American Trade Bindings with Native American Themes, 1875-1933
Stockport, NY: Richard Minsky, 2014. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket. Item #10066
Folio. 70, [2] pp., illus. Limited edition, number 83 of 100 copies. Signed by Minsky. As issued, in cloth over flexible boards with dust jacket. A very bright copy in similarly sharp dust jacket.
As with Minsky's earlier catalogs, there is a short preface and then a preliminary arrangement of the bindings into visual motifs and genre: canoes, prehistoric fiction, travelogues, teepees, etc. There is some discussion of interior illustrations and dust jackets. The checklist of approximately 125 of designs, described and photographed rounds out the catalog.
Price: $400.00