Herschel C. Logan
Little Portraits of Famous Americans, 1973
Santa Ana, CA: Dawson's Book Shop
One of 250 copies signed by the author/artist.
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(40)ff., frenchfold. Distributed by Dawson's Bookshop. Contains 32 portraits taken from woodcuts, pen and ink, brush drawings, and other media, made over a course of fifty years. The frontispiece, a...
(40)ff., frenchfold. Distributed by Dawson's Bookshop. Contains 32 portraits taken from woodcuts, pen and ink, brush drawings, and other media, made over a course of fifty years. The frontispiece, a woodcut of Lincoln, was the artist's first and "won a treasured approval from Lincoln's own son Robert, at the time it was reproduced in 1923." Others include Franklin, Eisenhower, Geronimo, Edison, Stephen Foster, Will Rogers, Booker T. Washington, and "Wild Bill" Hickok. Bound by Bela Blau in gilt-stamped purple leather. Sunning to spine, else near fine. (2 5/8 by 2 1/8; 67x54mm.).