CEDERWALL, Sandraline and Hal Riney with Barnaby Conrad. Spratling Silver
Item #6815
128 pp., incl. stamp chronology by Edward Forcum, bibliography; over 60 full page b&w plates. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000. Centennial Edition, with 23 additional photographs and expanded text. Novelist Budd Schulberg quoted Conrad's essay on Spratling: "Author, Architect, Cartoonist, Silversmith, Merchant, Pioneer, Sailor, Aviator, Tropical Horticulturist, Expert on Medicinal Plants, Pre-Columbian Authority, and one of Central America's most distinguished collectors and Mexicologists, to name only a few . . . He is the only true Renaissance man I know." And Conrad writes, "He was in love with life, but it only truly existed for him when it was interpreted in silver." Fine condition in near fine [price clipped] dust jacket. |
