WILLIAM HOBART ROYCE - AUTOGRAPH ENVELOPE UNSIGNED CIRCA 1950 - HFSID 344484
Price: $70.00
WILLIAM HOBART ROYCE
This envelope to Dr. Tenenbaum in New York is addressed by the writer
and expert on Honoré de Balzac
Autograph envelope unsigned. 9½x4. Envelope addressed to Dr. Shea
Tenenbaum, postmarked Brooklyn, New York, February 28, 1950. Three 1c stamps
affixed. William Hobart Royce (1878-1963) was an American writer and
bookseller who was an expert on French novelist and playwright Honoré de
Balzac. Royce published poetry under his given name as well as his pen-name,
Willie Penmore. In 1917 Royce met Gabriel Wells and joined his bookselling firm
where he stayed for over 30 years. The shop became a center for the sale of all
types of "Balzaciana". Royce lived his life in emulation of Balzac and was the
founder (1940) and president of the Balzac Society of America. In 1935,
he was awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor and was made an honorary
citizen of Issoudun, where Balzac's La Rabouilleuse was set. Some of
Royce's notable works include "Remember Pearl Harbor!", "The Bookman's
Lament", and "Balzac Was Right, A Sonnet Sequence". Lightly creased and
soiled. Corners rounded. Top edge torn. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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