Author: London, Hannah R
Title: Shades of My Forefathers
Description: Springfield, MA: The Pond-Ekberg Company, 1941. 1941. Springfield, MA: The Pond-Ekberg Company, 1941. 1941. Very good. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION - Large octavo, blue paper covered boards backed with blue cloth. The head & tail of the spine & the top corners of the covers are lightly chipped. x & 199 pages plus colophon. Illustrated with 100 black-and-white plates, including a frontispiece. Very good.

Number 261 of a limited edition of 500 copies signed by the author on the colophon. Additionally an autograph note on the verso of an order blank, signed with the author's initials, is laid in.

From the library of Cora Ginsburg, having been inscribed to her husband by a friend. Cora Ginsberg was an art dealer and consultant in antique textiles. She worked with her husband Benjamin Ginsberg at his family's antique firm Ginsberg & Levy, and later at his new firm Benjamin Ginsburg Antiquary. After his retirement, she opened her own gallery called Cora Ginsberg, Inc.

With an introduction by John Haynes Holmes. Very good .

Keywords: ART; PORTRAITURE; SILHOUETTES; PROFILES; PROFILISTS; SHADES OF MY FOREFATHERS; PORTRAITS; PLATES; HANNAH R. LONDON; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; ANS; A.N.S.; AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED; JOHN HAYNES HOLMES; CORA GINSBURG; LIMITED EDITION.

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