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19392271New York 1939. Etching on lightweight wove paper 13 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches 350 x 273 mm; 15 1/4 x 12 inches; sheet 383 x 300 mm; full margins. Signed in pencil in the lower margin. With mat tone age tone and small corner losses at each corner. A good impression with excellent inking and good burr. unknown
192165<b>SCARCE ART DECO CHINESE INSPIRED TALE was written by Julius Franz Schutz. IT IS BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED & ILLUSTRATED BY AUSTRIAN ARTIST MARA SCHROTTER-MALLICZKY. SHE DREW THE TEXT AND USED LITHOGRAPHY FOR BOTH TEXT AND HER BRILLIANT ART DECO COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS.<br /><br /></b>It was hand-bound by Karl Scheibe.<b> SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ARTIST ON THE LIMITATION PAGE. This is copy No. 284 of 300. German text<br /></b>Vienna & Liepzig: Wiener Literarische Anstalt 1921 Limited 1st Ed. Small folio publisher's green<br />cord-tied decorative boards very lightly soiled<b> with lively and</b> <b>colorful dragon-patterned endpapers. </b> Book is housed in the<b> original decorated board folding box with a paste-down label in the center of box. </b> Box is dust-soiled light edge wear spine tips hinge has some paper loss - but<b> it is tight and in good condition and has done its job of protecting the book. Book </b>is in<b> VG clean and tight condition.<br /></b><br /><br /><b><br /></b><b><br /><br /><br /><br /></b> Wiener Literarische Ansalt hardcover
191461909Wien, Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1914. Gr.-4°. Mit 51 schwarzen, 6 farbigen Heliogravüren und 250 Textillustrationen. XLVI S., 1 weißes Bl., 101 S., 4 nn., 57 num. Bll., OLdr. m. reicher Deckelverg., goldgepr. Deckel- u. Rückentitel u. Kopfgoldschnitt.
1933007297St. Louis Mo. : Students of Central High School 1933 1933. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 272 pp. ; profusely illustrated with artwork drawings and photographs ; red decorative cloth no dustjacket ; ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PSYCHIC OCCURENCES is preserved in this yearbook. A member of the graduating January class of 1933 GENEVA ABBOTT PATTERSON 1916-2011 was asked at age 16 to imagine the city of St. Louis in the future and she amazingly created a watercolor depicting the St. Louis cityscape and INCLUDED THE ST. LOUIS GATEWAY ARCH 15 YEARS BEFORE IT BECAME A CONCEPT IN THE MIND OF ITS DESIGNER EERO SAARINEN IN 1947! The Gateway Arch was not completed until 1963. ; She added the following prophetic text spoken by Ulysses's wife Penelope from line 24 of Tennyson's Ulysses 1842: "Yet all experience is an Arch wherethro' gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move" ; Geneva Abbott furthered her art studies at the Hadley Vocational School and became a member of the St. Louis Artists Guild. She worked as a commercial artist for International Shoe Company and then turned to work as a watercolorist in St. Louis Hilton Head South Carolina and Vero Beach Florida; the previous owner of the yearbook has added commentary and newspaper clippings of happenings to many of the senior class some documenting the deaths of several in World War II or by violence in St. Louis. Marriages of many of the women are recorded. Updated addresses and phone numbers of many former students are also added ; The yearbook has numerous articles written by students and show photographs and drawings in illustration. Subjects feature historical information about St. Louis lists of artists musicians with details of their lives and work are included ; all the artwork by the students reflects the then current Art Deco trends ; a very rare and historically important volume; and an exceedingly difficult-to-locate Saarinen collectible ; FINE <br/> <br/> St. Louis, Mo. : Students of Central High School, 1933 hardcover