SHAHN BEN 3 First Editions

Sale 2387 - Lot 344

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SHAHN, BEN. 3 First Editions. Illustrated by Shahn. Original bindings. Very good condition. Ex-collection Anatole Pohorilenko, ex-dono Monroe Wheeler, Director of Exhibitions and Publications, The Museum of Modern Art. Vp, vd

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Kay-Kay Comes Home. A Fable of Enthusiasm by Nicholas Samstag. New York: Valentin, 1952. Laid in is a broadside printed in brown of Edward Taylor's poem Infinity. Signed "Greetings, Ben & Bernarda Shahn." 20x4 1/2 inches. In original mailing envelope from Shahn to Wheeler Maximus of Tyre. Text set in Emerson type. signed and numbered 14 of 50 by shahn on the colophon. A Christmas gift produced for friends. 1963 A Christmas Story. By Katherine Anne Porter. signed by porter who has penned the first verse of away in a manger on the blank facing the title-page. New York, (1967).