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ref. 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
1972ref. 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
1972ref. 88003San Francisco: The Sunday Paper Inc 1972. First Edition. Tabloid 58cm; original color-pictorial newsprint wrappers; 8pp; illus. Horizontal fold at center as issued else a bright very Near Fine copy. Early 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 features comics by Trina Robbins Willy Murphy and others with a black & white psychedelic centerfold spread and a portion dedicated the late Kenneth Patchen with a poem in his memory by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The Sunday Paper, Inc unknown books
1972ref. 88006San 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 some very subtle toning to extremities else a bright Near Fine copy. Supplement has some foxing at folds and some old faint dampstaining at upper and lower edge; Very Good or better. Final 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. 88006. The Sunday Paper, Inc unknown books
1913ref. 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
1993ref. 9028715Freiburg: Universitatsverlag Freiburg Schweiz 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Paradosis: Beitrage zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur und Theologie XXXVI. Publications de la Faculte de Theologie de L'Universite de Neuchatel - Suisse XI. Bound in publisher's original ivory paper with spine and cover stamped in maroon and cover double-ruled in maroon. A few small marks on spine otherwise fine. Universitatsverlag Freiburg Schweiz hardcover books
1957ref. 9027664Boston: Boston Book & Art Shop 1957. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Cloth dust jacket 187 pp. Boston Book & Art Shop hardcover books
1950ref. 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
1978ref. 9011784Boston: Little Brown 1978. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities. Little, Brown hardcover books
1930ref. 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
1986ref. 20552Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget 1986. Hardcover. Octavo 22.5 cm pp. 1373. Blue cloth boards no jacket. Endpapers are a map of the North Sea. Light edge wear and smudging. Kunnskapsforlaget hardcover books
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2005ref. UREESTR00fpFarrar Straus and Giroux 2005. Good. Reese Willy Peter. A Stranger to Myself. The Inhumanity of War: Russia 1941-1944. Hofmann Michael. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2005. xxv 176pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Good. Some red underlining in text. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Light rubbing to extremities. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover books
1920ref. 32219New York: Macmillan Company 1920. Very Good/Very Good-. New York: Macmillan Company 1920 1929 Reissue. Octavo; publisher's cloth pictorial endpapers in white pictorial dust jacket retaining original price $2.50; ix1282pp.; color frontispiece three leaves of plates collated complete. Jacket rather chipped and worn along margins with shallow losses at spine ends slightly affecting text moderate foxing to jacket and endpapers contemporary ownership signature and address pressure-stamp to front free endpaper else a Very Good sound copy. "The Children's Book of Northern Myths" jacket spine reprised by the Irish poet and novelist Padraic Colum with the vibrant illustrations of Willy Pogany. Macmillan Company unknown books
1943ref. 541653Philadelphia: David McKay Company 1943. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Quarto. 196pp. Green cloth. Illustrated in color and in black and white. Fine in just about fine dust jacket. Scarce in jacket. David McKay Company hardcover books
1932ref. 18586Philadelphia: David McKay 1932. First edition thus. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth silver front cover panel with cloth inset illustrated by Pogany. Fine. 192 pages. 25 x 20 cm. Illustrated in black and white by Will Pogany. Signed presentation copy "To Herbert Morrison from his old friend Hollywood 1937." Morrison Life Peer Baron Morrison of Lambeth was a member of the Labour Party serving as Foreign Secretary 1951 and as a Deputy Prime Minister. During World War II he served as Home Secretary. Morrison also created the London greenbelt system and was responsible for the unified London transport system. Crisp fresh and very bright copy. No dust jacket but believe not issued by publisher. David McKay hardcover books
1966ref. 466823New York: Viking Press 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Reprint. Some offsetting on the first and last couple of leaves from an old tape repair very good in good only dust jacket with old tape remnants on the flaps. Viking Press hardcover books
1981ref. 90967NY: Harlin Quist 1981. First trade paperback printing. Small 4to. 173 pp w/chronology & list of exhibitions. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Full color reproductions of Evans’ invented postage stamps for imaginary countries. NY: Harlin Quist paperback books
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 books
1928ref. 25629Garden City NY: Doubleday Doran and Company 1928. Decorative Cloth. Very Good /Very Good -. Willy Pogany. The 1928 stated 1st edition of this wonderful collection of Hungarian folk tales. Solid and VG very light rubbing at the front panel and spine in a bright price-intact $5.00 VG- to VG dustjacket with light chipping along the spine crown and the rear panel's edges. Mild soiling as well at both panels. Still though very presentable. And filled with the 20 striking Willy Pogany illuistrations 8 of them in rich color complementing Rosika Schwimmer's text. Doubleday, Doran and Company unknown books
1928ref. 19621New York: Thomas Nelsonand Sons 1928. Boards. Very Good. Willy Pogany. THE 1928 SIGNED/LIMITED #89 OF 500 COPIES SIGNED BY WILLY POGANY at the limitation. Solid and VG in its 1/4 navy-blue cloth over light-blue boards with a clean bright title-label to the front panel. Light scuffing to the panels light wear along the tips and the spine ends --and a partially-torn spine label. Internally beautifully-designed endpapers and magnificent Pogany color illustrations as well as silhouettes and marginalia at virtually every page. Very light soiling and several minor chips not affecting the plates at a few of the lower-edges tender but still perfectly sturdy inner hinges half-title/frontispiece page loose. Octavo beautiful late '20s illustrations in a number of cases with a strong Deco feel. Thomas Nelsonand Sons unknown books
1911ref. 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
1913ref. 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
1980ref. 617478Camden Maine: International Marine Publishing Company 1980. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition. Translated by Bruce Penman. Foreword by Rear-Admiral G.S. Ritchie. 208pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. A spot on the top page edge else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a crease on the rear panel. International Marine Publishing Company hardcover books
1968ref. 596572Oxford: Oxford University Press 1968. Softcover. Fine. Periodical. Small quarto. 6pp. 79-115pp. 10pp. Sewn wrappers. Fine. Containing "Rupert Brooke: Man and Monument" by Timothy Rogers "The Novels Foreshadowed: Some Recurring Themes in Early Poems by William Golding" by Cecil W. Davies "Created Creative" by Michael Paffard. Poetry by Peter Scupham Joan Warburg and Christopher Wiseman. Reviews on John Keats Byron and Shelley William Blake and more. Oxford University Press unknown books