London: Sidgwick & Jackson 1913. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - 6" X 4. Willy Pogany. A first edition thus illustrated by Willy Pogany and Horace Taylor in very good condition. Quarter bound with parchment spine and slightly faded gilt titled top board see photos. Fore-edges untrimmed and with a previous owner's name dated 1913 on apreliminary page. The poem is a political allegory set during the epic hunt for an escaped dancing bear across the Spanish Pyrenees. <br/> <br/>A first edition thus illustrated by Willy Pogany and Horace Taylor in very good condition. Sidgwick & Jackson hardcover
Hamburg: Bet Hoffmann und Campe. Collectible - Good. Hamburg: Bet Hoffmann und Campe 1847. 16mo. 158pp. German. Good book. Moderate edgewear. Chipping to the crown foot and corners. Boards scratched and soiled. Bumped corners. Page edges and pages browned. Typical period foxing throughout. Penciled notes to the rear free endpaper. Otherwise inside clean. Inquire if you need further information. Hamburg: Bet Hoffmann und Campe hardcover
Printed by Oscar Brandstetter in Leipzig and illustrated with photolithographs after drawings by Julius Pascin. One of an edition of 100 copies bound in natural goat skin by H.Fikentscher in Leipzig. Overall size c.9. x 7.1/8 inches c.23 x 18 cm. 94 pages 35 illustrations.Text in German. Binding very slightly spotted internally fine. A very good copy. The first book with these illustrations was published by the Pan-Presse in 1910. Paul Cassirer hardcover
Very Good Copy of second German edition of Heinrich Heine's satirical novella with original boards and a cover drawing by Jules Pascin important Bulgarian-born Expressionist painter with more than 20 illustrations by Pascin. In glassine cover with some soiling on cover. Bright and clean inside. Born Julius Mordechai Pincas Jules PASCIN 1885-1930 was one of the most important artists of the École de Paris. He arrived in France in 1905 year of the birth of <i>Fauvisme </i> at the Salon d'Automne. He was Influenced by Fauvism and later by Cubism but mostly celebrated for his paintings of Montmartre life after dark. Among his models were his wife Hermine David and his mistress Lucy and prostitutes encountered in bordellos. He exhibited his works regularly at the <i>Salon des Indépendants.</i> He committed suicide en 1930. The day of his death the Parisian Art Galleries closed as a sign of mourning. <br /> Paul Cassirer hardcover
Carl P Chryselius' Scher Verlag Berlin 1924. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited edition.40/200Full leather gilt decoration. Carl P Chryselius' Scher Verlag, Berlin hardcover