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., boudn 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. 46pp. 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. Publsihers 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 Columibia, Metroplitan Museum, University of Illinois and Bibliotheque Nationale.
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.....
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.....
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 throughout with 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.....
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
TUTTLE, Richard. Richard Tuttle Portland Works 1976. 38 pp. 8vo., bound in publisher's hand-made paper wrappers in a board portfolio. Boston: Thomas Segal Gallery, 1988.
For this catalogue the artist Richard Tuttle created an original wrapper made of Rugg Road Handmade Papers with ink stamp block.
Item nr. 164639
Price: $85.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Two Chairs, Two Benches and a Table. 16 unnumbered pages. Oblong 8vo., bound in publisher's wrappers. Florence: Galleria Victoria Miro, [1990].
Catalogue of a five piece set of furniture designed by Richard Tuttle to be seen as a final refinement of crate furniture either in Santa Fe style, or.....
Item nr. 164638
Price: $25.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Eight Words from a Reading at Brooklyn College. 8 leaves. 12mo., in publisher's wrappers and a board portfolio. Barcelona, Victoria Miro, 1990.
An exquisite little pamphlet.
Item nr. 164637
Price: $250.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Five by Seven for Yvon Lambert. 10 pp. Oblong 12mo., bound in illustrated wrappers, in a board portfolio. Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1978.
Item nr. 164636
Price: $50.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Charge to Exist. 2 cardboard sheets, one with collaged letters, one with a screenprint. Folio, ringbound in printed cardboard slipcase and new cloth box. Winterthur: Kunstmuseum, 1992.
One of an edition of 160 copies, signed and numbered by Tuttle.
Field of Stars p.134.
Item nr. 164525
Price: $1,250.00
DEBUSSY, Claude. La Boîte à joujoux: Ballet pour Enfants, par André Hellé, Musique de Claude Debussy. Title page, 48 pp. of music. Illustrated with 5 introductory pages hand coloured, 4 coloured full page divisions for each of the 4 tableauxs, and 13 full page coloured illustrations. Oblong 4to., bound in.....
Item nr. 163163
Price: $850.00
Ponge, Francis & Fernand Mourlot. BRAQUE Lithographe. 189 pp. with 146 plates & 5 original lithographs. Folio, wrps in slipcase. Monte Carlo, Sauret, 1963
The original lithographs consist of two inset plates, one on the cover, one for the frontispiece and one for the title-page.
Vallier, Braque: The Complete Graphics, No. 188.....
Item nr. 162677
Price: $250.00
MIRO, Joan. Miro 1959-1960. By Yvon Taillandier. Illustrated with 2 original lithographs and 6 pochoirs by Miro. Small folio. Original lithographic wrappers. New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1961.
A fine copy of one of the sought-after exhibition catalogs issued by Pierre Matisse from his celebrated New York Gallery. One of 1200.....
Item nr. 126556
Price: $575.00