Item #14822 First Day Cover/ envelope signed by Four Nobel Prize winning authors: Patrick White, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, and Eugenio Montale. Patrick White, Eugenio Montale, Saul Bellow, Samuel Beckett.

First Day Cover/ envelope signed by Four Nobel Prize winning authors: Patrick White, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, and Eugenio Montale.

New York: 1964. Ephemera. Autographs of four Nobel Prize winners for Literature on a First Day Cover commemorating Four Hundredth Birthday Anniversary of William Shakespeare, with portrait of Shakespeare at the left, and the text "English Poet, Player and Playwright 1564 - 1964. First Day of Issue" below. With the signatures of Patrick White, Saul Bellow, Eugenio Montale and Samuel Beckett along the bottom of the envelope. With a Shakespeare 5 cent stamp, with a cancellation stamp reading 'First Day of Issue'; and a post office stamp from Stratford Conn, dated Aug 14, 1964. Patrick White was the first Australian author to win a Nobel for Literature; he did so in 1973. Beckett won his Nobel in 1969, Montale in 1975, and Bellow in 1976. 6 1/2 x 3 3/4". Very good. A rare combination of literary autographs. Very good condition. Item #14822

Price: $650.00

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