John C. Duval: First Texas Man of Letters. His Life and Some of His Unpublished Writings (Inscribed association copy)

Dallas: Southwest Review, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Tom Lea. SIGNED. 105pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 brown cloth with tan cloth over boards. Extremities lightly rubbed. Small light stain in the top fore-edge corner of the front cover. Four glue stains on the rear endpaper. No dust jacket. One in an edition limited to 1000 copies. Inscribed by Frank Dobie to Texas-born set designer and printmaker Blanding Sloan and his second wife, Mildred Taylor, on the front free endpaper. In 1918, James Blanding Sloan moved to New York, where he designed sets for Ziegfeld Follies. Later, Sloan and Taylor founded Carmel, California's first international film festival in 1929. The couple moved to Hollywood in the early 1930s, where Sloan continued to pursue his art and work in the theater, in addition to working for Disney. (Inventory #: 67787)