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CONDO, George. Ghost of Chance. By William S. Burroughs. Unpaginated. Illustrated with three etchings by Condo with several tipped-in color illustrations. Folio: Bound in publisher's black cloth in a matching slipcase. New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of Art, 1991.
$2500.00
Frequent collaborators, George Condo and William Burroughs, combine their.....
Item nr. 168610
Price: $2,500.00
KATAGAMI STENCIL DESIGNS. A Collection of Meiji Period Original Kimono Stencil Plates. With 20 stencil plates. Stencil paper was constructed from the bark of mulberry trees then treated with persimmon juice; the sheets measure ca. 220 x 400 mm and the largest measuring 350 x 450 mm. Each in individual.....
Item nr. 168446
Price: $7,500.00
CATALONIA. Conselleria d'Economía. Butlletí trimestral de la Conselleria dEconomia. No. 1 (of 3 published). 34 pp. Illustrated throughout, some in colour with a colour map. Folio, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers, preserved in a new black cloth folding box. Barcelona: Edicions de la Conselleria d'Economia de la Generalitat de Catalunya.....
Item nr. 167449
Price: $1,250.00
BELOUSOV, G.N. Teoriya I praktika primeneniya probnih stekol [i.e. The theory and practice of the usage of test glasses]. 19 pp. Illustrated with 18 colour plates. 8vo., bound in original light blue wrappers, preserved in a new grey cloth folding box. Moscow: GIZ Legkoi promyshlennosti, 1933.
In this work, dedicated to.....
Item nr. 167405
Price: $3,750.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux. Two volumes. [8], 386, [6]; [4], 390, [6] pp. With 201 engraved plates and 120 vignettes illustrating the text. Large 8vo., 261 x 180 mm, uniformly bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt vingettes of Grandville designs on the.....
Item nr. 167232
Price: $5,000.00
FASCISM. Gioventù italiana del littorio. 71 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, bound in publisher's decorative paper boards in original photographic dust-jacket, preserved in a new grey cloth folding box. Rome: Pressedienst des Generalkommandos d. G.I.L., 1940.
A scarce Italian photobook given over to glorifying fascist youth and their glorious leader.....
Item nr. 167220
Price: $2,250.00
LUO, Zhenyu. Zhen song tang ji gu yi wen: [16 juan]. 8 volumes [double leaves]. 8vo. As issued in wrappers and folding shisu case. NP. ND [China, 1931].
A handsomely printed collection of Chinese inscriptions taken from bronzes. OCLC lists copies at Columbia, University of Chicago, Ohio State and the Chinese.....
Item nr. 167100
Price: $750.00
[JAPANESE EXHIBITION]. Tokyo Seihansho. Dai-Gokai Naikoku Kangyo Hakurankai. No text. Illustrated with 24 black and white collotype prints. Oblong folio, 255 x 368 mm, bound in the Japanese style in green, white and red printed paper wrappers with gilt emblem on building from exposition, bound by purple and white tassels.....
Item nr. 167040
Price: $2,500.00
BURR, David H. Atlas of New York. 99 (i.e. 159) pp. Illustrated with hand-coloured engraved large folding map frontispiece, 67 wood-engraved maps (some folded). 8vo., 200 x 190 mm, bound in publisher's ribbed cloth. New York: For sale by the principal Booksellers, 1838.
A fine copy of this pocket atlas of.....
Item nr. 167026
Price: $2,500.00
AVIATION. Steel Horizons. Aviation Issue. Volume 2, Number 4. 46 pp. Folio. Profusely illustrated. Original wrappers. Pittsburgh: Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation,1940.
Given the subject matter, an unusual example of imaginative design, more of the kind one might have expected from Holland at the time.
Item nr. 166882
Price: $275.00
VIACROZE DECORATION. Aphorismes sur la décoration. Numbers 1-10, all published. 8vo., in publisher's wrappers and cardboard folding case. Paris: Viacroze décoration, 1930-1931.
A complete set of this scarce and little known Art Deco design periodical. Cardboard with some wear, otherwise immaculate.
OCLC lists sets at Columbia, Metropolitan Museum, University of Illinois and.....
Item nr. 166876
Price: $850.00
SHESTAKOV, F.K. Soglasovanie tsvetov dlia koloristov, khudozhnikov, khudozhnikov-prikladistov i dlia studentov i uchashchikhsya spetsial'nykhuchebnykh zavedenii. [Colour matching for Colourists, Artists, Applied Artists and for Students of Special Educational Institutions]. 79 pp. Illustrated throughout with diagrams. Tall 8vo., bound in publisher's green and blue printed wrappers in new green cloth folding.....
Item nr. 166628
Price: $1,500.00
TOLMER. Animaux a Fourrure. 4 pp. Illustrated with 24 black-&-white plates by Ray Bret Koch. Oblong 4to., loose as issued in the publisher's decorated boards. Paris: Tolmer, 1931.
A disconcerting advertising piece for the fur coat firm of Jungmann.
Item nr. 165818
Price: $1,250.00
PHOTOGRAPHY. Foto '37. Prisma der Kunsten; Special Nummer (1937). pp. 97-137. 8vo., publisher's illustrated wrappers, in a new blue cloth box. Zeist : De Torentrans, 1937.
This special issue of the magazine Prisma was published to document the exhibition Foto '37 which was held at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The.....
Item nr. 165794
Price: $495.00
KANTNER, W. C. Kantner's Book of Objects with 2000 Fine engravings with Explanations in English and German. New Edition. iv, 245,iii pp. Illustrated with 2051 Engravings. 4to. Publisher's illustrated cloth. Reading, PA: E.H. Rhoads, 1892.
A new edition of this delightful children's primer, which originally came out in 1881 with 2000.....
Item nr. 165762
Price: $375.00
BAUDRY DE SAUNIER, L. L'Automobile Théorique et Pratique. Two volumes. 416; 512 pp. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings. 8vo., bound in publisher's light blue and tan cloth. [Paris]; the Author, 1899-1900.
Fine copies of these French turn-of-the-century guides to motoring. One volume is dedicated to 'Voitures a Pétrole' and the second.....
Item nr. 165758
Price: $750.00
CRUIKSHANK, Percy. Hints to Emigrants. Or incidents in the emigration of John Smith of Smith-Town. 2 pp. text. Illustrated with wood engraved front wrapper printed on blue paper, followed by 9 wood engraved plates with smaller format proof versions of 6 of the images printed on chine, with two images.....
Item nr. 165757
Price: $2,250.00
MENDINI, Alessandro. Schetsboek-Sketchbook. 140 pages, illustrated. Text in Dutch and English, 4to, stiff wrappers, spiral bound, with just the slightest wear. Groningen: Groninger Museum, 1988.
This book was published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of Alessandro Mendini in the Groninger Museum from 1 October to 27th November 1988. The.....
Item nr. 165369
Price: $250.00
IBB. Ingenieurs-Bureau voor Bouwnijverheid, Oegstgeest, 1925-1950. 72 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, bound in publisher's green cloth. 1951.
A wonderful example of Zwart's brilliance as a book designer. Slight wear to the cloth, but a sound example of a scarce book.
Item nr. 164658
Price: $750.00
Monchengladbach. Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg. RICHARD TUTTLE. 128 pages with numerous color and b&w illustrations. Oblong 8vo, wrappers and cardboard slipcase. 1985.
A fine copy of the deluxe version of this catalog. One of 150 copies containing an original phototype, initialed and numbered, laid in. The catalog is also signed and numbered.....
Item nr. 164640
Price: $375.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Two Chairs, Two Benches and a Table. 16 unnumbered pages. Oblong 8vo., bound in publisher's wrappers. Florence: Galleria Victoria Miro, [1990].
Catalogue of a five piece set of furniture designed by Richard Tuttle to be seen as a final refinement of crate furniture either in Santa Fe style, or.....
Item nr. 164638
Price: $25.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Five by Seven for Yvon Lambert. 10 pp. Oblong 12mo., bound in illustrated wrappers, in a board portfolio. Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1978.
Item nr. 164636
Price: $50.00
SCHENK, Petrus. Afbeeldinge der voornaamste Gebouwen van Amsterdam. Contents include: title-page, index and 100 fine engraved views with captions in Latin and Dutch. Small oblong folio, 210 x 265 mm, bound in contemporary full English calf with red morocco spine label. Amsterdam: 1700.
A rare complete copy of this engraved survey.....
Item nr. 164542
Price: $12,500.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Charge to Exist. 2 cardboard sheets, one with collaged letters, one with a screenprint. Folio, ringbound in printed cardboard slipcase and new cloth box. Winterthur: Kunstmuseum, 1992.
One of an edition of 160 copies, signed and numbered by Tuttle.
Field of Stars p.134.
Item nr. 164525
Price: $1,250.00
BELLINI, Vincenzo. Norma. Lyric Tragedy in Two Acts. 270 pp. 8vo., bound in publisher's green cloth. New York: G. Schirmer, ca. 1972.
Signed by Beverly Sills, James Morris and Antonia (Kitsopoulos). Since these three signed this copy, we are assuming this is from a performance of Norma given on January 11.....
Item nr. 162606
Price: $500.00