MUNSELL. Atlas of the Munsell Color System. Letterpress introduction, illustrated with 15 colour charts with colour samples tipped on to boards. Oblong folio, 275 x 355 mm., bound in publisher's boards, blue cloth spine. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Howland & Co., 1915.
The Atlas of the Munsell Color System consists of two.....
Item nr. 171023
Price: $3,500.00
KENTRIDGE, William. The Lulu Plays, by Frank Wedekind. 197 pp. Illustrated with 67 full-page reproductions of drawings by William Kentridge. Folio, bound in publisher's cloth in matching slipcase, both designed by Kentridge. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2015.
An exciting publication from the Arion Press featuring the work of one of today's.....
Item nr. 161804
Price: $2,000.00
AVATI, Mario. Aphorismes, Menus et Variétés. By Brillat-Savarin. 108, [8] pp. Frontispiece and 24 mezzotints by Avati. 8vo., bound in original wrappers, in chemise and ultra-suede slipcase. Paris: Les Francs-Bibliophiles, 1961.
A tour-de-force of book illustration. Avati, who is a master of the mezzotint process, displays his virtuosity in the 25.....
Item nr. 52069
Price: $1,650.00
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, with the plates showing models wearing coats and then the animals whose.....
Item nr. 165818
Price: $1,250.00
WEI, Yu-hsiu. Kitaianka Sume-Cheng [Soumay Tcheng the Chinese Woman]. 148 pp. Photocollage illustrations by Rodchenko. 8vo., 200 x 140 mm. bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers, preserved in a new green cloth box, with a maroon morocco label. Moscow: Gos. Izd-vo, 1929.
A memoir extolling the emancipation of the Chinese woman, illustrated.....
Item nr. 169835
Price: $2,750.00
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
CORNELL, Joseph. A Joseph Cornell Pop-Up Book for All Ages. With text by Sandra Leonard Starr. 103 pp. Includes a 3D Viewer, 6 pop ups and a folding panorama. Oblong folio, bound in publisher's blue cloth and paper label preserved in a new blue cloth folding box. Tokyo: Tokyo Publishing.....
Item nr. 166704
Price: $5,000.00
KITAJ, Ronald Brooks. A Day Book by Robert Creeley. With 14 Original prints. Folio, bound in full blue and green leather, in matching blue leather-covered slipcase by Rudolf Rieser, assisted by Helmut Klohs. Berlin: Graphis, 1972.
A splendid copy of the deluxe edition this important work. The work was designed by.....
Item nr. 172297
Price: $12,500.00
INDIANA, Robert. Numbers. Containing 10 screenprints by Robert Indiana. By Robert Creeley. Illustrated with 10 screenprints. Large Folio, bound in original tan printed wrappers. Stuttgart und Duesseldorf, Edition Domberger, 1968.
The extremely rare large folio edition, which is not to be confused with the more commonly found 4to edition. One of.....
Item nr. 162580
Price: $17,500.00
SEGUY, Eugene Alain. Code Universel des Couleurs. Encyclopedie Pratique du Naturaliste XXX. lxviii pp. Illustrated with 55 plates showing 720 colours. 8vo, 154 x 169 mm, bound loose as issued in the original cloth portfolio. Paris: Paul Lechevalier, 1936.
First Edition. A system of precise designation of colours for the exact.....
Item nr. 173293
Price: $495.00
WARHOL, Andy and Gerard MALANGA. Screen Tests / A Diary. [5], 54 ff. Illustrated with 54 black and white screen test film strips reproduced on acetate, one facing each page of poetry. 4to., 253 x 190 mm, bound in publisher's wrappers, in a morocco backed slipcase. New York: Kulchur Press.....
Item nr. 169072
Price: $3,750.00
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JOHNS, Jasper. Fizzles. By Samuel Beckett. Unpaginated. Illustrated with a total of 34 original illustrations, including lift-ground aquatints, dry-point etchings, and soft-ground etchings by Johns, printed by Crommelynck in Paris. Small folio, 333 x 253 mm, bound in original plain wrappers, laid into.....
Item nr. 170435
Price: $50,000.00
VON WEDEL, Hasso. Die Soldaten des Führers im Felde. Band 11. Der Kampf im Westen. 70 pp. text. Illustrated with 8 leaves of plates and 100 stereoscopic photographs laid into pockets, with stereoscopic viewer. 4to., bound in publisher's grey cloth. Munich: Raumbild-verlag, 1941.
A fine, complete copy, of this photographic record.....
Item nr. 141792
Price: $575.00
WINDMILL PRESS. The Book of Affinity. By Moysheh Oyved. With reproductions of 7 coloured drawings by Jacob Epstein. Large 4to., bound in original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut. London: William Heinemann, 1933.
One of 525 copies, this one bearing a special presentation inscription from the author to Mr. & Mrs. Samuel.....
Item nr. 30719
Price: $250.00
TORRES-GARCIA, J. Nueva Escuela de arte del Uruguay. The New Art School of Uruguay - Nouvelle ecole d'art de l'Uruguay. Painting and Constructive Art. Contribution to the Art of the Three Americas. 20 pp. text, plus 40 plates. Folio, original decorated wrappers(repaired). Montevideo: Asociacion de Arte Constructivo, 1946.
This is one.....
Item nr. 110446
Price: $875.00
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PICASSO, Pablo. 40 Dessins [de PICASSO] en Marge du Buffon. 40 monochrome plates. Folio, original wrappers in stiff folder in publisher's slipcase and recent cloth folding box. Paris, Jonquieres, 1957
In 1942 Fabiani published his celebrated edition of Buffon illustrated with original prints by Picasso. In 1943 Picasso made a......
Item nr. 36490
Price: $750.00
NEURATH, Otto and Gerd ARNTZ. Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft: bildstatistisches Elementarwerk. das Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum in Wien zeigt in 100 Farbigen Bildtafeln Produktionsformen, Gesellschaftsordnungen, Kulturstufen, Lebenshaltungen. Contents includes title-page, 100 plates and 30 text pages. Oblong folio, 303 x 454 mm., loose as issued in a new cloth folding box. Leipzig.....
Item nr. 172295
Price: $25,000.00
CRUIKSHANK, R.J. Charles Dickens and Early Victorian England. 308 pp. Illustrated with 14 isotype charts and profusely illustrated. 8vo., bound in publisher's cloth. London: Pitman, 1949.
A typical example of the postwar use of isotype charts in England. A fine copy, with just the slightest wear to the dustwrapper.
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Item nr. 173325
Price: $150.00
EL LISSITZKY. USSR. Katalog des Sowjet-Pavillons auf der Internationalen Presse-Ausstellung Koeln. Folding plate consisting of 18 attached plates in concertina form, and 110 pages. 8vo, 213 x 145 mm., original printed wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Cologne: Dumont Schauberg, 1928.
The legendary catalogue for the Soviet Pavilion at the.....
Item nr. 135084
Price: $9,750.00
MIRO, Joan. Càntic del Sol. By Saint Francis of Assisi, translated into Spanish by Josep Carner, with a prologue by Marià Manent. 44 ff. With 35 etchings with aquatint, printed in colour, all after original designs by Joan Miró. Oblong folio, 367 x 516 mm, loose as issued in original.....
Item nr. 173342
Price: $22,500.00
TRACHSEL, Albert. Les Fêtes réeles. 12 ff. With a portrait of the author by F. Hodler engraved by H. Forestier, and 50 large numbered heliotype plates by Trachsel in various tones of black, blue, sepia, and violet on white. Oblong folio, 357 x 468 mm, Bound in publisher's red three.....
Item nr. 173515
Price: $12,500.00
LEGER, Fernand. Contrastes. With a préface by Louis Aragon entitled "La Lumière de Léger". Illustrated with 13 pochoir plates. Folio, 508 x 393 mm, loose as issued in the publisher's illustrated linen portfolio. Paris: Aux Vent d'Arles, 1959.
A spectacular portfolio of pochoir plates after Leger paintings, executed by Daniel Jacomet.....
Item nr. 173353
Price: $8,750.00
LÉGER, Fernand. Cirque. Illustrated with 75 lithographs by Léger, of which 33 are printed in colour and 42 in black (unsigned). Folio, 440 x 340, bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a half-leather chemise and slipcase by Deveauchelle. Paris: Tériade, 1950.
One of the great livres des peintres of the twentieth.....
Item nr. 166646
Price: $35,000.00
SISKIND, Aaron. Song of the Open Road. By Walt Whitman. Illustrated with six hand-pulled photogravure plates. Folio, 435 x 375 mm, bound in quarter black goatskin over green linen cloth-covered boards, in a black linen-covered slipcase. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1990.
Designed by Kevin Begos Jr. and Dan Carr, the.....
Item nr. 152828
Price: $2,250.00
SINISGALLI, Leonardo. Cineraccio. With 19 etchings by Orfeo Tamburi. Folio, bound in original grey Ingres paper wrappers, in slipcase. Florence: [Officina Bodoni for] I Cento Amici del Libro, 1966.
Copy 6 of 118. Elegantly Printed in Dante 14 point roman, on Cernobbio mould-made paper.
Mardersteig 145.
Item nr. 52729
Price: $1,500.00