[Rarebooks] FS: Katherine Anne Porter Association Copy

[Charles Agvent]

[PORTER, Katherine Anne] SHAHN, Ben. SWEET WAS THE SONG. (Roosevelt, 
NJ), (1956). First Trade Edition. A small (5" x 3-1/8") stapled pamphlet 
with drawings and text by Ben Shahn. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED 
by Katherine Anne Porter to actor Douglas Watson who had recently 
starred in an experimental Off-Broadway production of Porter's PALE 
HORSE, PALE RIDER at the Jan Hus Theatre. She doesn't name Watson in the 
inscription, but this was acquired along with a letter to Watson [no 
longer available] and the context of the inscription makes it clear that 
it is to him. The inscription spread across the copyright page and the 
facing blank page. In full: "This is a pleasant sort of personal 
anniversary for me, as well as the Feast of Christmas. I wish to recall 
myself to your memory, to say again how I admired your work and your 
spirit in that very troubled play. But I'm still glad it happened, and I 
wish again to thank you with all my heart-- And as to those peach[?] 
[?], I am in a country where they grow now, but oh, I wasn't when your 
wife so sweetly sent me some! Please sing this little song to your 
children! Katherine Anne Porter Christmas 1958." Fine. (#019615)        $500

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