WADA, Senzo. Shikisai Haigo-ban. 8vo. 250 x 175 mm bound in publisher's colour illustrated boards which open to three panels with some explanatory text; a framed panel with eight colour strips which holds eight separate coloured cellophane filters in card frames; and a rotating volvelle with cellophane colour filters. In.....
Item nr. 165377
Price: $1,500.00
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 slipcase. Zurich: Heuberger, 1918.
First Edition. A superb association copy of this rare and important early Dada work, inscribed by.....
Item nr. 168746
Price: $12,500.00
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
LISSITZKY, El. USSR im Bau. Das sechzehnte Jahr der Revolution. Nr. 9. Folio, bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new blue cloth folding box. Moscow: Staatlicher Kunstverlag, 1934.
A copy of one of many monographic issues of this landmark periodical, devoted to Dnieprostroi. As Martin Parr says "from 1930-1940 URSS.....
Item nr. 167438
Price: $2,500.00
RODCHENKO, Aleksandr and Varvara STEPANOVA. Soviet Aviation. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with photomontages. Folio, bound in publisher's grey pictorial boards. Moscow and Leningrad: State Art Publishers, 1939. WITH:
The Red Army and Navy. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with photomontages. Folio, bound in publisher's red pictorial boards. Moscow and Leningrad: State Art Publishers, 1939.
Published.....
Item nr. 167289
Price: $3,500.00
AROSSEV, A. [ed.]. Soviet Cinema. 312 pp. Profusely illustrated, plus 14 pp of advertisements. 8vo., bound in publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards. Moscow: Voks, 1936.
A nice copy of this rare and fragile history of Soviet film with photomontages by Rodchenko and Stepanova. Published at the high watermark of state-controlled Soviet cinema.....
Item nr. 164983
Price: $2,500.00
HUSZAR, Vilmos. Bruynzeel's Fabrieken, Zaandam. 72 pp. Profusely illustrated with photomontages. Oblong 4to., bound in publisher's wrappers, in a new dark blue cloth folding box. Zaandam, Netherlands: [C. Bruynzeel & Zonen], 1930.
A fine copy of Huszar's magnum opus as a book designer, and a book which prefigured the work of.....
Item nr. 164776
Price: $3,500.00
HEARTFIELD, John. Lerne lachen ohne zu weinen. By Kurt Tucholsky. 426 pp. 8vo., bound in publisher's boards and dustjacket designed by Heartfield, in a new black cloth folding box. Berlin: Ernst Rowohlt, 1931.
A scarce book with the its splendid Heartfield cover. While there is a small piece missing and some.....
Item nr. 164651
Price: $1,250.00
JONES, Lois Mailou. The Poems of Leopold Sedar Senghor. Illustrated with six silk-screen prints by Lois Mailou Jones. Folio, Bound in purple linen and housed in a black buckram solander box. New York: The Limited Editions Club,1996.
Born in French West Africa, Leopold Senghor became the first Black member ever inducted.....
Item nr. 163625
Price: $2,300.00
MITCHELL, DEAN. Music, Deep Rivers in My Soul. .By Maya.Angelou.. Illustrated with six original color etchings by Dean Mitchell. Folio. Bound in beige Japanese linen and matching clamshell box. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 2003.
This work was created especially for the Limited Editions Club by Maya Angelou.In addition the.....
Item nr. 163619
Price: $3,500.00
SAAR, Betye. Bookmarks in the Pages of Life, a Selection of Short Stories. By Zora Neale Hurston.. Illustrated with six full-page serigraph silk-screen prints by Betye Saar. Folio. Bound in dark brown half leather over boards covered with paper and cinnamon bark In a clamshell box. New York: The Limited.....
Item nr. 163613
Price: $2,250.00
CRAIG, Edward Gordon. The Mask. A Monthly Journal of the Art of the Theatre. A complete set of eighty-seven issues (bound in seventy-one parts) in sixteen volumes (fifteen volumes of magazines, and an additional volume of covers and inserts from 1911-1915). Volumes I to III have title-pages and index pages.....
Item nr. 168494
Price: $15,000.00
MEXICO. Seis anos de gobierno al Servicio de Mexico, 1934-1940. From the Gabinete Presdencial. xxv, 459 pp. Illustrations throughout. Small folio, bound in publisher's brown gilt-stamped cloth. [México]: [La Nacional Impressora], 1940.
A massive and seemingly little-know work, which is illustrated with Isotypes on almost every page. The use of the.....
Item nr. 167437
Price: $4,750.00 save 30% $3,325.00
GAZAN, Henri. Marie-Anne et son oncle sam. Unpaginated, 18 ff. Illustrated throughout with pochoirs. Oblong folio, 277 x 380 mm, bound in publisher's raspberry paper boards with pochoir illustrated label on the front cover. Paris: G. Boutitie, [1919].
First and only edition, one of 500 copies. A striking allegorical work illustrating.....
Item nr. 167371
Price: $5,500.00 save 30% $3,850.00
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
RUSSIAN TOY CATALOGUE. Sat'amashoebis laboratoriis ek'sponatebis albomi. [Album of Toy Laboratory Exhibits] . 80 pp. Illustrated with photographs and coloured diagrams. 180 x 276 mm, bound in original cloth with lettering and decoration on the front cover. Tbilisi: Zaria Vostoka, 1941.
This album showcases toys and educational materials for kindergarten children.....
Item nr. 165322
Price: $2,500.00 save 30% $1,750.00
[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 save 30% $10,500.00
KYOKARAKAMI, [JAPANESE PATTERN PAPER]. Kara nagatezuri mokuhan monyo [Kara-cho Designs for Hand-Printed Woodcut Pattern Paper.] Edited by Ansou Hisao. Preface by Osaragi Jiro. Two volumes. Contents includes: 2 ff. prefaces, 102 sheets of decorated papers, printed in colours from the original woodblocks on Kurotani paper, sheet size 390 x 510.....
Item nr. 163891
Price: $12,500.00 save 30% $8,750.00
FASHION. Presage: Paris Fashion Forecast. Numbers 1 & 2 in 6 numbers and 55 additional issues. Illustrated throughout with colour plates, fabric swatches and photographs. Small folio preserved in publisher's decorative board folders as issued. Paris: Société d'éditions de Mode, 1962-1987.
A superb collection of issues of this visionary periodical which.....
Item nr. 162711
Price: $17,500.00 save 30% $12,250.00
[JAPANESE MATCHBOX COVERS]. Album containing over 950 Japanese Matchbox covers mounted on 59 leaves. Small folio 4to., bound in original boards in a new blue cloth folding box with a red leather label. Japan: 1920s and 30s.
This collection provides a unique view of Japanese pre-war design. Many of the labels.....
Item nr. 162577
Price: $2,500.00 save 30% $1,750.00
PATTERSON-SARGENT COMPANY. Color plates. Suggestions for Exterior House Painting. 28 pp. Illustrated title with birds-eye view of the Cleveland factory, and 106 paint and varnish samples, 12 stained wood samples on one leaf, all with explanatory text printed on the sides of the samples. With 10 pp. "Suggestions" stapled pamphlet.....
Item nr. 151062
Price: $1,500.00 save 30% $1,050.00
FREYTAG, Gustav. Export-Atlas für Welthandel und Industrie. 6 pp text. Illustrated with one folding map of the world, 20 maps and 8 charts all done in chromolithography. Oblong folio, 265 x 395 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated blue cloth. Vienna: G. Freytag & Berndt, ND [1901].
An imaginative example of early.....
Item nr. 143521
Price: $3,500.00 save 30% $2,450.00
GILMAN COLLECTION. Photographs from the Collection of the Gilman Paper Company. Curated by Pierre Apraxine, with plates by Richard Benson, and notes to the plates by Lee Marks. 480 pp. Illustrated with 199 offset lithographs after photographs plus offset lithographic frontispiece. Large folio, bound in original half maroon calf over.....
Item nr. 37462
Price: $3,850.00 save 30% $2,695.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Hiddenness. By Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge. Illustrated with original prints, including lithograph, silkscreen and hand-stamped monotypes by Richard Tuttle. Folio, 380 x 255 mm, bound in publisher's concertina blue paper over boards in the original folding case. New York: The Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum, 1987.
One of the most.....
Item nr. 168696
Price: $5,000.00
DIEBENKORN, Richard. Poems of W.B. Yeats. Selected and introduced by Helen Vendler. xxv, [3], 171, [2] pp. 4to, 260 x 205 mm, bound in half red morocco over green cloth, in a green and red slipcase. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1990.
Limited edition of 426 copies. Yeats's poems, printed with.....
Item nr. 164400
Price: $3,850.00