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Lot 204
Sale 741 - Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Jun 23, 2020
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$1,000 -
1,500
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$2,250
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Lot Description
[MINIATURE BOOKS]. WALL, Bernhardt (1872-1956). The Etch Miniature Monthly Magazine. February[-December], 1948. Sierra Madre, CA, 1948.
11 issues (of 12). 45 x 32 mm. Etched text leaves; approximately 145 full-page etched illustrations and portraits, all printed in colors on colored paper. Original etched wrappers; original folding paper and board protective cases, etched spine labels.
NUMBER 25 OF 60 SUBSCRIBER'S COPIES, SIGNED BY WALL on the limitation page of each volume. A nearly-complete run of Wall's entirely etched miniature periodical, focusing on American historical figures and themes, the "most famous miniature monthly magazine ever published" (Adomeit, The Miniature Book Collector, 1:4).