[Rarebooks] FS: Hoffmann's KINGDOM OF DREAMS with 20 Signed Lithographs by Jacob Landau

[Charles Agvent]

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(HOFFMANN,  E.  T.  A.)  LANDAU, Jacob  (Illustrator).    KINGDOM  OF
DREAMS.  New York: Associated American Artists (1969).  First Edition.
Folio  (11"  x  15") consisting of 20 loose LITHOGRAPHS on  stone  and
zinc, each  SIGNED in pencil by the artist.  The text consists of  the
title  page, a three-page introduction by Morris Philipson, a  printed
list  of  the lithographs, and the limitation page.  Copy #40  of  100
numbered  copies printed on Rives BFK and housed in a cloth  clamshell
box.  From  the introduction: "Jacob Landau, a humanist whose art  has
probed   the  opposition  and  conjunction   of  fantasy  and  horror,
knowledge  and  mystery,  has  found in  Hoffmann's  anticipations  of
modern  literature and life reflections of his obsessions.  His homage
took  form  in  a remarkable suite of color lithographs  completed  in
Paris  with the help of a Guggenheim fellowship.  In another form,  as
reproductions  made from black and white proofs of the originals, they
contribute  to  enhancing  a major publishing event--issuance  by  the
University  of Chicago Press of Selected Writings of E. T. A  Hoffmann
in  two volumes, edited, translated and introduced by Leonard J.  Kent
and  Elizabeth  C. Knight."  This copy is also INSCRIBED in pencil  by
the  artist beneath his printed name on the title page "For my dearest
Francesca."  Fine                                             $2000.00

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