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Hardcover. Zustand: g to vg. First edition, second printing. Inscribed to Gloria, love R. C. Gorman, and signature of Doris Monthan on half-title. Folio. xix, 170pp. Original illustrated dustjacket, white lettering on spine, over black and burgundy cloth with blind-stamped initials on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Pink endpapers. color frontispiece. Title page in brown and black with publisher's device. Laid in are 13 gallery invitations for R. C. Gorman exhibitions, two of them signed R. C. Gorman, two color photographs of needle work by R. C. Gorman, and one gallery invitation for Ruffin Cooper, Jr., also signed. "For two decades, Navajo artist R. C. Gorman has received the acclaim of critics and collectors for his virtuoso performances in the mediums of drawing and painting. When he turned to lithography in the late 1960s, the medium proved to be ideally suited to his unique talents. He has produced well over 100 studies, a total of some five to six thousand lithographs, which have brought him international recognition. Here for the first time is a comprehensive gathering of his works in this challenging mediumfrom his first efforts executed in Mexico City in 1966 under the tutelage of master printer, José Sanchez, to a larger body of suite and individual studies produced at the world-famous Tamarind Institute in the first half of the 1970s, and later at other lithography workshops in this country." (Publisher). Profusely illustrated with color and b/w offset reproductions of Gorman's delicate yet powerful artwork and b/w photographs from various workshops he participated in. Catalogue, general reference works, selected bibliography and index at rear. DJ with some light wear along edges, small closed tears and minor chips, some sunning to flaps. Very light wear to binding. Endpapers with some decolorization along edges. five small brown spots at upper right half-title. DJ in overall good, binding in good+, interior in very good condition.

Second Printing. Quarto (31cm x 23.5cm). Red cloth boards (hardcover) under black cloth spine with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 172pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf ear to extremities, else clean and tight. Very Good dustwrapper; shelf wear and chipping to extremities; small tear to upper back panel. This volume constitutes the first comprehensive gathering of lithographs from 1966-1978 by Navajo artist R.C. Gorman coupled with his biography. 110 reproductions in color and b&w. Inscribed and signed by R.C. Gorman with a line-drawing extending out of his signature.