Item #5477 The Man and the Mountain The Life of Sydney Laurence Plus an Anthology of Alaskan Prose and Poetry. H. Wendy JONES.

The Man and the Mountain The Life of Sydney Laurence Plus an Anthology of Alaskan Prose and Poetry

Anchorage, Alaska: Alaskan Publishing Co. and Graphic Arts Press, 1962. First Edition. Stiff Wrappers Bound With Plastic Comb. 4to. Pp. xiii, 76. Illustrated throughout with many black-and-white photographs. Contains biographical sketches of contributors. Bound in stiff printed wrappers bound with plastic comb. Inscribed by the author-compiler on the inside front cover, which also features the address stamp of the person to whom the book is inscribed. Lacking one comb of the binding. Very Good. Item #5477

An early treatment of Laurence, composed of brief articles and poems by various contributors on respective Laurence paintings. Contains many references to and photographs of Winnie Schmidt, wife of Olympia Brewing Company founder Adolph Schmidt, and her support of Jeanne Laurence, wife of Sydney and a painter in her own right. In 1962 Winnie Schmidt held a show of Jeanne Laurence's flower paintings at the Olympia Historical Museum.

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