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Porter, Katherine Anne Ben Shahn. A Christmas Story. Delacorte Press 1967 New York, 1967.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover 16mo not paginated Very good, spine gliding faded and design on slip case slightly faded. Clean and solid. Wednesday, April 19, 2023 Signed by Porter (autopen) and Shahn (authentic) #39 of 500
Seller: Prairie Archives, Springfield, IL, U.S.A.
Katherine Anne Porter. A Christmas Story. Delacorte Press, 1967.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Delacorte Press, 1967. A Seymour Lawrence book. Limited edition (#21 of 500 copies). Signed by both Katherine Anne Porter (autopen) and artist Ben Shahn (authentic). Light rubbing to gilt and faint foxing to slipcase. Overall, a VG copy in gilt-stamped green cloth in publisher's slipcase. A lovely story about Porter's precocious niece, who died at age 5.
Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.
Shahn, Ben; Porter, Katherine Anne. A Christmas Story. Delacorte Press, 1967.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Delacorte Press, 1967. 16mo, unpaginated, bound in olive green cloth and acetate jacket. First edition of this limited edition work, with illustrations by Ben Shahn, one of 500 copies printed (this being copy 98). Signed in autopen by Porter, and by Shahn in hand underneath. Light fading to spine, else a NF copy in lightly chipped acetate jacket, and unevenly faded slipcase.
Seller: Marc J Bartolucci, Hudson, MA, U.S.A.
Porter, Katherine Anne. A Christmas Story. Delacorte Press, New York, 1967.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: No. 451 of 500 copies, signed by Shahn & Porter. Drawings by Ben Shahn. 1 vols. 12mo. Signed by the Porter and Shahn. Additionally signed in ink by Porter over her autopen signature on the limitation leaf. Publisher's green cloth. Matching slipcase just slightly faded, else fine Drawings by Ben Shahn. 1 vols. 12mo No. 451 of 500 copies, signed by Shahn & Porter.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Katherine Anne Porter. A Christmas Story. Delacorte Press, 1967.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing stated. Square 24mo in olive boards, title and decorations in gilt. Virtually no shelf wear. The dustjacket is not price-clipped, two short closed tears at the top of the front panel, one on the rear panel, sticker residcue on the front flap. Signed by Porter on the title page, dated 'First day of February 1975'.
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
PORTER, Katherine Anne. SHAHN, Ben (illus.). A Christmas Story.. Delacorte Press, New York, 1967.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrated by Ben Shahn. Square 12mo, publisher's green cloth in cloth slipcase. First edition; No. 142 of 500 copies signed by Porter and Ben Shahn, with a special frontispiece. Near fine (spine a little faded) in a near fine slipcase.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Katherine Anne Porter. A Christmas Story. Delacorte Press, 1967.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Printing. Signed and dated on title page on January 1, 1975. From the William Ripley Collection.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Katherine Anne Porter & Ben Shahn (illustrator). A Christmas Story. Delacorte Press, 1967.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated by Ben Shahn. Dust jacket is in like-new condition. Book is in excellent to near like-new condition. Inscribed to friends and signed by the author. The names are hard to read, but as close as I can tell, the text reads as: To Arno and Marion / After a long time--all illness and getting better and getting worse three and one-half years, and it is a bore! But to account for silence, absence, distance, and send again my good memories of happy times with you in Ann Arbor-- / Same old affection / Katherine Anne / Christmas, 1967 / Washington D.C. Dust jacket is crisp and clean and has been protected with a stiff plastic cover. Price shows $2.95. Small book shop sticker on the front flap. Book has olive green paper-covered boards with gold lettering on the spine and a gold illustration on the front cover. A little bumping on the bottom board edges. Spine is tight. Pages are clean and crisp. A lovely and warmly signed copy between friends.
Seller: Bookworm and Apple, Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
PORTER, Katherine Anne. A CHRISTMAS STORY; illustrated by Ben Shahn. Delacorte Press, NY, 1967.
Price: US$672.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo, [iv], [30]. A very good tight clean copy in little toned dj. Inscribed on the front blank to the author's friend, poet and editor, Barbara Howes: "Barbara, I wish I could write a good poem for you and David and Greg, but I'm a prose writer alas, so I will say to you three - be happy and merry and well together this year and all your years to come - with love. Katherine Anne Christmas 1967. A great association copy of sweet little Christmas book. Despite being nominated for the 1995 National Book Award for her The Collected Poems of Barbara Howes, 1945-1990, the work of poet Barbara Howes has received relatively little publicity; Robert Richman, writing in the New York Times, called Howes "as obscure a worthy poet as I can think of." While submitting her poetry to magazines, Howes got a job editing Chimera: A Literary Magazine from 1944 to 1947.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.