MEXICO. Seis anos de gobierno al Servicio de Mexico, 1934-1940. From the Gabinete Presdencial. xxv, 459 pp. Illustrations throughout. Small folio, bound in publisher's brown gilt-stamped cloth. [México]: [La Nacional Impressora], 1940.
A massive and seemingly little-know work, which is illustrated with Isotypes on almost every page. The use of the.....
Item nr. 167437
Price: $4,750.00 save 30% $3,325.00
RUSSIAN TOY CATALOGUE. Sat'amashoebis laboratoriis ek'sponatebis albomi. [Album of Toy Laboratory Exhibits] . 80 pp. Illustrated with photographs and coloured diagrams. 180 x 276 mm, bound in original cloth with lettering and decoration on the front cover. Tbilisi: Zaria Vostoka, 1941.
This album showcases toys and educational materials for kindergarten children.....
Item nr. 165322
Price: $2,500.00 save 30% $1,750.00
BRASSAI. Paris de Nuit. With text by Paul Morand. Illustrated with 62 photographs by Brassai and photographic endleaves. 8vo., bound in original wrappers picturing a Brassai photograph, title printed in red, spiral bound, in a black cloth folding box. Paris: Édition Arts et Métiers Graphiques, n.d. [December, 1932].
One of the.....
Item nr. 164748
Price: $4,750.00 save 30% $3,325.00
[JAPANESE MATCHBOX COVERS]. Album containing over 950 Japanese Matchbox covers mounted on 59 leaves. Small folio 4to., bound in original boards in a new blue cloth folding box with a red leather label. Japan: 1920s and 30s.
This collection provides a unique view of Japanese pre-war design. Many of the labels.....
Item nr. 162577
Price: $2,500.00 save 30% $1,750.00
FREYTAG, Gustav. Export-Atlas für Welthandel und Industrie. 6 pp text. Illustrated with one folding map of the world, 20 maps and 8 charts all done in chromolithography. Oblong folio, 265 x 395 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated blue cloth. Vienna: G. Freytag & Berndt, ND [1901].
An imaginative example of early.....
Item nr. 143521
Price: $3,500.00 save 30% $2,450.00
HEARTFIELD, John. Revolution und Konterrevolution in China. Übersetzung aus dem englischen Manuskript von Paul Frölich. By Manabendra Nath Roy. 478 pp. 8vo., bound in publisher's cloth and dust-wrapper designed by John Heartfield. Berlin: Soziologische Verlagsanstalt, 1930.
One of Heartfield's most striking and gruesome designs. Minor wear.
Not in Siepmann...
Item nr. 140576
Price: $975.00 save 30% $682.50
HASSELWANDER, Albert. Ein Anatomischer Totentanz. 27, [1] pp. Illustrated with 50 photographic plates. Small 4to., 220 x 175 mm, bound in original publisher's half vellum over brown boards. Munich: J.F. Bergmann, 1926.
Only Edition, an inscribed copy, of this photographic anomaly, offering an "Anatomical Dance of Death," prepared for the use.....
Item nr. 164781
Price: $8,500.00 save 30% $5,950.00
El LISSITZKY. SSSR Stroit Sotzializm. (USSR Builds The Socialism). xxvi, 282, [4] pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards, preserved in a new red cloth folding box. Moscow: Izozis, 1933.
A spectacular example of Lissitzky's skill as a bookmaker, and one of the finest examples of the.....
Item nr. 167434
Price: $12,500.00
BOOM, Irma and Johan PIJNAPPEL. SHV 1896-1996. [Centennial Album / Jubileumboek]. AKA Thinkbook. 2136 pp. Thick 8vo., 230 x 180 x 120 mm, bound in publisher's boards and cardboard box. Utrecht: SHV Holdings, 1996.
An immaculate copy of the chef d'oeuvre of the Dutch designer Irma Boom. Commissioned to commemorate the.....
Item nr. 166812
Price: $7,500.00
TOLMER, A. Mise En Page. The Theory and Practice of Lay-Out. [117] pp. With 16 full-page photomontages and illustrations. 4to., 264 x 212 mm, bound in original decorated boards, in a new yellow cloth folding box with a black leather label. London: The Studio, 1931.
A fine copy of this brilliant.....
Item nr. 165681
Price: $2,250.00
MOSCOW. "Souvenir de Moscou". The prints measuring 162 x 222 mm. Oblong folio, 240 x 340 mm, bound in contemporary three-quarter morocco. NP, ND. [Moscow,1904?]
$ 3500.00
The 24 plates depict the major sights along the Moscva River, Red Square, the Kremlin, St. Basils Cathedral, etc. in early colour photography. The album.....
Item nr. 162671
Price: $2,250.00
FASCISM. L'Italia all'Esposizione Internationale di Parigi. Unpaginated. Illustrated with tipped in photographs throughout. Folio, 300 x 240, bound in publisher's spiral bound gilt wrappers, preserved in a new red cloth folding box. Paris: Jacques Makowsky, [1938].
First Edition. A fine copy of this elaborate publication documenting the Italian Pavilion at the.....
Item nr. 168405
Price: $2,500.00
TESTI, C.V. Les Routes de l'Italie. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., publisher's illustrated wrappers. (Rome): ENIT, 1933. WITH:
TESTI, C.V. When will you come to Italy. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., publisher's illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. (Rome): E.N.I.T, 1936.
Two wonderful examples of Fascist book design, both in fine conditon.....
Item nr. 168265
Price: $1,250.00
MUSSOLINI. Armi d'Italia: le rassegne del Duce alle truppe dell'armata del Po, della seconda e ottava armata. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with photographs and photomontage. Small folio, 310 x 230 mm, bound in publisher's photographic wrappers, preserved in a new green cloth folding box. Rome: 1940.
$1,500.00
A fine copy of this typical.....
Item nr. 167219
Price: $1,500.00
FASCISM. La Pubblicità d'Italia. Numbers 43-46. 467 pp. Profusely illustrated. Folio, 318 x 230 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Milan: Sindicato Nazionale Fascista, 1941.
A massive survey of Italian advertising at the begiining of the war, published with text in Italian and German as.....
Item nr. 167163
Price: $2,500.00
LABO, Mario and Attilio PODESTA. Colonie Marine, Montane, Elioterapiche. 79 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs and architectural diagrams. Folio, bound in publisher's boards, and illustrated dust-jacket. Milan: Ed. Domus, 1942.
$975.00
A fine example of this wartime study of the architecture of holiday camps, something which would seem to be a strange.....
Item nr. 166852
Price: $975.00
MORGAGNI, Manlio. Viva il Duce! 23 Marzo 1919. 226 leaves. Photographically illustrated throughout. Folio, bound in publisher's boards, in a new linen cloth folding box. Milano: Alfieri & Lacroix, 1939.
This splendid Fascist photobook is massive hagiography of Mussolini, which is redeemed by its imaginative book design, which is in complete.....
Item nr. 166851
Price: $3,500.00
HUGNET, Georges. L'Aventure Dada (1916-1922). With an introduction by Tristan Tzara. 101 pp. Illustrated with 33 photographic plates. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers after a design by Marcel Duchamp, in a new black cloth box with black leather spine label gilt. Paris: Galerie de l'Institut, 1957.
Duchamp created his Project.....
Item nr. 154685
Price: $675.00
El LISSITZKY. URSS en Construction. Number devoted to the Soviet Navy. Year 20, No. 1. 44 pp. Folio, bound in original wrappers. Moscow: Editions d'Etat des Beaux-Arts, 1937.
Apart from the wear to the top of the front wrapper, a fine copy of a typical issue of this landmark periodical, this.....
Item nr. 128754
Price: $1,750.00
DUCHAMP, Marcel. First Papers of Surrealism. Foreword by Sidney Janis. 52 pp. Illustrated profusely with monochrome photographs, drawings and reproductions of paintings. Small 4to., 270 x 185 mm, bound in original publisher's illustrated and stapled wrappers. Preserved in a green cloth folding box. New York: Coordinating Council of French Relief.....
Item nr. 167270
Price: $1,750.00
BUEHRMANN'S, G.H. De Papiermolen; Tijdschrift voor de grafische Vakken. Vol. 11. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with tipped in paper samples. Small folio, 300 x 240 mm, in spiral bound publisher's paper wrappers. Amsterdam: Bührmann's, G.H., papiergroothandel n.v., ND.
A fine copy of one of the volumes of this splendidly designed volume.....
Item nr. 159721
Price: $750.00 save 30% $525.00
LUZA, Reynaldo. Presenting Silhouette: a New Pattern in 1847 Rogers Bros. Silverplate. Folio. [14] pp. Illustrated with two heliogravures and two pochoir plates. Folio, bound in original spiral bound black and silver decorative stiff wrappers. Paris: Draeger, [1930].
A stunning trade catalogue, sumptuously printed by Draeger for the Meriden Connecticut based.....
Item nr. 167509
Price: $1,500.00
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
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