George Jan Witt (11 results)

Hardback. Condition: New. Footballs, as well as footballers, have feelings too, as proven by this reproduction of the charming 1940's children's book by design duo Lewitt-Him. The excited citizens of Kickford and Goalbridge turn out for their annual football match only to have it cut short. After a particularly violent kick, the ball decides it has had enough and remains in the air, in spite of the townspeople's heroic attempts to bring it back down. It is left to the children of the town to come up with a plan to save the match.

Condition: Brand New. 32 pages. 11.30x9.37x0.39 inches. In Stock.

Pictorial Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Lewitt-Him (illustrator). First Printing of ReIssue. Pictorial boards, top corner of upper cover bumped, tiny abrasion to FFEP; matching dust jacket with original price intact (11.99 GBP). A soccer ball decides it has had enough of being kicked around. A charming picture book originally published in 1939. Size: 4to.

Lewitt-Him (illustrator). 2008, 8vo., 80pp., many coloured illustrations, new clean, un-read copy, decorated boards, dust jacket.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black and white designed matt paper covered boards. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Jan Le Witt and George Him were a comparative rarity, a graphic design duo; signing their work as Lewitt-Him they brought an innovative use of colour imaginative abstraction and symbolism to commercial design. Contains 80 printed pages with colour works throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, unused new book. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9781851495665 GRAPHIC DESIGN (Visual Arts).

Hardback. Condition: New. Footballs, as well as footballers, have feelings too, as proven by this reproduction of the charming 1940's children's book by design duo Lewitt-Him. The excited citizens of Kickford and Goalbridge turn out for their annual football match only to have it cut short. After a particularly violent kick, the ball decides it has had enough and remains in the air, in spite of the townspeople's heroic attempts to bring it back down. It is left to the children of the town to come up with a plan to save the match.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Colour illustrations. VG+ in Very Good dust jacket. DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Him, George; Jan Le Witt (illustrator). Cloth backed pictorial boards. Corners creased and scuffed, exposing a bit of boards. Front gutter lightly split but still tight and sound. Gift note on front end paper. Leaf corners softly creased. All together a decent copy of this scarce title illustrated by George Him and Jan Lewitt.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. LEWITT-HIM (Jan Le Witt and George Him). The Football's Revolt. London: Country Life Ltd., 1939. First edition. 4to (285 × 220 mm). 28 pp. Colour-illustrated throughout, with text and images by the design partnership Lewitt-Him. Original pictorial boards, yellow cloth spine. Light soiling and mottling to cloth and boards, corners lightly rubbed, contents clean and fresh, colours bright. A small pencil price of 2/6 to the front cover and early ownership inscription to front free endpaper (dated 1941). The Polish émigré artists Jan Le Witt (1907-1991) and George Him (1900-1982), who settled in Britain in 1937, quickly established themselves as leading figures in modernist graphic design. The Football's Revolt is one of their first books produced in London, combining humorous text with vividly stylised illustrations. Its narrative ? in which a football match descends into absurdist chaos as objects and crowds take on lives of their own and a football gets stuck in the air, provided an ideal showcase for them. The book was popular enough to be reissued by Country Life in the 1940s, during the Second World War, though this original 1939 printing is the true first edition.

Hardcover. Lewitt-Him (illustrator). First Edition. about 30 pgs. During the wartime and years to follow they became one of the most influential partnerships in Britain and their illustration style influenced a generation of younger illustrators such as Jack Townend, Hilary Stebbing and many others. Working under the name Lewitt-Him, George Him and Jan Le Witt, who began working together in Warsaw in 1933, arrived in London in 1937. They had already produced some ground-breaking children's books such as Locomotive (1938, first published in Poland) based on the text by the distinguished Polish poet Julian Tuwin. Once in England, the pair created several high-quality children's books, being among the first illustrators working in the UK to introduce modernist elements for this age-group: their style leaned towards abstraction and borrowed elements from Surrealism and Cubism. A typical example is Blue Peter (1943), with text by Jan Le Witt's wife, Alina. This story about a blue dog born to a white mother who is persecuted but eventually finds a home on Blue Dog Island is a parable that no doubt appealed to George Him, a Jew who witnessed the Russian Revolution, and was living through the persecutions and atrocities of the Holocaust at the time of publication. Very good- hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Previous owner's name ("Natalie") written on front endpaper. (684).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. first English translation, undated circa 1939, jacket slightly chipped at edges with some losses to spine, no markings, translated from the Polish.