MITCHELL, Joan. Abstract Expressionism. 4 Volumes. 1. John Ashbery. The Poems. With 4 prints by Joan Mitchell. 2. Frank O'Hara. Odes. With 4 prints by Michael Goldberg. 3. Kenneth Koch. Permanently. With 4 prints by Alfred Leslie. 4. James Schuyler. Salute. With 4 prints by Grace Hartigan. Folio, bound in...
Item nr. 167063
Price: $17,500.00
CURRY, Manfred. A Travers les Nuages. 12 pp text. Illustrated with 100 black-&-white photographs. Folio, bound in publisher's cloth and illustrated dust jacket. Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1932.
A splendid collection of photographs celebrating the fascination with the burgeoning field of aviation. Handsomely produced with the photographs in a thoughtful...
Item nr. 165689
Price: $495.00
CORNELL, Joseph. Original Scrapbook for Tamara Toumanova. Illustrated with 10 original Cornell collages interleaved in coloured and textured papers, constructed of black and white photographs, feathers, fabric from Toumanova's costumes, tulle, plastic, coloured paper, rhinestones, string, etc. Housed in original red-coloured ringbinder with collaged covers by Cornell. Folio, 285 x....
Item nr. 157868
Price: $125,000.00
MITCHELL, Joan. Poems. By Nathan Kernan. With 8 color lithographs by Joan Mitchell. Folio, preserved in a red cloth box. Mount Kisco: Tyler Graphics Ltd., 1992.
A mint copy of the last of Mitchell's three books. An outstanding post-war American artist's book, featuring a collaboration between one of the most influential...
Item nr. 167046
Price: $12,500.00
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
FISCHL, Eric. Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam and Tulip. By Jamaica Kincaid. 14 pp. Illustrated with 9 original lithographs by Fischl. Folio, bound in publisher's black cloth with embossed Fischl vignette on cover, in new cloth slipcase. New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1986.
One of 145 copies signed by both the...
Item nr. 164933
Price: $3,500.00
TUTTLE, Richard. The Altos. By Barbara Guest. Illustrated with 11 softground etchings with hand-coloring by Richard Tuttle. Folio, bound loose as issued in publisher's cloth box. San Francisco: The Limestone Press, 1991.
$10,000.00
An immaculate copy of this monumental book. Tuttle created 11 softground etchings for this book each of which have...
Item nr. 164506
Price: $10,000.00
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
LUPA. Manifestazioni Agricole del Decennale. Folio, bound in publisher's silver decorated wrappers, in a new grey cloth folding box. Rome: 1932.
A superb example of the disconnect often present in books published by the totalitarian countries before the War, with the painstaking and splendid design at total varianece with the pedestrian...
Item nr. 165416
Price: $2,500.00
CLEMENTE, Francesco. The Departure of the Argonaut. By Alberto Savinio. [102] ff. With 49 photolithographs, 46 in color and 3 in black on cream paper. Elephant folio, loose in original wrappers and beige linen box designed by Rudolph Rieser. London: Petersburg Press, 1986.
Clemente's images are extraordinary and elevate this work...
Item nr. 165729
Price: $15,000.00
CAGE, John and Lois LONG. Mud Book. How to Make Mud Pies and Cakes. 34 pp. Concertina style with 25 silkscreens, of which 2 are double-page. 8vo., bound in stiff illustrated wrappers, laid into a protective cloth box. [New York]: 1983.
One of 500 copies signed by Cage and Long, this...
Item nr. 165589
Price: $1,975.00
MENDELSOHN, Erich. Amerika. Bilderbuch eines Architekten. Illustrated with 100 photographs by Erich Mendelsohn. Folio, bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards. Berlin: Rudolf Mosse Buchverlag, 1928.
An unusually fine copy of this classic homage to early twentieth-century American architecture by the celebrated German modernist architect Erich Mendelsohn. Rarely found thus.
Parr 74-75. Fotografia Publica...
Item nr. 166890
Price: $1,500.00
WILLRICH, Wolfgang. Säuberung des Kunsttempels Eine kunstpolitische Kampsschrift zur Gefundung Deutscher Kunst im Geiste nordischer Art. 178 pp. Illustrated throughout with black-&white figures. Small 4to., bound in publisher's cloth and dust-jacket. Munich/Berlin, J.F. Lehmanns Verlag, 1937.
An unusually fine copy, with the dust jacket, of this major denunciation of degenerate art...
Item nr. 36400
Price: $975.00
AVEDON, Richard. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. By John Ashbery. Containing an original signed photograph by Richard Avedon, and seven original, signed prints by: Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Jim Dine, Jane Freilicher, Alex Katz, R.B. Kitaj and Larry Rivers. Includes a recording of Ashbery reading his poem in...
Item nr. 153576
Price: $18,500.00
AVEDON, Richard. RICHARD AVEDON: An Autobiography. 432 pp. Illustrated with 280 photographs printed in tritone. Folio, bound in original cloth with original clear acetate dust jacket. New York: Random House, 1993.
Inscribed to his fellow photographer Arnold Crane. In immaculate condition.
Item nr. 165675
Price: $1,500.00
WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. [Wendingen]. The Life-Work of the American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. 7 Numbers. Illustrated with black and white photographs, floor plans and drawings. Square folio, bound in the original decorated wrappers. In a new red cloth folding box. Santpoort, CA: Mees, 1925.
A spectacular copy of this legendary monograph...
Item nr. 165610
Price: $4,750.00
TAKEGUCHI, Shuzo and Tiroux YAMANAKA. Album Surrealiste. Mizue Special Number. 112 pp. Profusely illustrated. 4to., bound in publisher's wrappers illustrated by Max Ernst, in a new cloth folding box. Tokyo: Shuncho-Kai, 1937.
A fine copy of the rare catalogue of the first exhibition of European Surrealism in Japan, with an original...
Item nr. 165550
Price: $2,750.00
IMADA, Kingo. Hanzai kagaku kaikan. Roshia osorubeshi. [A Scientific Investigation: Beware Russia]. 335 pp. Illustrated with 24 full page plates. 4to., bound in publisher's photo-collaged wrappers. Tokyo: Bukyosha, 1932.
A very rare Japanese account of the rise of the Soviet Union. The full-page plates and numerous illustrations in the ext depict...
Item nr. 165546
Price: $2,750.00
ROMANOV, M. Kluby Metallistov: Proekty tipovye i utverzhdennye k postroike v 1928 godu (Metal Workers' Clubs: Standard Projects Approved for Construction in 1928). 85, [3] pp. Illustrated throughout with architectural plans. Folio 285 x 220 mm, bound in original constructivist style printed wrappers, preserved in a new linen cloth folding...
Item nr. 165321
Price: $3,500.00
ARNTZ, Gerd. Statistisch Zakboek. 23 Volumes. 8vo., bound in publisher's wrappers. The Hague: Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, 1940- 1966.
This is a complete run of the volumes containing Arntz's contributions. In 1940 Arntz was put in charge of graphic design at the Nederlandsche Stichting voor Statistiek, and he contributed to...
Item nr. 164825
Price: $3,500.00
SIGNAC, Paul. Lithograph for the program of the Théâtre Libre. 155 x 180 mm. Executed in 1888; this program was issued for the performance on 31 January 1889.
One of Signac's most striking graphic works. As a Neo-Impressionist associated with the development of Divisionism or Pointillism, the artist has created a....
Item nr. 164746
Price: $12,500.00
KAUFFER, E. Mcknight. Quack, Quack! By Leonard Woolf. 193 pp. 8vo., publisher's cloth and dust-wrapper by E. McKnight Kauffer. London: Hogarth Press, 1937.
The "cheap" edition of this book, first published in 1935, in which Leonard Woolf expresses his views on fascism, so-called "intellectuals," and the state of governments in Europe...
Item nr. 158972
Price: $575.00
LÉGER, Fernand. Le Cirque. Illustrated with 75 lithographs by Léger, of which 33 are printed in colour and 42 in black (unsigned). Folio, 440 x 340, bound in original illustrated wrappers, in the publisher's box and matching chemise. Paris: Tériade, 1950.
One of the great livres des peintres of the twentieth...
Item nr. 166646
Price: $50,000.00
DE GAURY, [Gerald]. A Saudi Arabian Note Book. [8], 50 pp. Illustrated with 39 black and white photographic plates, plus a map and 2 fold-out genealogical tables. 4to., 234 x 170 mm, bound in publisher's black and blue designed wrappers in a new blue cloth folding box. Cairo: Imprimerie Misr....
Item nr. 164059
Price: $8,500.00
[JAPANESE CARTS]. UENO, Atsugui. Go shoguruma. [Royal Imperial Cars]. Suite of 12 plates of Imperial carts, each with leaf of descriptive text, printed in gold and colour, all within fan-shaped images. Oblong folio, 270 x 390 mm, bound accordion style in boards, orange glazed wrapper on upper cover bearing tassels...
Item nr. 46400
Price: $975.00