Aug 07, 2019 - Sale 2515

Sale 2515 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
CHARLES BUCKLES FALLS (1874-1960) BOOKS WANTED. Circa 1918.
42x28 1/4 inches, 106 3/4x71 3/4 cm. [The Gill Engraving Company, New York.]
Condition A: minor creases and abrasions in margins. Paper.
One of several effective images created during World War I, mostly published by the American Library Association, to promote the donation of books to servicemen. This poster "succeeded in its object, and gained a considerable reputation for Falls, who prepared the design in twenty-four hours" (Daracott p. xviii). Rawls 158, Theofiles 277, Borkan p. 182, Darracott 12, Rickards 200.