Albert Jaern (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. As new in dust jacket.

Condition: Good. This book has been examined carefully and the cover shows some wear. There may be light highlighting or writing with small bends or creases. hardcoverUsed - Good2011.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Special Edition. Quarto, pictorial wrappers printed in black, gray, and red. First Mortensen edition, translated into Norwegian by Herman Wildenvey, with 20 full-page illustrations by Albert Jærn. A striking production.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Jaern, Alb Jaern / Albert Jaern (illustrator). 3rd Edition. Half title page + blank + illustration (sometime removed as could be seen as very rude) + blank + Title page + publishers page + illustration + 2 page forward + 103 pages just of title, each page opposite another 103 pages of illustrations. (Pages are not numbered and easy to get 102 or 103). the main loss is often the first illustration before Title page ( as could be seen as very rude, mannen som elsket kanoner / the man who loved cannons ). Norwegian, about the Nazi occupation of Norway in woodblock illustrations. Printed in Norway with Norwegian text, at the end of WWII. Condition; Original decorative hardback binding and spine in Black & Maroon with title to spine, mostly very good, some rubbing. 2 corner knocks, corner loss of colour front. Contents Very good clean & tight, no inscriptions, Vibrant Black & Maroon illustrated endpages front & rear. Below title opposite each illustration is mostly a nazi helmet, throwing grenade, barbed wire, swastika etc. Albert Jærn (1893-1949) was a Norwegian designer and book illustrator. This is from his excerpts from his secret diary over five years, Albert Jærn captures in words and woodcuts the atrocities and indignities Norwegians witnessed during their country's five-year-long occupation by Hitler's forces from 1940 to 1945. Jærn favoured block cuts of wood or linoleum. In simplified lines and surfaces, free of affectation or exaggeration, he captured the point he wished to communicate and managed to make something new each time. Published his diary in the hope that his countrymen would never forget their ordeal. He wanted Norwegians to remember their own confusion and fear as well as the enemies' tyranny and oppression. He stated that this book is about me during the war years but hoped that the younger generation will find something that they will always remember about the tyranny and oppression. To sum Binding Good, Content Very Good, before the net this could cost over 3 time of today's price by top dealers. If buying a cheaper copy please make sure it contains the first illustration BEFORE the Title page titled mannen som elsket kanoner. Size 25 x 20cm. approx.