INSCRIBED BY MCMURTRY
MCMURTRY, Larry. Buffalo Girls. New York, (1990).
First edition of this Wild West novel, signed by McMurtry on the dedication page. $450.
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WITH 30 PLATES BY CRUIKSHANK, JOHANNOT, GRANDVILLE, LANDSEER AND CONSTABLE
(CRUIKSHANK, George, et al.). Modern Wood Engraving. IN: The London and Westminster Review. London, 1837.
Interesting 1837 article on the state of English and continental wood-engraving in the London and Westminster Review as it originally appeared, illustrated with 30 wood-engraved plates after illustrations by George Cruikshank, Tony Johannot, John Constable, J.J. Grandville, Thomas Landseer, and Thomas Bewick's favorite pupil William Harvey. Handsomely bound by C. Walters. $450.
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COLORFULLY INSCRIBED BY RALPH STEINER, WITH A DRAWING, FIRST EDITION OF IN PURSUIT OF CLOUDS
STEINER, Ralph. In Pursuit of Clouds: Images and Metaphors. Albuquerque, 1985.
First edition of Steiner’s “experiment in the process of seeing,” inscribed in the year of publication, in red and blue ink, “For darling Barbara, Ralph Steiner, Chanukmass 1985,” with a stick-figure self-portrait, and continuing along the bottom of the page in red ink, “snap lovely pishers [sic], but don’t point at © clouds!” With 62 full-page duotone photogravures of striking cloud formations. $300.
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