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1966ref. 623417New York: The Viking Press 1966. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Third printing. 529pp. Black and white illustrations. Fine in a very good dust jacket with toning and short tears. Bookplate and owner name of American psychologist Henry Guze a cofounder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex on the front free endpaper. The Viking Press 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
1966ref. 191733New York: The Viking Press 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Third printing with new material. Small quarto. 529pp. Surface stain on page topedges owner name stamped on front fly else very good in a very good age-toned dust jacket with short tears on spine ends. The Viking Press hardcover books
1982ref. 26822London: Robinson & Watkins. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0722402090 . Forty color plates. First British edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. . Robinson & Watkins hardcover books
1989ref. 208957Basel: Galerie Beyeler 1989. Softcover. VG. Light shelfwear to acetate otherwise clean and unmarked. Quarto. Softcover. Illustrated wraps with black titles in acetate jacket. 74 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm. English and Gernan text. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Galerie Beyeler July-Sept. 1989./ English and German. Galerie Beyeler paperback books
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
1928ref. RGROWID00RJBHermann Grosse Maschinenfabrik und Eisengiesserei 1928. Very Good. Grosse Hermann. Widmung aus Anlas unseres funfzigjahrigen Bestehens. Grosse Willy; Grosse Richard. Greiz Germany: Hermann Grosse Maschinenfabrik und Eisengiesserei 1928. 223pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Book condition: Very good with gently bumped edges and a few small stains on covers. Ex-library with contemporary paper call-number stickers affixed at foot and inkstamps to title-page recto and verso. German-language content only celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of a printing firm specializing in both cloth and paper printing. Hermann Grosse Maschinenfabrik und Eisengiesserei hardcover books
1941ref. 28328Berlin: Sonderdruck der "Deutschen Tanz-Zeitschrift 1941. First edition. Softcover. g. Octavo. 79 1pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Fascinating handbook on Tap Dancing profusely illustrated with 11 full-page b/w photographic reproductions depicting a dancer's technique. Minor rubbing along edges of wrappers. Moderate age-toning throughout. Text in German. Wrappers and interior in overall good to very good condition. Sonderdruck der "Deutschen Tanz-Zeitschrift unknown books
1928ref. 8498New York. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1928. Bound in elaborate high art deco pictorial gilt decorated cloth. Pictorial endsheets depicting stylized alphabet. t.e.g. 8vo 8.5" x 6". Fourth Printing. Marvelously Illustrated throughout with high art deco colour and monochrome plates drawings vignettes and decorations by Pogany. Widely regarded as the quintessential example of high art deco illustration Pogany's mother goose has delighted collectors of this genre for many years. Copies of the first edition have grown exceediungly scarce particularly in this condition. A true delight of art deco extravagance. Head and tailpiece a bit rubbed with tailpiece a bit frayed. Short tear to ffep and half title else a Near Fine crisp copy. Thomas Nelson and Sons. hardcover books
1928ref. 8288New York. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1928. Bound in elaborate high art deco pictorial gilt decorated cloth. Pictorial endsheets depicting stylized alphabet. t.e.g. 8vo 8.5" x 6". First Edition. This copy signed in ink by Pogany to half title page. This copy also includes a nine page publishers publicity insert and titled "Willy Pogany and His Work". Marvelously Illustrated throughout with high art deco colour and monochrome plates drawings vignettes and decorations by Pogany. Widely regarded as the quintessential example of high art deco illustration Pogany's Mother Goose has delighted collectors of this genre for many years. Signed first edition copies have grown exceedingly scarce. A true delight of art deco extravagance. Some light staining to covers. Sporadic light water staining to edge of front pastedown and several pages. Mild sporadic foxing throughout. A slight hint of storage mustiness. A Very Good tight bright copy in a somewhat chipped Very Good rare original dustwrapper. Thomas Nelson and Sons. hardcover books
1928ref. 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
1928ref. 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
1928ref. 07541Willy Pogany'S MOTHER GOOSE Thomas Nelson & Sons 1928 first edition light rubbing to corner tips else a bright vg copy. Profusely illustrated in full color. Thomas Nelson & Sons unknown books
2000ref. 57025NY:: SeaStar Books Books of Wonder. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1587170264 . First printing thus. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . SeaStar Books (Books of Wonder), hardcover 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
1954ref. 115854New York NY: David McKay Company Inc 1954. Hardcover. VG as new. Lt. Blue Cloth over boards; color pictorial dj; 64 pp; 10 color & 10 bw plates; numerous color & bw figures. All you need to know in order to create your own oil painting masterpiece. David McKay Company, Inc hardcover books
1991ref. 2222367First edition. Small octavo. Illustrated with 56 b/w photographs. Text in English and Japanese. Original boards. No dust jacket. Very good. Unpaginated. No signatures or bookplates. Designed by Tomohiro Itami and Masataka Horiki. Published by Taro Kaneda. Treville Co., Ltd. hardcover books
1985ref. 16875No Place: Association Francaise Pour La Diffusion Du Patrimoine Photographique 1985. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. Seven pages of text in French 92 pages of plates.Wraps slightly rubbed and soiled; internally fine. Association Francaise Pour La Diffusion Du Patrimoine Photographique paperback books
1999ref. 209938Trezelan France: Filigranes Editions 1999. Softcover. VG. Octavo. Sofcover. die cut maroon wraps with grey titles. Non paginé 32 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. French text. Published on the occasion of the exhibition presented at the Espace Sextius Aix-en-Provence from October 11 to November 5 1999. Filigranes Editions paperback books
2005ref. 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
1973ref. 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
