first edition Hardcover
1980 · New York
by Chagall, Marc
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1980. First American edition. Hardcover. Orig. color lithographed boards. Near fine in original unclipped dust wrapper chipped along the edges. Introductory text not paginated (seven leaves). 37 x 27 cm. Twenty four full page original color lithographs, plus 96 plates in black and white. Chagall's biblically theme drawings first reproduced in Verve 33/34 and the second suite Verve 37/38 (double issue), Summer 1960 and is the final entry in the Verve bibliography. The heliogravures in black and white printed by Draeger Freres, and the color lithographs by Mourlot Freres. CRAMER 42. MOURLOT 230-277. SORLIER 75.
(Inventory #: 23780)