R. Brownell McGrew - Laguna Beach Museum of Art - SIGNED First Edition 1978 Hardcover with Dust Jacket - Collectible Art Book for Display & Investment

McGrew, R. Brownell. Kansas City: The Lowell Press, 1978. 

English, First Edition, Very Good, HC, 4to, 8 3/4” x 11 1/2”, 128 pp.

ISBN: 0913504432 

First Edition, hardcover in beige cloth with illustration to front panel and blue leather spine; signed and inscribed by American painter, Ralph Brownell McGrew; laid-in ephemera with a taped newspaper clipping to front pastedown. Minor cocking to spine, some soiling to back panel, minor toning, else clean and tightly bound. Very Good white pictorial dust jacket, some tears and small chips to back top edge, minor toning and shelf wear, front wrap adhered to front panel of book, now in Mylar. 128 pp. Includes reproductions of 116 works of landscapes and Native Americans by McGrew, with 83 in full-color. From inside the dust jacket: "Dazzling colors of Navajo apparel, shimmering contrasts of heat and coolness, and loving representations of the dignity of man and the grandeur of nature are magnificently depicted in the incomparable art of R. Brownell McGrew."