The Westerners Brand Book, Los Angeles Corral, 1949
Item #8047
263 pp.; 4to; gray cloth backed in red leatherette; decorative dust jacket; reproductions & photographs throughout; maps; 2 inserts. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Westerners, [1950]. Limited Edition of 400 copies. Harold McCracken's copy with his ownership name on front endpaper. Including: The West In Bronze (Charles M. Russell), text by Homer Britzman; photos of Russell with 44 full page plates showing his bronze sculpture; James Gardiner's, Trapper Trails to California with large fold out map of the trails; Ed Borein, Western Artist by Carl Schaefer Dentzel with 9 examples of etchings & drawings; Sacramento Placer Times by John B. Goodman III with insert facsimile of the paper; The Art of Western Americana by Don Perceval includes work by Maynard Dixon, Frank Tenney Johnson, Ernest Blumenschein, James Swinnerton, Carl Oscar Borg, Buck Weaver, Victor Higgins, Edgar Alwin Payne, Walter Ufer, and Victor Clyde Forsythe. With many more interesting articles and features. Crack runs alongside gutter of rear pastedown near hinge; hinge itself is firm; rear endpaper with six dime size adhesive spots from some previous mounting. Light soil to jacket, in protective mylar wrapper. Very good condition in like dust jacket. |
