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Marilyn Braiterman 24 68. (JUVENILE/ JEWISH) REISEN, ABRAHAM. (Translated from the Yiddish) Fifty Songs. A Present to the Children of the Jewish School. Published in Honor of his 50th Anniversary. New York: the Matones Press by the Sholom Aleichem Institute, 1926. 4to, rebound with original pictorial front and back cover illustrations laid down. Few minor spots and light crayon marks to margin of one plate (nearly effaced). An ambitious juvenile published in honor of the Yiddish poet with drawings by Boris Aronson, B. Kaufman, Kottler, Abrahamel, A. Goodelman, J. Gomberg and J. Tofel. Title page and fifty drawings in two colors. Styles range from Art Nouveau to various modernist styles reflecting the Eastern European avant-garde. Aronson was associated with Alexandra Exter and the Constructivists, Tofel was an Expressionist painter and Goodelman was a sculptor and graphic artist influenced by Lissitzky and editor of the Kinder Journal. $350 69. (JUVENILE) SAMSON ET REINED. Asfer et Sato Chez les F.F.I. ( Forces Français Independantes). No place: C.D.L.R. “Ceux de la Résistance”, 1944. Small folio, color pictorial boards showing the two little devils of the title against a background of the French tri-color flag. The book is dedicated to the children of France “en témoignage d’une grande épopée. Noel 1944”. Thirteen full page color plates. The two adorable devil children fight the Gestapo and celebrate victory in a triumphant march. $900 SEE COLOR INSERT EXPRESSIONIST BESTIARY 70. (JUVENILE) SCHUBERT, OTTO. Bilderbuch fur Tyll und Nele. Munich: Marees Gesellschaft, 1920. Folio, vellum spine and cream boards with title in blue and embossed vignette; string tie at spine. Fine. One of 225 copies on handmade rag paper. With 24 large full page color woodcuts of a variety of animals, including monkeys, caged and wild, and circus bears with their trainer. A picture book for children showing Expressionist influence by Otto Schubert, painter and graphic artist (1892-1972). In effect, an Expressionist bestiary with splendid, vigorous illustrations. A lion attacks a zebra; a mounted hunter spears tigers; mother sow and piglets appear on a page with cooked ham products. The rhymes in white German script appear under, over or sometimes within the illustrations. Lang, Expressionist Book Illustration, 310. Seebass, 1835 and plate xxiii (without doubt one of the most original children’s books of the 20 th century- transl.). Cotsen 4898; Cotsen II:9900. $3750 SEE COLOR INSERT 71. (JUVENILE) TIECK, LUDWIG. Die Elfen. Ein Romantisches Märchen (The Elves. A Romantic Tale). Munich: Recht, 1922. 12mo, cream boards with fanciful designs in color lithography on both covers. Fine. One of only 150 copies on Japan paper. A lovely fairy tale illustrated throughout by Elsa Eisgruber in color. $500 SEE COLOR INSERT 72. (JUVENILE/ RUSSIAN) ZHUKOVSKII, V(ASILII A(NDREVICH). Roland Oruzhenosets (Roland the Armour- Bearer). Illustrated by Dmitri Mitrokhin. Moscow: I. N. Knebel (1913). 4to, color pictorial stiff wrappers. Extremely nice copy of this translation of the medieval French epic poem “La Chanson de Roland”. Four full page color illustrations and color vignettes on text pages. Mitrokhin was a member of the Mir Isskustva (World of Art) movement and lived a long life in Paris and in the Soviet Union as an illustrator and decorator for the theater. $650 73. (JUVENILE/ RUSSIAN) Sinyaya Boroda. (Bluebeard). Illustrated by R. O’Connell. Moscow: Knebel, 1918. 4to, color pictorial wrappers, a little browned at margins else very good. Another fine chromolithograph Knebel production telling the story of Bluebeard and his unfortunate wives. $450 SEE COLOR INSERT 74. (JUVENILE/RUSSIAN) (KONASHEVICH, VLADIMIR M.) PUSHKIN. Skazka o Rybake i Rybke. (Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish). Petersburg/Berlin: Z.I. Grzhebina, 1922. 4to, color pictorial boards; spine splitting. Sixteen pages with chromolithograph illustrations of the popular Pushkin tale by Konashevich, who illustrated children’s books as well as classical Russian and western European authors. Cotsen 21092; Cotsen Catalogue II: 9048. $400 SEE COLOR INSERT 75. (JUVENILE/ RUSSIAN) ANDREEV, M. O Ermile i Docheri Ludmilla. (Of Ermil and His Daughter Ludmilla). Illustrated by Konstantin Ivanovitch Rudakov. (Leningrad): Raduga, 1925. 4to, color pictorial wrappers. Very nice copy with twelve pages of vivid color illustrations by Rudakov, a Leningrad artist who illustrated several children’s books for Raduga. $500 SEE COLOR INSERT
76. (JUVENILE/RUSSIAN) CHUKOVSKII, K. Telefon (Telephone). Illustrated by Konstantin Ivanovitch Rudakov. (Leningrad & Moscow) Raduga, 1926. 4to, color pictorial wrappers (with advertisements on back cover). Covers slightly darkened; about fine. Imaginative and lively color illustrations on each of sixteen pages (including the wrappers) of various animals answering a constantly ringing telephone. Cotsen 16331; Cotsen Catalogue I: 2172. $1200 SEE COLOR INSERT 77. (JUVENILE/ RUSSIAN) MARSHAK, SAMUEL. Voina s Dneprom (War on the Dneiper). Illustrated by G. Bibikov. (Leningrad & Moscow): Ogiz/ Molodaya Gvardia, 1931. Small 8vo, color lithograph pictorial wrappers. About fine. Sixteen pages of agitprop verse by Marshak and tonal lithographs by Bibikov in the Soviet Social Realist style of the construction of the great dam and hydroelectric station on the Dneiper River. Cotsen 11459; Cotsen Catalogue II: 6971. $650 78. (JUVENILE/ RUSSIAN) (LEBEDEV, VLADIMIR). MARSHAK, SAMUEL. Mister Tvister (Mister Twister). Leningrad & Moscow: Ogiz/Olodaya Gvardia, 1933. Squarish 16mo, color lithograph wrappers. Rusty at staples; a very good copy. Text of 36 pages with black and white lithographs of a story for children denouncing American racism and capitalism. In traveling around the world, a rich American banker tries to avoid everyone but whites but arrives at a hotel hosting a congress of oppressed people of color. Lévèque & Plantureux, p. 163: “assurément exotique pour les enfants russe.” Not in Cotsen. $750 (JUVENILE/RUSSIAN) See also: 18. BILIBIN 79. KENT, ROCKWELL. Architectonics. The Tales of Tom Thumtack, Architect. New York: William T. Comstock, 1914. 12mo, color and gilt pictorial cloth. Very nice copy of a wonderful binding in red, navy and gilt: Tom Thumtack leaps across the sky within a lettered border. Stories about architects and their work by Kent’s Columbia classmate. Illustrated throughout: the first book illustrated by Kent, preceding his own first published book, Wilderness, by twenty years. $625 80. KEYSER, CHARLES S. Fairmount Park. Sketches of Its Scenery, Waters and History. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen, and Haffelfinger, 1872. Fifth edition. 8vo, rose cloth with gilt spine lettering and gilt lettering and vignette on front cover, repeated in blind on back. Spine faded. Folding lithographed map printed in two colors. Interesting illustrated preliminary and rear advertisements for hotels and other Philadelphia buildings and one for ornamental iron vases. Chromolithograph plate of the flags of the Schuylkill Navy (boat clubs on the river) and 35 illustrations of the park as it appeared before the changes of the Centennial Exposition of 1876. $250 ERIC FISCHL LITHOGRAPHS 81. KINCAID, JAMAICA AND ERIC FISCHL. Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam and Tulip. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1986. Fourth in the Artists and Writers Series published by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum. Folio, black cloth, gilt-lettered spine and figure on front cover. As new in slipcase. One of 145 copies hand-set in Monotype Gill Sans on Rives BFK paper. Text and nine original lithographs by Eric Fischl of which five are in color, ilustrating a short story by Jamaica Kincaid. Signed by Fischl and Kincaid. This collaboration of author and artist produced one of the most beautiful of the Whitney livres de peintres. $3750 SCOTTISH ELVES AND FAIRIES 82. KIRK, ROBERT. An Essay of the Nature and Actions of the Subterranean (and, for the most Part,) Invisible People, heretofoir going under the name of Elves, Faunes, and Fairies... among the low-country Scots, as... described by those who have the second sight...Edinburgh: Reprinted by James Ballantyne & Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Paternoster- Row, London, 1815. Small 4to, attractive new binding of paste paper boards with copy of title page mounted on front cover. Fine. One hundred copies were printed. Reprint of 1691 manuscript on fairy superstition and second sight in Scottish folk lore. The manuscript was entitled Secret Commonwealth, or, A Treatise displayeing the Chiefe Curiosities as they are in Use among diverse of the People of Scotland to this Day... With Appendix: Extracts from a Treatise on the Second Sight, Dreams, Apparitions, etc. by Theophilus Insulanus (pseudonym of Donald MacLeod). Edinburgh 1763. $750 Rare Books Catalogue 28 25
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