WOMEN. Soviet Women. [50] ff., illustrated with photographs throughout. 4to, 250 x 190 mm., bound in publisher's embossed yellow cloth, in publisher's cardboard slipcase. Moscow: State Art Publishers, 1939.
A photographic homage to the role of women in Soviet Russia. Unlike so many of the Soviet propaganda books, where the reality.....
Item nr. 170930
Price: $3,500.00
TELINGATER, Solomon. Slovo Predostaviliaetsia Kirsanovu. By Semen Kirsanov. Small 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1930.
A fine copy of this rare and spectacular example of avant-garde book design from the complex cover, which combines collage and typography, to the intricate typographical layout.....
Item nr. 170363
Price: $4,950.00
BOOM, Irma. Presént. By Niklas Maak. 8vo., bound in publisher's printed wrappers, preserved in the original neon green shrink wrap all in a new grey cloth folding box with a yellow label. Paris: Renault, 2016
Irma Boom succeeded in following up her magnificent 1996 Think Book with another tour de force.....
Item nr. 169998
Price: $3,500.00
MUNARI, Bruno. Scultura da Viaggio. 390 x 100 mm. when folded, preserved in the original envelope. Milano: Giorgio Lucini, 1971. WITH:
MUNARI, Bruno. Scultura da Viaggio. Small yellow printed portfolio containing a black square base and a foldable black sculpture, 150 x 150 mm. when folded. [Lugo]: Exit Edizioni, 1991.
These magical.....
Item nr. 169981
Price: $3,500.00
ONCHI, Koshiro. Chu. Gyo. Kai. [Insects, Fish, Shells]. Unpaginated, 14 ff. Illustrated with 10 prints done with a mix of techniques including pochoir and woodcut. 4to., 265 x 210, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Tokyo: Aoi Shobo, Showa 18 [1943].
Onchi was an extremely prolific and gifted artist whose work with.....
Item nr. 169968
Price: $7,500.00
MAN RAY. Revolving Doors. Comprised of 10 pochoir plates. Folio, loose in original publisher's black portfolio with ties. Laid into a new folding box. Paris: Editions Surréalistes, 1926.
A fine copy of this legendary surrealist publication. Between 1916 and 1917, the artist and photographer Man Ray created a series of collages.....
Item nr. 169684
Price: $85,000.00
LE CORBUSIER. La Charte d'Athenes, avec un Discours liminaire de Jean Giraudoux. 212 pp. 8vo, 145 x 135 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Plon, 1943.
First edition of the Athens Charter inscribed by Le Corbusier to the legendary publisher, Christian Zervos.
The Athens Charter.....
Item nr. 169426
Price: $3,750.00
PICASSO, Pablo with André VILLERS. Diurnes. Decoupages et Photographies. By Jacques Prévert. 18 pages text accompanied by 30 loose-leaf collotypes. Folio, in original wrappers in publisher's box with decorative colour design by Picasso. Paris: Berggruen, 1962.
"Picasso made some cut-outs of heads and silhouettes of men, women and animals. Villers mounted.....
Item nr. 169401
Price: $7,500.00
MAZZOCCHI-ALEMANNI, Nallo. La colonizzazione del latifondo Siciliano: primo anno, documenti, fotografici, leggi e decreti. xix, [115], 31, 40 pp., chiefly illustrated. Large 8vo, 265 x 175 mm., bound in publisher's wrappers and photographic dust jacket, in a new cloth box. [Sicily], Ministero dell'Agricoltura E delle Foreste, 1940.
A fine copy of.....
Item nr. 169120
Price: $3,500.00
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]: N.d., [1934 or 1936].
A spectacular and rare piece of Italian book design under fascism, but without the usual heavy hand.....
Item nr. 168738
Price: $3,500.00
KLEIN, Yves. Dimanche: Le Journal d'un Seul Jour. 4 page 'newspaper', illustrated throughout. 558 x 762 mm. when flat, housed in a custom clamshell box. [Paris, France]: [Yves Klein], November 27, 1960.
Yves Klein published this journal upon the occasion of the Festival d'Art d'Avant-Garde in Paris where it was displayed.....
Item nr. 170492
Price: $5,000.00
HELLE, Andre. La Boîte à Joujoux, texte et dessins de André Hellé. 32 pp. Profusely illustrated. Folio, bound in publisher's illustrated boards. Paris: A. Tolmer, 1928.
A delightful and rare version of Helle's story, which had originally been published in 1919 as a collaboration between Helle and the composer Claude Debussy.....
Item nr. 171060
Price: $2,500.00
Calder, Alexander. CALDER: An Autobiography with Pictures. 285 pp., profusely illus., 4to, 252 x 201 mm., wraps, in a new cloth folding box. New York, Beacon Press, 1969.
A unique copy of Calder's autobiography embellished with a self-portrait drawing by Calder on the title page.
Item nr. 170999
Price: $3,500.00
CALDER, Alexander. Fables of Aesop According to Sir Roger L'Estrange. [6], 124, [10] pp., illustrated with 50 line-block reproductions after pen-and-ink drawings by Calder. 4to, 255 x 195 mm., bound in publisher's paper with coloured silk threads over boards, in the original cardboard slipcase, in a new half morocco folding.....
Item nr. 170973
Price: $25,000.00
FONTAINE, Jean de la. Selected Fables. Illustrated by ALEXANDER CALDER. 88 pp. text, including numerous line drawings. Folio, 350 x 224 mm., cloth, in a new purple half morocco folding box. New York: Quadrangle Press, 1948.
This is the trade edition of Calder's illustrations of La Fontaine's Fables embellished with a......
Item nr. 9872
Price: $7,500.00
MASSON, André. Peine Perdue, Poèmes. By Claude-André Puget. 60, [4] pp. With a loose aquatint engraving by Masson. 8vo., bound in publisher's printed wrappers, uncut and unopened. Geneva: Club du Poeme, [1964].
Here Masson contributes a print to a poem on a subject which interested him, namely how little time one.....
Item nr. 169014
Price: $750.00
MASSON, André. Briques et Tuiles. By Victor Segalen. 68, [4] pp. With a signed etched frontispiece by Masson. Small folio, loose in publisher's wrappers. [Montpellier]: fata morgana, 1967.
Masson contributed an aquatint of his own version of Chinesee calligraphy. One of 50 copies on Japon with a signed etching by Masson.
Saphire.....
Item nr. 169013
Price: $750.00
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.
Some marginal waterstaining, heavier on.....
Item nr. 170979
Price: $2,500.00
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: $2,500.00
MASSON, André. Eux et Lui. By Daniel Guerin. 94, [2] pp. With 5 illustrations by Masson plus one loose signed lithograph. 4to., bound in original printed wrappers. Monaco: éditions du rocher, [1962].
Masson contributed a lithograph and 5 explicit drawings relating to the homosexuality of the novel's protagonist, One of 150.....
Item nr. 169008
Price: $495.00
MASSON, André. Bestiaire. With an introduction by Georges Duthuit. Illustrated with 12 original lithographs and reproductions of 9 drawings by Masson. Folio, 415 x 315 mm, loose as issued in original decorated wrappers over boards. In a new linen cloth folding box. New York: Curt Valentin, 1946.
A fine copy of.....
Item nr. 169002
Price: $7,500.00
MASSON, Andre. Le Dit du Vieux Marin [The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 104, [6] pp. Illustrated with 12 lithographs. Small folio, loose in original printed wrappers, preserved in the original maroon chemise and slipcase. [Paris]: Collections Vrille, [1948].
While at first glance it might seem surprising.....
Item nr. 169001
Price: $2,500.00
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
USHAKOV, G.A. Geroicheskiy poked Chlyuskina. [The heroic crusade of Chelyuskin]. 24 photographs measuring 225 x 285 mm., numbered 1-23, plus one of map that is unnumbered, laid in the publisher's red chemise with title printed in white on the cover. Moscow: 1934.
A celebration of one of the legendary events of.....
Item nr. 168482
Price: $12,500.00
PONTI, Gio. 36 Progetti di Ville di Architetti Italiani. A cura dell' Esposizione Triennale Internazionale delle Arti Decorative Industriali Moderne alla villa Reale di Monza. 256 pp. Illustrated with 31 colour plates and 288 illustrations in black-and-white. 4to., bound in publisher's salmon-coloured cloth with gilt stripes, stamped in gilt. Milano.....
Item nr. 169183
Price: $975.00