A Message To Garcia And Thirteen Other Things
Hubbard, Elbert (8), iv, (9)-166, (3) pages. 22x 14 cm. Limited edition, copy 16 of 50 on Japan vellum signed by Hubbard and the illuminator, Lily Ess. Portrait frontispiece of Elbert Hubbard. Raised bands, spine with gilt arabesques in floral motifs lettered in gilt. Small paper title label at bottom of clamshell box. Initial letters and upper page designs in myriad colors by Lilly Ess. MCKENNA 70. Bright, very fresh copy. Three quarter red morocco and marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers. Teg. Fine in near fine publisher original fleece-lined clamshell box- $1,695
- $1,695
Cerceaux ‘sorcellent Jean Dubuffet
Loreau, Max Unpaginated. 27 x 22 cm. Approx. 60 pages, illustrated with twenty-one original silkscreens by Dubuffet, most are colored. French text. Limited edition, copy 184 of 800. FROM MANET TO HOCKNEY 140. MONOD #7280. Lovely, fresh copy, spine a hint darkened. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine in fine black cloth slipcase- $875
- $875
Kunst der Sechziger Jahre Sammling Ludwig im Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Koln 1970; 4. verbesserte Auflage * Art of the Sixties 4th revised edition
Koln. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum 168 pages. Small folio, 30x 24 cm. 209 tipped-in plates, [several folding] and screened illustrations and figures on clear acetate sheets hors texte. Introductory comment by Gert von der Osten, and an essay by Evelyn Weiss. Introductory texts printed on polished styrofoam in parallel German and English. A monumental undertaking exquisitely executed. Visually stunning examples of black and white acetate overlays [images of the artists] with full-color examples of their work underneath. Includes Joseph Albers, Horst Antes, Joseph Beuys, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Dan Flavin, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Yves Klein, Sol Lewitt, Louise Nevelson, Claes Oldenburg, Gerhard Richter, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Tapies, Wayne Thiebaud, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol et al. Clear plastic wrappers, bolted within plexiglass backstrip, as issued. Fine- $425
- $425
The Architectural Work of Graham Anderson Probst & White
Graham Anderson Probst & White Large folio, 42 x 30 cm. Limited edition, copy 273 of 300 with more than 2000 photogravure plates. Predecessors D. H. Burnham & Co. and Graham Burnham & Co., and among the most lavish architectural monographs devoted to an American firm. Printed for private circulation only, this copy signed and presented by Ernest R. Graham to Mr. James P. Foraker. Later gift inscription by Mr. Foraker below. Graham was involved in the engineering and design of Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and a co-founder of this firm. Founded in 1894, they executed some of the best known buildings in America such as Pennsylvania Station, Philadelphia, Union Stations in Chicago and Washington, D. C., the Field Museum, Chicago, the Flatiron Building, New York, the Wrigley Building, Chicago, and department stores Wannamaker, both Philadelphia and New York branches, Marshall Field, Chicago, and Filenes, Boston. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. tiny paint dot to one volume, some light flecking to gilt rules, marbled endpapers. A very bright, handsome set. Large thick folio gilt-stamped brown morocco. Near fine in slipcases with a few stains. Teg. 2 Vols- $3,500
- $3,500
Andy Warhol’s Index Book
Warhol, Andy Unpaginated. 28 x 22 cm. With the assistance of Stephen Shore, Paul Morrissey, Ondine, and Nico. Factory photographs by Billy Name. Pop-ups and moveables entirely present and in working order (usual exception noted): Pop-up castle; Accordion noisemaker; Bi-plane; Chelsea Girls circular ad on spring; Geodesic paper "balloon" with string and rubber band inside balloon; Velvet Underground disc, Rainbow nose fold-out; Hunt's Tomato Paste pop-up; Andy Warhol perforated tabs; and Balloon degraded as usual. Black cloth, lensed pictorial grating mounted to front cover as issued. Near fine- $1,195
- $1,195
La Sphere De Sable; Illustrations De Jean Arp
Hugnet, Georges 23 pages. 23 x 17 cm. Limited edition, copy 130 of 176 on Pur fil paper. A total of 34 black and white drawings and two full page in black and white. Arp was half German half French, born in Strasbourg, he was known as a sculpture, Dadaist and abstract artist. Backstrip with nicks. Orig. light brown stiff wrappers cover printed in red and black. Very good- $375
- $375
The Voiage And Travaile Which Treateth Of The Way To Hierusalem, And The Marvayles Of Inde, With Other Llands And Countryes
Mandeville, John 157 pages. Folio, 34 x 24 cm. Limited edition, copy 25 of 150 by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for Random House, illuminated by Valenti Angelo in colors and gilt. 32 woodcuts in the text, and 34 large hand-illuminated initials in red, blue and gold. Paragraph marks in red and blue. Type was set by Robert Grabhorn and John Gannon with binding by William Wheeler. The text is from the 1725 English edition, The first compilation appeared circa 1366 in which Mandeville claimed to have journeyed through the countries noted here, but he gathered his story from various literary sources of the period. Raised bands, backstrip lettered in blind with some rubbing to joints. Laid-in a 9 x 12 inch four page Christmas greeting printed in red with a color lithograph on page 3. Orig. publisher's Philippine mahogany boards with brown niger morocco. Very good- $950
- $950
Le Bal Du Comte D’Orgel by Raymond Radiguet; Preface by Jean Cocteau
Cocteau, Jean (Illustrator) 184 pages.33 x 26.8 cm.Limited edition, copy 14 of 30 on papier d`auvergne with an extra suite of 34 gravures in the first state on Japon Nacre (total edition of 277). Unbound sheets as issued. All 34 gravure illustrations with lettered tissue guards in black and white are full page. Text with red initial letters, an exemplary, very clean and fresh production, chemise spine sunned. Cocteau, one of the foremost artists of the surrealist, avant-garde, and Dadaist eras. Text in French. Orig. mauve boards house chemise, front cover printed in red and black. Near fine in matching fine mauve slipcase- $850
- $850
Sous le manteau de feu by Genevieve Laporte; With a Preface by Armand Lanoux
Cocteau, Jean (Illustrator) Folio, 40 x 32 cm. Limited edition, copy 156 of 192 on papier pur fil Johannot, signed by the editor, Armand Lanoux. With 12 lithographs by Jean Cocteau, (nine in color) accompanies the poetry by Laporte. Contents loose as issued with tissue guards. Text printed in red and black. Elegant, clean and fresh copy. Laporte was a philanthropist, documentary filmmaker, artists' model, poet, and author of sixteen books. She is known for being one of Pablo Picasso's last lovers during the 1950s. Cocteau, one of the foremost artists of the surrealist, avant-garde, and Dadaist eras. Text in French. Orig. color decorated tan chemise with glassine. Fine in fine light gray slipcase backstrip lettered in red in near fine matching slipcase- $850
- $850
New York: The New Art Scene; Photographs by Ugo Mulas * Text by Alan Solomon * Design By Michele Pronvinciali
Mulas, Ugo 337 (4) pages. 33 x 24 cm. Profusion of black and white photographs printed in Italy on semi-glossy stock. An attempt to create a photographic record at a moment in history of the contemporary art scene in New York. With more than 500 photographs Mulas attempts to capture the spirit of the time. Orig. beige cloth backstrip lettered in black. Fine in worn dust wrapper- $595
- $595
Oeuvres Completes Illustrees; Boule De Suif Les Dimanches D’Un Bourgeois De Paris
Maupassant. Guy De 387 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Eight full page pochoir plates executed by Jacomet, 55 full page black and white plates by Victor MIchel, and a host of black and white text illustrations. Boule de Suif, translated variously as Dumpling, Butterball, Ball of Fat, or Ball of Lard, is a short story by the late-19th-century first published on 15/16 April 1880. Limited edition, copy 685 of 1150 on alfa satine Navarre. Elegant unsigned binding, inner dentelles, green silked and marbled board endpapers, spine of original paper bound edition laid-in. Interior fresh and day printed. Full black morocco, raised bands, spine in gilt and colors, front cover lettered in gilt. Teg. Fine- $350
- $350
Portraits
Matisse, Henri 152 pages. 31 x 25 cm. One of 500 copies in English [from a total of 2850, this being copy 1830 of the 1501-2000 numbered limitations of the English edition] printed by Mourlot. Cover is an original lithograph by Matisse in gold, blue and black. Sixty duotone lithographic plates after drawings by Matisse, and thirty-three tipped-in color plates. DUTHUIT 670. The original lithograph cover and color plates were printeed by the Ateliers Mourlot Freres. MONOD 7849. RAUCH 340. Orig. pictorial wrappers with clear acetate wrappers. Fine in fine maroon board chemise, in very good matching slipcase- $1,850
- $1,850
La Guirlande Des Mois 1920
Barbier, George (Illustrator) 128 pages. 12 x 8.5 cm. Six full-page pochoir color plates (plus additional text and border designs) -- Art Deco illustration in its zenith; Barbier being one of its foremost and famous proponents. Texts by la comtesse de Noailles, Albert Flament, Jean-Louis Vaudoyer.The illustrated silk covers offer a further dimension of Art Deco motif; illustrated dust wrapper, and slipcase in colors wrap the presentation. Lovely, fresh copy. Orig. silk decorated cloth. Fine in near fine dust wrapper in near fine slipcase. Aeg- $850
- $850
Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi; Being the 26th AND 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew’s Gospel From The Latin Text
Gill, Eric (Illustrator) 15 pages. 26 x 19.5 cm. Copy 188 of 250 printed by Robert Gibbings. Text is that of the Vulgate According To The Edition of the Aloysius Fillion (Paris, Letouzy Et Ane). Title page printed in red and black, initial letters in red. Gill provides two full page and text wood engravings. Compositors: F. Young and A.H. Gibbs, Pressman: A.C. Cooper. Interior contents pristine, mostly unopened, covers dusty, spine darkened. CHANTICLEER 35. GILL 276. Orig. white buckram spine lettered in gilt. Very good- $1,895
- $1,895
Auguries Of Innocence; Wood Engravings By Leonard Baskin
Blake, William Unpaginated [five leaves]. 24 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 87 of 100 on Rives French mold-made paper with a wood engraving printed from the block, signed and numbered Leonard Baskin, also signed on the colophon by Baskin. As new copy. Quarter brown morocco, spine lettered in gilt and brown boards. Fine in fine matching brown board slipcase- $550
- $550
The Song Of Songs Called By Many The Canticle Of Canticles
Gill, Eric (Illustrator) 43 pages. 26 1/2 x 20 cm. Twenty wood engravings by Eric Gill. Printed in black and red in Caslon O.F. Limited edition, copy 441 of 750 on Batchelor hand-made paper. CHANTICLEER 31. Humbert Wolfe in his Introduction to "Chanticleer." notes, "The type and paper of `The Song of Songs' are both beyond praise. GILL 275. Mostly unopened, spine darkened, covers a bit dusty, interior contents immaculate. Orig. white buckram spine lettered in gilt. Very good- $1,495
- $1,495
Troilus And Criseyde By Geoffrey Chaucer; Edited By Arundell Del Re
Gill, Eric (Illustrator) Small Folio, 309 (1) pages. 32 x 20 cm. Limited editions, copy 107 of 225, (six copies on vellum), Compositors: F. Young and A.H. Gibbs, Pressman: A.C. Cooper. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in same pattern style covers as The Canterbury Tales. Five full-page plates, sixty decorative borders and four tail pieces by Eric Gill. Printed in blue, red and black in Caslon Old Face type on Kelmscott hand-made paper. It is the first and considered the scarcest and the first of the three books produced by Gill and Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press, having a relatively small limitation as the Canterbury Tales and The Four Gospels (Edition of 500 copies). CHANTICLEER 50. GILL. 279. CAVE & MANSON. pp. 50 ff. RANSOM, p. 297. Raised bands, spine lettered in gilt, slight wear at corners, interior contents very bright, clean and fresh. Orig. quarter morocco spine and patterned boards. Teg. Very good- $9,500
- $9,500
The Book Of Jonah Taken From The Authorized Version Of King James I.
Jones, David (Illustrator) 15 pages. Limited edition, copy 44 of 75. One of the most limited productions of the Golden Cockerel Press. Host of full page and wood engravings in the text. THE ARTIST AND THE BOOK 136. "Jones usually favored wood, rather than copper engravings.He also designed the device of the Golden Cockerel Press." Interior contents immaculate, partly unopened, spine lightly darkened. CHANTICLEER 40. Orig. white boards spine lettered in gilt. Very good/Near fine- $1,500
- $1,500
Samson And Delilah From The Book Of Judges According To The Authorized Version
Gibbings, Robert (Illustrator) 17 pages. Limited edition, copy 37 of 325. Seven large black and white wood engravings, one is full page by Gibbings. Compositors: F. Young and A.H. Gibbs, Pressman: A.C. Cooper. An early production of the Press. Mostly unopened, interior contents immaculate, covers a bit dusty. CHANTICLEER 30.- $895
- $895
Specimens of British Grasses
Gunn, W.F. Folio, 46 x 24 cm. 44 grass specimens on approximately 38 blue leaves, nearly all with printed caption cards. and with printed introductory leaf noting the first edition of this album was so well received the author published this present edition. Botanical and "common sense" names provided as well as the average height, time of flowering, soil for which it is best adapted. Provenance: W.W. Grasby signature on the introductory leaf. Orig. brown cloth lettered in gilt. Spine perished. Good- $295
- $295
La Tentation De Saint-Antoine. Edition définitive; Vingt miniatures de Arthur Szyk
203 pages. 24 x 19 cm. Limited edition, copy 319 of 343. Twenty miniature pochoir plates by Arthur Szyk produced by Jean Saude, master of pochoir. Title page and cover printed in red and black, all plates with tissue guards. Superb copy, partly unopened, portion of glassine lacking lower backstrip. Text in French. Orig. stiff printed wrappers with original glassine over wrapper. Fine Histoire Naturelle; Introduction by Jean Arp
Folio, 52 x 32 cm. 34 black and white plates on heavy thick sheets. Limited edition, one of 200 of the French edition. Originally published 1926 by editions Jeanne Bucher. Ernst was a A key member of first Dada and then Surrealism in Europe in the 1910s and 1920s. Very clean and sharp copy almost as new. Orig. loose as issued text and plates housed in beige basket weave clamshell case lettered in black. Fine Tartarin de Tarascon; Illustre D’Aquarelles Originales De Jacques Touchet
158 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Host of brilliant aquarelles ( technique of painting in transparent, rather than opaque, watercolours). Originally published in 1872 his creativeness resulted in characters that were real and also typical. Orig. color illustrated front cover printed in red and black with original glassine. Fine Ficciones
306 pages. 21 x 21 cm. Illustrated by Sol Lewitt, twenty-two silkscreen prints, printed by Borges friend and printmaker, Jo Watanbe at his New York studio, and tipped-in by hand, printed at the Anthoensen Press. Limited edition, copy one of 1500 [stamped presentation copy, out of series] signed by Lewitt in pencil. This work deals with fictional places with the idea of infinity and mythical creatures that immerse the reader in magical worlds. NEWMAN & WICHE 541. Full black cowhide, spine lettered in blind. Fine in matching black cloth slipcase