Small 37 pp. volume, being a fragment of the novel Babylone by René Crevel, translated into English by Kay Boyle, and illustrated with nineteen original photograms by Max Ernst, produced in conjunction with Man Ray in his studio using photo-sensitive paper, each with caption in red ink on tissue guards..... More
78 pp. descriptive monograph on the Pinturicchio fresco cycle in the lavish 15th century Borgia Apartments, heavily annotated, lists, numerous text illus. (1 with color) after portraits, drawings, medals, signatures, etc., 133 fine plates (4 color, many in tones), bound out of order, showing maps, interior views, details of the..... More
Large handcolored lithographed star map in the style of a planisphere, designed by Frank and drawn by Joseph Kaiser, depicting constellations from the North Pole to the 40th latitude, with overlaid volvelle-type component to rotate in order to match up the month, day, and time shown in concentric circles around..... More
Two volumes ([iv], 315, appendix of [2], 174 pp.; and [viii], 427-524, [4], 395-728, [2] pp.) comprising three of the five reports issued in 1835 by the House of Lords to investigate the state of prisons in England and Wales, with the goal of researching the prospect of instituting a...... More
Collection of documentation and ephemera related to Geoffrey Hendricks exhibitions and performances, approximately 20 items total, including: program and poster for La Mama E.T.C. Presents The Stephen Varble and Geoffrey Hendricks Production of Silent Prayer, with Hendricks both designing the production and making an appearance in the cast, held March..... More
Leporello-style artist’s book, printed recto and verso, from Iannone’s exhibition of the same name at Haus am Lützowplatz in Berlin, containing an introductory essay by Karl Ruhrberg, a poem by Ben, quotes and blurbs from Mary Harding, Dr. Wolfgang Becker, Dr. Franz Meyer, Dr. Dieter Koepplin, Konrad Klapheck, Robert Filliou..... More
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Turin: Fratelli Bocca, 1912. Large octavo (25.7 × 17.8 cm). Original printed cream wrappers in translucent calque; recent cloth-backed card folder and slipcase by Devauchelle with printed title to spine. With 48 tipped-in gelatin silver prints and one halftone by G. Simoni of Rome, ranging in size from approx. 7.5..... More
Paris: A. Sirot/Editions Henry, 1949. Small folio. Original printed dust-jacket over stiff wrappers; 39 [7] pp. collecting the lyrics of 8 songs composed and sung in Buchenwald by Chanoir, a French political prisoner, illustrated with 16 original hors texte lithographic plates (7 in duotone, 9 in black and white) by..... More
Posters for three Kaprow happenings from the late 1960s, including Fluids at the Pasadena Art Museum, 1967; Moving at the Musuem of Contemporary Art in Chicago, 1967; and Homemovies, a happening held in celebration of the marriage of Catherine and Daniel Schmidt, July 11, 12, and 13, 1969. All three..... More
The French version of Nicholas II's coronation album, with 396 pp. of text, including a survey of the coronations of Nicholas's predecessors and a detailed description of the activities leading up to the coronation, illustrated throughout with portraits, facsimiles, reproductions of engravings, and decorative initials, followed by an unpag. supplement..... More
The famous avant-garde picture book, unpaginated (14 leaves printed recto and verso), with 12 full-page Constructivist illustrations each comprising a whimsical image made up of colorful triangles of various sizes, each image with a facing page of text containing a short poem or verse. Some slight soiling throughout, stitching a...... More
(12) pp. introductory material including illustrated title, preface, and list of plates with historical notes by Enrique Ramirez y Ramirez and Alberto Morales Jimenez, 144 plates with original full-page prints (many printed in color, most on colored paper stock) that reflect the independent and revolutionary spirit of the Mexican people..... More
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Moscow-Leningrad: Mezhrabpom, 1924. Octavo (22.4 × 15.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 36, [4] pp. Occasional contemporary annotations in pencil; light wear to lower spine extremity; else about very good. Catalog, with introductory articles and reproductions, published for the 1924 Moscow showing of the First German Art Exhibition in the..... More
103 pp. report on the tattoos found amound the resident convicts at the penal colony of Favignana, off the coast of Sicily, with brief preface by Cesare Lombroso, highlighting various types of tattoos found within the population, including religious tattoos, revenge tattoos, political tattoos, erotic and obscene tattoos, tattoos dedicated..... More
Two works of concrete poetry from the late 1960s by Jean-Claude Moineau, comprising an undated 12-page unrecorded work of Concrete Poetry done in collaboration with Christiane Frougny, "Textes à tester (Texts to Test)", and a 1968 work "Orléans mai-juin 1968 / La Bibliotheque Universitaire est occupee". Typed and mimeographed pages..... More
Unpaginated (approx. 123 pp.) typescript document comprising Moreno's theoretical essay on the OCI [Organización Comunista Internacionalista (unificada)] and Pierre Lambert and the French Trotskyists, first published publicly in Panorama Internacional, Año VI, No. 19, January 1982, divided into eleven chapters with titles such as "La teorìa de los campos burgueses..... More
Wien: Carl Gerold's Sohn, [1895 or 1896]. Small quarto (25.5 × 19.7 cm). Publisher's quarter cloth; pictorial boards; 16 leaves of chromolithograph illustrations by Magdalena Netolitzky accompanying printed text. Wrappers and cloth spine somewhat worn; internally very good. First edition of this rare parody of the iconic nineteenth-century German children's..... More
42 pp. compendium of poems by noted figures including Koshiro Onchi, who also designed the book and its layout, accompanied by 8 reproductions of photographs by the noted avant-garde photographer Katsuji Fukuda (1899-1991) mostly showing images of the female nude. 4to. Stiff printed and illustrated wrpps., sl. shaken. Tokyo (Fugaku..... More
Bucuresţi (Bucharest): self-published, 1931. Folio (32.5 × 23.5 cm). Original printed self-wrappers with an illustration by M. H. Maxy; [12] pp. Old horizontal crease; light overall wear; still very good. Published from 1928 to 1932, first at Dorohoi and beginning with no. 10 in Bucharest, UNU was among the most..... More
Moscow: Glaviskusstvo N.K.P., 1929. Small octavo (16.8 × 12.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by K. Kozkova; 30, [1] pp. Two full-page reproductions. Very good or better. Rare catalog accompanying an exhibition of contemporary Soviet art in various media on the topic of children at play, school, and work, organized by..... More
A complete subscription portfolio of 20 chromolithographs, each 22" x 28", issued in ten monthly installments of 2 prints reproducing orig. watercolors of American birds by Pope with captioned guard leaves reprinting descriptive texts from a variety of sources incl. Alexander Wilson's "American Ornithology" and Audubon's "Birds of America". Each..... More
Brno: Rolnická tiskárna, 1928. Small octavos (17.3 × 12.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers by Rossmann; 11, [1] and 13, [1] pp. each. About fine. Two scarce booklets introducing the famous 1928 Exhibition of Contemporary Culture, an important display of progress made in all the arts in ten years of..... More
1686. (24), 456, (36) pp. detailed text on artworks in hundreds of Roman churches and palazzi, each building getting its own entry ranging from a paragraph or two to several pages, and including works by Caracci, Mantegna, Gozzoli, Carlo Fontana, Cortese, Domenichino, Borromini, Guido Reni, da Vinci, Lorenzo Lotti, Michelangelo..... More
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Tbilisi: Samkhedro stamba, 1924. Octavo (22.5 × 11.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 56 pp. Drawn cover design by Iraklii Gamrekeli. Good or better; wrappers somewhat worn; with fraying to spine extremities; old bookstore stamp to rear wrapper; internally very good. First and only edition. A rare collaboration between two big..... More
Unpag. publication including pictorial frontispiece, decorative title, index leaf, and (2) pp. "Memoria", followed by 60 engraved plates depicting the lively street life of Venice in the mid-eighteenth century, with various craftsmen, merchants, artisans, laborers, and street entertainments, each plate with a rhyming verse in the Venetian dialect identifying the..... More