Sold for:
$2,500
$2,500
Chillicothe, Ohio: Mountain House Press, 1927. Folio, contents loose as issued in original 3/4 oatmeal cloth portfolio with printed pastedown title label, cloth ties. Limited edition, number 6 of 200 copies, signed by the author on the limitation page. Complete with photogravure frontispiece, two original bark specimens, 30 bark paper specimens, and numerous mounted original photographs, illustrations and facsimiles. One of the rare specimen books pertaining to bark cloth papers of the South Seas. Very light soiling to boards; evidence of tape removal from front pastedown; wrinkling to some leaves; offsetting from glue to some leaves.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2014-11-05
