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GARVEY, Timothy J. - Public Sculptor: Lorado Taft and the Beautification of Chicago

Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1988. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xiii, 222pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Very good/fine. Bit of page edge soiling to otherwise-fine text block. Tight, handsome first edition -- with interesting sculptor autograph angle: Well-known Illinois bronze sculptor Alan St. George (b. 1952) boldly signs and inscribes the front flyleaf to another noted sculptor: "4-11-06 / For my dear old friend, / Lily, from one lover / of beauty to another. / Alan St. George." Lily Tolpo (1917-2016) is a noted sculptor whose husband Carl (1901-76) was a notable Lincoln sculptor. Also laid in is a fine Autograph Note Signed from St. George to Tolpo. .
USD 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 47.75 | £UK 41.5 | JP¥ 8092] Book number 38641

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