Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$14.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Inscribed & signed on front endpaper by the author : "To Mr. Lloy H. Corwin / with warm regards / I. E. Ronch / 8/28/63". 1st edition / 1st printing. Illustrated with b&w drawings by Marc Chagall. Very good, no dust jacket. 14 x 21. hard cover. 127pp.
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 4to., 31 pp., plus 64 full-page b&w photos. A near fine copy, lacking the dust jacket. SIGNED and dated by Otto Steinert, with a printed invitation to the opening of the exhibition laid in. Erfurth (1874-1948) was especially noted for his portraiture; the sitters here include Rabindranath Tagore, Max Planck, Richard Strauss, Heinrich Zille, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Otto Dix, Marc Chagall, Oscar Kokoschka, et al. The text is in German.
Seller: Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd., ABAA, Akron, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition ( 'First Published in Book Form 1961'). Once listed, this will be the Only signed copy of this book for sale anywhere on the Internet. In fact, I was unable to find one other signed copy of any of William S. Rubin's books for sale on the Internet. The inscription is on the first front end paper. It reads 'To the Lesters with affection, Bill'. There's also a Columbia University Press 'With the compliments of the Author' slip. It is in perfect condition. 'William Stanley Rubin was an American art scholar. a distinguished curator, critic, collector, art historian and teacher of modern art. From 1968 to 1988, Rubin was a curator at The Museum of Modern Art located in New York City and, from 1973 to 1988, he served as director of the Painting and Sculpture Department.' As you can see from the photos, the covers are in exceptional condition, perfectly clean and showing almost no wear at all, just a very light bump at the front and rear bottom edge. The corners look perfect. So does the spine. The black lettering on the front and spine is very bright and unworn. The page edges are perfectly clean. The top page edge is a pinkish red. The book is square and very solidly bound from cover to cover, nicely tight pages, no binding issues at all. The white inside covers and end papers are very clean. There are actually three blank front end papers ( a little unusual), followed by the half-title page, and then a color frontispiece from a painting by Pierre Bonnard. The pages in the book are in terrific condition and exceptionally clean. I'm not seeing any soiling at all, and I'm not seeing any wear at all, no creasing, no dogeared corners, no markings, no attachments, and with the exception of the author's signed inscription, no one has written their name or anything else anywhere in the book. There are quite a lot of black and white illustrations, as well as several in color. Wonderful looking book. You can see the dust jacket in the first few photos. It's held up reasonably well. It has two tears off the front top edge and two off the rear top edge. It has small loss at the top edge of the spine, not reaching the lettering, and a tiny chip off the top edge of the rear cover. The rear cover also has a thin dark line across part of its bottom half. The flaps are in very good condition. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. I've had it in a fitted protective cover for as long as I've owned the book. The white on the top edge of the front cover that you see in the first photo is just glare off the edge of the plastic of the protective cover. From the Acknowledgments page: 'For aid in preparing this book I am indebted to the participating artists who gave their time to discussions of their own works. Jean Lurcat, Germaine Richier, Jacques Lipchitz, and Marc Chagall were particularly generous in this regard.'
Seller: Rareeclectic, pound ridge, NY, U.S.A.
Chagall, Marc.. Vitraux pour Jérusalem.. Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 1961., 1961.
Price: US$1213.08 + shipping
Description: Erstausgabe dieses Ausstellungskataloges, vorliegend in der vom Künstler signierten Vorzugsausgabe (Nr. 73 von 300) mit der lithographie originale en noir". - Umschlag etw. braunrandig, fleckig, bestoßen (vereinzelte Knickspuren) u. mit kl. Randeinrissen am oberen Kapital. Ecken min. bestoßen. - Mourlot 358. Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 500 4°. Mit zahlr. tlw. ganzs. bzw. farb. Abbildungen u. einer Orig.-Lithographie von Marc Chagall. 85 (1) S., 1 Bl., Illustr.-OKart.
Seller: Versandantiquariat Wolfgang Friebes, Graz, Austria
Price: US$1378.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: CHAGALL : "Jerusalem Windows" DELUXE edition limited to 300 copies - 1 of 300 Copies Hand Signed and Numbered by Chagall and Containing an Original Lithograph -This is the Deluxe edition, Limited to 300 copies hand numbered in pencil and signed by Chagall. -The deluxe limited edition contains one Original Lithograph in black ink printed on deckle edge Arches with the watermark of the famous French printer Mourlot at lower right. -As stated in French on the colophon "Il a ete de cet ouvrage 300 exemplaires, signes par l'artiste, numerotes de 1 a 300. Ces exemplaires comportent une lithographie originale en noir de Marc Chagall." (which translated from French reads, The edition is 300 copies, signed by the artist, numbered from 1 to 300. The edition contains one Original Chagall Lithograph in black ink.) -The LIthograph is of course 1 of only 300 that were printed, making it extremely rare. -The book is bound in wraps with a color illustration to the front cover and a number of illustrations throughout the 85 pages. -The printing is by Mourlot. -The book is in very good condition. -The colophon page and Original Lithograph are both in excellent condition. -This Rare and Valuable book presents an excellent and safe opportunity to own an authentic Chagall signature.
Seller: Artfever, Paris, France
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Large 8vo. 247 x 182mm. Wraps in dust-jacket with an original lithograph by Chagall. Mourlot, no. 358. Cramer, Chagall Illus. Books, no. 47.One of 300 signed and numbered impressions, on the colophon.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.