WILLIAM HOBART ROYCE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 02/28/1950 - HFSID 344479
Sale Price $165.00
Reg. $200.00
WILLIAM HOBART ROYCE
This letter to a colleague is written on a postcard and signed by the
poet and Balzac enthusiast
Autograph letter signed: "Royce" in black ink. 5½x3½. February
28, 1950, written to "Dear Dr. Tenenbaum", in full: "Please
accept the enclosed as a slight token of my appreciation and regard for your
kind and enthusiastic efforts for Balzac. Be sure to send me your book when
published. Fraternally yours". 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". Toned. Lightly
creased. Telephone number written on verso. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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