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
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
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
ARNTZ, Gerd and Otto NEURATH. Die Bunte Welt. Mengenbilder fuer dir Jugend. 47 pp. Oblong 8vo., 210 x 150, illustrated throughout with colour and black and white. Original illustrated boards. Vienna: Artur Wolf Verlag, 1929.
The first book conceived, written and designed at the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum in Vienna. While the.....
Item nr. 172041
Price: $3,950.00
![Item nr. 171891 Trudnaia zagadka [i.e. Complicated Riddle]. Olga GURIAN](https://ursusbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/171891.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1712978630)
GURIAN, Olga and Elena FRADKINA. Trudnaia zagadka [i.e. Complicated Riddle]. By K.T. Chukovsky.16pp. 4to. Publisher's illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. [Moscow]: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1930.
A Constructivist lithographic book by a well-known children's writer Olga Gurian (1899-1973) who wrote over 50 books about different crafts. The main structure of.....
Item nr. 171891
Price: $1,750.00
SCHWITTERS, Kurt. Die Scheuche Maerchen. 12 unnumbered pages, illustrated throughout with typographic flourishes. Oblong 8vo, 200 x 245 mm., bound in publishers printed wrappers, preserved in a new cloth folding box. Hannover: Apossverlag, 1925.
A better than usual copy of this legendary Dada collaboration between Kurt Schwitters and Theo van Doesburg.....
Item nr. 171831
Price: $8,500.00
BARFOOT, James Richard. L'Orient, or, The Indian Travellers: a Geographical and Historical Game. 1 sheet: hand-colored etchings mounted on linen. 560 x 750 mm., folded to 270 x 201 mm. London: Published by David Ogilvy, at his Repository for Rational Toys and Amusements, 1846.
A splendidly hand-coloured map game, the map.....
Item nr. 171136
Price: $2,500.00
TADAICHI, Hayashi. Shonen Teito Fukko Sugoroku. 55 x 79 cm. Tokyo: N.P., 1924.
A wonderful example of a sugoroku, a popular Japanese board game. This particular one was issued just after the great earthquake of 1923, and is in the form of an imaginative reconstruction of Tokyo. The result is an.....
Item nr. 170074
Price: $1,250.00
HARDOUIN di BELMONTE, F. Una Favola Vera. 36 pp., illustrated throughout. Folio, 290 x 220 mm., publisher's illustrated boards, in a new folding box. Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, [1936].
The second enlarged second edition of this life of Mussolini for children. As is often the case with books produced in Italy under.....
Item nr. 167499
Price: $2,500.00
FELIXMUELLER, Conrad. ABC. Ein geschütteltes, geknütteltes Alphabet in Bildern mit Versen von Londa und Conrad Felixmüller. Woodcut illustrated title-page and 14 full-page woodcuts by Felixmueller. Oblong 4to., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new linen cloth folding box. Dresden: The Author, printed by Emil Boden, 1925.
A mint copy of.....
Item nr. 167370
Price: $12,500.00
COHEN, Fre. A Collection of 105 Items Designed by Fre Cohen. Various formats and bindings. Mostly Amsterdam: 1920-1942.
A fine and representative collection of 105 items designed by the important Dutch designer, Fre Cohen. Fre Cohen was extremely unusual in that she was a major graphic designer at a time when.....
Item nr. 172205
Price: $15,000.00