$400
Sperry, Armstrong (1897-1976) Mock-up with Original Art for All Set Sail: a Romance of the Flying Cloud. Quarto-format bound book with a hand-drawn dust jacket, hand-drawn and colored pastedown and flyleaf depicting a seascape with leaping dolphins in the foreground and a three-masted ship in the background; signed and presented by Sperry to Louise on ffep, with some typed and handwritten text and approximately thirty-eight original drawings, the vast majority pen-and-ink (a few in pencil only), including some double-page illustrations, full-page, vignettes, initials, and head- and tail-pieces, pages left blank for text, and additional blank leaves at the end, bound in paper boards with a green cloth spine, 10 x 7 1/2 in. Estimate $300-500 Items may have wear and tear, imperfections, or the effects of aging. Any condition statement given, as a courtesy to a client, is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Skinner shall have no responsibility for any error or omission.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2019-05-08