- ABANINDRANATH TAGORE AND THE ART OF HIS TIMES
By Jaya Appasamy
1968
NEW DELHI: Lalit Kala Akademi
pp. 129 with 43 tipped-in plates in the text, many in colour
Cloth binding with dustjacket
Size: 10.6 x 8.5 inches
Includes chapters on Nandalal Bose, Kshitindranath Mazumdar, K. Venkatappa, A. R. Chughtai, Binode Behari Mukherjee, Ram Kinker, Gaganendranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Amrita Sher-Gil, Jamini Roy.
- OSTDOCKAN
En bengalisk saga av ABANINDRANATH TAGORE
[Swedish translation of Abanindranath Tagore's children's story Khirer Putul or Caramel Doll]
Beautifully illustrated by Swedish artist FOLKE KARLSSON
Foreword by SELMA LAGERLOF [first woman writer to win Nobel Prize, in 1909]
Publishedin Stockholm in 1949
pp. 125 with 13 full-page illustrations and 25 illustrations in the text.
Boards covered over with lovely marble paper as issued, with a title ticket pasted on top carrying also the name of the original book in Bengali script [Khirer Putul] and title strip pasted on spine.
Size 6 x 6.25 inches
- RABINDRANATH TAGORE
DE LEERSCHOOL VAN DEN PAPEGAAI
En Toespraken in Shanti Niketan
Met toestemming van den dichter bewerkt
[THE SCHOOL OF THE PARROT andSpeeches in Shanti Niketan by Rabindranath Tagore]
Edited by NOTO SOEROTO with Permission of the Poet
Teekeningen van Abanindranath Tagore
[i. e. with drawings by ABANINDRANATH TAGORE]
Published in 'S-Gravenhage [The Hague] in 1922
pp. 67 + 8 full-page plates
[pp. 19 and the 8 plates relate to THE SCHOOL OF THE PARROT]
Rare Dutch translation of Tagore's story and speeches with Abanindranath Tagore's sketches in Modernist style.
Grey stiff card covers with title printed on cover in green and a round golden 'device' depicting a parrot in the middle
Large-paper copy
13 x 9.5 inches
A very good copy of a collector's item.
- BORN UDEN AEVENTYR
[Children without adventure]
20 linocuts by CHITTAPROSAD
Text in Danish by Erik Stinus
KOBENHAVN [Copenhagen]: Dansk Unicef Komite
1969
1-page bio of Chittaprosad with portrait followed by 20 full-page poignant linocut about the exploitation and poverty of children with English captions within linocut and Danish captions printed opposite.
8.5 x 6 inches
Softcover with dustjacket
- DER REKRUT
By Baren Basu
Illustrations by CHITTAPRASAD
A novel titled 'The Recruit', about the Japanese invasion of North-East India, translated into German and illustrated by Bengal's Leftist artist CHITTAPRASAD.
20 chapter heads by CHITTAPRASAD
TEXT IN GERMAN
Published in Berlin in 1957
Very fine cloth hardback with an illustration by Chittaprasad oncover and a fine dustjacket. A typed presentation slip in German pasted on front free endpaper.
pp. 314
Size: 8.5 x 6 inches
- THE ART OF SUBHO TAGORE
Edited by SRICHANDRA SEN
A souvenir volume published on the occasion of Mr Tagor's exhibition of paintings and textile designs at Calcutta, Delhi, Bombay, Colombo and other places
Second edition [revised and enlarged]
Published in Calcutta in October 1950
No pagination [about pp. 125 with numerous colour & b&w plates].Hardback
- FLAMES OF PASSION
Love Poems in Prose and Verse by Subho Tagore
Illustrations by Arabinda Datta
Calcutta: Susil Gupta
pp. 88 + 14 b&w plates on art paper
size: 7 x 5 inches
Paper-covered boards with title ticket pasted on cover
Only book with illustrations by Calcutta artist Arabinda Datta, a contemporary of Mukul Dey.
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