Search Results: Titles starting with K from Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC

1919. Color woodcut cream wove paper, 3 7/8 x 5 3/16 inches (98 x 139 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right margin. In very good condition with no visible defects. A very rare, perhaps unique, impression. We have not found another impression on offer within in the last 20 years. Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel was born in 1881 in Wundsiedel near the Fichtel Mountains, Austria. He built a reputation as a painter of animal paintings. He was educated at the Munich Academy of Applied Arts, then moved to Rome with his brother in 1897 and made a living selling his drawings. He was educated in church painting at the Tanzenberg monastery near Klagenfurt, Austria. He moved to Vienna in 1888, where he studied painting at the Academy of the Arts. He was engaged by the chocolate manufacturer Stollwerck around 1900, creating a number of works for Stollwerck's collectible cards. After spending a number of years in Vienna and Munich, he returned to the Academy of the Arts in Vienna in 1906 and became an… Read More

1945. Very good +. Gelatin silver print, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. (241 x 190 mm) from the Roland Butler Collection, Press Agent, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (1930s-1960s) Roland Butler Collection hand stamp on verso. This photograph was published on Pat Cashin's website Clown Alley on Saturday, February 10, 2007 with the following notice: "The photo, used extensively by the Ringling press dept. is of Kathryn Kramer and my father, Jack LeClaire. Kathy was a fantastic tumbler and back bender being able to put her chin on her rear end bending backwards. Photo probably 1945 as that was the year they had all the girls come in bareback . . . . My father could never understand why they used that photo for a press photo. . . It was taken on a rainy day (look at the sky) . . . My father dug out this old satin clown suit, very wrinkled from being packed in the trunk, for the rainy weather. Kathy passed away several years ago. She was a very close friend always. Of course my dad has been gone since… Read More

Toronto: Coop Clark, 1933. First Canadian Edition. Very Good. Small 8vo., 7 1/4 x 4 7/8 (185 x 124 mm); pp. 307. Original black cloth, titles on spine and front board in dark orange ink, bumped at head of spine. Original dust jacket with orange homicide case card (American Edition was dark pink), chipped especially on spine and corners and some small tears on edges, inside in fine condition. A rare and attractive book. The Kennel Murder Case is the novel 6th featuring Van Dine's Philo Vance character. It was adapted to a film version in 1933, directed by Michael Curtiz for Warner Bros., starring William Powell and Mary Astor and is considered one of the greatest screen adaptations of a Golden Age mystery novel. Warner Bros. remade it in 1940 as "Calling Philo Vance" with James Stephenson as Vance and William Clemens directing. S. S. Van Dine is the pseudonym used by American art critic Willard Huntington Wright (October 15, 1888 - April 11, 1939) when he wrote detective novels. Wright was an… Read More

1919. Etching on cream wove paper, 8 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches (205 x 246 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right margin. One minor printing defect appearing as a slightly folded bottom sheet edge. Unobtrusive, and well outside of image area, a charming relic of the hand-pressed printing process. Otherwise in excellent condition. [Fisher 126]. A bright and well inked image of one of the only two surviving medieval gates to the city of Winchester, UK, the name of which was first recorded in 1148 AD.

1850. Graphite on Bains watermarked wove paper, 8 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches. The scene continues on the verso with scattered discoloration, scattered foxing and adhesive residue.

London: Thomas McLean, 1822. Soft ground etching with hand coloring in watercolor, 7 7/8 x 10 1/8 inches (200 x 257 mm), full margins. Scattered light, uniform discoloration, scattered handling creases, age tone and minor mat tone, all consistent with age.

1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cream laid paper, 9 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (247 x 145 mm), with margins. Some scattered insect damage, along with age related toning and some handling creases, minor edge tears and losses, and scattered inscriptions. Condition issues are largely in the area of the margins, outside of the image area. Extensive inscriptions in red and black ink on the verso. The color is exceptionally fresh, rich, and saturated. The scene depicts Vishnu in the form of Krishna, seated with his beloved Radha, being serenaded by two Gopis playing music, one playing a drum, and the other a sitar.

1940. Four pencil drawings, each with hand coloring in watercolor, each 6 3/4 x 10 inches (sheet) (172 x 254 mm), full margins. Each with inscriptions and notations by the artist in the upper left margin (recto); two drawings titled in pencil in the upper right margin (recto), and one drawing is signed in pencil in the lower right margin (recto). Each drawing in very good condition with minor uniform toning, and two spots of very light discoloraion on the verso representing former mounts. A lovely quatro of delicate, precise designs.

Tokyo: Teijin, 1950. Woodcut in colors with dark grey mica ground, 13 5/8 x 9 inches (346 x 300 mm), ōban tate-e, the full sheet. In very good condition. From the edition printed by Teijin after the image originally published in 1794.