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Lot 510

RUSSELL, Charles (1852–1916). Good Medicine: The Illustrate...

Estimate: $250 - $350

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RUSSELL, Charles (1852?1916).?Good Medicine: The Illustrated Letters of??Foreword by Will Rogers. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. Small folio. Color frontispiece and numerous color vignettes after drawings by Russell. Original ?coarse?weave? cloth stamped in red and gilt, color illustrated endpapers; original unclipped dust jacket (small stain and loss on front panel, corners and ends a bit chipped). Provenance: Mr. Forsman (see letter). FIRST TRADE EDITION, IN A RARE BINDING with a TLS laid in from Frederic G. Renner, a Russell authority and bibliographer, dated 13 August 1973, describing this coarse?weave state and declaring that he has seen ?far fewer copies? of this binding. Yost?Renner, p. 25. [With:] another first trade edition in dust jacket but in the more common smooth buckram binding.