[Rarebooks] fs: Thomas Ball. My Threescore Years and Ten, SIGNED

[Back Creek Books]

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We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 10007 )  Ball, Thomas (1819-1911). MY THREESCORE YEARS AND TEN. AN 
AUTOBIOGRAPHY (WITH AUTOGRAPH NOTE).
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892. Second Edition, Original cloth, Duodecimo, 
xiii, 379 pages, black and white plates. Fine.
      Thomas Ball was a self-made painter, singer, and sculptor whose work 
greatly influenced American monumental art. He is best known for his 
equestrian statue of George Washington in the Boston Public Gardens, his 
statue of Charles Sumner at the same place, his Daniel Webster in Central 
Park, New York, and the Emancipation Memorial group featuring Abraham 
Lincoln in Washington, DC. His charming, anecdote-rich autobiography tells 
about these creations and much more. An appendix gives the history of the 
Equestrian Statue of Washington. An AUTOGRAPH note in Ball's hand, SIGNED 
"Grandpa Ball" is laid in. The note is to Mrs. [Elise] Droste, fellow 
resident of Montclair, New Jersey, and thanks Mrs. Droste for some roses she 
sent Ball. He also offers his sympathies for some of the Droste family who 
are ill and best wishes to "little Charlotte." The book itself bears a gift 
inscription (not by Ball) to Charlotte [Droste] and Harold Schroeder. 
Various newspaper clippings relating to Ball, his son-in-law, sculptor 
William Couper are laid in as well. Book is bound in tan cloth over boards 
with spine and upper board titled in gilt, binder's ornamental rule in dark 
brown on upper board, top edge gilt, black endpapers. Slight browning to 
spine, front endpaper has a 1 inch split at lower end of hinge, and a few 
leaves browned by newspaper clippings (now in Mylar, laid in at front). A 
very clean and sound copy of this uncommon memoir, with an autograph note by 
the artist/author.    $250.00
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