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(Ash Ranch Press) J. Frank Dobie: A Biography. By Valentine J. Poska.  [San Diego. California.] MCM.LXXX.IX. (1989.) 2.375” x 1.875”. Frontispiece photograph of Dobie by Horace Evans. Printed on wheat-colored Simpson Gainsborough Script paper in brown ink accented in black, blue and gold varnish inks. Bound by Don Hildreth  in brown and black calfskin with snakeskin-embossed brown lambskin. Marbled endpapers in brown, blue and rich gold. Housed in a brown leatherette slipcase.  In an edition of 126 copies, this is Letter ‘J’ in the Deluxe edition of 26 copies, lettered A through Z, and signed by Don Hildreth and Val Poska.

An original and concise mini-biography of the notable author of the Southwest, a respected teacher, scholar, naturalist, freedom fighter, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The 16th book of the Ash Ranch Press.

Provenance: Book from the collection of Rabbi Kalman Levitan. With his Bookplate.

Related items: Miniature Books, Ash Ranch Press