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AFTER DARK/SPRING 2025

Thu, May 22, 2025 07:30PM EDT
Lot 80

Tom of Finland (Finnish, 1920 - 1991) Collection, et al

Estimate: $400 - $600

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Twenty-six (25) publications and one Jim French (1932 - 2017) photograph. Many published by Tom of Finland, Inc., or posthumously by the Tom of Finland Foundation. Including softcover editions: "Camping: Pekka 3," "The Original Tom of Finland's Circus," "Tom of Finland: Dick," "Navy in Tom's Drawings," "Blacks in Tom's Drawings," "Cops in Tom's Drawings," "The Rope," "Tom of Finland: Catalog," and "Kake." Issues: 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25; "Tom of Finland: Retrospective." Softcover. Published by the Tom of Finland Foundation. Includes a photograph of a drawing, by Jim French, titled 'Sailor and Man,' 1968. This photograph was likely circulated as a mail-order reproduction from Colt Studios. 7 x 5".

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