Booklet of twelve numbered and colored lithographs, printed recto only, depicting Art Deco designs for various types of stamped or embossed metal objects such as a cigarette case, a cake plate, a hair clip, and a candy tray, each image signed within the plate. Some very minor toning, some rust..... More

Moscow–Berlin: Mezhrabpom, 1924. Octavo (17 × 11.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with a photomontage design by Petr Galadzhev; XXV, 117 pp. With one map. About very good; light wear to wrapper edges and spine extremities. Early Soviet fascination with Western industrialization is captured in the unattributed Constructivist wrapper design of..... More

15 pp. text on the works of Gutenberg and the Schoffers, 8 facsimiles of pages from the Holy Bible, the Mainzer Catholicon,the Psalter of 1457, the Missal of 1458, Durandus, the Latin Bible of 1462 and the Special Missal. Folio. Wrpps. portfolio. Berlin (the author) 1918. More

[Germany, ca. 1969]. A curious "computer"-like device comprising 111 recipes printed to the blue sheets (measuring 10 × 14.5 cm, with punch-holes along all sides), a U-shaped stylus, and an index card. Also included are four blank cards with punch-holes still fresh, which can be used for additional recipes, to..... More

Tokyo: Ars, 1927-1930. 24-volume-illustrated survey (each vol. approx. 100-150 pp. including plates) of international commercial and graphic art with historical analysis and scholarly annotations by Hamada Masuji and dozens of other design journalists, educators and practitioners, with individual volumes focusing on one or more aspect of the profession, including poster..... More

251 pp. history of book illustration and printing in Zurich from the time of Sigmund Rot and Hans Ruegger at the turn of the 16th century through the first half of the 19th century, notes, bibliography, indices, 230 nice illustrations. 4to. Dec. boards. Zurich (Schweizerische Bibliophilen-Gesellschaft) 1952. Limited edition... More

357 pp. catalogue from the venerable firm, fully describing over two hundred items for sale, including illuminated manuscripts, incunabula, letters from notable people (John Boswell, Robert and Elizabeth Browning among others), and manuscripts, illustrated on plates throughout. Lg. 4to. Wrpps., covers slightly discolored, ex-library copy with bookplate inside front cover..... More

Unpaginated volume containing 8 cardstock leaves depicting members of the circus to be cut out and assembled with small paper fasteners such as brads, one side of the cardstock page in chromolithograph, the reverse in black and white with indications as to where to fold and attach the various pieces..... More

Moscow: Fizkultura i Sport, 1928. Oblong quarto. Original cloth-backed boards with decorative covers affixed to front and back; [86] leaves of texts and photo-montage to rectos and versos. Album published in conjunction with the first Winter and Summer Spartakiads held in Oslo and Moscow in February and August, 1928, with..... More

Unpaginated (32 pp.) psychedelically illustrated children's book with lithographed illustrations and text by Claire Moore, which tells ths story of a little spaceman who comes to Earth and experiences food, drink, and interactions with humans and animals. 4to. Original lithographed wrpps., very light soiling to covers. New York (Children's Underground..... More

Group of approximately 100 assorted original early to mid-20th century color-printed and embossed labels for a variety of French chocolate manufacturers and shops, most or all printed by the St. Etienne, France firm of A. Mulcey, a firm which specialized in commercial printing, especially producing labels for food and wine..... More

Unpaginated (circa 18 pp.) sample from the prominent French printer, displaying samples of his capabilities in phototype or photolithography printing, including work produced for postcards, souvenir viewbooks, trade catalogues, menus, and other items, including images of landscape views, building façades, decorative tiles, sculpture, a church interior, and light fixtures. Folio..... More

3 vols.: I. A-D. II. E-M. III. N-Z. 230, 276, 176 pp. critical and descriptive catalogue of nearly 2,000 items, incl. embroidered bindings, illustrated books, a substantial fragment of a Gutenberg bible, etc., ca. 100 plates throughout showing leaves, bindings, etc. Sm 4to. Cloth, d.j. New York (Parke-Bernet) 1941. Three..... More