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Seattle: Madrona Publisher's, Inc, 1978. Stiff Wrappers. Very Good. Ray Collins. Oblong 12mo. Unpaginated. Introduction by Tom Robbins. Illustrated throughout with Collins' comic strip in black-and-white. Bound in stiff color-illustrated wraps. Slight rubbing and sunning to cover. This copy inscribed on the half-title to artist Guy Anderson: "To Guy - Thank you for the art education ... [signed] Ray Collins". Anderson included a 1977 University of Washington Daily newspaper clipping of a 1977 profile of Collins. It's now laid in, within an clear archival sleeve. Collins got his professional start illustrating the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He then began contributing to Helix, Seattle's underground newspaper, including covers, and comic strips featuring characters Cecil C. Addle and Dipstick. Later his daily comic strip appeared in the Op Ed pages of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer under the title The Adventures of Cecil C. Addle and Dipstick. The connection between Collins' lighthearted humor and… Read More

Seattle Art Museum, 1977. Very Good. Anderson, Guy. Guy Anderson. Robbins, Tom. Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 1977. 35pp. Illustrated. 4to. Illustrated stapled wraps. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing to edges, very faint spotting to rear cover and Iversen Gallery stamp on back of frontispiece. Said stamp has lightly stained the inside of the front cover. Contains a tribute by Tom Robbins.

Seattle:: Seattle Art Museum,, 1977.. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in illustrated staple bound wraps with slight wear to the spine. This exhibition catalogue of one of the key members of the famed Northwest Art School contains a 700 word essay on Anderson by Northwest novelist Tom Robbins. Robbins began his writing career as an art critic for Seattle Magazine in the early 70s.

Gear Works Press, 1965. First Edition. Saddle-stapled wraps. Very Good. Original gray wrappers printed in black and orange; color plate inside rear cover fold-out. One sheet detached from staples, else a Very Good+ copy of this fragile booklet. // With a poem by Lawrence Durrell, an introduction by William Cumming, and photographs by Bob Peterson. The 16pp of text by Robbins constitutes the first monograph on thi s very fine Pacific Northwest artist, often mentioned in the same sentence with Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, and Kenneth Callahan. This work is also the first significant publication of Robbins', produc ed during his first stay in Seattle, in the mid-1960s. He had been working for a short while as the art critic for the Seattle Times. In this essay, critically about Anderson's art as it is, can be se en the beginnings of Robbins' unique style of observations and conclusions that would find full voice in his first novel,six years later.

Seattle: Gear Works, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Original wraps. Near fine. Folio, Textured grey covers, photographs of Anderson's works. -- Tom Robbin's first published book, a monograph about the work of Guy Anderson, with text written by Robbins. -- Bottom front corner bumped with light diagonal crease. Tiny bit of wear to the extremities. No other notable defects. -- Overall:. "Guy Anderson (November 20, 1906 - April 30, 1998) was an American painter. Along with Kenneth Callahan, Morris Graves, and Mark Tobey, Anderson was identified in a Life Magazine article as one of the "northwest mystics," also known as the Northwest School".-wikipedia.

Seattle: Gear Works Press, 1965. First Edition. Fine. First edition, first printing. Folio. Bound in publisher's heavy grey stapled wraps printed in yellow and black. Fine, with faint wear at corners and a small, light scratch to the rear cover. Tom Robbin's first published book, a monograph about the work of Guy Anderson, with text written by Robbins and photographs of Anderson's work taken by Bob Peterson. Anderson was a Pacific Northwest painter who was considered one of the "big four" artists of the Northwest School, an American art movement established in Skagit County and the Seattle area. The same area, which no doubt, affected Tom Robbins and his writing. A beautiful copy, uncommon in such nice condition.

Seattle: Gear Works Press, 1965. First Edition. Near Fine. Folio. First edition, first printing. Signed by Guy Anderson and inscribed to former owner on verso of front cover;previous owner name written on cover verso as well. Bound in publisher's heavy grey stapled wraps printed in yellow and black. Near Fine with light shelf wear and light soiling to front cover. One instance of orange underlining in text, and the center page is detatched at the bottom staple. Tom Robbin's first published book, a monograph about the work of Guy Anderson, with text written by Robbins and photographs of Anderson's work taken by Bob Peterson. Anderson was a Pacific Northwest painter who was considered one of the "big four" artists of the Northwest School, an American art movement established in Skagit County and the Seattle area. The same area, which no doubt, affected Tom Robbins and his writing. A beautiful copy, warmly inscribed by the artist.