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 paper, watercolor, paint, yarn, raffia, twine lace, tissue paper, foil, and cloth, exemplifying the renowned Cuban..... More
A complete collection of all 45 first edition artist's booklets published by Edition Hundertmark, ranging from 16 to 24 pages each, together with 4 second edition booklets (numbers 1, 3, 36, and 43), with text in German and English from a range of European, American, and Asian contemporary artists, including..... More
Moscow: ca. 1958–1961. Oblong folio (21 × 31 cm). Light blue buckram photo-album, with illustration of Leningrad to front board; twenty unnumbered card leaves with handwritten text to rectos and versos in blue ink, with painted red and blue headings and collaged images, newspaper text, and original photographs. Some browning..... More
![Ispanskaia tantsovshchitsa [The Spanish Dancer]. Film promotional booklet published by the Soviet...](/pictures/thumb/P4821_1.jpg?v=1592501883)
Moscow: Kinopechat’, [1927]. 12mo (13.5 × 8.8 cm). Staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; [7] pp. Wrappers lightly soiled; text browned to lower corners; stamp of Uzbekgoskino to rear wrapper. A scarce, fragile survival: this promotional prospectus was sold along with the newspaper "Kino" and the journal "Sovetskii ekran." It introduces and explains..... More
Petrograd: Tip. Fleitmana, 1915. Octavo (16.2 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 28 pp. Wrappers lightly soiled; tiny Soviet bookstore mark to rear wrapper; still a very good copy. Scarce exhibition catalog of the Russian Imperial Society of Watercolor Painters, held in wartime Petrograd. The exhibition included a wide range..... More
Tallinn and Tartu: Kirjanikkude Ühingu "Siuru" Kirjastus; "Odamehe" kirjastus, 1917-1919. Quartos (27 × 19.2 cm). Later buckram bindings, preserving original pictorial wrappers by Nikolai Triik and Ado Vabbe (front and back); 148, [2]; 115, [4]; and 134 pp. Three full-page illustrations by Triik (volume I), six full-page drawings, of which..... More
Petrograd: Izdanie khudozhestvenno-graficheskogo zavedeniia "Union", [1916]. Octavo (23 × 17.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 60 pp. Light moisture damage, affecting margins of first and last few leaves; some wear to spine extremities; still good or better. Catalog of the forty-fourth exhibition of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions, known as..... More
Moscow: Izd. "Dom pechati", [1922]. Octavo (17.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 47 pp. Illustrations throughout, including three plates in color. Owner inscription to front wrapper. Wrapper edges lightly chipped; light soil to wrappers; about very good. An early monograph dedicated to the work of the prominent Russian and Soviet..... More
Moscow: Izdatel'stvo “Leto-pechat’", [1915]. Folio (36 × 27 cm). Original printed card folder with three flaps, housing eight leaves of color lithographs to rectos, with simpler sketches lithographed to rectos. Signed and inscribed by the artist to flap (addressee's name illegible). With a small note in ink noting that the..... More
![Geomeetriline inimene. VI kogu värsse [Geometrical man. 6th book of poems]. Johannes Barbarus,...](/pictures/thumb/P5892_1.jpeg?v=1592502317)
1924. Tartu: Propeller, 1924. Octavo (24.5 × 16.5 cm). Original wrappers with a constructivist design and typography by Jaan Vahtra; 109, [3] pp. One original woodcut print and fifteen smaller illustrations by Vahtra in the text. Printed on thick paper. A very good copy. One of the most striking publications..... More
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Moscow: Poligrafichesko-kartonazhnaia F-ka Frunzenskogo Raipromtresta, 1948. Octavo (20 × 16 cm). Original pictorial card wrappers; a single leaf printed to rectos and versos, folded into 12 pp. and tipped into rear wrapper. Text and illustrations on each page. Very good. The first and only children’s book by Nikolai Sergeevich Berendgof..... More
Prague: Izd. red. zhurn. "Vol'noe Kazachestvo", [1929]. Large octavo (24 × 16 cm). Original decorative wrappers by Mykola Bytyns'kyi; 274, [5] pp. With two folding maps and one folding chart. Very good; wrappers and last few pages a little dusty; else apparently unread. First and only issue of the émigré..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1920. Large octavo (26 × 21 cm). Original orange paper-covered boards, incorporating an illustration by Mikhail Larionov; 26 pp. With six illustrations by Larionov throughout. Recent professional repair to spine; moisture damage to boards; very light traces of moisture to plates; still good or better. First..... More
[Paris]: Jacques Damase, January 20, 1950. Octavo (24 × 18.5 cm). Original pictorial gray paper wrappers over blind wraps; unnumbered leaves of text in English and French and [22] leaves of plates. A fine copy. Exceedingly rare edition of a bilingual volume of poems (in French and English) by Joë..... More
272, XXXVIII pp. facsimile of the text originally printed in 1497 by Johann Grüninger in Strasbourg, with commentary by Gustav Klein discussing the printing methods, 16 plates showing titles pages and illustrations from works by Hieronymus Brunschwig and others. Small 4to. Wrpps., covers faded, original title-wrapper shredding. Munich (Carl Kuhn)..... More
![Rodina. Sbornik dlia detei i iunoshestva [The motherland. An anthology for children and youth].;...](/pictures/thumb/P002789_1.jpg?v=1591527302)
Riga: Izdanie Akts. Obshch. "Salamandra", 1926. Large octavo (29.5 × 22 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [4], 88 pp. 60 illustrations in the text; four tipped-in color plates on card stock. Wrappers lightly worn, with small nicks and creases; spine ends chipped, with some loss of spine strip; internally very good..... More
Riga: Izdanie Akts. Obshch. "Salamandra", 1927. Large octavo (29.5 × 22 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; [3], 111, [1] pp. Publisher's ads for the emigre journal "Perezvony" inside rear wrapper. Numerous illustrations in the text; four tipped-in color plates on card stock. Wrappers very lightly creased from use; else very good..... More
Paris: Hratarakutʻiwn Tigran Khan K'elekeani, 1910. Large octavo (25.5 × 16.8 cm). Original printed wrappers; 128 pp. Illustrations. Rebacked with green card stock; front and rear wrappers affixed, with chipping to edges; lacking spine strip; internally very good. First edition of this monograph on two members of the Hovnatanian artist..... More
Beograd: Nezavisno autorsko izdanje, 1970. Quarto (26 × 26 cm). Original string-bound decorative wrappers; 104 pp. Illustrations throughout. Very good; in protective mylar. An influential neo-avant-garde pro-Fluxus volume of writing and collages by the Serbo-Croatian and Yugoslav writer, translator and dissident Bora Ćosić (b.1932). Starting with his translation of the..... More
Vienna: Gedruckt und in Commission der Mechitaristen-Congregations-Buchhandlung, 1836. Quarto (25.8 × 19.7 cm). Contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; spine gilt-tooled, with black spine label; engraved frontis portrait, xxi, [1], 441, [3] pp. abd 72 [i.e. 71] leaves of plates (two double-folded and double-numbered). Boards and spine rubbed; corners somewhat scuffed;..... More
![Zahrada hříchu: grotesky [The garden of sins: grotesques].; Knihovna Osvobození života v...](/pictures/thumb/P004177.jpg?v=1587551522)
Pardubice: Osvobození života, 1927. Octavo (19 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 127 pp. With fourteen original linocut vignettes and full-page illustrations. About very good, uncut and unopened; spine strip lightly toned. A highly eclectic interpretation of Czech modernist art and literature by this relatively unknown Czech writer, publisher, and..... More
Unpaginated artist's book from the poet and painter associated with the British Poetry Revival and Fluxshoe, the UK offshoot of Fluxus, containing an abstract mix of poetry, notes on printing methods, lists, graphs, illustrations, diagrams, and collage, primarily mimeographed in red and blue ink and blue and white paper stock..... More
131 pp. play by the German literary master, including 6 plates showing drawings by Goetz Freiherrn von Seckendorff (1889-1914) of characters in the play, delicately hand colored with watercolors by Emil Wöllner, additional engraved title-page by E.R. Weiss. 8vo. Embossed leather, front cover slightly rubbed. Munich (Marées-Gesellschaft) 1918. (Marées-Gesellschaft, 1)..... More
Prague: Družstvo "Vlast", 1948. Small octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original staple-stitched printed; [26] pp. of text. Fourteen black-and-white reproductions and a frontis portrait of the author. Signed by three of the four contributors: Lorenc, Kundera, and Tomeš. Very good. Scarce booklet accompanying what appears to be the first solo..... 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