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
RUECKERT, Otto. Die Kunsthandwerkliche Förderung des Baumalers. 63, [1] pp. Illustrated with 42 colour halftone plates, and a few small diagrams in the text. 4to., 229 x 178 mm, bound in publisher's printed cloth-backed boards. Dresden: Verlag des Verbandes Sächsischer Vereinigungen selbständiger Maler und Lackierer, 1929.
First Edition of this most.....
Item nr. 165157
Price: $1,500.00
TAUT, Bruno. Ein Wohn Haus. [iv], 118, [2] pp. Illustrated with 104 photos, 72 architectural plans, 1 colour plate, and 1 folding "keyboard" colour chart. 8vo., bound in publisher's cloth and dust-wrapper. Stuttgart: W. Keller & Co 1927.
First edition, later issue. In the series "Kosmos-Haus-Bücher," with typography (including binding) by.....
Item nr. 112070
Price: $1,500.00
FASCISM. L'Italia all'Esposizione Internationale di Parigi. Unpaginated. Illustrated with tipped in photographs throughout. Folio, 300 x 240, bound in publisher's spiral bound gilt wrappers, preserved in a new red cloth folding box. Paris: Jacques Makowsky, [1938].
First Edition. A fine copy of this elaborate publication documenting the Italian Pavilion at the.....
Item nr. 168405
Price: $2,500.00
FASCIST BOOK DESIGN. Italia Imperiale. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Frederico Patellani, Stefano Bricarelli, Lucio Ridenti, and Bruno Stefani, and illustrations by Marcello Nizzoli, Mario Sironi, Bramante Buffoni, Ruggero Micaelles, Erberto Carboni, and Paolo Garretto. Folio, 450 x 380 mm, bound in publisher's gray and black decorated glossy boards.....
Item nr. 168070
Price: $5,500.00
TESTI, C.V. Les Routes de l'Italie. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., publisher's illustrated wrappers. (Rome): ENIT, 1933. WITH:
TESTI, C.V. When will you come to Italy. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., publisher's illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. (Rome): E.N.I.T, 1936.
Two wonderful examples of Fascist book design, both in fine conditon.....
Item nr. 168265
Price: $1,250.00
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
FASCISM. La Pubblicità d'Italia. Numbers 43-46. 467 pp. Profusely illustrated. Folio, 318 x 230 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Milan: Sindicato Nazionale Fascista, 1941.
A massive survey of Italian advertising at the begiining of the war, published with text in Italian and German as.....
Item nr. 167163
Price: $2,500.00
LABO, Mario and Attilio PODESTA. Colonie Marine, Montane, Elioterapiche. 79 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs and architectural diagrams. Folio, bound in publisher's boards, and illustrated dust-jacket. Milan: Ed. Domus, 1942.
$975.00
A fine example of this wartime study of the architecture of holiday camps, something which would seem to be a strange.....
Item nr. 166852
Price: $975.00
MORGAGNI, Manlio. Viva il Duce! 23 Marzo 1919. 226 leaves. Photographically illustrated throughout. Folio, bound in publisher's boards, in a new linen cloth folding box. Milano: Alfieri & Lacroix, 1939.
This splendid Fascist photobook is massive hagiography of Mussolini, which is redeemed by its imaginative book design, which is in complete.....
Item nr. 166851
Price: $3,500.00
GONFREVILLE, M.D. Art de la Teinture des Laines en Toison, en Fil et en Tissu. 700 pp., followed by 16 pp. of formulas and instructions for dyeing and laundering wool. Illustrated with 8 pp. containing 128 corresponding wool swatches in diverse colours and patterns. 8vo., 207 x 130 mm, bound.....
Item nr. 143974
Price: $550.00
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
WILSON, R.A. The Uses of Colour. 118, [10] pp. Illustrated with 56 full page samples illustrating repeating patterns and images showing varying and contrasting coloured inks. 4to., 240 x 183 mm, bound in new blue cloth, preserving the original gilt stamped labels. London: Coates Brothers, ND [1920's].
First Edition. A combination.....
Item nr. 159120
Price: $975.00
PARSONS, Thos. & Sons. A Few Suggestions for Ornamental Decoration. Compiled by F. Scott Mitchell. 130 pp. Illustrated throughout with decoration examples and 4 plates with colour samples. 8vo., 216 x 140 mm, bound in publisher's green cloth with gilt title and floral design on front cover. London: Thos. Parsons.....
Item nr. 153753
Price: $225.00
HURST, George H. A Handbook of the Theory of Colour. Revised by H. B. Stocks. viii, 160 pp. Illustrated with 11 chromolithographic plates. 8vo., 218 x 135 mm, bound in original green cloth, title gilt on front cover and spine. London: Scott, Greenwood & Son, 1916.
Second Revised Edition of a......
Item nr. 143656
Price: $450.00
HUGNET, Georges. L'Aventure Dada (1916-1922). With an introduction by Tristan Tzara. 101 pp. Illustrated with 33 photographic plates. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers after a design by Marcel Duchamp, in a new black cloth box with black leather spine label gilt. Paris: Galerie de l'Institut, 1957.
Duchamp created his Project.....
Item nr. 154685
Price: $675.00
ELY, Timothy. Diaglyphic Monad. For Doctor Dee. One-of-a-kind manuscript book. 80 pp. Illustrated with 40 painted and drawn folios plus painted endpapers, drawn and painted throughout by Timothy Ely with each page containing drawings in ink, dry pigments, watercolour, gouache, dilute acrylics and gilded metals. 8vo., 233 x 140 mm.....
Item nr. 168584
Price: $25,000.00
FRANCIS, Sam. Wanted Female. By Pierre Guyotat. Illustrated with 7 coloured aquatints by Sam Francis. Folio, bound in publisher's full red morocco in cloth-covered slipcase. Los Angeles: The Lapis Press, 1993.
The splendid coloured aquatints which Francis produced to illustrate Guyotat's text were among the last things he did before his.....
Item nr. 168520
Price: $5,500.00
El LISSITZKY. URSS en Construction. Number devoted to the Soviet Navy. Year 20, No. 1. 44 pp. Folio, bound in original wrappers. Moscow: Editions d'Etat des Beaux-Arts, 1937.
Apart from the wear to the top of the front wrapper, a fine copy of a typical issue of this landmark periodical, this.....
Item nr. 128754
Price: $1,750.00
MATISSE, Henri. Florilège des Amours. By Pierre de Ronsard. 185, [5] pp. Illustrated with 126 lithographs, 125 in sanguine and 1 in black, of which 31 are full-page. Folio, 382 x 283 mm, bound by P.-L. Martin in 1966 in full crushed tan morocco, smooth chocolate brown calf onlays in.....
Item nr. 154497
Price: $97,500.00
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
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
DUCHAMP, Marcel. First Papers of Surrealism. Foreword by Sidney Janis. 52 pp. Illustrated profusely with monochrome photographs, drawings and reproductions of paintings. Small 4to., 270 x 185 mm, bound in original publisher's illustrated and stapled wrappers. Preserved in a green cloth folding box. New York: Coordinating Council of French Relief.....
Item nr. 167270
Price: $1,750.00
New York. Julien Levy Gallery. Exhibition MAN RAY. Objects of My Affection. Illustrated cover by Marcel Duchamp. Folio in a new cloth folding box. New York: Julien Levy Gallery, 1945.
A pristine copy.
Schwarz, The Complete Work of Marcel Duchamp, No. 510.
Item nr. 158069
Price: $3,500.00
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, in a sleeve and slipcase by Leroux. Paris: The Black.....
Item nr. 168623
Price: $20,000.00