Bedford Village, NY: Tyler Graphics, ©1976. This superb miniature serigraph was produced by Tyler Graphics as a prospectus for their limited edition prints of Albers' last series, "Never Before" (46 copies, full size image 19.1 x 20 inches). The miniature offered here is not a reproduction in the dictionary sense..... More
Milano: Bruno Alfieri, 1962-1964. A fabulous (and apparently almost unknown) magazine of graphic design from the publisher of Metro. Profusely illustrated (part color) with inserts, various papers, gatefolds. Decorated covers. 40.5 x 24 cm. Parallel Italian, French & English. OCLC locates this title only at the Bibliothèque Nationale and the..... More
Los Angeles: Gemini Ltd., [1966]. Folder with color cover, 9 b/w photographs & 2 color film strips containing 12 images. 18.8 cm square. John Altoon was truly an artist's artist, with a flair that went out too soon. The edition of this livre d'artiste consisted of 100 copies containing 10..... More
New York: Cordier & Ekstrom, 1969. Poster. Striking image of box construction in light tan (from paper) overprinted in black, with light-gray titling and border. 22 x 17 inches / 55.7 x 43.2 cm. Folded in four. Verso blank. Fine. Not located in OCLC. More
Rio de Janeiro: Museu de Arte Moderna…, 1971. Densely composed b/w photos by Aldo Simoncini of the artist's surroundings and the tools and processes of her art. Some pp. at the back show her striking work. About 9 pp. at the end contain biographical data and a brief essay in..... More
Tochigi Kenritsu Bijutsukan, 1982. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Unpaginated, but [176] pp. according to OCLC (the World Catalogue). Black paper covers. 29.8 x 20.9 cm. An extensive study of a calligrapher on a heroic scale. Only 3 copies in OCLC. Top corner bumped. **Free domestic shipping with direct..... More
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Van Riel, 1992. 1100 copies. 71 well-printed and often fantastic plates and illustrations from woodcuts. 217 pp. Dustjacket over stiff card covers. 26 x 18.5 cm. Both the poet and the illustrator are Argentine. The illustrations range from fabricated documents altered with interlinear wriring to magic realism..... More
Paris: Berggruen & Cie, 1967. "Trapeze artist with bird" (Mourlot 477a), original lithograph cover by Marc Chagall in 9 colors (also see our number 05471). 2 mounted color plates & 2 full-page plates in red or blue + 250 small catalogue illustrations of etchings and lithographs. [68] pp. 21 x...... 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
Frankfurt: Typos Verlag, 1964. 17 illustrations on 12 plates + 36 pp. Paper covers. 21 x 19.5 cm. Bottom front corner bumped. **Calligraphy, experimental writing, and concrete poetry. **Free domestic shipping with direct order. More
New York: Brooke Alexander Gallery, 1974. Lithographed cover in black on Rives paper, with collaged reproduction of a fragment of a Gauloise cigarette package and seal. 36 illustrations, plus portrait of the great Abstract Expressionist artist on inside back flap. 25.4 x 30.8 cm. The composition on the cover spread..... 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
Sarasota, Florida: Ringling Museum of Art, 1984. Inscribed to feminist poet Lyn Lonidier: "Happy days to you, Lyn! with love Jess." Polaroid of Jess in his studio, with a vertical crease about half the height of the image. About 115 plates (most in color). 157 pp. Fine in cloth and..... More
Wroclaw, Poland: the author, 1985 (from introduction). Almost entirely illustrations by well over 100 international artists of pieces made on May 21, 1984 and based loosely on works by Albrecht Dürer, especially his woodcut "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse." 75 unpaginated leaves printed only on rectos. Decorated white paper..... More
London: Hayward Gallery, 1990. Mounted color frontispiece and over 57 illustrations. 143 pp. Decorated paper covers.. 19.8 x 20.9 cm. Fine. ISBN 1-85332-0587. More
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
[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
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
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
The plate was created with drypoint and sandpaper and then printed with blended colored inks. Image: 17.5 x 29.8 cm / 6.9 x 11.7 in. Paper: 26.8 x 35.5 cm / 10.5 x 14 in. Signed in light pencil just below the image on the right, with a written number..... 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
New York: Marquardt and Company, early 1950s. 5 issues, early 1950s. Profusely illustrated. [16] pp. each. Decorated paper covers. 19.8 x 12 cm. No. 23: "Edward L. Bernays and the American mind," by P. K. Thomajan. No. 29: "Posters by McKnight Kauffer." No. 30: "Saul Steinberg, visual historian." No. 36..... More
Paris: Berggruen, 1953. 1000 copies. 15 plates (6 in color) & 4 illustrations in the text. [24] pp. Decorated paper covers. 22 x 11.5 cm. Text by Will Grohmann. Publication no. 4 in series. Upper front corner slightly bent. Many other unlisted Berggruen titles available. **Free domestic shipping with direct..... More
