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Hardcover. Condition: g- to vg. First American edition. Folio (13 x 10"). 199, [3]pp. Original acetate over illustrated dust-jacket . Grey cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white, including an original lithographic frontispiece by Marc Chagall. "Marc Chagall's "Biblical Message" provides a comprehensive view of the artist's series of 17 large oil paintings and 38 gouaches on Old Testament themes. In these paintings, Chagall makes the Bible contemporary by conveying the emotional, psychological, and philosophical essence of the biblical stories being told" (From the Publishers). The striking lithographic frontispiece was printed by Mourlot, in Paris.…