[Rarebooks] FS: Basis for the musical OKLAHOMA!, signed by Thomas Hart Benton

[Charles Agvent]

 From our recent Catalogue containing 105 Limited Editions Club titles.  In 
addition to what is listed among our new arrivals, we have about 300 other LECs 
cataogued on our website as well as half that number yet to be catalogued: 
http://www.erols.com/agvent (to see them all, type in Limited Editions Club 
under the Any Word category on our search engine).  We will also be cataloguing 
later this year a fine collection of mountain climbing titles.

(BENTON, Thomas Hart). RIGGS, Lynn. GREEN GROW THE LILACS.  Norman
[OK]:  Limited Editions Club 1954. Quarto (8-3/4" x 11-3/4") bound  in
tan  cloth  decorated  in  blind. Printed in red and  black  from  the
typographic  plans  of Will Ransom. Introduction by  Brooks  Atkinson.
Basis  for  the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical OKLAHOMA!. This  version
is  beautifully illustrated with eight full-page lithographs by Thomas
Hart  Benton. Copy #1209 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the  colophon
page. Fine in Fine slipcase.                                   $350.00

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