DUCHAMP Marcel. The Imagery of Chess. A Group Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, newly designed Chessmen, Music and Miscellany: opening Tuesday December twelfth . 4 pp. 8vo., in original wrappers, preserved in a new linen cloth folding box. New York: Julien Levy Gallery, 1944.
A rare catalogue, designed by Duchamp, for the.....
Item nr. 167140
Price: $1,450.00
BENTLEY, William. Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor. With 20 artworks by John Baldessari. Oblong 4to. Bound in a leatherette 3-ring binder with decorative stamping and a photograph of the author and the artist. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2017
This imaginative project is unusual in that the artist first produced the.....
Item nr. 169233
Price: $700.00
GOGOL, Nikolai. The Nose. Illustrated by William Kentridge. Oblong 4to., Publisher's cloth-backed boards and clamshell box. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2021.
This edition of The Nose is a new original translation by scholar and author Stanislav Shvabrin. William Kentridge provided 16 altered and collaged images for the book, composed on tear.....
Item nr. 169210
Price: $1,250.00
JOHNS, Jasper. Poems. By Wallace Stevens. Selected with an introduction by Helen Vendler. 280 pp. Illustrated with an original signed frontispiece etching by Jasper Johns. 4to., 300 x 210 mm, bound in blue goatskin spine and fore-edges with blue and white boards. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1985.
An important piece of.....
Item nr. 168880
Price: $5,500.00
BOCHNER, Mel. On Certainty. By Ludwig Wittgenstein. Illustrated with 12 line photoengravings in colour. [72] ff. Square folio, 368 x 324 mm, bound in dark blue cloth over boards with inset light blue cloth titling panels on the covers and spine, in slipcase. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1991.
A bilingual edition.....
Item nr. 169438
Price: $2,250.00
MOTHERWELL, Robert. Ulysses. By James Joyce. 838 pp. With 40 etchings by Robert Motherwell, of which 20 are in colour. Thick folio, bound in original publisher's white half-pigskin over blue patterned silk over boards, in original blue patterned silk box. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1988.
A fine copy of one of.....
Item nr. 169208
Price: $22,500.00
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
THIEBAUD, Wayne. Trout Fishing in America. By Richard Brautigan. Preface by Ron Loewinsohn. xxi, 98, [4] pp. With a photograph of the author by Edmund Shea and an original signed lithograph by Wayne Thiebaud. Small folio, 300 x 230 mm., bound in publisher's blue and grey cloth with black lettering.....
Item nr. 147667
Price: $2,750.00
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
BOUND BY PADELOUP
LOUIS XV, King of France. Fêtes Publiques Donnees par la Ville de Paris, à l'occasion du Mariage de Monseigneur le Dauphin, les 23 et 26 Fevrier M.DCC.XLV. Engraved throughout. With title-page, allegorical frontispiece, [18] pp. of calligraphic text within ornamental borders, and 19 plates, of which 10 are.....
Item nr. 109750
Price: $35,000.00
EUCLID. The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid, in which Coloured Diagrams and Symbols are used instead of Letters for the Greater Ease of Learners. By Oliver Byrne. xxix, [1], 268 pp. Profusely illustrated throughout with colour-printed diagrams. Small 4to., 237 x 188 mm, bound in original publisher's.....
Item nr. 168501
Price: $22,500.00
PLUMIER, Charles. Traité des fougères de l'Amérique. [4], xxxvi, 1-93, 98-146, [10] pp. Illustrated with 172 full-page engravings of ferns. Folio, 167 x 106 mm, bound in contemporary limp vellum, title in MS on spine, pair of fore-edge ties. Preserved in beige linen slipcase. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1705.
First Complete Edition.....
Item nr. 166971
Price: $18,500.00
BOURGEOIS, Louise. Homely Girl, A Life. By Arthur Miller. With 10 drypoints by Bourgeois. Two volumes. Folio, original beige half morocco over grey cloth, preserved in a grey cloth slipcase. New York: Peter Blum, 1992.
A fine copy of this highly effective example of contemporary bookmaking. The playwright Arthur Miller gave.....
Item nr. 168500
Price: $12,500.00
THIEBAUD, Wayne. The Physiology of Taste, or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the French by M.F.K. Fisher. 355, [1] pp. Illustrated with 9 original lithographs, and reproductions of over 200 drawings by Thiebaud. Folio, 350 x 260 mm, bound in the publisher's light blue illustrated.....
Item nr. 157738
Price: $12,500.00
JARLE. Barème des couleurs, ou, Les teintes faites au nombre de 616: comprenant presque toutes les couleurs qui existent dans la nature avec indication de le composer sans maître : ouvrage utile et presque indispensable à ceux qui colorient ou peignent à l'aquarelle. 14 pp. Illustrated with hand-coloured engraved title-page.....
Item nr. 169402
Price: $8,500.00
JESPERS, Oscar. Bezette Stad. By Paul van Ostayen. [76] ff. Illustrated with woodcuts by Oscar Jespers. 4to., 285 x 220 mm, bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth box. Antwerp: Uitgave van het Sienjaal, 1921.
Dutch/Flemish avant-garde bookmaking at its best. The innovative use of typography, combined with dramatic.....
Item nr. 169131
Price: $7,500.00
MENDOZA, [Juan Gonzales de]. Dell'Historia della China. [48], 380 pp. Small 4to., 210 x 150 mm, bound in later vellum. Rome: G.A. Ruffinello, 1586.
First Edition in Italian, of this popular and key Western text on Ming China printed the year following the original Spanish edition. Juan Gonzales de Mendoza (1545-1618).....
Item nr. 169177
Price: $3,250.00
VON BEZOLD, Wilhelm. The Theory of Color in its Relation to Art and Art-Industry...Translated from the German by S.R. Koehler...with an introduction and notes by Edward C. Pickering...Authorized American Edition. Revised and enlarged by the author. xxxiii, [1], 274 pp. Illustrated with chromolithographic frontispiece, 13 chromolithographic plates, plus numerous in-text.....
Item nr. 169113
Price: $1,500.00
CHERNIKHOV, Yakov. Konstruktsiia arkhitekturnykh i mashinnykh form. [Construction of Architectural Forms and Machines]. 232, [80], [2] pp. Illustrated throughout. 4to., 296 x 210 mm, bound in original boards, with title printed in Russian on cover and spine, in a new green cloth folding box. Leningrad: Edition de la Société des.....
Item nr. 169248
Price: $7,500.00
LALAU, Maurice. Tabubu. By J.H. Rosny Ainé. Illustrated throughout with silver and gold highlighted decorations by Lalau. 12mo., original illustrated wrappers, cover adorned with a Lalau decoration highlighted in gold, in tan cloth chemise and slipcase, futher preserved in a blue half morocco folding box. Paris: Jules Meynial, n.d.[1932].
An immaculate.....
Item nr. 169259
Price: $12,500.00
[GEFFROY, Gustave]. La Vie Artistique. Préface d'Edmond de Goncourt. Eight volumes (all published). xvi, 375; 396; xx, 395; xviii, 334; 408; 462; 368; 483 pp. With an original etched frontispiece to each volume (by Carrière, Rodin, Renoir, Raffaelli, Fantin-Latour, Pissarro, Vierge, and Willette). 12mo., 167 x 110 mm, bound contemporary.....
Item nr. 169228
Price: $12,500.00
ARP, Jean. Dreams and Projects. Illustrated with 28 woodcuts by Jean Arp of which 21 are printed in black and 7 in gray and black. Small folio, bound loose in the orginal wrappers and publisher's cardboard slipcase. New York: Curt Valentin, 1952.
A fine copy of one of Arp's most impressive.....
Item nr. 169195
Price: $4,750.00
ARP, Jean. Soleil Recerclé 61 pp. Illustrated with 18 woodcuts by plus a signed colour woodcut frontispiece on Rives. Large folio, 475 x 380 mm, loose as issued in publisher's wrappers with colour woodcut illustration in the publisher's grey slipcase (with one of the 18 woodcuts) and vellum backed chemise.....
Item nr. 169143
Price: $17,500.00
BELLMER, Hans. Le Con D'Irène. By [Louis Aragon.] 108 pp. Illlustrated with an etching by Bellmer. 8vo, 142 x 227mm. In original wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. [Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert], 1952.
Louis Aragon's anonymous novel, first published in 1928, whose title Le Con D'Irène is a French wordplay meaning.....
Item nr. 168995
Price: $2,750.00
WITH THE COLOURED PAINT CHIPS
DEVOE & COMPANY, F.W. Exterior Decoration. A Treatise on the Artistic Use of Colors in the Ornamentation of Buildings and A Series of Designs, Illustrating the Effects of Different Combinations of Colors in Connection with Various Styles of Architecture. 13 pp. of text. Illustrated by 20.....
Item nr. 168431
Price: $12,500.00