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FARKAS, Lidia & POHARNOK, Zoltan (illustrators)Biblio.com

Sly Mike: A Hungarian Story

1935ref. 277439Budapest: George Vajna 1935. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Translated by Frances Shires. Ten original colored etchings by Lidia Farkas and Zoltan Poharnok. Thin 8vo unpaged bound in linen with an embroidered decoration. Budapest: Dr. George Vajna & Co. n.d. ca.1935. Limited Edition. Number 103 of 250 copies signed by both artists. The etchings are printed by hand-press and are hand-colored. Small damp-stain on the upper corner of the binding otherwise a fine copy of this exquisite and quite rare book printed in Hungary. George Vajna unknown

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AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817), [DOBSON, Austin, introduction], [BROCK, CE and THOMSON, H, illustrators] C EBiblio.com

Complete Novels Collection: Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Northanger Abbey and Persuasion Mansfield Park and Emma. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and Hugh Thomson

ref. 73286London: Macmillan and Co. 1898-1903. Classic English Literature LEATHER-BOUND SET each being a reprint thus illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 20 x 14 x 18cm. With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice and Hugh Thomson for the all the other titles. Recently bound in burgundy half morocco with raised bands gilt titles to twin navy labels and marbled paper over boards. Top edges gilt. A single worm-hole to 'Northanger Abbey and Persuasion' volume otherwise a crisp clean set in an attractive new leather binding. Book Collector No.271 'The Great Illustrators'. London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1903 unknown

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AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817), [DOBSON, Austin, introduction], [BROCK, CE and THOMSON, H, illustrators] C EBiblio.com

Complete Novels Collection: Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Northanger Abbey and Persuasion Mansfield Park and Emma. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and Hugh Thomson

ref. 72148London: Macmillan and Co. 1906-1910. Classic English Literature Illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Early printings in PUBLISHER'S LEATHER. Octavo 20 x 14 x 18cm. With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice and Hugh Thomson for the all the other titles. Bound in full green limp morocco with gilt to spine gilt floral endpapers a.e.g. with rounded corners. Although unmarked this binding is almost certainly a commercial 'deluxe' binding offered by Macmillan. Contents fine no inscriptions. Fragile leather worn to spine ends as expected joints a little rubbed. A very good set and a rare survival in these bindings. Book Collector No.271 'The Great Illustrators'. London: Macmillan and Co., 1906-1910 unknown

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Surtees Robert Smith. John Leech and Hablot K. Brown illustratorsABAA

Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds in parts

1865ref. 3790London: Bradbury & Evans 1865. First edition. Third issue with Part I's title Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds in solid lettering in the original twelve monthly parts May 1864-April 1865. Octavo 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 in; 223 x 144 mm.Collating vi 2 391 1 with twenty-four hand-colored steel-engraved plates two to each volume heightened with gum arabic. The illustrations to Parts VIII-XII are unsigned but by Hablot K. Brown aka "Phiz." The woodcut on the upper wrapper is by Hablot K. Brown. Advertisements collate per Schwerdt save Part VI which lacks the Note of Lever's Martin and Part VII lacking the slip for The Belle of the Village. Publisher's original red-brown pictorial wrappers. Minimal restoration of spines to a few volumes tiny chip to fore- edge of Part I otherwise an excellent and quite lovely set. Chemised and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. "Although Surtees approached his publishers in July 1861 with the idea of bringing out 'Mr. Facey Romford' they preferred not to undertake the matter until Mr. Leech's services were definitely secured and there would be no questoin of such delays as had occurred in the illustrations of 'Handley Cross.' Leech promised however to being in January 1862 and the situation seemed sufficiently secure to set up the type but just at this time the artist held his first exhibition of oil paintings which proved so successful and diverting that the 'Facey Romford' illustrations were again postponed. Surtees in despair at last offered the book in August 1864 to The Field where is was refused. In March of that year Leech finally undertook the drawings but never lived to complete the work which was carried on byPhiz" Field. Field 225. Tooley 475. Schwerdt II 237. Podeschi 207. Bradbury & Evans unknown books

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Surtees, Robert Smith John Leech and Hablot K Brown (illustrators)Biblio.com

Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds in parts

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Schwerner, Armand and Arthur Thrall and Walter Hamady (illustrators)Biblio.com

Triumph of the Will. Signed.

ref. 51-2545Mount Horeb Wisconsin: Perishable Press Walter Hamady 1976 . Original handmade paper covers. 20 x 19 cm cm. 24 page surfaces 12 printed. Edition of 150 signed and numbered copies. Fine.Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited no. 77.Walter Hamady born 1940 is an American artist book designer papermaker poet and teacher. He is especially known for his innovative efforts in letterpress printing bookbinding and papermaking exemplified in the productions of The Perishable Press Limited and the Shadwell Papermill founded by Hamady in the mid-1960s. In 1966 Hamady joined the faculty of the University of Wisconsin Madison where he would teach papermaking letterpress printing and bookbinding for more than three decades. Mount Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press (Walter Hamady), 1976 unknown

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VASNETSOV, Vasiliy; ZAMIRAILO, V D (illustrators); PUSHKIN, AlexanderBiblio.com

Pesn' o Veshchem Olege: K stoletiyu o dnia rozhdeniia Pushkina 26 Maia 1899 god. The Song of Wise Oleg.

ref. 93361Eksp. zagotov. gos. bumag Skt. Peterburg 1899. . Small folio 33 x 23 cm. 6 accordion-folded leaves with a printed page as front cover and another as rear cover chromolithographed illustrations throughout; light spotting and soiling mostly on the external flaps. a fine example of one of Vasnetsov's most famous illustrated works published to commemorate the anniversary of Pushkin's birth. The Song of Wise Oleg is based on a chronicle by Nikolay Karamzin and remains one of the most well-known Russian poems of all time. Illustrated in the style of a medieval manuscript it is richly embellished with head and tail pieces and decorated initials. The Song became a turning point in the development of the book as an integrated art form and was presented at the International Exhibition for Book Printing and Graphics in 1914. Kilgour 897; Seslavinskiy Girlianda 189. Eksp. zagotov. gos. bumag, Skt. Peterburg, [1899]. unknown

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Illustrators include Cham Victor Eeckhout H. Borremans van Cuyck Gerlier F. Stroobant J. Van de Putte Baldisseroni de NeABAA

Album D'Ostende

ref. 001956Bruges and Ostende: J. Buffa. Half Morocco . Very Good. Cham Victor Eeckhout H. Borremans van Cuyck Gerlier F. Stroobant J. Van de Putte Baldisseroni de Nestele spellings of these names somewhat elastic. N.d. circa 1860. A fabulous collection of hand-colored plates of the popular Belgian beach resort with a mix of character studies mostly of the local non-fashionable citizenry humorous genre scenes and views of the beach the architecture the beachgoers the sea. 52 plates in all all but one of which is hand-colored the final plate is a folding tinted panorama of the beach looking in from the sea . Some of the beach scenes are evocative of Boudin. The mix of humor and more sober portraits lends a balance from which we can better approximate the culture and atmosphere at this early destination resort. And through the pictures we can sense the uneasy embrace of the vacationing bathers with the sea. The colored plates are all 13.5 by 10 inches or 34 by 25 cm including their margins. The plates are mostly clean but there is some finger soiling and the like in the margins and a few plates have chips and small chunks of card missing never affecting the images. Rebacked with attractive green morocco. The contemporary cloth boards are soiled with a few minor edge dings. No title and no evidence there ever was one. J. Buffa unknown books

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CHICHAGOVA, G D, CHICHAGOVA, OD (illustrators); SMIRNOV, N G O DBiblio.com

Chto iz Chego What out of What.

ref. 120600Moscow Zemlia i Fabrika ZIF 1927. . Sole edition 4to 28.5 x 21.8 cm; illustrations throughout some repairs to gutter and spine; original illustrated wrappers small loss of paper to lower corner a very good copy. A scarce Constructivist children's book illustrated by the Chichagova sisters. The sisters Galina and Olga studied at the Stroganov Academy until 1917 and in 1920 joined Vkhutemas under the tutelage of Rodchenko. They worked together on all of their book illustrations and remained keen advocates of the Constructivist movement. OCLC lists just two copies at Princeton and the University of Pensylvania. Moscow, Zemlia i Fabrika [ZIF], [1927]. unknown

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Sezille, L-P Illustrators: M Mercier, Maurice Meslin and Andre Popot Pochoir by Jean SaudeBiblio.com

Devantures de Boutiques; 48 Planches Publiées sous la Direction et Avec une Introduction de L.-P. Sézille. Collection Documentaire d'Art Moderne

1927ref. 007641Paris: Éditions Albert Lévy 1927. First edition. Portfolio. Ribbon tie. Paper pastedown on boards. Very Good Plus. Beautiful folio of Parisian shop windows epitomizing the pinnacle of Art Deco design. Folio 33 by 26 cm. 12 pp. including introduction and table of contents followed by 48 plates of Parisian shop windows from the 1920s each on a heavy card stock. 24 of the 48 plates are pochoir color plates executed by the great master of the pochoir print Jean Saudé. The shops depicted are of a wide variety: perfumeries furriers jewelers furniture stores ceramic or china stores hatters hair salons etc. With each the designers is credited. The folio was intended to make the case for modern design and one can not deny it succeeded magnificently. Condition: The cloth on the spine is torn the entire length both front and rear joint with fraying and the board beneath revealed. The top of the spine also has layers of lower cardboard meant to be hidden now exposed and fanning slightly outward. Light soiling of the paper pastedown on the portfolio boards but much of this can be erased if one applies oneself. Plates are generally clean and bright. Éditions Albert Lévy unknown

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Cassin, John; White, George G; Hitchcock, William E (illustrators)Biblio.com

Illustrations of the Birds of California Texas Oregon British and Russian America. Intended to Contain Descriptions and Figures of all North American Birds Not Given by Former American Authors and a General Synopsis of North American Ornithology

1856ref. 640978J. B. Lippincott and Co 1856. First Edition. Leather Binding. Very Good. First Edition. 7.25 x 10.5 in. 298pp. with 50 lithographic plates printed and colored by J.T. Bowen some finished by hand after drawings by George G. White and drawings on stone by William E Hitchcock complete and all accounted for Rebound in 3/4 brown calf over brown cloth spine with dark brown leather label gilt ruling and date at foot. A Very Good copy text has some foxing and dampstain to lower margin of text which has the very faintest visibility to lower margins of some plates not affecting images. // One of the cornerstones of American ornithological literature first issued in 10 parts with the preface contents and index appearing in this first full edition of 1856. As set forth in the preface the work was 'to be regarded in some measure as an addition to the works of former authors in American Ornithology but at the same time complete in itself.' Cassin especially sought to describe birds not known to Audubon. Sabin 11369; Sitwell p 85; Wood p 281; Zimmer p 124. J. B. Lippincott and Co unknown

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Antson Aleksander; Peet Aren Mart Laarman and Jaan Vahtra illustratorsABAA

Epigrammid Epigrams I II and III all published

ref. 48566Tallinn: "Aktsiooni" Kirjastus 1927-1933. Octavos 16.3 x 12.5 cm. Original pictorial wrappers by Peet Aren Märt Laarman and Jaan Vahtra; 28 4; 60 4; and 63 I pp. Very good or better. Antson 1899-1945 was an Estonian teacher journalist and writer who participated in the "Aktsioon" "Action" literary group and co-published the eponymous series of almanacs 1926 1927 and 1929. In addition to his travel writing Antson was known for his plays which were often leftist and pacifist in orientation. Much of his work was influenced by expressionism and detailed the horrors of war and revolution. This collection of satirical epigrams in three volumes published over six years a final fourth volume appeared in 1946 takes sharp aim at the literary cultural but also political establishment not only in Estonia but in Europe at large witness the "Hitler" epigram in the 1933 collection!. The set also represents a striking cross-section of Estonian modernist design of the late 1920s with one wrapper each designed by Peet Aren 1889-1970 Märt Laarman 1896-1979 and Jaan Vahtra 1882-1947. Laarman was one of the outstanding followers of cubism and constructivism in Estonia. His "numerous book-covers and illustrations present the possibilities of applying such a method in the field of book graphics that is based upon the constructive rhythm of simple and expressive planes. Moreover Laarman was the first to apply the principles of Elementary Typography new at that time in the design of architectonically expressive and homogeneous books" Rein Loodus 21. In addition to his own work Laarman was also instrumental in furthering public awareness of avantgarde art: "Laarman edited and published The Book of New Art 1928 the group's programmatic almanac which helped the public develop a better understanding of the avant-garde" Art of the Baltics 38. Rare; KVK OCLC show a single copy of vol. I at Göttingen of vol. 2 at Helsinki and of vol. 3 at UCLA. unknown books

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Fielding Theodore Henry and J. Walton illustratorsABAA

A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes Containing a Description of the Most Romantic Scenery of Cumberland Westmoreland and Lancashire with Accounts of Antient and Modern Manners and Customs and Elucidations of the History and Antiquities of That Part of the Country &c. &c.

1821ref. 003813London: R. Ackermann 1821. First edition. Contemporary Full Morocco. Very Good. 4to. 34 by 29 cm. vi 2 286 pp. Hand-colored title vignette and 48 hand-colored engraved plates. The plates capture the poetic beauty of the legendary lake region exquisitely. TEG. Moderate rubbing to contemporary red morocco along edges faint dampstain markings and a few other scuffs and other indicia of wear but still a very handsome binding. Dampstaining to the edges of the endpapers. Foxing of a few early leaves as well as the final ones. Faint dampstaining affecting the margins of perhaps a dozen plates and also visible in the fore-edge when the pages are fanned. However most leaves are clean and the plates themselves come off generally as quite fresh and vibrant. R. Ackermann unknown books

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Adhemar, Jean (Robert Cami, Rene Cottet, Albert Decaris, Robert Jeannisson, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, and Paul Lemagny, illustrators)Biblio.com

La Gravure sur Cuivre. Estampes gravees par Robert Cami Rene Cottet Albert Decaris Robert Jeannisson Kiyoshi Hasegawa "Bouquet sur fond de dentelle" and Paul Lemagny

ref. 3086Angers: Editions Jacques-Petit 1945. WITH ONE OF KIYOSHI HASEGAWA'S MOST IMPORTANT PRINTS. 12 pp. plus 6 loose engravings. A monograph on engraving followed by short biographies of each of the six artists accompanied by a suite of six large engravings one each by Cami Cottet Decaris Jeannisson Hasegawa and Lemagny. From a total edition of 320 copies all printed on fine Marais wove paper. Hasegawa's engraving "Anemones et fleurs de champs dans un verre a facettes" Kyoto 368 also known as "Bouquet sur fond de dentelle" is considered one of his masterpieces. Folio 38 x 28 cm. Loose as issued. Missing title-page and justification but with complete text and all prints. The Cami and Jeannisson prints have a bit of mat burn on the recto and the Lemagny a bit on the verso. The other three prints including the Hasegawa are FINE AND BRIGHT. Angers: Editions Jacques-Petit, 1945 unknown

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Jean Giraudoux (Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac and Jacques Beltrand, illustrators) (Bill Tilden)Biblio.com

Le Sport. Eaux fortes dessins et croquis par André Dunoyer de Segonzac. WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING OF BILL TILDEN

1962ref. 39231Paris: Editions d'Auteuil 1962. André Dunoyer de Segonzac. A superlative pristine and complete copy on Imperial Japanese paper with fifteen original etchings and AN ORIGINAL DRAWING OF BILL TILDEN BY ANDRE DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC. From a total edition of 225 numbered copies this is ONE OF ONLY 27 COPIES tête on Imperial Japanese paper with 15 etchings by Dunoyer de Segonzac and 50 wood-engravings by Jacques Beltrand after Dunoyer de Segonzac; a second suite of the 15 etchings printed on antique Japanese paper; a suite of the 10 planches refusées on another kind of antique Japanese paper; a suite of the 50 wood-engravings on fine Rives wove paper; and another suite of the 50 wood-engravings before champlevage. This copy exceptionally includes AN ORIGINAL INDIA INK DRAWING OF BILL TILDEN generally rgarded as the greatest tennis player of the first half of the 20th century TITLED AND SIGNED BY ANDRÉ DUNOYER DE SEGONZAC. Folio. Loose as issued in original wraps two chemises and slipcase. FINE AND BRIGHT WITH NO DEFECTS. It is safe to say that depictions of American sports heroes by great artists of the School of Paris are of the greatest rarity. Editions d'Auteuil paperback

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NIWA, Tōkei 丹羽桃渓 & SUGA, Shōhō 菅松峰, illustrators; SHI'ONDŌ, Hitoku 思恩堂非得, authorBiblio.com

Ehon michi no tebiki ç”»æœ¬é“ã®ã¦ã³ã Guide to the Way of Picture Books

ref. 11581Title in Vol. 1 & frontis. in Vol. 2 printed in color. 55 double-page woodcut illus. 29.5; 29.5 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo orig. semi-stiff wrappers title-slips new stitching. Osaka Edo & Kyoto: Yamatoya ShirÅsaburÅ 大和屋四郎三郎 et al. 1823. First edition of this beautifully illustrated guide to making ehon 画本 or picture books. It is rare especially outside Japan and no copy is found in WorldCat. The work opens onto early modern printing culture book distribution and the popular pleasures of reading and consumption. As its title suggests it is a handbook tebiki æ‰‹å¼•ã for producing ehon 画本 or "picture books." Ehon covers any book in which illustration plays an important role from fine-art portfolios to illustrated fiction poetry collections travel guides and popular books such as kusazÅshi. Together with the rise of commerce and urban life and a popular fervor for pleasure reading ehon became one of the most influential forms of printed content. The illustrations are alive with humor. The subjects include cheeky scenes of everyday life "behind the scenes" bribery between merchants and politicians armies sojourning across the countryside and festivals. There are also fictional scenes from the classics such as the sage conversing with fish for wisdom along with depictions of nature the changing seasons and personified animals such as traveling frogs. Housewives blacksmiths and Edo contractors are shown at their crafts. Each page carries a short prose text some in the lyrical structure of tanka. The result is an invitation into the imaginative world of early modern Japan carefully portrayed to highlight its essence. The illustrators are of particular interest. The first volume was illustrated by Niwa TÅkei 1760-1822 a prolific Osaka-based painter whose artistic range extended from landscape and refined painting to comic and satirical drawings. He died in the winter of 1822 and his pupil Suga ShÅhÅ 1790-1851 completed the second volume. On the colophon leaf in the second volume we learn the name of the carver: JuryÅken 壽良軒. Very good copy. Unimportant mostly marginal worming carefully repaired. unknown

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ALKEN, Henry and James BARENGER, illustratorsBiblio.com

Sporting Repository The

ref. 06228London: Printed by W. Lewis. for Thomas McLean 1822. First and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine" Schwerdt ALKEN Henry and BARENGER James illustrators. The Sporting Repository containing Horse-Racing Hunting Coursing Shooting Archery Trotting and Tandem Matches Cocking Pedestrianism and Pugilism. anecdotes on sporting subjects interspersed with essays tales and a great variety of miscellaneous articles. London: Printed by W. Lewis. for Thomas McLean 15 January-15 June 1822. First and only edition. Octavo 9 1/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 233 x 146 mm. viii 1-80; 81-176; 177-268; 269-356; 357-448; 449-540 pp. Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece and eighteen hand-colored aquatint plates after H. Alken and J. Barenger engraved by G. and T. Hunt. All plates with tissue guards. Handsomely bound by Rivière & Son ca. 1920. Full red morocco covers decoratively ruled in gilt spine with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt gilt board edges & turn-ins dark green silk liners and endleaves all edges gilt. A spectacular example the hand-colored plates bright and fresh. Loosely inserted at end are the original front and rear wrappers for part II "15th of February 1822". This publication stands out for its vivid illustrations some of the finest sporting aquatints of the period and for its documentation of early 19th-century British sporting culture. Though it was planned as a continuing series only six monthly parts were published making complete sets rare. Published in six monthly parts from January to June this is the "First and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine." Schwerdt. The Sporting Repository contains anecdotes and illustrations on many sporting subjects including 'Horse Racing Hunting Coursing Shooting Archery Trotting and Tandem Matches Cocking Pedestrianism and Pugilism'. This 'rare and valuable magazine' is an unashamed celebration of popular sports and a mine of interesting information. Mellon/Podeschi A13. Schwerdt II p. 212. Tooley 467. London: Printed by W. Lewis... for Thomas McLean, 1822 unknown

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Fielding, Theodore Henry and J Walton, illustratorsBiblio.com

A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes Containing a Description of the Most Romantic Scenery of Cumberland Westmoreland and Lancashire with Accounts of Antient and Modern Manners and Customs and Elucidations of the History and Antiquities of That Part of the Country &c. &c.; Illustrated with Forty-Eight Coloured Views

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Von Schmidt, Harold; John William Thomason Jr; CPC, illustrators C P CBiblio.com

Originial Illustrations for The Red Napoleon.

ref. 5233New York 1920s. 6 illustrations in ink wash and gouache 39 x 37.5 cm to 41 x 62.5 cm plus margins; 3 signed "Von"; 1 signed "Harold von Schmidt"; 1 signed "C.P.C."; 1 signed "John W. Thomason Jr." Some ms. production notes captions etc. on versos and rectos some indicating the pages and sections of the serialized novel to which the illustrations relate. 1 small reproduction of a larger illus. pasted on its recto 7.5 x 10.5 cm. Six original illustrations for Liberty magazine's serialized publication of the novel The Red Napoleon 1929 an early fictional account of a full-scale Soviet invasion and attempted conquest of the world. The acclaimed war correspondent journalist and novelist Floyd Gibbons 1887-1939 first published The Red Napoleon in Liberty magazine which commissioned Harold von Schmidt 1893-1982 among others to illustrate the serialized publication. The first installment appeared in Liberty on 6 April 1929. In The Red Napoleon the Red Army attempts to usher in a world of racial equality and usurp the supremacy of the white race. Novelist John Gardner 1933-1982 has described The Red Napoleon as an "ironic satire of capitalist America's greed and foolhardy racism": What Gibbons is saying from behind the fortress-wall of his trash-writer gimmicks is serious and convincing: white superiority on this planet is finished and worse if we refuse to meet the Third World halfway-refuse to shuck off the racial prejudice that has been a standard feature of our character from the beginning-we face virtual extermination . Gibbons found himself in a curious position .Everything he believed most profoundly-and believed to be a matter of life and death-would be anathema to his readers. Not only would the vast majority of his readership find his visionary slogan ridiculous-"We recognize but one race-the HUMAN RACE"-they would find it grossly evil. Gibbons' novel centers on Karakhan of Kazan-the 'Red Napoleon'-who serves as chief military commander of the USSR under Stalin until the dictator is assassinated in 1932. In turn Karakhan becomes the new Soviet leader and uses his military influence to take control of the country-and then proceeds to attempt to conquer the world. Karakhan espouses a policy of "Conquer and Breed." Believing the antidote to Caucasian hegemony to be miscegenation Karakhan marries and has a child with an American radical leftist. Gibbons writes on p. 1: "Karakhan's defiant pride in his coloured skin struggling against an instinctive inferiority complex originating from impacts with white dominance fired him with the ambition to fuse all races-white yellow black brown and red-into one human race the only one he acknowledged." Before the novel's dramatic climax in which Karakhan's army is defeated by American forces the Red Army ravages Europe-slaying Mussolini preempting Hitler's rise bringing Winston Churchill and Britain to their knees etc.-and conquers Australia where he massacres six million whites. The most remarkable of the six illustrations offered here initialed at the lower left "C.P.C." depicts a domestic scene showing Karakhan smoking a cigarette and gazing at his white wife who holds their mixed-race offspring in her arms. A caption appears on the verso-"He's gone completely crazy on the idea of having children with white women." The most notable illustration by von Schmidt features a menacing Soviet perhaps Karakhan again wearing an ushanka hat and fur with binoculars hanging around his neck. This too has a caption on the verso: "Short cut black hair that fitted his head like a skull cap. His thin body high shoulders yellow face close cropped head." Two other illustrations show the Soviet Army marching past a pagoda in Peking and through a Mexican village. In the latter a slain Mexican lies in the streets amidst the Red Army and vanquished local Mexicans. Vultures perch and hover above and in the background a Soviet flag hangs from a building. This particular illustration is by John W. Thomason Jr. 1893-1944 an author and illustrator of several books and magazine stories who served as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. At the novel's end the narrator-a journalist who resembles Gibbons himself- interviews the imprisoned Red Napoleon after the Red Army's defeat. Karakhan defends his policy of intermixing the world's races to the journalist claiming it must be the way of the future-which has become true in the novel: white people now face a thoroughly miscegenated world. Karakhan is punished by being sent to exile not in Siberia but Bermuda. Von Schmidt's illustrations also appeared in magazines such as Collier's Weekly Cosmopolitan and Saturday Evening Post; he would also contribute sixty illustrations for a deluxe edition of Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop. A striking group of illustrations for the serial publication of Red Napoleon. REFERENCES: Gallicchio Marc. The African American Encounter with Japan and China Chapel Hill North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press 2000 Chapter 2; Gibbons Floyd. The Red Napoleon New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1929; Harold von Schmidt at illustrationhistory.org. CONDITION: Moderate damp-staining along edges of 2 of the less appealing illustrations; the 4 other illustrations very good with minor wear. [New York, 1920s.] unknown

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WILDE, Oscar (1854-1900), [MOSS, SA; BEARDSLEY, Aubrey, et al, illustrators] S ABiblio.com

The Works of Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray; Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest; A House of Pomegranates and A Happy Prince and Other Tales; De Profundis; Intentions; Salome The Duchess of Padua and Vera; A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband; Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and The Portrait of Mr. W.H. and Other Stories; Essays and Stories; Poems in Prose; What Never Dies A Romance by Barbey D'Aurevilly; Poems; Epigrams; Essays Criticisms and Reviews; His Life

ref. 75101Boson MA and New York NY: The C.T. Brainard Publishing Co. 1909. Literature LEATHER-BOUND ILLUSTRATED SET Edition De Luxe. Complete in 15 volumes. Octavo 20 x 13 x 56cm. Each volume with between three and seven black and white illustrated plates including a frontispiece by various illustrators. An out-of-series copy from an edition of 1000 numbered copies. Recently bound in blue half morocco with raised bands gilt titles to twin red labels and matching cloth over boards. Top edges gilt and others lightly trimmed. A crisp clean set in an attractive new leather binding. Boson, MA, and New York, NY: The C.T. Brainard Publishing Co., 1909 unknown

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Alphonse Mucha, Ernest Meissonier, Lionel Royer, and Achille Fould (illustrators)Biblio.com

La section Stéphanoise de la société de géographie commerciale de Paris. A son secrétaire perpétuel M. Charles Gauthiot Décembre 1903.

1903ref. 225326 illustrated silk leaves including title sizes from 140 x 170 m to 400 x 180 mm mounted within blind embossed frames on 22 white cardboards. The illustrations woven color images are after various French Fin de Siècle and Art Noveau artists like Alphonse Mucha 6 including a series of 4 leaves illustrating the seasons Ernest Meissonier Lionel Royer Achille Fould P. A. Cot and others. Loosely contained in cont. green half morocco portfolio with gilt title on front cover La section Stéphanoise de la société de géographie commerciale de Paris. A son secrétaire perpétuel M. Charles Gauthiot Décembre 1903. Doublures. Paste-downs with watered silk covering framed by richly gilt green morocco borders. Folio 540 x 335 mm. Ties lacking front cover rubbed extremeties slightly worn. Charles Gauthiot 1832-1905 was a French journalist and secretary-general of the Société de Geographie Commerciale de Paris founded in 1873 by M. Meurand E. Levasseur C. Gauthiot M. Tourasse B. Garnier M. Dietz-Mounin E. Berge F. de Lesseps M. Peghoux. No other copy found unique a fine specimen of the French craftsmanship of silk weaving with only minor traces of use. Title-leaf with a yellowish spot in lower right corner probably due to the adhesive used. Société de géographie commerciale de Paris

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DETMOLD, Maurice & Edward J, illustrators; KIPLING, RudyardBiblio.com

Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book

ref. 06188London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. Beauty That Hath Terror in It" The Detmold Brothers' Sublime and Unsettling Vision of The Jungle Book The Magnificent Original 1903 Folio Portfolio with Sixteen Superb Color Plates KIPLING Rudyard. DETMOLD Maurice & Edward J. illustrators. Sixteen Illustrations of Subjects from Kipling's "Jungle Book" by Messrs. Maurice & Edward Detmold. London: Macmillan & Co. Limited 1903. First edition. Reportedly limited to 500 copies for England and America. Folio 21 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches; 543 x 394 mm. Title-page contents leaf and sixteen magnificent color plates tipped onto white boards within gray window mounts each accompanied by a protective cover sheet bearing the title and a short extract from Kipling's text. Title-page and list of illustrations expertly repaired at folds; second plate description with short marginal tear; some light foxing to text leaves and mounts only. The plates themselves are remarkably clean fresh and beautifully preserved. Original publisher's green cloth portfolio front cover decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt retaining one of the two original green silk ties. An excellent example of one of the most magnificent and celebrated achievements of Edwardian book illustration exceptionally scarce complete with all sixteen plates. Published in 1903 when the extraordinary twin brothers Maurice and Edward Julius Detmold were just twenty years old this monumental portfolio represents the culmination of their artistic collaboration and one of the finest visual interpretations of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book ever produced. The sixteen superb compositions reveal an astonishing maturity of conception and execution. Combining meticulous natural history observation with an intensely personal decorative imagination the Detmolds created a world at once beautiful mysterious and faintly menacing in which the distinction between the natural and the supernatural seems perpetually uncertain. Animals are rendered with extraordinary anatomical precision their musculature fur scales and movement observed with almost scientific exactitude. Yet these are far more than zoological studies. Wolves possess an almost monumental dignity; panthers move with a sinister effortless grace; serpents coil with hypnotic inevitability; and the great tiger Shere Khan emerges as an embodiment of majestic and terrifying power. The brothers' remarkable understanding of animal character is matched by their sensitivity to atmosphere and composition. Their creatures appear not merely as participants in Kipling's narratives but as independent beings endowed with intelligence memory and an almost human consciousness. Particularly striking are the representations of Mowgli whose slender youthful figure is repeatedly contrasted with the formidable creatures surrounding him. His vulnerability is balanced by a quiet assurance suggesting his extraordinary position between the human and animal worlds. The Detmolds avoid the sentimentality often associated with illustrations of childhood instead emphasizing Mowgli's intimate identification with the jungle and its inhabitants. In the celebrated scenes depicting Bagheera Baloo Akela and the Monkey People the artists achieve an extraordinary balance between narrative drama and decorative design. The Monkey People particularly in their ruined architectural surroundings are among the most unsettling creations in the series their restless gestures and grotesque attitudes suggesting a strange parody of human society. Equally remarkable is the brothers' use of color. Their sumptuous yet carefully controlled palette of burnished browns smoky grays subdued greens and golden ochres lends the compositions an almost dreamlike quality. Subtle gradations of tone together with intricate patterns of foliage fur and stone produce a richness and unity of design seldom equaled in contemporary illustration. The original large-format plates possess a depth delicacy and painterly quality that cannot be fully appreciated in the considerably reduced reproductions of the later book edition of 1908. Presented individually within their original window mounts they have the presence and visual authority of original watercolors. Indeed so successful were these images as independent works of art that many portfolios were subsequently broken up their individual plates removed for framing. The survival of a complete portfolio particularly one retaining its original publisher's cloth case and with the plates in such fresh condition is consequently especially desirable. The contemporary critical reception was enthusiastic. Reviewing the London exhibition of the original paintings the Manchester Guardian of November 5 1903 declared that the brothers: "are able to prevent their work from ever sinking to the level of mere illustration". The reviewer particularly admired the depiction of the Monkey People in the Cold Lairs describing it as: "full of character subtle observation and invention". Of the representation of Bagheera in Mowgli and the Red Flower the reviewer memorably observed that it possessed: "something of that beauty which hath terror in it". The same review praised the convincing and engaging portrayals of Baloo Nag Kaa and Akela recognizing in the Detmolds' work an extraordinary fusion of imaginative invention and naturalistic observation. A report published in the New York Times on December 5 1903 stated that the edition was strictly limited to 500 copies for England and America emphasizing the exclusivity of this magnificent production from the outset. The portfolio is particularly significant in the history of the Detmold brothers' careers. Born in 1883 Maurice and Edward developed their exceptional artistic talents together displaying an early and remarkable aptitude for the representation of birds animals and the natural world. Their close collaboration produced some of the most distinctive illustrated publications of the opening years of the twentieth century. Tragically Maurice took his own life in 1908 bringing their artistic partnership to a premature end. Edward continued to enjoy a distinguished career as an illustrator but the works produced jointly by the brothers retain a unique place in the history of British illustration. As Richard Dalby observed the paintings were admired for their realistic detail and decorative arrangement while Diana Johnson identified the extraordinary tension between their scientific naturalism and ornamental imagination a combination capable of producing images both fanciful and profoundly disturbing. A masterpiece of the Golden Age of Illustration this spectacular portfolio stands among the finest achievements of the Detmold brothers and one of the most beautiful and psychologically compelling interpretations of Kipling's immortal jungle stories. Complete examples of the original 1903 folio portfolio are increasingly difficult to obtain and the present copy with all sixteen plates clean and fresh and preserved in its original gilt-decorated publisher's portfolio is an especially attractive survival. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1903 unknown

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[SPACE ART]. LEONOV, AA & SOKOLOV, A (illustrators); DENISOV, VP; ALIMOV, VI A A V P V IBiblio.com

Kosmicheskie Dali Cosmic Distances.

ref. 114998Moscow Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo 1972. . First edition presentation copy signed by A. Sokolov on the verso of the upper portfolio board folio 38 x 28.5 cm; complete with 34 plates of which 16 are double page each with descriptive text on the verso 36pp. of text by Denisov and Alimov in a separate booklet also with an introduction by Yuriy Gagarin; housed together in the original blue leatherette portfolio enamel and metal USSR medallion to upper cover and title in silver a very good copy. Inscribed presentation copy of the first edition. Presentation copy of the first edition inscribed by the space fantasy artist Andrei Sokolov to Fuad Borisovich Yakubovskiy Soviet minister for 'special construction projects'. A striking portfolio of Soviet space art with thirty four plates depicting imaginary spacewalks satellite constructions curious spacecraft dreamy constellations and unexplored planets and moons. One of the artists A. Leonov was the pioneering cosmonaut who made the first spacewalk exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission. Art however was his first love and he was the first person to sketch earth from space. He often collaborated with his close friend Andrei Sokolov who unlike Leonov did not have first hand experience of space and instead chose to paint a more fantastical picture. The album was published to mark the 15th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik and is a glorious example of ambitious propaganda. It was clearly designed to make an impact with the elaborate portfolio case and wonderful illustrations which are often highlighted with silver. The inclusion of real life space missions alongside imagined realities of the future is an assertion of the potential for Soviet cosmonauts. Moscow, Izobrazitel'noe iskusstvo, 1972. hardcover

Shapero Rare Books · United Kingdom£3,750.00≈ €4,462.80

AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817), [DOBSON, Austin, introduction], [BROCK, CE and THOMSON, H, illustrators] C EBiblio.com

Complete Novels Collection: Pride and Prejudice Sense and Sensibility Northanger Abbey and Persuasion Mansfield Park and Emma. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and Hugh Thomson

ref. 68272London: Macmillan and Co. 1895-1897. Classic English Literature FIRST EDITIONS THUS each being the first edition illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Octavo 20 x 14 x 18cm. With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice and Hugh Thomson for the all the other titles. Recently bound in navy half calf with raised bands gilt titles to burgundy labels further gilt tooling to spines and matching cloth over boards. All edges untrimmed. Nice clean copies gently toned throughout. Presented in attractive new leather bindings. Book Collector No.271 'The Great Illustrators'. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895-1897 unknown

Adrian Harrington Rare Books · United Kingdom£3,750.00≈ €4,462.80

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