Wonderfully Graphic Ink Drawing of Waddell Co Booth 1091 gift for fun Some fading/softening to drawings and

Some fading/softening to drawings and one page with the upper third of the page removed

A nice chunky old whimsy

The sliding lid fits in its groove as snugly as humanly possible

but much amplified I think as photographed against a flat black ground

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Wonderfully Graphic Ink Drawing of Waddell Co Booth 1091 gift for fun Some fading/softening to drawings andI found this one digging through a bin at the Boston Antiquarian book fair and just lit on it immediately so boldly graphic, and also feeling somewhat anthropomorphic, with the windows (I am thinking perhaps this is a booth in a private dining car?) at center reading like eyes and making the whole thing seem like a hulking creature, which makes me think a bit of Philip Guston, too. The Waddell Co. of Greenfield Ohio (founded in 1887) first produced