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(Solovioff, Nicholas). Miers, Earl Schenck. - America at Ease: Some Glimpses of Our Sporting Blood at Play in the Pursuit of Happiness. Edited with and Introduction by Earl Schenck Miers, with Drawings by Nicholas Solovioff.

Title: America at Ease: Some Glimpses of Our Sporting Blood at Play in the Pursuit of Happiness. Edited with and Introduction by Earl Schenck Miers, with Drawings by Nicholas Solovioff.
Description: Printed at the Spiral Press and issued for the friends of the Curtis Paper Company, June 1962. 1962. - Octavo, 9-1/4 inches high by 6 inches wide. Softcover, bound in creamy white stapled wraps titled and illustrated in brown and black on the covers. There is some minor soiling and faint foxing to the covers. The top corner of the rear cover is creased. 38 & [1] pages, with black & brown on white illustrations by Nicholas Solovioff. The top corners of the pages are creased and there is a hint of foxing to a few pages. Very good.

Together with a 10 page review clipped from American Artist Magazine, with an article by Fridolf Johnson writing under the name "Lester Hanson" titled "The Drawings of Nicholas Solovioff".

Also 2 checks from Fridolf Johnson's wife, Heidi Lennsen Johnson, both endorsed and thus signed by Nicholas Solovioff are enclosed. These were probably sent to the artist as payment for art work.

The American artist Nicholas Solovioff (1927-1994) was a prolific illustrator. Among his work are cover illustrations for "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", "Fortune", "Sports Illustrated", "Horizon", the "Smithsonian Institution" and "Readers Digest". Specializing in illustrations of architecture, science, nature and technology, Solovioff illustrated some of the "Time-Life" series of books. Solovioff taught at the Fogg Museum of Art and the Parson School of Design. He served in the army during WWII and was later a combat artist for the United States Marine Corps in Vietnam. Solovioff was artist in residence for the Port Authority of New York. Very good .

Keywords: ART; SPORT; AMERICA AT EASE; SOME GLIMPSES OF OUR SPORTING BLOOD AT PLAY IN THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS; EARL SCHENCK MIERS; NICHOLAS SOLOVIOFF; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; SIGNED; AUTOGRAPH; ENDORSED CHECKS; FRIDOLF JOHNSON; HEINI LENNSEN JOHNSON; AMERICAN

Price: US$ 35.00 Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
- Book number: 96651

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