Providence RI: Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art Feb. 23 to Apr. 4 1966
Recent Still Life
1966. Softcover. VG- Slight indention from a paper clip at ffep and title page; Soft bend at bottom right corners; Slight creasing at spine. Color wraps. 100 pp. Profuse bw plates. Accompanied a 1966 exhibition that featured works by Louise Bourgeois Alexander Calder Nicholas de Stael Richard Diebenkorn Jasper Johns Giorgio Morandi Andy Warhol and others; Cover is an original design by Diter Rot who has numbered and initialed this copy #301/1000; Scarce. paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 19398.1
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National Academy of Design
154th Annual Exhibition National Academy of Design
New York New York: National Academy of Design 1979. Softcover. VG- Some light wear to wraps small label and ink stamping at rear cover. Red wraps; Unpaginated approx. 60 pp.; Profusely illustrated in bw. Includes plates of exhibition award winners. Lists the academy's presidents founders fellows and so on. National Academy of Design paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 143706
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National Academy of Design
Centennial Exhibition Commemorative Exhibition by Members of the National Academy of Design 1825-1925
New York: National Academy of Design 1925. Softcover. G- Most of spine material is gone front cover has separated; covers are well tanned; has heavy edge wear to covers; pages & plates are clear. Paper wraps 160 pp. ad pages many BW illus. Title on front cover: Centennial Exhibition National Academy of Design 1825-1925. Issued in conjunction with several 1925-1926 exhibitions featuring 533 pieces of art rendered by then-members of the National Academy of Design. Contains some general text then consists mainly of BW plate examples. With lists and indices of artists. National Academy of Design paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 140609
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NY: National Academy of Design Mar. 13 to Apr. 17 1909
84th Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design Illustrated Catalogue
1909. Softbound. Good some wear tiny pieces gone off cover corners covers loose and fragile. Wraps. xvii 68 viii pp. 17 two-tone repros. Catalogue lists 306 works. paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 1333
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National Academy of Design NY: Mar. 5 to Apr. 3 1921
97th Annual Exhibition
1921. Softbound. VG slight pencil writing on cover previous owners stamp at base of cover. Cream wraps. 44 pp. 16 bw plates 32 pp. ads at rear and 34 pp. ads preceding the catalogue. Lists 475 works and includes names and addresses of the artists also an alphabetical listing of the artists loosely inserted. paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 131454
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Van der Ley Sabrina; Gavin Jantjes; John Berger; James Elkins; Nasjonalmuseet for kunst arkitektur og design
Prisme Tegning fra 1990 til 2012 =Prism. Drawing from 1990 to 2012
Oslo Norway: Nasjonalmuseet for kunst arkitektur og design 2012. Softcover. As new. Sage green wraps with color illustration and French folds. 111 pp. Profuse color plates. In Norwegian and English. Catalogue for an exhibition shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art 2 March to 5 August 2012. From the museum website: The exhibition "Prism" is the first major presentation of contemporary drawings at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 131333 ???????? : 8281540648 9788281540644
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NY: National Academy of Design Mar. 23 to Apr. 17 1927
102nd Annual Exhibition of The National Academy of Design
1927. Softbound. VG. Wraps. 49 pp. 15 bw plates. Catalogue lists 563 works including 15 sculptures. paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 1615.1
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NY: National Academy of Design Mar. 20 to Apr. 6 1930
105th Annual Exhibition of The National Academy of Design
1930. Softcover. VG former owner's stamp on lower cover. Beige wraps. ix 59plates pp. 16 bw plates. Includes much current and past information about the academy winners and members; some ads. Catalogue lists 311 paintings and 50 sculptures by gallery but has an alphabetical artists' index giving addresses and catalogue numbers. paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 8544
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Friedman Florence Dunn; Georgina Borromeo; Mimi Leveque; Cleveland Museum of Art.; Rhode Island School of Design. Museum of Art
Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience
New York New York: Thames and Hudson 1998. Hardcover. NF/VG lovely copy jacket shows some rubbing and very slight edge wear. Black cloth black DJ with color illus. 288 pp. 483 illustrations with 224 in color. In English. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland Ohio May 19 1998-July 5 1998; and two other locations/times. Colorless when it entered the kiln the ceramic material known as Egyptian faience was transformed by firing into the sparkling blue of the Egyptian sky ad a wide range of other scintillating colors. Imbued by the ancient Egyptians with great symbolic significance - resplendent with radiance and filled with the shimmer of celestial light it was the perfect metaphor for life rebirth and immortality. Over two hundred beautiful faience objects from collections in Europe and the U.S. are reproduced in lavish color with a detailed description of each along with a technical glossary extensive bibliography maps and chronological table. Five essays by top scholars in the field illuminate the subject. Thames and Hudson hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 130294 ???????? : 0911517650 9780911517651
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NY: National Academy of Design Mar. 11 to Apr. 16 1911
86th Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design Illustrated Catalogue
1911. Softbound. VG-. Wraps. appx. 90 pp. 17 bw plates. 371 works listed including 43 sculptures. Lists addresses of artists in rear. A very nice copy. paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 1778
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Providence RI: Brown University & Rhode Island School of Design Jan. 30 to Feb. 23 1975
Rubenism
1975. Softcover. VG- cover very slightly soiled. Bw wraps. 278 pp. 88 bw plates. Includes chapters devoted to Peter Paul Rubens Late 17th Century France Jean-Antoine Watteau Francois Boucher and Jean-Honore Fragonard Sir Joshua reynolds Thomas Gainsborough Theodore Gericault and Eugene Delacroix. Selected bibliography. paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 18188
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NY: National Academy of Design Mar. 18 to Apr. 10 1936
111th Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design
1936. Softcover. VG but cover hinge fragile. Wraps. 95 ads pp. 31 bw plates. Catalogue lists 194 works all of which are priced. Many quite cheaply. paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 5633
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NY: National Academy of Design 1881
56th Annual Exhibition of The National Academy of Design
1881. Softcover. VG- cover slightly worn and soiled scattered light pencil markings inside. White wraps. 54 pp. No illus. Lists 752 works with prices and includes an alphabetical list of names and residences of artists whose work appears in the exhibition. paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 13554
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NY: National Academy of Design Mar. 25 to Apr. 18 1933
108th Annual Exhibition of The National Academy of Design
1933. Softbound. VG. Wraps. 58 vi pp. 10 bw repros. Catalogue lists 390 paintings and sculptures. paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 1337
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NY: National Academy of Design Mar. 13 to Apr. 13 1937
112th Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design
1937. Softbound. VG. Wraps. 93 ads pp. 32 bw plates. Catalogue lists 272 paintings and sculptures along with 194 works in Black and White all of which are priced. Many quite cheaply. paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 5634
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Rhode Island School of Design
A Handbook of the Museum of Art
1985. Softcover. VG. Color wraps. 336 pp. 50 color 100s bw plates. A very comprehensive guide both to American art and other areas of specialty furniture Asian art European art antiquities textiles etc. paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 2693
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NY: National Academy of Design Mar. 23 to Apr. 8 1951
126th Annual Exhibition Paintings in Oil Sculpture Graphpic Art and Water Colors
1951. Softcover. VG exlib stamp inside. Tan wraps. 104 20 pp. 32 bw plates. Includes much current and past information about the academy winners and members; some ads. Catalogue lists 166 paintings and 58 sculptures by gallery but has an alphabetical artists' index giving addresses and catalogue numbers. paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 8546
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NY: National Academy of Design Jan. 18 to Feb. 28 1950
Morse Exhibition of Arts and Science: 125th Anniversary of The National Academy of Design 1825-1950
NY: National Academy of Design 1950. Softcover. Fair with wear to tail of spine cover. Wraps. 181 pp. 36 bw repros after Morse. An eclectic catalog which also highlights six other inventors who were pivotal in the 19th and 20th centuries. Much text on Morse's achievements both as an inventor and as an artist and as one of the founders of the National Academy of Design. National Academy of Design paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 314
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National Academy of Design
132nd Annual Exhibition of The National Academy of Design
New York New York: National Academy of Design 1957. Softcover. VG. Red wraps. 84 pp. 27 bw plates. Lists 162 works. Nice plates. Exhibition held Feb. 21 to Mar. 17 1957. National Academy of Design paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 2670
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Nicholson William and Robert Graves editors so credited in final issue. Nicholson responsible for cover design throughout
The Owl A Miscellany Complete run of three issues of this literary magazine
London: Martin Secker first two issues Cecil Palmer third issue. Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son 1919 1923. First edition. Wraps for first issue hardcover paper pastedown second two issues. Very Good. Literary journal with extraordinary roster of contributors including Max Beerbohm Siegfried Sassoon T. E. Lawrence John Doyle Enoch Soames Robert Graves John Crowe Ransome John Masefield John Galsworthy Thomas Hardy Walter de la Mare Rockwell Kent Vachel Lindsay Edwin Lutyens William Nicholson etc. 4to. 32 by 25 cm. Mostly poetry with also a mix of stories dialogues etc. and lovely plates quite a few in color. All produced handsomely and though short-lived the confluence of talent marks these as an unique undertaking. Minor edge chips to wraps of the first volume. Chips along the joints and the spine of the second. Within the leaves are age toned with some scattered light foxing. <br /><br /> Martin Secker (first two issues), Cecil Palmer (third issue). Printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 004668
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California Design
CALIFORNIA DESIGN / NINE
Pasadena CA: Pasadena Art Museum 1965. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. Pasadena CA: Pasadena Art Museum 1965. Copious b/w and full color illustrations. 144 pp. Hardcover. Large 8vo size. Off white illustrative paper covered boards. Head heel and corners bumped and moderately worn; former ownerÕs name to front free endpaper. Interior clean and sound. Very good/No dust jacket. Pasadena Art Museum hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 37919
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Oakley Violet: With Original Artwork for Cover Design Eddy Mary Baker
Christ My Refuge
Boston: Trustees of the Will of Mary Baker Eddy 1939. First edition. First edition. Book in original glassine dust wrapper and llower half of original paper box. Illuminations throughout in full color by Violet Oakley including gold-highlighted title page. With color portrait of Mary Baker Eddy by Alice Barbour laid in. A scarce and interesting offering. Book is fine. <br/><br/> Trustees of the Will of Mary Baker Eddy unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 1183
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Doyle Richard Illus and Cover Design Hughes Thomas
The Scouring of the White Horse
London: Macmillan 1859. First edition. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth with exquisite cover illustration stamped in bright gold consisting of figures wrapped around and climbing up vines spine gilt lettering. Exquisite double spread wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Richard Doyle. A fine copy of a thoroughly enchanting Victorian book. <br/><br/> Macmillan hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 921
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Academy of Millinery Design
Professional Custom Millinery.
Little Falls NJ.: Academy of Millinery Design. Circa 1970. Ring bound in blue binder. . Very good. . 4to. Complete home study course. Academy of Millinery Design. unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 287840
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Strathmore Paper Company: Munsell A. H. introduction and T. M. Cleland design
A GRAMMAR OF COLOR ARRANGEMENTS OF STRATHMORE PAPERS IN A VARIETY OF PRINTED COLOR COMBINATIONS ACCORDING TO THE MUNSELL COLOR SYSTEM
Mitteneague Mass: Strathmore Paper Company 1921. Narrow small folio 33 x 22 cm. Gilt lettered cloth backed boards printed label. Extremities a bit rubbed and shelfworn ink name on free endsheet boards slightly marked otherwise very good in custom made cloth and marbled boards slipcase. The supplemental portfolio is not present. First edition of this sumptuous production designed and overseen by Cleland with two color renderings by Helen Dyden and 19 folding contrivances exhibiting color samples printed on Strathmore papers the series designed by Rudolph Ruzicka. Strathmore Paper Company hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : WRCLIT81928
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Design Jencks Charles and Nathan Silver
Adhocism; The Case for Improvisation
Garden City: Doubleday 1972. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/good. Small clothbound quarto. 216 pp. Illustrated in black and white. A book that advocates for using the principles of adhocism to help solve problems and design new ways for living and enjoying life. Remainder spray to lower edge else a clean very good clothbound copy in good price-intact dustwrapper with numerous chips and small tears at spine ends and along the edges of the wrapper. A distinctly uncommon dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Doubleday hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 20674
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Design Various
Design - Formgebung fur jedermann Typen und Prototypen Ausstellung im Kunstgewerbemuseum
Zurich: Museum fur Gestaltung 1983. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Oblong bound wrappers. 238 pp. Text in german. Substantial catalog from a 1983 Swiss exhibition of domestic household design elements. A close to fine copy in bound red wrappers printed in red and white. <br/><br/> Museum fur Gestaltung paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 20581
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Design Kirkham Pat Charles and Ray Eames
Charles and Ray Eames; Designers of the Twentieth Century
Cambridge and London: MIT Press 1996. Second printing. Paperback. Near Fine. Thick paperbound quarto. 486 pp. Stated second printing of this impressive monograph on the Eames. A lovely near fine copy in thick bound photo-illustrated wrappers. Illustrated in color and black and white. Recommended. <br/><br/> MIT Press paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 20157
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Design Keller San
Show Show San Keller; Manor Kunstpreis Janton Bern / Prix culturel Manor pour le canton de Berne
Biel / Bienne: CentrePasquArt 2009. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Oversize paperbound 8vo. 103 pp. Catalog from a 2009 exhibition. Text in German by Dolores Denaro. A near fine example in bound printed wrappers. <br/><br/> CentrePasquArt paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 19106
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Design Burris Meyer Elizabeth
Color And Design In The Decorative Arts
New York: Prentice-Hall Inc 1935. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8vo. 572 pp. Illustrated with numerous photographs. Color wheel present and with two pages of color samples. A good copy in reddish brown buckram. Binding a bit shaken and preliminary leaves are tender. Presumed first printing with no additional mention of printings on copyright page. A classic text in the use of color in design elements. <br/><br/> Prentice-Hall, Inc hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 15904
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Advertising Design Jupp Ernst et al.
Werbeform Werbewert
Rhein-Ruhr: Verlegt bei Richard Scherpe 1952. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Text in German. 100 numbered pages followed by 66 unnumbered pages of full-color advertisements. Plastic comb binding. n.d. but from circa 1952. Magnificent volume on advertising design and graphics. Prior ownership name and date to front endpaper. A few of the original plastic rings lacking from spine. Overall a very good copy of this scarce title. <br/><br/> Verlegt bei Richard Scherpe paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 14786
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Graphic Design Letterheads
Letterheads of the World
Tokyo: Takeo Company Limited 1977. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Tall paperbound quarto.56 pp. Text in Japanese with two tipped in letters from the publisher written in English. Illustraions of corporate letterheads with photos by Hiroshi Ikeya. A very good copy in bound illustrated wrappers. <br/><br/> Takeo Company Limited paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 14344
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Graphic Design Munari Bruno
La Scoperta Del Triangolo; Piu di cento notizie illustrate sul triangolo equilatero
Bologna: Zanichelli 1978. Early Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Small quarto. 101 pp. Text in Italian. Published as Number 2 in this publisher's series of books on design and symbols. A very good copy in bound illustrated wrappers. <br/><br/> Zanichelli paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 14338
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Retail Design Riewoldt Otto Editor
Brandscaping; Worlds of Experience in Retail Design
Basel - Boston - Berlin: Birkhauser 2002. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Oblong quarto. 118 pp. Text in German and English. Profusely illustrated in color. "Brandscaping" is the creation of a three-dimensional microcosm representing the brand according to the rear cover synopsis. A near fine clean copy in bound pictorial wrappers. <br/><br/> Birkhauser paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 14271
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Design Hanks David A. and Jennifer Toher Donald Deskey
Donald Deskey; Decorative Designs and Interiors
New York: E. P. Dutton 1987. First edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. 4to. 214 pp monograph on this well known designer. Sharp well bound copy in black cloth binding in near fine price intact dustwrapper. Highly recommended for fans of this art deco designer. <br/><br/> E. P. Dutton hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 12551
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Urban Design Dober Richard P. Rivkin Malcolm D. et al.
Synthesis #1
Cambridge: Harvard University 1957. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. April 1957 issue of this magazine produced by the students at Harvard Graduate School of Design. A very good copy. <br/><br/> Harvard University paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 12072
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Design Akerman Brita Aalto Alvar et al.
Form 2
Stockholm: Snenska Slojdforeningens Tidscrift 1947. First edition. Paperback. Good . Second issue of this Swedish design magazine. Includes an interview with Aalto Alvaro and other articles. A good copy in tall photo-illustrated wrappers. <br/><br/> Snenska Slojdforeningens Tidscrift paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 11679
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Design Ramakers Renny
Less More; Droog Design In Context
Rotterdam: 010 Publishers 2002. First edition. Paperback. Fine. Stunningly book on Dutch design elements in the 1990's with text in English by Renny Ramakers. Quarto. 234 pp. Brilliant color illustrations. Die-cut cover. A fine copy in bound glossy wrappers. <br/><br/> 010 Publishers paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 11264
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Graphic Design Luke John
A 24-Page Illustration Book
New York: John Luke Associates 1989. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. First edition. A very good softbound volume featuring work of 24 graphic designers including Paul Rand. Erratum and Apology Card tipped in. <br/><br/> John Luke Associates paperback books
书商的参考编号 : 008806
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Graphic Design Ruuhinen Erkki
Erkki Ruuhinen Design
Helsinki: Erkki Ruuhinen. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. A monograph on this graphic designer with text in Finnish and English. A near fine copy in oversized boards. No dustwrapper as issued. This copy has a SIGNED "With the Compliments of the Artist" slip laid in. Signed by Author. <br/><br/> Erkki Ruuhinen hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 008482
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Volk Kurt H. design & printer
CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS
New York: Kurt H. Volk 1948. Quarto. Quarter morocco and marbled boards. One of 1000 numbered copies printed by Volk and Meyer Wagman. Facsimiles of signers' signatures. Some tan offsetting to front free endsheets bit of slight rubbing to spine extremities tiny bookplate in corner of front pastedown but a very good copy in worn slipcase. Kurt H. Volk hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : WRCLIT81739
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EHON Design Book Yamada Unsodo publisher
MOMIJI
1911. EHON - Design Book Yamada Unsôdô publisher. MOMIJI. Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo Meiji 44 1911. 26.5 x 19 cm. Orihon with printed paper covers over boards. Thirty double fold sets of color woodcuts detailing the leaf forms of some 187 different species of Japanese maple. A scarce example of Unsodo's wonderful design work with a naturalistic theme from the early part of the 20th century. The covers are a bit worn but the impressions and colors are very good. Complete as issued in one volume. unknown books
书商的参考编号 : 90269
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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN.
Seasons at The New Yorker: Six Decades of Cover Art.
NY: National Academy of Design. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. Eighty color plates. First edition. Very near fine in like dust jacket. . National Academy of Design hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : 12454
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Frutiger Adrian illus and Bruno Pfaffli design
GENESIS IM ANFANG AU COMMENCEMENT IN THE BEGINNING .
Zurich: Castella Albeuve and Flamberg 1969. Small quarto 26 x 25.5 cm. Decorated wrappers. Illustrations including color. Trace of foxing along fore-edge otherwise fine in glassine and lightly edgeworn and soiled plain card slipcase. First edition. One of 400 copies. An approach to a parallel presentation of selections from Genesis in German French English and Hebrew counterpointed by illustrations by Frutiger involving gatefolds with typography by his associate Bruno Pfäffli. Laid in is the publisher's printed notice of how to properly view the arrangement. Castella, Albeuve and Flamberg unknown books
书商的参考编号 : WRCLIT76581
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Semionova E. design
URSS EN CONSTRUCTION REVUE MENSUELLE ILLUSTRÉE Whole Number 6
Moscow: State Publishing House of Graphic Arts 1932. Folio 41.5 x 30cm. Typographic wrappers. Heavily illustrated with photographs. Corners a bit bumped some wear along spine with split below lower staple otherwise very good. Founded by Maxim Gorky and published in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1941 and 1949 under the general editorship of G. Piatakov. An issue of this innovative periodical devoted to Soviet Civil Aviation. This is the French language edition translator not identified. "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. Versions were also published in Russian German and English. PARR-BADGER I:148. State Publishing House of Graphic Arts unknown books
书商的参考编号 : WRCLIT76601
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Design
RYTHMES DESSINS DÉCORATIFS 74 MOTIFS EXEMPLAIRES DU STYLE ACTUEL EN TISSUS D'ART ET PAPIERS PEINTS
Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs 1951. 4pp. plus forty-six plates 74 images. Quarto. Loose sheets paid into cloth-backed decorated board portfolio. Light foxing to endsheets of portfolio two plates minutely nicked in extreme margins a few smudges of offsetting on versos of a few plates otherwise very good. First edition. An intriguing assemblage of samples of work done by various artists for use in wallpapers and decorative papers including work by Fini Henry Moore Matisse Bonfils Prassinos Berard Ackermann et al. Six of the full-page plates are in color via pochoir or screen-printing. Librairie des Arts Décoratifs hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : WRCLIT57619
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Rolfe Frederick "Baron Corvo" and Andy Warhol dust jacket design
THE DESIRE AND PURSUIT OF THE WHOLE A ROMANCE OF MODERN VENICE
New York: New Directions 1953. xvi299pp. Cloth. About fine in faintly foxed dust jacket with a few nicks tiny creased edge tears and small sliver loss at the top fore- tip. First US issue one of 2650 copies printed photo-offset from the 1953 UK edition. Introduction by A. J. A. Symons foreword by W. H. Auden. Dust jacket design by Andy Warhol. HARRISON NEWTH & CANDIDO p.35. WOOLF A10c. New Directions hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : WRCLIT79158
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Design: Mercer FA. and W. Gaunt editors F. A.
MODERN PUBLICITY 1933 - 1934
London & New York: The Studio Limited 1934. xii124xpp. Small folio. Glazed red cloth printed in white. Heavily illustrated including color tip-ins. First edition. "The Annual for Commercial Art & Industry" mixing attractive doses of Modernism with more traditional fare. Bookplate some rubbing to extremities of boards but very good without dust jacket. The Studio Limited hardcover books
书商的参考编号 : WRCLIT78091
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Design: Mercer FA. and W. Gaunt editors F. A.
MODERN PUBLICITY 1931
London & New York: The Studio Limited 1931. xii124xpp. Small folio. Decorated wrapper. Heavily illustrated. First edition. "The Annual for Commercial Art & Industry" mixing attractive doses of Modernism with more traditional fare. Wrapper chipped and partially mended along joints internally very good or better. The Studio Limited unknown books
书商的参考编号 : WRCLIT78092
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Lissitsky El and M. Alpert design
USSR IN CONSTRUCTION A MONTHLY ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE Whole Number 10
Moscow: State Publishing House of Graphic Arts 1932. Folio 41.5 x 30cm. Pictorial wrappers. A good copy only: the extreme lower forecorners are a bit creased and occasionally ragged; the front wrapper has the lower extreme fore- corner chipped away and there is a short tear near the toe of the spine resulting in the loss of the extreme lower spine corner of the lower wrapper and last leaf; there is a small chip in the lower wrapper at the spine crown; there is an 11 cm internally mended tear in the rear wrapper up from the lower edge and another internally mended 7 cm tear in the fore-edge each with small chips associated; and one panel of the enormous center four panel gatefold is neatly separated along the fold; still a reasonably good copy of an issue seldom found in ideal condition. Founded by Maxim Gorky and published in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1941 and 1949 under the general editorship of G. Piatakov. An important issue of this innovative periodical devoted to the Dnieprostroy hydroelectric project with the 'plan' of the issue by El Lissitsky and M. Alpert. The text is by Boris Agapov translated for this English version by D. S. Mirsky. Of special note are four preliminary pages in tribute to H. G. Wells. The photographic component drew on a number of official sources with additional special photography by Alpert and A. Shaykhet. "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. Versions were also published in Russian German and French. PARR-BADGER I:148. State Publishing House of Graphic Arts unknown books
书商的参考编号 : WRCLIT76600
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