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The Evergreen Tales; or, Tales for the Ageless: Aladdin & the Wonderful Lamp / the Three Bears / the Story of Joseph and His Brothers. (3 Volumes).
New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1949. 1949. New York, NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1949. 1949. Very good. - Quarto, 12 inches high by 8 inches wide. Hardcover, three volumes bound in cream, white, and brown cloth with decorations and illustrations on the front boards, titled in various colors on the spines, in the original glassine dust wrappers. The books are housed in a red slipcase with a paper label on its spine. The glassine jackets are slightly chipped and the slipcase is slightly soiled with minor chips to the case's extremities & label. The pagination of each volume is as follows: 1) Aladdin & the Wonderful Lamp: 39 pages and colophon, illustrated in color by Fritz Kredel; 2) The Three Bears: unpaginated, with a colophon and with bright color illustrations by William Moyers; 3) The Story of Joseph and His Brothers: 48 & [2] pages plus the colophon, with tipped-in color illustrations by Arthur Szyk. Near fine in a very good slipcase. Limited edition of 2,500 sets, each volume numbered 1820. The individual volumes are as follows: 1) ALADDIN & THE WONDERFUL LAMP Re-Told by Jean Hersholt. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. 2) THE THREE BEARS by Robert Southey with illustrations by William Moyers. 3) THE STORY OF JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS AS TOLD IN THE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE HOLY BIBLE. Illustrated by Arthur Szyk. Each of the three volumes is Inscribed " for Charlie" and SIGNED BY JEAN HERSHOLT on the colophon. Hersholt was the General Editor of the series. Very good .
Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.Professional sellerBook number: 99833
USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 108 | £UK 93.75 | JP¥ 18529]
Catalogue: Children's and Illustrated
Keywords: CHILDREN'S & ILLUSTRATED; THE EVERGREEN TALES; OR, TALES FOR THE AGELESS; FAIRY TALES; LIMITED EDITION; NUMBERED EDITION; JEAN HERSHOLT; LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB; ALADDIN & THE WONDERFUL LAMP; THE THREE BEARS; THE STORY OF JOSEPH AND HIS BROTHERS
Story of Joseph and His Brothers, the
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1949. Joseph and his Brothers Illustrated by Arthur Szyk SZYK, Arthur, illustrator. The Story of Joseph and his Brothers. As told in the King James version of the Holy Bible & Illustrated by Arthur Szyk. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1949. Limited to 2500 copies of which this is No. 138 and is signed in blue pencil by the general editor, Jean Hersholt. Small folio (12 x 7 7/8 inches; 305 x 200 mm.). 51, [1, blank] pp. Fourteen mounted full color plates including nine-full page. Publisher's brown cloth over boards, additional color plate onlaid onto front cover, spine sand front cover lettered in silver. A fine copy. "The story of Joseph and his Brothers is told here in the beautiful language used by King James' translators of The Holy Bible. It is illustrated by Arthur Szyk and included in the series called the Evergreen Tales of which Jean Hersholt is General Editor; and it has been prepared, for special subscribers only, by The Limited Editions Club. The edition consists of twenty-five hundred numbered copies, of which this is number "138" and this copy is signed by "Jean Hersholt for Louise" Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was a graphic artist, book illustrator, stage designer, and caricaturist. Szyk was born into a prosperous middle-class Jewish family in Lodz, in the part of Poland which was under Russian rule in the nineteenth century. All of his life he worked both for his homeland and his faith. Before the second world war his work was renowned in Poland, France, and Great Britain. He moved to London in 1937 where he spent four years creating the magnificent paintings for the Haggadah. He moved to the USA in 1940 and his work became truly popular for his scathing caricatures of the Axis leaders Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito. His work was characterized by a rejection of modernism and its embrace of Medieval and Renaissance traditions, especially illuminated manuscripts. He illustrated such traditional works as Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales, the Haggadah, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. .
David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional sellerBook number: 04671
USD 450.00 [Appr.: EURO 388.75 | £UK 337.25 | JP¥ 66705]
Catalogue: Illustrated Books
Keywords: Bibles Religion Signed Limited Edition Judaica
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