ARMENIA. Hayeri verabnakets'umy HSSH-its' durs. viii, 112 pp. Illustrated with 97 full page maps and charts. Large 4to., bound in publisher's maroon cloth. Erevan: Haykakan SSRò Gitut'yunneri Akademia, 1961.
This atlas presents an unusual and stunning example of avant-garde book design from what what was then Soviet Armenia.
Some marginal waterstaining, heavier.....
Item nr. 170979
Price: $2,500.00
TITAYNA [Elisaberth Sauvy] and Carlo RIM, editors. Jazz. L' Actualité intellectuelle. 17 Numbers, all published. Illustrated throughout. Folio, bound in original wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Louis Querelle,1928-1930
A superb complete set of this landmark periodical devoted to Jazz, which is distinguished by the outstanding roster of contributors.....
Item nr. 170832
Price: $3,850.00
NEURATH, Otto. Modern Man in the Making. 159, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout with charts and diagrams. Small 4to., 265 x 205 mm, bound in publisher's blue cloth with title in silver on spine and front cover. New York: Knopf, 1939.
In the 1920s, Neurath developed the "Museum of Society and Economy".....
Item nr. 170990
Price: $2,500.00
HUGNET, Georges. La Septieme Face du De. With a cover by Marcel Duchamp and 20 decoupage poems by Hugnet. 4to., bound in original illustrated wrappers in a board slipcase. Paris: Editions Jeanne Bucher, 1936.
An unusually fine copy of this important example of surrealist book-making, which is rarely found in good.....
Item nr. 170510
Price: $17,500.00
GARATTI, Celso Maria. Italiani di Mussolini in A.O. 569 pp. Profusely illustrated. Large folio, bound in the publisher's decorated cloth. Bologna: L. Cappelli, 1937.
An immaculate copy of the trade edition of this classic Fascist photobook. There were also copies in an elaborate binding with a metal spine. The layout shows.....
Item nr. 169948
Price: $3,750.00
CENDRARS, Blaise. Profond aujourd'hui, Prose par Monsieur Blaise Cendrars, et 5 Dessins de Monsieur A. Zarraga. [20] pp. Illustrated with 5 illustrations by Angel Zarraga. 12mo., bound in original wrappers, preserved in an new light brown cloth folding box. Paris: La Belle Édition, 1917.
A fine copy of this curious book.....
Item nr. 167433
Price: $2,500.00
USHAKOV, G.A. Geroicheskiy poked Chlyuskina. [The heroic crusade of Chelyuskin]. 24 photographs measuring 225 x 285 mm, number 1-23, plus one of map that is unnumered laid into the publisher's red chemise with title printed in white on the cover. Moscow: 1934.
A celebration of one of the legendary events of.....
Item nr. 168482
Price: $12,500.00
PONTI, Gio. 36 Progetti di Ville di Architetti Italiani. A cura dell' Esposizione Triennale Internazionale delle Arti Decorative Industriali Moderne alla villa Reale di Monza. 256 pp. Illustrated with 31 colour plates and 288 illustrations in black-and-white. 4to., bound in publisher's salmon-coloured cloth with gilt stripes, stamped in gilt. Milano.....
Item nr. 169183
Price: $975.00
KNICKERBOCKER, H.R. Rudy obchod hrozi [Fighting the Red Trade Menace] & Rudy obchod laka [Soviet Trade and World Depression]. 158; 172 pp. 8vo, bound in publisher's wrappers wirh photomontages designed by Josef Hesoun. Prague: Ceska graficka Unie, 1932.
Superb examples of two of the Czech architect Josef Hesoun's dramatic cover designs.....
Item nr. 169050
Price: $750.00
HALEIZOVU. Barva vladne svetem. 216 pp. Illustrated with 6 full page plates, 5 of which are in colour. 8vo., bound in publisher's colourfully designed wrappers. Prague: Zmatlik a Palicka, 1928.
A scarce little book on the basics of spectrology and the effects of colour on human life. A rare book, with.....
Item nr. 169049
Price: $875.00
RODCHENKO, A.M. Govorit Moskva [Moscow Speaks]. No. 36 (104), 1931. 18 pp. Folio, bound in publisher's colour peek-a-boo Constructivist die-cut wrappers designed by Rodchenko. Moscow: Vsesoiuznyi kom-t po radioveshchaniiu, 1931.
One of the rare issues of Moscow Speaks with the stunning lithographed decorative spirals on the cover by Rodchenko. It includes.....
Item nr. 169789
Price: $2,500.00
RODCHENKO, A.M. Rechevik:stikhi. [The Orator]. By S.M. Tretiakov. 191 pp. 8vo. 180 x 130 mm, bound in original two-color Constructivist letterpress wrappers designed by Rodchenko. Moscow and Leningrad: Giz, 1929.
A fresh copy of this pamphlet with the stunning vibrant wrappers designed by Rodchenko. The poetical text by the very important.....
Item nr. 169709
Price: $2,500.00
BEZBORODOV, S. Bolsheviki otkryli Sibir [The Bolsheviks discovered Siberia]. 170, [6] pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs and photomontage. Small 4to., 225 x 180 mm, bound in publisher's decorated dark blue cloth. Moscow; Leningrad: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., OGIZ, 1932.
First Edition. A wonderfully designed children's book.....
Item nr. 169360
Price: $1,750.00
ALFIERI, Dino and Luigi FREDDI. Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista. 263 pp. With hundreds of illustrations, including some color plates and a fac-simile reproduction of an inscription by Mussolini as a frontispiece. 4to, bound in original cloth-backed illustrated boards. Rome: Partito Nazionale Fascista, 1933
The book commemorates the tenth anniversary of the.....
Item nr. 169182
Price: $975.00
FASCISM. La lotta contro tubercolosi in Italia. 114 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams. Small folio, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Rome Federazione italiana nazionale fascista per la lotta contro la tuberculosi, 1934.
A fine copy of a book where the imaginative design is in dramatic contrast to the dreary.....
Item nr. 169121
Price: $850.00
WARHOL, Andy. Dossier No. 2357. [Exhibition catalogue for Thirteen Most Wanted Men]. [6] ff. Illustrated with one full-page black and white "mug-shot" from the New York Police Department's "Thirteen Most Wanted" list. 4to., 260 x 175 mm, bound in original stapled printed wrappers in a new red cloth box. Paris.....
Item nr. 153236
Price: $2,750.00
WARHOL, Andy. Warhol. Texts by Jean-Jacques Lebel, Alain Jouffroy, and John Ashbery. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 6 black-&-white plates and a foldout of Blue Electric Chair. 4to., bound in original stapled wrappers in new cloth box. Paris: Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, 1964.
A fine copy of the rare and important catalogue for Warhol's.....
Item nr. 113195
Price: $1,750.00
ALTMAN, Natan Isaevich. Lenin: risunki i oblozhka raboty Natana Al'tmana. [28] pp. Illustrated with 10 reproductions of drawings by Natan Altman. 8vo., 230 x 190 mm, bound in original illustrated tan wrappers, in a new linene cloth folding box. Saint Petersburg: Otdela Izobrazitel'nykh iskusstv Narodnogo Komissariata po Prosveshcheniiu, 1921.
First Edition.....
Item nr. 169791
Price: $2,500.00
HOSHINO, Tatsuo.(Editor). Shina Jihen Shashin Zenshu [China Incident Photograph Album]. 6 volumes. Illustrated throuhout with photographs and photo montage. Small folio, bound in publisher's decorated cloth in original decorated cardboard slipcases. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1937-1940.
A rare complete set of these important and extensive propaganda books published by the newspaper Asahi.....
Item nr. 169728
Price: $7,500.00
TELINGATER, Solomon. Kachestvennaya Stal' SSSR. [The Quality Steel of the USSR]. 164 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs, photomontage, graphs, charts etc., 30 of which are full page some folding. Small folio, 250 x 180 mm, bound in publisher's etched steel covers. Housed in archival red box. Moscow-Leningrad: Glavnaia redaktsiia lit-ry.....
Item nr. 169405
Price: $25,000.00
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ALEKSEEV,S. Tsvetovedeniye dlya arkhitektorov [i.e. Color in Architecture]. 157, [2] pp. Illustrated with 12 leaves of plates, some colour. 8vo., bound in original brown cloth. Leningrad: GONTI, 1938.
A very good copy of this work on color in architecture in Russia. Conceived as a textbook for architecture students in two parts.....
Item nr. 169581
Price: $1,850.00
DUCHAMP Marcel. The Imagery of Chess. A Group Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, newly designed Chessmen, Music and Miscellany: opening Tuesday December twelfth. 4 pp. 8vo., in original wrappers, preserved in a new linen cloth folding box. New York: Julien Levy Gallery, 1944.
A rare catalogue, designed by Duchamp, for the exhibition.....
Item nr. 167140
Price: $1,450.00
BRANCUSI. An Exhibition of Sculpture by Brancusi, November 17 1926 -December 15 1926 at The Brummer Gallery. With introduction by Paul Morand, and texts by Brancusi, Carl Sandburg, Ezra Pound, Andre Salmon and others. [9] pp. Illustrated with 32 photographic plates. Folio, bound in original wrappers in a new linen.....
Item nr. 168499
Price: $3,750.00
JESPERS, Oscar. Bezette Stad. By Paul van Ostayen. [76] ff. Illustrated with woodcuts by Oscar Jespers. 4to., 285 x 220 mm, bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth box. Antwerp: Uitgave van het Sienjaal, 1921.
Dutch/Flemish avant-garde bookmaking at its best. The innovative use of typography, combined with dramatic.....
Item nr. 169131
Price: $7,500.00
CHERNIKHOV, Yakov. Konstruktsiia arkhitekturnykh i mashinnykh form. [Construction of Architectural Forms and Machines]. 232, [80], [2] pp. Illustrated throughout. 4to., 296 x 210 mm, bound in original boards, with title printed in Russian on cover and spine, in a new green cloth folding box. Leningrad: Edition de la Société des.....
Item nr. 169248
Price: $7,500.00