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
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
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
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
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
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
SUTNAR, Ladislav. Package Design: The Force of Visual Selling. Unpaginated. Illustrated with hundreds of photographs. Oblong 4to., 228 x 305 mm, bound in publisher's boards and illustrated dust jacket. New York: Arts Inc., 1953.
Sutnar's classic work on advertising. Sutnar, a native of Czechoslovakia, became one of the twentieth century's most.....
Item nr. 45285
Price: $850.00
LE CORBUSIER. Des Canons, des Munitions? Merci! Des Logis... s.v.p. Oblong 4to., 283 x 230 mm, bound in original illustrated boards, in a new red cloth folding box. Paris: Editions de l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, [1938].
First Edition of one of the scarcest and most sought-after books by Le Corbusier. This profusely illustrated.....
Item nr. 167448
Price: $3,500.00
STEINER, S.E. Wiener Werkstaette Fabrics. 42 Textile Samples. Oblong 4to., bound in publisher's green cloth in a new green cloth folding box. [Vienna: Steiner & Co., ND]
A rare catalogue from S.E. Steiner & Co, which had been producing fabrics for the Wiener Werkstätte before they founded their own textile department.....
Item nr. 165736
Price: $15,000.00
MUNARI, Bruno. Nella notte buia. 18 pp. Using black paper and 16 pp printed on acetate and 16 pp. on grey paper, mostly with die-cut images, and 8 partial pages on acetate. 8vo., bound in publisher's illustrated black boards, in a new blue cloth folding box. Milan: Giuseppe Muggiani, 1956.
First.....
Item nr. 164447
Price: $1,250.00
ZHITOMIRSKY, Alexander. Five political photomontage pamphlets designed by A. Zhitomirsky. 8vo. Original wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Moscow: Gos. izdat. politicheskoi literatury, 1962.
A complete set of these rare pamphlets with their drammatic covers designed by Alexander Zhitomirsky. Zhitomirsky who somehow managed to survive from 1907 to 1003 was.....
Item nr. 168818
Price: $4,750.00
ROTH, Dieter. Kinderbuch. 28 pp. With colour illustrations throughout. 4to., 320 x 320 mm, in publisher's ring-bound illustrated boards, in a new cloth folding box. Reykjavik, Iceland: Forlag Ed, 1957
Dieter Roth's first book, Kinderbuch [Children's Book], which he designed himself, was initially produced as a unique work, made in 1954.....
Item nr. 167932
Price: $12,500.00