TESTI, Carlo Vittorio. 1° Mostra Nazionale delle Bonifiche. 109 pp. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Rome: Ministero dell'agricoltura e delle foreste, 1932.
A scarce Italian fascist photobook, which combines typical agricultural propaganda for the regime together with a surprising sense of design.....
Item nr. 167106
Price: $1,500.00
SCHUITEMA, Paul. 25 Jaar Oorlog aan den Oorlog. With contributions by L.J. Bot, A. de Jong, and Arthur Müller Lehning. Illustrated throughout with photographs and political cartoons. Folio, bound in publisher's typographically designed wrappers. The Hague: Internationale Antimilitaristische Vereeniging, 1929.
This is a special number of "De Wapens Neder", a Dutch.....
Item nr. 149756
Price: $575.00
[SEJIRO, Miyake]. 4th Kimono Obi Belt Design Competition...volume 6 Kyoto Meiji 40 1907. 106 original gouache designs mounted back to back ranging in size from 330 x 275 to 475 x 320 mm. Folio, 535 x 385 mm, bound in a contemporary light blue Japanese block book cloth binding with.....
Item nr. 164052
Price: $15,000.00
AUTOMOBILES. ACME Production Colors. WITH Rogers Automotive Color Mixing. 2 volumes. Thick 4to., 270 x 210 mm, bound in original embossed black and maroon expandable binders, respectively, with company logos. Detroit: Acme White Lead & Color Works, 1939-48.
First Edition of two scarce automotive colour sample books recording automobile colours in.....
Item nr. 159494
Price: $3,500.00
JAPANESE COMMERCIAL DESIGN. A Collection of approximately 200 labels for food and drink products. Various sizes, mounted in an album. Small folio, 305 x 225mm, bound in pale blue wrappers in a recent brown chitsu case. NP. ND. [Japan, 1930's].
An eclectic collection of Japanese food and drink labels from the.....
Item nr. 159825
Price: $1,500.00
AVIATION. Aeroplanes d'Artois. Monoplans, Aero-Torpilles, Aero-Marins. One large fold-out plate with 6 photographs of planes. Small 4to., 165 x 190 mm, bound in publisher's gray printed wrappers with a tipped on photograph in a new blue cloth folding box. Paris: Emile Dubonnet, 1910.
$1250.00
A promotional brochure for the d'Artois aviation company.....
Item nr. 145056
Price: $1,250.00
KORNERUP, Andreas. AIMS: Advanced Ink Mixing System. 16 pp. of text. Illustrated with 132 plates and cut-out overlays, isolating colours in the spectra. 4to., 298 x 210 mm, bound in publisher's cream-coloured plastic-covered printed boards. Copenhagen: The Danish Paint and Ink Research Laboratory, 1968.
Only Edition of this colour atlas. Kornerup.....
Item nr. 159903
Price: $495.00
MAZING, B and N.P.AKIMOVA. Akter Germanskogo Kino. 50 pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers. Leningrad: Academia, 1926.
An early Russian work on German film with a dramatic contructivist cover. A fine copy of this fragile pamphlet. Very rare. OCLC lists only 2 copies, in the British Library and Berlin...
Item nr. 145634
Price: $495.00
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. 129079
Price: $9,750.00
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
KING, Ronald & Roy FISHER. Anansi Company: a collection of thirteen hand-made wire and card rod-puppets animated in colour and verse. Made up of 15 colorful unbound sections with thirteen screen printed removable wire and card puppets. Large folio, 450 x 340 mm. All loosely inserted into card wraparound and.....
Item nr. 144392
Price: $3,500.00
TOLMER. Animaux a Fourrure. 4 pp. Illustrated with 24 black-&-white plates by Ray Bret Koch. Oblong 4to., loose as issued in the publisher's decorated boards. Paris: Tolmer, 1931.
A disoncerting advertising piece for the fur coat firm of Jungmann.
Item nr. 165818
Price: $1,250.00
VIACROZE DECORATION. Aphorismes sur la décoration. Numbers 1-10, all published. 8vo., in publisher's wrappers and cardboard folding case. Paris: Viacroze décoration, 1930-1931.
A complete set of this scarce and little known Art Deco design periodical. Cardboard with some wear, otherwise immaculate.
OCLC lists sets at Columbia, Metropolitan Museum, University of Illinois and.....
Item nr. 166876
Price: $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: $9,750.00
KORZHEV, M.P. & M.I. PROKHOROVA. Arkhitektura parkov SSSR. [Architecture of Parks of the USSR]. 140 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs and plans. 4to., 265 x 200 mm, bound in publisher's grey cloth. [Moscow]: Izd-vo Akademii arkhitektury SSSR, 1940.
First edition. One of 4000 copies. A rare photographic survey of parks across.....
Item nr. 166616
Price: $1,500.00
MUSSOLINI. Armi d'Italia: le rassegne del Duce alle truppe dell'armata del Po, della seconda e ottava armata. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with photographs and photomontage. Small folio, 310 x 230 mm, bound in publisher's photographic wrappers, preserved in a new green cloth folding box. Rome: 1940.
$1,500.00
A fine copy of this typical.....
Item nr. 167219
Price: $1,500.00
BENHAM, W. Gurney and Frank ADAMS. Arthur and the Boilybird. An A.B.C. Story. Unpaginated. With colour illustrations throughout by Frank Adams. Oblong quarto publisher's colour illustrated boards with cloth spine. London: Blackie & Son [1909].
A delightful and scarce early twentieth century children's ABC book in unusually fine condition. OCLC lists.....
Item nr. 165808
Price: $2,500.00
ITAGAKI, Takao. Atarashiki Geijutsu no Kakutoku. 246 pp. Profusely illustrated. 8vo., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers preserved in a new black cloth box. Tokyo: Tenjinsha, 1930.
First edition of this essay on the machine and new architecture and design, by the champion of modernism in Japan. OCLC lists only 2 copies.....
Item nr. 167410
Price: $1,500.00
CZECH COLOUR THEORY. POTRAVINOPROJEKT - PRAHA. Barevné vybavení interiérù v závodech resortu MPPV. 50 ff. comprising 34 single-sided mimeographed sheets and 16 hand-drawn illustrations pasted onto black paper and tables including numerous painted colour samples. Small folio, 295 x 195 mm, bound in original pale blue cloth covered boards, title.....
Item nr. 159075
Price: $975.00
LI PO. Before Serving the Wine. With 12 reproduced watercolours by Gunnar Kaldewey. Folio, bound accordion style in gray paper covered boards, in a gray box with silver stamping all by Judi Conant of Vermont. Printed in the Tower of Poestenkill, New York: Edition Kaldewey, 2006.
Volume 45. One of 35.....
Item nr. 128985
Price: $1,800.00
KIRKEBY, Per. Bemerkungen ueber die Farben. By Ludwig Wittgenstein. Illustrated with 4 Prints on Japon paper by Per Kirkeby. Folio. Publisher's cloth-backed boards by Christian Zwang. Muenster: Kleinheinrich, 1998.
A handsome illustrated book by the Danish artist, Per Kirkeby, whose work is influenced by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book.....
Item nr. 168466
Price: $2,500.00
HOYEM, Andrew. Bibliography of the Arion Press. The First One Hundred Books. Foreword by Kevin Starr. Introduction by Glenn Todd. Prologue by Peter Kraus. 308 pp. Small folio, bound in publisher's cloth and slipcase. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2015.
Published to celebrate the publication of the first hundred titles of the.....
Item nr. 162516
Price: $1,000.00
JAPANESE ORNAMENTAL WOODBLOCK PRINTS. Bijutsu Kai. Collection of Pictures Regarding Colour Designs for Japanese Textiles Costumes. Five parts in one volume. Five folding plates and 18 full-page coloured woodblock prints per section, for a total of 95 original illustrations. 8vo., 232 x 160 mm, bound in Japanese accordion style with.....
Item nr. 142126
Price: $7,500.00
HOSPODAR, Stephen De. Block Prints by Stephen de Hospodar. Foreword by Everett Carroll Maxwell. Illustrated with 14 Woodcuts (of 16?). Folio, bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards and woodcut label. Los Angeles: privately published, 1932.
A delightful book of woodcuts by the late Hungarian born, Los Angeles based artist Stephen de Hospodar.....
Item nr. 116173
Price: $750.00
CRAIG-MARTIN, Michael. Book. Illustrated with 20 colour screen prints and 2 loose signed screen prints. Oblong folio, bound in publisher's grey cloth in a matching clamshell box. London: Alan Cristea Gallery & Ridinghouse Editions, 1997.
Book is renowned British contemporary artist Michael Craig-Martin's oversized artist's book consisting of twenty full page.....
Item nr. 164409
Price: $2,750.00