Author: (WEBSTER, Paul Francis)
Title: The Library of Paul Francis Webster
Description: New York, Sotheby's, 1985. Hardcover. Small 4to. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and tipped-on front board plate.(Ca. 200pp). Numerous illustrations (some color), pictorial endpapers, sewn-in yellow satin page marker. Near fine. Webster (1907-84) was a prolific lyricist credited with more than five hundred songs, including many of Shirley Temple's hits of the 1930s; he later won Oscars for "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing" and "The Sandpiper." He was also a devoted collector of "600 years of Western thought and culture," and this small but selection two-day auction of 181 items includes several fine Shakespeare Folios, autographs in many fields, even his secretary bookcase. Laid in is prices realized list. .

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