Author: HARPER, Charley
Title: Beguiled by the Wild: The Art of Charley Harper
Description: Gaithersburg, MD, Flower Valley Press, 1994. Hardcover. Square 4to. Black cloth with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 132pp. Extensive color illustrations, decorative endpapers. Near fine/near fine. Tiny spot on front board; light vertical fold on front flyleaf (likely printing flaw). A handsome and tight first edition of this large gathering from the Modernist artist (1922-2007) best known for bold, colorful prints and posters often featuring birds and wildlife. This copy bears a choice autograph addition: Tipped facing the title page is a First Day Cover signed by Harper: 6½" X 3½, cancelled in Knovxille, TN on 29 April 1982 and with "First Day of Issue" so stamped. Near fine. Harper-designed block of four 20-cent USPS stamps ("Solar energy," "Synthetic fuels," "Breeder reactor" and "Fossil fuels") at upper right. Harper's big, bold signature in black ballpoint near the center. Superb copy with great add-on -- in effect an extra-illustrated frontispiece. .

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