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Published by Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1956
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. The American edition of Verve Vol. VII, No's 33 and 34, with 16 lithographs in color + the cover, 12 lithographs in black, and 105 heliogravures in black. Slight lean, light shelfwear with boards just peeking through at bottom corners, touch of soiling to covers, tiny bump to bottom corners, few tiny spots to front endpapers, otherwise a VG+ copy with tattered remnants of dustjacket laid in.
Published by Paris: Éditions de la Revue Verve., 1956
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. 30 lithographs, including the cover (18 in color). Text in French by Jean Wahl and Meyer Schapiro. No dust jacket. Fold marks on free endpaper. Cramer, 25; M.117-M.146. The American edition was called "Illustrations for the Bible".This volume co-published by A.W. Bruna & Zoon, Ultrich.
Published by Avant Garde Periodicals, 1956
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Antwerpen, Belgium
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition thus, very fine condition. Verve: Marc Chagall - Bible / Dessins Vol VIII Nr. 33/34 - Vol. X Nr. 37/38 Special Collection by Marc Chagall, Jean Wahl, Meyer Shapiro, Gaston Bachelard. Published by Art & Avant Garde Periodicals in 1956. Hardcover. First edition. Two double issues of Verve extensively illustrated by Chagall. Bible: 16 lithographs printed in colours and 105 monochrome illustrations. Dessins pour la Bible: 24 lithographs (two in the text) and 96 monochrome illustrations. Printed by les Maitres-Imprimeurs Draeger Freres (heliogravure) and Mourlot Frere (lithographs). Texts by Jean Wahl, Meyer Shapiro and Gaston Bachelard. The Bible contains Chagall's first cycle of Bible illustrations, which had been specially commissioned by Ambroise Vollard, the great art dealer and publisher of artist books. In the second work, Dessins pour la Bible, Chagall additionally included scenes of the Old Testament's great dramas drawn in 1958-59, among which one finds the story of the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, the flood, the golden calf, Jonah and the whale, David and Goliath etc. One of the very few major Bible illustrations of the 20th century. Chagall combines the majesty of the Jewish tradition with the wit of popular art. The work was first requested by Vollard in 1931 and completed for Teriade in 1956. The text is from the French Geneva translation of 1638. Collectible item in excellent condition.