NOON WINE - INSCRIBED TO JOHN H. THOMPSON
$1,250 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books
Detroit: Schuman's, 1937. First, Limited Edition. Association copy of Porter's tragic short novel, set on a small South Texas dairy farm between 1896-1905, which the author described as the history of an innocent man pursued to his death by the will to do evil of another man, a will to work harm almost as blind and pointless as a catastrophe of the elements... from the prospectus . A portion of the work was first published
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