North-Westward - WITH Signed Corwin Chase Print
Seattle: Lowman & Hanford Company, 1930. Corwin Chase. Limited Edition. Quarter cloth over paper-covered boards. 4to. Pp. 34. Frontis. woodblock print by W. Corwin Chase titled "The Pass," signed. With prefaces by University of Washington professors Edmond Meany and Herbert Gowen. Bound in black quarter cloth over illustrated paper-covered boards that present a fantastic, vaguely psychedelic Northwest forest scene. Light edge-wear to corners. With the bookplate of Seattle civic leaders Thomas D. and Emma B. Stimson. Bookplate designed by author, book collector, art historian and graphic designer
Wilbur Macey Stone (1862-1941). The bookplate depicts a view of Puget Sound from behind a window, presumably their residence in the Highlands. Very Good. Item #12841
Signed by Pelly at the colophon. Pelly was born in Seattle on August 22, 1902 to Bernard Pelly, the British consul to Seattle, and Elizabeth Montgomery Minor Pelly, the daughter of former mayor of Seattle Thomas T. Minor. He worked at Lowman and Hanford prior to embarking on an illustrious 30-year career in the US House of Representatives.
Price: $750.00