Bidspirit auction | Sloane, Eric. Three Works: Return

Sloane, Eric. Three Works: Return to Taos, A Reverence for Wood, and A Museum of Early American Tools. 1964-2006. (DJ) - A collection of three illustrated works by American author and artist Eric Sloane, centered on technical sketches of Americana, traditional tools, and rural architecture. The lot includes one hardcover edition with a dust jacket and two paperbound Dover reprints. The first volume is Return to Taos: Eric Sloane's Sketchbook of Roadside Americana, published by Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, N.Y. in 2006. This is an unabridged republication of the 1960 edition originally published by Funk and Wagnalls. It is a paperbound quarto consisting of 132 pages and features 84 black-and-white illustrations and 4 color plates. ISBN 0-486-44773-1. The second volume is A Reverence for Wood, published by Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, N.Y. in 2004. This is an unabridged republication of the 1965 edition originally published by Funk and Wagnalls. It is a paperbound quarto consisting of 112 pages and includes 69 black-and-white illustrations. ISBN 0-486-43394-3. The third volume is A Museum of Early American Tools, published by Wilfred Funk, Inc., New York, 1964. This is a hardcover edition in a pictorial orange cloth binding, retained in its original pictorial dust jacket. The copyright page indicates a second printing (stated 2). The dust jacket is unclipped with a stated price of $6.50 on the front flap. The volume is profusely illustrated with Sloane's technical pen-and-ink drawings of early American hand tools. Return to Taos: 8 3/8 x 11 inches A Reverence for Wood: 8 3/8 x 11 inches A Museum of Early American Tools: 8 1/2 x 11 inches. The two Dover paperback volumes are in very good condition with minor shelf wear to the edges of the wrappers and clean, well-preserved interiors. A Museum of Early American Tools is in very good condition internally with minor bumping to the spine ends of the cloth binding. Its dust jacket is in fair to good condition, showing visible shelf wear including chipping and small losses at the head and tail of the spine, edge wear, and small closed tears at the corners. All three volumes lack any visible ownership marks or inscriptions.