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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Two of the postcards from 2001 show works of Baldessari's, and the third is from the wonderful Musso & Frank Grill in Hollywood. All three of these bear personal messages and have one or more pinholes near the top margin. The fourth was sent from Florence in 1972. The front is plain white, except for a hole slightly less than 1/2-inch in the center and the legend in pale gray, "A hole to see the sky through. Yoko Ono '71." On the address side the message to Matheny consists solely of a dotted circle echoing the die-cut hole. Price is for all four.
4 postcards from John Baldessari to his lifelong friend artist Bob Matheny. 1972 & 2001.
Baldessari, John.
Price: $850.00
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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **New York: Reinhold, 1967. SIGNED by Bayer on title page. Profusely illustrated, with some color. 211 pp. Blue cloth with red type, no dustjacket. 27.9 x 23 cm. A few marks on the edges; light wear.
Herbert Bayer, painter, designer, architect.
Bayer, Herbert
Price: $95.00
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FREE domestic and international shipping with direct order. **Keene, NH: Keene State College, Louise E. Thorne Memorial Art Gallery, 1972. Cover drawing and one plate. 8 pp. Decorated blue paper covers. 22.8 x 15.2 cm. Text: "Getting with Lester and Mondrian in the Forties," by Nell Blaine. A proof copy with her corrections and substantial annotations. "From N. Blaine" written on the cover in ink in a different hand (probably Jocelyn Brodie's?). 35 exhibiting artists include Nell Blaine, Calder, Stuart Davis, Elaine de Kooning, Robert de Niro (father of the actor), Matisse, Miro, and Picasso. No copies located in OCLC, MoMA, Frick, Brooklyn, or the Getty. Slight bump upper right corner; near fine.
Jazz and painting. March 5–31, 1972
Blaine, Nell; Brodie, Jocelyn
Price: $600.00
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High Performance. John Cage 75th birthday celebration, number 38; volume 10, number 2, 1987. Edited by Steven Durland.
[Cage, John] Durland, Steven, editor
Price: $50.00
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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **[Boston]: New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown, ©1986. 119 superb duotone plates, plus illustrations and figures in the text. Unpaginated. Light-colored cloth. 27 x 29.8 cm. SIGNED in black ink (not ballpoint) on half-title. Lacks dustjacket. Depicts ancient stone monuments, including cairns, tumuli, circles,and dolmens in the British Isles and Brittany; sites include Stonehenge, Avebury, Callanish, and Kermario (Carnac). ISBN 0-821222-1616-3.
Megaliths.
Caponigro, Paul.
Price: $225.00
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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Conferencia pronunciada en el Ateneo de Madrid al 17 Mayo de 1950…. 28 plates + 34 pp. (including 3 illustrations). Decorated paper covers.. 21.3 x 15.5 cm. Light wear; backstrip a little tanned. **Warmly INSCRIBED in Sitges (near Barcelona) in 1956.The artist's card laid in, with addresses written on it in pencil. The text by this Spanish artist is a diatribe against modern art similar to "Sanity in Modern Art"; the plates illustrate his work—portraits, interiors, paintings of Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Sitges, and elsewhere. Copies located in OCLC only at the National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum.
Lacras de la pintura actual. (3rd edition, per cover.)
Durancamps.
Price: $50.00
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Helen Frankenthaler: prints.
[Frankenthaler, Helen] Fine, Ruth E.
Price: $125.00
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On the slain collegians: selections from the poems of Herman Melville. Edited, and with woodcuts, by Antonio Frasconi.
[Frasconi, Antonio] Melville, Herman
Price: $75.00
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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, New York, 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
Price: $750.00
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **New York: Knopf, 1931. First edition with splendid inscription and drawing on the half-title: "To Jake Zeitlin with my. very best wishes, thanks and. – everything s. –" [sic]. The drawing shows a snow-covered volcano wreathed in clouds in the background; in the foreground a man leans forward over cacti holding a hat in his hand, and another man lounges on the ground strumming a guitar. The drawing finishes with a spectacular signature filling most of the bottom of the page. 48 plates of Indian life with facing texts. About 104 pp. Brightly decorated boards with white spine and rear cover. Except for very slight creasing at the head of the spine and a little discoloration at the tail, the book is in excellent condition. The dustjacket bears the cover design on both the front and back panels, and it, unfortunately, is in deplorable condition. The front panel is missing a riangular chunk about 4 x 2-1/4 inches at the top edge, and the rear panel has an equally large piece torn on one edge and creased on the other.
Mexicana: a book of pictures.
Harnoncourt, Rene d'
Price: $500.00
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Düsseldorf: Ursus, 1969-71. 2 volumes of 3. Tooled soft leather covers. bound Oriental-style in folding card case & slipcase; superbly printed on fine Japanese rice paper; 35 x 26 cm. Book as new. Minor slipcase problems; please inquire for details. **Volume II, "Das Lied der Lieder" (1969/70), 76/325 copies: 18 SIGNED woodcuts + woodcut title & colophon. Volume III, "Jesaja" (1971), 78/315 copies: 21 SIGNED woodcuts + woodcut title & colophon. Text booklet in paper covers. 34.5 x 18 cm laid into each volume "Das Lied der Lieder" translated by Max Brod. Volume I (not present) is titled "Ijob." An interesting piece of Judaica with intense, expressionistic, deeply bitten original woodcuts.
Holzschnitte zur Bibel. Das Lied der Lieder. PLUS Jesaja. [2 volumes of 3]
Heidenheim, Hanns H.
Price: $650.00
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **London: Morland Press, 1st of March 1924. No. 18 of 50 copies signed (inside the front cover) by artist and author and containing as frontispiece an ORIGINAL LINOCUT in tan and black, "The Shrine." Hors-texte frontispiece + 27 mounted plates (1 in blue-green ink with black backing, and 1 in dark brown ink with tan and blue-green backing) + 8 figures in the text (5 with protective tissues). 93 + [1] pp. on handmade, deckle-edged paper, with gilt top edge. White cloth and blue board patterned with an HH monogram. Decorated endpapers include the limitation and signature block in the front. Title label mounted on front cover. About 28.8 x 22.8 cm. White cloth very lightly soiled and a few tiny spots on the backstrip; corners a little worn. A few inconspicuous marks on the rear endpapers. Overall, a nice copy and, perhaps, better than most. Incudes catalogues of etched works and paintings and list of etchings in public collections. This is not the edition of the same year containing 87 or 88 pp. and measuring 26 or 27 cm in height.
The art of Hesketh Hubbard.
[Hubbard, Hesketh] Macfall, Haldane.
Price: $200.00
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Six items as follows: 1) A student notebook or workbook, 21.8 x 17.5 cm. The cover is mottled black outside and purple inside. It has 30 pages now but probably had 40 or more originally. The first three leaves and one in the center are loose, and there are a few stubs where paper was torn out. Of the 30 pages, 20 have a dramatic script written very rapidly in soft pencil. The title or chief characters appear to be "Colmet" or "Calmet" and "Marianne." One of the unused sheets in the back has some longhand multiplication in ink and in different handwriting. 2) A 16-page booklet with no covers, 22.4 x 17.4 cm, contains more of the same dramatic script. It may be an earlier version because some pages are boldly crossed out. 3) A single sheet of stationery from E. Grindel in Paris (Paul Eluard) measures 27.4 x 21.7 cm and is folded in half. It bears on one side several notes, including one about Don Juan and another about a manuscript of la "Ballade de Pierrot blanc et laid"; a list of titles (?), e.g., "l'Essor," "Cauchemar," "Paysage alpin," "Ballade russe (ballade en triolets)," etc. On the other is another list headed "Table des matieres" and a drawing of a bearded man in long robe with a ruff and a musical instrument (probably a mandolin). 4-6) Three love letters dated 1912 and 1913 to Valentine Gross from Maurice Mathey, Swiss painter (1878-1975). They are in ink in a very small, delicate hand. Each one is a sheet 22.2 x 17.2 cm folded in half to make 4 pages. One is a page and a quarter; one is two full pages; and the third is two-and-a-half pages, plus a few notes at the bottom of page 2. Three envelopes also are present.
Manuscript lot by and to Valentine (Gross) Hugo.
Hugo, Valentine. Gross, Valentine. Mathey, Maurice.
Price: $750.00
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Uplands Konstförening. Konsthallen 9-23 November 1958. [Stockholm: 1958]. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. [13] pages. Illustrated with an original frontispiece linoleum cut, a tipped-in color plate and monochrome reproductions of 9 works on 2 plates. Original paper covers., the front being printed and the rear pictorial. Light soiling and wear; two-inch tear to top of front wrapper requires restoration. **Exhibition catalogue, one of 1300 copies with an original linoleum cut, SIGNED by Kempe. Kempe's business card laid in. Only one copy located by OCLC (the World Catalogue), at Yale.
Gouacher & Lavyrer.
Kempe, Roland.
Price: $75.00
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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **London: Heinemann/San Diego: Aeolian, 1972. A large folding drawing printed in red and black and pasted inside the rear cover shows "The Hogarth Press [about 1928]," a cutaway sketch of a row house showing activities at the different levels. It starts at the back of the basement with a "large windowless room in which large bales of books were kept and in which Mrs. W wrote her books" and concludes out on the street with "Mr. Bumpus (Bagman)" walking by on the sidewalk. 40 drawings in the text (7 double spread). 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Linen with price-clipped dustjacket. **SIGNED on the title page, which also bears an oval, metallic gold sticker for Aeolian Press, the US distributor. "This book can be thought of, in no way unkindly, as a sort of literary 'Diary of a Nobody'. Richard Kennedy went to work for Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press in 1928 when he was sixteen. His status was practically that of a fly on the wall; Francis Birrell (who had also worked at the Hogarth Press) asked him at a Bloomsbury party whether he was a factotum, adding 'More totem than fact, I should imagine'. He was of no consequence to the paladins of Bloomsbury. There was no reason to exercise their wit and charm on him. He saw them at their most unguarded and least artificial. That is what makes his account so fascinating" (from the Introduction, by Bevis Hillier). The following year brought catastrophe, when Kennedy "unwittingly instructed Spalding & Hodge to cut the paper [for the whole Uniform Edition of Virginia Woolf's works] to the wrong size…. LW says… I am the most frightful idiot he has ever had the privilege of meeting in a long career of suffering fools. (pp.84-5)." An utterly charming book. We have several signed copies. ISBN 0-435-18510-1.
A boy at the Hogarth Press. SIGNED
Kennedy, Richard.
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **1964. Number 4 of 33 copies with ORIGINAL, SIGNED, DATED INK DRAWING (trade edition 3000 copies). 7 plates (6 in color), small photo of the artist, and 3 illustrations in the text. Gatefold paper covers. bearing 2 more monochrome plates. 17.5 cm square. **Lattanzi works in an intricate, repetitive style that one might call obsessive. The works in ink seem far superior to those in color, at least in these small reproductions. The original drawing on stiff, smooth paper appears to be an excellent example. Besides the ink signature, it bears the artist's blind stamp. Text by Franco Russoli in parallel Italian, German, and English.
Lattanzi: Katalog der Galerie Sydow, Frankfurt.
Lattanzi, Luciano. Galerie Sydow, Frankfurt. Russoli, Franco.
Price: $100.00
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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Firenze: Vallecchi, ©1974. Cloth with dustjacket. 168 pp. 21.8 x 13.3 cm. A little creasing at top edge of dustjacket. **A book of poetry, INSCRIBED in Italian to Margherita [Margaret Scolari] Barr, Roma, 1975. Mrs. Barr was a writer and scholar in her own right and the wife of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., founding director of the Museum of Modern Art.
Amati enigmi.
Marghieri, Clotilde.
Price: $30.00
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The Moment, for Miriam. [Glory Never Guesses and A Surprise for the Bagpipe Player bound together.]
Patchen, Kenneth.
Price: $12,500.00
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Frank Stella: an illustrated biography. SIGNED by the artist.
[Stella, Frank] Guberman, Sidney.
Price: $85.00
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Los Angeles: the artist, 1977. 45 facsimile drawings on [96] pp. Paper covers. bound with cord; housed in portfolio of cloth & marbled boards with ties. 30.5 x 20.5 cm. **Number 43 of 125 SIGNED copies. Boldly SIGNED title page by a wonderful figurative L.A. artist, who never let herself be distracted by art's changing fads.
A book of drawings.
Treiman, Joyce.
Price: $150.00
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