[Rarebooks] FS: Fritz Kredel

[Nina W. Matheson]

Greetings,
     For your consideration:

Alarcon, Pedro Antonio de.   The three-cornered hat. Woodcuts by Fritz 
Kredel.  New York, H. Bittner & Company, 1944. Original yellow cloth. Small 
calligraphic book label of John and Jean Michael on the front pastedown. 
Fine in fine dust jacket with lightly darkened backstrip. Translated by 
Lawrence M. Levin. Set and printed by hand in a single edition of 500 
copies by Victor & Jacob Hammer at the Wells College Press in Aurora, N.Y. 
Victor Hammer, Artist and Painter, p. 162. Item 146 in Brown / Fritz Kredel 
1900-1973.  $150.00

Harrsen, Meta, comp.   Central European manuscripts in the Pierpont Morgan 
Library.  New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958. Original blue cloth. 
Edges faintly foxed, otherwise fine in original black box with a crack at 
the foot of the front joint. One of 850 copies. An 86-page catalog of the 
manuscripts with seven numbered colored plates in the text, followed by 90 
numbered black-and-white plates. Binding decoration rendered in woodcut by 
Fritz Kredel from the Berthold Missal.  $100.00

Kredel, Fritz.   Schnitzelbank. Metamorphosed from the original German with 
sketches by Fritz Kredel.  New York, The Press of the Woolly Whale, 1938. 
Original red cloth. Extremities lightly rubbed, otherwise near fine. Not 
paginated. The music, penned by Harry A. Groesbeck, Jr., is an arrangement 
by Coenraad V. Bos. Item 71 in Brown / Fritz Kredel, 1900-1973 (the author 
is given as Melbert B. Cary, Jr. in that source).  $75.00

Miers, Earl Schenck.   Father of waters... by Earl Schenck Miers with help 
from Mike Fink, Davy Crockett, Mark Twain and other lovers of the old 
river. Woodcuts by Fritz Kredel.  [Newark, Delaware] Curtis Paper Company, 
1963. Original wrappers. Lightly bumped at the head and foot of the 
backstrip and corners, otherwise fine. 31 pp. Designed by Peter Oldenburg 
and Joseph Blumenthal. Printed at The Spiral Press, New York. The tenth in 
an Americana series commissioned by the Curtis Paper Company. $15.00

Miers, Earl Schenck.  Golden slippers, the story of Philadelphia and its 
Mummers' Parade. An essay.  Newark, Delaware, Curtis Paper Company, 1966. 
Original white wrappers. Fine. 26 pp. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. 
Printed at The Spiral Press, New York. Cover by Friz Kredel from color 
photographs of the parade by Frank Curcio. Title lettering by Jeanyee Wong. 
The thirteenth in an Americana series commissioned by the Curtis Paper 
Company.  $15.00

Miers, Earl Schenck.   Paradise Point: New Sweden on the Delaware. An essay 
by Earl Schenck Miers, with woodcuts by Fritz Kredel.  Newark, Delaware, 
Curtis Paper Company, 1968. Original white wrappers. Upper corner lightly 
bumped,otherwise fine. 28 pp. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. Printed at The 
Spiral Press, New York. The fifteenth in an Americana series commissioned 
by the Curtis Paper Company.  $15.00


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