Guertik Hélène Père Castor (6 results)

/Helen Guertik, (Hélène) illustrator. (illustrator). CONDITION: Good Plus; name on cover, darkening and light soil, spine paper cracking; pages clean and unwrinkled. Toploader softcover large. Animal lithos in stunning colour with little prose poems opposite. A Père Castor book from a wonderful Russian illustrator. ABE Heritage Seller since 1996; conservative AB condition grading. We ship all our books in cardboard protection. International shipping. /Helen Guertik, (Hélène) illustrator.

Condition: Very good. Authorized American edition of this early large format Père Castor book, featuring striking and stylized Art Deco color lithographs by Russian émigré artist Guertik with dotted lines for children to finish the designs. It was émigré artists like Guertik, Nathalie Parain, Alexandra Exter, Feodor Rojankowsky, and Georges Cherkessof, working with avant-garde Constructivist, Dadaist, and Minimalist art philosophies, that gave the Père Castor books their greatest distinction and gained them long-lasting fame. This book first published by Flammarion in 1934. A nice intact copy. 10.5'' x 9.5''. Original side-stapled color pictorial flexible card wrappers. Illustrated by Guertik in color throughout, with "finishing" images intact and unused. [20] pages. Slight edge wear and soiling to wrappers, top front corner bumped.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. US JC Bin 22-4: This large format stiff covers book, 24 pages, two color illustrations, in rear pocket is the viewer w a red and a blue gel to use to see the images of red or blue in the illustrations, Stapled have pulled loose, cover thus is loose but complete, Cover illustration of scampering mice.

Paperback. H. (Helene) Guertik (illustrator). First edition. Very slim square octavo. Stapled pictorial wraps. Each uncolored page faces an example of the same design, only completed with color. Very good. The wraps and pages are moderately age-toned. This copy once belonged to the Girard Foundation Library, and has a bookplate on the verso of the first page (obscuring a little bit of the uncolored illustration). With charming illustrations by Russian artist, Hélène Guertik. After fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution, Guertik began her career in France by painting scarves for Chanel, and went on to illustrate eleven works for Le Père Castor.

Condition: Very good. Scarce and beautiful activity book from Père Castor, featuring striking color lithographs, each facing an image in outline to be colored by the owner. Guertik was a Russian émigré artist living in Paris in the 1930s: it was artists like Guertik, Nathalie Parain, Alexandra Exter, Feodor Rojankowsky, and Georges Cherkessof, working with avant-garde Constructivist, Dadaist, and Minimalist art philosophies, that gave the Père Castor books their greatest distinction and gained them long-lasting fame. A nice copy. 8.5'' x 9''. Original side-stapled color pictorial wrappers. Illustrated by Guertik throughout. Unused. Text in French. [12] pages. Some foxing at margins of front wrapper, spine rubbed.

Flammarion, 1936. Fascicule petit in-4 carré agrafé, (16) pp. Précieux petit catalogue, imprimé en noir et blanc. Couverture d'Hélène Guertik. Il présente les 68 albums publiés à cette date (par Rojan/Rojankovsky, Institut Bakule, Bilibine, Nathalie Parain, H. Guertik, Tcherkessof.), en expliquant le projet pédagogique qui les inspire. * Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s). * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte sur rendez-vous.