(ALLEN PRESS) Allen Harris Stearns The Trail of Beauty

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(ALLEN PRESS.) Allen, Harris Stearns. The Trail of Beauty. Original watercolor by William Gaskin tipped-in. Thin 8vo, original 1/4 golden cloth-backed decorative paper over boards, printed paper spine label, toned and faded; ownership name and address of F. R. Parker of Berkeley, a friend of the Allen family, and with a 14-line poem in his hand, about duck hunting, on rear leaf with "For Your Trail of Beauty" printed at head. San Francisco, 1940

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number 48 of only 100 copies of the first work by lewis and dorothy allen on their home press. Signed by H. S. Allen after the Preface. "It was especially suitable that for our first book we should select a text by my father, the catalyst of our printing ambitions"--Allen Press Bibliography 1. Gaskin was the printers' brother-in-law and director of San Francisco's Federal Art Project.