NY: Something Else, 1965. FIrst edition. [96] pp. on stiff paper. Dark-blue boards with magenta dustjacket. 12.8 x 17.3 cm (oversquare). A sequence of Dadaist questions, from should you live like a snake?" to "what about the girl?" Library and withdrawn stamps on front endpapers. Legitimate library withdrawal. Otherwise, in... More about Ample food for stupid thought,, 1st edition
![Svenska möbler i bild: möbelformerna från 1830-1930 [mobler]. Med 306 bilder. Ernst Fischer](/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. **Free domestic shipping with direct order. More about Svenska möbler i bild: möbelformerna från 1830-1930 [mobler]. Med 306 bilder
Fischer's imaginative cover for this corporate publication is 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 in. Most of the... More about Hygiène de l'art. In Petroleprogrès: revue trimestrielle. Printemps 1972. No. 91
München: Delphin, 1912. 36 plates with loose tissues bearing descriptive letterpress + 47 pp. Quarter-vellum & boards. 29.3 x 24.2 cm. Almost invisible waterstain at head of cover and backstrip; a little external wear, and some of the very delicate tissues creased, but generally a nice copy. **Number 179 of... More about Das neue Bild: Veröffentlichung der neuen Künstlervereinigung München
![New York Dramatic Mirror [also New York Mirror; Dramatic Mirror], 20 Christmas issues 1886–1906...](/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 about New York Dramatic Mirror [also New York Mirror; Dramatic Mirror], 20 Christmas issues 1886–1906...
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 about Art international, Vol. III:1/2, 1959, through Vol. X:10, Dec. 1966
Zürich [later Lugano, Switzerland]: James Fitzsimmons, 1956-1984. A nearly unbroken run of approximately 190 numbers (approximately 180 individual issues) of this fine art periodical in its most effective format. James Fitzsimmons, an American expatriate born in China could have looked like a dilettante during the first two years of his... More about Art international, Vol. III:1/2, 1959, through Vol. XXI:5, 1977. SALE PRICE through December 31....
[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 about The death of a tree. First edition, with original color lithograph by Max Ernst
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 about Illustrations of the textile manufactures of India, Second series
New York: 1942/1943. 2nd series complete: 4 issues in publisher's wine-colored boards, with covers bound in. Profusely illustrated. Printed on white and colored papers. 26.3 x 18. cm (boards). **Series 2, no. 1, 1 April 1942: Max Ernst. Pale blue covers by Max Ernst. **No. 2, 1 July 1942. Tchelitchew/Tanguy... More about View: through the eyes of poets. 2nd series complete, April 1942–January 1943
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 about View: through the eyes of poets. 2nd series, no. 3, Oct. 1942. Vertigo issue
![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 about Jehan Fouquet. [Jean
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 about A portfolio of nudes, by Mel Fowler
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 about Journal, the Mexican years, 1940-1944. A facsimile edition of the complete manuscript
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 about Sam Francis: paintings 1947-1990
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 about Steles. Translated by Michael Taylor. Signed
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1971. 40 numbered plates, but see explanation below. [44] pp. + covers. Decorated paper covers. 37.5 x about 19 cm folded (37.5 cm unfolded). This fascinating publication consists of 6 leaves 37.5 x 75 cm folded and stapled together to form a.... More about Ruth Francken: sculptures, objets, tableaux
![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 about Ideas at the Idea Warehouse, June 16–July 11, 75 [an Assembling
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 about Robert Frank: a bibliography, filmography, and exhibition chronology, 1946-1985
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 shipping with direct order. More about Helen Frankenthaler: Reflections, a series of twelve color lithographs
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 about Helen Frankenthaler: Tales of Genji
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 about Frasconi: recent woodcuts. March 12 - April 11, 1951
Frankfurt am Main: Museum für Moderne Kunst / Hatje Cantz, 2001. 30 color plates (some double-spread) & 47 in black & white + many text illustrations (some color). 327 pp. Decorated stiff paper covers. 30 x 24 cm. A very thorough study, with contributions by Jean-Christophe Amman, Craig Hartley, and Rolf Lauter. Parallel German & English. More about Lucian Freud: naked portraits. Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre. Works from the 1940s to 1990s
Artist's book. Profusely illustrated. Approximately 100 pp. 23.4 x 30.4 cm. (oversquare). Bound at the short edge with staples and capped with a sliding black plastic spine.This inventive and alarming catalogue opens with a sheet of heavy, very flexible clear plastic. A clear, sealed polyvinyl envelope follows. It contains a.... More about Addictions. An artist's book by Walter Gabrielson & Edward C. Wortz; Santa Barbara...
[San Francisco: the editors? 1982]. [4] pp. of artists exhibited in the show + [19] pp. of plates illustrating works. [28] pp., including paper covers in red and black. 28 x 21.5 cm (standard US letter size). "Men in Black" appears on the rear cover of this catalogue and may... More about Men in black. [Neo-Roc International mail art exhibition at the Fort Mason Armory Show, Feruary...
