John DePol. A Catalogue Raisonné of his Graphic Work, 1935-1998

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2001 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 400 copies designed and printed by James Wehlage of the Tuscan Press. Compiled and edited by James Howard Fraser and Eleanor Friedl. Foreword by Donald R. Fleming. Preface by John Dreyfus. Quarto. 162pp. Illustrated with 60 single-color and 34 two-color illustrations. Black cloth spine stamped in white, patterned paper boards. Housed in a matching slipcase. A very fine, as new copy. A handsome production and a major catalogue raisonné on the work of John DePol, recognized as one of America's foremost printmakers and book illustrators. The artist contributed to publications of the Allen Press, Hammer Creek Press, Pickering Press, Red Ozier Press, Stone House Press, and Yellow Barn Press. The catalogue includes books and selected pamphlets from 1950 to 1998; fifty etchings; 20 lithographs; 143 wood engravings; keepsake wood engravings, and numerous posters. Includes a Biographical Essay by Catherine Tyler Brody. With original prospectus laid in..