The BUFFALO WIND.
Santa Fe: Seton Village Press, 1938. 1st edition (Blanck, p. 463). Limited to 200cc (this #185). SIGNED by Seton, underneath the photographic image. This copy with dedication inscription underneath signature, "the author who dedicates this copy to his friend Ed & Eileen Sevets ... 1945" Unpaginated, though 12 pp. Printed by Maurice Taylor on hand-made paper by J. Whatman, using Lydian type designed by Warren Chappel. Rubicated initials designed & cut by Marceil Taylor. With tipped-in photographic print, after the copyright page, of Seton [giving the Buffalo Sign of the Plains] by Harold Evans Kellog 8vo. 9" x 7-1/8". Dark brown, almost black, flexible buffalo-hide leather binding with red string tie. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Some minor edgewear to binding. A VG+ copy. Item #11534.3
Colophon notes that this item hand-printed for Mrs Ernest Thompson Seton, with the printed dedication page reading, "To Little Beulah / My Daughter / On Her Baptism Day / Fourteenth Sun of the / Green Corn Moon / 1938".
Published on the author's 78th birthday.
Somewhat scarce in the trade.
Price: $1,450.00