(Literary Portraits)

American Authors.  Group of 8 inscriptions signed, each inscribed below a pen-and-ink portrait of the author by Robert Kastor (signed "R. Kastor"), (each approx. 11 x 9 in.; 278 x 228 mm), n,p., n.d.; condition generally good.  Each, matted, glazed and framed (not examined out of frame).

The group includes: Vicki Baum.  Inscribed with 4-line Chinese proverb — Van Wyck Brooks.  Paragraph from  Sketches in Criticism — James Branch Cabell.  5-line quotation — John Dos Passos.  Signature, New York, 8 July 1935 — Bret Harte.  Signature only — Edgar Lee Masters.  "Richard Harned" from The New Spoon River, 21 lines, signed, 20 April 1927 — H. L. Mencken.  Inscribed to Kastor, 1931 — Mary Roberts Rinehart.  "To an ever growing understanding and affection between your great country and mine, dear M. Robert Kastor".