JOHN BARTH - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED - HFSID 13336
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JOHN BARTH
The author signs this first day cover honoring America the Beautiful
First day cover signed: "John Barth" in black ink. 6½x3¾, first day cover honoring America the
Beautiful… for amber waves of grain, postmarked Portland, Maine, April 24, 1981, 18c stamp
affixed. FIRST DAY OF ISSUE. John Barth (1930-2024) is an American novelist and
short-story writer, known for the postmodernist and metafictional quality of his work. He briefly
studied "Elementary Theory and Advanced Orchestration" at Juilliard before attending Johns
Hopkins University, from which he received a B.A. in 1951 and an M.A. in 1952 (for which he
wrote a thesis novel, The Shirt of Nessus). Barth began his career with The Floating Opera
and The End of the Road, two short "realist" novels that deal wittily with controversial
topics, suicide and abortion respectively. Barth later remarked, they "didn't know they were
novels." His later novel, Chimera (1972) shared the U.S. National Book Award for
Fiction. He was a professor at The Pennsylvania State University, University at Buffalo, The
State University of New York from 1965 to 1973 as well as Boston University (visiting
professor, 1972-73) and Johns Hopkins University (1973-95) before retiring in 1995. Lightly
toned. Corners rounded. Pencil note on verso. Ink spots on verso. Otherwise, fine condition.
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