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
LEGÉR, Fernand. La Fin du Monde filmée par l'Ange N.-D. By Blaise Cendrars. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 22 pochoirs, 6 with line-block reproductions of ink drawings. Folio, 318 x 252 mm, bound in original publisher's illustrated wrappers. Preserved in an elaborate custom slipcase. Paris: Editions de la Sirene, 1919.
A beautiful, fresh...
Item nr. 164861
Price: $12,500.00
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
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
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