Jan 29, 2019 - Sale 2497

Sale 2497 - Lot 173

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
SZYK, ARTHUR. Ink and Blood Color frontispiece, 6 mounted color plates, and 68 sepia toned photogravure plates by Szyk. Folio, publisher's gilt-lettered black morocco, usual rubbing along spine; original batik-paper covered slipcase, a bit faded along panels. New York: Heritage Press, 1946

Additional Details

first limited edition. one of 1000 copies inscribed by szyk. This copy for Stanley Costa. Szyk's famous and infamous book of political images of World War II that put him at the forefront of leading political artists but also garnered threats from Hitler who understood the power of his images as propaganda.