[Rarebooks] FS: Artist Clyde Forsythe's copy of Ainsworth's "Pictures of the Desert" 1960

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(ART) Ainsworth, Ed. PICTURES OF THE DESERT... Palm Desert, CA: Desert Magazine. 1960. First edition. Lg. 4to. 111,(1)pp. Profusely illustrated with color and black and white photos of paintings. A fine copy in a good to very good color illustrated dust jacket (small chips in a number of places along the top edge). Clyde Forsythe's (one of the 13 artists featured) personal copy, inscribed warmly by the author (Ainsworth), the publisher (Chuck Shelton) and the author of the "Foreword" (Carl Shaefer Dentzel). Also inscribed by three of the artists featured; Jimmy Swinerton, Orpha Klinker, and Bill Bender. With the signature of  another one of the featured artists, Paul Lauritz.    $300.00 (trade discount allowed)
The pioneer work on the painters of the California and South Western deserts. It includes good illustrated biographies of Forsythe, Maynard Dixon, Nicolai Fechin, John Hilton, Carl Eytel, etc., etc.

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