HILER, Hilaire. Color Harmonies and Pigments. [x], 61, [1] pp. Illustrated with one colour plate and an inserted colour wheel. Folio, 350 x 270 mm, bound in publisher's white linen printed in maroon on front cover and spine, in the worn original cardboard slipcase. Los Angeles: Research Publishing Company, 1942.
First.....
Item nr. 147151
Price: $495.00
JORGENSEN, Charles Julius. The Mastery of Color. 2 volumes. Text volume: 83 pp. Plate volume: Title plate and 21 plates numbered 0-20, plus two viewing plates numbered 21-22, and contents leaf pasted into box inside cover. 4to, 225 x 177 mm., text and plates together in a new cloth folding.....
Item nr. 143714
Price: $3,850.00
SNOW, Bonnie E. and Hugo B. FROEHLICH. The Theory and Practice of Color. 59 pp. Illustrated with photolithographic frontispiece and 8 colour charts consisting of several hundred tipped-in hand-painted colour samples. 4to., 255 x 195 mm, bound in publisher's light brown cloth, stamped in gray on front cover and spine.....
Item nr. 19011
Price: $975.00
MOTONO, S. La Legende de la Demoiselle de Lumiere. Illustrated with 15 full-page and 31 smaller engravings by Kiyoshi Hasegawa. Small Folio. Original wrappers, housed in a chitsu case. Paris: Societe du Livre d'Art,1933.
An illustrated edition of The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (Taketori Monogatari), probably the oldest surviving.....
Item nr. 169661
Price: $7,500.00
ALFIERI, Dino and Luigi FREDDI. Mostra della Rivoluzione Fascista. 263 pp., with hundreds of illustrations, including some color plates and a facsimile reproduction of an inscription by Mussolini as a frontispiece. 4to, 240 x 168 mm., bound in original cloth-backed illustrated boards. Rome: Partito Nazionale Fascista, 1933.
The book commemorates the.....
Item nr. 169182
Price: $975.00
TRIPOLI. XIII Manifestazione Internazionale - Intercoloniale. Terza Mostra dell'Impero - Mostra del Ventennale della Fondazione dei Fasci. 216 pp., illustrated throughout. 4to, 242 x 190 mm., publisher's illustrated wrappers. Tripoli: XIII Fiera di Tripoli, 1939.
An interesting catalogue documenting Italian colonial pretensions in North Africa, printed on pink, white and blue.....
Item nr. 169187
Price: $750.00
RIVISTA ILLUSTRATA DEL POPOLO D'ITALIA. La Quinta Triennale di Milano. 198 pp., illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, 334 x 26 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Milan: 1933.
A monographic issue of this important magazine (Anno XI n. 8) dedicated to the Fifth Triennial of Milan, primarily devoted to architetcure, and.....
Item nr. 169184
Price: $975.00
SCHUITEMA, Paul. Cement en Beton. Nos. 1-10 (all published). 8vo., nos. 1-9 in the original illustrated wrappers; and no. 10 in original cloth-backed boards, all in a gray cloth folding box. Amsterdam: Verkoopassociatie Enci - Cemij N.V., 1937-1951.
A complete set of this periodical covering various aspects of the construction industry.....
Item nr. 169734
Price: $975.00
KONNIKOV, Abram. Kolbasy i miasokopchenosti. 272 pp., illustrated with 124 chromolithographic images of sausages and other cured meats. Oblong folio, 295 x 420 mm., bound in publisher's dark blue boards. Moscow: Pishchepromizdat, 1938.
While it does not have the avant-garde sensibility of Telingater's ball-bearing catalogue or Piet Zwart's wire catalogue, this.....
Item nr. 172505
Price: $12,500.00
RUSSIAN TOY CATALOGUE. Sat'amashoebis laboratoriis ek'sponatebis albomi. [Album of Toy Laboratory Exhibits]. 80 pp., illustrated with photographs and coloured diagrams. Oblong 4to, 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.....
Item nr. 165322
Price: $2,500.00
LABELS. Luxe Etiketten voor Wijnen Likeuren Gestilleerd Limonades enz. 1 pp. Illustrated with 87 plates. 8vo, bound in publisher's wrappers. Rijswijk: n.d., (ca. 1920).
A catalog of stunning colour-printed labels, mostly, but not, only for various kinds of bottled drinks. Very scarce; no copies listed on OCLC.
Item nr. 153668
Price: $1,500.00
TOBACCO LABELS. A collection of 1875 labels, boxes, etc. tipped in to 34 notebooks. Small folios, 310 x 225 mm, bound in pail blue paper wrappers labeled 'Dessin' with a woodcut illustration of a hot air balloon flying over a townscape on the front of each. France: ND. [Early 20th.....
Item nr. 152162
Price: $15,000.00
ROMEIN, Bernard. Nederlandsche Gist- & Spiritusfabriek 1870-1930. 136 pp., illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. [Delft: 1930].
A splendid piece of Dutch book design illustrated with wonderfully evocative photographs. A rare book with OCLC listing only SMU in the US, with copies in Europe.
Item nr. 169140
Price: $675.00
ARNTZ, Gerd. Statistisch Zakboek. (Isotype). 23 Volumes. 8vo, bound in publisher's wrappers. The Hague: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, 1940 - 1966.
This is a complete run of the volumes containing Arntz's contributions. The publication actually began in 1926. In 1940 Arntz was put in charge of graphic design at the.....
Item nr. 164825
Price: $2,500.00
BOLOGNA. Federazione dei Fasci di Combattimento di Bologna Decima Legio. X Legio. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with photographs and photomontage. Small 4to, 235 x 185 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. [Bologna]: Ministero della Cultura Popolare, [1940].
An apparently unrecorded example of a typical piece of fascist propaganda, in this case glorifying.....
Item nr. 169110
Price: $2,500.00
ESCARD, Massimo. Vincere: L'Italia nell'Mediterraneo. 180 pp., illustrated throughout with photographs and photomontage, one page with printed cellophane with printing in gold. Small folio, 305 x 235 mm., bound in publisher's tan cloth, silver cover. Rome: S.A.E.G.: 1940.
A typical piece of fascist propaganda celebrating the state of the Italian Empire.....
Item nr. 168924
Price: $2,500.00
DEPERO, Fortunato. Depero Futurista. 118 ff., printed on various paper stocks, of which some are coloured; most versos blank. Illustrated with 28 halftone plates in text, 2 in colour. Line-block illustrations and typographic designs throughout, many printed in red and black. Oblong 4to, 245 x 322 mm., bound in flexible.....
Item nr. 172001
Price: $38,500.00
El LISSITZKY. Industriia sotsializma: Tyazhelaya Promyshlennost'k VII Vsesoiuznomu S'ezdy Sovetov. [Socialist Industry: Heavy Industry for the Seventh Congress of Soviets]. Text by A.M. Litvak. 7 parts. Parts 1-6 unpaginated, illustrated throughout with photomontages, diagrams, overlays, foldouts, die cuts, a tipped in cloth sample and many other design elements. Part 7.....
Item nr. 172876
Price: $37,500.00
ASHBERY, John. A Wave. Suite of 8 lithographs by Will Barnet. Small folio. Publisher's linen folding box by Claudia Cohen. New York: 451 Books, 2002.
One of an edition of 30 copies of the print portfolio only (book is not included), with each of the lithographs signed by Barnet. This suite.....
Item nr. 104496
Price: $3,500.00
[GINSBERG, Allen]. AH, Allen, Artists for Naropa. A Tribute. Published and edited by Anna Condo. 96 pp. Illustrated with eight original photographs, unpublished written material, and original artworks. Folio, ca. 360 x 310 mm, bound in cloth with silk screened covers. New York: A/C Editions, 1998.
Limited Edition of 250 copies.....
Item nr. 172957
Price: $12,500.00
ROME. Il Gruppo Montecatini per l'autarchia mineraria. 72 pp., illustrated throughout with charts and photographs, 10 pages on different coloured paper, thumb-indexed, with a loose map of the exhibition. Small 8vo, publisher's silver wrappers, in a new silver cloth box with an orange label. Rome: Mostra Autarchica del Minerale Italiano.....
Item nr. 171083
Price: $2,500.00
LLOYD EXPRESS. Lloyd Express: Bremen, Europa, Columbus. [36] pp., illustrated throughout with photographs and photomontage. 4to, 233 x 195 mm, bound in publisher's decorated wrappers. [Bremen: Norddeutscher Lloyd, ca. 1925].
A lavish promotional brochure outlining the equally lavish and modern amenities afforded to passengers on the Norddeutcher Lloyd high-speed ocean.....
Item nr. 169945
Price: $495.00
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: $1,500.00
TOKYO NICHINICHI SHINBUNSHA. Teikoku kaigun no iyo. 36 ff., illustrated throughout with photomontages. Oblong 4to, 350 x 255 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated blue cloth stamped in silver, in original printed cardboard slipcase. Tokyo: Tokyo Nichinichi Shinbunsha, 1942.
A spectacular photo book on the Japanese Navy in World War II. It.....
Item nr. 167209
Price: $3,750.00
![Item nr. 172535 Wendingen] The Life-Work of the American architect FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT. Frank...](https://ursusbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/172535.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762290930)
WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. [Wendingen]. The Life-Work of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. 7 Numbers. Illustrated with black and white photographs, floor plans and drawings. Square folio, bound in the original decorated wrappers. In a new red cloth folding box. Santpoort, CA: Mees, 1925.
A spectacular copy of this legendary monograph.....
Item nr. 172535
Price: $4,750.00