Literary Stamp Collecting  

 

I believe this stamp from Paraguay shows both Steinbeck and "Grapes of Wrath":

http://www.philatelia.net/classik/stamps/?id=15293

Oh, yeah, I love Samuel Clemens. He wrote, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Hound."

; - )

Tedski

Honoré de Balzac
France Semi-postal 1938-39 Scott B88 90c + 10c bright red violet


La Comédie humaine - one of the pioneers of literary realism

Hermann Bahr (1863-1934), was an Austrian writer, playwright, director, and critic. As spokesman for the literary group Young Vienna, Bahr was an active member of the Austrian avant-garde, producing both criticism and Impressionist plays. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Bahr, designed by Adalbert Pilch, engraved by Rudolf Toth, and issued by Austria on July 19, 1963 to commemorate Bahr's birth centenary, Scott No. 705.

- nethryk

Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (1867-1925) was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chlopi (The Peasants). Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Reymont, designed by Polish painter and graphic artist Wojciech Freudenreich (1939- ), printed by lithogravure, and issued by Poland on May 10, 1982, Scott No. 2512, plus an undated photo of Reymont a bit younger in life and sporting a more flamboyant mustache.

- nethryk

This is one that had a profound influence on my life .


David-DJD

And this guy..one of my childhood favorites!

DJD: did you ever find your FDC of the Ayn Rand issue that you were looking for?

cynical
No, I have not found one yet.
I do not get to many shows as I live in the boondocks.
i have not looked on eBay for a while, I did see one then ,but it was a little over what the value should have been Given the postage requested .
David

Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Ukrainian-born Russian dramatist, novelist and short story writer Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852), designed by Boguslaw Brandt, engraved by Czeslaw Slania, and issued by Poland on June 5, 1952 to commemorate the centenary of Gogol's death, Scott No. 544, Michel No. 743, plus an image of a daguerreotype of Gogol taken in 1845 by Sergey Lvovich Levitsky (1819–1898). Gogol's short story The Overcoat, and his satirical novel Dead Souls (both published in 1842), are two of my all-time favorites.

- nethryk

Karl Artur Vilhelm Moberg (1898-1973) was a Swedish author, playwright and historian, best known for his four novels (tetralogy) The Emigrants Series about Swedish emigrants moving to the USA in the 19th century, which was made into a film by Swedish director Jan Troell (1931- ) in 1971. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Moberg and characters and text from his novels, designed by Ingalill Axelsson, combined engraved by Martin Mörck and lithogravure, and issued by Sweden on August 20, 1998 to commemorate Moberg's birth centennial, Scott No. 2293, Facit No. 2081, plus a photo of the author in 1967.

- nethryk

Antoine Louis Camille Lemonnier (1844-1913) was a Belgian writer, poet and journalist. He was a member of the Symbolist La Jeune Belgique group, but his best known works are realist. His first work was Salon de Bruxelles (1863), a collection of art criticism. His best known novel is Un Mâle ("A Male," 1881). Here is an image of a semi-postal stamp featuring a portrait of Camille Lemonnier, designed and engraved by Jean De Vos, and issued by Belgium on March 21, 1977 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Belgian French-speaking writers' organization L'Association des écrivains Belges de langue française, created in 1902, Scott No. B957, plus a photo of the writer.

- nethryk

Ah, I like this one. The look in his eyes on the stamp is far looking or seeing while in the photo it is that but overlaid with inward looking also. Makes me want to read some of his stuff and even talk with hm.

Interesting also are the words On a stamp and In a photo, not On a photo. It is as if we are imbuing some soul quality to a photo, like certain peoples who thought (and think) that their soul would be captured in a photograph.

Puzzler - What interesting observations! And now for something entirely different:

Here are images of the five stamps in a set depicting imagined landscapes from the works of various Nobel Prize in Literature laureates, designed by Swedish artist Gunnar Brusewitz (1924-2004), engraved by Martin Mörck, and issued by Sweden on November 21, 1985, Scott Nos. 1562-66, Facit Nos. 1381-85.

- nethryk


William Faulkner (1897-1962), American writer primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in the Deep South.


Halldór Kiljan Laxness (1902-1998), Icelandic writer renowned for his ability to describe Icelandic scenery and settings.


Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899-1974), Guatemalan writer who drew attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala.


Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972), Japanese writer celebrated for his spare, lyrical, and subtly-shaded prose works.


Patrick Victor Martindale White (1912-1990), Australian writer whose fiction employs humor, florid prose, shifting narrative vantage points and a stream of consciousness technique. Bonus: Windmill.

scifi7 - Most illuminating!

Here are images of the four stamps in a set illustrating scenes from the classic early Ming Dynasty novel Romance of Three Kingdoms, attributed to Chinese writer Luo Guanzhong (c. 1330–1400), printed by photogravure, and issued by China (People's Republic) on December 10, 1990, Scott Nos. 2310-13.

- nethryk

Night attack on Wuchao.


Making three calls at the thatched cottage.


Rescuing the master single-handedly.


Turning the Changban Bridge upside down.