Frontier Spirit: Catalog of the Collection of the Museum of Western Art
1983. Hardbound. Bound in full Harmatan Nigerian Goatskin, raised bands, spine lettering gilt, small color plate mounted to front cover (titled "Downing the Nigh Leader" by Frederic Remington), burgundy red endpapers, 264p., fully illustrated with 129 full color plates including 6 tipped in plates. G, but with small white label at base of spine indicating shelf placement in a private library. Item #11917.2
ISBN: 0914965018
Includes preface and 3 extensive chapters: Before the White Man; Westward Expansion; and The Old West is Dead. Illustrated with 136 gorgeous color plates, 175 notes, bibliography, and alphabetical list of artists and their work. Included are artists such as Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington, C.M. Russell, Charles Schreyvogel, Thomas Moran, and many others. This limited edition (stated 1000 signed and numbered copies, of which this is #42) contains a lengthy handwritten inscription from the author / collector to a gallery owner who helped him aquire many of the pictures in the book.
Price: $250.00