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réf. 324971London: George G. Harrap. hardcover. very good. Pogany Willy. Beautifully illustrated with 16 tipped-in color plates by Willy Pogany and with decorative turquoise borders and initials on every page. Unpaginated. 8vo publisher's elaborately gilt and blind-stamped brown calf binding. London: George G. Harrap no date circa 1932. Handsome ex-libris on inside front cover; slight toning on endpapers and light foxing throughout else a near fine copy. George G. Harrap unknown books
1911réf. 24558London: G. G. Harrap & Co 1911. Limited edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. Full calf embossed on the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Illustrated throughout by Pogány in black and white and tipped-in full color plates. Leather rubbed at hinges and edges with some light soiling else this is a very good copy. One of 525 numbered copies signed by Pogány. This is number166. . G. G. Harrap & Co hardcover books
1913réf. 24584London: G. G. Harrap & Co 1913. First edition. Very good. Hardcover. Three volumes. 4to. Quarter green calf spine blocked in gilt; Cloth sides with gilt title and design on the upper boards. Top edges gilt. Illustrated throughout by Pogány in black and white and 40 mounted full color plates Spines sunned to a pleasing tan color else this is a very good set. In the publisher's slipcase which has some light wear. G. G. Harrap & Co unknown books
1910réf. 33890London: George G. Harrap and Co 1910. Very good minus. Signed limited first Pogany edition one of only 525 numbered copies printed on Japan vellum and signed by Pogany. Often called Pogany's masterpiece this production owes much to the aesthetics of Morris's Kelmscott Press and Ricketts's Vale Press as well as artists like Gustave Doré and Aubrey Beardsley. Printed on silky high-quality paper each page features decorative borders and interlocking designs in subtle colors. A gorgeous book. 12.5'' x 9''. Original full brown calf gilt-stamped and -lettered. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. Illustrated by Pogany with 20 tipped-in color plates calligraphic text decorative borders plus a profusion of stunning illustrations in color and line throughout text many full-page. Signed by Pogany on limitation page. Joints expertly repaired with some additional careful repair to boards where leather has been scuffed all along edges. George G. Harrap and Co unknown books
1910réf. 140938515London: George Harrap 1910. First THUS. Very Good. Limited edition of 525 copies hand-numbered 91 in blue signed by illustrator Willy Pogany. Quarto. Original full tan calf decorated in gilt illustrated with 20 beautiful tipped-in color plates top edge gilt. Unpaginated. Very Good with scratch in front cover wear along edges of leather internally near fine bookplate ghost on paste down. All plates present. A wonderful visual exploration of Coleridge's classic poem with intricate ink illustrations and every plate a hazy dream-like wash of color. George Harrap unknown books
1913réf. 5692London: Harrap 1913. First thus. Near Fine. Deluxe limited edition this copy number 34 of 525 copies signed by the illustrator. Publisher's vellum stamped in gilt to spine and front board. Top edge gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Measuring 280 x 190mm and profusely illustrated throughout in color and black and white. Boards slightly bowed with minor toning. Internally clean. A Near Fine copy without the scarce publisher's slipcase. Inspired by Wagner's haunting opera The Tale of Lohengrin follows the titular knight son of Percival on his mission to rescue a damsel in distress. Here brought to life with Pogany's stirring visuals which highlight the romance and darkness inherent to chivalric epics. Near Fine. Harrap unknown books
1930réf. 1285981930. First Edition. Signed. POGçNY Willy illustrator. Rubiyt of Omar Khayym. London: George G. Harrap & Co. 1930. Octavo original full turquoise morocco gilt-stamped floral medallion with multicolored onlays to front cover raised bands top edge gilt uncut original publisher's box. $2200.Signed limited edition of Willy Pogny's illustrated Rubaiyat number 25 of 750 copies for sale in the U.K. of a total edition of 1250 copies with 12 mounted color plates and intricate in-text decorations signed twice by the artist elegantly bound in gilt-decorated morocco in the publisher's original box.Hungarian-born Pogny ""specialized in gift book embellishment both before and after the First World War"" Harthan 242. A prolific artist Pogny produced illustrations for more than 150 books in his lifetime including many classics of children's literature such as Mother Goose. He first illustrated the Rubaiyat in 1909 and provided a new entirely different set of illustrations for this 1930 signed limited edition of Edward FitzGerald's classic 1859 translation. Khayyam's ""brief verses vary in themeÉ from sophisticated satires on the unreasonableness of human passion to the passionate lyrics on the joys and sorrows of love and wine and on the wisdom of grasping pleasure while we can"" Hornstein Percy and Brown 377. Signed by Pogny in ink at the limitation page and in pencil on the additional etched frontispiece. Greer 121d. Contemporary owner signature.A fine copy in a worn original publisher's box. hardcover books
1967réf. 4462421967. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Measuring 5½" x 8½". 290pp. Green cloth. The text block separated from the binding for use as a manuscript with notes and changes by the author for a revised version thus good only. A purposely broken copy of Days on the Wing by Baron Coppens de Houthulst also known as Willy Coppens which he used to prepare the manuscript for the 1970 reissue of the book entitled Flying in Flanders. Coppens was one of Belgium’s top flying aces during World War I “credited with 37 confirmed victories and six probables.” Coppens originally wrote Days on the Wing in 1931 as a memoir of his service in World War I. In the late 1960s he reworked the piece and it was eventually reissued as Flying in Flanders in 1970. Coppens used this copy of Days on the Wing to write extensive notes for the new edition. The book also includes typed and photocopied notes and rewrites throughout the manuscript. Notes are featured in the original book with additions word changes and crossed out footnotes among other changes. Notes throughout the manuscript read “replace this paragraph” “no italics” and other notes to clean up the narrative. Also included is a Typed Note Signed by Coppens. Willy Omer François Jean baron Coppens de Houthulst was a Belgian “flying ace" and “balloon buster” during World War I. According to Coppens 40 Belgians including Coppens went to England to learn to fly at their own expense after Germany invaded Belgium in 1914. Coppens flew his first combat mission on May 1 1917 in a “Sopwith 1½ Strutter two seater.” After numerous aerial victories Coppen’s final mission resulted in a crash where his leg was amputated. Following the war Coppen was knighted for his wartime service where he became Willy Omer François Jean baron Coppens de Houthulst. During World War II he worked with resistance movements in Switzerland. An interesting collection of revisions for the memoir of a Belgian flying ace in World War I. hardcover books
1953réf. 140947434New York: The Viking Press 1953. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Wernher von Braun on the title page. viii 126 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth stamped in silver. Very Good with moderate wear and soiling to covers 1-3/4 inch tear to lower edge of contents page. Gift inscription dated 1984 to half-title page. Offsetting from two newspaper clippings taped to facing page likely indicating occasion of book's signing. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with moderate edgewear and toning. Dr. Wernher von Braun was a brilliant and visionary German engineer and onetime SS Stormbahnfuerer who led the V-2 ballistic missile program during the Second World War. He convinced his colleagues to surrender themselves and their materials to the Americans after the war ignoring orders to kill themselves rather than fall into enemy hands. The Americans knew a good thing when they saw it and smuggled 118 German scientists one hundred V-2s and tons of related components and documents out of the country. To Stalin's fury the Soviets were left only with lower-level rocket scientists to press into service hindering their performance in the Space Race years later. Once in the United States von Braun spent fifteen years working for the United States Army on ballistic weapons but his true passion was space travel. He once told a group of British journalists: "The V-2 was a fine rocket. The only thing wrong with it was that it landed on the wrong planet." Frustrated with being sidelined von Braun convinced Collier's associate editor Cornelius Ryan whom he met at a symposium on space medicine in San Antonio to run a series on space travel. The magazine series provided the material for The Conquest of the Moon published in 1953 by Viking. Neil Armstrong read the book when he returned from his tour of duty in Korea and it influenced his decision to become an astronaut. Von Braun's work co-written with popular science writers and beautifully illustrated by Chesley Bonestell inspired the U.S. government as well. In 1960 President Eisenhower transferred von Braun's rocket development group from the Army to the newly established National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA separating space science from military science for the first time. Von Braun became the director of the Marshall Space Flight Center and was in charge of developing the Saturn space boosters used as the launch vehicles for the Apollo Moon program. His work was essential in the competition with the Soviet Union and the former Nazi was lauded as a national hero. The Viking Press unknown books
1956réf. 140947438New York: The Viking Press 1956. First Edition. Near Fine/Good. First edition first printing. Signed by Wernher von Braun on the half-title page and inscribed to a young recipient: "Your Uncle Stu has told me of your interest in rockets and satellites. Good luck. Christmas 1958." x 176 pp. Bound in publisher's green cloth titled in silver on the spine blindstamped rocket design to front board. Near Fine with light soiling to covers rubbing to corners and softening to head and tail of spine. Contents lightly toned. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with moderate edgewear creasing and horizontal tears to fold lines and spine and chipping at fold ends and head and tail of spine. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun a Prussian aristocrat and SS Stormbahnfuerer who was spirited to the United States after the Second World War was one of the most important rocket developers of the 20th century. His passion had always been space exploration but during the 1940s he was charged with the development of the ballistic missiles that terrorized London during the final months of the war. After surrendering to the Americans in 1945 in order to safeguard his legacy and scientific work and himself von Braun was frustrated to spend the next few years cooling his heels with fellow German scientists in Texas and Alabama. He told one of his colleagues: "We can dream about rockets and the Moon until Hell freezes over. Unless the people understand it and the man who pays the bill is behind it no dice." Von Braun wrote the book The Mars Project in order to spark public enthusiasm for his project. Eighteen publishers turned it down but von Braun had a stroke of luck when he met Cornelius Ryan associate editor of Collier's magazine at a symposium on space medicine in San Antonio. Ryan was impressed with the German engineer's vision and the magazine published eight influential features on space travel over the next two years starting March 1952 in which von Braun essentially outlined the future of NASA. Those features were expanded into the book The Conquest of the Moon in 1953 and by the time Viking published The Exploration of Mars in 1956 von Braun had become a national figure appearing on a "Tomorrowland" feature on Disney's popular television show watched by tens of millions of people. The book was co-written with his Collier's collaborators Willy Ley who had fled Nazi Germany in 1935 to become a science fiction and popular science writer in the United States and the astronomical artist Chesley Bonestell. The Christmas 1958 inscription to little Jimmy was written at the end of a momentous year for von Braun: on January 31 after years of development the satellite Explorer I was successfully launched into orbit. Americans were thrilled and The American Weekly ran von Braun's autobiography in three installments. The story was turned into the 1960 biopic I Aim at the Stars which inspired Kennedy speechwriter Mort Sahl to quip that Wernher von Braun had aimed for the stars but sometimes hit London. The Viking Press unknown books
1930réf. 163830N.p.: N.p. 1930. Vintage caricature drawing of silent film actress dancer and Jazz Age icon Louise Brooks smiling in a short pink dress executed in graphite charcoal and pastel by noted Hungarian artist Willy Pogány circa 1930s. Drawing comes with a letter of provenance from the Louise Brooks estate. A contemporary of Edmund Dulac Harry Rountree Sarah Stilwell Weber and others artist Willy Pogány is perhaps best remembered today for his versatile illustrations for children's books. He also worked prolifically as a sculptor painter portraitist and muralist and even briefly as a designer of stage sets and costumes. During the 1930s Pogány moved to Los Angeles where he found employment as an art director in Hollywood-likely the time period in which this drawing was created. Drawing approximately 14 x 19 inches unexamined out of frame. Near Fine lightly age toned along the edges. N.p. unknown books
