VAN WYCK BROOKS - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED 12/03/1945 - HFSID 343920
Price: $280.00
VAN WYCK BROOKS
The literary historian and author signs this sentiment dated
1945
Autograph sentiment signed: "With great pleasure/Yours
sincerely/Van Wyck Brooks/December 3rd 1945" in black ink. 5x2¼ clipping
affixed to 8x11 larger page. Van Wyck Brooks (1886-1963) is best known
as a literary historian and biographer. His books include The Wine of the
Puritans (1909), America's Coming of Age (1915), The Ordeal of
Mark Twain (1920), The Pilgrimage of Henry James (1925), New
England Indian Summer: 1865-1915 (1940), On Literature Today (1941),
The World of Washington Irving (1944) and The Time of Melville and
Whitman (1947). His The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865, won
the Pulitzer Prize in History (1936). Brooks was a longtime resident of
Bridgewater, Connecticut, which dedicated a wing in the city library to him.
Brooks was a longtime resident of Bridgewater, Connecticut, which dedicated a
wing in the city library to him. Lightly toned. Right edge slightly frayed.
Printed image of the author affixed to front. Newspaper article affixed to
verso. Otherwise, fine condition.
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