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Chicago Tribune / Spadea Press, 1st Edition April 20th 1969. Newspaper section 8A pamphlet in the form of a "Make-It Yourself Book" supplement, 16-page booklet folded from 2 newsprint sheets (quarto), 10.5 x 7.3 in. In Very Good condition, light page toning, clean pages (uncut and unmarked), some separation along perforations where internal folds meet, color drawings are bright. Presented in mylar sleeve with cardboard backing to ensure it arrives undamaged. Written and illustrated by John R. Koch. Section 8A was a Sunday supplement appealing to children's creativity in addition to telling charming stories. "So if sometime you lose a balloon - don't be sad. Remember it isn't lost. It's just going to the Land Where Lost Balloons Go."

Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig, 1922 (German language), Band 27 (first edition), boards decorated with period geometric design (paper), cloth backstrip, octavo, 20.5 cm tall, portrait frontispiece and 32 black and white plates, 11 pages text. Near Fine copy, minimal corner wear, slight lifting of board In 1907, the art historian Georg Biermann and the publisher Werner Klinkhardt founded the Klinkhardt & Biermann publishing bookstore in Leipzig. The series "Junge Kunst" (New Art), a modern art-historical collection of bibliophile monographs on the European avant-garde of the early 20th century, caused a sensation. There were already proven but also developing artists such as Max Pechstein, Pablo Picasso, Emil Nolde, Heinrich Campendonk, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Otto Dix, Oskar Kokoschka, Vincent van Gogh or Paul Klee. Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (French: May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. A classic… Read More