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21 CHAGALL, Marc. The Jerusalem Windows. New York: George Brazillier Inc. in association with Horizon Magazine, 1962 WITH TWO ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHS First edition in English, a superb presentation of Chagall’s magnificent stained-glass windows, 12 designs depicting the ancient tribes of Israel, which met with worldwide praise and were soon recognized as among the finest specimens of modern religious art. The volume includes, bound in as issued, two original Chagall lithographs. The windows were first exhibited in Paris in June 1961 and later at the Museum of Modern Art in New York before installation in February 1962 in their permanent home of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Centre in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Windows , published the same year as the French edition, Vitraux pour Jerusalem , remains the definitive work on the windows, and is renowned for the richness of its illustrations. Chagall produced the two original lithographs especially for the book, and directed the printing of a further 36 lithographs of preparatory colour designs.
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First edition in English of the author’s final play, considered by many as his masterpiece. The Cherry Orchard premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre on 17 January 1904 under the direction of Constantin Stanislavski, who famously decided to direct the play as a tragedy when Chekhov had intended it as a comedy. Charles W. Meister notes in a paper on the reception of Chekhov in England and America that “in 1908 Professor Max S. Mandell of Yale translated the first full-length Chekhov play to appear in English [and] Mandell printed with the play a letter by Alla Nazimova”. The title page for this edition notes that publication was “under the supervision of the Dramatic Department of the Yale Courant ”. The bookplate appears to be that of Grant E. Hamilton (1862–1926), an American political cartoonist and Yale alumnus. Octavo. Original black cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. Housed in a custom black cloth folding box. Folding plate of a letter in facsimile from Alla Nazimova praising the
Tall quarto. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, pictorial endpapers. With dust jacket. Housed in the publisher’s card slipcase, printed paper label to front panel. Illustrated throughout with 2 original lithographs and 36 colour preparatory lithographic designs, some of which are in 20 colours, all printed by Mourlot Fréres, black and white photographs and illustrations. A fine copy in near- fine jacket, with a hint of rubbing and very minor nicks at extremities, and very good box, with light peripheral wear and split along top joints but holding, and a handwritten ink note on the rear panel “For Perkal – do no sell [ sic ]” (perhaps the US bookseller Joan Perkal). £1,250 [155110] 22 CHEKHOV, Anton. The Cherry Garden (The Cherry Orchard). New Haven: The Yale Courant, 1908 THE FIRST FULL-LENGTH CHEKHOV PLAY TO APPEAR IN ENGLISH
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