KYOKARAKAMI, [JAPANESE PATTERN PAPER]. Kara nagatezuri mokuhan monyo [Kara-cho Designs for Hand-Printed Woodcut Pattern Paper.] Edited by Ansou Hisao. Preface by Osaragi Jiro. Two volumes. Contents includes: 2 ff. prefaces, 102 sheets of decorated papers, printed in colours from the original woodblocks on Kurotani paper, sheet size 390 x 510.....
Item nr. 163891
Price: $12,500.00
DIEBENKORN, Richard. Poems of W.B. Yeats. Selected and introduced by Helen Vendler. xxv, [3], 171, [2] pp. 4to, 260 x 205 mm, bound in half red morocco over green cloth, in a green and red slipcase. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1990.
Limited edition of 426 copies. Yeats's poems, printed with.....
Item nr. 164400
Price: $3,850.00
MOSCOW. "Souvenir de Moscou". The prints measuring 162 x 222 mm. Oblong folio, 240 x 340 mm, bound in contemporary three-quarter morocco. NP, ND. [Moscow,1904?]
$ 3500.00
The 24 plates depict the major sights along the Moscva River, Red Square, the Kremlin, St. Basils Cathedral, etc. in early colour photography. The album.....
Item nr. 162671
Price: $2,250.00
HÜMMER, Waldemar. Ohne Mode. 20 weibliche Akstudien nach der Natur. Fur Künstler und Künstfreunde. Half-title, title-page. Illustrated with 20 photographic plates. Folio, 320 x 220, loose in original illustrated polychrome green chemise. Leipzig: A. Schumann's Verlag, ND [1902].
A fine copy of this fin-de-siècle study of female nudes, elegantly posed and.....
Item nr. 145858
Price: $850.00
CENDRARS, Blaise. Dix-Neuf Poèmes Élastiques. [30] ff. Illustrated with a portrait of the author by Amedeo Modigliani. 16mo., 195 x 125 mm, bound by S. Jacques in three-quarter crushed burgundy morocco over matching paper boards, author and title gilt on spine, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., with original printed wrappers bound in......
Item nr. 34489
Price: $2,500.00
TAUT, Bruno. Ein Wohn Haus. [iv], 118, [2] pp. Illustrated with 104 photos, 72 architectural plans, 1 colour plate, and 1 folding "keyboard" colour chart. 8vo., bound in publisher's cloth and dust-wrapper. Stuttgart: W. Keller & Co 1927.
First edition, later issue. In the series "Kosmos-Haus-Bücher," with typography (including binding) by.....
Item nr. 112070
Price: $1,500.00
MUSSOLINI. Armi d'Italia: le rassegne del Duce alle truppe dell'armata del Po, della seconda e ottava armata. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with photographs and photomontage. Small folio, 310 x 230 mm, bound in publisher's photographic wrappers, preserved in a new green cloth folding box. Rome: 1940.
A fine copy of this typical.....
Item nr. 167219
Price: $1,500.00
FASCISM. La Pubblicità d'Italia. Nos. 43-46. 467 pp., profusely illustrated. Folio, 318 x 230 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Milan: Sindicato Nazionale Fascista, 1941.
A massive survey of Italian advertising at the begining of the war, published with text in Italian and German as.....
Item nr. 167163
Price: $2,500.00
ELY, Timothy. Diaglyphic Monad. For Doctor Dee. One-of-a-kind manuscript book. 80 pp. Illustrated with 40 painted and drawn folios plus painted endpapers, drawn and painted throughout by Timothy Ely with each page containing drawings in ink, dry pigments, watercolour, gouache, dilute acrylics and gilded metals. 8vo., 233 x 140 mm.....
Item nr. 168584
Price: $25,000.00
FRANCIS, Sam. Wanted Female. By Pierre Guyotat. Illustrated with 7 coloured aquatints by Sam Francis. Folio, 362 x 262 mm., bound in publisher's full red morocco in cloth-covered slipcase. Los Angeles: The Lapis Press, 1993.
The splendid coloured aquatints which Francis produced to illustrate Guyotat's text were among the last things.....
Item nr. 168520
Price: $5,500.00
El LISSITZKY. URSS en Construction. Number devoted to the Soviet Navy. Year 20, No. 1. 44 pp. Folio, bound in original wrappers. Moscow: Editions d'Etat des Beaux-Arts, 1937.
Apart from the wear to the top of the front wrapper, a fine copy of a typical issue of this landmark periodical, this.....
Item nr. 128754
Price: $1,750.00
[FUTURISM]. BERNHEIM-JEUNE & Cie. Les Peintres Futuristes Italiens: Boccioni, Carra, Russolo, Balla, Severini. 32 pp Illustrated with black-&-white plates. 8vo, bound in publisher's orange wrappers. Paris, Chez Mm. Bernheim - Jeune & Cie. (1912).
The first major exhibition of the major artists of the Futurist movement outside Italy. The wrappers are.....
Item nr. 144043
Price: $375.00
KIRKEBY, Per. Bemerkungen ueber die Farben. By Ludwig Wittgenstein. Illustrated with 4 Prints on Japon paper by Per Kirkeby. Folio, bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards by Christian Zwang in the original slipcase. Muenster: Kleinheinrich, 1998.
A handsome illustrated book by the Danish artist, Per Kirkeby, whose work is influenced by the.....
Item nr. 168466
Price: $2,500.00
BELOUSOV, G.N. Teoriya I praktika primeneniya probnih stekol [i.e. The theory and practice of the usage of test glasses]. 19 pp. Illustrated with 18 colour plates. 8vo., bound in original light blue wrappers, preserved in a new grey cloth folding box. Moscow: GIZ Legkoi promyshlennosti, 1933.
In this work, dedicated to.....
Item nr. 167405
Price: $3,750.00
AVIATION. Steel Horizons. Aviation Issue. Volume 2, Number 4. 46 pp. Folio. Profusely illustrated. Original wrappers. Pittsburgh: Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation,1940.
Given the subject matter, an unusual example of imaginative design, more of the kind one might have expected from Holland at the time.
Item nr. 166882
Price: $275.00
VIACROZE DECORATION. Aphorismes sur la décoration. Numbers 1-10, all published. 8vo., in publisher's wrappers and cardboard folding case. Paris: Viacroze décoration, 1930-1931.
A complete set of this scarce and little known Art Deco design periodical. Cardboard with some wear, otherwise immaculate.
OCLC lists sets at Columbia, Metropolitan Museum, University of Illinois and.....
Item nr. 166876
Price: $850.00
SHESTAKOV, F.K. Soglasovanie tsvetov dlia koloristov, khudozhnikov, khudozhnikov-prikladistov i dlia studentov i uchashchikhsya spetsial'nykhuchebnykh zavedenii. [Colour matching for Colourists, Artists, Applied Artists and for Students of Special Educational Institutions]. 79 pp., illustrated throughout with diagrams. Tall 8vo, bound in publisher's green and blue printed wrappers in new green cloth folding.....
Item nr. 166628
Price: $1,500.00
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.
Item nr. 165818
Price: $1,250.00
IBB. Ingenieurs-Bureau voor Bouwnijverheid, Oegstgeest, 1925-1950. 72 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, bound in publisher's green cloth. 1951.
A wonderful example of Zwart's brilliance as a book designer. Slight wear to the cloth, but a sound example of a scarce book.
Item nr. 164658
Price: $750.00
Monchengladbach. Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg. RICHARD TUTTLE. 128 pages with numerous color and b&w illustrations. Oblong 8vo, wrappers and cardboard slipcase. 1985.
A fine copy of the deluxe version of this catalog. One of 150 copies containing an original phototype, initialed and numbered, laid in. The catalog is also signed and numbered.....
Item nr. 164640
Price: $375.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Two Chairs, Two Benches and a Table. 16 unnumbered pages. Oblong 8vo., bound in publisher's wrappers. Florence: Galleria Victoria Miro, [1990].
Catalogue of a five piece set of furniture designed by Richard Tuttle to be seen as a final refinement of crate furniture either in Santa Fe style, or.....
Item nr. 164638
Price: $25.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Five by Seven for Yvon Lambert. 10 pp. Oblong 12mo., bound in illustrated wrappers, in a board portfolio. Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1978.
Item nr. 164636
Price: $50.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Charge to Exist. 2 cardboard sheets, one with collaged letters, one with a screenprint. Folio, 350 x 230 mm., ringbound in printed cardboard slipcase and new cloth box. Winterthur: Kunstmuseum, 1992.
A fine copy of this typical example of Tuttle's work as a book artist, consisting of two grey.....
Item nr. 164525
Price: $1,250.00
CRANE, Hart. The Bridge. Illustrated by Joel Shapiro, with an essay by Langdon Hammer. Scroll format, 343 x 1270 mm., with seven woodblock prints by Joel Shapiro, an introduction by Langdon Hammer, and two photographs by Michael Kenna. In a linen box. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2017.
The Bridge was.....
Item nr. 165458
Price: $2,500.00
MILHAZES, Beatriz. Coisa Linda. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 34 hand-printed screen prints and a unique collage. 4to., bound in original decorated blue and gold cloth, yellow paper spine in a yellow cloth slipcase. New York: Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, 2002.
The first book published in "Contemporary Editions" by.....
Item nr. 166723
Price: $8,500.00