Turn-of-the-century German Jugendstil tabletop game using elements of shuffleboard or billiards, the contents comprising two hinged pieces of wood which are connected to form the play area, a wooden cue with curved piece of wood for pushing at one end, and two sets of color-coded wooden disks with felt bottoms..... More
Assortment of elaborate, unique handmade artists' books incorporating original collage elements with typewritten, mimeographed, and other types of printed texts on a variety of paper stocks and weights, constructed from diverse materials including craft and copier paper, watercolor, mirror glass, stamps, wax, ink, tissue paper, linen, sandpaper, yarn, ceramic, stone..... More
Altogether 147 issues, comprised of 7 early issues (Year I, Nos. 5 and 6, and Year II, Nos. 2, 3, 8, 21, and 23) and a large sequential run of 140 issues (Year III, No. 1 through Year XX, No. 139/140, lacking nos. 66 through 69) of the long-running Italian..... More
Various places: “Spartaks”/L. K. P. Rigas Komitejā, ca. 1935. Eight pictorial flyers, various sizes (from 10 × 11 to 23.5 × 35 cm), printed on variously colored stock. One flyer with vertical crease, some occasional light wear and toning; else very good or better. Eight scarce, clandestinely printed propaganda leaflets..... More
A complete run of four issues bound in a single volume (132 pp. continuously paginated) of the short-lived German architectural journal, edited by Bruno Taut, containing discussions of and plans for various architectural projects by Taut and others, including the German exhibition at Magdeburg by Taut and Paul Mebes, a...... More
19th century magnetic fishing game comprised of game board meant to be the surface of the water, with chromolithographed decoration of water fowl and fishing boats, the surface with a number of slots to be "fished" out of; a group of wooden fishing rods, four with original magnets to serve..... More
A complete series of four propaganda titles in Polish, issued by the provisional government established in Poland during the German occupation to help justify the occupation and legitimize Nazi rule, with titles such as "Sold Out and Sold: How the Polish Nation was Deceived", "Heroes or Traitors: The Memoirs of..... More
Sterns, M (Marshall Stearns). Istoriia dzhaza (The Story of Jazz, originally published 1956). Voronezh: GID, 1968. I. E. Berend (Joachim-Ernst Berendt). Variatsii na temu dzhaza. Perevod s nemetskogo (The Jazz Book. Translated from the German; originally published?). Rostov on Don, 1965. Cherters, S (Samuel Charters). Istoriia dzhaza na stsene N'iu-Iorka (Jazz..... More
1899. A complete run in 4 vols., containing altogether many hundreds of pages, of the monthly serial devoted to Spanish and international art, literature, and general culture, edited by Hermenegildo Miralles, Ezequiel Boixet, Francisco Miquel y Badia, and Josep Pasco, including the fiction and poetry of Picon, Pereda, Altamira and..... More
Chromolithographed board game on paper published during the time of the Dreyfus Affair, in the style of the Game of the Goose, printed by L'Antijuif, an anti-semitic weekly newspaper and the official organ of the Ligue antisémitique de France, edited by noted anti-Dreyfusard Jules Guérin and drawn by A. Lambot..... More
Album of 48 original photographs depicting sights around the city of Guatemala, predominantly architectural, some photographs with hand-written captions or captioned within the plate, views include the Catedral Metropolitana, National Theater, Templo de la Recolección, Plaza de Armas, Gran Hotel, Calle de la Libertad, Calle del Mercado, Iglesia de San..... More
Late 19th century educational tool for teaching children the four basic rules of arithmetic, devised by Father Charier, former student of the École Supérieure et Industrielle de la ville de Metz, formed as two octagonal stiff cardboard disks joined at the center, the top disk divided into four sections, one..... More
A complete run in 6 issues (the number of pages corresponding to the number of days in the month) of the French social and political artistic publication under the editorial direction of the Bazooka artist collective, and containing on every page cartoons, drawings, and collages from a number of Bazooka..... More
Large album of 60 photographic plates printed on thick paper, published to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the founding of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, edited by Sakata Yataro, and distributed as a sort of propaganda targeted at a Japanese audience, the plates depicting scenes including the Mukden or..... More
389 issues (out of 423 total published), bound in 7 volumes, each issue approx. 8 pp., of the Catalan weekly journal focused on literature, arts, and politics, founded by Amadeu Hurtado i Miró and under the editorial direction of Manuel Brunet i Solà and Just Cabot i Ribot, containing articles..... More
![Neues Forum [New Forum]. Nos. 1, 2, and 3 (all published](/pictures/thumb/P6180_1.jpg?v=1592502004)
[Berlin]: [Neues Forum], [1989]. A4, with xeroxed and otherwise reproduced typescript and computer-printed text to rectos; 12, 10, and 10 pp. Two issues with holes punched to left margin; else very good. Three issues, comprising a complete run, of this rare and influential GDR oppositional bulletin, published November 8, 31..... More
A complete run in 2 issues (12 and 8 pp., respectively) of the short-lived Lettrist journal conceived of by a group of young students consisting of Thierry Paul-Lévy, Paulette Liétard, Patrick Brault, Guy Chastel, and Jean-Charles Depaule, and published with the help of the Lettrists, directed by Jacques Spacagna with..... More
![Nuevo Film [New Film], no. 1 (1967) through no. 4 (1969) (all published](/pictures/thumb/48645_001.jpg?v=1580326696)
A complete run in four issues (151, 203, 147, 135) of the Uruguayan film journal, under the editorial direction of Luis Elbert and A. Sanjurjo Toucon, containing essays and interviews on topics including the history of color film, Fellini, the directorial style of Richard Lester, Uruguayan film, the future of..... More
Early 19th century road map of downtown Paris and its immediate surroundings showing the location of the twelve municipal districts and town halls, with a legend including street names, police, hospitals, parishes, markets, bridges, and other sites and landmarks, with hand-drawn colored borders outlining the districts. Some toning, minor soiling..... More
A complete run in 3 issues (of an originally intended 6 issues total) of the short-lived journal dedicated to contemporary architecture, 47 pages total continuously paginated, under the editorial direction of Wallace K. Harrison, William Lescaze, William Muschenheim, Stamo Papadaki, and James Johnson Sweeney, with typography and layout by Herbert..... More
A complete run in 7 issues, each issue approx. 8 pages, of the anarchist Italian journal, containing alternative history stories which allude to real-life events, provocative stories, and essays on topics such as eroticism, homosexuality, and Dadaism. Illustrated profusely throughout. Some minor scattered toning, edgewear, minor chipping, marginal dampstaining to..... More
![Sklaven: Sprachrohr der Loë Bsaffot [subtitle for nos. 0-11; additional issues varied], nos. 0...](/pictures/thumb/P6841_001.jpg?v=1580327118)
1990s. A complete archive of two interrelated publications housed in five volumes, chronicling the resistance and adaptations of Berlin's radical leftist literary, intellectual and visual arts communities between the early 1990s and the present day, comprised of 52 issues (ca. 30-65 pp.) of Sklaven and 12 issues (ca. 40-48 pp.)..... More
[Prague: Umělecko-Průmyslové Museum, OZKP, 1934]. Quarto (30.3 × 21.6 cm). Original tan portfolio with printed label affixed to front wrapper; inserted text part (12 pp) and 33 plates, including photo reproductions, original color and black and white lithographs, woodcuts, and heliographs by notable figures in the Polish art and avant-garde..... More
Tallinn: ["Aktsiooni" Kirjastus], 1927-1933. Octavos (16.3 x 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Peet Aren, Märt Laarman and Jaan Vahtra; 28, [4]; 60, [4]; and 63, [I] pp. Very good or better. Antson (1899-1945) was an Estonian teacher, journalist, and writer who participated in the "Aktsioon" ("Action") literary group and..... More
1968. Unpaginated (circa 42 pp.) volume discussing contemporary German artists, including 24 original graphics (most color, most signed, please see note), including etchings, silk screened images, collages, and works incorporating other media. Square 4to. Wrpps. Cologne (Wolfgang Hake Verlag) 1968. One of an edition of 200 copies; one of 100..... More