[Rarebooks] FS: Association copy of the first book on Fore-Edge paintings

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(BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS) Weber, Carl J. A THOUSAND AND ONE FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS with Notes on the Artists, Bookbinders, Publishers and Other Men and Women Connected with the History of a Curious Art. Waterville, ME: Colby College Press. 1949. First edition. Lg. 8vo. xvi,194,(4)pp. Illustrated with 24 plates, with a tipped-in colored frontispiece. Edition limited to 1,000 copies, printed at The Anthoensen Press. Blue cloth, red calf spine label. D.j. (lightly soiled, with minor edge wear). A fine association copy in 1949, inscribed from Carl J. Weber to Lucille V. Miller, the librarian of the Estelle Doheny collection. He writes,  "...without whose interest and help this book would never have come into being."	$250.00 (trade discount allowed)


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