Burt Strothers (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. light green linen-like covers and spine with white lettering and gilt lettering, some outlined in gold, title and 2 white horizontal bands outlined in gold, artwork of fountain? and author are in gilt, spoine with title, author and publisher in white and artwork and horizontal bars in gold, back cover blank, untitled chapters, novel, front cover with light soiling and red stain from nearby book, spine lightly soiled, back cover stained with red and blue from nearby books, end pages are foxed, all pages are browned with age, pages edges are lightly soiled, right page edges are rough cut.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Szyk, Arthur (illustrator). Limited edition. A limited edition of 1,000, this collection of Arthur Szyk's work was inscribed by the artist to each subscriber. Lengthy (17 page) Prefatory remarks by Strothers Burt. Frontis plus four more full color plates and 74 monochrome lithographic drawings in sepia. The 4 color plates are lovely works showing the people and symbols of America, Russia, France and England, with brilliant colors and painted in his amazing miniaturist detail. Large 4to (9" x 12 1/2"), full black morocco. Handmade endpapers match the paper-covered slipcase, done in a geometric design not unlike Batik. Near fine with mild rubbing to leather spine, no previous owner's marks. Box is slightly faded at one end, light wear to the rounded slipcase guides at top and bottom. Szyk is best known for his scathing indictments of the Nazis and this contains much of that work, including the famous "Murder, Inc" with Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito along with anti-Axis and anti-Nazi caricatures and cartoons. All color plates mounted. Printed on letterpress. The plate names say it all: Schicklgruber-Lohengrin, Hitler's Birthday in Tokyo, The Cheerful Idiots, The Superkraut, etc. In 1940, Szyk was living in New York City and this work, as it first appeared in top magazines of the day, helped elicit the U.S. to see the reality of what the Nazis were doing to his fellow Jews. This remains his seminal work, collected just after the war. The pebbled leather binding is often found in less than fine condition, this is an exceptional copy. Inscribed to Grace and Willis Heath (the entire edition was hand-inscribed to each subscriber by Szyk, in his hand). Signed by Szyk.