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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Frank W. Benson (illustrator). Limited. Good hardcover in very good dust jacket. 127pp. Gray paper or thin cloth with burlap spine cover and spine label. Volume One in a series which eventually grew to five volumes. Limited edition of 275 copies, 255 which were available for sale. This copy is number 76. Originally printed with an original Benson etching bound in as the frontispiece, this copy has had the original etching removed. The book is ex-library, with a library stamp to the inside covers, a card holder on the rear end page along with a bar code sticker. Bar code sticker also on front panel mylar. On the copyright page, there are library notations and a note that this copy was a gift from Mr. Pemberton Whitcomb, a summer resident of Cotuit. The relatively plain gray dust jacket has been protected in mylar and is well-preserved. There is a library sticker to the lower spine of the dust jacket. The mylar DJ protector is taped in four places to the faces of the covers. The bottom edges of the covers are worn to the boards. The pages are clean but all have dampstains at the binding gutter and extending to the top/bottom margins. No images are affected.Some pages are a bit damaged in the dampstained areas, having been stuck together and later separated, mostly in the index and rear end pages. The free end pages have foxing. Binding is tight. This copy is very serviceable with all images and text clean. An uncommon volume from the Benson series which displays well and would be a good completion for an incomplete set. Photos always available.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Original cloth-backed gray paper boards. Folio. 127pp. Copy #46 of 275 copies complete with original etching in front signed in pencil by the artist. The first of five volumes of the Benson catalogue raisonne published between 1917 and 1959. The original etching is titled "Pair of Ducks". A good copy with some soiling and edgewear to the cover boards. The rear cover has a stain in the lower right corner. The endsheets are lightly foxed and there are two ink initials with a date underneath on the flyleaf else the text is very good and clean. The original etching is in fine clean condition. Foreign postage extra on this large book. Signed by Illustrator(s).