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.....
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 linen 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.....
Item nr. 169728
Price: $7,500.00
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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
JESPERS, Oscar. Bezette Stad. By Paul van Ostayen. [152] pp., 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.
Belgian avant-garde bookmaking at its best. The innovative use of typography, combined with dramatic.....
Item nr. 169131
Price: $7,500.00
LÖNBERG-HOLM, Knud and Ladislav SUTNAR. Catalog Design. 72 pp. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., bound in publisher's spiral; bound boards, in a new light blue cloth folding box, New York: Sweet's Catalog Service, a division of F. W. Dodge Corporation, 1944.
An immaculate copy of a fragile work rarely found thus. This is.....
Item nr. 168823
Price: $2,500.00
MAZING, B and N.P.AKIMOVA. Akter Germanskogo Kino. 50 pp. With black-&-white illustrations throughout. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers. Leningrad: Academia, 1926.
An early Russian work on German film with a dramatic contructivist cover. A fine copy of this fragile pamphlet. Very rare. OCLC lists only 2 copies, in the British.....
Item nr. 145634
Price: $495.00
CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY. Severnaia Manchzhuriia i Kitaiskaia Vostochnaia Zheleznaia Doroga [Northern Manchuria and the Chinese Eastern Railway]. IX, 692, XXIII, III [2] pp. With photo-Illustrations, maps, charts and graphs throughout. 4to, bound in publisher's blue cloth. Harbin: Tipografiia Kitaiskoi Vostochnoi Zheleznoi Dorogi, 1922.
A splendid account of this railway whose interest.....
Item nr. 168904
Price: $5,750.00
NOVLIANSKII, N. Iskusstvo grima: Nagliadnoe posobie dlia kruzhkovtsev. [i.e. Art of Makeup. A Visual Handbook for Membersof Art Sections, Drama Schools and Professional Stage Actors]. 24 leaves, illustrated throughout with colour plates and photographs. Oblong folio, 255 x 360 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers, preserved in a new green.....
Item nr. 168898
Price: $2,500.00
MASSON, André. Soleils Bas. By Georges Limbour. With 4 etchings by Masson, one of which is on the front wrapper. 4to., bound in original wrappers, preserved in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Editions de la Galerie Simon [Daniel Henry Kahnweiler], 1924.
A fine copy of Masson's rare first book, which.....
Item nr. 169030
Price: $7,500.00
PALANTI, Mario. "Auditorium" Progetti Roma Anno XIII. 34, [2], [6] pp. Illustrated with 42 full page black-&-white plates. Folio, bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in silver on the cover, preserved in a new matching cloth folding box. [Milan: Rizzoli & Co., 1935].
Handsomely printed documentation for a planned work in.....
Item nr. 168923
Price: $2,750.00
MASSON, André. C'est les bottes de 7 lieues Cette phrase "Je me vois". By Robert Desnos. [13 ff]. Illustrated with 4 etchings by Masson. Folio, bound in publisher's wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Galerie Simon [Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler], 1926.
A fine copy of the most beautiful of the books.....
Item nr. 168915
Price: $8,750.00
FRASCHETTI, Vincenzo and Carlo TESTI. Italia dall' A alla Z. 88 unnumbered pages. Illustrated throughout. Small 4to., 250 x 230 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated boards. In a new red cloth folding box. Novarra: Officine dell'Istituto Geografico de Agostini, 1936.
A stunning example of fascist book design. Published by the Italian.....
Item nr. 168884
Price: $8,500.00
MOHOLY-NAGY, L. Malerei, Photografie, Film. 140 pp. include over 100 b&w illustrations. 4to, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket and glassine, in a new cloth folding box. Munich, Albert Langen Verlag, 1925.
Rare First Edition of this landmark work with typography, dust jacket, and design all by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Among the many illustrations are.....
Item nr. 165685
Price: $3,500.00
DUCHAMP, Marcel. International DADA Exhibition 1916-1923. Large Poster printed in black and orange, designed by Duchamp. Single sheet, 965 x 635 mm, (38" x 25"), folded. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953.
A fine copy of this extremely rare Duchamp poster, which was also the catalogue for the famous Dada exhibition.....
Item nr. 164557
Price: $9,500.00
PASPA, Karel. ABECEDA. By Vitezslav Nezval. Designed by Karel Teige. Illustrated with 25 black and white photomontages by Teige from Paspa's photographs. 4to., bound in contemporary blue cloth boards with original printed front wrapper bound in. Prague: J. Otto, 1926.
An important landmark of the Czech avant garde and at the.....
Item nr. 168961
Price: $5,850.00
ARBEITSGEMEINSCHAFT DER VIER. Der Weg zur Farbe. 138 pp. Illustrated with 25 colour plates. 8vo., bound in publisher's decorated cloth. Hamburg: Verlag Fachblatt der Maler, ND. [ca 1930].
A rare, handsomely illustrated Bauhaus work on colour theory by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Vier, namely Grueber, Isenberg, Heinemann and Sternberg. Part one with.....
Item nr. 168778
Price: $2,500.00
MUSSOLINI, Benito. Le Giornate del Duce a Genova: 14-15-16 maggio XVI. 108 pp. Illustrated throughout with photomontage and reproduced full page etchings by Ettore Mazzini. Folio, bound in original embossed boards. Genova: Partito nazionale fascista, 1938.
A spectacular piece of Fascist book design in the form of a twentieth century Fete.....
Item nr. 168739
Price: $2,850.00