Illus Lisl Weil (3 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. 5th printing. [32]pp, 8 x 7 inches, TJ1668, reader. LISL WEIL (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Lacking dust jacket. First Edition. Printed at The Riverside Press. Thin quarto. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 122 pages. Illustrated by Lisl Weil. Yellow cloth-covered boards. Green lettering and illustration on front board, with green lettering on spine. Binding tight and square. Case very lightly soiled with bottom edges of both lower tips rubbed through (no bumping). Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown, else clean and unmarked throughout. Some pages age toned. Upper corners dog-eared on pages 87/88 and 89/90. This extremely rare children's book, printed at The Riverside Press, was written by renowned American historian Henry Steele Commager, who helped define modern liberalism in the United States with 40 books and 700 essays and reviews, and illustrated by Lisl Weil, an Austrian-American graphic artist associated with the Zinkenbacher Malerkolonie. Illustrated by Lisl Weil (illustrator).…

A playful New York fashion catalogue in which the Austrian-Jewish émigré artist Lisl Weil's crisp white-and-blue ornament and lively folkloric figures transform Ernst Bloch's photographic plates into a miniature illustrated wardrobe. Lanz's dirndls, blouses, aprons, and accessories are presented as an idealised vision of Austrian folk culture, carefully repackaged for the American market. The catalogue belongs to the earliest phase of Weil's career in the United States. Born Ilse Elisabeth Weisz (1910-2006) in Vienna and later adopted by the merchant Isidor Weil, she studied at the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts and began publishing illustrations in Viennese periodicals while still young. Forced to leave Austria after the Anschluss because of her Jewish ancestry, she arrived in New York in 1939, where decorative work for Lanz of Salzburg was among her early commissions. She later became a prolific author and illustrator of children's books. Oblong octavo pamphlet (227 x 104 mm). With 12 loose leaves of halftone illustrations from photographs by Ernst Bloch, coloured decorations by Weil in white and blue. Original wrappers, printed in red, white, and black on a light blue background, two flaps. A little sunned, closed tears to flap folds but holding, interior advertisements near-fine: overall very good.…