Hank Williams’ Country Hit Parade [cover title]

Nashville: Acuff-Rose Publications, 1950. Illustrated with b/w photos. 47, [1] pp., arrangements of 20 songs for piano, guitar chord and vocal. 4to. Photo-illustrated wrappers. Some ink smudges to cover from previous owner’s inscription, else fine. Illustrated with b/w photos. 47, [1] pp., arrangements of 20 songs for piano, guitar chord and vocal. 4to. Signed (“Hank Williams”) in pen on the front cover, five months before his death. With a note by the previous owner explaining when she (a young women at the time) obtained the autograph, “Saw him at Sunset Park — Jennersville, Pa. July 13, 1952. Died Jan. 1 — 1953,” and a note on p. 39 beneath a photo of The Drifting Cowboys, “Saw two of the Drifting Cowboys, Jerry Rivers and Don Helms. At Sunset Park … ”
A live recording of this concert has been preserved, and can be heard on WFMU's blog (http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/09/hank-wiliams.html). Towards the end of the show Williams can be heard offering copies of this songbook (“Me or any of the boys would be glad to autograph it for you”) for 50 cents apiece (or 2 for “a reduced price — that’ll be a dollar”).
A rare Williams’ autograph with impeccable provenance.

[With:]
Life Story of Our Hank Williams, “The Drifting Cowboy.” As told by his Mother [Mrs. W.W. Stone] to Allen Rankin. Montgomery: Philbert Publications, 1953. [16] pp. booklet issued by Williams‘ mother after his death.