Marc Chagall's Drawings for the Bible

Marc Chagall; Gaston Bachelard (text). DRAWINGS FOR THE BIBLE. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. American edition. Hardcover in illustrated paper-covered boards; in jacket. Folio; with (96) reproductions in black and white and (24) color lithographs. Printed in Paris by Draeger Frères and lithographs by Mourlot Frères.

14 1/8 x 10 5/8 in.

From the Collection of Dorothy and Morris Margolin

"This double number of Verve contains the drawings made by Chagall in 1958 and 1959 on biblical themes which in general he had not dealt wich [sic] in his illustrations for the Bible reproduced in Verve 33/34."

Boards with dent to front cover, extremity wear, browning to tail of spine, and joints with light creasing and a small area of cracking starting; interior with light cracking to front hinge, pages with toning (concentrated at margins), and occasional foxing, light soiling, and marks; one lithograph with a small printing error; jacket present but significantly worn, in two pieces with spine lost. A very good copy in a poor jacket.

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