CONNETT, Eugene V., III. The personal scrapbook of Eugene V. Connett, III, including Derrydale Press ephemera, press clippings of reviews of his books, proof pages, original art, bookplates, correspondence, photographs and Christmas cards from the press and addressed to Connett by artists associated with the press (including Barber, Clark, Kirmse, Megargee, Hunt and Schaldach), autograph notes from British artists Maud Earl Lionel Edwards and Roland Green Ca. 1922 to mid-1930s. 4 o (293 x 233 mm). Calf-backed boards (front cover detached, old tape repair to spine); blue quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Eugene V. Connett, III (inscription on front flyleaf: "This Scrap Book belongs to Eugene Connett); Don Frazier (his library sold to:) John Moores (his sale Lang's, 2 November 2007, lot 593).
CONNETT, Eugene V., III. The personal scrapbook of Eugene V. Connett, III, including Derrydale Press ephemera, press clippings of reviews of his books, proof pages, original art, bookplates, correspondence, photographs and Christmas cards from the press and addressed to Connett by artists associated with the press (including Barber, Clark, Kirmse, Megargee, Hunt and Schaldach), autograph notes from British artists Maud Earl Lionel Edwards and Roland Green Ca. 1922 to mid-1930s. 4 o (293 x 233 mm). Calf-backed boards (front cover detached, old tape repair to spine); blue quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Eugene V. Connett, III (inscription on front flyleaf: "This Scrap Book belongs to Eugene Connett); Don Frazier (his library sold to:) John Moores (his sale Lang's, 2 November 2007, lot 593). A SUPERB ARCHIVE FROM THE FOUNDER OF THE DERRYDALE PRESS An evocative historical archive of the Derrydale Press, including: photos of Eugene Connett at his desk at the Press. -- Gordon Grand, manuscript of "Silver Horn," 2pp., with the pages of suggested titles. -- Unique proof title-page for "Gallant Fox." -- D.B. Updike, three autograph letters signed from about "Magic Hours," one critical of its typography. -- Carl Rungius, pencil sketch of a bighorn sheep head, initialed lower right. -- Roland Clark autograph letter signed, 1931, about the placement of etchings in "Stray Shots," a pen and ink illustration of two geese flying, and several etchings signed. -- Ned King, etching of a horse "Del et Sculpt for Katheryn [sic] Connett (after a Big Diner)." -- Kermit Roosevelt, typed letter signed, 1933, sending the introduction for "Hunting Trails on Three Continents." -- Joel Barber, gouache drawing of a duck decoy. -- Marguerite Kirmse two etchings, signed. -- Edwin Megargee, Christmas card etching signed. -- proof of the Derrydale Press logo [Seigel's Device B], modified with white gouache. -- Robert Ball, design for a binding tool used on "The Warwick Woodlands." -- Gordon Ross, portrait of John B. Thomas, for the deluxe edition of "Hounds and Hunting through the Ages," colored state, signed. -- William J. Schaldach, two etchings signed. -- Olaus Magnus printed leaf from the Historia , 1555. -- Proof bookplates for Brewster House, Frank Hatch, Edward Karow, Lester Karow, and the sporting label for Ernest Gee. -- Proof title pages for "The Gibbs of Rhode Island" and "Angling of the Test." -- Typescripts of Connett's drafts (20 pp.) for an article on vision in fish, parts of which appear in chapters 18 and 22 of "Random Casts." AN OUTSTANDING ARCHIVE OF THE DERRYDALE PRESS.
CONNETT, Eugene V., III. The personal scrapbook of Eugene V. Connett, III, including Derrydale Press ephemera, press clippings of reviews of his books, proof pages, original art, bookplates, correspondence, photographs and Christmas cards from the press and addressed to Connett by artists associated with the press (including Barber, Clark, Kirmse, Megargee, Hunt and Schaldach), autograph notes from British artists Maud Earl Lionel Edwards and Roland Green Ca. 1922 to mid-1930s. 4 o (293 x 233 mm). Calf-backed boards (front cover detached, old tape repair to spine); blue quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Eugene V. Connett, III (inscription on front flyleaf: "This Scrap Book belongs to Eugene Connett); Don Frazier (his library sold to:) John Moores (his sale Lang's, 2 November 2007, lot 593).
CONNETT, Eugene V., III. The personal scrapbook of Eugene V. Connett, III, including Derrydale Press ephemera, press clippings of reviews of his books, proof pages, original art, bookplates, correspondence, photographs and Christmas cards from the press and addressed to Connett by artists associated with the press (including Barber, Clark, Kirmse, Megargee, Hunt and Schaldach), autograph notes from British artists Maud Earl Lionel Edwards and Roland Green Ca. 1922 to mid-1930s. 4 o (293 x 233 mm). Calf-backed boards (front cover detached, old tape repair to spine); blue quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance : Eugene V. Connett, III (inscription on front flyleaf: "This Scrap Book belongs to Eugene Connett); Don Frazier (his library sold to:) John Moores (his sale Lang's, 2 November 2007, lot 593). A SUPERB ARCHIVE FROM THE FOUNDER OF THE DERRYDALE PRESS An evocative historical archive of the Derrydale Press, including: photos of Eugene Connett at his desk at the Press. -- Gordon Grand, manuscript of "Silver Horn," 2pp., with the pages of suggested titles. -- Unique proof title-page for "Gallant Fox." -- D.B. Updike, three autograph letters signed from about "Magic Hours," one critical of its typography. -- Carl Rungius, pencil sketch of a bighorn sheep head, initialed lower right. -- Roland Clark autograph letter signed, 1931, about the placement of etchings in "Stray Shots," a pen and ink illustration of two geese flying, and several etchings signed. -- Ned King, etching of a horse "Del et Sculpt for Katheryn [sic] Connett (after a Big Diner)." -- Kermit Roosevelt, typed letter signed, 1933, sending the introduction for "Hunting Trails on Three Continents." -- Joel Barber, gouache drawing of a duck decoy. -- Marguerite Kirmse two etchings, signed. -- Edwin Megargee, Christmas card etching signed. -- proof of the Derrydale Press logo [Seigel's Device B], modified with white gouache. -- Robert Ball, design for a binding tool used on "The Warwick Woodlands." -- Gordon Ross, portrait of John B. Thomas, for the deluxe edition of "Hounds and Hunting through the Ages," colored state, signed. -- William J. Schaldach, two etchings signed. -- Olaus Magnus printed leaf from the Historia , 1555. -- Proof bookplates for Brewster House, Frank Hatch, Edward Karow, Lester Karow, and the sporting label for Ernest Gee. -- Proof title pages for "The Gibbs of Rhode Island" and "Angling of the Test." -- Typescripts of Connett's drafts (20 pp.) for an article on vision in fish, parts of which appear in chapters 18 and 22 of "Random Casts." AN OUTSTANDING ARCHIVE OF THE DERRYDALE PRESS.
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