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Lot 46
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$625
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Lot Description
[ALLEN PRESS]. ALLEN, Harris Stearns. The Trail of Beauty. San Francisco: Allen Press, 1940.
8vo. ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR by William Gaskin tipped in. Original mustard cloth-backed decorative paper covered boards, printed paper label on spine, uncut.
LIMITED EDITION, number 61 of 100 copies SIGNED BY HARRIS STEARNS ALLEN. THE ALLEN PRESS'S FIRST BOOK: "It was especially suitable that for our first book we should select a text by my father, the catalyst of our printing ambitions" (Allen Press 1).
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher