MARK VAN DOREN - FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED - HFSID 222204
Sale Price $90.00
Reg. $100.00
MARK VAN DOREN
The Pulitzer Prize winning author signs this First Day Cover honoring the 100th
anniversary of the Gadsden Purchase
First Day Cover signed: "Mark Van Doren", 6½x3¾. FDC honoring the 100th Anniversary of
the Gadsden Purchase, 3-cent stamp affixed, postmarked Tucson, Ariz., December 30,
1953, FIRST DAY OF ISSUE. Poet, author and critic Mark Van Doren (1894-1973) won
the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Collected Poems, 1922-1938. A teacher at Columbia University
from 1920-1959, Van Doren also wrote novels, short stories, a play (The Last Days of
Lincoln, 1959), critical studies of various authors, including John Dryden (1920) and
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1946), an autobiography and memoirs of his wife, writer and novelist
Dorothy Graffe Van Doren, as well as serving on the staff of "The Nation" (1924-1928;
1935-1938). Van Doren's literary family also included his brother, Carl, who also taught at
Columbia and with whom he wrote, American and British Literature Since 1890 (1939). Van
Doren's son, Charles, also had a claim to fame: he was the winner of the rigged TV game
show, Twenty-One. Typed address to collector in Michigan. Lightly creased and rippled.
First Day cancellation light but legible. Slightly soiled. Ink note (unknown hand) on verso (no
show through). Otherwise, fine condition.
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