DOUDET, Mme. Alphabet des Metiers. 72pp. Illustrated by Lucien Doudet. 8vo. Publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards. Paruis: Theodore Lefevre. ND.
$1500.00
A fine copy of this delightful and extremely rare French alphabet. Among the trades listed are lemonade maker, photographer and usurer. Extremely rare with OCLC listing copies only at Princeton and U.Va......
Item nr. 173480
Price: $1,500.00
PICASSO, Pablo. El Entierro del Conde de Orgaz. Three volumes. [12], XI, [1], 69, [7] pp. Illustrated with one signed engraving and 12 etchings by Picasso, and a preface by Rafael Alberti. Folio, 370 x 470 mm, bound loose as issued in the original wrappers and vellum-covered slipcase. The whole.....
Item nr. 90298
Price: $27,500.00
GERBAULT, JOB, LA NÉZIÈRE, MALTESTE et al. Hachette small ABC series. 6 titles: Leur ABC. ABC de ma petite fille. ABC de mon petit garçon. ABC de mes bêtes. ABC du Général Toto. ABC de Pierrot. 15 pp. each, illustrated throughout in black and white. 175 x 130 mm., publisher's.....
Item nr. 171692
Price: $3,000.00
ERNST, Max. Dent Prompte. by Rene Char. Illustrated with 11 full-page lithographs, of which one is the cover, by Max Ernst. Large Folio. 47 x 39.5 cm. Loose as issued in the illustrated wrappers in a slightly worn cloth folding box. Paris: Galerie Lucie Weill,1969
Item nr. 169657
Price: $3,000.00
INDUSTRIA SETA ITALO-AMERICANA. Catalogue in the Shape of a Butterfly. 7 dye-cut double-sided leaves, including the covers. NP. ND.
A most unuusual and spectacular publication issued to promote the Italian-American silk industry. Except for the center spread which is devoted to I.S.I.A, the sheets have either one or two images representing.....
Item nr. 168662
Price: $495.00
FRANKENTHALER, Helen. Valentine for Mr. Wonderful. 24 pages. Illustrated with seven original full-page colour intaglios. Small folio, 349 x 254 mm, bound in heavy paper wrappers with original Frankenthaler design on front, in a new half morocco box. Mount Kisco: Tyler Graphics Ltd., 1995.
First Edition. Limited to 35 copies, signed.....
Item nr. 101230
Price: $12,500.00
DINE, Jim. Ape & Cat. [20] pp, with 18 photogravures by Jim Dine. Folio, 393 x 316 mm, accordion-fold album between grey cloth boards. WITH:
JAMES, Henry. The Madonna of the Future. 67, [1] pp. 4to., 310 x 221 mm, bound in full grey cloth. Presented together in a grey cloth.....
Item nr. 101478
Price: $3,500.00
LACOUTURE, Charles. Répertoire chromatique, solution raisonée et pratique des problèmes les plus usuels dans l'étude et l'emploi des couleurs. xi, 144 pp., [2] ff., iIllustrated with 29 chromolithographic plates, including frontispiece with printed tissue guard, a few text diagrams. Includes a transparent overlay and printed card screen. Large 4to, 325.....
Item nr. 172723
Price: $4,500.00
OSTWALD, Wilhelm. Die kleine Farbmesstafel. Edition A. 12 pp. text pamphlet and 4 perforated coloured plates. Oblong folio, 295 x 205 mm., publisher's cloth. Goettingen: Muster-Schmidt, 1939.
A rare example of Ostwald's celebrated device for measuring colour. This is a colour table, which displays a spectrum of brilliant hues based on.....
Item nr. 172660
Price: $2,500.00
MUNSELL. Atlas of the Munsell Color System. Letterpress introduction, illustrated with 15 colour charts with colour samples tipped on to boards. Oblong folio, 275 x 355 mm., bound in publisher's boards, blue cloth spine. Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Howland & Co., 1915.
The Atlas of the Munsell Color System consists of two.....
Item nr. 171023
Price: $3,500.00
CORONELLI, V. Historische und topographische ausführliche Beschreibung der Reiche Morea und Negroponte, wie auch der Insulen und Hafen selbigen Meeres biß an Salonich. Frontispiece, [10] 254pp., and 39 mostly folding plates. Franckfurt: Johann Balthasar Nieß, 1687.
BOUND WITH:
CORONELLI, V. Historische Beschreibung der Sieghafften Waffen der Durchleuchtigsten Republ. Venedig :Was solche in.....
Item nr. 169771
Price: $9,750.00
DANFLOU, Alfred. Les Grands Crus Bordelais. Monographies et Photographies des Chateaux et Vignobles. 2 volumes. 110; 106 pp., with 55 photographic plates (albumen prints, each 130 x 170 mm.), mounted on thick paper, surrounded by a red ornamental border, captions in red, titles printed in red and black. Folio, 357.....
Item nr. 170551
Price: $5,750.00
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
MAREE, Piet. A.B.C. 28 pp. illustrated throughout with b&w photohraphy by the author. 8vo, 221 x 144 mm., original photo printed publisher's boards. The Hague, G.B. van Goor, n.d. [1932].
Rare with one copy on OCLC at NYPL. A fine copy with light shelf wear and an exceptionally clean interior. A......
Item nr. 173225
Price: $850.00
Hons, J. Svezte se s Nám. With ilustrations by Zdenka Valentova, Vydalo Nakladatelstvi and Josef Lskasik. 7 panels all with photomontage and color illustrations. 4to, 280 x 215 mm., original publishers photomontage printed boards. Prague, M. Schulz, Graficky Zavod Umelecky A.S., 1946.
Fine copy of a charming and extremely rare children's.....
Item nr. 173224
Price: $1,500.00
AVATI, Mario. Aphorismes, Menus et Variétés. By Brillat-Savarin. 108, [8] pp. Frontispiece and 24 mezzotints by Avati. 8vo., bound in original wrappers, in chemise and ultra-suede slipcase. Paris: Les Francs-Bibliophiles, 1961.
A tour-de-force of book illustration. Avati, who is a master of the mezzotint process, displays his virtuosity in the 25.....
Item nr. 52069
Price: $1,650.00
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, with the plates showing models wearing coats and then the animals whose.....
Item nr. 165818
Price: $1,250.00
LISSITZKY, El & Solomon TELINGATER. Vsesoiuznaia Poligraficheskaia Vystavka. Putevoditel'. [All-Union Printing Trades Exhibition: Guidebook]. [248] pp., with colourful tabbed chapter headings designed by Telingater, each with a corresponding photograph. 8vo, 175 x 125 mm., bound in publisher's typographically designed wrappers in a new cloth box. Moscow: Komitet poligraicheskoi vystavki, 1927.
First.....
Item nr. 172456
Price: $7,500.00
SOVIET PROPAGANDA. L'novodsto v SSSR. [Flax Growing in the USSR.] 88 pp., 39 ills., diagrams. Oblong folio, 255 x 355 mm., in original full cloth with colored lettering and blind debossed image of sheaves of flax. Moscow: Izd. Narkomsema SSSR, 1940.
A surreal example of Soviet book making, the subject matter.....
Item nr. 171595
Price: $3,500.00
WEI, Yu-hsiu. Kitaianka Sume-Cheng [Soumay Tcheng the Chinese Woman]. 148 pp. Photocollage illustrations by Rodchenko. 8vo., 200 x 140 mm. bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers, preserved in a new green cloth box, with a maroon morocco label. Moscow: Gos. Izd-vo, 1929.
A memoir extolling the emancipation of the Chinese woman, illustrated.....
Item nr. 169835
Price: $2,750.00
RODCHENKO, A.M. Rechevik: stikhi. [The Orator]. By S. M. Tretiakov. 191 pp. 8vo, 180 x 130 mm., bound in original two-color Constructivist letterpress wrappers designed by Rodchenko. Moscow and Leningrad: GIZ, 1929.
A fresh copy of this pamphlet with the stunning vibrant wrappers designed by Rodchenko. The poetical text by the.....
Item nr. 169709
Price: $2,500.00
CORNELL, Joseph. A Joseph Cornell Pop-Up Book for All Ages. With text by Sandra Leonard Starr. 103 pp. Includes a 3D Viewer, 6 pop ups and a folding panorama. Oblong folio, bound in publisher's blue cloth and paper label preserved in a new blue cloth folding box. Tokyo: Tokyo Publishing.....
Item nr. 166704
Price: $5,000.00
KITAJ, Ronald Brooks. A Day Book by Robert Creeley. With 14 Original prints. Folio, bound in full blue and green leather, in matching blue leather-covered slipcase by Rudolf Rieser, assisted by Helmut Klohs. Berlin: Graphis, 1972.
A splendid copy of the deluxe edition this important work. The work was designed by.....
Item nr. 172297
Price: $12,500.00
INDIANA, Robert. Numbers. Containing 10 screenprints by Robert Indiana. By Robert Creeley. Illustrated with 10 screenprints. Large Folio, bound in original tan printed wrappers. Stuttgart und Duesseldorf, Edition Domberger, 1968.
The extremely rare large folio edition, which is not to be confused with the more commonly found 4to edition. One of.....
Item nr. 162580
Price: $17,500.00
EARLY COLOUR LITHOGRAPHY - WITH POEMS IN OVER 100 LANGUAGES
BARTH, Johann August. Pacis annis MDCCCXIV et MDCCCXV foederatis armis restitutae monumentum orbis terrarum de fortuna reduce gaudia gentium linguis interpretans.75 leaves mostly with lithograph borders printed in as many as five colours, one lithographed colophon leaf picturing a printing press.....
Item nr. 173554
Price: $35,000.00