JARRY, Alfred. Les Minutes de Sable, Memorial. [6], X, 5-210, [4] pp. Illustrated with 9 coloured (blue and maroon) woodcuts by Alfred Jarry. Small 8vo., 139 x 115 pp, bound in later binding using old paper over boards, preserving the original glossy black wrappers, Paris: Mercure de France, 1894.
First Edition...
Item nr. 167222
Price: $12,500.00
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 cloth folding box. Zurich: Heuberger, 1918.
First Edition. A superb association copy of this rare and important early Dada work...
Item nr. 167207
Price: $15,000.00
REITER, László and Klára BENES. A neveto Ember [The Laughing Man]: Mesekönyv. 78 pp., [2] pp. Illustrated with decorative capital letters, vignettes and 6 original coloured plates by László Reiter. 4to., bound in publisher's half blue cloth over boards covered with a stunning abstract paper in colour lithography designed by.....
Item nr. 167164
Price: $2,850.00
ARP, Hans. Der Pyramidenrock. 70 pp. Illustrated with a portrait of Arp by Amadeo Modigliani. Small 4to., bound in original printed boards, in a dark blue cloth box. Zurich & Munich: Eugen Rentsch Verlag, [1924].
A fine copy of this key Dada book, in the rare hard-bound version, and bearing the...
Item nr. 167119
Price: $4,750.00
ERNST, Max. La Femme 100 Têtes. With 147 illustrations by Max Ernst. With an introduction by André Breton. 8vo., bound in original wrappers, in a new grey cloth box. Paris: Éditions du Carrefour, 1929.
An unusually fine copy of La Femme 100 Têtes, Ernst's first collage novel, which was also the...
Item nr. 167104
Price: $5,850.00
CHERNYKOV, Iakov. Arkhitekturniie Fantazii [Architectural Fictions]. 102 pp. Illustrated with numerous textual illustrations and 101 colour plates. Small folio, 300 x 200 mm, bound in original blue embossed cloth. Leningrad: "Meshdunarodnaja Kniga" (Leningrad Section), 1933.
First Edition of this landmark work of Soviet architectural fantasies, lavishly illustrated with dramatic designs of...
Item nr. 166889
Price: $12,500.00
FRASCHETTI, Vincenzo and Carlo TESTI. Italia dall' A alla Z. 88 unnumbered pages. Illustrated throughout. Small 4to., 250 x 230 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated boards in a new blue cloth folding box. Novarra: Officine dell'Istituto Geografico de Agostini, 1936.
Published by the Italian Foreign Ministry, this stunning alphabet was presumably...
Item nr. 166849
Price: $9,750.00
COCTEAU, Jean. L'Ode a Picasso. [66] pp. 8vo., bound in original wrappers, in a new orange cloth folding box. Paris: A La Belle Edition, 1919.
First Edition of one of the first written tributes to the genius of Picasso. This copy inscribed by Cocteau to 'Pierre' and with a varient title-page...
Item nr. 166634
Price: $5,250.00
MAN RAY. Les Mains Libres. By Paul Eluard. 208 pp. With 66 reproductions of drawings by Man Ray. 4to. 280 x 225 mm, bound in the original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Editions Jeanne Bucher, 1937.
A fine copy of this celebrated collaboration between Man Ray and...
Item nr. 166568
Price: $7,500.00
CAHUN, Claude. Le Coeur de Pic. By Lise DeHarme. With a preface by Paul Eluard. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 20 photographs by Claude Cahun. Small folio, 270 x 200 mm, bound in publisher's grey cloth over red boards with colour photographs on front and back cover by Cahun, preserved in a....
Item nr. 166567
Price: $12,500.00
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. Milano: Edizioni...
Item nr. 166366
Price: $3,850.00
TANGUY, Yves. Dormir, Dormir, dans les Pierres. By Benjamin Peret. Illustrated with three full-page plates printed recto only, and 10 vignette head- and tail-pieces after drawings by Tanguy. 8vo., 227 x 178 mm, bound in original illustrated wrappers, preserved in a new tan cloth folding box. Paris: Editions Surréalistes, 1927.
In...
Item nr. 166306
Price: $4,850.00
DUBUFFET, Jean. Ler Dla Campagne. [18] pp. Composed and illustrated by Dubuffet, with six textual linocuts and woodcuts. 8vo., 189 x 136 mm, in original lettered wrappers, stapled, preserved in a black cloth box. N.p.: L'art Brut, 1948.
An exceptionally fine copy of this scarce early example of Art Brut. This...
Item nr. 166303
Price: $6,750.00
MUNARI, Bruno. Nella notte buia. 18 pp. Using black paper and 16 pp printed on acetate and 16 pp. on grey paper, mostly with die-cut images, and 8 partial pages on acetate. 8vo., bound in publisher's illustrated black boards, in a new blue cloth folding box. Milan: Giuseppe Muggiani, 1956.
First...
Item nr. 164447
Price: $2,500.00
CRANE, Hart. The Bridge. By Hart Crane. Illustrated by Joel Shapiro, with an essay by Langdon Hammer. Scroll format, 13-1/2" x 50', with seven woodblock prints by Joel Shapiro, an introduction by Langdon Hammer, and two photographs by Michael Kenna. In a linen box. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2017.
$2500.00
The...
Item nr. 165458
Price: $2,500.00
MATISSE, Henri. Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé. [2], 153, [8] pp. Illustrated by Henri Matisse with 29 etchings printed in black. Small folio, bound in original printed wrappers, and housed in the original calf-backed chemise and slipcase. Lausanne: Albert Skira & Cie., 1932.
A superb copy of this masterpiece of twentieth century...
Item nr. 167107
Price: $75,000.00
VITRUVIUS, Marcus. I Dieci Libri Dell'Architettura. Translated with additional commentary by Daniele Barbaro. 274 (i.e., 284), [18] pp. (erratic pagination throughout). Illustrated with woodcut architectural title-page, full-page woodcut of two men among ruins, 132 woodcuts within the Ten Books of which eight are double-page plates, six have pasted on extensions...
Item nr. 166976
Price: $37,500.00
PIAZZETTA, Giambattista. La Gerusalemme Liberata. By Torquato Tasso. [12], 254 (i.e., 258) ff. Illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece, title vignette, dedicatory portrait of Maria Teresa by Polanzani after Piazzetta, 20 full-page engraved plates surrounded with etched ornamental borders, 20 half-page headpieces containing the "argomenti" to each Canto, 20 culs-de-lampe, 22...
Item nr. 166968
Price: $38,500.00
KOKOSCHKA, Oskar. Die Träumenden Knaben. 10 ff. Illustrated with 10 lithographs (8 in colour and 2 in black & white), by Oscar Kokoschka. 4to., 240 x 275 mm, bound in the second issue tan cloth binding by Kurt Wolff with lithographic label designed by Kokoschka on front cover, in a....
Item nr. 166957
Price: $35,000.00
AUGUSTINE, Saint. De Civitate Dei. 305 ff. of 306 (missing final blank). [a-b8 c-z10 A-G10 H10 (-H10, final blank)], with three blanks (ff. 1, 16, 305). 46 lines, gothic type (2:84) printed double-column, roman headline (4:110). Folio, 286 x 202 mm, bound in contemporary Venetian calf over wooden boards paneled...
Item nr. 166923
Price: $87,500.00
ROCHAS, Albert de. Le Livre de Demain. 44 separate fascicles comprising 424 pp. Illustrated with 11 original samples of rare old paper, 4 chromatic circles, 6 silhouettes by P. Konewka and 5 plates of which 3 are etchings and 2 are reproductions. 8vo., bound in a 217 x 140 mm...
Item nr. 165802
Price: $9,500.00
ERNST, Max. Mr. Knife and Mrs. Fork. Text by René Crevel, translated by Kay Boyle. With 19 photograms of frottages by Max Ernst. 8vo., bound in the original full black cloth, elaborately gilt and embossed designed by Ernst on covers with additional hand-painting. In a new black half morocco box...
Item nr. 166800
Price: $27,500.00
ITALY. MISSON, François-Maximilien. Nouveau Voyage D'Italie, Avec un Memoire contenant des avis utiles à ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage. Three volumes. [26], 248, [21]; 352, [28]; [18], 413 (i.e., 417), [21] pp. Illustrated with a total of 65 engraved plates of which 39 are folding, plus one folding...
Item nr. 166964
Price: $15,000.00
MENESTRIER, Claude-François. -- LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE, Louis Charles de, Prince de Turenne. Ludovico Magno theses ex universa philosophia dicat et consecrat Ludovicus a Turre-Arverniæ princeps Turennius. [16] pp., (page [4] blank). Engraved throughout: calligraphic title and text engraved by Louis Michault within elaborate emblematic and historiated borders engraved by Louis...
Item nr. 166958
Price: $18,500.00
DE MONTENAY, Georgette. Emblemes, ou devises chrestiennes. [8, including blank], 100, [8] ff. Illustrated with wood engraved title-vignette and 100 engraved plates by Pierre Woeiriot, printed on facing pages. Small 4to., 210 x 150 mm, bound in contemporary vellum, early manuscript title on spine. La Rochelle: Jean Dinet, 1620.
First and...
Item nr. 166944
Price: $25,000.00