Auction archive: Lot number 239

Game in the Desert

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Title: Game in the Desert Author: O'Connor, Jack Place: New York Publisher: The Derrydale Press Date: [1939] Description: Illustrated with plates from photographs & from paintings by T.J. Harter, including a color frontispiece. 10½x7½, simulated snakeskin lettered in gilt, original two-part box with printed paper label. No. 112 of 950 copies, printed by Eugene V. Connett. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by O'Connor to Paul Mellon on the half-title, dated June 1939. With the bookplate of Robert Patterson IV. Lot Amendments Condition: Just a touch of rubbing to slipcase extremities and a few tiny smudges to label; a fine copy, with the original glassine. Item number: 152874

Auction archive: Lot number 239
Beschreibung:

Title: Game in the Desert Author: O'Connor, Jack Place: New York Publisher: The Derrydale Press Date: [1939] Description: Illustrated with plates from photographs & from paintings by T.J. Harter, including a color frontispiece. 10½x7½, simulated snakeskin lettered in gilt, original two-part box with printed paper label. No. 112 of 950 copies, printed by Eugene V. Connett. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by O'Connor to Paul Mellon on the half-title, dated June 1939. With the bookplate of Robert Patterson IV. Lot Amendments Condition: Just a touch of rubbing to slipcase extremities and a few tiny smudges to label; a fine copy, with the original glassine. Item number: 152874

Auction archive: Lot number 239
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