Jim pulled down a Graham Green paperback yesterday which has a bookplate of George Cuckor designed by Paul Landacre who was quite famous it seems. Of course Huxley knew Cuckor and visited him quite a bit. Jim paid a dollar for the book but I guess it would be worth something since people do collect books with bookplates of known people.
Paul Hambleton Landacre (July 9, 1893, Columbus, Ohio - June 3, 1963, Los Angeles, California) participated in the Southern California artistic Renaissance between the world wars and is regarded as one of the outstanding printmakers of the modern era. His stylistic innovations and technical virtuosity gained wood engraving a foothold as an art form in twentieth-century America. Landacre's linocuts and wood engravings of landscapes, still lifes, nudes, and abstractions are celebrated for their consummate design and mastery of material. He used the finest inks and Japanese papers and, with few exceptions, printed his wood engravings on a nineteenth-century Washington Hand Press, which is now in the collection of the International Printing Museum in Carson, California.
I found this blog post rather interesting and I'm attracted to the bookplate art as my readers would guess since it's usually of a quite simple design. Cuckoo's bookplate is mentioned.
http://bookplatejunkie.blogspot.com/2008/02/bookplates-from-hollywood-compost-pile.html
Our book and inside bookplate:
