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Item Details
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| Author: |
Bentley, Wilder |
| Title: |
A series of thirteen original watercolors by Wilder Bentley |
| Place: |
[Berkeley] |
| Publisher: |
Wilder Bentley |
| Date: |
1943 |
| Item # : |
121912 |
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| Sale Number |
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247 |
| Lot Number |
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17 |
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| Fine & Rare Books |
| Sale Date |
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09/12/2002 |
| Price realized |
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$ 977 |
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| Description: |
| 25¼x16½, a series of thirteen original watercolor plates with Japanese patterns and designs, each accompanied by his orange Japanese chop and numbered in black from 1 to 13 within the chop. |
| Each signed by Bentley in ink and dated 1943. Includes title-page 16½"x24" with thirteen poems done in a style similar to Haiku, handwritten in English and with an original watercolor and the poet's signature chop. Wilder Bentley, the noted California poet-painter-calligrapher and composer from Berkeley, was the proprietor and founder of the Archetype Press. |
| Condition: |
| Some darkening to edges and margins, slight tears and wear to edges, a few light rubs to title-page; still in near fine condition, overall. |
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