Arthur szyk illustrator (20 Ergebnisse)
Verlag: The Heritage Press, 1947
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good.
Verlag: The Heritage Press
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In den WarenkorbZustand: Good. Good condition. No slipcase. (Bible, Old Testament, Ruth, illustrated works) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Weitere BilderVerlag: The Easton Press
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Binding is tight. This book shows minimal sign of wear to the cover, binding, or pages. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Verlag: Jerusalem, 1965
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Octavo, unpaged. In Good condition with a Poor dust jacket. Spine is cream without print. Dust jacket is plain cream paper, with torn edges and spine, toning to spine, peripheral toning. Boards in plush blue cloth with gilt seder cup on front panel. Light wear to edges, light shelf wear. Text block Hebrew pages printe…d on one side of doubled leaves (pouch binding) followed by normally bound English pages; inscription in ink of front flyleaf. Illustrated: color pages. Illuminated text in Hebrew followed by plain text in English. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R. 1396579. FP New Rockville Stock.
Triumph on the Gallows
Itzhak Gurion; Arthur Szyk [Illustrator]; Menachem Begin [Afterword]; Konrad Bercovici [Foreword];
Verlag: Brit Trumpeldor of America, 1950
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd. FIRST EDITION. NY: Brit Trumpeldor of America, 1950. Good in Good dust jacket. Clean text. Staining to boards and ffep. Jacket chipped at edges, toned.
Verlag: The Easton Press
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In den WarenkorbZustand: Very Good. Very Good condition. (poem, poetry, persia).
Verlag: The Easton Press
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Former owner's blindstamp, otherwise unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
Weitere BilderVerlag: The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1946
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Anbieter: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, USASecond Story Books, ABAA
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Limited Edition #1296/1950. Quarto, 148 pages. In Good condition. Bound in publisher's half white leather and tan paper boards with gilt label to spine. Heavy rubbing and wear along extremities. Cracking and flaking to leather of spine. Foxing to boards. Top edge of textblock gilt. Foxing throughout interior. Signed b…y Szyk and enumerated on limitation page in rear. Shelved in LECs. 1409913. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Arthur Szyk - Bilder gegen den Nationalsozialismus und Terror : Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin, 29. August 2008 bis 4. Januar 2009 ; Wilhelm-Busch-Museum Hannover, Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Kritische Grafik, 18. Januar bis 13. April 2009 = Arthur Szyk - drawing against national socialism and terror. für das Deutsche Historische Museum hrsg. von Katja Widmann und Johannes Zechner. Eine Ausstellung des Deutschen Historischen Museums in Zusammenarbeit mit der Arthur-Szyk-Society, Burlingame, USA. [Katalogtexte Sonja Kümmet . Übers. aus dem Dt. James Bell. Übers. aus dem Engl. Bram Opstelten. Üb
Kümmet, Sonja (Mitwirkender), Katja (Herausgeber) Widmann und Arthur (Illustrator) Szyk:
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Pappe. Zustand: Sehr gut. 341 S. : zahlr. Ill. ; 31 cm Zustand: Pappeinband, sehr guter Zustand --- Inhalt: Der polnisch-jüdische Künstler Szyk, der anfangs im Stil der Miniaturmalerei oder der Druckgraphik des 16. Jahrhunderts arbeitete, engagierte sich mit seinen Werken ein Leben lang für Toleranz, Freiheit und Menschenrechte.… Schon lange Jahre vor Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs setzte er sich in seinen Zeichnungen mit der nationalsozialistischen Bedrohung auseinander. 1939 konnte Szyk nach dem deutschen Überfall auf Polen nicht mehr in sein Heimatland zurückkehren. Von da an kämpfte er zuerst von London aus und 1940 in den USA mit dem Zeichenstift gegen das nationalsozialistische Deutschland und die ihm verbündeten Achsenmächte Japan sowie das Italien der Faschisten. Außerdem versuchte er unablässig, die Aufmerksamkeit der Weltöffentlichkeit auf den erkennbaren Massenmord an den europäischen Juden zu richten. In den Jahren des Zweiten Weltkriegs erschienen seine Werke in US-amerikanischen Zeitungen wie in der New York Post, aber auch in viel gelesenen Magazinen wie Colliers?s, Esquire oder Time. Syzks Arbeiten genießen in den USA bis heute hohe Bekanntheit und Wertschätzung, während sein Schaffen in Europa weitgehend unbekannt blieb. Der Ausstellungskatalog stellt Szyks ?uvre und insbesondere die einfalls- wie detailreichen politischen Zeichnung anhand eines repräsentativen Querschnitts vor. PS7-1 ISBN: 9783422068414 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 2100.
Verlag: Czenstochover Relief Committee, 1958
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. Arthur Szyk; Nota Koslovsky (illustrations by) 336 pp 977750519.
Weitere BilderVerlag: The Limited Editions Club, 1946
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Limited Edition #174/1950. Quarto, 148 pages. In Very Good minus condition and housed in publisher's worn gold paper slip case. Bound in publisher's quarter white leather and cream paper boards with ribbing and gilt decoration to spine. General rubbing and wear. Some discoloration along extremities. Tearing to paper o…n rear board. Signed by Szyk and enumerated on limitation page in rear of textblock. Shelved in LECs. From the translation prepared at Cambridge in 1611 for King James I. 1407920. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Weitere BilderTHE ARABIAN NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENTS [4 Volumes]
Burton, Richard [translator]; Torrens, Henry [notes]; Lane, Edward [notes]; Payne, John [notes]; Szyk, Arthur [illustrator]
Verlag: Limited Editions Club, Ipswich, UK, 1954
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In den WarenkorbHardcover. Limited Edition #301/1500. Octavo, 4 volumes. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus condition slip cases. Spines are black cloth with gilt labels and black lettering. Slipcases have mild shelving wear along extremities, mild bumping to closed end corners and mild chipping to open end corners. Boards have mild ru…bbing wear along spines. CONTENTS: Volume 1, 330 pages - Volume 2, "Notes for the First Volume", 136 pages - Volume 3, "The Second Volume", 344 pages - Volume 4 "Notes for the Second Volume", 262 pages. Shelved in hallway overflow. 1395108. Special Collections.
Weitere BilderVerlag: New York The Limited Editions Club, 1947
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In den WarenkorbLimited edition, no. 1017 of 1950 copies, signed by the illustrator; 4to (31 x 22.5 cm); 8 colour illustrations, signed by the illustrator to the limitation page, gilt capitals; publisher's cream half leather, white paper boards with gilt pictorial motif to upper board, spine lettered in gilt, housed in publisher's gold slipcase…, spine of slip case chipping, touch of rubbing to leather spine; text in English; a very good attractive copy. Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was a graphic artist, book illustrator, stage designer and caricaturist. He was born into a Jewish family in Lodz, in the part of Poland which was under Russian rule in the 19th century. He always regarded himself both as a Pole and a Jew. From 1921, he lived and created his works mainly in France and Poland, and in 1937 moved to the United Kingdom. In 1940, he settled permanently in the United States, where he was granted American citizenship in 1948. Szyk is best known for his political drawings, particularly of Hitler during his rise to power, as well as for his magnificent Haggadah, which was published in London in 1940 and was dedicated by Szyk to King George VI. The work was widely acclaimed by critics; according to The Times, it was 'Worthy to be placed among the most beautiful of books that the hand of man has ever produced'. The Book of Ruth is part of the Ketuvim ('Writings'), the third section of the Hebrew Bible. It tells the story of Ruth, a Moavian young woman who has converted to Judaism and became the great grandmother of King David.
Weitere BilderVerlag: London Beaconsfield Press, 1939
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Anbieter: Shapero Rare Books, London, Vereinigtes KönigreichShapero Rare Books
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In den WarenkorbNumber 101 of 125 copies printed on vellum, signed by both Szyk & Roth; large 4to; comprising 118 french-fold leaves; original blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine with raised bands, compartments framed in gilt enclosing gilt lettering and crown tools, triple gilt fillet border to covers, large illustration of High Pries…t holding the matzoh and Passover wine as centrepiece, board edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt, doublures of cream silk satin illustrated with Moses supporting the Ten Commandments, housed in the original velvet-lined blue half morocco solander box, blue morocco label with lion's head design in gilt to front board; text in Hebrew and English, printed in black, purple, blue, red, and green on vellum; with 14 full-page plates and numerous vignettes and border decorations printed in colour, all by Szyk; the box with couple of spots of wear at extremities, some marks and toning to cloth; with a typed letter signed, dated 18 September 1947; a fine copy in the handsome original binding. 'A masterpiece, one that should increase the happiness of every one of its possessors' 'The book is a masterpiece, one that should increase the happiness of every one of its possessors, who will find new interest and new delight every time he opens its pages' (The Jewish Chronicle). This copy was given as a Rosh Hashanah present by Mr Cyril Joshua Ross (1891-1973) to Prof. Samson Wright (a renowned British medical physiologist). Both men were leading Zionist figures in London's Jewish community during the mid-20th century. The short typed letter inserted in the book reads: 'Dear Professor Wright, / will you accept this gift (I can think of no more appropriate one to send you) as a token of my regard for you and your work in the community. I know in sending it that you will treasure it and add it to your library of outstanding works. / I take this opportunity of wishing you and your family a very happy New Year, in which Mrs. Ross joins me. / Yours sincerely, Cyril.' Arthur Szyk (1894-1951), a Polish-Jewish artist, produced works characterised by social and political comment, and in their formal aspect - by the rejection of modernism and drawing on the traditions of medieval and renaissance painting, especially illuminated manuscripts from those periods. Unlike most caricaturists, Szyk always showed great attention to the colour effects and details in his works. Szyk's drawings and paintings became even more politically engaged when Hitler took power in Germany in 1933. Szyk started drawing Führer's caricatures as early as 1933; probably, the first work of the artist directed against the leader of the Third Reich was a drawing of Hitler, made in pencil, in which he was shown as a new pharaoh. These drawings anticipated the present great series of Szyk's arts â" The Haggadah, his magnum opus. Szyk illustrated it in 48 drawings in the years 1932-1938, and the development of the political situation in Germany at that time made him introduce some contemporary elements to it. These referred to, in particular, the parable of the four sons, in which the 'wicked son' was portrayed as a man wearing German clothes, with a Hitler-like moustache. The expression of the series was even stronger in its original version: the drawings showed snakes with swastikas, there were also heads of Hermann Gà ring and Joseph Goebbels. In 1937, Arthur Szyk went to London to supervise the publication of The Haggadah. However, the artist had to agree to many compromises during the work which lasted three years, including painting over all of the swastikas. It is not clear whether he did it as a result of the pressure by his publisher or the British politicians, who pursued the policy of appeasement in relation to Germany. Finally, The Haggadah was published in London in late 1940 (and not 1939, which is the date of Szyk's opening words; see Roth); the artist dedicated it to King George VI. The work was widely acclaimed by critics; according to The Times, it was 'worthy to be placed among the most beautiful of books that the hand of man has ever produced'. Yudlov 3712; Yaari 2285.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Limited Editions Club, Brattleboro, 1946
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In den Warenkorbleather-bound. 618 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 360 of 1500 signed by Arthur Szyk in ink with numerous color engraved plates by Pioneer-Moss designed by him. NEWMAN & WICHE 175. Letter press printed by Aldus Printers with decorated initials and headings by Charles E. Skaggs. Orig. half white sheepskin gold stamped wi…th full color paper sides patterned by Szyk. Fine in fine matching slipcase. Szyk, Arthur (illustrator).
Weitere BilderVerlag: L?Edition d?Art H. Piazza, Paris, 1925
Anbieter: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, USAJames Cummins Bookseller, ABAA
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In den WarenkorbSzyk, Arthur. No. 165 of 175 copies on Imperial Japan vellum, with plates in two states, from an edition of 950. Text in Hebrew and French. 20 color illustrations (19 are full-page) by Arthur Szyk, each preceded by the uncolored state. 1 vols. 8vo (9 x 6 1/2 inches). Full blue levant gilt, spine gilt with inlaid menorah, gilt tu…rn-ins, doublures and flyleaves in blue silk, a.e.g., wrappers preserved, by G.G. Levitzky. Spine lightly rubbed. Fine in slipcase Text in Hebrew and French. 20 color illustrations (19 are full-page) by Arthur Szyk, each preceded by the uncolored state. 1 vols. 8vo (9 x 6 1/2 inches) No. 165 of 175 copies on Imperial Japan vellum, with plates in two states, from an edition of 950.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Switzerland Thorens c, 1948
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In den WarenkorbMusic box to be hanged on the wall with a colour lithograph print by Szyk to its front; box size: 32 x 27 x 9 cm; string-pull mechanism and music playback in perfect working order; minor imperfections to the wooden panels. Wooden music box playing 'Hatikvah' with Szyk's colour lithograph titled 'The visual history of Israel', fr…om the 'Visual history of nations' series, to its front. The series of nine works dating from 1945 to 1949 was commissioned by Kasimir Bileski (1908-2005), a Canadian philatelist and entrepreneur. The series was originally called the 'United Nations series', because each of the nine prints portrays the visual history of a founding or member country of the United Nations. The other nations included in the series were the United States of America, Canada, Poland, Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, China and Switzerland. The lithographs were intended to be used as title pages for a unique international stamp album and were printed from watercolour and gouache illuminations. Hatikvah (meaning 'the hope') is the national anthem of the State of Israel. It is based on a 1878 poem by Naftali Herz Imber and a 1888 melody by Samuel Cohen. Arthur Szyk (1894-1951), a Polish-Jewish artist, produced works characterised in their material content by social and political commitment, and in their formal aspect by the rejection of modernism and drawing on the traditions of medieval and renaissance painting, especially illuminated manuscripts from those periods. Szyk worked primarily as a book illustrator and political artist throughout his career and always showed great attention to the colour effects and details in his works. Szyk's drawings and paintings became even more politically engaged when Hitler took power in Germany in 1933. Szyk started drawing Führer's caricatures as early as 1933; probably, the first work of the artist directed against the leader of the Third Reich was a drawing of Hitler, made in pencil, in which he was shown as a new pharaoh. These drawings anticipated the present great series of Szyk's arts â" Haggadah, his magnum opus. Szyk illustrated it in 48 drawings in the years 1932-1938, moving to London in 1937 to supervise its publication. In July 1940 Szyk moved to North America, with the support of the British government and the Polish government-in-exile, on assignment to popularise the struggle of the British and Polish nations against Nazism. He ended up settling in New Canaan, Connecticut, and in subsequent years illustrated a number of works on Jewish themes, such as 'Pathways through the Bible' by Mortimer J. Cohen (1946), 'The Book of Job' (1946), 'The Book of Ruth' (1947), 'The Ten Commandments' (1947), 'The Story of Joseph and his Brother's (1949) and others.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Published by "Massadah" and "Alumoth", Jerusalem [and] Tel Aviv, 1957
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In den WarenkorbLater trade edition. A special copy of the 1957 trade edition bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in the deluxe full morocco binding of the original edition of 1939. Large quarto (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; 268 x 210 mm). Printed in black, sanguine, purple, blue, red, and green inks on [56] double-folded leaves. Fourteen full-page and…numerous vignettes and border decorations printed in color. Text in English and Hebrew on facing pages (the illustrations are on the Hebrew pages). "The illustrations contained herein are reproductions of originals of Arthur Szyk of New-Canaan, Connecticut, U.S.A. Engraved by The Sun Engraving Co., England" (verso of title-page). Publisher's full blue morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamp-signed in gilt on the front turn-in). Covers with gilt triple fillet border, front cover stamped in gilt with a large emblem of a high priest holding the matzoh and Passover wine, spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, board edges with gilt dotted rule, turn-ins decoratively tooled in gilt, Szyk's illustration of Moses supporting the Ten Commandments printed monochromatically on cream paper and mounted as doublures. A very fine copy. "During many of his years of travel, Szyk had been working on a large project of illumination, The Haggadah. The work took on a special meaning in light of the then growing anti-Semitism in Europe. Passover is a festival of freedom, and The Haggadah tells the story of Jewish liberation from slavery in Egypt. In order to heighten the topical message and relate the historical events to contemporary ones, Szyk emblazoned the Egyptians with the Nazi swastika. However, fearing reprisals, publishers on the continent would not touch the book as long as it included this symbol. Szyk removed the swastika, believing that the underlying message of the book was still clear and it was more important to see the project through to publication. "A deluxe volume in a limited edition of 250 copies was published in 1940 by the Beaconsfield Press in London. Bound in gold-stamped leather, with end pages printed on silk, the full color illuminations are printed on double-leaf parchment and an English translation is matched to the Hebrew text. While the pages of English are decorated with small, intricate, sepia-toned emblems, the emphasis in on the illuminated Hebrew pages and the brilliant colors and striking combinations which are jewel-like in affect. This book was amongst the most expensive new publications - in 1940 the price in the USA was $525 and in the UK 100 Guineas (£105.00). "One contemporary reviewer ['The Haggadah-A Sumptuous Illustrated Edition,' The Times Literary Supplement, 22 February 1941, p. 9] called it 'worthy to be placed among the most beautiful of books that the hand of man has produced'. The first copy of the printing was presented to George VI, King of England, to whom the book is dedicated" (Ungar, Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk, pp. 80-81).
Weitere BilderVerlag: Beaconsfield Press [1939], London, 1939
Anbieter: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, USAPhillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA)
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In den Warenkorb292 x 248 mm. (11 1/2 x 9 3/4"). xxvi pp., [46] leaves (all leaves French fold). Edited by Cecil Roth. Elegant original blue crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (signed on front turn-in), covers with gilt French fillet border and large intricate central figure designed by Szyk of a patriarch holding a goblet and book, raise…d bands, spine gilt in double ruled compartments with ornate crown centerpiece, gilt titling, turn-ins with double gilt-ruled and scalloped border surrounding an illustrated silk doublure featuring a Szyk portrait of Moses with the Ten Commandments done in shades of gray within a frame of elaborate design. In an excellent velvet-lined box of blue half morocco over lighter blue cloth, upper cover with central lion's head in gilt on blue morocco, spine like that of the book. WITH 14 FULL-PAGE AND 32 SMALLER COLOR REPRODUCTIONS OF DESIGNS BY SZYK. English translation printed in black, commentary printed in red. Front flyleaf inscribed in ink: "To Mr. and Mrs. Solomon Brachman / very cordially / Arthur Szyk / New York. April 1945." Very faint naturally occurring variations in the grain of the vellum, otherwise a pristine copy. With an important Holocaust-related authorial inscription, this is a very fine copy of what the London Times described as "a book worthy to be placed among the most beautiful of books that the hand of man has produced." Arthur Szyk (1894-1951), a Polish Jew, is considered by scholars to be the greatest 20th century illuminator. Using the style of the Medieval illuminated manuscript artists, he has here created a Haggadah for Passover that is at once a beautiful book of devotion, a political protest against the rise of Nazism, and a plea for England's help for the Jews of Europe. By 1939, Szyk's anti-Nazi cartoons had caused Hitler to put a price on his head, forcing him to flee to England. His original illustrations for his "Haggadah," featuring the villains of the Exodus with the heads of Hitler, Goebbels, and other leading Nazis, had to be toned down before publication. All 46 pages of the Hebrew text are illustrated with scenes from the Passover story, as well as vignettes of Jewish life in modern Europe?sometimes Szyk mixes the two to great effect. Perhaps the most moving illustration in the book is the elaborately illustrated dedication to King George VI of England, appealing for his mercy to European Jews. The great symbols of the British Empire?the lion and unicorn, St. George defeating the dragon?surround Szyk's plea to the king: "At the feet of your most gracious majesty I humbly lay these works of my hands, shewing forth the affliction of my people Israel." In the lower right corner of the painting, we see Jewish refugees beside one of the ships which were usually turned away from British shores, while Szyk depicts himself leaning against the painting, his brush and easel in hand. The text here is enriched by the historical introduction and the commentary contributed by Cecil Roth (1899-1970), the preeminent British expert on Jewish history. This crowning achievement of Szyk's life was four years in the making, and has proved to be an enduring treasure. Szyk presented this copy to Texas oilfield supply magnate Solomon "Sol" Brachman (1896-1974) and his wife Etta. The son of a Latvian Jew, Brachman was the founding president of the Jewish Federation of Fort Worth in 1936, and helped arrange an emergency $100,000 bank loan for Israel on the eve of statehood in 1948. His wife, who served as president of the National Council of Jewish Women, was known as "the mother of Hadassah." Szyk's 1945 inscription was no doubt especially meaningful to this devout family, whose Latvian relatives were among the 90 percent of that country's Jews who perished in the Holocaust. No. 72 OF 125 COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST AND THE EDITOR for sale in the British Empire.
Weitere BilderVerlag: Esquire Inc, New York, 1946
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In den WarenkorbZustand: Very Good+. First Edition. Five 7.25 x 9" sheets on stiff cardboard, laid in a 9 x 10"textured portfolio cover with two metal-lined holes on back cover. Distributed to readers by Coronet Magazine in 1945-1946, "as a token of our appreciation for your patronage." Very Good+ with lightly bumped corners of sheets. Portfoli…o lightly edge-worn and soiled, small tear on back cover where metal ring popped through. Polish-Jewish artist Arthur Szyk was commissioned to illustrated mottos by Confucius, George Horace Lorimer and Thackeray, plus one of the "Lord's Prayer" after he won fame for the unique style of his striking anti-Nazi graphics during World War II. Vera Bock contributed one for a quote by Carl Schurz. Scarce. No listing for this title in WorldCat.
