ELMER WACHTEL (A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY) - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM MARION KAVANAGH WACHTEL

Published by Carl A. Bundy Quill & Press, Los Angeles, 1930

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Seller: Arcana: Books on the Arts, Culver City, CA, U.S.A.Arcana: Books on the Arts

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52pp, 33 sepia-toned illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This monograph on the well-known Southern California Plein Air painter Elmer Wachtel was issued shortly after his death in 1929. It includes thirty-three reproductions of his work with commentary along with a frontispiece portrait of the artist by his widow Marion Kavanagh Wachtel. A handsome example of the 1930 Carl A. Bundy Quill & Press first edition this uncommon item that is still the major reference on the artist lacking its dust jacket showing some light soiling to the boards, a bit of spotting to the inside covers, and some typical age-toning to the frontispiece's tissue overlay additionally BEARING THE BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "Ione Harkness - / from / Marion Kavanagh Wachtel." in brown ink on the blank page facing her portrait of Wachtel.

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Title
ELMER WACHTEL (A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY) - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM MARION KAVANAGH WACHTEL
Author
(WACHTEL, ELMER). Anderson, Antony
Publisher
Carl A. Bundy Quill & Press, Los Angeles
Publication year
1930
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
No Jacket
Signed
Signed Presentation Copy from Marion Wachtel
Book Type
Artist Monograph
Binding
Gilt-Debossed Boards
Edition
First Edition.
Dimensions
8vo
Seller catalogs
Artist Monographs, California Artists and Arts, Signed Books

Arcana: Books on the Arts

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Arcana: Books on the Arts is an open shop located in Culver City, California. Our specialties are Photography, 20th Century Art, Architecture, Design, Fashion & Cinema, Modern Art Ephemera and Exhibition Catalogues, as well as African, Oceanic, Pre-Columbian and Ethnographic Arts. Member ABA.

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