Mar 18, 2010 - Sale 2207

Sale 2207 - Lot 311

Price Realized: $ 215
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(NEW MEXICO.) The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benavides, 1630. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minor wear; inscription from editor Charles Lummis to Eva Scott Fényes on front free endpaper, and her bookplate on front pastedown. #258 of 300. Graff 250; Palau 27146. Chicago, 1916

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with--Letter Signed from Lummis to Fényes, transmitting the book, on Landmarks Club letterhead: "I think it is about as handsome a piece of Americana as I know of in modern times; and that it is safe from criticism." Los Angeles, 10 January 1917.