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Auction archive: Lot number 14

BENTZEN, R. C. Brown Bear.

Estimate
US$80 - US$120
Price realised:
US$312
Auction archive: Lot number 14

BENTZEN, R. C. Brown Bear.

Estimate
US$80 - US$120
Price realised:
US$312
Beschreibung:

BENTZEN, R. C. Brown Bear. [N.p.: privately printed, 1956]. Inscribed by the author. Original pictorial wrappers. 6 x 7 3/4 inches; 60 pp.; map, illustrated after photographs. Wrappers lightly spotted and creased with short tears to backstrip, crease to upper corner of text leaves. Inscribed by the author to inner wrapper: "To a dear friend, / and a great artist, / Bernard Thomas. / R.C.B." A short autograph note is laid in, also addressed to Bernard, requesting that he return the copy of "Kenai Kings" that Bentzen loaned to him -- the author's only other publication on bears. Bentzen, president of the Wyoming Archaeological Society (though a dentist by trade), led a field operation to complete the mapping of the "Medicine Wheel" and the surrounding area on Medicine Mountain near Kane, Wyoming. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
1 Oct 2019
Auction house:
Doyle New York - Auctioneers & Appraisers
East 87th Street 75
New York, NY 10128
United States
info@doyle.com
+1 (0)212 4272730
Beschreibung:

BENTZEN, R. C. Brown Bear. [N.p.: privately printed, 1956]. Inscribed by the author. Original pictorial wrappers. 6 x 7 3/4 inches; 60 pp.; map, illustrated after photographs. Wrappers lightly spotted and creased with short tears to backstrip, crease to upper corner of text leaves. Inscribed by the author to inner wrapper: "To a dear friend, / and a great artist, / Bernard Thomas. / R.C.B." A short autograph note is laid in, also addressed to Bernard, requesting that he return the copy of "Kenai Kings" that Bentzen loaned to him -- the author's only other publication on bears. Bentzen, president of the Wyoming Archaeological Society (though a dentist by trade), led a field operation to complete the mapping of the "Medicine Wheel" and the surrounding area on Medicine Mountain near Kane, Wyoming. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
1 Oct 2019
Auction house:
Doyle New York - Auctioneers & Appraisers
East 87th Street 75
New York, NY 10128
United States
info@doyle.com
+1 (0)212 4272730
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