‎Design‎

‎DE KAY John; Frans Masereel cover design‎

‎Women and the New Social States‎

‎Basle: C.-A. Junger 1918. First Edition. Octavo 20.5cm.; publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt with design by Masereel; xxviii329523pp.; photographic frontispiece. Rear cover badly dampstained though only slightly affecting interior spine gilt a bit dulled textblock uniformly toned else Very Good and sound. Study of women's rights by the eccentric meat packing millionaire and playwright John Wesley de Kay who concludes that "industrial toil should be performed exclusively by men and machines" p. vii. C.-A. Junger unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 44382

‎COUNTERCULTURE GRAPHICS CENEDELLA Robert design‎

‎Peace Could Be Groovy‎

‎New York: Yippy 1971. First Edition. Original machine lithographed poster in colors 72cm x 58cm ca 28-1/2" x 22-1/2". A few minor edge-creases but a bright unfaded unworn example Near Fine A-. Unbacked. Rather early poster commission by the artist and art-world provocateur Robert Cenedella. Cenedella is perhaps best known for his 2018 lawsuit against five American art museums in which he alleges that museums and private gallerists have been co-conspirators in denying certain artists -- including himself -- mainstream success. The current design delightfully unironic reproduces the insignia of the United Nations in day-glo colors with psychedelic typography at lower 1/3 of image. Apparently uncommon; we find no catalogued examples in OCLC; not in the on-line catalog of the OAC. Yippy unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 43042

‎PACIFISM ARTWORKS design‎

‎Poster: Evacuation Would Be Impossible. Mobilize For Survival. Rally May 27‎

‎New York: Mobilization for Survival 1978. Original illustrated poster offset printed in four colors on white stock measuring 40.5cm x 55.5cm 16" x 22". Mild handling to extremities faint corner crease and a tiny tear to upper edge with a staple hole toward upper margin; Near Fine. Poster produced by Mobilization for Survival a national coalition of peace and justice groups based in Philadelphia who advocated for denuclearization and an end to the arms race. Planet Earth prominently featured at center swallowed by a large mushroom cloud in the background. Not found in OCLC though we note an example held at OMCA. Mobilization for Survival unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 43524

‎SCHRADER Rob Lies Ros and Frank Beekers design‎

‎Poster: 75 Jaar ANC / Afrikaans Nationaal Congres 75 Years of the ANC / African National Congress‎

‎Amsterdam: Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland n.d. but 1987. First Edition. Original poster 84x29.75cm. printed offset in colors over glossy white stock. Some general wear to extremities including very faint dampstain along left-hand edge faint horizontal fold else Near Very Good and sound. Issued on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the 1912 founding of South Africa's anti-apartheid political party the National African Congress today the country's majority political party. The poster depicts a photo-montaged speer a black man's screaming face in the middle of the blade. IISH only in OCLC as of June 2017. Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 34323

‎BECKWITH Carol & Angela Fisher; Graham Hancock text; Barney Wan design‎

‎African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa‎

‎New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc 1990. First American Edition. Quarto 35.5cm x 27cm. Gray cloth boards hardcover with titling embossed in silver on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slighly bumped edge of lower back board else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight slight shelf wear to extremities. A photographic journey through the landscapes and cultures of the Horn of Africa by photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher supported by an informative text by Graham Hancock and line-drawings of the artifacts and architecture of the region. 328 illustrations including 244 color plates 75 line drawings and 9 maps. Harry N. Abrams, Inc unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 43437

‎BARTOS Jan; Jindrich Styrsky cover design‎

‎Krkavci: Komedie o Trech Dejstvích The Ravens‎

‎Praha: Vydal Devetsil 1924. Second Edition. Slim octavo 22cm.; publisher's white pictorial wrappers yapp edges; 61pp. Wrappers rather chipped and worn especially along spine repaired shallow loss at bottom edge of upper cover general dust-soil some foxing to rear cover textblock slightly toned else Good to Very Good. Earliest edition of the author's first play to be issued by the leading Czech avant-garde publishing house Devetsil upper cover designed by the prolific Surrealist artist Jindrich Å tyrsky. OCLC locates one copy in the United States as of November 2018 at the NYPL. Vydal Devetsil unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 42953

‎GRAPHICS ART & PHOTOGRAPHY ARROSEV A. Aleksandr text; V. Stepanova & Aleksandr Rodchenko design‎

‎Soviet Cinema‎

‎Moscow: VOKS 1935. First Edition. Small quarto 27cm. Leatherette-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; 1-24 25-306 20pp. Mild external wear; slight lean to text block; still a tight Very Good or better copy with both pictorial inserts present and in good condition bit of wrinkling to the fragile celluloid insert bearing Stalin's silhouette portrait. Unusually well-preserved copy of this landmark of Soviet book design featuring copious examples of the revolutionary photomontage work of Rodchenko and Stepanova. The two extremely fragile inserted design elements - a die-cut folded plate bearing Lenin's portrait on a movie screen and a clear celluloid sheet with the printed silhouette of Stalin are rarely found intact if at all; in this copy both are present and complete in excellent condition. VOKS unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 38548

‎PYATAKOV GL. editor; FRIEDLAND S. design G. L.‎

‎USSR in Construction. 1935 No.6 June‎

‎Moscow: The State Publishing House of Graphic Arts 1935. First Edition. Folio 42cm; printed wrappers saddle-stitched; 40pp; illus.; text is entirely in English. Mild wear along spine-fold some pinpoint wear and a few creases to wrapper extremities else clean internally; Near Fine. Well-preserved issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two Five Year Plans and through various foreign-language editions to propagandize the stark contrast between the vibrant Soviet economy during this period and the stagnation of Western economies under capitalism. "All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks designed by Lissitsky Rodchenko and others.were developed in USSR in Construction one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century" Parr-Badger The Photobook I:148.<br/><br/>The present issue is entirely devoted to the children of the Soviet Union. "We must produce a new generation of healthy and buoyant workers capable of increasing the power of the Soviet Union" Stalin from inner wrapper. The State Publishing House of Graphic Arts unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 42024

‎PYATAKOV GL. editor; TROSHIN E. design G. L.‎

‎USSR in Construction. 1932 No.3 March‎

‎Moscow: The State Publishing Union of RSFSR 1932. First Edition. Folio 42cm; printed wrappers saddle-stitched; 44pp; illus.; text is entirely in English. Some wear mild toning and handling to wrappers with a few faint creases to same and a few faint damp marks at margins; 8-panel centerfold spread is detached from staples but present; just Very Good. Well-preserved issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two Five Year Plans and through various foreign-language editions to propagandize the stark contrast between the vibrant Soviet economy during this period and the stagnation of Western economies under capitalism. "All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks designed by Lissitsky Rodchenko and others.were developed in USSR in Construction one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century" Parr-Badger The Photobook I:148.<br/><br/>The present issue is entirely devoted to the 10th anniversary of the Transcaucasian Federation detailing the customs and contributions of its people in text and photos. The State Publishing Union of RSFSR unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 42043

‎HALAS Frantisek; Jindrich Styrsky illus.; Vit Obrtel design‎

‎Kohout Plaší Smrt: Básne 1928-1929‎

‎Praha: Plejada 1930. First Trade Edition. Slim octavo 20cm.; publisher's cream decorative card wrappers printed in tan and black; 55pp.; frontispiece. Light wear and toning to wrapper extremities one signature disbound at time of publication else Very Good or better. Czech poetry collection attractive cover graphic designed by the architect and typographer Vít Orbtel. Plejada unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 40278

‎LOWENFELS Walter; Rockwell Kent jacket design‎

‎American Voices‎

‎New York: Roving Eye Press 1959. First Limited Edition. Small octavo. Rust cloth hardcover; 63pp. Limited to 1000 copies. A clean and unmarked copy in a moderately dusted spotted dustjacket two tiny closed tears else VG. Jacket illustration by Rockwell Kent. Lowenfels 1897-1976 was a key figure in the Paris avant-garde during the 1930s where he was a close friend of Henry Miller and Anais Nin and was in fact the model for the character Jabberwhorl Kronstadt in Miller's Tropic of Cancer . Returning to the US he became a central Communist Party organizer and an editor of the Philadelphia Daily Worker. He was arrested tried and convicted under the Smith Act in 1953 but eventually exhonerated for lack of evidence. Roving Eye Press unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 39309

‎INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AUSTRALIA "DONA" design‎

‎Broadside: "Aboriginal People - Land Rights For Indigenous People‎

‎Pinnacle Creek Kimberley: S.i. 1981. Original photo-illustrated broadside xeroxed on a single sheet of white stock measuring 28cm x 21.5cm 11" x 8.5". Mild even toning with two small pinholes at upper corners; Very Good. Superb photographic broadside related to the struggle surrounding the Aboriginal Land Rights Act originating from the Walmajarri Tribe of Pinnacle Creek in Kimbereley Northwest Australia. The Act sought to grant Indigenous ownership and the right for Aboriginal tribes to claim royalties from the mining and farm companies to whom the Australian government had leased the land. While different states passed the Act as early as the late-1970's it was not passed in the Kimberlies until the mid-1980's. Not separately listed in OCLC. S.i. unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 34978

‎ROSNER Charles text; LUSTIG Alvin jacket design‎

‎The Growth of the Book-Jacket‎

‎Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1954. First Edition. Quarto 25cm; turquoise cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xxxiv2pp plus 74pp of black and white reproductions of dustjackets. Boards slightly splayed touch of offset from flaps onto endpapers with a hint of dustiness to text edges; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $4.00 gently spine-sunned with a touch of dustiness and some scattered foxing to flaps; Very Good. Attractive copy of Rosner's survey of dustjackets ranging from the earliest-known 19th century jackets through the 1950's providing reproductions of jackets from 25 different countries 226 illustrations. Harvard University Press unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 33108

‎LOWENFELS Walter; Rockwell Kent jacket design‎

‎American Voices Inscribed Advance Copy‎

‎New York: Roving Eye Press 1959. First Limited Edition. Small octavo. Rust cloth hardcover; 63pp. Limited to 1000 copies. A clean and unmarked copy in a moderately dusted spotted dustjacket about VG. Jacket illustration by Rockwell Kent. Inscribed on front endpaper: "This advance copy for Mike / who knows I have never lost confidence in her and I hope it is vice versa / Walter" datemarked Weymonk 1958. The inscribee is possibly Michal Lowenfels the poet's oldest daughter who was married to American bookseller Norman Kane from whose estate the current volume was obtained. Lowenfels 1897-1976 was a key figure in the Paris avant-garde during the 1930s where he was a close friend of Henry Miller and Anais Nin and was in fact the model for the character Jabberwhorl Kronstadt in Miller's Tropic of Cancer . Returning to the US he became a central Communist Party organizer and an editor of the Philadelphia Daily Worker. He was arrested tried and convicted under the Smith Act in 1953 but later exhonerated for lack of evidence. Roving Eye Press unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 32204

‎KOSSAREV A. editor in chief; RODCHENKO Alexander and Barbara Stepanova design‎

‎USSR in Construction. 1937 No.5 May‎

‎Moscow: State Publishing House of Graphic Arts 1937. Folio 41.5cm; photo-illustrated card wrappers stapled; 36pp; illus; text is in English. Minor wear and a few creases to spine fold and extremities with dustiness to rear wrapper; occasional thumbing to margins; Very Good. Well-preserved issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two Five Year Plans and through various foreign-language editions to propagandize the stark contrast between the vibrant Soviet economy during this period and the stagnation of Western economies under capitalism. "All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks designed by Lissitsky Rodchenko and others.were developed in USSR in Construction one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century" Parr-Badger The Photobook I:148.<br/><br/>The theme of the present issue is dedicated entirely to the production of Gold in the USSR detailing the rise of production from pre-revolutionary Russia 1910 through 1937 when Russia ranked second in the world due to their industrial machinery superior engineering and large working populace. Front wrapper features a metallic cover photo of a large tower of neatly-stacked gold bars. State Publishing House of Graphic Arts unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 30789

‎RADICAL & PROLETARIAN LIT FRANK Waldo; KENT Rockwell cover design‎

‎The Death and Birth of David Markand: An American Story‎

‎New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1934. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; lime green cloth titled in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 542pp. Sunning to cloth at spine and extremities else a fresh Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.75 gently spine-sunned and lightly dusty with a few short closed tears; Very Good. Frank's sequel to Dark Mother a strike novel in which a tobocco company executive searches for social order among farmers and workers. A much better example than usually seen of this wear-prone title. HANNA 1299 BLAKE p.252 RIDEOUT p.296. Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 31017

‎KAZAKEVICH E.; Leonard Stoklitsky trans.; SB. Telengator design; UD. Korovin illus S. B. U. D.‎

‎Star: A Story‎

‎Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House 1952. First English Language Edition. 12mo 17cm.; original cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; 157pp.; photographic frontispiece pictorial title page printed in red and black head- and tail-pieces throughout. Some edge wear to jacket extremities minor dust-soil foxing to textblock edges else Near Very Good overall. The author's first book a novella set within a scouting unit during WW2 and awarded the Stalin Prize in 1947. Foreign Languages Publishing House unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 30259

‎STORM Hans Otto novel; CARLSON George jacket design‎

‎Full Measure‎

‎New York: Macmillan Company 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; navy blue vertical-ribbed cloth with titling and decorations stamped in light green on spine and front coverl dustjacket; 390pp. Text edges and endpapers foxed else Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped with edge wear light spine sunning nicks and several tears with attendant creasing one of which is mended with clear tape on verso. Occupational novel of the technical side of the radio industry written by a radio engineer. Dustjacket with striking design by George Carlson. HANNA 3393. Macmillan Company unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 23581

‎CUNNINGHAM Eugene; Forrest Wood cover design & decorations‎

‎Famous in the West Limited Edition‎

‎Dallas: Bradburn Books 1958. First Thus. Limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 216. Octavo 20.5cm.; original pale grey pictorial staplebound wrappers printed in red and black; 625pp.; photographic illus. & engravings by John McIntosh throughout. Facsimile edition of a work originally published in the "Rodeo Town" of El Paso Texas 1926. Compilation of short biographies of famous Western criminals and law officers including Billy the Kid Dallas Stoudenmire and John Wesley Hardin "Super Killer. Bradburn Books unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 21433

‎WEXLEY John text; KENT Rockwell design‎

‎The Judgment of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg‎

‎New York: Cameron & Kahn 1955. Second Edition. Thick octavo 22cm; brown paper and tan cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; 672pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket unclipped with some trivial wear at the crown. Lacking the publiser's decorative slipcase. A penetrating and definitive study of the Rosenberg-Sobell case. An attractive copy with Kent's superb jacket design bright and unmarred. Cameron & Kahn unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 25981

‎SUDERMANN Hermann novel; WENCK Paul jacket design‎

‎The Wife of Steffen Tromholt‎

‎New York: Horace Liveright 1929. First Edition. First Printings. 2 octavo volumes; mint green cloth titled and blocked in black and yellow on spines and front panels; black topstains; dustjackets; 356 426pp. 8pp publisher's catalog for Fall 1929 laid in. Minute wear at crowns trifle rubbing to front panel of vol.2 else Fine. Jackets are lightly sunned at spines with some minor edgewear a few short tears and a small nick at the crown of vol.2; small triangular snag to rear panel of vol.1; Very Good overall nicely preserving the attractive cover art by Paul Wenck. Lacking the publisher's original slipcase. One of the last of the German dramatist's novels translated into English by Eden and Cedar Paul and published by Horace Liveright the year after his death. "Sudermann portrays the conflict between a man's craving for unlimited freedom and the longing for a soul-mate and the cheerful anchorage of a home. Horace Liveright unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 20233

‎MARKOVITS Rodion novel; POLITZER Irving jacket design‎

‎Siberian Garrison‎

‎New York: Horace Liveright 1929. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; red vertical-ribbed cloth blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; 407pp. Previous owners name neatly rubber-stamped to front endpaper and rear pastedown; light oxidation to spine gilt with some minor rubbing to boards; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $2.50 spine-toned with overall wear chipping and tears to extremities and dustiness to panels; Very Good. The Austro-Hungarian author's first novel detailing his imprisonment by the Russians in 1915 after which he spent nearly six years in various Siberian prison camps during the Czarist regime and the subsequent Russian governments. A brutally detailed picture of prison life touching on the sex problem within the prison camp shortages of food and clothing killings and the maddening silly games invented to escape lunacy. Horace Liveright unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 22809

‎ABRAMSON Ivan novel; POLITZER Irving jacket design‎

‎Mother of Truth: A Story of Romance and Retribution Based on the Events of My Own Life‎

‎New York: Graphic Literary Press 1929. First Edition. Octavo 22cm; purple cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; purple topstain; dustjacket; 230pp. Hint of sunning to upper board edges and topstain else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket with light wear and a few small nicks to extremities and gentle sunning to spine. A novel based on events from the author's life woven around the motion picture industry in modern Russia with a dash of romance and a Tsar-like Trust which dominates the cinema field. Abramson was a Polish-born filmmaker and screenwriter in the U.S. with little fiction to his credit. An uncommon book particularly in attractive condition. Graphic Literary Press unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 20013

‎DESIGN; Elms F. Raymond‎

‎Picture Posters to Color: Fruits and Vegetables‎

‎Chicago: Beckley-Cardy Company 1951. Complete set of midcentury classroom posters designed to be colored by students. The twelve fruits and vegetables featured here are apples beets carrots cherries grapes peaches pears radishes strawberries sweet corn tomatoes and wax beans each depicted on the tree vine or stalk. As a footnote each image offers specific instructions on which colors the children should choose. Beckley-Cardy 535. A fine set of vintage classroom materials with pomological appeal. Complete set of twelve black and white posters measuring 10.5 x 8.5 inches. Housed in publisher's pictorial envelope printed in black and red. Light wear and smudging to envelope posters fine. Beckley-Cardy Company unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 1002738

‎DESIGN; Cerio Laetitia‎

‎Spain" wallpaper sample‎

‎Bramsche: Gebr. Rasch & Co 1950. Scarce sample of wallpaper by Laetitia Cerio Capri-based artist renowned for her spare whimsical line drawings. Founded in the late nineteenth century German wallpaper firm Rasch won an international reputation through its collaborations with modernist designers from the Bauhaus and Vienna Secession. In the 1950s and 1960s owner Emil Rasch commissioned wallpaper designs from artists across Europe including Salvador Dalí and Bruno Munari for the International Artists Collection. Cerio's "Spain" paper featuring delicately tinted views of a Spanish fishing village dates from this period. A fine example of midcentury popular design. Pictorial wallpaper sample printed in muted colors on an ivory ground measuring 18 x 15.5 inches. Stamped on verso: "Rasch Waterfast Spain 1 R 2012 $4.50 single roll.". Gebr. Rasch & Co unknown books‎

书商的参考编号 : 1002760