FIFTY GREAT WESTERN ILLUSTRATORS
by Jeff Dykes [Flagstaff, Arizona]: Northland Press, 1975.
Limited to two-hundred deluxe copies numbered and SIGNED by the author to a special limitation page. This is copy number 161. A beautiful book production, set in Linotype Aldus with Palating Display and printed on Nekoosa natural text, bound at Roswell Bookbinding. A handsome production with high-quality stock paper, a sewn binding with headband and tailband, and impressive high-quality plates. This Collector's edition has a special sixteen page, artist labeled section to the rear, for the collector who wishes to add additional annotations on the artists. Some of the artists included are: Frank Schoonover, Frank Tenney Johnson, N.C. Wyeth, Jo Mora, Maynard Dixon, Fredric Remington, Clarence Ellsworth, and etc. Ninety-three plate illustrations in striking black-and-white and brilliant color enhance the artists entries that list books and catalogued exhibitions and galleries. Crisp & fresh! Fine, as new, in black alligator leatherette over blue linen with silver embossed illustration depicting a rattlesnake forking its tongue out at a coyote to the front cover, and with silver embossed titles to the spine, with blue-and-white headband and tail-band, housed in a fine smooth black slipcase with a silver embossed '50', decoratively framed in silver to the front panel. Quarto; 457 pages; plus 16 page special section. An impressive gift.
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