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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Franckfurt / Leipzig: 1742–1744. 8 copper-engraved plates. 134; 102; 128, [24]; 104, [30]; 131, [1]; 108, [2]; 110, [2]; 116, [2] pages. 16.8 x 10 cm. Period full calf tooled in blind, joints cracked, edges lightly foxed; overall very good. Richter was a Bavarian lawyer, writer, critic and publisher with an enormous literary output, mostly anonymous or pseudonymous. Die redende Thiere (The Talking Animals) ran to 44 parts published serially 1741-1746. Despite a superficial resemblance to fable, the series was actually a vituperous commentary on events during the then-raging War of the Austrian Succession, sympathetic to Empress Maria Theresa and critical of Karl VII of Bavaria, whose armies had invaded Austria. One assumes the material was too inflammatory for publication within Bavaria itself, thus its anonymous publication in Hessia and Saxony.
Die redende Thiere über Menschliche Fehler und Laster [uber]. [Parts 16-23].
[Richter, Christoph Gottlieb (1716; 17?-1774)].
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Paris: La Belle Edition, 1909. Deluxe edition on Arches paper with deckle edges untrimmed. Illustrations in text by Bonnard, Iribe, Segonzac, Whistler, and others. XLVI + [2] pp. Decorated wrappers. 21 x 21.4 cm. Black ribbon to mark pages attached to head of spine. Texts by the editors, Sacha Guitry, Stephane Mallarmé, Edmond Rostand, and many others. Music by Raynaldo Hahn. Cocteau was only twenty at the time. The complete set is nos. 1-6., 10 nov. 1909-15 mars 1911. Fine, except for broken glassine at head of spine, where ribbon is inserted.
Schéhérazade: album mensuel d'oeuvres d'art et de littérature. No 2, 25 Décembre 1909, 2e édition. [Scheherazade]
Bernouard, François; Cocteau, Jean; Paysan, André, eds.
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **[Budapest?],1933. 42 brilliant caricatures on stiff white paper, rectos only, and interleaved with textured glassine protective sheets. Elegantly signed by the artist on the final blank, but the signature is hard to read and may be a pseudonym. Bound in a black cloth folder with faded green satin cord with tassels and beads. 29.5 x 21.2 cm. A few of the glassine sheets are creased, and one lacks a large corner. The subjects appear to be the staff of a financial firm, Penzintezet. Központ. The artist has captured near-photographic likenesses of the faces (all in left profile, the bodies in miniature). More importantly he has seized upon foibles and fantasies and quirks to turn a doubtless normal group of middle-class Hungarians—even a bit dull?—into a troupe of comic actors. Some names are written on the pages in a different, later hand in the spellings used here. Komár Béla likes his beer and bowling. Dr. Kéhuly Gzula is a pensive Caesar. A princess dangles male puppets before her. Her opposite is a monk holding Cupid at bay. Margit Laszlauer sits at a desk with dragons for arms and razors for the dragons' tongues. Other people are, variously, cold, late, gluttonous, stingy. One woman cuts stamps off envelopes, while another gaily glides down a slope with her table and typewriter mounted on the front of her skis. One can speculate that Jozsef Szemes, depicted as an architect or designer in the sympathetic last portrait, was honored by this tour de force—perhaps as a retirement gift. Of the artist, I have found nothing so far. He (?) gives every appearance of being professional but could be an extraordinarily talented amateur. The amusingly perceptive treatment of the subjects suggests that it either is an inside job or that the artist had a wonderful informant. This album is worthy of intense study followed by exhibition and publication.
42 original caricatures in vivid watercolor, ink, and pencil. 1933.
[Papp, Bilhei?]
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Palma de Mallorca: Sala Pelaires, 1971. Decorated wrappers. 10 plates (2 color) + drawings in text. [40] pp. 21 x 22.2 cm (oversquare). **The double-spread, lithographic dustjacket by Miró in yellow, red, green, blue, and black is not listed in volume 4 of Miró Lithographs, but it certainly appears to be original. It is related to the poster for the same exhibition (no. 703 in volume 4, printed by Arte Adrien Maeght, Paris). Llorens Artigas collaborated with Miró on ceramic pieces. Texts in parallel Catalan, Spanish, and French by José M.a Moreno Galvan and Jean Pierre Lemesle.
Llorens Artigas, Joanet Gardy Artigas.
[Miró, Joan. Miro. Artigas, Llorens & Joanet Gardy Artigas.] Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca.
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Setembre 1970. Original color lithograph cover (no. 685 in Miró Lithographs, vol. 4) + 8 plates & illustrations (3 in color and 2 of those double-page). [18] pp. Decorated wrappers (lithograph). 23.2 x 17.7 cm. Light browning at spine and inconspicuous crease at upper corner of back cover. The lithograph is a handsome, characteristic composition in yellow, red, green, blue, and black.
Miró [Miro].
[Miró, Joan. Miro] Sala Gaspar, Barcelona.
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **December, 1956. Folding lithograph, 2 portraits & 19 other illustrations, 24 pp. + center plate. Decorated wrappers. 20.5 x 18 cm. **Cover and 4-panel gatefold center plate are original lithographs (Mourlot 239).
Sculpture in ceramic by Miró and Artigas.
[Miró, Joan (Miro)] Pierre Matisse Gallery, NY.
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Geneva: Galerie Gerald Cramer, 1969. No. 1239 of 1650 copies. Original color lithograph as cover. 9 mounted black-and-white plates. 25 + [1] pp. Decorated wrappers (lithograph). 21.5 x 29 cm (oversquare). Light wear at extremities.
Joan Miró: oeuvre gravé et lithographié. Exposition, 9 juin-27 septembre 1969. [Miro]
[Miró, Joan (Miro)] Galerie Gérald Cramer
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Saint Paul, France: Fondation Maeght, 1968. 4 original lithographs (cover, 1 single-page & 1 double-spread, all in color + 1 single-page in black & white) + 108 illustrations on 85 plates (23 color); unpaginated; decorated wrappers; 22.5 x 19.5 cm. AS NEW, with errata slip and 4-panel folded color plate of mural laid in loose. This loose plate appears to be a color collotype (a photographic reproduction) with lithographed accents in yellow, red, green, purple, and black. Texts by Jacques Dupin, Paul Eluard, Tristan Tzara, René Char, Jacques Prévert, and others. **Other copies in different condition listed at $100 and $75.
Miró (Miro).
[Miró, Joan (Miro)] Dupin, Jacques; Eluard, Paul; Tzara,Tristan; Char, René; Prévert, Jacques, et al.
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FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, undated [4 OCLC records say 1972, but the Museum of Modern Art suggests "1972-1985?"]. An artist's book. 14 plates. 32 pp. Covers and text all printed on same stiff, cream-colored paper. 12.9 cm square. The subjects are: puma, sun, spiral, moon, condor, falcon, rain. Each of 7 drawings appear in positive on a recto and in negative on the verso, with a description of the original experience on the facing page. Very fine.
Richard Long: South America 1972
Long, Richard
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FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach, 1970. Artist's book. No. 293 of 330 copies. Book housed in pasteboard box with lid. Book: 13 plates of environmental works on 16 pp. The decorated cover and pages are on the same very stiff white stock, bound with white cloth tape. 13.9 x 19.4 cm (oversquare). Very fine. Box: 20.2 x 15.9 x approx. 2 cm. The artist's name is on the lid of the white box in red; his name and the museum's are on one edge, but the red has faded to a uniform dull metallic gold. Plan of the exhibition inside the lid, and statements by Long and Johannes Cladders inside bottom. Box somewhat indented and with a couple of minor kinks.
Richard Long Skulptures: England, Germany, Africa, America, 1968-1970. [Also known as Richard Long: 4 Skulpturen.]
Long, Richard
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Prague: Nákladem B. Kocího, 1922. Devilish drawing printed on title page. 107 pp. + [4] pp. ads. Decorated wrappers. About 17.8 x 12.5 cm, unopened. A drama by a wildly non-conformist Czech writer. The cover is worthy of exhibition. It is printed in a light, somewhat acid brown with a droll drawing that shows Matthew the Honest (the title character) on the upper half and, when inverted, a devil on the lower half. A 1.5-cm tear at the upper front joint and light wear, but a lovely copy of a rare book worthy of exhibition.
Matej Poctivy: fantastická lidová veselohra o trech dejstvich.
[Kroha, Jirí, 1893-1974] Dvorák, Arnost (1881-1973) and Klima, Ladislav (1878-1928).
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **One of 150 copies for sale with ORIGINAL SIGNED, NUMBERED LITHOGRAPH laid in (350 total in special editions). Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press for Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami, 1968. 112 plates & illustrations (8 color) and 9 text illustrations. 128 pp. Black cloth printed in yellow, in yellow board slipcase. 28 x 21.5 cm. Chronology, bibliography. As new. Several copies available. **Gropper's subjects included political satire, labor, war and peace, radical politics, anti-Fascism, and Judaica.
William Gropper: retrospective.
[Gropper, William] Freundlich, August L.
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Los Caprichos de Goya y sus dibujos preparatorios: estudio preliminar y notas.
[Goya] Sanchez Canton, F.J.
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **NY: The Fantod Press, 1966. First in series. The pious infant. (©1965.) [32] pp. Decorated lavender wrappers. 14 x 8.6 cm. The evil garden. Eduard Blutig's Der Böse Garten in a translation by Mrs Regera Dowdy with the original pictures of O. Müde. (©1965.) [32] pp. Decorated yellow wrappers. 12.7 x 15.2 cm. The inanimate tragedy. Decorated light blue wrappers. 11.5 cm square. All in lightly shopworn yellow envelope bearing the titles. 14 x 20.4 cm (oversquare). Books as new.
Three books from the Fantod Press: The pious infant, by Mrs Regera Dowdy; The evil garden, by Eduard Blutig; The inanimate tragedy, by Edward Gorey.
Gorey, Edward
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Third in series. 526 copies each. All [32] pp. Decorated wrappers. 12.2 x 15.3 cm (oversquare). The Fantod Press, distributed by Gotham Book Mart. 1) The deranged cousins, or whatever. By Edward Gorey. The Fantod Press, 1971 (©1969). Cream covers. 2) The eleventh episode. By Raddory Gewe. Drawings by Om. The Fantod Press, 1971 (©1969). Gray covers. 3) [The untitled book}. By Edward Pig. ©1971. Blue covers. All in slightly shopworn tan envelope bearing the titles. 14 x 20.4 cm (oversquare). Books as new.
Three books from the Fantod Press: The deranged cousins; The eleventh episode; [The untitled book].
Gorey, Edward
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **NY: Gotham Book Mart & Art Gallery, 1970. 185; 326 signed copies. 35 leaves printed one side. Decorated grey wrappers.15.3 x 19.5 cm (oversquare). Covers lightly foxed.
The sopping Thursday.
Gorey, Edward
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **NY: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. 550 numbered copies. Title page and 15 cards loose in olive-green paper folder, and the whole in a yellow-green envelope with the title illustration printed on it. Card size: 17.8 x 11.4 cm; folder, 19 x 13.3 cm; envelope, 20.6 x 14 cm. Envelope slightly wrinkled and tanned at extremities. Book as new.
Leaves from a mislaid album.
Gorey, Edward
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **[No place]: the Fantod Press, ©1997. 669; 776 signed copies. 32 pp. printed one side only. Decorated tan wrappers. 12.7 x 12.4 cm. Pristine.
The just dessert: thoughtful alphabet XI.
Gorey, Edward
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **[No place: no publisher], ©1993. Signed inside each cover with the appropriate pseudonym. [64] pp. Off-white wrappers. 10.8 x 6.4 cm. (oversquare). A dos-a-dos flipbook. A little dent in the upper left edge of the Dancing rock cover. Otherwise as new.
The floating elephant. [By] Dogear Wryde. AND The dancing rock. [By] Ogdred Weary.
Gorey, Edward
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Fantod Press, ©1994. 526 signed copies. [80] pp., printed one side. Pale blue decorated wrappers. 11.4 x 7.6 cm. in white envelope 10.4 x 12.9 cm (oversquare) with Gotham Book Mart imprint on the flap. Envelope inevitably a bit ruffled due to the thickness of the book. Book as new.
Figbash acrobate. [By] Aedwyrd Goré.
Gorey, Edward
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **London: Art for All, "First published 1976." No. 675 of 2000 copies signed by the artists in red pencil. Printed on stiff paper. [128] plates. 2 blank leaves + [viii] pp. + 128 numbered leaves + [2] leaves. Mottled red and black cloth stamped in gold. 19 x 12.2 cm. Each plate faces its accompanying text on the verso of the preceding numbered page. Chapter 3, "Broken hearts," depicts watercolors; the rest are photographs related in mysterious ways to their texts. Laid in: card announcing a reception for this book at Sonnabend Gallery, NY, April 27, 1977, signed, "With love for 1947 Antonio and Ileana and Ealan" (i.e., Antonio Homem, the Sonnabends' adopted son and present director of the gallery; Ileana Sonnabend; and Ms. Ealan Wingate, the director in 1977). Very slightly cocked; a shadow of pale, sparse foxing along the edges; neat owner's name on flyleaf. A crisp copy.
Dark shadow: Gilbert & George the sculptors 1974.
Gilbert & George
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