Lot 261:
History and Hobby Books including Dee Brown, The Westerners. (DJ)
Description
A collection of large-format books focusing on American history, photography, and hobbies. The group includes a hardcover edition of The Westerners by Dee Brown, published in 1974, featuring a pictorial dust jacket with a reproduction of a Western cavalry scene. Also present is a softcover volume by Cyril J. Freezer titled Model Railroads: The Complete Guide to Designing, Building, and Operating a Model Railroad. The collection further contains multiple large-format hardcover volumes with full-bleed black-and-white photographic covers. One volume depicts a celebratory crowd with uniformed officers, with the number 6891 visible on a helmet. Another volume displays a manufacturing production line of aircraft cockpit canopies, possibly B-29 Superfortress nose sections. A third photographic volume shows figures on horseback in a snowy landscape. The volumes are primarily bound in publisher’s cloth or pictorial boards and are quarto or folio in size.
Condition report:
The collection is in mixed condition with overall signs of shelf wear and use. The dust jacket for The Westerners is in poor condition, exhibiting heavy edge wear, multiple tears, and a large missing section at the bottom right corner of the front panel. The other volumes show bumped corners, edge rubbing, and some scuffing to the covers. The softcover volume has light creasing to the wrappers. Interior pages were not inspected for markings or foxing.
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