SAMUELS' ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAN WEST by Samuels, Peggy and Harold

New York: Castle, 1985. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Features over 1,700 concise and detailed gbiographies of painters, illustrators, and sculptors who fell under the spell of the American West. 549 pages, DJ in mylar sleeve. Priority and international shipping will be extra; please inquire.; 7 1/4 x 10 1/4

USA: Castle, 1985 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. "The most comprehensive reference work on Western American Art every published." 549 pages, illustrated. Dust jacket has some edge chips..

Castle, 1985. Hardcover. Very Fine. 549 pp. VF HC and NF DJ. DJ has tiny closed tear top back hinge. Light shelf mark to back of DJ. HC shows no wear. Pages are clean, binding is tight. This is a heavy book and may be subject to extra shipping costs.

Secaucus: Castle Book. VG+. Hardcover. (1985), 4to, xxvi, 549pp, well-illustrated. VG+ in VG DJ. From the DJ: "Here is the most comprehensive reference work on Western American Art ever published. This ambitious and unique book features over 1700 concise and detailed biographies of painters, illustrators, and sculptors who fell under the spell of the American West. The entries -- alphabetically arranged for quick reference-- range from the earliest known European Artist-Explorers, to the contemporary artists at work by 1950. Every category of Western Artist is represented: the special newspaper correspondents, the scientists and survey topographers, the genre recorders, cowboy artists, and nostalgia painters, magazine and book illustrators, print makers, modernists and many others." A heavy volume which will require additional shipping charges..

Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 549 pages; The dust jacket has minor edgewear. The book is overall well taken care of. .

New York:: Castle Books,, (1985). Hardcover -. Very good in a good dust jacket (light foxing to edges of textblock, tears and edgewear to the dj). First thus - a hardcover reprint, originally published in 1976. Includes over 1700 entries, alphabetically arranged and representing every category including newspaper correspondents, survey topographers, cowboy artists, magazine and book illustrators, recognized masters and more, with representatives from the United States, Canada and Mexico, as well as Native American artists. Includes more than 300 half tone illustrations. A large heavy book. xxvi, 549 pp.

[Secaucus, New Jersey]: Castle, [1985]., 1985. First edition. First edition thus. Thick 8vo. Originally published in 1975.Two-tone boards, xxvi, 549 pp., double column, acknowledgments, introduction, abbreviations, sources and source abbreviations, references and reference abbreviations, illustrated from photographs. A few penciled notations on the front and rear endpapers, else a fine copy in dust jacket with chips and nicks to the extremities. Considered to be the "Bible" as a comprehensive reference for artists of the American West.