"The Legend of the Tulip and Other Fairy Flowers" by Isadora Newman with Willy Pogany Art Nouveau illustrations, published by Whitman Publishing, Racine, Wisconsin, 1926. First Edition.

Hard boards, illustrated front boards [the paper covering of spine shows surface wear: see photo]; 8" x 10"; unpaginated, 24 pages, very good condition. See photos.

The book includes 4 stories:
Pixie Cradles,
Princess Lily,
Fairy Rose,
Flower Towers.

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.

Isadora Newman is a pen name of Miriam Dorothy Newman (1878–1955). She was an American artist, poet, writer, playwright and storyteller. She was born and raised in New Orleans and her work reflected the influences of her youth, particularly the African American and Creole culture of New Orleans.

Newman began telling stories and folk tales at the University Settlement in New York City and local schools. She published her first collection, Fairy Flowers, in 1926, under the name Isadora Newman, which became her pen name. The book was praised both in the U.S. and in translation abroad, and was followed by a poetry collection, Shades of Blue, in 1927, two books of folk tales in German in 1930, and a play, Granny's Garden, first produced in 1931.

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