FIFTY GREAT WESTERN ILLUSTRATORS by Jeff Dykes [Flagstaff, Arizona]: Northland Press, 1975. First edition, first printing, Collector's edition. Limited to two-hundred deluxe copies numbered and SIGNED by the author to a special limitation page. This is copy number 161. A beautiful book production, set in Linotype Aldus with Palating Display and printed on Nekoosa natural text, bound at Roswell Bookbinding. A handsome production with high-quality stock paper, a sewn binding with headband and tailband, and impressive high-quality plates. This Collector's edition has a special sixteen page, artist labeled section to the rear, for the collector who wishes to add additional annotations on the artists. Some of the artists included are: Frank Schoonover, Frank Tenney Johnson, N.C. Wyeth, Jo Mora, Maynard Dixon, Fredric Remington, Clarence Ellsworth, and etc. Ninety-three plate illustrations in striking black-and-white and brilliant color enhance the artists entries that list books and catalogued exhibitions and galleries. Crisp fresh! Fine, as new, in black alligator leatherette over blue linen with silver embossed illustration depicting a rattlesnake forking its tongue out at a coyote to the front cover, and with silver embossed titles to the spine, with blue-and-white headband and tail-band, housed in a fine smooth black slipcase with a silver embossed '50', decoratively framed in silver to the front panel. Quarto; 457 pages; plus 16 page special section. An impressive gift. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! Created by Seller's Assistant Basic.