"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Willy Pogany, published by E.P. Dutton and Company, New York, 1929. First Edition for Pogany's illustrations.

Hungarian-born illustrator Pogany is famous for his "flapper Alice," a radical departure from all previous depictions. British Carroll collector and author John Davies said that Pogany offers "the first really original interpretation since Tenniel." [Reference: Exhibit item 3.28. Univ. of Maryland, Illustrated Alice Exhibition]

Hard boards, original publisher's cloth with gild lettering on spine, gilt decorations and lettering on the front board [some soiling, stains on both board, spine ends wear, the upper spine end is reinforced with resin, small impressions on front board: see photos]; 5" x 7.1/2"; color illustrated endpapers, 192 pages, many line illustrations, very good condition. See photos.

Willy Pogany (1882-1955) was a prolific artist and illustrator. He created set designs for opera and ballet, and in the 1930s and 1940s he became Art Director for several Hollywood films, such as Wonder Bar (1934), Palmy Days (1931) and Dames (1934). Born Vilmos Andras Pogany in Szeged, Austria-Hungary, he trained as an artist before moving to Munich, Paris and London, where he remained for 10 years from 1904 to 1914, working as a book illustrator. In 1910 he illustrated an edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In 1915, he emigrated to America.

In the US, Pogany worked for Samuel Goldwyn at United Artists from 1927, creating giant-size props for the ice cream factory set in Eddie Cantor's Kid Millions (1934). His illustrations appeared in books and the magazines American Weekly, McCall's and Metropolitan; he designed movie posters, and advertisements for such products as Palmolive soap.

Pogany's murals decorated New York's Heckscher Children's Theatre and Ziegfeld Theatre, and the Niagara Falls Power Station. His portraits included film stars Miriam Hopkins, Anna May Wong and Carole Lombard.

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