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1934049646Prag / Praha / Prague Cz: Simplicus-Verlag 1934. Soft cover. Poor. 50 Pp. Preliminary And Final Blanks. Card Covers. Text By Heinrich Mann In English Very Poorly Translated German And French. Caricature On P. 35 Cut Out But Still Present; Caricature On P. 37 Cut Out But Not Present. Covers And Blanks Detached Along Spine Edge But All Present Contents Securely Staple Bound As Issued. Social Artist William Gropper's Copy With His Signature At Upper Left Corner Of Front Cover. <br/> <br/> Simplicus-Verlag paperback
1911H2515Boston: Richard G. Badger 1911. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition 1911 very good inscribed to a Mrs. Stevenson Burke with a 12-line poem that begins 'Perhaps within these sprightly rhymes / Some favorite singer of the times / with pleasure you may meet.' inscription is fully signed and dated December 1913. VG no jacket 108 pp the caricatures by Caruso are quite charming. Richard G. Badger hardcover
7412Date place and publisher not stated. London: R. Ackermann 1813. On a piece of good wove paper roughly 415 x 260 mm. Dimensions of engraving 180 x 220 mm. On aged paper and with the margins of the leaf trimmed. Laid down along the right hand margin runs a strip of blue paper 30 x 410 mm which it may be possible for a professional restorer to remove. This edges the border of the print which is clear and entire and overlaps a few letters of the text. Neatly coloured in sombre tones. Beneath the print is the title which ends 'at Leipsic and its environs.' and beneath the title is an eleven-line section of text headed 'THE TWO KINGS OF TERROR.' beginning 'THIS Subject representing the two Tyrants viz. the Tyrant BONAPARTE and the Tyrant DEATH sitting together on the Field of Battle'. Death is seated on a cannon with one foot on a pile of cannonballs and the other on a broken French eagle facing a dejected Bonaparte seated on a drum. In the background the massed ranks of the allies their four flags flying drive the retreating French from the field. The final four-line paragraph reads 'The above description of the subject appeared in the Sun of Saturday the 6th of November. These pointed comments arose from the picture being transparent and from a Circle indicative of the strength and brotherly union of the Allies which surmounted the same composed of gas of brilliant brightness.' See Image. Date, place and publisher not stated. [London: R. Ackermann, 1813.] unknown
1966Biblio821Place Victoria Montréal: Ville de Montréal 1966. 81/2x11" 65p couv imprimée ill n&b catalogue de compétition de 210 caricatures provenant de 37 pays Couverture jaunies avec légers frottements et tache sur la tranche Intérieur frais Rareté Ville de Montréal unknown
15837Nibelungen Verlag Berlin 1943. In/4 à litalienne reliure demi-toile titre sur une étiquette contrecollée sur le plat supérieur. Deux petites taches claires en plat supérieur sinon très bon état. 48 planches en noir. Caricature politique anti-britanique par les allemands durant la seconde guerre mondiale. unknown
194040629London: NP 1940. Original photographs. Loose_leaf. g to vg. Striking collection of 11 silver gelatin prints of Vicky's Victor Weisz caricatures of Hitler in his series: "Hitler as seen by." <br /> <br /> This humorous series portrays the Führer as seen by some of the most famous personalities of the period such as: Pablo Picasso Franklin Delano Roosevelt Albert Einstein Neville Chamberlain .and himself! Hitler is also portrayed as seen by women; by the German Reichswehr; by one part of the German nation Hitler is idealized as one of Richard Wagner's valkyries!; by the other part of the German nation here Hitler is portrayed as a tyrant holding a long whip; by the French military staff and by the inhabitants of ex-German colonies.<br /> <br /> The photographs' size varies from 7 1/2 x 10 1/2" to 8 1/8 x 11 1/4". Each silver gelatin print has a typed captioned label pasted at verso.<br /> <br /> Minor and sporadic creasing and tiny chipping along edges not affecting illustrations. Photographs in overall good to very good condition. Born in Berlin of Hungarian-Jewish parents Victor Weisz 1913-1966 began art studies at the Berlin Kunstschule but had to leave when his father killed himself in 1928. In order to make a living he began having his cartoons published in German newspapers. As a member of the Jewish community with socialist political opinions Weisz decided to leave Germany after Adolf Hitler gained power. He arrived in London in 1935 and found work as a political cartoonist with a variety of newspapers and journals including the "News Chronicle" "the Daily Mirror" the "Daily Mail" the "New Statesman" and the "Evening Standard." By the 1940s Weisz who signed his work Vicky had established himself as Britain's leading left-wing cartoonist. Like his father he took his own life in 1966. NP unknown
