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1910184938London: George Harrap & Co. 1910. The rarest issue of Pogány's masterpiece First Pogány edition signed extra limited issue number 23 of 25 copies signed by the artist. Pogány's illustrated edition of Coleridge's famous long poem is one of the artist's most lavish undertakings and was clearly inspired by the grand medieval tradition of book illustration. This extra limited issue was "for sale in England and America". A further 525 signed copies were issued on paper and there was also a standard trade issue. As noted by Richard Dalby "Willy Pogány was Dulac's most successful European contemporary during the highest peak of the Golden Age of book illustration. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was his most ornate and impressive production with hand-scripted text full-page black and white drawings and colour plates tipped-in on grey matte paper. This combination of illustration and calligraphic text by the artist was rarely repeated" p. 87. Quarto. With title page 20 tipped-in colour plates other full-page illustrations each page of text within decorative borders all by Pogány. Original vellum by Morrell spine and front cover lettered in gilt and with illustrations in gilt blue green and red illustrated endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed. Housed in a custom blue morocco entry slipcase. Vellum moderately soiled boards bowed as usual contents bright. A very good copy. Richard Dalby The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration 1991. hardcover
1910159737New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1910. Pogány's masterpiece Signed limited edition numbered 125 of 525 copies signed by the artist. Pogány's illustrated edition of Coleridge's famous long poem is one of the artist's most lavish undertakings and was clearly inspired by the grand medieval tradition of book illustration. The book was co-published by George Harrap in the UK and Thomas Y. Crowell in the US. As noted by Richard Dalby "Willy Pogány was Dulac's most successful European contemporary during the highest peak of the Golden Age of book illustration. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was his most ornate and impressive production with hand-scripted text full-page black and white drawings and colour plates tipped-in on grey matte paper. This combination of illustration and calligraphic text by the artist was rarely repeated". Quarto. With title page 20 tipped-in colour plates other full page illustrations each page of text within decorative borders all by Willy Pogány. Original brown calf spine and front cover lettered and illustrated in gilt top edge gilt others untrimmed. Some abrasions to covers; a near-fine and bright copy with uncreased plates. Richard Dalby The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration 1991 p. 87. unknown
19091259George G Harrap & Co 1909. Hardcover. Very good. No dust jacket. W/ 24 tipped-in color plates. Blue cover w/ gold lettering. No DJ. The Book: Very Good w/ some minute edge/corner wears minute fading on spine a hint of red color on back cover some pgs have minor foxing. Binding is tight. <br/> <br/> George G Harrap & Co hardcover
190939209London: George G Harrap & Co. Ltd 1909. Front gutter cracked foxing to closed pages. Some very light rubbing to boards. A beautiful 1909 edition. Hard. Good Plus/No Jacket. 4to. George G Harrap & Co. Ltd Hardcover
1934512205Philadelphia: David McKay Co 1934. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small quarto. 135pp. plus illustrations. Translated from the Sanskrit by Sir Edward Arnold. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Recipient's attractive contemporary bookplate on front pastedown. cloth is lightly rubbed lightly bumped at tips of two corners else a very good copy. Inscribed by Pogany on the half-title: "To Julietta with best compliments Willy Pogany 1935. David McKay Co hardcover
1913184178London: G. G. Harrap & Co. 1913. First trade edition in the publisher's deluxe leather binding. In this beautifully decorated production Pogany finds "a congenial theme for his exceptional powers in the high imaginings the terror and mysticism the symbolism and supernatural vision of one of Wagner's immortal romances. The pages are beautified with decorative drawings that are fittingly in tune with the changing moods of the text" Adcock. Large octavo. With 8 colour mounted plates illustrated and decorated throughout the text in various colours. Printed on pale grey paper. Original brown calf smooth spine decoratively lettered and stamped in gilt front cover with title and pictorial block in blind colour-illustrated endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed. Bookseller's ticket of Margareta Webber Melbourne. Spine sunned gilt bright front inner hinge split short split to rear inner hinge remaining sound. A very good copy. A. St John Adcock "The Colour of Christmas" The Bookman Dec. 1913 p. 158 hardcover
193537064Los Angeles: Suttonhouse Ltd. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1935. Hardcover. Blue cloth/gilt. Ffep has been excised. Else tight and unmarked. The scarce DJ in mylar has a shallow loss to the spine head and upper rear point and chips to the other points/spine foot. Edgewear with some edge creasing/tears clear tape reinforcement to areas of wear mostly on verso. Contains seven short stories. Contains six full color plates; one is missing presumable the frontis. No slipcase. ; quarto; 181 pages . Suttonhouse, Ltd. hardcover
19215582131921. Unbound. Near Fine. Two original pen and ink drawings on artists board. Each measures approximately from 8¼" x 10". Overall near fine with hint of toning at the edges and some wear at the corners. The drawings are not signed but both have pencil notes on the rear noting the book in which they appeared: Padraic Colum’s The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles published by The Macmillan Company in 1921. The images depict Jason of the Argonauts reaching for Aeson his stern-looking father and King Admetus crumpled in a chair lamenting his upcoming Death while his wife Alcestis stands touching his head in comfort before choosing to take his place in the Underworld. Each drawing is a fine representation of Pogany's crisp line work. A nice pair of images. Book not included. unknown
1944002272New York: B.F.Jay & Co. at McGraw Hill 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Willy Pogany. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1st edition. A Very Good copy accompanied with Uncle Ben Jay's Magic Lenses. Oblong 8vo. 63 pp. illustrated with color drawings and 3D red and orange drawings.Some light soiling and light edge wear to the boards. A bit of foxing on the paste downs and end papers facing otherwise internally clean and bright. Comes with the publisher's Magic Lenses with handles that change the lens from blue to red to make the illustrations 'move'. One blue lens with a tear. A very Good copy with the scarce Magic Lenses. Comes with3 D glasses to see the 'moving' illustrations for the following stories: 1. The Pied Piper; 2. Seven at One Blow; 3. The Lion and The Mouse; 4. The Man His Son and His Donkey; 5. The Fox and The Raven; 6. Little Joe and the Wolf; 7. The Three Bears; 8. Tom Thumb; 9. The Golden Goose; 10. The Queen Bee; 11. The Elves and the Shoemaker; 12. Hansel and Gretel. . B.F.Jay & Co., at McGraw Hill hardcover
19304157n.p.: n.p. 1930s. Original work. 16 x 20.5 inches frame. Original untitled pencil and gouache painting on paper or board signed in the lower right corner. In very good condition with no apparent flaws not examined outside of frame. <br/><br/>William Andrew Willy Pogany 18821955 was a celebrated Hungarian-American illustrator contemporary of Edmund Dulac and N.C. Wyeth. He is remembered most for his illustrations of myths and fairy tales both Western and Eastern: The Rubaiyat Parsifal Rime of the Ancient Mariner Gulliver's Travels the Arabian Nights and so on. <br /> <br />This figure possibly a sketch for a magazine cover or a costume design was acquired by its current owners directly from the artists son. n.p. unknown
1928005714New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons 1928. First Edition . Cloth. Very Good. Tall Octavo. Willy Pogany. Half-blue cloth over blue paper boards printed paper title lables to spine and front board without dustjacket as issued top edge gilt 9.25 x 7.25 inches. Limited First Edition SIGNED by Pogany on limitation page one of 500 numbered copies. A true first edition/first printing with "latch" misspelled. Unpaginated; illustrated by Pogany with full page color plates and half-page color illustrations b&w drawings silhouettes and endpapers all in high Art Deco style. Includes politically incorrect "Ten Little N----- Boys" rhyme with caricatured images of black children. Pogany's interpretation of "Mother Goose" is regarded as a masterpiece of Art Deco book design and illustration. Internally exceptionally clean and bright showing some light wear to exterior heaviest at corners spine lightly sunned. A highly collectable and desirable copy of a high point of 20th century children's illustrated books <br/> <br/> Thomas Nelson & Sons hardcover
195034344New York: David McKay 1950. Softcover. Pogany Willy. 4to wraps with color and black and white samples and illustrations of techniques. Rubbing to spine else near fine no previous owner's marks. David McKay unknown
192877704New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons 1928. First with Willy Pogany's illustrations. Hardcover. good. Bound in blue bloth with gilt lettering and design to covers.Color and black and white illustrations by Wlly Pogany. Crease near gutter of frontispiece. Some rubbing at bottom of spine. Name of previous owner on front endpaper. Thomas Nelson & Sons hardcover
195435698New York: David McKay 1954. 1st ed. Hardcover. Pogany Willy. 1st 4to full blue cloth 64pp with color and black and white samples and illustrations of techniques. Inscribed and dated 1954 from Pogany to his friend and pupil Eddie Newman. Lightly edgeworn in chipped and stained but unclipped dj. David McKay hardcover
19287907Thomas Nelson and Sons. Very Good. 1928. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Three quarter blue cloth cover with blue boards has modest wear to corners and spine caps sunned spine and toned spine label but clean bright and overall in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages have very sparse and modest soiling from handling but overall very clean and in very good condition. Signed by illustrator on limitations page this being #127 of 500 copies. Rare original slipcase with matching labels has heavy toning and wear. This edition issued without a dust jacket. .; Signed by Illustrator . Thomas Nelson and Sons hardcover
192828945New York: Nelson 1928. Near fine. Signed limited first edition one of 500 numbered copies signed by Pogany. One of the most outstanding editions of Mother Goose illustrated by Pogany with unique full page color illustrations as well as many half-page color illustrations marvelous black and whites and silhouettes all in classic Art Deco style. Quite rare in the limited edition. 9'' x 7''. Original quarter cloth blue boards. Illustrated by Pogany in color and black-and-white cw: includes "Ten Little" rhyme with caricatured images of Black figures. Signed by Pogany on limitation page. A touch of wear to extremities faintest soil to top edge of front board. Nelson unknown
1950106763David McKay Company 1950. Hardcover. Near fine/good. Willy Pogany. David McKay Company 1950. 48pp. color black and white illustrations throughout. 4to. Minor discoloration on covers and end papers/pastedown pages near fine hardcover Good dust jacket with some loss of paper water-stains lower outside edge of rear panel. David McKay Company hardcover
192807541Willy Pogany'S MOTHER GOOSE Thomas Nelson & Sons 1928 first edition light rubbing to corner tips else a bright vg copy. Profusely illustrated in full color. Thomas Nelson & Sons unknown
1928408810New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1928. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. Unpaged. Illustrated in color and black and white. Illustrated blue cloth gilt. Old shelf number on the spine else near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Thomas Nelson and Sons hardcover
195458377N.p. ca. 1954. original wrappers titled in red pencil in custom slipcase and chemise. Light soiling and a few tears to wrappers. . Folio. unknown
195011838MCKAY. NY 1950. Fine. 1950. First Edition. Softcover. A trade paperback original. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers. Mild degree of rubbing to covers . MCKAY. NY 1950 paperback
1954mon0003964004David McKay Company 1954T. hardcover. Good. . David McKay Company hardcover
191584743London: George G. Harrap & Co . This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in Concertina or accordion style fold out styleillustrated paper covered boards with 16 coloured drawings with story attached to the base and with the reverse side of the panels taken from Defoe's Classic work.There is a little mild foxing internally with some modest wear to the boards edges.Binding is tight with no hinge weaknessno previous names or inscriptions are present.Undated but it's Circa 1915 and First Edition.Uncommon title for the collectorsmall 8vo . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1st Printing. 1915. George G. Harrap & Co hardcover
1916388842-UI3London/Paris : Liberty & Co. 1916. Softcover. Fair. Original wrappers with ribbon binding softcover 5 tipped-in illustrations in colour several illustrations in b/w 8vo.; Large tear along spine at front cover front cover also damaged at several spots along the edges some foxing. London/Paris : Liberty & Co. paperback
196007565DRUNKARD'S WALK in Galaxy Science Fiction for June & August 1960 Galaxy Publishing Corporation 1960 first edition 2 volumes complete fine in full color pictorial wraps each SIGNED by Fred Pohl. Scarce thus. The true first appearance in print of this novel. Also contains original contributions by Edmund Pangborn Fredric Brown Willy Ley et.al. Galaxy Publishing Corporation paperback
