Laughing Boy - By Oliver La Farge - Extra-Illustrated by Ernest Franklin
by LA FARGE, OLIVER & ERNEST FRANKLIN
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. This copy has been extensively extra-illustrated in the 1990s by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin and then bound in an amazing designer binding by the Dragonfly Bindery-Studio. The late Ernest Franklin was famous for his illustrations of the novels of Tony Hillerman, and in this special copy of this classic Pulitzer Prize winning novel of Navajo life, Franklin has drawn and added 10 original full page signed watercolor illustrations of the text. Additionally there is a signed ink drawing portrait of the book’s protagonist Laughing Boy, plus 21 small pen & ink Franklin drawings each at the beginning of the individual chapters. The book has been bound in a special artists binding which recreates a wraparound Navajo blanket using pieces of colored leather in black, red, and white. The book is also enclosed in a matching designer leather and cloth clamshell box. The whole production is very striking and attractive. This volume is a remarkable cumulative achievement and perhaps is Ernest Franklin’s finest illustrated book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- James Pepper Rare Books, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15214J
- Title
- Laughing Boy - By Oliver La Farge - Extra-Illustrated by Ernest Franklin
- Author
- LA FARGE, OLIVER & ERNEST FRANKLIN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1929
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
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Santa Barbara, California
About James Pepper Rare Books, Inc.
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Clamshell Box
- A protective box designed for storing and preserving a bound book or loose sheets. A clamshell box is hinged on one side, with...