HOYEM, Andrew. Bibliography of the Arion Press. The First One Hundred Books. Foreword by Kevin Starr. Introduction by Glenn Todd. Prologue by Peter Kraus. 308 pp. Small folio, bound in publisher's cloth and slipcase. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2015.
Published to celebrate the publication of the first hundred titles of the.....
Item nr. 162516
Price: $1,000.00
BERNHARD, Thomas, et al. Fotografie, Fotoinsenierung, Fotoinstallation, Fotoobjeket. Klandestin. Unpaginated. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Oblong 4to., ring bound in original boards. Wuppertal: 1991.
An interesting catalog for the second exhibition by the Gruppe Klandestin, a photography collective founded in 1990, with photographers Herlinde Grueter, Andrea Hold-Ferneck, Thorsten Hoven and Inken Meyn.....
Item nr. 161852
Price: $495.00
KENTRIDGE, William. The Lulu Plays, by Frank Wedekind. 197 pp. Illustrated with 67 full-page reproductions of drawings by William Kentridge. Folio, bound in publisher's cloth in matching slipcase, both designed by Kentridge. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2015.
An exciting publication from the Arion Press featuring the work of one of today's.....
Item nr. 161804
Price: $2,000.00
JAPANESE COMMERCIAL DESIGN. A Collection of approximately 200 labels for food and drink products. Various sizes, mounted in an album. Small folio, 305 x 225 mm., bound in pale blue wrappers in a recent brown chitsu case. [Japan, 1930's].
An eclectic collection of Japanese food and drink labels from the first.....
Item nr. 159825
Price: $1,500.00
THIEBAUD, Wayne. Invisible Cities. Text by Italo Calvino. Translated from the Italian with a new introduction by William Weaver. 164 pp. Illustrated with twelve drawings of sites and artifacts by Thiebaud. Folio, 355 x 305 mm., bound by Paul Sheet in an anodized aluminum ring binding with U-posts, allowing the.....
Item nr. 159612
Price: $4,250.00
BASELITZ, Georg. Winter. By Joseph Brodsky. Illustrated with 14 coloured aquatint etchings by Georg Baselitz. With an additional suite of the prints, each signed and numbered by the artist, 712 x 508 mm. Folio, book size: 530 x 370 mm., bound in white paper over boards, a Baselitz woodblock print.....
Item nr. 158578
Price: $32,000.00
DUCHAMP, Marcel. Obligations pour la roulette de Monte-Carlo in XXe Siecle, No.4. Christmas 1938. Offset lithograph. Folio, bound in original wrappers, preserved in a new yellow cloth folding box, gilt black leather spine label. Paris: Chroniques du Jour, 1938.
This image, Obligations pour la roulette de Monte-Carlo, was first created by.....
Item nr. 156750
Price: $3,500.00
SULLIVAN, Larry. The Brownsville Boys, The Jewish Gangsters of Murder, Inc. [22] ff. Illustrated with 20 colour etchings by D.R. Wakefield. Folio, 450 x 330 mm, loose in publisher's black chemise in original black cloth covered clamshell box by Claudia Cohen. [Maine]: Two Ponds Press, 2013.
Twenty biographies of notorious Jewish.....
Item nr. 156406
Price: $4,200.00
JESPERS, Floris. Kinderlust. 12 verses by Jan Peeters, each illustrated by a linoleum block colour print by Floris Jespers. Oblong 4to., 228 x 300 mm, bound in original pictorial wrappers, front and rear wrapper with a different colour lithographed illustration. Preserved in a new cloth folding box. Antwerp: J.F. Bogaerts.....
Item nr. 154355
Price: $8,500.00
![Item nr. 154067 Entretiens Morphologiques. [MATTA]. G. Ferrari](https://ursusbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/154067.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1567789408)
Ferrari, Germana. Entretiens Morphologiques. Notebook No. 1, 1936 - 1944. [MATTA]. 283 pp. includes hundreds of color and b&w plates, a few foldouts, inserts and transparencies. Folio, cloth. London, Sistan, 1987.
Covering the early work of Roberto Sebastian Matta, this elaborately produced book is filled with illustrations as well as facsimiles.....
Item nr. 154067
Price: $1,500.00
GOVONI, Corrado. Rarefazioni e Parole in Libertà. 50, [4] pp., illustrated throughout with various typographical elements and drawing reproductions. Folio, 320 x 245 mm., bound in publisher's printed wrappers, preserved in a new cloth folding box. Milan: [Edizione Futuriste di "Poesia"], 1915.
First edition. One of the rarer and more unusual.....
Item nr. 150039
Price: $2,750.00
PETTIBON, Raymond. South of Heaven. By Jim Thompson, with an introduction by Arnold Hano. Illustrated with 44 duo-tone offset lithographs on red paper by the artist Raymond Pettibon. 4to, 309 x 220 mm., bound in publisher's red paper over black cloth. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2010.
South of Heaven is based.....
Item nr. 149197
Price: $750.00
MANGOLD, Robert. The Nonconformist's Memorial. Text by Susan Howe and Robert Mangold. Illustrated with 6 woodcuts by Mangold. Folio, bound in original wrappers and publisher's cloth folding box. New York: The Grenfell Press, 1992.
A wonderful piece of American bookmaking which combines the imaginative typography and superb craftsmanship of the Grenfell.....
Item nr. 149075
Price: $3,000.00
COHEN, Fré. [Packaging for Inventum-Bilthoven]. Original cardboard box / packaging printed in blue, black, gold, and red, marked "frécohen" on rear side panel, and "N.V. Inventum-Bildhoven" on two sides, original stapled panels. [Netherlands, ca. 1935].
Original package design by Jewish female graphic artist Fré Cohen for Inventum, a Dutch company founded.....
Item nr. 148931
Price: $2,500.00
RETCLIFFE, John. Die Geheimnisse des Judenfriedhofes in Prag. 43 pp. Illustrated with 28 photographic plates. 8vo., 209 x 153 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers in a new blue cloth folding box. Prague: Orbis, 1942.
John Retcliffe was a nineteenth-century German anti-semite whose real name was Hermann Ottomar Friedrich Goedsche. This.....
Item nr. 148219
Price: $750.00
BASKIN, Leonard. Voyages Six Poems. By Hart Crane. With wood engravings by Leonard Baskin. Oblong 4to., bound in blue paper wrappers, housed in a folding slipcase with white paper title label. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1957.
One of an edition limited to 975 copies designed, illustrated and printed.....
Item nr. 147739
Price: $575.00
FRESNAYE, Roger de la. Paludes. By André Gide. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 6 original lithographs by Roger de la Fresnaye. 4to., bound in original gray wrappers. Paris: NRF, 1921.
$3500.00
This is the only book with original illustrations by de la Fresnaye, a French painter who combined Cubism with a bold use of.....
Item nr. 147726
Price: $3,500.00
AYAO, Yamano. Kafee Baa Kissaten Kokoku Zuanshu. 48 pp., illustrated throughout with colour and black-and-white illustrations and some photomontage. Folio, 300 x 225 mm., bound in publisher's boards in the original cardboard portfolio. Tokyo: Seibundo, 1930.
A collection of designs by the important twentieth-century Japanese decorator/designer Yamana Ayao (1897-1980), the originator.....
Item nr. 147596
Price: $2,750.00
HEARTFIELD, John. Ein Sechstell der Erde unser! 48 pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs and photomontage. Folio, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers designed by John Heartfield. Berlin: Verlag Die Einheit, 1928.
A typical example of printed Soviet propaganda between the wars, full of pictures of a happy and prosperous Russia. A very.....
Item nr. 146549
Price: $750.00
TROSHIN, N. USSR im Bau. Seventeenth Year of the Revolution. No. 3. Folio, bound in original illustrated wrappers. Moscow: Staatlicher Kunstverlag, 1934.
A copy of one of many monographic issues of this landmark periodical, devoted to Dnieprostroi . As Martin Parr says "from 1930-1940 URSS en Construction employed the best Soviet.....
Item nr. 146547
Price: $1,500.00
TROSHIN, N. USSR in Construction. Sixteenth Year of the Revolution. No. 1. Folio, bound in original wrappers. Moscow: State Publishing Union of the RSFR, 1933.
A fine copy of one of many monographic issues of this landmark periodical, devoted to the Soviet automobile industry. As Martin Parr says "from 1930-1940 URSS.....
Item nr. 146546
Price: $1,500.00
MAILLOL, Aristide. Livret de Folastries. By Pierre de Ronsard. Illustrated with 44 original etchings, of which 16 are full-page, by Aristide Maillol. 4to., loose as issued in the original illustrated wrappers and cardboard slipcase, in a new half morocco folding box. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1938.
An immaculate copy of Maillol's only.....
Item nr. 146005
Price: $3,750.00
AVIATION. Aeroplanes d'Artois. Monoplans, Aero-Torpilles, Aero-Marins. One large fold-out plate with 6 photographs of planes. Small 4to., 165 x 190 mm, bound in publisher's gray printed wrappers with a tipped on photograph in a new blue cloth folding box. Paris: Emile Dubonnet, 1910.
$1250.00
A promotional brochure for the d'Artois aviation company.....
Item nr. 145056
Price: $1,250.00 save 30% $875.00
Kouri, Pentti LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN: Carbon. 142 pages. Oblong folio, cloth. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1991.
Signed by Baumgarten. Issued with additional booklet laid-in which has also been signed. Near fine in protective mylar sleeve.
Roth, Book of 101 Books, 268.
Item nr. 144809
Price: $850.00
PIATAKOV,G (Editor). URSS en Construction. 15th Year Number 8. [32] pp. Illustrated with a plethora of Russian photomontage images throughout. Folio, 415 x 300 mm, bound in original wrappers. Moscow: Editions d'Etat des Beaux-Arts, 1932.
A fine copy of one of a typical issue of this landmark periodical, this one devoted.....
Item nr. 144562
Price: $850.00