Item #288 The World as Oran McCormick Saw It -- SIGNED Copy. Oran McCORMICK.
The World as Oran McCormick Saw It -- SIGNED Copy
The World as Oran McCormick Saw It -- SIGNED Copy
The World as Oran McCormick Saw It -- SIGNED Copy
The World as Oran McCormick Saw It -- SIGNED Copy
The World as Oran McCormick Saw It -- SIGNED Copy
The World as Oran McCormick Saw It -- SIGNED Copy

The World as Oran McCormick Saw It -- SIGNED Copy

Boston: Self-Published, (1939). First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Pp. 397. Nearly every page is laden with well-reproduced b&w photos. Printed on light yellow-orange stock. Bound in tan cloth with title and design printed as a block-print on the front cover. Dust jacket complete and fresh. Inscribed on the title page: "To the Hon. Rufus C. Holman / from the Author / Feb. 1939" Fine / Fine. Item #288

Inscribed to US Senator from Oregon, Rufus Holman. McCormick's book is as preposterous a self-tribute as can be imagined, yet redeeming for its vast collection of photographs documenting all corners of the globe. In that sense, McCormick's book is a vernacular one-volume John L. Stoddard, providing glimpses of Peking, the SS Leviathan, Port Moresby, St. Helena, the SS Mauretania, Kyoto, several photos of the Handley Page Airship, Tasmania, the Alaska Steamship Company's S.S. Alaska, etc.

Not to be outdone, book-recipient Holman signed the book with his larger autograph on the FFEP, dated Feb. 28, 1939. In addition, above his signature Holman provided a gift inscription to his granddaughter, dated 1941. Uncommon in a dust jacket this bright. Dust jacket now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Price: $150.00

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