first edition
1962 · [New York]
by CHAGALL, Marc; Jean LEYMARIE
[New York]: George Braziller, Inc. / André Sauret, 1962. First American edition. A fine copy with slight wear along the upper edge of the jacket. Folio (12.75 x 9.75 inches). 213pp. Two original lithographs after Marc Chagall, printed by Mourlot Frères; color and black-and-white plates. Original red cloth. In the original pictorial dust jacket and outer acetate wrapper. Without the publisher's slipcase. Translated from the French by Elaine Desautels. This edition was published the same year as the first edition in French. This celebrated work shows various drafts and the final versions of the 12 stained glass windows (one for each of the tribes of Israel) designed by Chagall for the synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center. (Inventory #: 410668)