[Rarebooks] FS: Bernhardt Wall: MAN'S BEST FRIEND with 15 Original Etchings, #53 of 125 SIGNED copies, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

PRICE IS NET plus postage.

Price reduced:     Was $450,      Now $300

(WALL, Bernhardt) VEST, Senator George Graham. MAN'S BEST FRIEND. A PLEA 
TO A JURY. New York: Bernhardt Wall, 1920. First Edition. Quarto (8" x 
11") bound in gray boards with a red cloth spine and an etched title 
laid down on the front cover. The text is the speech made to a Missouri 
jury on behalf of a man whose dog had been shot by his neighbor, whom he 
was suing for $200. So moved was the jury that they awarded the 
plaintiff $500. This famous and eloquent eulogy for a dog served as the 
subject matter for Wall's first commercially successful etched book. 
Copy #53 of only 125 copies designed and printed by Wall with each of 
the 15 pages being an ORIGINAL ETCHING by Wall. SIGNED by the artist on 
the title page. Laid in is a scarce four-page advertising brochure from 
Wall about the books he published. The front board is pulled away from 
the inside joint of Wall's crude binding, contents very nice. Very Good.

According to noted Wall collector Monsignor Francis J. Weber, "Wall 
always claimed in his lectures that a dog had occasioned his etching 
career. He told audiences that while he was a young man, he frequented 
antiquarian book shops. One day, among the musty old shelves of a 
downtown store, a shaggy little pooch came bounding along and jumped 
into the lap of the proprietor. That touching scene inspired Wall to 
recapture the moment artistically." (#011114)     $300.00

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