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Neuallschwil/Basel: Heuwinkel, 1961. First edition of this illustrated storybook, featuring two magical tales: "The Carousel Horse and the Blue Flower" and "The Fairy and the Wall." In the first, a carousel horse escapes the fairground to join the child who hoped to ride him; in the second, a runaway fairy transforms a village wall under cover of night. The vibrant linocuts are the work of Swiss artist Claude Schaub-Filliol, noted for her work in ceramics and sculpture as well as graphic design. Text in German. A very good copy. Single volume, measuring 8.25 x 8.5 inches: [28]. Original brown cloth spine, glossy color pictorial paper boards. Text and illustrations printed on board, featuring thirteen full-page color linocuts. Faint foxing to pastedowns, binding slightly bowed, staples rusted.
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Das Karussellpferd und die Blaue Blume / Die Fee und die Mauer
by Hanhart, Josef; Schaub-Filliol, Claude (illustrator)
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Decorative Art in Wisconsin
by Foote, Anne; Smedal, Elaine; Lord, Clifford (introduction)
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Madison, Wisconsin: Screen Art Company, 1948. First edition of this vibrant portfolio celebrating Wisconsin decorative traditions, "designs from handicraft articles either brought to Wisconsin or made here by the early settlers, or by members of the three largest native Indian tribes." Included are examples of Chippewa beading, Norwegian baskets, Polish Easter eggs, Winnebago blankets, German embroidery, and everyday objects like boot jacks and butter molds created by nineteenth-century Wisconsin residents. A near-fine example. Fifteen loose color serigraph plates on heavy stock, accompanied by a four-page illustrated introduction, measuring 13.75 x 10.75. All housed in original color pictorial portfolio with blue cloth spine. Light shelfwear to portfolio, faint foxing to introduction, plates lightly toned.
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Der Spatz im Zirkus "Potztausend alle Welt
by Hanhart, Josef; Schaub-Filliol, Claude (illustrator)
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[Neuallschwil/Basel]: Heuwinkel, 1963. First edition of this stunning circus-themed picture book, featuring a sparrow who flutters in and finally out of the spectacular world of the big top: "Du bist frei." The vibrant linocuts are the work of Swiss artist Claude Schaub-Filliol, noted for her work in ceramics and sculpture as well as graphic design. Text in German. A near-fine copy. Single volume, measuring 8.5 x 8.5 inches: [28]. Original ivory cloth spine, color pictorial paper boards. Text and illustrations printed on board, featuring nineteen full-page color linocuts, including three folding triptychs. Publisher's information ("Ein Farbiges Heuwinkel Bilderbuch, im Pharos-Verlag") on printed label affixed to final blank. Light soiling to edge of upper board.
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Dessin (design workbook)
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France: no publisher, 1950. Commercially produced graph paper workbook for French design students, with striking blue wrappers lettered "Dessin." A fine example of an ephemeral midcentury classroom aid, never used. Side-stitched design workbook, measuring 8.5 x 6.75 inches: [16]. Original deep blue wrappers lettered in black, sewn with white thread; leaves printed with a grid pattern.
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Don Leon; A Poem by the Late Lord Byron . . . and Forming Part of the Private Journal of His Lordship, Supposed to Have Been Entirely Destroyed by Thos. Moore . . . To Which Is Added Leon to Annabella; An Epistle from Lord Byron to Lady Byron
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London: Printed for the Booksellers, 1890. Second extant edition of Don Leon, an early English defense of homosexuality purported to be a lost poem by Lord Byron. At least partially composed after Byron's death, likely in the 1830s, a version of the poem was in print before 1853, when it is cited in Notes and Queries. No example of that first printing survives. The first extant edition is William Dugdale's London edition of 1866, printed in an unsuccessful attempt to blackmail Byron's family. This piracy, printed by Charles Carrington around 1890, is a facsimile of the Dugdale, distinguishable by the "rare editions" advertised on the verso of the jacket, which include a translation of the Satyricon spuriously attributed to Oscar Wilde. While Byron is not the author (or at least the sole author) of Don Leon, his sexual history provides the pretext for the poem's argument for tolerance of homosexuality: "Methought there must be yet some people found, / Where Cupid's wings were free, his hands unbound /…
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