Lewitt Him Illustrators (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. First Edition, 2nd Printing. A very unique book, with verse & prose by acclaimed children's book author Elizabeth Coatsworth brought to life with some of the paintings of 33 artists especially commissioned by UNICEF to design its Christmas cards, the sale of which help provide nutrition & health care to needy children around the world. Still operational today (2023), the art in the cards displayed in this volume are vintage 1960s. In 93 pages, lavishly illustrated in full color. A FIRST EDITION, Second printing, from 1960, this hardcover 8vo (6.25" x 9") has glossy white paper-covered boards brightly decorated with a images from a painting by R. Duvoisin) of children from around the world, a design replicated on the accompanying DJ. Condition is VG+: very clean & bright with minor rubbing to extremities & bumping to spine tips/corners. Interior pages are white, brightly colored, with just a hint of tanning to edges; unmarked save for former owner's name in neat pen to ffep. The bottom-clipped DJ is Good+, with some chips to both bottom & top edges & both ends of spine; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Bemelmans, Ludwig; Bettina; Busse, Fritz; Duvoisin, Roger; Legrand, Edy; Lewitt-Him; Low, Joseph; Mai-Thu; Weisgard, Leonard; Zabransky, Adolf (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Not dated. [1942] Not dated. Oblong 8vo. Bound in original pictorial paper covered boards. [32pp] Board edges a little worn, a piece of sellotape around the lower spine. The book is printed on cheap war time thin paper. Inside an inscription is dated Christmas 1948 in neat adult ink, there is indentation of a child juvenile hand writing on one page, contents a little loose, /shaken, four pages have short 5mm marginal tears, one page has the number 6 written in biro and the colour illustration opposite has some slight damage where it has stuck onto the facing page with text.Please look at photos carefully. A good copy only. Title first published by Faber & Faber in 1942 ~ illustrated by Jan Lewitt and George Him, notable graphic designers in partnership as Lewitt-Him for many years. Subsequent titles, beginning with The Story of the Little Red Engine were illustrated by Leslie Wood. Jan Lewitt, George Him, (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIrst British edition of this classic children's book written by Diana Ross and with illustrations by the renowned graphic designers and poster artists Jan Lewitt and George Him. The first of the Little Red Engine stories. Oblong 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket, 32 pages, published by Faber & Faber in 1942, though undated. The Lewitt-Him design partnership began in Warsaw in 1933 but relocated to London in 1937, to escape the looming threat of Nazism, as both were Jewish. Though the partnership ended in 1955, both principals enjoyed successful and critically acclaimed careers in commercial graphic design, along with set, costume, and exhibition design, and art. Light chipping to extremities, with small closed tears to spine ends. Mild rippling to textblock. Moderate bumping and chipping to price-clipped dj, especially at spine ends. Creasing to bottom of front cover, a few closed tears throughout dj all practically imperceptible. Scarce with dust jacket.…