Text by walt reed (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Fine, Not Price Clipped. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; minimal wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; very well illustrated by black and white drawings and full color reproductions of paintings of life in the Old West of the United States; 160 pages; dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Artwork by Tom Lovell (ilustrador). Book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. 160 pages. Profusely illustrated. Fine condition in near fine dust jacket that has slight discoloration and rubbing on front and back covers. (AA1).

(1993). First edition, first printing. Fine, as-new, in a fine, as-new, dust jacket. Quarto. 160 pages. List of plates. Over 100 pages of illustrations in full color. A commercial artist who started out sketching in the 1930s for pulp magazines, Lovell advanced to the glossier "slicks" in the 1950s and has since specialized in Old West, Plains Indian, and Civil War themes."--Gilbert Taylor.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Accompanied by an original bronze sculpture titled:THE STARTLED GRIZZLY. First edition, first printing; Limited, SIGNED, numbered edition. Limited to 104 numbered copies with the bronze sculpture. This book is hand-numbered 101, SIGNED and hand-dated 1972 by Harold Von Schmidt, and SIGNED by Walt Reed to the special limitation page. This original bronze standing-up grizzly sculpture, bears an engraved number 101, with an engraved signature & 1972 by Harold Von Schmidt to the bronze base. The beautifully detailed sculpture is mounted on a handsome marble base, and is the artist's one and only produced sculpture. Laid in is an illustrated printed information flyer for this deluxe edition, and a hand-numbered '101' original card-stock place finder. The lavish, deluxe book production has high-quality coated-stock paper, a sewn binding, and two-hundred-twenty-four impressive high-contrast art plates in brilliant color and striking black-and-white. Von Schmidt, a member of the artist colony that included Wyeth, Cornwell, Rockwell, and Leyendecker, was famous for his Western paintings and magazine illustrations, his painting commissioned by John Ford for the film 'Fort Apache', and his sixty illustrations for Cather's deluxe edition of DEATH COMES TO THE ARCHBISHOP. The artist, who worked as a young cowhand and who's guardian was a 49er, garnered the first gold medal award in the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1968. A stunning western, book and art piece collectible duo. Fine heavy bronze standing grizzly bear sculpture with artist's engraved signature to the bronze base, on original marble square plinth with slightly edge-rubbed red felt to the underside--together with the book: Fine book in brown leather over red buckram linen with brown embossed grizzly bear art to the front cover, gilt embossed titles to the spine, red-and-white headband and tail-band, smoke-gray end-papers; in a fine red buckram linen slipcase with gilt embossed titles and borders to an inset brown leather title panel. Large quarto; 230 pages; bibliography. Beautifully preserved. Signed by Illustrator(s).…