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Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Single sheet of thick creme paper folded once to form four 12 by 9 inch pages, printed in color. Prospectus for "Birds." combined with Season's Greetings from the Arion Press. With a color broadside, measuring 13 by 11 inches, titled "Lois Chambers Stone will speak on Andrew Jackson Grayson The Audebon of the West", printed for the November 18, 1986 meeting of The Roxburghe Club. Fine copies.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: PROSPECTUS. 8vo. 14 pp., Soft Covers, Good, with damp-staining near head of spine, textblock slightly warped as a result. Two color plates, reproductions of Grayson's paintings at the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, and photograph of Hoyem. Promotional materials from Arion Press present.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Grayson, Andrew Jackson. Birds of the Pacific Slope. Arion Press, San Francisco, 1986.
Price: US$4320.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Published by the Arion Press in 1986, this remarkable work includes 156 individual bird portraits in color by Andrew Jackson Grayson housed in a massive linen covered box which measures 20 by 26 inches. A separate bound volume, 'Birds of he Pacific Slope: A Biography of the Artist & Naturalist 1818-1869,' by Lois Chambers Stone includes species accounts and field notes by Andrew Jackson Grayson with current ornithological identifications to accompany the portraits. The portraits were produced from Grayson's sole surviving paintings preserved by the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. Limited to 425 sets, this is Set Number 125. Andrew Jackson Grayson was a self-taught ornithologist and artist who, inspired by James John Audubon's Birds of America, decided to continue where Audubon left off. For 17 years he lived and traveled throughout California and Mexico, collecting specimens and painting birds native to the lands west of the continental divide. Some are shown with elaborately painted backgrounds; many show their nests, preferred roosts, and diet.
Seller: Buteo Books, Arrington, VA, U.S.A.