RANGER OF THE LOST ART: Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of Our National Parks + poster (Signed)
Salt Lake City: Ranger Doug Enterprises and Paragon Press, 2023. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Item #xxx005
1st and only edition, limited. Lovely large quarto brown cloth with color pictorial image of the "Ranger" blind-stamped and raised in the space. 206pp on glossy stock. GORGEOUSLY illustrated with color images of the known original posters and Leen production of new ones. Index. Front endpapers display a color map of the United States with various landmarks, The map is beautifully decoratively bordered, and the mast across the top reads, "SEE AMERICA." Slid into a full-sized pocket inside the back cover is an 8 ½" x 11" copy of Leens color lithograph poster of Grand Teton Nat'l Park, printed on fine paper. NON-PERSONALIZED SIGNATURE BY LEAN. In this sumptuous book, Leen tells the story of his hunt for all national park posters produce in a short few years at the end of the 1930s and into the 1940s. He fully described in text and illustration his elaborate process of reproducing them for production for this book, and for reproducing a suite of new designs. INCLUDED IN WITH THIS PURCHASE is a very special color 18" x 24"poster showing ALL the national park posters in miniature. BOTH BOOK AND POSTER SIGNED (not personalized) by Leen. What a fabulous combination!
Price: $300.00