Glossy Hard Cover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. J. Todd Anderson (illustrator). 1st Printing. Size: Oblong Quarto.
Verlag: University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1976
Anbieter: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, USA
Erstausgabe
First Edition. First Printing, a review copy with publisher's typed review slip laid in. Large octavo (26cm); blue cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 146pp; 113 black-and-white and 37 coloful illustrated plates throughout. Tanning and rubbing to board edges, with foxing to edges of textblock, and all illustrations complete and fresh; Very Good. Dustwrapper, with artwork by Alexis Jean Fournier, unclipped (priced $19.50), with shelf-soil, foxing, and tiny tears to flap folds; Good. Collection outlines history of art in Minnesota from frontier garrison of Fort Snelling establishment (1820) to the beginning of WWI (1914). Illustrations include portraits of Native Americans and soliders, logging camps and scenes, and battles. Published for the University Gallery of the University of Michigan, this serves as a catalogue for The Art and Architecture of Minnesota, with its cut-off date aligning with the Smithsonian Institution's Bicentennial Inventory of American Painting Executed before 1914. [84748].