Bloch David Ludwig (4 results)

Wraps. Condition: Good-. Vol. 1, No. 1. Edited by Larry T. Shaw. Cover art by Robert Engle illustrating "Kid Stuff" by Winston Marks. Includes "The Sickness" (novelet) by William Tenn; "Phantom Duel" (novelet) by Ford McCormack; "Have Tux - Will Travel" by Robert Bloch; "King of the Hill" by James Blish; "The First" by Edward Ludwig; "Placebo" by David Mason; "The Star" by Arthur C. Clarke. Departments: "By the Editor"; "Fanfare"; "Infinity's Choice" by Damon Knight. Illustrated by Engle, John Giunta, Fuller Griffith, and Manny Stallman. Loss at spien heel/front cover spien corner; cover glued on at hinge; a stamp scribbled on opn front and another fain stamp; creased; edge and corner wear; tanning. Magazine.…

Gr. 8° Broschiert. XLIX + 199 S. Broschierter Einband, 23 x 16 cm, Seiten altersüblich gebräunt, durchweg sauber, in sehr gutem Zustand. Ein Vorwort, danch ein Katalog mit 177 Holzschnitten und Verzeichnis der Holzschnitte mit Erklärungen. Vorwort und Erklärungen auf Deutsch, Englisch und Chinesisch. David Ludwig Bloch (1910-2002) war ein Porzellanmaler, Maler und Lithograf. Holzschnitt9700 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 420.…

Condition: Near Fine. Pbk, accordion-folded 32mo (3Ó x 4.5Ó) with stiff card covers, 12 b+w woodcuts of rickshaw drivers, after arrest in 1938 following Kristalnacht, and a short period of time confined to Dachau, Bloch emigrated to Shanghai to continue his work as a graphic artist and designer, there he published several sets of woodcuts depicting everyday life in Shanghai ÒThe woodcuts in Rickshaw depict the desperately underprivileged class of rickshaw drivers and their vehicles and capture their precarious status within an urban society already struggling with ineffable poverty Ð a popular motif propagated by political groups from the right and the left, by colonizers and colonized.Ó Gift inscription on front cover verso, light even toning to card covers, tiny spot to front cover lower left, internally a fine, clean, tight and unmarked text, overall a near-fine copy of this scarce original set of BlochÕs Shanghai woodcuts. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 12mo. Pp. 60 + colophon, illustrated with 60 woodcuts, with images on the left and text on the facing pages. "Sometimes the Chinese caption is a nearly direct translation from Japanese; sometimes it substitutes a Chinese maxim instead of a literal translation" (WorldCat). Cream-colored paper boards with a small square illustration mounted on yellow paper on the front cover, in the original yellow paper dust jacket decorated with a repeated black woodcut image of a rickshaw, lettered in red. Paper over the front hinge cracked, but with no loss, nothing loose; the binding remains tight and square. Boards lightly age-toned but clean. Dust jacket in excellent condition. A wartime collaboration documenting the daily lives of Shanghai's rickshaw pullers through the lens of the Jewish diaspora in occupied China. The woodcuts are by German-born Jewish refugee artist David Ludwig Bloch (1910-2002), identified under his localized pseudonym "White, Green, Black" (Haku Roku Koku), with poetic text and commentary by the prominent twentieth-century Japanese poet Shinpei Kusano (1903-1988). Published at the height of World War II, shortly before the formal confinement of refugees within the Hongkew Ghetto. Scarce. Nice copy. David Ludwig Bloch (illustrator).…