WOOL, Christopher. Black Book. 17 screenprints. 578 x 409 mm. Large folio, paper covered boards in a new black cloth clamshell box. New York/Cologne: Thea Westreich / Gisella Capitain, 1989.
One of an edition of 350 copies signed by Christopher Wool. Stenciled text works, printed in black, fill the pages of.....
Item nr. 171145
Price: $45,000.00
KLEIN, Yves. Dimanche: Le Journal d'un Seul Jour. 4 page 'newspaper', 558 x 762 mm when flat. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Issued for one day, November 27, 1960.
Yves Klein published this journal upon the occasion of the Festival d'Art d'Avant-Garde in Paris where it was displayed on newsstands.....
Item nr. 170492
Price: $5,000.00
Klein, Yves. Le Depassement de la Problematique de l'art. 32 pp. with 2 b&w illustrations. 4to, publisher's blue wrappers in a new grey cloth folding box with a blue label. Paris: Montbliart, 1959.
Item nr. 92568
Price: $1,250.00
HELLE, Andre. La Boîte à Joujoux, texte et dessins de André Hellé. 32 pp. Profusely illustrated. Folio, bound in publisher's illustrated boards. Paris: A. Tolmer, 1928.
A delightful and rare version of Helle's story, which had originally been published in 1919 as a collaboration between Helle and the composer Claude Debussy.....
Item nr. 171060
Price: $2,500.00
FUTURISTIC WORLD. The World of To-Morrow. A Junior Book of Forecasts. By Idrisyn Oliver Evans. 163 pp. Illustrated with 24 transparent "Diophane" photo-mechanical plates. 8vo., bound in original publisher's translucent "Rhodoid" boards over original wrappers, yellow cloth spine. London: D. Archer, 1933.
First and Only Edition of this visionary work in.....
Item nr. 170367
Price: $3,750.00
HAKKI, T. Ismail. Album d'outillage. Werkzeug-Album. [Anatolian-Baghdad Railways … Album of Tools and Machines]. 1st part A-L. 69 ff. Blueprints with illustrations throughout on the recto only, with contemporary mounted corrections in Ottoman in black ink on white paper. Large 4to., bound in original illustrated blueprint wrappers, original black spine.....
Item nr. 169979
Price: $3,500.00
Calder, Alexander. CALDER: An Autobiography with Pictures. 285 pp., profusely illus., 4to, wraps, in a new cloth folding box. New York, Beacon Press, 1969.
With a self-portrait drawing by Calder on the title page.
Item nr. 170999
Price: $3,500.00
CALDER, Alexander. Fables of Aesop According to Sir Roger L'Estrange. [6], 124, [10] pp. Illustrated with 50 line-block reproductions after pen-and-ink drawings by Calder. 4to., 255 x 195 mm, bound in publisher's paper with coloured silk threads over boards, in the original cardboard slipcase, in a new green half morocco.....
Item nr. 170973
Price: $25,000.00
CALDER, Alexander. Animal Sketching: Mr. Calder has Endeavored to Portray in a Strong Technique the Simple Action Lines so Valuable in Sketching Animals- This Book is Intended to Create Interest and Stimulate the Art Student to Make a Serious Effort to Draw Animals as He Sees Them. Illustrated throughout with.....
Item nr. 169806
Price: $1,500.00
Fontaine, Jean de la. Selected Fables. Illustrated by ALEXANDER CALDER. 88 pp. text with numerous line drawings. Folio, cloth, in a new purple half morocco folding box. New York, Quadrangle Press, 1948.
With a full page drawing by Calder inscribed by him to Curt Valentin who was his dealer and the.....
Item nr. 9872
Price: $7,500.00
MASSON, André. Peine Perdue, Poèmes. By Claude-André Puget. 60, [4] pp. With a loose aquatint engraving by Masson. 8vo., bound in publisher's printed wrappers, uncut and unopened. Geneva: Club du Poeme, [1964].
Here Masson contributes a print to a poem on a subject which interested him, namely how little time one.....
Item nr. 169014
Price: $750.00
MASSON, André. Briques et Tuiles. By Victor Segalen. 68, [4] pp. With a signed etched frontispiece by Masson. Small folio, loose in publisher's wrappers. [Montpellier]: fata morgana, 1967.
Masson contributed an aquatint of his own version of Chinesee calligraphy. One of 50 copies on Japon with a signed etching by Masson.
Saphire.....
Item nr. 169013
Price: $750.00
MASSON, Andre. Metamorphose de l'Artiste. 2 Volumes. Illustrated with 2 signed lithographs and photographic reproductions throughout. Small 8vo., bound in publisher's wrappers. Geneve: Pierre Cailler, 1956.
An important work by Masson in which he reviews the past and comments on his present work and thinking. One of 50 copies, with a......
Item nr. 169003
Price: $750.00
ARMENIA. Hayeri verabnakets'umy HSSH-its' durs. viii, 112 pp. Illustrated with 97 full page maps and charts. Large 4to., bound in publisher's maroon cloth. Erevan: Haykakan SSRò Gitut'yunneri Akademia, 1961.
This atlas presents an unusual and stunning example of avant-garde book design from what what was then Soviet Armenia.
Some marginal waterstaining, heavier.....
Item nr. 170979
Price: $2,500.00
NEURATH, Otto. Modern Man in the Making. 159, [1] pp. Illustrated throughout with charts and diagrams. Small 4to., 265 x 205 mm, bound in publisher's blue cloth with title in silver on spine and front cover. New York: Knopf, 1939.
In the 1920s, Neurath developed the "Museum of Society and Economy".....
Item nr. 170990
Price: $2,500.00
MASSON, André. Eux et Lui. By Daniel Guerin. 94, [2] pp. With 5 illustrations by Masson plus one loose signed lithograph. 4to., bound in original printed wrappers. Monaco: éditions du rocher, [1962].
Masson contributed a lithograph and 5 explicit drawings relating to the homosexuality of the novel's protagonist, One of 150.....
Item nr. 169008
Price: $495.00
MASSON, André. Élégie à Pablo Neruda. By Louis Aragon. 38 [6] pp. With illustrations throughout by Masson plus one loose signed and numbered aquatint. Small folio, bound in publisher's printed wrappers. In a new cloth folding box. [Paris?], Gallimard, 1966.
A moving collaboration between Aragon and Masson brought about by the.....
Item nr. 169006
Price: $1,250.00
MASSON, André. Bestiaire. With an introduction by Georges Duthuit. Illustrated with 12 original lithographs and reproductions of 9 drawings by Masson. Folio, 415 x 315 mm, loose as issued in original decorated wrappers over boards. In a new linen cloth folding box. New York: Curt Valentin, 1946.
A fine copy of.....
Item nr. 169002
Price: $7,500.00
MASSON, Andre. Le Dit du Vieux Marin [The Rime of the Ancient Mariner]. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 104, [6] pp. Illustrated with 12 lithographs. Small folio, loose in original printed wrappers, preserved in the original maroon chemise and slipcase. [Paris]: Collections Vrille, [1948].
While at first glance it might seem surprising.....
Item nr. 169001
Price: $2,500.00
HUGNET, Georges. La Septieme Face du De. With a cover by Marcel Duchamp and 20 decoupage poems by Hugnet. 4to., bound in original illustrated wrappers in a board slipcase. Paris: Editions Jeanne Bucher, 1936.
An unusually fine copy of this important example of surrealist book-making, which is rarely found in good.....
Item nr. 170510
Price: $17,500.00
GARATTI, Celso Maria. Italiani di Mussolini in A.O. 569 pp. Profusely illustrated. Large folio, bound in the publisher's decorated cloth. Bologna: L. Cappelli, 1937.
An immaculate copy of the trade edition of this classic Fascist photobook. There were also copies in an elaborate binding with a metal spine. The layout shows.....
Item nr. 169948
Price: $3,750.00
TOBACCO LABELS. A collection of 1875 labels, boxes, etc. tipped in to 34 notebooks. Small folios, 310 x 225 mm, bound in pail blue paper wrappers labeled 'Dessin' with a woodcut illustration of a hot air balloon flying over a townscape on the front of each. France: ND. [Early 20th.....
Item nr. 152162
Price: $15,000.00 save 30% $10,500.00
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 celebration of one of the legendary events of.....
Item nr. 168482
Price: $12,500.00
PONTI, Gio. 36 Progetti di Ville di Architetti Italiani. A cura dell' Esposizione Triennale Internazionale delle Arti Decorative Industriali Moderne alla villa Reale di Monza. 256 pp. Illustrated with 31 colour plates and 288 illustrations in black-and-white. 4to., bound in publisher's salmon-coloured cloth with gilt stripes, stamped in gilt. Milano.....
Item nr. 169183
Price: $975.00
KNICKERBOCKER, H.R. Rudy obchod hrozi [Fighting the Red Trade Menace] & Rudy obchod laka [Soviet Trade and World Depression]. 158; 172 pp. 8vo, bound in publisher's wrappers wirh photomontages designed by Josef Hesoun. Prague: Ceska graficka Unie, 1932.
Superb examples of two of the Czech architect Josef Hesoun's dramatic cover designs.....
Item nr. 169050
Price: $750.00