Sixty Years of Book Collecting
Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club [The Ward Ritchie Press], 1952. Near Fine. First Edition. Limited to 100 copies each for Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs [9.25x4.75in] v, 51 pp., [1] colophone, fronticepiece portrait of Wagner tipped in, Brown and red watercolor vertical stripes on rag paper on boards, cream label with water color border and black lettering on front, top and bottom edges trimmed; Negligible shelf wear, slight bleed of label.[Axe 155]. Item #14293
Henry Raup Wagner (1862-1957) was a book collector, cartographer, historian, author and bibliographer. He was a Yale law school graduate and worked for mining interests in North and South America, New York and London. He was a major book collector in later shifted from collecting to research and writing articles, books and bibliographies on the American Southwest, exploration and maps of the Northwest Coast of America. He is credited with 193 publications from Ruth Axe book, The Published Writings of Henry R. Wagner, 1988.
This book describes over 20 specific collections of Wagner's books, maps and ephemera and their disposition.
Price: $100.00