CHERNIKHOV, Yakov. Konstruktsiia arkhitekturnykh i mashinnykh form. [Construction of Architectural Forms and Machines]. 232, [80], [2] pp. Illustrated throughout. 4to., 296 x 210 mm, bound in original boards, with title printed in Russian on cover and spine, in a new green cloth folding box. Leningrad: Edition de la Société des.....
Item nr. 169248
Price: $7,500.00
LAM, Wifredo. La Terre Inquiete. By Edouard Glissant. With three original lithographs by Lam. 8vo., loose as issued in the original lithographically-illustrated wrappers and cardboard slipcase with chemise. Paris: Editions du Dragon, 1955.
Although Cuban by birth, Lam has worked and lived most of his life in Europe. An important figure.....
Item nr. 168934
Price: $2,500.00
DO AMARAL, Tarsila. Feuilles de route I. Le Formose. By Blaise Cendrars. 80 pp. With 8 illustrations by Tarsila do Amaral (cover illustration repeated on title-page). 8vo., 165 x 120 mm, bound in original wrappers, in a recent folding box. Paris: Au Sans Pareil, 1924.
A fine copy of this little-known.....
Item nr. 169067
Price: $2,250.00
LALAU, Maurice. Tabubu. By J.H. Rosny Ainé. Illustrated throughout with silver and gold highlighted decorations by Lalau. 12mo., original illustrated wrappers, cover adorned with a Lalau decoration highlighted in gold, in tan cloth chemise and slipcase, futher preserved in a blue half morocco folding box. Paris: Jules Meynial, n.d.[1932].
An immaculate.....
Item nr. 169259
Price: $12,500.00
[GEFFROY, Gustave]. La Vie Artistique. Préface d'Edmond de Goncourt. Eight volumes (all published). xvi, 375; 396; xx, 395; xviii, 334; 408; 462; 368; 483 pp. With an original etched frontispiece to each volume (by Carrière, Rodin, Renoir, Raffaelli, Fantin-Latour, Pissarro, Vierge, and Willette). 12mo., 167 x 110 mm, bound contemporary.....
Item nr. 169228
Price: $12,500.00
ARP, Jean. Dreams and Projects. Illustrated with 28 woodcuts by Jean Arp of which 21 are printed in black and 7 in gray and black. Small folio, bound loose in the orginal wrappers and publisher's cardboard slipcase. New York: Curt Valentin, 1952.
A fine copy of one of Arp's most impressive.....
Item nr. 169195
Price: $4,750.00
LISSITZKY, El. Dlya Golosa. [For Reading Out Loud]. By Vladimir Mayakovsky. 61, [3] pp. Illustrated throughout by Lizzitzky. 8vo., 187 x 132 mm, bound in original publisher's thick orange wrappers designed by Lissitzky, housed in a new folding red cloth box . Berlin: Gosizdat, 1923.
An unusually fine copy of one.....
Item nr. 169190
Price: $17,500.00
MUNARI, Bruno. Arte Concreta 1950/1951. 55 leaves made of various paper stocks in different colours. Illustrated throughout including a 'libro illeggibile' by Munari consisting of 5 sheets of different coloured tissue paper connected with three threads. Oblong 8vo., 110 x 210 mm, bound in publisher's yellow wrappers with red type.....
Item nr. 169176
Price: $2,750.00
MOORE, Henry. La Poésie. Les Poètes. Contents includes colour lithographed wrapper initialed by Moore, two colour lithgraphic 'half-titles', colour lithogrpahic title-page initialled by Moore followed by 8 full-page colour lithographs. Folio, 470 x 389, loose in original illustrated wrappers, preserved in the publisher's decorated slipcase and chemise. Basel, Art et.....
Item nr. 169144
Price: $8,500.00
ARP, Jean. Soleil Recerclé 61 pp. Illustrated with 18 woodcuts by plus a signed colour woodcut frontispiece on Rives. Large folio, 475 x 380 mm, loose as issued in publisher's wrappers with colour woodcut illustration in the publisher's grey slipcase (with one of the 18 woodcuts) and vellum backed chemise.....
Item nr. 169143
Price: $17,500.00
BELLMER, Hans. Le Con D'Irène. By [Louis Aragon.] 108 pp. Illlustrated with an etching by Bellmer. 8vo, 142 x 227mm. In original wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. [Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert], 1952.
Louis Aragon's anonymous novel, first published in 1928, whose title Le Con D'Irène is a French wordplay meaning.....
Item nr. 168995
Price: $2,750.00
LÖNBERG-HOLM, Knud and Ladislav SUTNAR. Catalog Design. 72 pp. Illustrated throughout. 8vo., bound in publisher's spiral; bound boards, in a new light blue cloth folding box, New York: Sweet's Catalog Service, a division of F. W. Dodge Corporation, 1944.
An immaculate copy of a fragile work rarely found thus. This is.....
Item nr. 168823
Price: $2,500.00
BLOCK, L.A. Soviet Travel No. 5. Folio. Publisher's illustrated Wrappers. Moscow: United Magazines and Newspapers, 1933.
A fine copy of an issue of this rare Soviet exercise in propaganda devoted to the Ukraine. Profusely illustrated with photographs.
Item nr. 145675
Price: $375.00
MAZING, B and N.P.AKIMOVA. Akter Germanskogo Kino. 50 pp. With black-&-white illustrations throughout. 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers. Leningrad: Academia, 1926.
An early Russian work on German film with a dramatic contructivist cover. A fine copy of this fragile pamphlet. Very rare. OCLC lists only 2 copies, in the British.....
Item nr. 145634
Price: $495.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Early Auden. By W.H. Auden. Illustrated title-page and 10 accordion-folded panels of translucent paper wrapped around white bristol paper containing colour aquatints by Richard Tuttle. Folio, 350 x 215 mm, bound in smooth white vellum-covered boards, tan reversed calf spine in a new cloth folding box. San Francisco.....
Item nr. 167358
Price: $12,500.00
CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY. Severnaia Manchzhuriia i Kitaiskaia Vostochnaia Zheleznaia Doroga [Northern Manchuria and the Chinese Eastern Railway]. IX, 692, XXIII, III [2] pp. With photo-Illustrations, maps, charts and graphs throughout. 4to, bound in publisher's blue cloth. Harbin: Tipografiia Kitaiskoi Vostochnoi Zheleznoi Dorogi, 1922.
A splendid account of this railway whose interest.....
Item nr. 168904
Price: $5,750.00
LUPA. Manifestazioni Agricole del Decennale. 426 pp. Photographically illustrated throughout. Folio, bound in publisher's silver decorated wrappers, in a new grey cloth folding box. Rome: 1932.
A superb example of the disconnect often present in books published by the totalitarian countries before the War, with the painstaking and splendid design at.....
Item nr. 165416
Price: $2,500.00
ALBERS, Josef. Interaction of Color. Folder and pamphlet. 80, 48 pp. With eighty colour screenprint plates. Folio, loose as issued in the original cloth folders and cloth box. With a folio volume, 346 x 263 mm, bound in full cloth. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963.
A major twentieth-century American illustrated.....
Item nr. 169034
Price: $9,500.00
MEHRETU, Julie. Poetry of Sappho. With English translation by John Daley, with an introduction by Page duBois. Illustrated with twenty prints by Julie Mehretu. Folio, bound in publisher's vellum-backed boards. San Francisco: Arion Press, 2011.
A handsome modern edition of the poems of Sappho, superbly printed at the Arion Press with.....
Item nr. 149201
Price: $1,750.00
RUSCHA, EDWARD. Various Small Fires and Milk. Unpaginated artist's book with 16 b&w illustrations. 8vo, wraps. 1970.
Second edition, 1970 (1st ed. published in 1964). Photographs "document" a variety of small fires, including a gas range, a cigarette, a blow torch and a highway flare. The final photograph show a glass.....
Item nr. 22163
Price: $475.00
LISSITZKY, El. Ispania & No Pasaran. By Ilya Ehrenburg. Ispania designed Evgenii Goliakhovskii, and No pasaran by El Lisstizky. 2 Volumes. 102, [2]; 152 pp. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Folio, 300 x 225 mm, bound in publisher's grey cloth. Moscow & Leningrad: OGIZ, 1936-1937.
A fine set of these classic photobooks.....
Item nr. 168991
Price: $5,750.00
NOVLIANSKII, N. Iskusstvo grima: Nagliadnoe posobie dlia kruzhkovtsev. [i.e. Art of Makeup. A Visual Handbook for Membersof Art Sections, Drama Schools and Professional Stage Actors]. 24 leaves. Illustrated throughout with colour plates and photographs. Oblong folio, 255 x 360 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers, preserved in a new green.....
Item nr. 168898
Price: $2,500.00
USHAKOV, G.A. Geroicheskiy poked Chlyuskina. [The heroic crusade of Chelyuskin]. 24 photographs measuring 225 x 285 mm, number 1-23, plus one of map that is unnumered laid into the publisher's red chemise with title printed in white on the cover. Moscow: 1934.
A rare work of which celebrates one of the.....
Item nr. 168482
Price: $12,500.00
EL LISSITZKY. Erste Russische Kunstausstellung Berlin. 32 pp. Illustrated with 52 black-&-white reproductions of paintings. 8vo., bound in publisher's wrappers illustrated by El Lissitzky, preserved in a new grey cloth folding box. Berlin: Galerie Van Diemen, 1922.
An unusually fine copy of the catalogue for this landmark exhibition of Russian art.....
Item nr. 169047
Price: $4,950.00
MASSON, André. Soleils Bas. By Georges Limbour. With 4 etchings by Masson, one of which is on the front wrapper. 4to., bound in original wrappers, preserved in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Editions de la Galerie Simon [Daniel Henry Kahnweiler], 1924.
A fine copy of Masson's rare first book, which.....
Item nr. 169030
Price: $7,500.00