letter reads, in part: “Book sales remain slow but steady between about 1-200/week.” A 1980 letter makes mention of his second book, People of the Lie, published in 1983. In part: “My most exciting thing at the moment is that since ‘People of the Lie’ was turned down by both Simon & Schuster and Little Brown as being too controversial (in both places the editors were at each other’s throats with some loving it and others hating it)…I am thinking of starting my own publishing firm.” Accompanied by a CD of the song ‘Free Will’ composed by Peck and described in an undated letter. In overall fine condition. Amazing insight from the author and proclamation that “it certainly will be God’s will if the book does well,” considering the eventual success of his first work.
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