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Paperback. First edition. Fine paperback. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. The catalogue for an exhibition of work by the American painter William Allen Wall, held at the Old Dartmouth Historical Society at The Whaling Museum, New Bedford, MA, November 9 - December 31, 1978. The catalogue presents 75 paintings, each described, annotated, and illustrated. Wall (1801-1885) trained as a clock and watchmaker but found modest success painting portraits in the prosperous whaling town of New Bedford. He also produced historical subjects and landscapes of the town and his work has become an invaluable pictorial record of nineteenth-century New Bedford. Biographical essay by Richard C. Kugler. 72 pages; 7 color and 78 b&w illustrations; 8.5 x 11 inches. …

Wraps. Condizione: Very Good. Color illustrated wraps, with book housed in a green cloth clamshell case. 72 pp. Black and white and a few color illustrations throughout. A catalog to a 1978 exhibition of the paintings of William Allen Wall, a clockmaker and artist, whose work often focused on the life and landscape around New Bedford. VERY GOOD book. Light edgewear. Remains of price sticker on the lower rear cover. Case with minor scuffing, fading and soiling.…