1992 Mitchell Tolle American Artist Signed by Mitchell Tolle Edition Hardcover Kentucky Folk Art Coffee Table Book

DESCRIPTION

Mitchell Tolle: American Artist, a 168-page hardcover monograph on the Kentucky painter with text by Garry G. Barker, listed as published in 1992 by Painted Treasures, Inc. of Berea, Kentucky. This copy is signed and inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper, and the sage-green boards carry a pasted-on reproduction of a Tolle landscape on the front and a portrait panel on the rear.

WORTH NOTING

• Artist: Mitchell Tolle
• Text by Garry G. Barker
• Listed as Painted Treasures, Inc., Berea, Kentucky, 1992
• Listed as first edition, first printing; issue points not recorded
• ISBN 0-9644951-0-4, as listed
• 168 pages of color reproductions of paintings and drawings
• Signed and inscribed in black ink on the front endpaper, listed as Tolle's; no signature certificate included
• Inscription is a personal dedication naming a previous owner
• Oblong hardcover with sage-green pictorial boards; no dust jacket

MEASUREMENTS

• Approx. 12" W × 10.5" H × 1" D
• Listed shipping weight approx. 6 lb

CONDITION

Good pre-owned condition with light signs of age and handling. Please review photographs for details. The boards show light shelf wear to the edges and a small area of rubbing at the spine ends; the pasted-on cover image is bright. Interior pages appear clean, with no foxing seen. No dust jacket is present.

STYLE NOTES

Leave it open on a farmhouse table to a winter landscape, or give it to a Kentuckian far from home.

FROM THE HOUSE

Kentucky in paint, with a few lines from the painter inside the cover.

A useful thing should still have manners. ~ Maxwell