SOVIET CINEMA. A Collection of 39 Monographs. Varying sizes, bound in original photomontage wrappers, in a new green cloth folding box with a red label. Moscow and Leningrad: Kynopechat and Tea-Kino-Pechat, 1926-1929.
A wonderful collection of dynamic pamphlets on film and film stars. It includes not only Soviet, but also foreign.....
Item nr. 169820
Price: $2,500.00
ALPHABET.] ABÉCÉDAIRE du Marechal Petain. Unpaginated. Square 8vo, original illustrated wrappers in a new linen box with black label. n.p.: Bureau de Documentation du Chef de l'Etat, 1943.
One of the strange alphabets, but a perfect insight into the creation of Petain as saviour of France. A rare little book. OCLC.....
Item nr. 169969
Price: $1,750.00
SALA, George Augustus. The Great Exhibition "Wot is to Be": or Probable Results of the Industry of all Nations in the Year '51. ....by Vates Secundus. 22 leaves, joined in an accordion style, illustrated with a hand-coloured lithographic panorama by G. A. Sala. c.133 x 5460 mm. fold. to 133.....
Item nr. 169674
Price: $1,850.00
ANSTRUTHER, G. Eliot. The Bindings of To-morrow. A record of the work of the Guild of Women-Binders and of the Hampstead Bindery. Illustrated with 50 full-page chromolithographs by Griggs. Modern half pigskin over boards. London: Printed for the Guild of Women-Binders & Williams & Norgate, 1902.
The Guild of Women-Binders was.....
Item nr. 169635
Price: $1,250.00
WITH SUPERB ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALVIN-CORREA
WELLS, H. G. La Guerre des Mondes. Translated from the English by Henry D. Davray. Title-page printed in red and gold. 235, [10] pp., illustrated with 32 full-page plates by Henri Alvin-Correa included in the pagination and numerous large headpieces, tailpieces, initials, and vignettes illustrating the.....
Item nr. 169199
Price: $8,500.00
THOMAS DE LA RUE & Co.. Original Designs for Playing Cards. No.10. 25 pages containing a total of 100 mounted original watercolours of Playing Cards. Folio, publisher's cloth. London: De la Rue & Co., ND(Ca.1875).
A unique collection of original ninetenth century designs for playing cards from one of the most.....
Item nr. 169754
Price: $8,500.00
LEWITT, Sol. Squarings: a sequence of forty-eight poems by SEAMUS HEANEY with forty-eight drawings by SOL LEWITT and with an introduction by HELEN VENDLER. Square 4to, original publisher's cloth in matching cloth slipcase. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2003.
One of 400 copies signed by Heaney and Lewitt. Forty-eight poems by.....
Item nr. 110780
Price: $2,250.00
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, preserved in a half-morocco folding box. Paris: Jules Meynial, n.d.(1932).
An immaculate copy of this art-deco masterpiece. A true jewel of.....
Item nr. 169311
Price: $9,750.00
COLOUR THEORY. Guide to Colour Standard. 20 pp. Illustrated with 13 colour diagrams, composed of cut out and pasted on pieces of paper with printed tissue overlays. Oblong Folio, bound in publisher's black cloth over boards stamped in silver in original cardboard slipcase. [Japan], Nihon shikisai kenyûjo, 1951.
A rare and.....
Item nr. 169063
Price: $2,500.00
GRANDVILLE, J.J. Les Métamorphoses du Jour. [4], xxviii, 283 pp. With 70 hand-coloured wood engravings after designs by Grandville. Large 8vo., 262 x 163 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated polychrome boards. Paris: Havard, 1854.
First Edition in book form, comprised of 67 designs from the excessively rare 1829 suite, 2 lithographs.....
Item nr. 167495
Price: $5,850.00
ONCHI, Koshiro. Umi No Dowa. Unpaginated, 8ff. Illustrated with 6 polychrome woodcuts. Small 4to., 285 x 215 mm, bound in publisher's printed wrappers, in a new grey cloth box with a blue label. Tokyo: Hanga-So, Showa 9 [1934].
A superb example of Onchi's skill as a bookmaker, which earn a place.....
Item nr. 169967
Price: $8,500.00
GROSZ, George. Ecce Homo. With 100 plates of which 16 are in colour. Folio, 347 x 250 mm, bound in the original illustrated wrappers, in a new linen cloth folding box. Berlin: Malik Verlag, 1923.
An unusually fine copy of this classic work, rarely found thus. A brilliant collection of Grosz's.....
Item nr. 169283
Price: $6,500.00
WALKER, Kara. Porgy & Bess. Libretto by Dubose Heyward. Lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin for music composed by Ira Gershwin. 140 pp. Illustrated with 16 lithographs by Kara Walker. 4to., bound in publisher's half red morocco over decorative cloth covered boards, in black matching chemise. San Francisco: Arion.....
Item nr. 150317
Price: $1,750.00
WOMEN. Soviet Women. Unpaginated. Illustrated with photographs throughout. 4to, bound in publisher's embossed yellow cloth, in publisher's cardboard slipcase. Moscow: State Art Publishers, 1939.
A photographic homage to the role of women in Soviet Russia. Unlike so many of the Soviet propaganda books, where the reality is far removed from that.....
Item nr. 170930
Price: $3,500.00
MAN RAY. Facile. With poetry by Paul Eluard. Illustrated with photographs by Man Ray. 8vo., 245 x 182 mm, bound in original printed wrappers in a new grey slipcase, with black morocco backed chemise. Paris: Edition G.L.M., 1935.
A pristine copy one of Man Ray and Eluard's most successful collaborations, rarely.....
Item nr. 170451
Price: $8,500.00
TELINGATER, Solomon. Podshipniki: sharikovye: rolikovye. [Bearings: Roller Ball]. 239 pp. Profusely illustrated. 8vo, 245 x 170 mm., publisher's green cloth binding with silver embossed cover. Moscow: Soiuzpodshipniktrest, n.d. [1930s].
Perhaps nothing demonstrates the surreal nature of books published in Russia between the Wars than this stunning trade catalogue of the Soyuzpodshipniksbyt.....
Item nr. 170434
Price: $17,500.00
BONNARD, Pierre. Almanach illustré du Père Ubu (XXe Siècle). En Vente Partout. Text by Alfred Jarry. 56 pp., illustrated with 79 pen and ink drawings by Bonnard, executed in lithograph and printed in red and blue. Folio, 287 x 203 mm., uncut and unopened. Loose in original wrappers as issued.....
Item nr. 170381
Price: $9,750.00
TELINGATER, Solomon. Slovo Predostaviliaetsia Kirsanovu. By Semen Kirsanov. Small 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new gold cloth folding box with a black label. Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1930.
A fine copy of this rare and spectacular example of avant-garde book design from the complex cover, which combines collage and typography.....
Item nr. 170363
Price: $4,950.00
SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME. International Exhibition of Modern Art. Arranged for the Société Anonyme for the Brooklyn Museum. Assembled by the Société Anonyme. November December 1926. Text by Katherine S. Dreier. Composed by Katherine S. Dreier and Constantin Aladjalov. [10], 117, [7] pp. Illustrated with photographs and typographical elements. 8vo, bound in.....
Item nr. 170154
Price: $9,750.00
BOOM, Irma. Presént. By Niklas Maak. 8vo., bound in publisher's printed wrappers, preserved in the original neon green shrink wrap all in a new grey cloth folding box with a yellow label. Paris: Renault, 2016
Irma Boom succeeded in following up her magnificent 1996 Think Book with another tour de force.....
Item nr. 169998
Price: $3,500.00
MUNARI, Bruno. Scultura da Viaggio. 390 x 100 mm when folded, preserved in the original envelope. Milano: Giorgio Lucini, 1971. WITH:
MUNARI, Bruno. Scultura da Viaggio. Small yellow printed portfolio containing a black square base and a foldable black sculpture, 150 x 150 mm when folded. [Lugo]: Exit Edizioni, 1991.
These magical.....
Item nr. 169981
Price: $3,500.00
ONCHI, Koshiro. Chu. Gyo. Kai. [Insects, Fish, Shells]. Unpaginated, 14 ff. Illustrated with 10 prints done with a mix of techniques including pochoir and woodcut. 4to., 265 x 210, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Tokyo: Aoi Shobo, Showa 18 [1943].
Onchi was an extremely prolific and gifted artist whose work with.....
Item nr. 169968
Price: $7,500.00
ILIAZD. A. Kruchenykh Grandiozar. 16 pp. Small 4to, bound in original wrappers, in a new linen cloth folding box with an orange label. Tiflis: 41°, 1919.
An immaculate copy of this rare publication of the 41° group in Tiflis, created by a "duo of three idiots" - Kruchenykh, Terentev and Zdanevich.....
Item nr. 169840
Price: $7,500.00
MAN RAY. Revolving Doors. Comprised of 10 pochoir plates. Folio, loose in original publisher's black portfolio with ties. Laid into a new folding box. Paris: Editions Surréalistes, 1926.
A fine copy of this legendary surrealist publication. Between 1916 and 1917, the artist and photographer Man Ray created a series of collages.....
Item nr. 169684
Price: $85,000.00
LE CORBUSIER. La Charte d'Athenes, avec un Discours liminaire de Jean Giraudoux. 212 pp. 8vo., 145 x 135 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Plon, 1943.
First Edition of the Athens Charter inscribed by Le Corbusier to the legendary publisher, Christian Zervos. The Athens.....
Item nr. 169426
Price: $3,750.00