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n/a. Sturm-Bilderbücher I / Marc Chagall. Verlag Der Sturm, Berlin, 1923.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. 19 (1)pp. Original stiff stapled tan wraps with framed Chagall lithograph and black lettering on cover. Second edition of first state. With Chagall poem by Blaise Cendrars and seventeen b/w offset reproductions of some of Chagall's famous paintings. Includes several drawings. Chagall's work was promoted by Der Sturm publishers worldwide since 1913. This 'picture book' contains a list of Sturm exhibitions from 1913 through 1922 on last page. Der Sturm program printed to inside back cover. Laid in a magazine cutout of a Chagall painting. This publication was later issued as a hardback. Poem in German. Captions in German and French. Wraps with some age-toning and light wear along edges. Head of spine with one inch and tail of spine with three inches closed tear. Previous owner's name inked to top of inside cover.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: Oblong folio (13 1/4 x 19 1/2"). [2], III-XXXI, [1] leaves. Original half blue cloth over illustrated blue velvet. Illustrated half-title, half-tone illustrated title. Ryback's powerful images were created as a memorial to the Jewish villages ("shtetlekh") - including his hometown - that were destroyed in pogroms in the aftermath of the disastrous WWI campaign and the Russian Civil War. They depict the peaceful daily life of a traditional Jewish shtetl before the upcoming destructions and massacres: a city street, the artisans (including a shoemaker, a tailor and a knife-sharpener), musicians, the market, the synagogue, a wedding, a funeral, the Jewish cemetery, the rabbi and the Hasidic rebbe. The images here show Cubist and Expressionist influences, and are in many instances reminiecent of the work of Marc Chagall, but are more solemn in tone overall. The lithographs measure 10 3/4 x 15", and are all dated 1917 in the stone. Of the 30 half-tone plates (Title + plates numbered from III-XXXI), four are printed in bistre, and the others in sepia or black. This copy does not contain the list of plates at the rear. Front cover rubbed along edges, with some abrasion to velvet. Spine partly frayed. Discoloration to front cover, and edge toning along edges of back cover. Tip of lower corners throughout slighly creased (not affecting plates). One foxing stain at lower left corner of illustrations in plates 16 to 19. Title and captions in Yiddish. Binding in overall fair to good-, interior in good+ to very good, lithographs in good+ (plates 16-19) to very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5772.43 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Oblong 4to. Contemporary cloth-backed embossed card covers, sewn with ties. 45 mounted colour and monochrome plates, one to a page, with 2 further loose plates. From various contemporary publications. Works by Kandinsky, Delaunay, Larionoff, Gontcharova, Punin, Kokoschka, Oskar Fischer, Marcoussis, Léger, Chagall, Gris, Severini, Marc, Schreyer, Gleizes, Nell Walden, Moltzahn etc. With a presentation inscription on front end-paper 'Fräulein Jetta Cohen als Zeichen der Dankbarheit Ihr Heinz Kluver, Berlin, den 1.2.1923. Covers rubbed, tear to upper cover paper, one tie missing, shaken.
Seller: Roe and Moore, London, United Kingdom