LAPTEV, A.M. Piatiletka [5 Year Plan]. Elaborate folding panorama, fully illustrated including maps & isotypes. 4to, preserved in original illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Moscow: GIZ, 1930.
A fine copy of this rare complex Constructivist panorama produced by A.M. Laptev, a gifted Soviet avant-garde graphic artist and graduate.....
Item nr. 169055
Price: $12,500.00
ROSSARD, Frederic. Le Ciel a la portée de Tous. [6], [36] pp. of explanatory text accompanying the plates, [2] pp conclusion. Illustrated with 21 mounted gelatin silver prints (on 18 leaves of heavy grey paper); each image within a black and green frame, with caption underneath. Small 4to, bound in.....
Item nr. 169053
Price: $4,750.00
BIROT, Pierre-Albert. La Triloterie. 60, [2] pp. Illustrated with an engraving by Leopold Survage and a pochoir in two colours by 'F.T.' [F. Torowai, aka Albert-Birot]. 12mo., bound in publisher's printed wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Editions "SIC, [1920].
An immaculate copy of this scarce and delightful little.....
Item nr. 169012
Price: $2,500.00
ROCHE, Juliette. Demi Cercle. Upaginated [26] ff. 4to., 335 x 250 mm, bound in publisher's grey wrappers with a woodcut black Cubist design by Albert Gleizes, in a new linen cloth folding box. Paris: Edition d'Art La "Cible", [1920].
A fine copy of this little-known work with its striking Dada typography.....
Item nr. 168975
Price: $4,750.00
PASPA, Karel. ABECEDA. By Vitezslav Nezval. Designed by Karel Teige. Illustrated with 25 black and white photomontages by Teige from Paspa's photographs. 4to., bound in contemporary blue cloth boards with original printed front wrapper bound in. Prague: J. Otto, 1926.
An important landmark of the Czech avant garde and at the.....
Item nr. 168961
Price: $5,850.00
KANDINSKY,Wassily. Der Blaue Reiter. 6 pp. Illustrated with 13 black-&-white photographs of paintings. 12mo., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers, in a new grey cloth folding box. [Munich: F. Bruckmann ca. 1911].
A fine copy of the rare catalogue of the first exhibtion devoted to the Blaue Reiter group. The exhibition took.....
Item nr. 168918
Price: $4,950.00
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
HEARTFIELD, John. Deutschland, Deutschland über alles. 231, [5] pp. Illustrated with 180 photographic plates. 8vo., bound in original yellow cloth with typographic and photographic montage by Heartfield. Preserved in a recent black cloth folding box. Berlin: Neuer Deutscher Verlag, 1929.
An unusually fine copy of what is perhaps Heartfield's best known.....
Item nr. 168809
Price: $2,500.00
ARBEITSGEMEINSCHAFT DER VIER. Der Weg zur Farbe. 138 pp. Illustrated with 25 colour plates. 8vo., bound in publisher's decorated cloth. Hamburg: Verlag Fachblatt der Maler, ND. [ca 1930].
A rare, handsomely illustrated Bauhaus work on colour theory. Part one with chapters on Tobias Mayer, Lambert, Goethe, Runge, Chevreul, and others. Some.....
Item nr. 168778
Price: $2,500.00
MUSSOLINI, Benito. Le Giornate del Duce a Genova: 14-15-16 maggio XVI. 108 pp. Illustrated throughout with photomontage and reproduced full page etchings by Ettore Mazzini. Folio, bound in original embossed boards. Genova: Partito nazionale fascista, 1938.
A spectacular piece of Fascist book design in the form of a twentieth century Fete.....
Item nr. 168739
Price: $2,850.00
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. 169043
Price: $2,850.00
JACOB, Max. Visions Infernales. 90. [2] pp. Illustrated with a wood engraved potrait of the author by G. Aubert. 8vo., bound in contemporary patterned paper covered board with the original wrappers bound in. Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1924.
A unique copy of this collection of prose poems with.....
Item nr. 169023
Price: $2,750.00
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
MILAN. La Stazione Centrale di Milano inaugurata l'anno IX E.F. 396, [8] pp. Illustrated with six large foldout plans, six drawings by Giulio Cisari, and numerous photographs throughout the text, including full-page portraits of Vittorio Emmanuele II and Mussolini. Folio, 338 x 260 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated cloth. Milan.....
Item nr. 168940
Price: $3,500.00
BLANDIN, Andre and Charles BULLENS. ABCD. 28 illustrated leaves. 4to., bound in publisher's cloth-backed illustrated boards, preserved in a red cloth folding box. Brussels: L'Edition de l'Art Decoratif, 1913.
A delightful and little known cubist alphabet, by a little-known Belgian artist, whose fame has been eclipsed by the Cubies' ABC, which.....
Item nr. 168926
Price: $3,500.00
KIRK, Hans. Jorgens Hjul. Unpaginated [8 ff]. Illustrated throughout many pages with photomontage by Arne Ungermann. Small 4to., bound in original illustrated boards, preserved in a new blue cloth folding box. Copenhagen: Mondes Forlag a/s, 1932.
A classic avant-garde children's book, which was almost certainly influenced by the work of such.....
Item nr. 168914
Price: $3,500.00
MIRO, Joan. L'Arbre des Voyageurs. By Tristan Tzara. Illustrated with 4 original lithographs by Joan Miró. Large 8vo., bound by Daniel-Henri Mercher with dark maroon morocco spine, lucite over hand painted purple marbled paper with the original wrappers bound in. Paris: Editions de la Montagne, 1930.
An fine copy of this.....
Item nr. 168913
Price: $7,500.00
LEGER, Ferdinand. Lunes en Papier. By André Malraux. 17 ff. With 6 woodcut engravings by Ferdinand Léger printed in black, and 1 additional woodcut on cover. Folio, 322 x 233 mm, bound by Henri Mercher with colourful acrylic pieces on plexiglass, black morocco spine stamped in red and gold, in.....
Item nr. 168909
Price: $25,000.00
CAPA, Robert. Madrid. [96] pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and Chim with photomontage by Josep Sala. 4to., 300 x 235 mm, bound in original photomontage illustrated wrappers with an added period plain blue dust-wrapper, in a new blue cloth folding box. Barcelona: Industries Grafiques Seix.....
Item nr. 168877
Price: $3,750.00
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
ASAHI SHIMBUNSHA. Asahi Graph. A collection of 109 Issues. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Folio, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Tokyo: Asahi Shimbunsha, 1939-1941.
A splendid group of wartime issues of this handsomely produced Japanese answer to Life Magazine, which ran from 1923 until 2000. The group consists of 7 issues from.....
Item nr. 168627
Price: $3,500.00
VETTER, Franz. Die Farbe, ihre Erscheinung, ihr Wesen und ihre Wirkung: eine praktische Farblehre der angewandten Farbe für den Maler und für verwandte Berufe. 192 pp. with 6 plates containing mounted colour samples plus a colour wheel. 8vo., bound in publisher's wrappers. In a new maroon cloth folding box. Langensalza;.....
Item nr. 167382
Price: $2,500.00
VANDERPOEL, Emily Noyes. Color problems. A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color. xv, 137 pp. Illustrated with 117 colour plates, each on a stub, and an envelope containing a chart and two plastic colour squares and mask. 8vo., 194 x 145 mm, bound in original green cloth, gilt.....
Item nr. 165806
Price: $2,500.00
WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. Schumacher's Taliesin line of decorative Fabrics and Wallpapers. 5 leaves of text and 26 Sheets of Wallpaper designed by Wright. Folio, 450 x 345 mm, bound in publisher's illustrated tan cloth. [Chicago: E.W. Bredemeier & Co., ND 1950's].
A scarce salesman's sample book for a line of wallpapers.....
Item nr. 165734
Price: $8,500.00
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