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. Cover design in green by René Magritte. Illustrations by Magritte, Florine Stettheimer, Yves Tanguy, and others. 50 pp. Decorated paper covers. 30.5 x 23 cm. Traces of a cup mark on the upper right corner of the cover and a small crease and 2-cm tear..... 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
New York: Artforum, 1982. Flexidisc by Laurie Anderson, "Let X = X," with cut-and-fold cover bound in. Profusely illustrated (part color). 106 pp. 26.7 x 26.5. cm. The centerfold by Andy Warhol is "Forged image," a three-panel painting of a dollar sign in varying color combinations, plus a photo of..... 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
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New York: Artforum, 1974. This much-sought-after and vanishingly rare issue features on its second leaf a transgressive color photograph of the artist Lynda Benglis wearing sunglasses with white frames, a modest earring, a challenging expression, a nice coating of body oil, and a very convincing dildo at least a foot..... More
[Genova?]: Edizioni Galleria la Bertesca, 1968. Artist's book. Glossy white covers embossed with a Minimalist design. 20 cm square. 94 pp. An elaborate publication with gatefolds, mounted specimens, color plates, and a 7-inch Flexidisc: "Seven sonorous canes are hung in front of a panel in such a way that the visitor..... More
[Athens? Ministry of Culture, Department of Fine Arts, 1986]. 12 color plates on very stiff coated stock, loose as issued in folder of stiff uncoated stock, with printed text on pp. 1, 3, and 4; p. 3 boldly signed by the brilliant actress Melina Mercouri, Minister of Culture. PLUS a...... More
Luminy, France: Imprimerie Municipale, Ecole D'Art Et D'Architecture, Luminy, 1972. 20 plates. Unpaginated: [40] pp. Paper covers with b/w illustration. 22.5 x 13 cm. Texts by Gaston Deferre, Jean Goudareau, and Jean-Marie Magnan. The number 251 is stamped neatly inside the front cover, perhaps indicating a small edition. Inscribed: "To..... More
La Paz, Bolivia: Ediciones "INBO", 1989. 293 plates and illustrations (236) in color. 317 pp. Black cloth with dustjacket. 30 x 23.7 cm. A massive and beautifully illustrated critical history of Bolivian painting of the twentieth century. Endmatter includes a bibliography, an 8-page chronology, and 38 pp. of artists' biographies..... More
New York: Odyssia Gallery, 1980. 14 plates (3 in color). [31] pp. Decorated paper covers. 19 x 25.5 cm (oversquare). The brief texts are by Heraclitus, Ursula LeGuin, Thomas Hardy, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, William Blake, Baudelaire, Robert Duncan, Kurt Vonnegut, James Joyce and others. Lucky the people..... More
New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1990. Mounted color cover illustration. [4] pp. Printed on one side of a single sheet of heavy stock about 67.4 x 56.6 cm and folded in four to make a folder of two double-thickness leaves, with the blank rectos..... More
New York: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. 8 color ills. & 3 maps + 15 b/w plates. xxxiii+ 282 pp. Cover design in red on light tan cloth. 32.2 x 22.2 cm. The prelims. consist of a prologue giving the setting, the background, and the..... More
D. H. Burnham & Co., Architects. [1920s per OCLC, but actually circa 1912/1913]. Color frontispiece, 1 b/w plate, and 25 floor plans. [32] pp. Decorated gray covers of heavy, linen-finish gray paper with yapp edges.saddle-stitched with cord. 29.9 x 22.3 cm (page size). The cover and color frontispiece show the..... 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
Reprint. San Francisco: Wofsy, 1975 & 1988. Another essential work, originally published in Amsterdam, Vereenigde Drukkerijen, 1921 AND La Haye, Neth.: Nijhoff, 1956. 2 volumes, Sturdy dark-green buckram. 7-3/4 x 9-3/4 in. Thousands of line drawings, facsimiles of signatures, etc. Index. Orig. vol.: 594 pp. Supp.: 463 pp. The flyleaves..... More
NY: Films International of New York, 1947. “7 dreams sold by Joe, the dream salesman.” 7 remarkable Surrealist films, especially Max Ernst's “Desire,” with the sailors drowning in storm-tossed seas under the sleeping woman's bed. 29 illustrations. 24 pp. (half of them cropped to 12 cm wide). Green covers with..... More
Paris: Fernand Mourlot (printer), 1972. Original lithograph from The Biblical message of Marc Chagall / La message biblique. Mourlot 689. Printed in four colors and black on white wove paper. 31.8 x 24.1 cm. 10,000 copies of the published books (French, English, German). (A vastly more valuable edition of 50..... More
Paris: Fernand Mourlot (printer), 1956. A single leaf from Verve 33/34; also known as "La Bible" or "Illustrations for the Bible." Mourlot 121. Printed in four colors and black on white wove paper. 34.2 x 25.3 cm. 6500 copies in the published books (French, English, German). (A vastly more valuable..... More
Los Angeles, California: Zeitlin & VerBrugge, 1981. 32 ills. [12] pp. Decorated paper covers. 28 x 21.7 cm. 47 detailed catalogue entries. Text by Peter Morse. Catalogue by Claire Williams. Designed and printed by Lynton Kistler. Fine. More
Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1960s-1970s. A collection of the following from the 1960s and 1970s: Prospectus for Edgar Taylor Dorsey. Baja California Woodcuts. 1969. Folder. 19.5 x22.1 cm., with two illustrations from the book. Shallow wrinkling and creasing, and a light date stamp (Dec 4 1969) on front. Folded vertically..... More
United States Food Administration. No. 17. [1918?]. Lithograph in many colors. 29 x 21.1 in. / 73.6 x 53.6 cm. Professionally backed with Japanese tissue. The text appears in a frame surrounded by various kinds of foods. Another version exists with a similar but different text. **Free domestic shipping..... More
The American Federation of Arts, Barr Building, Washington, D. C., 1947. 22 plates & illustrations. 32 pages. White paper covers with color illustration. 27.3 x 19.8 cm. The jurors were Marcel Duchamp (“Jurors are always apt to be wrong”); Alfred J. Barr, Jr, director of the Museum of Modern Art;..... More
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Paris: Air France, 1968. 14 color pls. & cover + 1 b/w phot. [24] unpaginated pp. Stiff, coated paper covers. 36 x 21 cm. Although it records the exhibition of 15 posters designed for different cities served by Air France its title gives only 14, excluding the cover, "Paris." Mathieu's..... More
Munich: R. Piper, 1913. One of 300 copies with the artist's monogram incorporated into the design of the woodblocks. "Zwei Frauen in Mondschaft" is no. 100 in Kurt Roethel's catalogue raisonné of Kandinsky's prints. The image is 8.8 x 11.8 cm (3.5 x 4.625 in., oversquare). The van Gelder Zonen..... More
