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1913rif. 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
1966rif. 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
1934rif. 512205Philadelphia: David McKay Co 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 135pp. plus illustrations. Translated from the Sanskrit by Sir Edward Arnold. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Recipient's attractive contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. cloth is lightly rubbed lightly bumped at tips of two corners else a very good copy. Inscribed by Pogany on the half-title: "To Julietta with best compliments Willy Pogany 1935. David McKay Co hardcover books
1955rif. 459241New York: The Viking Press 1955. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Second printing. Octavo. 293pp. Illustrated by Olga Ley. Fine in in a lightly rubbed and spine-sunned near fine dustwrapper with a tiny abrasion at the base of the spine and a small stain on the lower panel. A nice copy. The Viking Press hardcover books
1928rif. 408810New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. Unpaged. Illustrated in color and black and white. Illustrated blue cloth gilt. Old shelf number on the spine else near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Thomas Nelson and Sons hardcover books
1983rif. 116059New York: Vantage Press 1983. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper. The dustwrapper has minor shelf rubbing to it. Vantage Press hardcover books
1969rif. 396950New York: McGraw-Hill 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Foxing on foredge and endpapers thus very good in modestly rubbed very good dust jacket. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1975rif. 376954London: Academy Editions 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Folio. 109pp. Black and white illustrations. Very slightly cocked with faint fading else near fine. Academy Editions hardcover books
1910rif. 377807London: ScribnerHutchinson & Co 1910. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Large octavo. 370; 6 ads pp. 27 illustrations including a photogravure frontispiece. Endpapers by Willy Pogany. Blue cloth gilt. Bookplate of Ivor G. Guest and light bookstore stamp both on the front pastedown and modest nicking at the crown very good. ScribnerHutchinson & Co hardcover books
1993rif. 363400London: Bill Kenwright Ltd 1993. Softcover. Very Good. Playscript. 70pp. Photocopied sheets clasped in blue textured wrappers with a die-cut window revealing the title. Very good with toning wear and tidemarks to the front wrappers and first page. From the 1993 Broadway production at The Music Box of this Olivier Award-winning musical directed by Bill Kenwright and Bob Tomson starring Petula Clark David Cassidy and Shaun Cassidy. Signed by Shaun Cassidy Barbara Walsh and one other cast member. Bill Kenwright Ltd unknown books
1907rif. 324678Berlin: Marquardt & Company 1907. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good with some wear at the spine ends and corners light soiling spine is darkened. Marquardt & Company hardcover books
1975rif. qms143Hamburg: Verlag Paul Parey 1975. Octavo green cloth hardcover 228 pp. Near-Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket with faint rubbing along edges. From jacket: Das Buch des letzten Wildmeisters der Fursten von PleB ist 1968 mit dem Literaturpreis des Deutschen Jagdschutz-Verbandes ausgezeichnet worden. Diese Wurdigung galt der fur die Jagdhistorik wie fur die Jagdpraxis gleich bedeutsamen und aufschluBreichen Darstellung derbewundernswerten Hegeerfolge die man in dem einst beruhmtesten Rotwildgebiet im Sudosten Deutschlands erzielt hat. Verlag Paul Parey, (1975). hardcover books
1971rif. 274009London: Oswald Wolff 1971. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. Translated from the German by R.W. Last. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with minimal wear. Oswald Wolff hardcover books
1920rif. 75775London: George G. Harrap 1920. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Later printing. Green cloth stamped in blue. Sixteen mounted color plates by Willy Pogany. Tiny ink mark front fly else fine in near fine price-clipped dustwrapper with some very shallow chips at the extremities. A handsome copy of an attractive volume. George G. Harrap hardcover books
rif. 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
1920rif. 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
1943rif. 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
1932rif. 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
1905rif. 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
1964rif. 13688New York: Fuck You Press 1964. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. The cover is by Allen Ginsberg and the work a pamphlet of 12 staplebound pages in 3 paper colors was produced on a mimeograph in an edition of 500 copies though apparently a significant number were destroyed by the mimeo. Originally intended for inclusion in The Yage Letters it was considered so obscene it was cut by the English printers. An earlier version appeared in the journal Floating Bear 1961 before Ed Sanders printed this separate edition. Maynard & Miles A9 A handsome copy. Minor shelf/edge wear else tight bright and unmarred. Printed pink wraps and pink blue and white papper texkblock. Limited edition of 500 copies. Fuck You Press unknown books
1930rif. 10623London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd 1930. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited Edition. Hardcover. There are two iterations of this edition 750 in the British issue and another 500 for the United States. Each signed twice by Pogany first on the limitation page and then in pencil on the frontispiece etching. The work includes twelve tipped-in color plates mounted on tipped in backings numerous small tipped in decorative pieces braced with printed head and tail pieces. This was Pogany's second book for Harrap an earlier version of the same title printed in 1909 having established his reputation as a book illustrator. Pogany is said to have creditted Harrap for giving him his "first big chance." Minor shelf/edge wear spine evenly sunned else tight bright and unmarred. Full teal leather binding four raised bands gilt lettering and decorative elements red ink decorative element lightly marbled endpages frontispiece tipped in plates on mounts teg. 4to. 173pp. Illus. color and b/w plates. Signed twice by the artist. Numbered limited edition this being 387 of 750. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd hardcover books
1986rif. 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
1962rif. 629010Zürich: Conzett & Huber 1962. Softcover. Near Fine. No. 251. Tall quarto. Measuring 9¾" x 12¾". 68pp. Illustrated see below. Two-page introduction in English the remainder of the text in German. Printed wrappers with light wear and the rear cover a trifle soiled near fine. Notable for nicely reproducing a collection of Frank's photographs 32 photos-half from The Americans- and two pages of film stills with texts by Willy Rotzler and Hugo Loetscher as well as a collection of color photographs by Harry Callaghan. We also note a couple of Steinberg drawings for what it's worth. Conzett & Huber) unknown books
1981rif. 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
1979rif. 74101NY: Albright-Knox Gallery 1979. First edition. 94 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Color and b&w reproductions. NY: Albright-Knox Gallery unknown books
