Hurd Peter Metzger Robert Editor (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original hardcover in jacket, 408 pages, index, first edition stated, several historical photographs of Hurd and his art. Older book is solid and bright with some age-toning to the pages, mild reading wear. The jacket has some rubbing, scuffing, fading to spine and edges. Excellent and insightful edition. sw2.…

First Edition. Octavo. 408 pp. Edited by Robert Metzger. Introduction by Paul Horgan and illustrated with several black and white photographic images of Hurd. Hurd was a student of N.C. Wyeth. This book spans fifty years of Hurd's life. It also describes his travels overseas as an artist-correspondent for Life Magazine, his numerous murals, and his famous portraits of King Faisal and President Lyndon Johnson. A fine copy bound in mustard cloth, spine lettering white and black, in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket with fading to spine and just a bit of rubbing to rear panel. Very nice.…