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Lot 281
LANDACRE, PAUL California Hills And Other Wood Engravings From the Original Blocks.
Los Angeles: Bruce McCallister, 1931. One of 500 copies, this out of series, signed by Landacre but not the publisher. Publishers boards printed in orange and gray, with a small wood engraving on the upper cover. 12 1/2 ix 9 1/4 inches (32 x 24 cm); 4 ff., 14 leaves, each with one wood engraving, plus colophon. An unbound, unsewn copy in portfolio form, the boards without the small wood engraving (that which appears on the colophon) customarily found affixed to the upper cover. This is possibly a trial issue. Light wear to the spine, generally fresh within.
Landacre's finest illustrated book, and a major example of American wood engraving, the plates printed from the blocks by Harold Young. The preface is by Arthur Millier, the Los Angeles Times art critic and printmaker.
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