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1934réf. 425772Philadelphia: David McKay Company 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto. Illustrated with gravure plates designed by Willy Pogany. Publisher’s black cloth stamped in silver on the spine and front cover with a gravure plate mounted on the front board. Small inscription in ink dated 1934 on the front free endpaper. A near fine copy in very good publisher’s plastic sleeve housed in the original publisher’s cardbox box with two printed paper labels. Both the box top and bottom are splitting at the corners and sides the bottom of the box is lacking one side piece; else a handsome near fine copy of this classic illustrated edition. David McKay Company hardcover books
1934réf. 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
1930réf. 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
réf. 324971London: George G. Harrap. hardcover. very good. Pogany Willy. Beautifully illustrated with 16 tipped-in color plates by Willy Pogany and with decorative turquoise borders and initials on every page. Unpaginated. 8vo publisher's elaborately gilt and blind-stamped brown calf binding. London: George G. Harrap no date circa 1932. Handsome ex-libris on inside front cover; slight toning on endpapers and light foxing throughout else a near fine copy. George G. Harrap unknown books
1910réf. 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
1910réf. 6398London: George G. Harrap & Co. 1910. Good. 33cm; 144 pages. Polychrome half title and title page. Twenty full color illustrations by Pogàny printed by Dalziel and mounted. Numerous full-page monochrome illustrations and illustrations in text. Letterpress and Initials in two colors surrounded by elaborate borders designed and printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son. Decorated endleaves following blanks. In gilt-stamped brown leather. Covers worn at spine and at extremities somewhat stained and mottled yet sound and entire. Pages quite clean and unmarred. Edition limited to 525 copies SIGNED by Willy Pogány. George G. Harrap & Co. hardcover books
réf. 183961New York: George H. Doran Co not identified. Hardcover. Fair heavy shelfwear to boards foxing spots mainly to end papers soiling to bottom block extending slightly to bottom of some pages previous owner's name inside front ffep text and illustrations are otherwise clear. Brown paper boards with green cloth spine gilt lettering on spine; top edge gilt color illustrated title and half title page ornamental borders; unpaginated; profusely illustrated throughout in bw and color with many mounted color plates. Presented by Willy Pogany. A classic Coleridge poem. George H. Doran Co hardcover books
1910réf. 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
1910réf. 140938515London: George Harrap 1910. First THUS. Very Good. Limited edition of 525 copies hand-numbered 91 in blue signed by illustrator Willy Pogany. Quarto. Original full tan calf decorated in gilt illustrated with 20 beautiful tipped-in color plates top edge gilt. Unpaginated. Very Good with scratch in front cover wear along edges of leather internally near fine bookplate ghost on paste down. All plates present. A wonderful visual exploration of Coleridge's classic poem with intricate ink illustrations and every plate a hazy dream-like wash of color. George Harrap unknown books
1947réf. 2330191Basle Switzerland: Amerbach Publishing Comp 1947. Full-Leather. Near Fine/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Rebound in full leather originally published in printer wrappers which are not included here. Pages lightly toned boards lightly rubbed and slightly discolored with a golden tinge to the red on both front and back possibly transfer from another binding or document but this seems unlikely given the color. 1947 Full-Leather. 11 1 24 pp. Red leather marbled endpapers. A short volume providing historical context for the imagery contained in the Weingartner manuscript along with color reproductions of all 24 figures. The Weingarten Manuscript German Weingartner Liederhandschrift is a 14th-century illuminated manuscript containing a collection of Minnesang lyrics. It is currently in the Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart with the shelf-mark HB XIII 1. In Minnesang scholarship it is referred to as Manuscript B. Along with the Codex Manesse MS. C and the Kleine Heidelberger Liederhandschrift MS. A it is one of the major sources of Minnesang texts from the beginnings around 1150 to the end of the 'golden age' around 1230. Amerbach Publishing Comp hardcover books
1994réf. 195750New York: Simon & Schuster 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover and dust jacket both a nice clean copy like new. Simon & Schuster hardcover books
1932réf. 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
1934réf. 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
1935réf. 56641New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1935. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First American edition. Illustrated by J. O'H. Cosgrave II. Tiny stain to the edge of a couple of pages and the delicate green binding very slightly sunned still fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear and very slight soiling. A lovely copy. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1943réf. 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
1943réf. 504542Philadelphia: David McKay Company 1943. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Quarto. 196pp. Green cloth. Illustrated in color and in black and white. Near fine in very good or better price-clipped dust jacket. Scarce in jacket. David McKay Company hardcover books
1956réf. 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 books
1920réf. 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
1914réf. 26008523New York: Henry Holt & Co 1914. Litho on board concertina or accordion book. The front side has sixteen illustrations with a story caption at the base. The reverse includes a two page pictorial map of the Polar Region followed by 14 pp. of text. Letterpress by Lionel Fable. Measures 6" x 5 1/4". Cover wear. Henry Holt & Co unknown books
1983réf. 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
1913réf. 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
1911réf. 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
1911réf. 24698London: Harrap & Co 1911. leather_bound. Full brown leather front cover decorated in blind. Teg. Very good. Unpaginated. 29 x 20 cm. Limited edition copy 160 of 525 signed by Pogany. With 16 full page tipped-in color plates and numerous intertextual plates in rose and black on light gray stock. Within the later are full page and myriad accompanying illustrations. This work is based on two German legends: Tannhäuser the mythologized medieval German Minnesänger and poet and the tale of the Wartburg Song Contest. Decorated endpapers. Small owner inscription dated 1918 front cover pastedown. Interior contents brilliant and clean. Harrap & Co unknown books
1988réf. 597687London: Methuen 1988. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First hardcover edition. Ownership stamp on front fly slight bumping at the spine ends else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with tiny nicks and moderate wear at the spine ends. Originally published as a paperback original. Methuen hardcover books
1942réf. 207213Modern age books 1942-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. First Edition. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards spine color has minor fading of color. Clean has a good binding. Name date and place are written on the front free endpaper- no other marks or notations. Modern age books hardcover books
