DUCHAMP, Marcel. View. Series V., No. 1. With texts by Andre Breton, Robert Desnos, and others. Profusely illustrated, including a foldout plate. Small folio, bound in stapled wraps, in a new navy cloth folding box. New York: March, 1945.
The sought-after Duchamp number of Charles Henri Ford's celebrated magazine, with the.....
Item nr. 167429
Price: $1,250.00
LE CORBUSIER. Salubra, Colour Keyboards. Loose introductory text leaf in English. 62 single-page monochrome wallpaper samples, and 12 pages of "Clavier de Couleurs", each with 28 colour samples, and 2 cardboard screens in pocket. Oblong folio, 285 x 220 mm., bound in original publisher's boards, in a new cloth folding.....
Item nr. 171203
Price: $22,500.00
DUCHAMP, Marcel. Le Surréalisme en 1947. 142 pp., including 139 illustrated pages, with 44 plates. 4to, 240 x 205 mm., a copy of the catalogue bound in publisher's wrappers with a photographic reproduction of the chemise design, enclosed in the publisher's pink paper covered chemise mounted with the female foam.....
Item nr. 169707
Price: $100,000.00
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 cloth box. Berlin: Gosizdat, 1923.
One of the cornerstones of any collection of Russian.....
Item nr. 169675
Price: $17,500.00
ONCHI, Koshiro. Umi No Dowa. Unpaginated, 8 ff., illustrated with 6 polychrome woodcuts. Small 4to, 285 x 215 mm., bound in publisher's printed wrappers, in a new cloth box. Tokyo: Hanga-So, Showa 9 [1934].
A superb example of Onchi's skill as a bookmaker, which earn a place among the twentieth century's.....
Item nr. 169967
Price: $8,500.00
GROSZ, George. Ecce Homo. With 100 plates of which 16 are in colour. Folio, 347 x 250 mm., bound in the original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Berlin: Malik Verlag, 1923.
An unusually fine copy of this classic work, rarely found thus.
A brilliant collection of Grosz's savage caricatures.....
Item nr. 169283
Price: $6,500.00
WOMEN. Soviet Women. [50] ff., illustrated with photographs throughout. 4to, 250 x 190 mm., bound in publisher's embossed yellow cloth, in publisher's cardboard slipcase. Moscow: State Art Publishers, 1939.
A photographic homage to the role of women in Soviet Russia. Unlike so many of the Soviet propaganda books, where the reality.....
Item nr. 170930
Price: $3,500.00
TELINGATER, Solomon. Slovo Predostaviliaetsia Kirsanovu. By Semen Kirsanov. Small 8vo., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Moscow: Goslitizdat, 1930.
A fine copy of this rare and spectacular example of avant-garde book design from the complex cover, which combines collage and typography, to the intricate typographical layout.....
Item nr. 170363
Price: $4,950.00
MUNARI, Bruno. Scultura da Viaggio. 390 x 100 mm. when folded, preserved in the original envelope. Milano: Giorgio Lucini, 1971. WITH:
MUNARI, Bruno. Scultura da Viaggio. Small yellow printed portfolio containing a black square base and a foldable black sculpture, 150 x 150 mm. when folded. [Lugo]: Exit Edizioni, 1991.
These magical.....
Item nr. 169981
Price: $3,500.00
ONCHI, Koshiro. Chu. Gyo. Kai. [Insects, Fish, Shells]. Unpaginated, 14 ff. Illustrated with 10 prints done with a mix of techniques including pochoir and woodcut. 4to., 265 x 210, bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Tokyo: Aoi Shobo, Showa 18 [1943].
Onchi was an extremely prolific and gifted artist whose work with.....
Item nr. 169968
Price: $7,500.00
MAN RAY. Revolving Doors. Comprised of 10 pochoir plates. Folio, loose in original publisher's black portfolio with ties. Laid into a new folding box. Paris: Editions Surréalistes, 1926.
A fine copy of this legendary surrealist publication. Between 1916 and 1917, the artist and photographer Man Ray created a series of collages.....
Item nr. 169684
Price: $85,000.00
LE CORBUSIER. La Charte d'Athenes, avec un Discours liminaire de Jean Giraudoux. 212 pp. 8vo, 145 x 135 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Plon, 1943.
First edition of the Athens Charter inscribed by Le Corbusier to the legendary publisher, Christian Zervos.
The Athens Charter.....
Item nr. 169426
Price: $3,750.00
PICASSO, Pablo with André VILLERS. Diurnes. Decoupages et Photographies. By Jacques Prévert. 18 pages text accompanied by 30 loose-leaf collotypes. Folio, in original wrappers in publisher's box with decorative colour design by Picasso. Paris: Berggruen, 1962.
"Picasso made some cut-outs of heads and silhouettes of men, women and animals. Villers mounted.....
Item nr. 169401
Price: $7,500.00
MAZZOCCHI-ALEMANNI, Nallo. La colonizzazione del latifondo Siciliano: primo anno, documenti, fotografici, leggi e decreti. xix, [115], 31, 40 pp., chiefly illustrated. Large 8vo, 265 x 175 mm., bound in publisher's wrappers and photographic dust jacket, in a new cloth box. [Sicily], Ministero dell'Agricoltura E delle Foreste, 1940.
A fine copy of.....
Item nr. 169120
Price: $3,500.00
EDEL, Nico. Una visita a Cinzano. 44 pp., illustrated throughout. Folio, 320 x 265 mm., bound in original illustrated wrappers in a new cloth folding box. [Milano, Alfieri & Lacroix]: N.d., [1934 or 1936].
A spectacular and rare piece of Italian book design under fascism, but without the usual heavy hand.....
Item nr. 168738
Price: $3,500.00
KLEIN, Yves. Dimanche: Le Journal d'un Seul Jour. 4 page 'newspaper', illustrated throughout. 558 x 762 mm. when flat, housed in a custom clamshell box. [Paris, France]: [Yves Klein], 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.....
Item nr. 170492
Price: $5,000.00
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
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 was then Soviet Armenia.
Some marginal waterstaining, heavier on.....
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
USHAKOV, G.A. Geroicheskiy poked Chlyuskina. [The heroic crusade of Chelyuskin]. 24 photographs measuring 225 x 285 mm., numbered 1-23, plus one of map that is unnumbered, laid in 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
HALEIZOVU. Barva vladne svetem. 216 pp. Illustrated with 6 full page plates, 5 of which are in colour. 8vo., bound in publisher's colourfully designed wrappers. Prague: Zmatlik a Palicka, 1928.
A scarce little book on the basics of spectrology and the effects of colour on human life. A rare book, with.....
Item nr. 169049
Price: $875.00
RODCHENKO, A.M. Govorit Moskva [Moscow Speaks]. No. 36 (104), 1931. 18 pp., illustrated throughout. Folio, 314 x 225 mm., bound in publisher's colour peek-a-boo Constructivist die-cut wrappers designed by Rodchenko. Moscow: Vsesoiuznyi kom-t po radioveshchaniiu, 1931.
One of the rare issues of Moscow Speaks with the stunning lithographed decorative spirals on.....
Item nr. 169789
Price: $2,500.00
RODCHENKO, A.M. Rechevik: stikhi. [The Orator]. By S. M. Tretiakov. 191 pp. 8vo, 180 x 130 mm., bound in original two-color Constructivist letterpress wrappers designed by Rodchenko. Moscow and Leningrad: GIZ, 1929.
A fresh copy of this pamphlet with the stunning vibrant wrappers designed by Rodchenko. The poetical text by the.....
Item nr. 169709
Price: $2,500.00
BEZBORODOV, S. Bolsheviki otkryli Sibir. [The Bolsheviks discovered Siberia]. 170, [6] pp., illustrated throughout with photographs and photomontage. Small 4to, 225 x 180 mm., bound in publisher's decorated dark blue cloth. Moscow; Leningrad: Co-operative Publishing Society of Foreign Workers in the U.S.S.R., OGIZ, 1932.
First Edition. A wonderfully designed children's book.....
Item nr. 169360
Price: $1,750.00