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
BUEHRMANN'S, G.H. De Papiermolen; Tijdschrift voor de grafische Vakken. Vol. 11. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with tipped in paper samples. Small folio, 300 x 240 mm, in spiral bound publisher's paper wrappers. Amsterdam: Bührmann's, G.H., papiergroothandel n.v., ND.
A fine copy of one of the volumes of this splendidly designed volume.....
Item nr. 159721
Price: $750.00
CONDO, GEORGE and William S. Burroughs. Ghost of Chance. Illustrated with three etchings by Condo with several tipped-in color illustrations. Folio, cloth in slipcase. New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of Art, 1991.
Limited to 160 copies, signed by both Burroughs and Condo. A mint copy.
Item nr. 168610
Price: $2,500.00
LUZA, Reynaldo. Presenting Silhouette: a New Pattern in 1847 Rogers Bros. Silverplate. Folio. [14] pp. Illustrated with two heliogravures and two pochoir plates. Folio, bound in original spiral bound black and silver decorative stiff wrappers. Paris: Draeger, [1930].
A stunning trade catalogue, sumptuously printed by Draeger for the Meriden Connecticut based.....
Item nr. 167509
Price: $1,500.00
CATALONIA. Conselleria d'Economía. Butlletí trimestral de la Conselleria dEconomia. No. 1 (of 3 published). 34 pp. Illustrated throughout, some in colour with a colour map. Folio, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers, preserved in a new black cloth folding box. Barcelona: Edicions de la Conselleria d'Economia de la Generalitat de Catalunya.....
Item nr. 167449
Price: $1,250.00
BELOUSOV, G.N. Teoriya I praktika primeneniya probnih stekol [i.e. The theory and practice of the usage of test glasses]. 19 pp. Illustrated with 18 colour plates. 8vo., bound in original light blue wrappers, preserved in a new grey cloth folding box. Moscow: GIZ Legkoi promyshlennosti, 1933.
In this work, dedicated to.....
Item nr. 167405
Price: $3,750.00
FASCISM. Gioventù italiana del littorio. 71 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, bound in publisher's decorative paper boards in original photographic dust-jacket, preserved in a new grey cloth folding box. Rome: Pressedienst des Generalkommandos d. G.I.L., 1940.
A scarce Italian photobook given over to glorifying fascist youth and their glorious leader.....
Item nr. 167220
Price: $2,250.00
TESTI, Carlo Vittorio. 1° Mostra Nazionale delle Bonifiche. 109 pp. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Rome: Ministero dell'agricoltura e delle foreste, 1932.
A scarce Italian fascist photobook, which combines typical agricultural propaganda for the regime together with a surprising sense of design.....
Item nr. 167106
Price: $1,500.00
MENDELSOHN, Erich. Russland, Europa, Amerika: Ein architektonischer Querschnitt. 223 pp. Illustrated with 100 full-page photogravures. Folio, 330 x 232 mm, bound in publisher's red, white, and gray cloth-backed boards, in a new cloth folding box. Berlin: Rudolf Mosse Buchverlag, 1929.
One of the two celebrated folios of architectural photographs compiled by.....
Item nr. 166892
Price: $975.00
AVIATION. Steel Horizons. Aviation Issue. Volume 2, Number 4. 46 pp. Folio. Profusely illustrated. Original wrappers. Pittsburgh: Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation,1940.
Given the subject matter, an unusual example of imaginative design, more of the kind one might have expected from Holland at the time.
Item nr. 166882
Price: $275.00
VIACROZE DECORATION. Aphorismes sur la décoration. Numbers 1-10, all published. 8vo., in publisher's wrappers and cardboard folding case. Paris: Viacroze décoration, 1930-1931.
A complete set of this scarce and little know Art Deco design periodical. Cardboard case repaired, otherwise immaculate.
OCLC lists sets at Columbia, Metropolitan Museum, University of Illinois and Bibliotheque.....
Item nr. 166876
Price: $850.00
ZWART, Piet. Amsterdam-Batavia door de lucht: ook post van U? [16] pages (on double leaves): illustrations. Oblong 8vo., 15 x 21 cm, bound in publisher's wrappers preserved in a new blue cloth box. ['s-Gravenhage]: Hoofdbestuur der Posterijen, Telegrafie en Telefonie, 1929.
"Zwart designed the booklet to promote air mail titled ook.....
Item nr. 166815
Price: $1,250.00
BOOM, Irma. Irma Boom: Kleur Farbe Renk Chromo. Original wrappers and folding box, in a new cloth folding case. Folio. In a new blue cloth folding box. Amstelveen: Grafische Cultuurstichting, 2005.
A splendid piece of book design by the Dutch designerr, Irma Boom. The book is an exploration of colour by.....
Item nr. 166719
Price: $875.00
ALEKSEEV, S.S. Elementarnyi kurs tsvetovedeniya. [Basics of Colour Science]. 238, [2] pp. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white plates and 4 colour plates at the end and one large folding diagram. Tall 8vo., bound in publisher's blue printed boards. Moscow; Leningrad: Izogiz, 1937.
First Edition. One of 5000 copies. One of the earliest.....
Item nr. 166629
Price: $975.00
SHESTAKOV, F.K. Soglasovanie tsvetov dlia koloristov, khudozhnikov, khudozhnikov-prikladistov i dlia studentov i uchashchikhsya spetsial'nykhuchebnykh zavedenii. [Colour matching for Colourists, Artists, Applied Artists and for Students of Special Educational Institutions]. 79 pp. Illustrated throughout with diagrams. Tall 8vo., bound in publisher's green and blue printed wrappers in new green cloth folding.....
Item nr. 166628
Price: $1,500.00
TOLMER. Animaux a Fourrure. 4 pp. Illustrated with 24 black-&-white plates by Ray Bret Koch. Oblong 4to., loose as issued in the publisher's decorated boards. Paris: Tolmer, 1931.
A disoncerting advertising piece for the fur coat firm of Jungmann.
Item nr. 165818
Price: $1,250.00
TOWLE, H. Ledyard. Styling with Color. 28 pp. Colourfully illustrated throughout. Oblong 4to., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers preserved in a new orange cloth box. Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh Paint Company, 1939.
A brilliant cover design for this paint trade catalogue, fully illustrated with colourful pages of interior and exterior paint jobs...
Item nr. 165320
Price: $475.00
IBB. Ingenieurs-Bureau voor Bouwnijverheid, Oegstgeest, 1925-1950. 72 pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, bound in publisher's green cloth. 1951.
A wonderful example of Zwart's brilliance as a book designer. Slight wear to the cloth, but a sound example of a scarce book.
Item nr. 164658
Price: $750.00
Monchengladbach. Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg. RICHARD TUTTLE. 128 pages with numerous color and b&w illustrations. Oblong 8vo, wrappers and cardboard slipcase. 1985.
A fine copy of the deluxe version of this catalog. One of 150 copies containing an original phototype, initialed and numbered, laid in. The catalog is also signed and numbered.....
Item nr. 164640
Price: $375.00