🌈 Marc Chagall’s Jerusalem Windows — First Edition with Two Original Lithographs + Signed Note from Vava Chagall
 
✨ A radiant fusion of art, faith, and history—this 1962 first edition of The Jerusalem Windows captures Marc Chagall’s visionary-stained glass designs for the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. Printed in Paris and published by George Braziller, this large quarto volume (211pp) is bound in gilt-lettered red cloth (with gentle sunning to the lower cloth board edges,) photographic endpapers depicting the Mountains of Judea. The illustrated dust jacket (price: $35) is near fine, with only light edgewear.
 
🖼️ The book includes two original lithographs by Chagall, created especially for this edition—vivid, transcendent, and unmistakably his.
 
💌 Tipped in is a rare personal artifact: a “Les Collines” note card inscribed by Valentina “Vava” Chagall on behalf of her husband, then 76, dated January 3rd, 1963. Written shortly after the book’s release, the note expresses Chagall’s gratitude and gentle regret at declining an exhibition invitation due to workload. It reads in part: “Thank you for your sympathy… I will gladly sign your book… Unfortunately, it is not possible for me to take on the exhibition…”  VaVa Chagall was very much involved in the creation and inauguration of Jerusalem Windows. 
 
📬 The card comes with its original Air Mail envelope from the Chagall's studio in Vence, Cote d’Azur, France—an evocative touch of provenance. The recipient was a noted American author and collector who would later direct the Norman Rockwell Museum.
 
🔍 A museum-worthy copy with a deeply personal connection to the artist and his circle. Ideal for collectors of Chagall, Judaica, or modern art books with meaningful provenance.