WELLS, H.G. La Guerre des Mondes. Translated from the English by Henry D. Davray. 235, [10] pp., illustrated with 32 full-page plates by Henri Alvim-Correa included in the pagination and numerous large headpieces, tailpieces, initials, and vignettes illustrating the text; title-page printed in red and gold. 4to, 330 x 260.....
Item nr. 172612
Price: $8,500.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Poems by Larry Fagin illustrated with 5 Drawings by Richard Tuttle. 15 leaves.12mo. Publisher's wrappers, in a board portfolio. Bradford- New York City: Topia Press, 1977.
Number 8 of 26 copies signed by Fagin and Tuttle, of an edition of 200 copies. An immaculate copy of this scarce, relatively.....
Item nr. 164635
Price: $250.00
PARSONS, Thos. & Sons. A Few Suggestions for Ornamental Decoration. Compiled by F. Scott Mitchell. 130 pp., illustrated throughout with decoration examples and 4 plates with colour samples. 8vo, 216 x 140 mm., bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt title and floral design on front cover. London: Thos. Parsons.....
Item nr. 153753
Price: $375.00
MASSON, André. Soleils Bas. By Georges Limbour. [11] ff., with 4 etchings by Masson, one of which is on the front wrapper. 4to, 250 x 196 mm., bound in original wrappers, preserved in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Editions de la Galerie Simon [Daniel Henry Kahnweiler], 1924.
A fine copy.....
Item nr. 169030
Price: $7,500.00
FARGUE, Léon-Paul. Banalité. 84 pp, xvi, 16 full page monochrome gravure illustrations. Folio, 383 x 280 mm., bound in original paper wrappers is grey cloth box. Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1930.
Fargue's poem was originally published in 1928 without illustrations, but is here reissued with 16 photographs by.....
Item nr. 37498
Price: $4,750.00
WRIGHT, Richard. Down by the Riverside. Illustrated by John Wilson. 73 pp., with 4 colour etchings. Folio, 305 x 400 mm., publisher's full blue linen in matching clam shell case. New York: Limited Editions Club, 2001.
A handsome illustrated edition of Wright's 1938 story. In Wilson's own words "I chose to.....
Item nr. 171825
Price: $1,950.00
JARRY, Alfred and Rémy de GOURMONT (eds.) L'Ymagier. Eight issues (all published). Total of 262 reproductions of woodcuts, drawings, engravings, lithographs, etc. 4to, four volumes in 255 x 200 mm, and four volumes 275 x 215 mm, bound in 2 contemporary half morocco volumes with the original publisher's wrappers preserved.....
Item nr. 172284
Price: $22,500.00
MORGAGNI, Manlio. La Rivista Illustrata del Popolo d'Italia. 80 Numbers, Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with photographs and photomontages. Folio, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers as issued. Milan: 1924-1943.
A superb collection of the official fascist propaganda magazine, full of stunning full-page illustrations by Munari, Carboni, Nizzoli, Strada, Ricas, Depero, Sironi, Bazzi and.....
Item nr. 171839
Price: $7,500.00
ZWART, Piet. Bruynzeel's Fabrieken, Zaandam. Catalogus No. 8. 240 pp., printed in red and black, illustrated with diagrams, and typographically arranged by Piet Zwart. 8vo, 175 x 120 mm., bound in publisher's blue leatherette, title in silver. Zaandam: Bruynzeel Fabrieken, [ca. 1963].
A fine copy of this example of Piet Zwarts.....
Item nr. 169424
Price: $495.00
RODENBACH, Georges. Les Vierges. WITH: Les Tombeaux. Two volumes. Unpaginated, illustrated with 4 original coloured lithographs by Jozsef Rippl-Ronai, plus 3 woodcuts by James Pitcairn-Knowles. 8vo, 250 x 170 mm., both bound in original publisher's illustrated wrappers with woodcut illustrations by Pitcairn-Knowles, and each preserved in a morocco-backed sleeve and.....
Item nr. 171379
Price: $8,500.00
FUTURISTIC WORLD. The World of To-Morrow. A Junior Book of Forecasts. By Idrisyn Oliver Evans. 163 pp., illustrated with 24 transparent "Diophane" photo-mechanical plates. 8vo, 213 x 135 mm., bound in original publisher's translucent "Rhodoid" boards over original wrappers, yellow cloth spine. London: D. Archer, 1933.
First and only edition of.....
Item nr. 149577
Price: $2,500.00
FINI, Leonor. L'Épouse infidèle. By Gilbert Lely. 30, [2] pp. Illsutrated with 2 signed etchings. 8vo, loose in publisher's printed wrappers, in a new linen cloth folding box Paris: [the author], 1966.
An immaculate copy of this privately printed little book for which Leonor Fini produced two etchings, both of which.....
Item nr. 169022
Price: $875.00
PARIS METRO. Le Chemin de Fer Metropolitain de Paris. 67 pp., with 13 coloured plates (statistics, diagrams, plans), 4 coloured plates (after drawings by R. Ménager) and numerous photo illustrations in the text. Folio, 308 x 235 mm., original silver boards with coloured decorations, in a new cloth folding box.....
Item nr. 171443
Price: $1,250.00
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 was then Soviet Armenia.
Text in Armenian.
Item nr. 172429
Price: $2,500.00
HARTIGAN, Grace. Salute, by James Schuyler. Illustrated with 5 silkscreen prints by Grace Hartigan. Folio. New York: Tiber Press1960.
A mint copy of this outstanding post-war American artist's book, featuring a collaboration between one of the most influential American poets of the second half of the twentieth century, and an important.....
Item nr. 167048
Price: $2,500.00
HEARTFIELD, John. Der Heiligsten Güter. By Ilya Ehrenburg. 408, [8] pp. 8vo., bound in original cloth and dust-jacket designed by John Heartfield. Berlin: Malik-Verlag, n.d. [1931].
A very fine copy of the German edition of Ehrenburg's novel which was originally published in Russian as The Single Front taking as its target.....
Item nr. 172380
Price: $850.00
WARHOL, Andy. The Index Book. 4to., bound in the original boards with a hologram cover designed by Warhol. New York: Random House, 1967.
A very good copy of this desirable pop art book. A quintessential document of Warhol's factory days profusely illustrated with the photography of Billy Name depicting the entire.....
Item nr. 165711
Price: $2,500.00
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SOVIET PROPAGANDA DESIGN. Za oboronu SSSR [For Defence of the USSR]. 48 pp., illustrated with 32 full page plates printed in red and black. Small folio, 275 x 200 mm., bound in publisher's wrappers illustrated by Czech artist P. Skala. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo AKHRR: Shkola FZU pri 1-i Obraztsovoi tipografii, 1928.
A.....
Item nr. 172368
Price: $8,500.00
RUSCHA, Edward. ME and THE. 576 blank pp. 8vo., 125 x 180 mm, bound in original blue cloth covered boards, a.e.g. In the publisher's carton, all preserved in a cloth folding box. Tampa: Graphic Studio, 2002.
A double fore-edge book with printing that appears when the gilt edge is fanned one.....
Item nr. 172344
Price: $4,000.00
El LISSITZKY. SSSR Stroit Sotzializm. [USSR Builds the Socialism]. xxvi, 282, [4] pp., illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, 337 x 250 mm., bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards. Moscow: Izozis, 1933.
A spectacular example of Lissitzky's skill as a bookmaker, and one of the finest examples of the Soviet propaganda photobook. It.....
Item nr. 169455
Price: $9,750.00
ROH, Franz. Foto-auge, Oeil Et Photo, Photo- Eye. 96 pp. 4to, original photo-pictorial wrappers by El Lissitzky Stuttgart: Dr Fritz Wedekind, 1929.
The book was designed by Jan Tschichold, and has the celebrated cover by Lissitzky. Although not officially, this work functioned as the catalogue of the 'FiFo' exhibition in Stuttgart.....
Item nr. 138070
Price: $3,500.00
KLUTSIS, Gustav. Izofront: klassovaia bor'ba na fronte prostranstvennykh iskusstv : sbornik statei ob'edineniia "Oktiabr'" [Isofront: class struggle on the visual arts front : collection of articles of the association "October"]. By P. Novitskii. 19 pp., illustrated throughout. 8vo, 170 x 130 mm., bound in publisher's two-colour constructivist beveled black cloth.....
Item nr. 169816
Price: $2,500.00
ELUARD, Paul. Corps Memorable. Illustrated with photographs by Lucien Clergue. 8vo, publisher's cloth with the dust jacket designed by Picasso. Paris: Seghers, 1957.
An immaculate copy of what is probably Clergues best known book. Probably because of the Picasso designed dust jacket as much as his highly provocative photographs.
Item nr. 146362
Price: $750.00
HUGNET, Georges. 1961. 60, [10] pp., illustrated with four photomontages hand-coloured by the author, plus an extra suite in black and white bound in at the end. 8vo, original paper wrappers in matching slipcase. Paris: Chez L'Auteur, 1961.
The printer's copy of a book which showcases Hugnet's mastery of the art.....
Item nr. 172005
Price: $5,750.00
GARATTI, Celso Maria. Italiani di Mussolini in A.O. 569 pp., illustrated throughout. Large folio, 405 x 305 mm., bound in publisher's cloth with spine made from copper tubes, with onlaid metal axe on the front cover. Bologna: L. Cappelli, 1937.
A stupendous object, in a binding that is completely over the.....
Item nr. 171602
Price: $8,500.00