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1979Best.-Nr. 216773Buffalo NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery 1979. First edition. Softcover. 94 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 14 through November 25 1997 in Buffalo and then traveled for additional dates. Features a foreword by Robert T. Buck Jr. a preface by Cecila Ascher and an essay by Willy Rotzler. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A clean near fine copy in wrappers. Albright-Knox Art Gallery unknown books
2002Best.-Nr. RFRAART00twSmoke and Fire News 2002. Very Good. Frankfort William. Wild Willy. The Artificer: A Horner's Sketchbook. An Illustrated Guide.Powder Horns.18th Century. Waterville Ohio: Smoke and Fire News 2002. 73pp. 4to. Comb bound. Book condition: Very good. Smoke and Fire News unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 171058New York: George Wittenborn 1957. Hardcover. Later printing. Text in German French and English. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. Page edges lightly foxed overall Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket with light foxing to the spine and a small bruise to the bottom left corner of the rear panel. George Wittenborn unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 170609London Zurich and New York: Gimpel Fils 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Sextodecimo. First Edition. Text in German and English. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. Produced in conjunction with a traveling exhibition of Willy Weber's work which ran from May 2 1973 through January 5 1974. 4.25 x 6 inches. Spine lightly faded else about Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. Gimpel Fils unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 208220Teufen Switzerland: Verlag Arthur Niggli Ag 1965. Oblong softcover. 128 pages. Text in German. Includes contributinso by Willy Verkauf Marcel Janco Richared Huelsenback Hans Richter and others. Includes numerous black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in wrappers with some light wear. Internally a clean copy. Verlag Arthur Niggli Ag unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 208412New York: Aperture 1975. Second printing. Oblong hardcover. The first major monograph from this important Czech photographer an extended photo essay on a marginalized group. Features an essay by Willy Guy. A very near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with some very light wear. A very nice copy of this important book. Parr & Badger v1 230. Aperture unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 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
2005Best.-Nr. 196681Koln: Taschen 2005. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 192 pages. Monograph on this underappreciated French photographer. Features text by Jean-Claude Gautrand in English French and German. Includes numerous black and white images. A clean and tight near fine copy with some slight bumping to the base of the spine and in a very near fine dust jacket. Taschen unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. 196620New York: Aperture 1975. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. The first major monograph from this important Czech photographer an extended photo essay on a marginalized group. Features an essay by Willy Guy. A very near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine first issue dust jacket with a small edge tear to the top of the front panel and some other very minor wear. A very nice copy of this important book. Parr & Badger v1 230. Aperture unknown books
1977Best.-Nr. 176699London: Gimpel Fils 1977. First edition. Small softcover. 16 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 28 through April 30 1977. Text by Willy Rotzler. Includes 12 black and white illustrations chronology and list of previous exhibitions. A close to near fine copy in stapled wrappers with a crease to the bottom rear corner and with a former owner's small artistic stamp to title page. Uncommon. Gimpel Fils unknown books
2010Best.-Nr. 173878New York: Aperture 2010. First edition. Softcover. 80 pages. Features articles on Roger Ballen by Walter Guadagnini Clare Butcher on Lucia Nimcova and an interview of Willy Ronis by Carol Naggar. A near fine copy in wrappers. Aperture unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 164770Paris: L'Egalntine 1932. First edition. Softcover. 316 pages. A partially unopened copy. Text by Albert Guislain accompanied by black and white photographs by Willy Kessels. A very good copy with some creasing to the spine and some other minor wear as well. A nicely printed book. L'Egalntine unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. 126391New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Frederick A. Blossom. Illustrations by J. O'H. Cosgrave II. A very good plus copy in orange cloth binding with some very slight soiling and a tiny bit of fraying to the spine ends. No dust jacket. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
1932Best.-Nr. 49762Leipzig: Hachmeister & Thal 1932. Hachmeister & Thal unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 1394289London: George G. Harrap 1930. Limited Edition #506/750. Hardcover. Quarto 171 5 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in publisher's full teal morocco red and gilt floral circular emblem on front cover. Spine paneled with gilt. Some fading to spine and extremities. Light shelfwear to extremities. Limited Edition #506/750 of the British Issue. Signed twice by Pogany as issued on the limitation page and in pencil on the frontispiece. With twelve tipped-in color plates small black and white tipped in decorative pieces and printed head and tail pieces. Shelved case 0. There are 750 copies for England and another 500 copies for the United States. 1394289. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. George G. Harrap hardcover books
1954Best.-Nr. 37433Zürich: Atlantis 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 253 pp. Text in German. With musical examples. Ex-library. Atlantis hardcover books
1939Best.-Nr. 37432Neuchatel: Aux Éditions de la Baconnière Neuchatel 1939. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. 315 pp. Ex-library. Second French edition. Aux Éditions de la Baconnière Neuchatel hardcover books
1961Best.-Nr. 37776Zürich: Orell Füssli 1961. Softcover. Very Good. Octavo. Illustrated wrappers printed in dark red and black. 22 pp. text 59 plates frontispiece. Subjects include Anda Ansermet Arrau Backhaus Barbirolli Beecham Brailowsky Buckel Caridis Casadesus Cassadò Cliburn Cluytens Curzon Cziffra de Vito Fischer Fournier Tsong Fricsay Giulini Gould Haas Haskil Horenstein Horszowski Iwaki von Karajan Keilberth Kempe Kempff Klemperer Kodály Konoje Kraus Krips Kubelik Maazel Matsuura Hephzibah and Yehudi Menuhin Milstein Mitropoulos Monteux Oistrakh Ormandy Rosbaud Rubinstein Sacher Schmidt-Isserstedt Schneiderhan and Seemann Schuricht Segovia Serkin Stader Stern Stravinsky Szell Szeryng Tebaldi and the Végh Quartett. Orell Füssli unknown books
1928Best.-Nr. 28945New York: Nelson 1928. Near fine. Signed limited first edition one of 500 numbered copies signed by Pogany. One of the most outstanding editions of Mother Goose illustrated by Pogany with unique full page color illustrations as well as many half-page color illustrations marvelous black and whites and silhouettes all in classic Art Deco style. Quite rare in the limited edition. 9'' x 7''. Original quarter cloth blue boards. Illustrated by Pogany in color and black-and-white cw: includes "Ten Little" rhyme with caricatured images of Black figures. Signed by Pogany on limitation page. A touch of wear to extremities faintest soil to top edge of front board. Nelson unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 35871Neuchatel: Baconnière 1947. Paperback. Good. Small quarto. Original publisher's ivory wrappers with titling in blue to upper and spine. 112 pp. With several illustrative plates. Browned. Baconnière paperback books
1910Best.-Nr. 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
1950Best.-Nr. 26328Celle. Köln: Hermann Moeck Verlag. Charly Oehl PN M.Ch.Oe.15 1950. Folio. Stapled. Original publisher's ivory and blue illustrated wrappers by Schlipphacke. 3 table of contents 4-22 pp. Publisher's imprint to verso of upper wrapper. Copyright notice "Copyright by Musikverlag Charly Oehl Köln. " to first page of every number. Without title. Wrappers slightly worn and soiled. Uniformly browned. First Edition of nine numbers from the operetta. Rare. Worldcat 2 copies only at the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Zentralbibliothek in Zurich. Richartz was a German composer and conductor who is remembered principally for operettas such as Die tauzende Helena 1941 film music and popular songs. [Hermann Moeck Verlag... Charly Oehl] [PN M.Ch.Oe.15] unknown books
Best.-Nr. 13888Pencil with india ink background on paper hinged to backing board. 1 vols. 7-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. Glue residue at bottom of image else fine. Pencil with india ink background on paper hinged to backing board. 1 vols. 7-1/4 x 5-1/2 in. A fully realized but unfinished drawing of a robed young man in a state of grace passing through a group of anguished writhing bodies. William Andrew Willy Pogany 1882-1955 was born in Hungary where he studied engineering. His success as a caricaturist led him to pursue a career in art first in London then in the United States. His influences were the Oriental artists and illuminated books and most of his career was devoted to book illustration. Among his many successes were The Rubaiyat Hungarian Fairy Book and Gulliver's Travels. He also painted murals created state settings did illustrations for most of the major magazines and exhibited widely over the course of a long career. Reed The Illustrator in America 1880-1980 p. 105 unknown books
1905Best.-Nr. 51305Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus 1905. First edition imperial 8vo pp. 2 xii 315 1; color frontispiece portrait 14 color plates128 illustrations in the text a number full-page mostly after paintings and watercolors by the author plus 1 folding plate; original beige buckram with a large color insert on the front cover; wear at the edges spine a bit soiled and slight cracking of the cloth on the rear joint; all else very good. An uncommon history of yachting in Germany with a section on The America's Cup as well as powerboats regattas and rules. F. A. Brockhaus unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 88005San Francisco: The Sunday Paper Inc 1972. First Edition. Tabloid 58cm; original color-pictorial newsprint wrappers; 8pp; illus. together with the 16pp supplement section printed in black & white laid in. Horizontal fold at center as issued very faint vertical bend with a small "For Machine Sale Only" sticker mounted to upper front wrapper; a bright Near Fine issue with a Near Fine supplement. Well-preserved issue of John Bryan's ambitious San Francisco weekly underground paper which appeared for only seven issues in early 1972. Each issue included a 2-page full-color section of comics and save for the final two issues which were abbreviated and most with an insert containing editorial contributions and advertisements. The editorial board included such underground all-stars as John Wilcock Chester Anderson and Diane DiPrima; comic contributions by Willy Murphy Gary Hallgren Justin Green and Bill Griffith whose earliest "Zippy" strips appear here. This issue contains contributions by Bill Griffith Willy Murphy Gary Hallgren Robin Morgan and others. 88005. The Sunday Paper, Inc unknown books
