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[London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. Very Good. [London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. Limited Edition, numbered 507 of 725 copies on limitation notice at front. Quarto (11.75" x 8");162pp. Printed in black and red on Dutch mould-made paper at the Kynoch Press, Birmingham. Brown boards with gray / beige cloth spine and small paper title card. Boards show some rubbing along edges, with a small patch of soiling / staining at top front corner and a small dent at top back edge. Gallows-threatening bookplate initialed S.F.C.H with latin warning "Hic liber ad me pertinent si quis furetur per collum suspendetur hoc modo" on front pastedown. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.

Very Good. Text on poster: XX Krakowski Festiwal Jazzowy // P[olskie] S[towarzyszenie] J[azzowe] with trumpet logo // DLA ELI [for Eli]. Date: 1975. Height x width: 84cm x 59cm (33" x 23.25"). Printing information: lower left corner: Drukarnia Narodowa, zam. 514/75. 2000. S-75-7768. Condition: No visual flaws. Mleczko made his reputation as a satirical illustrator, working in advertising, book illustration, editorial cartooning, scenography, and periodicals, in Poland and abroad. He studied architecture at the Kraków University of Technology, where he started his career with mischievous illustrations for student publications. What is now seen as the height of Poland's poster creativity was a paradoxical by-product of the height of Communist Party control over public messaging related to the arts and cultural endeavors from the mid-1940s to almost the end of the century. What had been, before the war, and dating back as early as the mid-19th century, florid and often text-heavy formats, where fonts… Read More

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1970. Very Good +. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1970. First Edition. Octavo. 211 pp. Light brown boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards show light shelfwear, with gilt along spine a bit dulled. Binding is sound. Ownership inscription and brief pencil inscription to front free endpaper, else pages unmarked.