PICASSO, Pablo. Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu. Text by Honoré de Balzac. xiv, [22], 92, [10] pp. With 67 wood-engravings after original drawings, 12 etchings hors texte, an etched illustrated table, and two additional wood-engravings on covers, all by Picasso. Folio, loose in original wrappers, in a new dark blue cloth box.....
Item nr. 168489
Price: $35,000.00
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: $97,500.00
KELLY, Ellsworth. Un Coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard. By Stéphane Mallarmé. 54 ff. Illustrated with 11 lithographs, in black, on ivory wove Rives BKF paper, by Kelly. Folio, 394 x 315 mm, bound in original black morocco, in black solander box. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1992.
Kelly's first.....
Item nr. 167386
Price: $5,750.00
MATISSE, Henri. Poésies de Stéphane Mallarmé. [2], 153, [8] pp. Illustrated by Henri Matisse with 29 etchings printed in black. Small folio, bound in original printed wrappers, and housed in the original calf-backed chemise and slipcase. Lausanne: Albert Skira & Cie., 1932.
A superb copy of this masterpiece of twentieth century.....
Item nr. 167107
Price: $75,000.00
ERNST, Max. Rêve d'une Petite Fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel. 176 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of 79 collages by Max Ernst. 8vo., 265 x 200 mm, bound in original illustrated wrappers, slightly faded in a new linen cloth folding box, gilt black leather spine label. Paris: Éditions du Carrefour.....
Item nr. 166300
Price: $8,500.00
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, 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
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 livre.....
Item nr. 164489
Price: $3,000.00
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
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
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
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. 163069
Price: $2,500.00
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
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
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
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
TAMAYO, Rufino. Air Mexicain. By Benjamin Péret. Illustrated with 4 original lithographs and numerous woodcut patterns by Rufino Tamayo throughout the text. 4to., 246 x 190 mm, loose as issued in original cardboard slipcase. Paris: Arrault and Desjobert, 1952.
Beautiful book by this renowned Mexican painter. The brightly coloured lithographs are.....
Item nr. 153591
Price: $2,750.00
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
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
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
FRESNAYE, Roger de la. Paludes. By André Gide. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 6 original lithographs by Roger de la Fresnaye. 4to., bound in original gray wrappers. Paris: NRF, 1921.
$3500.00
This is the only book with original illustrations by de la Fresnaye, a French painter who combined Cubism with a bold use of.....
Item nr. 147726
Price: $3,500.00
MAILLOL, Aristide. Livret de Folastries. By Pierre de Ronsard. Illustrated with 44 original etchings, of which 16 are full-page, by Aristide Maillol. 4to., loose as issued in the original illustrated wrappers and cardboard slipcase, in a new half morocco folding box. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1938.
An immaculate copy of Maillol's only.....
Item nr. 146005
Price: $3,750.00
ROTHENBERG, Susan. Parts. By Robert Creeley. Illustrated with 9 mezzotints and a drypoint by Susan Rothenberg. Folio, bound in original full vellum by Claudia Cohen, in publishers cloth box. San Francisco: Limestone Press, 1993.
An immaculate copy of this important contemporary artist's book combining Rothenberg's luminous mezzotints with Creeley's spare poems.....
Item nr. 145807
Price: $9,000.00
BROWN, James. I Am For That. By Max Blagg. Three paper folders wrapped in Bedouin silk, in a protective mylar cover, in a new blue cloth folding box, "James Brown" gilt on red leather spine label. San Francisco: Hine Editions, 1994.
Divided into three sections, this unorthodox book consists of original.....
Item nr. 135543
Price: $6,000.00