Arthur Szyk Struthers Burt (3 results)
More imagesPublished by Heritage Press 1946
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, U.S.A.ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. Limited Edition. Ink and Blood. A Book of Drawings by Arthur Szyk with a Prefatory text by Struthers Burt. New York: Heritage Press, 1946. This Copy is Inscribed to Hugo R. Johnstone By the Artist Arthur Szyk. This Edition is Limited to 1000 Inscribed Copies. The Book has been Designed by Richard W. E…llis, the Color-Plates Having Been Made by Knapp Engraving Company. ALSO Signed by Hugo R. Johnstone Coronado 1946". Original slip case. 18 p of text + LXXIV Plates. Leather bound edition measuring 12.5 x 9", 4to. In fair condition. Decorated paper covered slip case scuffed at edges and corners; head and tail of slip case scuffed with some loss of decorated paper. Leather boards rubbed at edges and corners; hinges rubbed. Gilt lettering on spine exhibits some scuffing, but legible. Artist's inscription found on front fly-leaf. Light off-setting to leaves adjacent to tipped-in color plates. Light toning at edges of leaves. Hugo R. Johnstone signature found on rear end-page (recto). Binding intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. Arthur Szyk (1894 1951) was a Polish-born Jewish artist who worked primarily as a book illustrator and political artist throughout his career. Arthur Szyk was born into a prosperous middle-class Jewish family in Lodz, in the part of Poland under Russian rule in the 19th century. An acculturated Polish Jew, Szyk always proudly regarded himself both as a Pole and a Jew. From 1921, he lived and created his works mainly in France and Poland; in 1937 he moved to the United Kingdom. In 1940, he settled permanently in the United States, and was granted American citizenship in 1948. There are hand-made patterned endpapers and a slipcase that matches the pattern of the endpapers. Signed limited first edition, one of 1000 inscribed copies, of this striking collection of Szyk's wartime propaganda work, with color frontispiece and 74 plates, six in color and mounted (the rest printed in sepia duotone). Signed by both Arthur Szyk & Hugo R. Johnstone (to whom the work is inscribed). RAREA1946OPQA - 01/20 FORN-TUB-0069-BB-2503-HKREV588. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).
More imagesPublished by The Heritage Press, New York 1946
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, U.S.A.THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
£ 1,004.22
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Add to basketCondition: Near Fine. Signed Limited Edition. [x], [1-2] 3-18 [19-20], [74 plates]. 12.5" x 9.25" CARICATURES: SZYK'S WEAPON OF ANIT-FASCISM "Words and pictures are bullets whose flight never ends" writes Struthers Burt in the prefatory pages. For Szyk, his caricatures--delivered with colorful satirical precision--were not weapo…ns as an end in themselves, but instruments intended to hasten the end of war: weapons moving toward peace. Polish-born but residing in America for much of the Second World War, Szyk (1894-1951) endures as one of the most profound anti-Nazi cartoonists of the twentieth-century. Ink and Blood gathers his most potent wartime caricatures, capturing the moral urgency and graphic brilliance of Szyk's pen. Unlike ephemeral newspaper appearances, here his images are preserved in lasting form-part propaganda, part artistic manifesto. Ink and Blood stands as both cultural document and enduring testament to art deployed in the service of conscience. This edition, bound in full black morocco with batik paper, and limited to 1000 inscribed copies, is inscribed by Szyk to Rudolph Singer, whose bookplate is adhered to the ffep verso. Spine moderately rubbed, with some light wear to front joint, else near fine in very good, lightly rubbed slipcase with spots of wears to corners. Internally clean and sharp text and plates. Publisher's full black morocco, titled in gilt, purple and orange batik endpapers, housed in matching publisher's slipcase. Color frontispiece, seventy-four numbered plates, including six in color. (illustrator). Signed.
More imagesPublished by Heritage Press, New York 1946
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, U.S.A.Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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£ 965.60
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Add to basketCondition: Near Fine. First Edition. One of 1000 copies signed by Arthur Szyk, this copy inscribed for Albert A. Cornish. Original full black morocco lettered in gilt, batik-printed board endpapers, housed in matching slipcase. Near Fine with rubbing along spine edges, occasional slight rippling to leaves. In Near Fine slightly…sunned and rubbed slipcase. A signed deluxe collection of the Polish-Jewish artist's political caricatures that often skewer the Axis leaders of WWII.
