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JOHN BARTH - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED - HFSID 13336

The author signs this first day cover honoring America the Beautiful First day cover signed: "John Barth" in black ink.

Price: $90.00

Condition: Fine condition
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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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