SEAN SCULLY: The Shape of Ideas
Philadelphia. Museum of Art. SEAN SCULLY: The Shape of Ideas. 256 pages with 195 color and b&w plates. 4to, boards. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2020.
Item nr. 168603
Price: $45.00
Philadelphia. Museum of Art. SEAN SCULLY: The Shape of Ideas. 256 pages with 195 color and b&w plates. 4to, boards. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2020.
Item nr. 168603
Price: $45.00
Harrison, Martin (ed). FRANCIS BACON: Catalogue Raisonné. Five volumes, 1584 pages in total with 900 color illustrations. 4to, cloth covered boards, slipcased. London, Heni Publishing and The Estate of Francis Bacon, 2016.
Underwritten by the Estate of Francis Bacon and ten years in the making, this catalogue raisonné will be the.....
Item nr. 155764
Price: $1,500.00
MILAN. L'Eco della Fiera di Milano, 12-27 Aprile 1934. 20 pp., illustrated throughout. Large folio, publisher's wrappers. Milan: 1934.
An unusual example of fascist propaganda published to commemorate the 15th edition of the international commercial fair of Milan. The elaborate layout comprises dozens of photos of the fair stands. The magazine.....
Item nr. 172068
Price: $750.00
FASCIST SPORT. Lo Sport in Regime Fascista; 28 Octobre 1922-I; 28 Octobre 1935-XIII. 192 pp., illustrated throughout. Folio, 288 x 225 mm., in a new folding box. Publisher's plain cardboard wrappers. [Milan]: n.p., 1935.
In many ways a typical example of fascist propaganda, in this case extolling the value of sport.....
Item nr. 171430
Price: $1,250.00
FASCISM. Bozzetti di addobbo dell'urbe per la visita del Führer. Die Ausschmueckungsentwuerfe der Stadt Roms fuer den Besuch des Fuehrers. Folio, 316 x 321 mm., publisher's cloth. Rome: n.p., 1938.
An extremely pompous tome published to celebrate Hitler's visit to Rome. Perhaps the bad taste is a reflection of the visitor.....
Item nr. 171187
Price: $2,500.00
PAGANO, Giuseppe. Il Covo di Paolo da Cannobio, 15 Novembere 1914-15 Novembre 1920. 84 pp., illustrated throughout. Square 4to, 240 x 230 mm., publisher's illustrated wrappers. Milan: PNF, 1940.
A classic example of a fascist work of propaganda, with an inordinate amount of attention devoted to the book's design, with a......
Item nr. 171183
Price: $1,250.00
SOCIETA MONTECATINI. Il Palazzo per Uffici Montecatini. Inaugurato a Milano il 28 ottobre XVI. 155 pp., illustrated throughout. Small folio, 295 x 225 mm., publisher's cloth. Milano: Tipografia Pizzi e Pizio, 1938.
An extremely elaborate volume celebrating the construction of the Montecatini offices in Milan. Profusely illustrated with photographs and plans.....
Item nr. 171181
Price: $1,250.00
GIOVENTU ITALIANA del LITTORIO. Il Capo Centuria. 196 pp., with 16 black and white photographic plates and 13 colour plates. 8vo, 212 x 151 mm., publisher's wrappers, in a new folding box. Roma: Comando generale della G.I.L., 1936.
A typical production of the fascist era showing the physical education of youth.....
Item nr. 171179
Price: $1,250.00
AGENZIA STEFANI. Il Duce in Libia. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout. Oblong folio, 295 x 330 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. [Milano]: [Alfieri & Lacroix], 1937.
One of several volumes published to celebrate Mussolini's various state visits, this one being to Libya. Given the limitations of the subject matter, one has to.....
Item nr. 171160
Price: $1,250.00
SAN GIORGIO Societa Anonima Industriale GENOVA - SESTRI. Panorama di produzione. 152, [2] pp., photographically illustrated throughout. Small folio, 240 x 170 mm., bound in publisher's embossed tan wrappers. Genova: S.I.A.G., 1941.
A splendidly printed and designed trade catalogue for the San Giorgio factories devoted to the construction of machines. The.....
Item nr. 171086
Price: $1,500.00
ALUMINIUM. L'Alluminio nell'edilizia, arredamento, decorazione. 94 pp., tables, plus 140 photographic plates. Oblong 4to, 213 x 240 mm., spiral bound in original illustrated boards. Milan: Alluminio S. A. - Lavorazione Leghe Leggere, 1939.
A handsomely produced trade catalogue extolling the virtues and uses of aluminium. Slight soiling to the covers, but.....
Item nr. 169242
Price: $1,250.00
FASCISM. Gioventù italiana del littorio. 71 pp., illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, 270 x 220 mm., bound in publisher's decorative paper boards in original photographic dust jacket, preserved in a new folding box. Rome: Pressedienst des Generalkommandos della G.I.L., 1940.
A scarce Italian photobook given over to glorifying fascist youth and.....
Item nr. 167220
Price: $2,250.00
FASCISM. La Pubblicità d'Italia. Numbers 43-46. 468 pp., illustrated throughout. Folio, 308 x 225 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers in a new red cloth folding box. Milan: Sindicato Nazionale Fascista, 1941.
A massive survey of Italian advertising at the beginning of the war, published with text in Italian and German.....
Item nr. 167105
Price: $2,500.00
ALESSANDRINI, Alessandro. Le Manifestazioni Agricole del Decennale. 426 pp., photographically illustrated throughout. Folio, 295 x 220 mm., bound in publisher's silver decorated wrappers, in a new grey cloth folding box. [Torino?]: [Sindacato nazionale fascista tecnici agricoli], 1933.
A superb example of the disconnect often present in books published by the totalitarian.....
Item nr. 165416
Price: $1,250.00
Cox, Julian (ed.). MATTHEW WONG: Blue View. 160 pages, including 80 color plates. Folio, cloth. Ontario, Art Gallery of Ontario, 2021.
This first museum publication features more than 60 of Wong's deeply evocative blue paintings, of intimate interior scenes and luscious nocturnal landscapes, from his Blue Series made between 2017 and.....
Item nr. 171918
Price: $40.00
VERZOCCHI, G. Veni VD Vici. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout. Folio, 280 x 220 mm., publisher's full decorated calf. Milan: Verzocchi, 1924.
Trade catalog containing artworks commissioned by Giuseppe Verocchi featuring the "V & D" brick. Artists include Fortunato Depero, Primo Sinopico (Raoul Chareun), Guido Marussig, Marcello Dudovich, and others.
Rare. OCLC lists only.....
Item nr. 171185
Price: $2,750.00
VON GRAEFE, Axel. Il Nuovo Volto d'Italia. With an introduction by Alfredo Panzini. [10] pp. of text and list of plates, illustrated with 141 full page photographic plates. Small 4to, 244 x 188 mm., spiral bound in publisher's photographic wrappers. [Milan: Mondadori, 1933].
A splendid photographic tour of Italy which mixes.....
Item nr. 171120
Price: $1,500.00
EDEL, Nico. Una visita a Cinzano. 44 pp., illustrated throughout. Folio, 320 x 265 mm., bound in original illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. [Milano: Alfieri & Lacroix, 1934 or 1936].
A spectacular and rare piece of Italian book design under fascism, but without the usual heavy hand of.....
Item nr. 168738
Price: $3,500.00
New York. Guggenheim Museum. CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI 1876-1957. A Retrospective Exhibition. 157 pp. exhibition catalogue by Sidney Geist, illustrated throughout, mostly in b&w, with extensive commentary. 4to, cloth, 1969.
F-1010
Item nr. 1372
Price: $75.00
Anfam, David, Neal Benezra and Brooks Adams. CLYFFORD STILL Paintings 1944-1960. Edited by James T. Demetrion; 176 pp., roughly 35 color and 90 b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. Washington, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution in association with New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001.
Accompanying a exhibition of more than 30.....
Item nr. 93701
Price: $225.00
Marshall, Richard et al. JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT. 272 pp., with 200 illustrations, including 160 in full color. 4to, wraps. New York, Whitney Museum of Art and New York, Abrams, 1992.
The 1994 reprint. Accompanying the Whitney Museum's retrospective, this is the most complete publication to date on Basquiat, giving a complete overview.....
Item nr. 32986
Price: $225.00
Hulten, Pontus. BRANCUSI Photographer. 124 pp. text profusely illustrated with 2 full-page b&w plates (and two fold-outs). 4to, wraps. New York, Agrinde, 1979.
Item nr. 37053
Price: $85.00
MACLURE, MACDONALD & MACGREGOR. Nursery Rhymes. Transformation playing cards. 52 cards in publisher's box. Manchester: Maclure Macdonald & Macgregor,ca. 1865.
A complete full pack of 52 playing cards. Each card is on thick board with a different engraved design of a nursery rhyme or story around the coloured pips, the court.....
Item nr. 172189
Price: $1,750.00
HOEKSEMA, Daan. Rondjes en vierkantjes plakken met Daan Hoeksema naar gegevens uit zijn oude plakschriften. 12 pp. Oblong 8vo., 245 x 170 mm, bound in publisher's card covers. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Gebr. Koster, ca. 1915.
First edition of this Cubist activity book, designed to be completed by children by affixing colored stickers.....
Item nr. 172037
Price: $1,500.00
New York, Gagosian. LICHTENSTEIN Remembered. 188 pages. Folio, cloth. New York, Gagosian Gallery, 2023.
Item nr. 172111
Price: $100.00