Live auction - Lot 523
[Wilson]
The Book of Edward A. Wilson. A survey of his work 1916-1948. Edited by Norman Kent with a foreword by Thomas Craven.
New York, Heritage Press, 1948
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
4to.
Black cloth spine and orange paper boards, paper jacket (sl. torn).
First edition. Frontispiece photograph portrait of the book illustrator Wilson by Phillippe Halsman, tipped-in. Numerous b/w and colour illustrations from Wilson's work. Completed with a limited and signed lithograph "Maine lobsterman".
Prov. Dedication of the artist on the upper endpaper: "To [Henry Hendach ?, quite illegible] - with many thanks for a Scotch good time. Sincerely, Sept. 6/'51".