Lot 223
  • 223

Remington, Frederic

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

Crooked Trails. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1898



In 8s (8 3/4 x 5 7/8 in.; 223 x 147 mm). Frontispiece and 48 photogravure plates after Remington. Publisher's polychrome pictorial yellow cloth; endpapers browned from jacket. Original printed dust-jacket; chipped with loss to spine, tissued and re-lined. Half calf emblematic slipcase, chemise.

Provenance

William H. G. Wright (contemporary signature on front free endpapers) — Arthur Swann (bookplate; Parke-Bernet, 22 March 1960, lot 352) — The Epstein Family Collection (Swann, 29 April 1992, lot 397)

Catalogue Note

First edition, with the virtually unknown jacket, which was printed on highly acidic paper. Laid in is an autograph letter signed by Remington, 1 page. Chippewa Bay, New York, 21 July 1902, to "My dear Russell": "Will there be any royalties coming to me 1st of August? Have you concluded how and when you are going to publish my 'Way of an Indian'?"