Vertés Marcell (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition Thus. Text in Hungarian. Hardcover with dustjacket. 4to. First edition thus. Green cloth, illustrated, boards clean and bright. Protected dustjacket bright, mild age toning to edges. Book is firm in binding, b&w illustrations, many full page, by author, illustrated endpapers. This is the Hungarian translation of Vertes' book, originally published in French in 1952. A crisp copy, with Vertes' sketches throughout. A memoir of his life in Paris during both World Wars, with a chronology of the artist's life by Bajomi Lazar Endre. Text is in Hungarian. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 353 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition thus. 4to, 356 pp. Orig. cloth with dust jacket. Fine copy in very good dust jacket with some tears at the top of the rear panel. A Hungarian edition of Vertés' book Amandes Vertes (i.e., Green Almonds, but also a pun on the artist's name), published in French in 1952. Attractive book with many sketches reproduced. A memoir of the artist's Paris years, basically between the two World Wars, when he was a leading portrayer of gai Paris. Afterword by Lazar Endre Bajomi, giving a chronology of Vertés' life. The afterword also reproduces some of Vertés' earlier Hungarian work, which was more political and expressionist.

Over 250 Drawings. Cloth Covers. Dustwrapper. 353,(3) Pages. 4.Impression. Dustwrapper torn, edges rubbed. Corners bumped. Cut sunned. Good.