Rojan Illustrator (7 results)

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 2nd edition. 200 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.59 inches. In Stock. Rojan, Feodor (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Unpaginated. Boards scuffed and edgeworn, frayed at spine tips, heavily frayed at fore-edge corners. Small (about 1/4in) spot of fraying to front hinge. Small (less than 1/4in) tears at gutter of front endsheet and title page, binding else intact. Faint pencil marking to back cover and rear paste down. Endsheets foxed. Prior owner's family name written in pen to top of FFEP; interior else clean, pages toned, text unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. Illustrated children's book translated from the original French by George Duplaix, with charming watercolor drawings on every page by Rojan. Unpaginated. A FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, First printing from 1936, this square hardcover book has a gray cloth-wrapped spine with colorfully decorated paper over the remaining boards. condition is Good: fairly heavy rubbing & light soil/discoloration to exterior & heavily bumped corners. Interior is very clean, binding strong & straight, hinges secure, pages moderately tanned, foxing to endpapers. Former owner's bookplate with name in pencil to ffep. No DJ.Our photos show the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2pm weekdays Pacific time (PST); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day. Rojan (illustrator).…

Landscape 4to, 34pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A good, foxed paperback copy in like, edgeworn dust jacket. Previous owner's name.

Landscape 4to, 32pp. Colour and black & white illustrations. A good, foxed paperback copy in like, edgeworn dust jacket. Previous owner's name.

Limited Edition of 1500 examples on vélin Navarre, this being no. 662, of a total edition of 1516 copies. Quarto (9 1/2 x 7 1/4 in.). 155, (1, colophon), (1, blank) pp., titlepage in black and red with publisher's vignette, 16 risqué aquarelles comprised of 12 full-page and 4 headpieces; with tailpiece devices in black. 1/2 crushed black morocco over marbled boards, raised bands, gilt lettered compartment, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., original wrappers preserved. An attractive and very pleasing edition of Béranger's erotic lyrics, composed in the early 19th century. Of Rojan, little needs be added beyond his stellar reputation as an illustrator. Mild wear, internally crisp and clean, a Near Fine copy.…

Limited Edition of 234 copies on Vélin de Rives, this being copy no. 185, of a total edition of 250. Octavo (9 x 6 3/4 in.). 151, (3, blank) pp., 16 color lithographed plates, unsigned but, according to Pia and Dutel, after watercolors by Rojan, i.e. Feodor Stepanovich Rojankowsky (1891-1970). 1/2 crushed crimson morocco over red marbled boards, raised bands, gilt-lettered spine, silk endpapers. Rojan, a Russian émigré as celebrated for his many childrens book illustrations as he was for his erotic drawings, won the 1956 Caldecott Medal for his illustrations to John Langstaff's Frog Went A-Courtin'. He was the sometime lover of French novelist and poet, Raymond Radiguet, and as an eroticist is perhaps best known for his illustrations to Radiguet's Vers Libres. This edition was condemned four times between 1950-56 by the tribunal of the Seine; understandable as the title translates to "licentious behavior." Dutel III, 1389; Pia 310-11; cf. Private Case 836.…