Text Gaston Bachelard (2 results)

Condition: Good. First American edition. Folio. 26 x 35.7 cm. Fully illustrated by Chagall with ninety-six black-and-white reproductions and twenty-four color lithographs on wove paper. Illustrated paper over boards, with cloth spine and dust jacket; loss in lower right corner and extremities of dust-jacklet. Lithographs are clean. Bookplate of Renée L. Gelman, M.D."This double number of VERVE contains the drawings made by Chagall in 1958 and 1959 on biblical themes which in general he had not dealt with in his illustrations for the bible reproduced in VERVE 33/34. The present work comprises 96 reproductions in black and white and 24 lithographs in color, as well as a cover specially designed for this volume. The heliogravure in black and white by the master printers DRAEGER Frères and the lithography in color by Mourlot Frères." Cramer 42. Mourlot 230-277. Sorlier 75.

18 unpag. pp. with 24 full page original lithographs in color and 96 heliogravure-plates in black and white. First american edition. - This double number of Verve contains the drawings made by Chagall in 1958 and 1959 on biblical themes. The heliogravure in black and white are printed by Draeger Frères and the lithographs in color by Mourlot Frères. - Edges partly a little rubbed respectively sraped, pages in the margins minimally browned and in the upper right corners very weakly bumped, barely to be seen. Sprache: Deutsch 4°, 36 x 27,1 cm, hardcover, specially designed for this volume.