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A collection including World War I posters issued in France. 1) Auguste Leroux: "3-e Emprunt de la défense nationale."; 2) Maurice Neumon: "Journée du Poilu."; 3) Georges Redon: "Emprunt national, Société générale."; 4) Th. Steinlen: Poster for the book PENDANT AU'ARSENE SE BAT by Cyril Berger, serialized from February 1918 in LE PAYS; 5) Tel: "L'emprunt des 'Derniéres cartouches.'"; 6) Charles Fouqueray: "Journée de l'Armée d'Afrique et des Troupes Coloniales." 1917

The collection contains a set of illustrations made by the artist Serge Czerefkow in 1927 for Anatole France's THAÏS. They were made for the Paris publisher Ren'e Kieffer. Included are 29 original drawings and sketches (#s 1-29) and 4 sets of 20 etchings each, printed as follows: #30-49 printed on satin, first state; #50-69 printed on satin, second state; #70-89 printed on parchment, first state; #90-109 printed on parchment, second state

Correspondence, manuscripts, drawings, watercolors, sketches, proofs, and printed materials. The collection includes original watercolor, pen-and-ink, and pencil illustrations for fifty books by various authors, beginning with Georges Duplaix's TOPSY TURVY CIRCUS (1940), and continuing with Golden Book's Scuffy the Tugboat & Tootles the Train by Gertrude Crampton; Duplaix's The Merry Shipwreck; Kipling's The Jungle Books, and the artist's dummy for The Wheel on the Chimney by Margaret Wise Brown, a Caldecott Honor book. Also included are illustrations for nineteen books by Gergely; advertising and commercial art of the 1940s, political cartoons and carricatures from the 1930s 1940s in Europe and America; designs for greeting cards, posters, and record jackets; and eighteen watercolor drawings for NEW YORKER covers, many of which were published in the 1940s. A selection of manuscripts, correspondence, and printed materials is also included in the collection.