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H. A. REY.
Raffy and the
9 Monkeys * Au Clair de la Lune and
Other French Nursery Songs.
Together,
2 First Editions. Color illustrations by
Rey. Original sizes and bindings,
moderate edgewear includes rubbed tips
and slight loss of paper. Clair de la Lune
is the true first printing by Greystone
Press in spiral-bound boards; chip to
corner of title-page; scattered light foxing
to both.
London, 1939; NewYork, (1941)
[250/350]
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ARTHUR SZYK.
Ink and Blook: A Book of Drawings.
Color frontispiece, 6
mounted color plates, and 68 sepia toned photogravure plates by Szyk. Folio, publisher’s
gilt-lettered black morocco, much nicer than usual with only an absolute minimum of
rubbing; original batik-paper covered slipcase, a bit faded along panels.
NewYork: Heritage Press, 1946
[700/1,000]
FIRST LIMITED EDITION
.
ONE OF
1000
COPIES INSCRIBED BY SZYK
.
This copy for Dr. Raymond
Hinshaw, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Szyk’s famous and infamous book of political
images of World War II that put him at the forefront of leading political artists but also garnered
threats from Hitler who understood the power of his images as propaganda.
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