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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
WITH PAINTINGS BY MOULTON (FORE-EDGE PAINTING.) Moulton, Sue Buckingham; artist. D'Aulnoy, Marie Catherine de la Mothe, Comtesse. Fairy Tales * Stone, Irving. Lust for Life. Together, 2 volumes. Illustrated. First is 8vo, cloth with pictorial onlay, second is yellow calf, quite worn, with slipcase; hinges cracked on both. Philadelphia, 1923; New York, 1936
Fairy Tales has a double fore-edge painting with a woodland troll on one side, a seascape on the other (though this is quite faint) Lust for Life has a fore-edge portrait of Vincent Van Gogh surrounded by his "Drawbridge with Carriage" and "A Wheatfield with Cypresses." Two studio images of Moulton and two working drawings for this fore-edge laid in. Moulton was among the amateur American fore-edge painters from Philadelphia. She created a portrait painting of A. Edward Newton on his This Book-Collecting Game (Boston, 1928) which is in the collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia. See Weber, Fore-Edge Painting, pages 147-148.
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