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ARTHUR SZYK. Ink and Blook: A Book of Drawings. Color frontispiece, 6 mounted color plates, and 68 sepia toned photogravure plates by Szyk. Folio, publisher's gilt-lettered black morocco, much nicer than usual with only an absolute minimum of rubbing; original batik-paper covered slipcase, a bit faded along panels. New York: Heritage Press, 1946
first limited edition. one of 1000 copies inscribed by szyk. This copy for Dr. Raymond Hinshaw, with his bookplate on front pastedown. 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.
