Paris: Berggruen, 1974. Lithographic cover by Mourlot, mounted frontispiece, and 62 plates (20 in color). [80] pp. + 3-panel folding facsimile of letter from Feininger to Curt Valentin. Decorated paper covers. 22 x 11.5 cm. Text by the artist. Publication no. 56 in series. Backstrip sunned. Many other unlisted Berggruen..... More
Valencia, CA: California Institute of the Arts, 1975. Edited by Miriam Schapiro. Introduction by Deena Metzger. 75 illustrations and portraits of the artists. 82 pp. 17.4 x 30.7 cm (oversquare). Decorated black paper covers. This early and influential overview includes 38 women artists, from Pat Adams to Barbara Zucker and..... More
[Naples: Società Editrice Storia di Napoli, 1971?]. 1 hors-texte color plate & 59 plates & illustrations in the text. Title + pp. 1223-1363. Wrs. 31 x 23 cm. Pp. Notes: pp. 1349-63. Printed white paper covers.. A good, solid copy with slight damage to backstrip. **The only title in the..... More
Bruxelles: L'Association pour la Diffusion Artistique et Culturelle (A.D.A.C.), 1956-1966. 20 issues (all published). 16 issues in 5 volumes with covers bound in; nos. 11, 12, 13 & 18 in original stiff card covers. Profusely illustrated (part color). 20.4 x 26 cm. Dark-blue library buckram & card covers. One of..... More
![Item #62751 Svenska möbler i bild: möbelformerna från 1830-1930 [mobler]. Med 306 bilder....](/images/noimage.png)
Stockholm: Natur och Kultur, 1950. 306 illustrations on 148 plates + xlv pp. 31.6 x 23.6 cm. Half-calf & marbled boards. Leather worn at extremities. Fine photographs of Swedish furniture up to the beginning of the modern era. More
Fischer's imaginative cover for this corporate publication is a multiple consisting of a sealed vinyl sandwich with internal spaces in the shapes of fingers and semi-circles. The resulting, partly continuous void contains pink sand that shifts into different shapes when the periodical is tilted or shaken. Supplementary material is laid..... More
Long Beach [California] Museum of Art, 1970. 600 copies. 13 plates & Illustrations (4 color). [24] pp. 24 cm square. Fischinger was a self-taught practioner of experimental films who worked on inventive episodes for Fritz Lang, Disney ("Fantasia"), MGM, and others, but surpassed all that work with his own brilliant..... More
![Item #76201 New York Dramatic Mirror [also New York Mirror; Dramatic Mirror], 20 Christmas issues...](/pictures/thumb/76201.jpg?v=1545185169)
Lavishly illustrated with glorious fin-de-siècle covers in color. Identified cover artists are W. Granville Smith (1893), William Martin Johnson (1894), M. de Lipman (1895), H.S. Loury (1897), F. Richard Anderson (1898), Ernest Haskell (1899 & 1900), Sewell Collins (1901 & 1904), H.L.V. Parkhurst (1902), Hamilton King (1903), John Cecil Clay..... More
Zürich [later Lugano, Switzerland]: James Fitzsimmons, 1956-1984. An unbroken run of 72 very early issues (80 numbers + 3 duplicates) of this superb periodical, partially bound somewhat irregularly in three half-leather and red cloth volumes plus separate copies in the original covers, See below for details. Approx. 35 x 25..... More
[Wiesbaden, Germany? Manufacturer unknown, circa 1990?]. A stamped aluminum license plate 11.4 x 47.2 cm (oversquare). Jerome and Diane Rothenberg bought this in Wiesbaden, Germany, around 1990, thinking it a multiple, but I have found no trace of another like it. Wiesbaden. where George Maciunas was living in the early..... More
[Milano?]: Alice Editions, 1974. No. 327 of 1750 copies. Original lithograph frontispiece by Max Ernst + 24 color plates. [68] pp. Dustjacket over stiff, black card covers. 28 x 35 cm (oversquare). OCLC states the place of publication variously as Milan, Paris, New York, and Woodbury, NY. The book was..... More
London: 1881. Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington Museum [later the Victoria & Albert Museum]. 85 plates in gold and silver and a multitude of colors illustrating 119 Indian handwoven textiles, with tissues, + title page. No text, except detailed captions on each..... More
New York, October 1942. Series 2, no. 3, October 1942: Vertigo issue. Orange covers with red drawing by Hanani Meller. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 32 pp. Paper covers. 26.3 x 18.4 cm. Drawings by Kurt Seligmann, Pavel Tchelitchew, and André Masson. Texts by Roger Caillois, Parker Tyler, Nicolas..... More
New York: View Editions, 1946. Cover design of sculpture by Isamu Noguchi in black and yellow on white. Illustrations by van Gogh, Morris Hirschfeld, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Isamu Noguchi, Yves Tanguy, and others. 50 pp. Decorated paper covers. 30.5 x 23 cm. Articles by the authors listed above, plus..... More
New York: View Editions, 1946. Geometric cover design by John Tunnard. Illustrations by Tchelitchew, Chagall, Oscar Dominguez, and Charles Rain. 22 pp. Decorated paper covers. 30.8 x 23.5 cm. Text includes "A sleepy tune," and "Some notes on Shakespeare," by Edith Sitwell; "The circular ruins," by Jorge Luis Borges; "My..... More
![Item #09351 Jehan Fouquet. [Jean]. Jehan Fouquet, Georges Lafenestre, Jean](/pictures/thumb/09351.jpg?v=1545184873)
Paris: Librairie de l'Art Ancien et Moderne, 1905. 7 hors-texte plates (3 in fine gravure on stiff paper) + 82 pp. (including 30 illustrations. Brown library buckram (but not ex-library). 29.8 x 21.4 cm. In series: Les artistes de tous les temps. serie B. — moyen age et renaissance. "Catalogue..... More
San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, 1957. 10 original woodcuts in black or colors. 150 copies printed by Henry Evans. 10 leaves with deckel edge at bottom, 32 x 24.2 cm loose as issued in brown paper portfolio 32.6 x 25.5 cm. with title in olive green. Henry Evans also was..... More
La Jolla, CA: A Carrefour Book published by Laurence McGilvery, 1987. A small edition. 391 pp. (the ms. is paginated 1-365, with some irregularities). Black library buckram. 27.8 x 21 cm (letter size). Index. ISBN 0-910938-91-1. In as-new condition. Fraenkel spent much of the latter 1920s and the 1930s in..... More
Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998. 86 color plates + text illustrations (some color). 164 pp. Linen with dustjacket. 30.5 cm square. Stunning, and virtually as new. **Free domestic shipping with direct order. More
Santa Monica: Lapis Press, 1987. One of 150 copies SIGNED by Sam Francis and Michael Taylor (total edition 1150 copies). Original lithograph cover by Sam Francis over boards. [141] pp. 24 x 12.5 cm. Mylar dustjacket printed in red with title on spine and copy on flaps. Calligraphy by Walasse..... More
![Item #41009 Ideas at the Idea Warehouse, June 16–July 11, 75 [an Assembling]. Peter Frank](/pictures/thumb/41009.jpg?v=1545185079)
New York: Institute for Art and Urban Resources, 1975. 26 leaves printed one side only, with images, text, drawings, a mounted card, etc. Paper covers, stapled through left edge. 28 x 21.6 cm (standard US letter size). The participating artists are: Kirsten Bates, Bil Beirne, Anthony McCall, Michael McClard, Jim..... More
Published by Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona in association with Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Bibliography series number two. ©1986. 207 pp. Decorated paper covers.. 27.7 x 21.5 cm. 2300 entries, many of them with detailed descriptions. "Indexes" (pp. 187-207) cover interviews, books, films, names, and periodicals. Very..... More
Mount Kisco, New York: Tyler Graphics, 1995. 12 loose color plates in a somewhat larger folder and that in a still larger blue envelope. 28.6 x 21.6 cm (sheet size). This is a prospectus in a small edition for the larger original prints. Several copies available. As new. **Free domestic..... More
Mount Kisco, New York: Tyler Graphics, ©1998. 6 color plates & text, loose as issued in an elaborate, fully illustrated, 5-panel folder. 29.2 x 21.3 cm (sheet size). This is a prospectus in a small edition for the much larger original prints. Several copies available. As new. More
New York: Weyhe Gallery, 1951. Poster. 40.6 x 22.8 cm, folded in 4 to 10.2 x 22.8 cm (oversquare). The verso is an original woodcut printed to the full size of the paper that shows a woman gathering nuts or berries in her skirt. The lower third of the image..... More
