NMLP P-042916 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Benefactor

Susan Sontag · Farrar, Straus and Company · 1963

Jacket designed by Janet Halverson, with a Beardsley-like peacock-fan design on the front panel and a Harry Hess photograph of the young Sontag in a leather coat on the back panel; the first-issue jacket carries that author photograph with no review blurbs, and the price is present at the front flap

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-042916 for "The Benefactor" by Susan Sontag (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-042916, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).