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Bornstein Jerry; Brandt Chancellor WillyABAA

The Wall Came Tumbling Down: The Berlin Wall and the Fall of Communism

Ley Willy; W. Franklin DoveABAA

The Lungfish and the Unicorn: An Excursion into Romantic Zoology

1941140939786New York: Modern Age Books 1941. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. xii 305 pp. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in red. A Very Good copy with toned pages light wear in an attractive example of the uncommon dust jacket Very Good unclipped chipped at extremities a few tape mends on verso small area of white paint spray on spine panel. The copy of biologist W. Franklin Dove 1897-1972 inscribed to him by his wife and dated 25 Dec. 1942 on front free endpaper; a few marginal penciled notes probably by Dove throughout. Dove was involved in "unicorn research" a number of strange experiments attempting to surgically recreate the horn of the fictional creature the unicorn. Madeline McCurry Schmidt wrote of Dove in a 2011 blogpost for the distinguished Scientific American magazine: Dr. W. Franklin Dove spent years of his career creating unicorns. Unicorn goats unicorn cows. Even tri-horned animals roamed Dove's barns. Dove created these strangely-horned animals by removing immature "horn buds" from the heads of young animals and implanting the horn buds to a different location on the skull. He wanted to prove that horns did not grow straight out of the skull; instead horn tissue developed separately and fused to the skull as it grew. Understand that Dove was no crackpot scientist. Dove was a biologist at the University of Maine who studied animal production in the early 20th century. He had all the right collaborators and the right publications. Dove was a serious scientist. It's not the "seriousness" of Dove's endeavors that animal rights advocates might take issue with but moving on Nigel Suckling wrote of Dove's notorious"unibull" creation: in 1933 Dove took a day-old Ayrshire calf surgically removed its horn buds trimmed them to fit together and replanted them in the centre of its forehead. As the young bull grew the buds fused and produced a single solid straight and pointed horn a foot or so in length which proved equally useful for fighting and uprooting fences far superior in fact to the usual brace of curved ones when it comes to confronting a rival. Dr Dove's Unicorn bull became the leader of its herd and was very rarely challenged by other males. This result inspired at least recent one neuroscientist to examine the relationship of anatomy to behavior. A notable work of zoology that extends into realms of cryptozoology with a very unusual association that brings in the related subfield of experimental zoology. Modern Age Books unknown books

Burnside Rare Books, ABAA · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

POGANY Willy illustrator; WAGNER RichardABAA

TannhÃ¤user Calendar for 1914

04400London & Paris: Liberty & Co. 1913. An Original Willy Pogany TannhÃ¤user Calendar for 1914 POGANY Willy illustrator. TannhÃ¤user Calendar for 1914. London & Paris: Liberty & Co. 1913. Octavo 8 5/8 x 6 1/16 inches; 219 x 154 mm. 24 pages including wrappers printed on heavy gray stock. Eight mounted color plates. The second color plate with two creases at lower left corner. Printed in colors on gray paper stock sewn as issued. Front wrapper with neat early ink inscription on top margin. Remnant of silk ties otherwise a near fine copy of this scarce piece of Willy Pogany ephemera. Willy PogÃ¡ny born in Szeged Hungary in 1882 studied at Budapest Technical University and in Munich and Paris. His reputation as a muralist painter and illustrator was well established in Paris London and Munich before arriving in the United States in 1915 at the age of thirty-three. Skilled in an unusually wide range of media he had won gold medals at exhibitions in Budapest Leipzig and at the Panama Pacific International Exhibition. "Among PogÃ¡ny's many murals are those for the Heckscher Children's Theatre in New York City and the Niagara Falls Power Station. As a painter he did portraits of famous people in all walks of life. An expert on scenery design and lighting effects PogÃ¡ny also designed sets for ballets and operas including "Le Coq d'Or" and for many films such as Modern Times for Charlie Chaplin as well as animated cartoons based on his children's books. "Among his other artistic endeavors PogÃ¡ny was an accomplished book illustrator. It was this phase of his career especially as an illustrator of children's books which gives this collection special relevance for Special Collections & University Archives at the University of Oregon Libraries. PogÃ¡ny designed and illustrated more than 150 books. His illustrations include those for the Rubaiyat and the Sonnets from the Portuguese The Song Celestial The Adventures of Odysseus Gulliver's Travels and many others both classic and original. "Working tirelessly right up until the end Willy PogÃ¡ny died in 1955" University of Oregon Guide to the Willy A. PogÃ¡ny Papers 1910-1967. London & Paris: Liberty & Co., [1913] unknown books

David Brass Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis350,00 $US≈ 296,14 €

POGANY Willy; ROLLESTON TW.; WAGNER Richard T. W.ABAA

Tannhauser

03378London: G.G. Harrap & Co. 1911. One of Pogany's Quintet of Masterpieces Limited to 525 Copies POGANY Willy illustrator. Tannhauser. A Dramatic Poem by Richard Wagner Freely Translated in Poetic Narrative Form by T.W. Rolleston. Presented by Willy Pogany. London: G.G. Harrap & Co. n.d. 1911. Limited to 525 copies signed and numbered by the artist this being copy no. 241. Quarto. Sixteen mounted color plates including frontispiece many full page two-tone illustrations each page beautifully decorated. Full vellum pictorially stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt others untrimmed. A fine copy with only a bit of light staining to spine. Housed in a blue cloth slipcase. William Andrew "Willy" Pogany born Vilmos Andreas PogÃ¡ny August 1882 - 30 July 1955 was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. Pogany's best known works consist of illustrations of classic myths and legends done in the Art Nouveau style. He also worked as an art director on several Hollywood films including Fashions of 1934 and Dames. The publication of PogÃ¡ny's Tannhauser was the first act in his trilogy of masterworks focused on Wagner's Germanic tales and one of the quintet that is considered his finest work. PogÃ¡ny clearly approached the commission to improve and extend techniques that he had developed through his preceding work particularly The RubÃ¡iyat of Omar KhayyÃ¡m and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Along with TannhÃ¤user Parsifal and Lohengrin these five books immortalized his career as an llustrator. That commitment to ongoing innovation resulted in an incredible suite of illustrations including color lithographs monotone and marginal illustrations and the delightful tipped-in color plates produced in four-color process included in Tannhauser. Themes of medieval chivalry erotic love and moral tests are illustrated in a lavish fashion by PogÃ¡ny with an outstanding use of iconography form and colour. London: G.G. Harrap & Co., 1911 unknown books

David Brass Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis1 950,00 $US≈ 1 649,90 €

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