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1930ref. 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
ref. 662625Manuel Bruker Editeur Paris 1956 In-4 ( 335 X 265 mm ) en feuilles sous couverture grise rempliée. Edition originale, illustrée de 7 lithographies originales 5 en couleurs dont 3 sur double-page et 2 en noir de Maurice UTRILLO. Tirage limité et unique à 200 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin blanc, celui-ci ( N°6 ), 1 des 20 premiers enrichi d'une suite des lithographies sur vélin du Marais. Très bel exemplaire, complet du "Sonnet en l'honneur de l'Art Lyrique", fac-similé du texte autographe d'UTRILLO en 3 couleurs. Très rare avec la suite.
1979ref. 64941Albright-Knox Art Gallery. As New. 1979. Paperback. 0914782274 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 98 pp. With 5 text ills. And 62 pls. 28 col. . 28 x 22 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Albright-Knox Art Gallery paperback
1910ref. 58902New York:: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1910. First edition: No. 138 of 525 copies signed by Willy Pogany. publisher's full pictorial gilt leather t.e.g. in custom later slipcase. Some light rubbing at the extremities of the spine and boards; the contents fine. . Folio. Presented by Willy Pogany throughout including tipped-in color plates. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., hardcover
1967ref. 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
1940ref. 65033Philadelphia:: David McKay Co. 1940. original cloth-backed drab boards; preserved in a custom cloth folding box. Fine. Folio. Original drawings include an illustrated half-title and title page frontispiece and seven finished drawings of various sizes plus numerous sketches. David McKay Co., hardcover
1940ref. 58376Philadelphia:: David McKay Co. ca. 1940. old cloth-backed boards in custom folding box. . Fine. 8vo. 10 original pencil drawings and vignettes. David McKay Co., hardcover
ref. 23683London: George G. Harrap and Company. 1913. First edition first printing. First edition first printing. Deluxe limited edition signed by the illustrator. Publisher's original vellum-covered boards with titles and illustrations in gilt to the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Illustrated endpapers. Lavishly and profusely illustrated with 8 mounted colour plates colour lithographs and black and white line drawings throughout by Willy Pogany with some of the text and drawings being accented with brown blue and green. A near fine copy the binding firm the boards only very slightly bowed. The contents with very faint spotting to the prelims are otherwise entirely complete and clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the original illustrated box which is worn at the edges with one side of the bottom half split at the corners. A beautiful scarce edition. This deluxe issue was issued in a limited edition of 525 copies this example numbered 16 and signed by Willy Pogany in black in on the limitation page. Pogany's stunning Art Nouveau-tinged illustrations breathe life into Wagner's opera which is based on the German Arthurian legend of the knight Lohengrin son of of Percival who rode a boat drawn by swans to rescue a lady. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers. London: George G. Harrap and Company. 1913 hardcover
ref. H545Oldenburg und Leipzig Schulze 1889. 8vo. IV 248 S. Mit einer doppelblattgroßen Karte. Bedruckte Original-Broschur unaufgeschnitten ein sehr gutes Exemplar. Schildert die im Jahre 1884 von der Afrikanischen Gesellschaft zum Zweck der Erforschung des südlichen Kongobeckens ausgesandte deutsche Expedition an der der Verfasser als Arzt Zoologe und Anthropologe teilnahm. - Hess/Coger 3370; Kainbacher 523. unknown
1955ref. 05614HISTORIC LETTER TYPED LETTERS between Willy Ley & Mrs. Fritz Lang the former dated 7-11-1955 one page over 200 words and SIGNED & the latter dated 7 -25 -1955 one page about 175 words and SIGNED respectively concerning the origin of "The Countdown" in rocket launches. It seems that in the former letter Ley realizes that the first time he encountered such a thing was in Lang's film FRAU IM MOND a silent film released in 1929. He writes to ask Lang if this was an original thought on his part. Mrs. Lang answers for her husband who is on vacation after many weeks work on NEWS IS MADE AT NIGHT in the affirmative! A seemingly historic correspondence. N.p. unknown
1910ref. 159737New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1910. Pogány's masterpiece Signed limited edition numbered 125 of 525 copies signed by the artist. Pogány's illustrated edition of Coleridge's famous long poem is one of the artist's most lavish undertakings and was clearly inspired by the grand medieval tradition of book illustration. The book was co-published by George Harrap in the UK and Thomas Y. Crowell in the US. As noted by Richard Dalby "Willy Pogány was Dulac's most successful European contemporary during the highest peak of the Golden Age of book illustration. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was his most ornate and impressive production with hand-scripted text full-page black and white drawings and colour plates tipped-in on grey matte paper. This combination of illustration and calligraphic text by the artist was rarely repeated". Quarto. With title page 20 tipped-in colour plates other full page illustrations each page of text within decorative borders all by Willy Pogány. Original brown calf spine and front cover lettered and illustrated in gilt top edge gilt others untrimmed. Some abrasions to covers; a near-fine and bright copy with uncreased plates. Richard Dalby The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration 1991 p. 87. unknown
1926ref. 39150Paris Editions Excelsior 1926 In-4, chagrin noir orn sur la partie infrieure des deux plats en passant par le dos d'une composition de formes mosaques alternativement en creux ou en relief en mme chagrin noir et accompagnes dans leurs mouvements sinueux de jeux de filets dors et froid; dos sans nerfs portant les noms de l'auteur et de l'artiste ainsi que le titre de l'ouvrage en petites capitales dores; doublures et gardes de papier orn d'un dcor abstrait dans des tons beiges et verts, tte dore, non rogn, couverture imprime. Bote-tui (Godelieve).20 eaux-fortes en couleurs hors texte par Louis Icart. Tirage limit 546 exemplaires numrots. Un des 50 premiers exemplaires (aprs un exemplaire unique) numrots (n16) sur japon imprial. Exemplaire bien complet du fac-simil d'une lettre autographe de Colette sur papier bleu.
1928ref. 58375New York:: Doubleday Doran and Company ca. 1928. Traces of adhesive on verso; otherwise fine. 8vo. Doubleday, Doran and Company, unknown
ref. 100395Watercolor gouache and pencil on paper mounted on board; signed "W.P." lower left and titled by artist. 13.5 x 10.5 in. Pogány Willy. Watercolor gouache and pencil on paper mounted on board; signed "W.P." lower left and titled by artist. 13.5 x 10.5 in. A fine illustration for Book II of Spencer's The Faerie Queene showing Phaedria in her boat tempting Sir Guyon representing Temperance who stands ashore with the Palmer. unknown books
ref. 04916London: G.G. Harrap 1913. A Superb Early Bayntun Inlaid Binding On One of Willy Pogany's Masterpieces BAYNTUN binder. POGANY Willy illustrator. WAGNER Richard. ROLLESTON T.W. The Tale of Lohengrin Knight of the Swan after the Drama of Richard Wagner by T.W. Rolleston. Presented by Willy Pogany. London: G.G. Harrap n .d. 1913. First trade edition. Quarto 10 x 7 1/4 inches; 254 x 184 mm. 192 unnumbered pages. Eight tipped-in color plates including frontispiece with original tissue guard numerous full page color illustrations calligraphic text head- tailpieces; an image on every page. Printed on heavy gray stock. Some minor discoloration to first three and last three leaves otherwise fine. Bound ca. 1930 by Bayntun of Bath stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full black morocco covers with single gilt rule front cover with multi color morocco inlays reproducing the illustration on page 53. Spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Decorative gilt board edges gilt ruled turn-ins blue cockerel endpapers all edges gilt. Housed in the original blue cloth over boards clamshell case. The design on the front cover is taken from the illustration on p. 53. "And then aloud spake she- "O King a champion waits the hoar To take my part with godlike power And my Deliverer be. "In dreams I saw him; silver-bright His jewell'd armour shone. His sword was as a beam of light His crest a silver swan. "He is my Lord he is my King. And his till death am I. Come Victor Lord the hoar is near- Oh hear thy poor maid's cry!" William Andrew "Willy" Pogany born Vilmos Andreas Pogány August 1882 - 30 July 1955 was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. Pogany's best known works consist of illustrations of classic myths and legends done in the Art Nouveau style. He also worked as an art director on several Hollywood films including Fashions of 1934 and Dames. The publication of Pogány's Lohengrin was the final act in his trilogy of masterworks focused on Wagner's Germanic tales and one of the quintet that is considered his finest work. Pogány clearly approached the commission to illustrate Lohengrin as an opportunity to improve and extend techniques that he had developed through his preceding work particularly The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Tannhäuser and Parsifal the other four books that immortalized his career as an illustrator. That commitment to ongoing innovation resulted in an incredible suite of illustrations including color lithographs monotone and marginal illustrations and the delightful tipped-in color plates produced with a four-color process included in Lohengrin. Themes of medieval chivalry erotic love and moral tests are illustrated in a lavish fashion by Pogány with an outstanding use of iconography form and color.'. London: G.G. Harrap, 1913 unknown books
ref. 1831No Binding. Very Good. Original oil painting of a clown. On canvas. Canvas measures 12 x 10 inches. Label on reverse from The Canton Art Institute. Canton Ohio. Titled "Clown" by Pogany Willy. Donated by Robert A Luntz. unknown
ref. 419451969. 59 x 79 cm Kleine Farbfehlstellen sonst tadell. Mythologisches Bild mit religiösen Anspielungen. Fries Willy 1907 Wattwil SG †18.7.1980 Wattwil SG Maler Zeichner und Grafiker. Wandbild Glasfenster Zeichnung Holzschnitt und Illustration. Der im ländlichen Wattwil aufgewachsene Willy Fries bricht 1929 sein Studium der Kunst- und Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Zürich auf Anraten von Heinrich Wölfflin zugunsten einer Laufbahn als freier Künstler ab. In Paris kurzzeitig an den Académies Scandinave und Grande Chaumière sowie in den Ateliers von Fernand Léger und Amédée Ozenfant. 1930–34 weitere Ausbildung an der Universität und der Akademie in Berlin sowie Anschluss an den Kreis der bekennenden Kirche um Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Studienreisen nach Italien Frankreich Holland und Flandern. 1935 zwingt ihn ein Skiunfall zum Verbleib in Wattwil. Dort entsteht mit dem Gemäldezyklus Die Passion 1936–1944 Köln-Marienburg Garnisonskirche der die Leidensgeschichte Christi in der damaligen Gegenwart und mit dem Toggenburg als Kulisse schildert in den folgenden Jahren sein Schlüsselwerk. 1939 Heirat mit der Pfarrerstochter Dorothea Wieser und endgültige Niederlassung in Wattwil. Fries entwickelt sich zu einem vielbeschäftigten Künstler der zahlreiche Fresken und Glasfenster für Kirchen Spitäler und Gemeinschaftsräume vorwiegend in der Ostschweiz aber auch in Berlin Bonn und Seifhennersdorf entwirft. Mit der Passion und weiteren Gemäldezyklen wie Christ ist geboren 1944–49 einer Schilderung der Weihnachtsgeschichte vor den Ruinen der zerbombten Stadt München findet er im Kontext zeitgenössischer religiöser Malerei in der Nachkriegszeit starke Beachtung und wird mit Einzelausstellungen in der Schweiz in Deutschland und Frankreich geehrt. Die filmische Umsetzung der Passion in eigener Regie unter dem Titel Gib uns Frieden wird 1962 mit dem Anerkennungspreis der Interfilmtagung in Brüssel prämiert und von zahlreichen Fernsehstationen gesendet. 1964 Gesamtausstellung im Kunstmuseum St. Gallen. Auszeichnung mit dem Rembrandt-Preis in Salzburg 1970. Für seine Bemühungen um die Darstellung des Evangeliums in der Malerei wird er 1972 mit dem Doktor honoris causa der theologischen Fakultät der Universität Bern geehrt. 1977 Jubiläumsausstellung in den beiden Kirchen von Wattwil. Die vom Künstler in seinem Todesjahr gegründete Stiftung veranstaltet 1982 in St. Gallen sowie 1987 in Hamburg und Berlin Gedächtnisausstellungen. 500 1969 unknown
ref. 72191Zürich Emil Matthieu 1967. 58 x 46 cm HLwd.- Mappe mit innenliegenden Mappe m. losen Blatt. Lithographien am Rande minimalst gebräunt nicht beschienen. Exemplar 81 von 100. Unten links num unten rechts m. Bleistift sign. VARLIN. - «Varlin 16.3.1900 als Willy Guggenheim Zürich - 30.10.1977 Bondo heute Gem. Bregaglia von Lengnau AG. . Kantonsschule 1918-19 Lehre in der Lithografenanstalt Seitz und 1919-21 Kunstgewerbeschule in St. Gallen. 1921-22 Schüler von Emil Orlik in Berlin ab 1922 an den Akad. de la Grande Chaumière Julian und André Lhote in Paris. V. begegnete 1930 Leopold Zborowski der zu seinem ersten Förderer wurde und ihm das Pseudonym V. vorschlug. 1932 kehrte er in die Schweiz zurück und liess sich in Zürich nieder. Ab 1963 lebte er hauptsächlich in Bondo. Ab den 1950er Jahren wurden ihm die ersten wichtigen Ausstellungen gewidmet u.a. im Kunsthaus Zürich und 1960 an der Biennale in Venedig. Sein in der realistisch-expressiven Tradition stehendes Werk enthüllt mit teilnehmender Ironie die Zerbrechlichkeit des Daseins indem es die Poesie der Dinge sprechen lässt und den Alltagsgegenstand aufwertet. V. schuf auch Porträts bedeutender Schweizer» HLS. 010 Zürich, Emil Matthieu, 1967 unknown
1945ref. 150388Paris: Willy Ronis 1945. Django and son Captivating and deeply compatissant image of Django with his young son Babik captured in 1945 by the celebrated French photographer Willy Ronis. At the time Django and his wife Naguine "were living in such a crummy cramped apartment in Paris Ronis was forced to shoot the image in a mirror to have space to capture them both" Dregni p. 102. Willy Ronis 1910-2009 "has been called 'the most poetic photographer of the menu peuple this century'. He travelled little preferring his native France better still his native Paris and best of all the patch around Belleville-Ménilmontant where he could photograph the local people of the 'popular classes' with whom he felt such a gentle affinity. Ronis was born in Paris the son of a Jewish refugee from Odessa who had a photographic studio near the Place de la Nation. His first love was music. He learned the violin and studied composition but his studies were interrupted in 1932 when his father fell ill and he took over the studio. He later claimed to find a resemblance between music and photography in 'the taste I have for composition particularly counterpoint. Many of my photographs are taken from above either looking down or up three planes in one image like three different melodies in a fugue which work together to give the piece structure and harmony'" The Guardian obituary. Distinguished jazz historian James Lincoln Collier remarks that Reinhardt is "without question the single most important guitarist in the history of jazz and probably would be named on most lists of all-time jazz greats. Despite a crippled left hand he had a solid technique; his melodic conception was formidable. and his ability to swing was immense". Original silver gelatin print image size: 316 x 260 mm sheet size: 400 x 305 mm verso with Ronis's studio wet stamp and pencilled inventory numbers. One or two minor creases otherwise in excellent condition. James Lincoln Collier The Making of Jazz: A Comprehensive History 1978; Michael Dregni Django Reinhardt and the Illustrated History of Gypsy Jazz 2006. unknown
1953ref. 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
1956ref. 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
ref. 12691 Album personnel de Willy Godenne, imprimeur à Malines et membre du Studio Novio avec le graphiste Jos Léonard. Il compte 83 travaux d'imprimerie et/ou publicitaire du Studio Novio, documents internes comme travaux réalisés pour d'autres comme le photographe René Malevez ou le sculpteur (!!) Willy Kessels, bientôt photographe également. Album oblong, 25,1 x 33,9 cm, couverture à motifs répétés imprimés + un ensemble de 15 feuillets. Malines, Godenne, [c. 1928] pour l'album.
ref. 12691 Album personnel de Willy Godenne, imprimeur à Malines et membre du Studio Novio avec le graphiste Jos Léonard. Il compte 83 travaux d'imprimerie et/ou publicitaire du Studio Novio, documents internes comme travaux réalisés pour d'autres comme le photographe René Malevez ou le sculpteur (!!) Willy Kessels, bientôt photographe également. Album oblong, 25,1 x 33,9 cm, couverture à motifs répétés imprimés + un ensemble de 15 feuillets. Malines, Godenne, [c. 1928] pour l'album.
ref. 2092902141701296Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
ref. 328855London: George G. Harrap. hardcover. fine. Pogany Willy. Beautifully illustrated by Willy Pogany with 16 tipped-in color plates and ornate marginal designs and initials printed in turquoise. Unpaginated. 8vo magnificently bound by Riviere & Son in full black crushed morocco with a large multi-color oval inset on the front cover depicting Eve in front of the apple tree with lurking snake the whole surrounded by an elaborate grape vine with leaves & fruit. The back cover has an identical oval enclosing a snake entwined around a gilt wine glass. The spine with raised bands is elaborately gilt as are the dentelles; all edges gilt. London: George G. Harrap no date circa 1935. An immaculate copy preserved in a cloth slipcase. George G. Harrap unknown
