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
AUERBACH, Tauba. [2, 3]. Six separate volumes, each illustrated with one cut-out pop-up figure. Folio, 527 x 419 mm. Each volume bound in different brightly-coloured boards. Laid into in publisher's blue cloth slipcase. New York: Printed Matter, Inc., 2011.
A new, innovative and original artist's book. This cutting-edge experiment in bookmaking...
Item nr. 165795
Price: $8,500.00
ZWART, Piet. Bruynzeel's Fabrieken, Zaandam. Catalogus No. 1b. 108 pp. Printed in various colours, with illustrated thumb index, photomontages and diagrams, typographically arranged by Piet Zwart. 175 x 120 mm, bound in publisher's blue leatherette, title in silver. In a new dark blue cloth folding box. Zaandam: Bruynzeel Fabrieken, n.d....
Item nr. 165158
Price: $4,750.00
LE CORBUSIER (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret). Poème de l'Angle Droit. 150, [8] pp. Illustrated throughout with lithograph text in the artist's hand, interspersed with numerous lithographs printed in black and colour. Folio, 430 x 330 mm, bound in original publisher's wrappers and cardboard slipcase. Paris: Tériade, [1955].
A superb copy of this icon...
Item nr. 165812
Price: $35,000.00
HIRSCHFELD-MACK, Ludwig. Optischer Farbenmischer [Farbkreisel]. 7 silkscreen colour circles laid on a board with a wooden spindle, all preserved in a new light green cloth folding box with red morocco spine label. NP, ND, Ca. 1950.
Ludwig Hirschfeld Mack was an important member of the Bauhaus, one of whose specialties was...
Item nr. 165034
Price: $3,500.00
ALABONE, Edwin W. Poly-cyclo-epicycloidal and Other Geometric Curves. 8 ff., one photo plate and 77 colour plates of designs. 8vo., bound in publisher's gilt decorated maroon pebbled cloth. London: Swain, 1910.
First Edition, presentation copy. An eccentric book illustrating a series of elaborate designs printed in a variety of colours, which...
Item nr. 165737
Price: $2,750.00
STEINER, S.E. Wiener Werkstaette Fabrics. 42 Textile Samples. Oblong 4to., bound in publisher's green cloth in a new green cloth folding box. [Vienna: Steiner & Co., ND]
A rare catalogue from S.E. Steiner & Co, which had been producing fabrics for the Wiener Werkstätte before they founded their own textile department...
Item nr. 165736
Price: $15,000.00
ARBEITSGEMEINSCHAFT DER VIER. Der Weg zur Farbe. 138 pp. Illustrated with 25 colour plates. 8vo., bound in publisher's decorated cloth. Hamburg: Verlag Fachblatt der Maler, ND. [ca 1930].
A rare, handsomely illustrated Bauhaus work on colour theory. Part one with chapters on Tobias Mayer, Lambert, Goethe, Runge, Chevreul, and others. No...
Item nr. 165728
Price: $2,500.00
LEVY, Julien. Surrealism. 191, [1] pp., printed on white, pink, yellow, and green paper. Illustrated with 65 numbered images. 4to., 242 x 185 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated boards designed by Joseph Cornell, with matching dust jacket in protective mylar cover, in a new cloth folding box.. New York: Black...
Item nr. 165665
Price: $1,250.00
GLEIZES, Albert. Kubismus. 101 pp. With 47 black-and-white illustrations. 4to., bound in publisher's cloth and dust jacket and glassine, in the original cardboard slipcase, in a new yellow cloth folding box. Munich: Albert Langen Verlag, 1928.
A superb copy of Volume 13 of the series Bauhaus Buecher, with the jacket and...
Item nr. 40504
Price: $1,500.00
CANGIULLO, Francesco. Caffeconcerto: Alfabeto a sorpresa. [46] pp. printed on coloured stocks. Profusely illustrated throughout with typographic and pen-and-ink compositions. Small 4to., bound in original illustrated blue wrappers, printed in black with a design by Cangiullo, in a new black cloth folding box. Milan: Edizioni Futuriste di "Poesia," [1919].
Cangiullo's best...
Item nr. 147951
Price: $2,500.00
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.
One of Man Ray and Eluard's most successful collabor-ations. Facile is illustrated with...
Item nr. 164848
Price: $8,500.00
WARHOL, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again). 241 pp. 8vo., bound in original cloth, in dust jacket illustrated with a photograph by Philippe Halsmann. In a new cloth folding box. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975.
A fine copy of the first edition of...
Item nr. 165674
Price: $2,500.00
LEWITT, Sol. Four Basic Kinds of Lines & Colour. Square 8vo., stapled wrappers. London & New York: Lisson Gallery, Studio International & Paul David Press,1971.
First Edition. An immaculate copy of this classic LeWitt artist's book showing thirty-four permutations of four basic kinds of straight lines configured in the three primary...
Item nr. 165611
Price: $475.00
HORINO, Masao. Kamera me tetsu kosei. [Camera Eye X Steel: Composition]. Illustrated with 44 photographic plates. 4to., bound in publisher's wrappers in a morocco-backed chemise and slipcase. Tokyo: Mokuseisha Shoin, 1932.
A fine copy of Horino's legendary second book, which is considered to be the epitome of Shinko Shashin (Modernist Photography)...
Item nr. 165554
Price: $9,000.00
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
PICASSO, Pablo. Picasso: Toreros. By Jaime Sabartés. [16], 153, [1] pp. With 4 original lithographs. Oblong 4to., bound in full red cloth with original pictorial dustjacket. New York: George Braziller, 1961.
Picasso takes us to the plaza where he spent the Sundays of his childhood watching the bullfight with his father...
Item nr. 165445
Price: $1,750.00
MURAYAMA, Tomoyoshi. Koseiha kenkyu [Study of Constructivism]. 81 pp. Illustrated with 32 plates. 8vo., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth slipcase. Tokyo: Obundo, 1926.
A scarce and important work by the founder of the Japanese Dada movement, MAVO. Murayama went to Berlin in 1921 and came under the...
Item nr. 165548
Price: $3,500.00
JAPANESE DESIGN. Pochi bukuro. A collection of 222 woodcuts, mostly 55 x 65 mm. mounted in an accordion style album. 8vo., bound in silk over boards in a new chitsu case. NP. ND. [Tokyo, ca. 1920].
An interesting collection of Pochi bukuro, which are traditional Japanese small envelopes made to enclose...
Item nr. 165358
Price: $1,250.00
FURUYA, Korin. Shima shima. 2 volumes. Each volume illustrated with 20 leaves of colour woodblocks. 8vo., 250 x 180 mm, bound in publisher's wrappers in a new chitsu case. Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo, 1906.
An early twentieth century pattern book of textile designs with most pages having three designs. The designs are...
Item nr. 165252
Price: $2,500.00
NATORI, Yonosuke. Shina Jihen Kinen Kaigun Shashincho Kankokai. Hodo shashin kaigun sakusen kiroku. Folio, bound in original cloth and dust jacket. Tokyo: Kokusai Hodo, 1944.
A typical volume of Japanese wartime propaganda, which contains several remarkable photographs, reminiscent of some of the best Russian work of the pre-war period. The editior...
Item nr. 165014
Price: $750.00
MATSUGI, Fujio. Kaigun Heigakko. Hodo Shashinshu. 134 pp. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Folio., bound in cloth in publisher's dust wrapper and illustrated slipcase. Tokyo: Bancho Shobo, 1943.
$1250.00
An excellent example of one of the photobooks produced by Matsugi, who was a prominent photographer in prewar Japan. This book documents the training...
Item nr. 165013
Price: $1,250.00
MATSUGI, Fujio. Hodo shashin e no michi. 129 pp. Illustrated throughout with photomontages. Small folio, bound in publisher's cloth and dustwrapper. Tokyo: Genkosha, 1942.
A fine copy of this typical example of Japanese wartime propaganda. As with othet similar books, the influence of Russian photographers and designers such as Rodchenko and...
Item nr. 165012
Price: $1,250.00