Accession number
PML 185997
Creator
Lea, Tom, 1907-2001.
Published
[El Paso, Texas] : [Carl Hertzog], 1939.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First edition.
Introductory remarks list George Catlin's "Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians" as Lea's inspiration source for this volume: "I came upon a page where Catlin's thick-spread prose was a song to me ... Every paragraph asked its own page and every page its picture."
"One hundred and fifteen copies of this book have been printed, numbered, and signed by the artist."--Colophon.
Library's copy is number 116.
Library's copy housed in black cloth clamshell box.
Introductory remarks list George Catlin's "Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and condition of the North American Indians" as Lea's inspiration source for this volume: "I came upon a page where Catlin's thick-spread prose was a song to me ... Every paragraph asked its own page and every page its picture."
"One hundred and fifteen copies of this book have been printed, numbered, and signed by the artist."--Colophon.
Library's copy is number 116.
Library's copy housed in black cloth clamshell box.
Description
10 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the author below colophon as issued; inscription in brown ink below colophon: printer's copy, [signed] Carl Hertzog.
Provenance
Carl Hertzog; Carter Burden.
Binding
Yellow paper boards lettered in black backed in beige paper boards.
Classification
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