PURYEAR, Martin. Cane. By Jean Toomer. 141, [3] pp. Illustrated with 10 woodcuts by Martin Puryear, and an afterword by Leon LF. Litwack. Oblong folio, bound in original tan cloth. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2000.
An immaculate copy of this important book, first published in 1923, which has long been.....
Item nr. 168785
Price: $3,850.00
[CRICKET]. The Real Thing. By Tom Stoppard. A Broadside Monologue. Folio sheet, 297 x 210 mm matted. London: s.n, n.d.
Limited Edition of 500 copies, SIGNED by Tom Stoppard. This excerpt from Stoppard's play, The Real Thing, is a monologue by Henry on the importance of cricket bats. Immaculate...
Item nr. 47648
Price: $150.00
HEARTFIELD, John. Revolution und Konterrevolution in China. Übersetzung aus dem englischen Manuskript von Paul Frölich. By Manabendra Nath Roy. 478 pp. 8vo., bound in publisher's cloth and dust-wrapper designed by John Heartfield. Berlin: Soziologische Verlagsanstalt, 1930.
One of Heartfield's most striking and gruesome designs. Minor wear.
Not in Siepmann...
Item nr. 140576
Price: $975.00
DODOENS, Rembert. Stirpium historiae pemptades sex sive Libri XXX. [xvi], 872, [66] pp. Illustrated with an engraved allegorical title (included in pagination), ca. 1330 botanical woodcuts after Pieter van der Borcht. Folio, 348 x 214 mm, bound in contemporary Dutch dark brown calf, sides paneled with double gilt fillet, spine.....
Item nr. 119809
Price: $7,000.00
DEROSSI, Onorato. Nuova guida per la città di Torino. 202 pp. Illustrated with an engraved folding map. 8vo., bound in later wrappers. Torino: Nella Reale stamperia di Torino, 1781.
A beautiful uncut copy of this scarce guide to Turin, with a large folding map of the city. It contains a comprehensive.....
Item nr. 165776
Price: $2,500.00
LIEBERT, A. La Photographie en Amérique: traité complet de Photographie pratique, contenant les Découvertes les plus récentes. Quatrième édition, augmentée d'un Appendice sur le Gélatino-Bromure. x, [2], 656, vi, 24, [657]-679, [1], pp. Illustrated with a photogravure portrait of the author as frontispiece, 8 full page illustrations including four full.....
Item nr. 165774
Price: $2,500.00
ROISECCO, Gregorio. Roma Antica e Moderna o sia nuova descrizione di tutti gl'Edificj Antichi, e Moderni Sagri, e Profani della Città di Roma. Three volumes. With a frontispiece, 1 double-page folding map of Rome, 40 folding engraved plates, 125 full-page engravings in the text, and numerous wood-cut engravings throughout. 8vo......
Item nr. 165770
Price: $4,000.00
MIRÓ, Joan. Almario. By José-Miguel Ullán. Illustrated with 5 drypoints and an etching with aquatint printed in colours. Folio, loose as issued in the original wrappers and cloth slipcase. Paris: R.L.D. [Robert Lydie Dutrou], 1985.
An imaginative piece of book-making. Printed on beautiful Auvergne paper, this represents one of the rare.....
Item nr. 163071
Price: $9,750.00
ERNST, Max. Max Ernst. By Joe Bousquet and Michel Tapie. Illustrated with 2 original signed lithographs by Max Ernst. 4to., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Rene Drouin, 1950.
This rare book is comprised of the two signed lithographs, a text by Bousquet entitled A.....
Item nr. 129995
Price: $7,500.00
PRESENTATION COPY
WITH ORIGINAL CHAGALL DRAWING
CHAGALL, Marc. Psaumes de David. [2], 66, [8] pp. Illustrated with 30-full page etchings with aquatint by Chagall. 4to., 280 x 215 mm, bound in publisher's full vellum, gilt lettered spine, and matching vellum slipcase. Geneva: Gerald Cramer, 1979.
One of the last statements Chagall issued in.....
Item nr. 122007
Price: $25,000.00
MARINETTI, F.T. Les Mots en Liberté Futuristes. 107, [5] pp., including four folding plates of typographic compositions by the author. The final two illustrations are comprised of advertisements. 8vo., 195 x 130 mm, bound in original red and black typographic wrappers in a new grey cloth folding box. Milan: Edizioni.....
Item nr. 166366
Price: $3,850.00
WADA, Senzo. Shikisai Haigo-ban. 8vo. 250 x 175 mm bound in publisher's colour illustrated boards which open to three panels with some explanatory text; a framed panel with eight colour strips which holds eight separate coloured cellophane filters in card frames; and a rotating volvelle with cellophane colour filters. In.....
Item nr. 165377
Price: $1,500.00
PERSOZ, J. Traité Théorique et Practique de l'Impression des Tissues. 4 Text volumes. [6], lx, 569; [4], 558; [4], 458, 32 pp. of ads; [4], 560 pp. With 429 fabric samples mounted throughout, each with its own tissue guard; Text volumes, 8vo., 210 x 140 mm, bound in publisher's quarter-calf.....
Item nr. 144120
Price: $1,500.00
ARP, Hans. Vingt-cinq Poemes. By Tristan Tzara. Illustrated with 10 woodcuts by Arp. 8vo., 205 x 145 mm, bound in original printed boards with a design by Arp. In a new slipcase. Zurich: Heuberger, 1918.
First Edition. A superb association copy of this rare and important early Dada work, inscribed by.....
Item nr. 168746
Price: $12,500.00
BRANCUSI. An Exhibition of Sculpture by Brancusi, November 17 1926 -December 15 1926 at The Brummer Gallery. With introduction by Paul Morand, and texts by Brancusi, Carl Sandburg, Ezra Pound, Andre Salmon and others. [9] pp. Illustrated with 32 photographic plates. Folio, bound in original wrappers in a new linen.....
Item nr. 168499
Price: $3,750.00
LISSITZKY, El. USSR im Bau. Das sechzehnte Jahr der Revolution. Nr. 9. Folio, bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new blue cloth folding box. 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.....
Item nr. 167438
Price: $2,500.00
RODCHENKO, Aleksandr and Varvara STEPANOVA. Soviet Aviation. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with photomontages. Folio, bound in publisher's grey pictorial boards. Moscow and Leningrad: State Art Publishers, 1939. WITH:
The Red Army and Navy. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with photomontages. Folio, bound in publisher's red pictorial boards. Moscow and Leningrad: State Art Publishers, 1939.
Published.....
Item nr. 167289
Price: $3,500.00
AROSSEV, A. [ed.]. Soviet Cinema. 312 pp. Profusely illustrated, plus 14 pp of advertisements. 8vo., bound in publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards. Moscow: Voks, 1936.
A nice copy of this rare and fragile history of Soviet film with photomontages by Rodchenko and Stepanova. Published at the high watermark of state-controlled Soviet cinema.....
Item nr. 164983
Price: $2,500.00
HUSZAR, Vilmos. Bruynzeel's Fabrieken, Zaandam. 72 pp. Profusely illustrated with photomontages. Oblong 4to., bound in publisher's wrappers, in a new dark blue cloth folding box. Zaandam, Netherlands: [C. Bruynzeel & Zonen], 1930.
A fine copy of Huszar's magnum opus as a book designer, and a book which prefigured the work of.....
Item nr. 164776
Price: $3,500.00
HEARTFIELD, John. Lerne lachen ohne zu weinen. By Kurt Tucholsky. 426 pp. 8vo., bound in publisher's boards and dustjacket designed by Heartfield, in a new black cloth folding box. Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt, 1931.
A scarce book with the its splendid Heartfield cover. While there is a small piece missing and some.....
Item nr. 164651
Price: $1,250.00
JONES, Lois Mailou. The Poems of Leopold Sedar Senghor. Illustrated with six silk-screen prints by Lois Mailou Jones. Folio, Bound in purple linen and housed in a black buckram solander box. New York: The Limited Editions Club,1996.
Born in French West Africa, Leopold Senghor became the first Black member ever inducted.....
Item nr. 163625
Price: $2,300.00
MITCHELL, DEAN. Music, Deep Rivers in My Soul. .By Maya.Angelou.. Illustrated with six original color etchings by Dean Mitchell. Folio. Bound in beige Japanese linen and matching clamshell box. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 2003.
This work was created especially for the Limited Editions Club by Maya Angelou.In addition the.....
Item nr. 163619
Price: $3,500.00
SAAR, Betye. Bookmarks in the Pages of Life, a Selection of Short Stories. By Zora Neale Hurston.. Illustrated with six full-page serigraph silk-screen prints by Betye Saar. Folio. Bound in dark brown half leather over boards covered with paper and cinnamon bark In a clamshell box. New York: The Limited.....
Item nr. 163613
Price: $2,250.00
Mercier, Mathier (ed). MARCEL DUCHAMP: Museum in a Box. From or By Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Selavy. 69 replicas and printed reproductions. Green board box. Cologne, Walther Konig, 2016.
The original "Boîte-en-valise" (Box in a Valise) was assembled by Marcel Duchamp between 1935 and 1941. It was a portable museum of.....
Item nr. 162995
Price: $240.00
CHEVREUL, Michel-Eugène. De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs, et de l'Assortiment des objets colorés. Two volumes. I: xv, [1], 735 pp., illustrated with two folding letterpress tables. II: [2], 2 pp. Illustrated with 40 engraved and lithographic plates on 22 ff., of which 13 folding; plates 2 and.....
Item nr. 168578
Price: $17,500.00