CLEMENTE, Francesco. The Departure of the Argonaut. By Alberto Savinio. [102] ff. With 49 photolithographs, 46 in color and 3 in black on cream paper. Elephant folio, loose in original wrappers and beige linen box designed by Rudolph Rieser. London: Petersburg Press, 1986.
Clemente's images are extraordinary and elevate this work...
Item nr. 165729
Price: $15,000.00
CLEMENTE, Francesco. The Departure of the Argonaut. By Alberto Savinio. [102] ff. With 49 photolithographs, 46 in color and 3 in black on cream paper. Elephant folio, bound in original wrappers and beige linen box designed by Rudolph Rieser. London: Petersburg Press, 1986.
Clemente's images are extraordinary and elevate this work...
Item nr. 48969
Price: $7,500.00
HUGNET, Georges. Complete set of all four "butterfly books," each in original wrappers as issued; oblong 16mo., 95 x 145 mm, in a cloth folding box. Paris: [The Author], 1940-1941.
Each of these four pamphlets was clandestinely printed at the beginning of the German occupation and distributed only among close friends...
Item nr. 163903
Price: $9,750.00
MIRÓ, Joan. Almario. By José-Miguel Ullán. Illustrated with 5 drypoints and an etching with aquatint printed in colours. Folio, loose as issued in the original wrappers and cloth slipcase. Paris: R.L.D. [Robert Lydie Dutrou], 1985.
An imaginative piece of book-making. Printed on beautiful Auvergne paper, this represents one of the rare...
Item nr. 163071
Price: $9,750.00
MASSON, André. Le Septieme Chant. By Alain Jouffroy. Illustrated with 4 engravings by Masson. Folio, loose as issued in the original wrappers and linen-covered slipcase, preserved in a cloth folding box. Paris: Société Internationale d'art XXe Siècle, 1974.
Masson and Jouffroy corresponded for over twenty years before this book was produced...
Item nr. 163068
Price: $2,500.00
MATISSE, Henri. Florilège des Amours. By Pierre de Ronsard. 185, [5] pp. Illustrated with 126 lithographs, 125 in sanguine and 1 in black, of which 31 are full-page. Folio, 382 x 283 mm, bound by P.-L. Martin in 1966 in full crushed tan morocco, smooth chocolate brown calf onlays in...
Item nr. 154497
Price: $125,000.00
DERAIN, André. Les Horribles et Espovantables Faictz et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel, Roy des Dipsodes, fils du Grand Géant Gargantua [The Horrible and Terrifying Deeds and Words of the Very Renowned Pantagruel King of the Dipsodes, Son of the Great Giant Gargantua]. Text by Francois Rabelais. [2], 187, [11]...
Item nr. 148967
Price: $22,500.00
DALÍ, Salvador. Les Chants de Maldoror. By Comte de Lautréamont, (Isidore Ducasse). 208, [4] pp. Illustrated with 42 original etchings by Dalí, of which 30 are full page hors-texte plates, printed by Lacourière. Folio, 318 x 243 mm, bound in full dark blue morocco by Devauchelle, preserved in a matching...
Item nr. 163281
Price: $75,000.00
BONNARD, Pierre. Dingo. By Octave Mirbeau. 194, [4] pp. Illustrated with 55 original etchings by Pierre Bonnard or which 14 are full-page, PLUS an additional suite of the 14 full-page etchings on Arches. Folio, loose as issued in the original illustrated wrappers, in the original half velum clamshell box. Paris...
Item nr. 163088
Price: $8,500.00
GERCHMAN, Rubens. Doble Idendidad / Dupla Identidade. Illustrated with 39 original lithographs by Gerchman, of which 3 are laid in and are signed by the artist. With Poems by Armando Freitas Filho. Folio, 410 x 310 mm, bound in publisher's decorated cloth. Bogota: Ediciones Arte dos Grafico, 1994.
A highly evocative...
Item nr. 164489
Price: $3,000.00
CALDER, Alexander. Fables of Aesop according to Sir Roger L'Estrange. [6], 124, [10] pp. Illustrated with 50 reproductions of drawings by Alexander Calder printed in black. 4to., bound in the original paper over boards, in a new red half morocco folding box. Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1931.
A fine copy of...
Item nr. 163270
Price: $2,000.00
MASSON, André. Le Septieme Chant. By Alain Jouffroy. Illustrated with 4 engravings by Masson. Folio, loose as issued in the original wrappers and linen-covered slipcase, preserved in a cloth folding box. Paris: Société Internationale d'art XXe Siècle, 1974.
Masson and Jouffroy corresponded for over twenty years before this book was produced...
Item nr. 163069
Price: $2,500.00
ERNST, Max. La Brebis Galante. By Benjamin Péret. Illustrated with three coloured etchings and twenty-one pochoir plates. Small 4to., 240 x 192 mm, bound in original publisher's illustrated wrappers, preserved in a new cloth box. Paris: Éditions Premières, 1949.
An Hors Commerce copy printed on Arches, from a numbered edition of...
Item nr. 157970
Price: $6,250.00
ERNST, Max. Max Ernst. By Joe Bousquet and Michel Tapie. Illustrated with 2 original signed lithographs by Max Ernst. 4to., bound in original illustrated wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. Paris: Rene Drouin, 1950.
This rare book is comprised of the two signed lithographs, a text by Bousquet entitled A...
Item nr. 129995
Price: $7,500.00
DINE, Jim. The Poet Assassinated. By Guillaume Apollinaire. 128 pp. Illustrated with eight original pochoir plates, each signed and numbered by Dine. 4to., 260 x 210 mm, loose as issued with plates and text laid into an illustrated wrapper with original glassine, colour printed slipcase. New York: Tanglewood Press, 1968.
An...
Item nr. 162660
Price: $5,000.00
WEBER, Max. Primitives, Poems and Woodcuts. [36] pp. Illustrated with 11 woodcuts by Weber. 8vo., bound in publisher's original decorated boards in a new gray cloth folding box, gilt black leather label. New York: The Spiral Press, 1926.
A fine copy of this most important American Cubist book, inscribed by the...
Item nr. 152739
Price: $3,500.00
CALDER, Alexander. Fables of Aesop according to Sir Roger L'Estrange. [6], 124, [10] pp. Illustrated with 50 reproductions of drawings by Alexander Calder printed in black. 4to., bound in the original paper over boards in the original red chemise and matching slipcase, all preserved in a new red half morocco...
Item nr. 157977
Price: $2,500.00
BALTHUS. Wuthering Heights. By Emily Bronte. Illustrated with fifteen lithographs after drawings by Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski de Rola). Folio, bound in goatskin leather dyed grey-green to evoke the Yorkshire moors, and housed in a cloth slipcase with leather spine label (slight waterstain on the front of the box). New York...
Item nr. 128274
Price: $4,950.00
MATISSE, Henri. Visages. By Pierre Reverdy. Illustrated with 14 full-page lithographs and 17 linocuts by Matisse. Small folio, 340 x 260 mm, loose as issued in the publisher's wrappers and cardboard slipcase. Preserved in a new tan cloth folding box. Paris: Editions du Chene, 1946.
One of the better volumes showcasing...
Item nr. 158515
Price: $17,500.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Early Auden. By W.H. Auden. Illustrated title-page and 10 accordion-folded panels of translucent paper wrapped around white bristol paper containing colour aquatints by Richard Tuttle. Folio, 350 x 215 mm, bound in smooth white vellum-covered boards, tan reversed calf spine in paper slipcase. San Francisco: Hine Editions, 1991.
A...
Item nr. 159072
Price: $11,000.00
KRUGER, Barbara. My Pretty Pony. By Stephen King. Illustrated with 9 colour lithographs and 14 screenprints by Barbara Kruger. Large folio, bound in crushed aluminum over morocco spine, with a clock set into the front cover, in a cloth folding box. New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of...
Item nr. 148864
Price: $6,000.00
DINE, Jim. The Picture of Dorian Gray. A Working Script for the Stage from a Novel by Oscar Wilde. Illustrated with 12 full-page coloured lithographs, a full-page coloured title, and hundreds of textual illustrations, notes and marginalia by Dine throughout. PLUS: an additional suite of six lithographs and four etchings...
Item nr. 154430
Price: $15,000.00
WITH EXTRA SUITE OF THE COLOURED WOODCUTS
DERAIN, André. Les Horribles et Espovantables Faictz et Prouesses du Très Renommé Pantagruel, Roy des Dipsodes, fils du Grand Géant Gargantua [The Horrible and Terrifying Deeds and Words of the Very Renowned Pantagruel King of the Dipsodes, Son of the Great Giant Gargantua]. Text...
Item nr. 154370
Price: $35,000.00
RYMAN, Robert. Nohow On. By Samuel Beckett. [4], 128, [2] pp. Illustrated with six original aquatint etchings by Robert Ryman. Tall 8vo., 270 x 185 mm, bound by Garthegaat Bindery in full black Nigerian Oasis goatskin. Laid into felt-lined cloth box. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1989.
Limited Edition of...
Item nr. 152718
Price: $5,500.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Early Auden. By W.H. Auden. Illustrated title-page and 10 accordion-folded panels of translucent paper wrapped around white bristol paper containing colour aquatints by Richard Tuttle. Folio, 350 x 215 mm, bound in smooth white vellum-covered boards, tan reversed calf spine in paper slipcase. San Francisco: Hine Editions, 1991.
A...
Item nr. 149434
Price: $11,000.00