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| x | Lot 53 | Frederic R. Gruger | x | ||||||||
| x | Three men in awe behind typographic machine. | x | |||||||||
| x | Story illustration: ÒAs a Breath into the WindÓ, author: William Allen White, Saturday Evening Post, October 28, 1904; Carbon pencil & watercolor, 8.25 x 6", not signed | x | |||||||||
| x | Estimate: $1,000 - 1,500 | x | |||||||||
| x | Literature - This short story was republished as part of the compilation, "In Our Town" by W. A. White (Grosset & Dunlap, 1906) with illustrations by Glackens and Gruger. Provenance - From the estate of author William Allen White, a Pulitzer Prize writer in 1923. | x | |||||||||
| x | Condition - Very good overall: not examined out of frame; matted and handmade frame at 19.5 x 15.5 x 0.75". | x | |||||||||
| x | The fantasy fiction story is about an ordinary teenager who was a kind of medium; while he was in a trance, Ouija boards and linotype machines alike would speak portentious things about the immortality of the soul in Latin. | x | |||||||||
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