[TYPA] de Saint-Exupery, Antoine; Richard Howard (translator); Mana Kaasik (book design and layout)ABAA
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2019réf. 35294Tartu Estonia: TYPA 2019. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover. Number 29 of 150 handbound copies. An additional 150 copies were letterpress printed and machine bound. This is a letterpress edition of the classic children's story. It was printed at TYPA a print and paper art centre in Estonia specializing in letterpress publications. In 2020 TYPA won the Europa Nostra Ilucidare Special Prize for heritage-led innovation. It is a unique museum and studio as every item of their machinery is still in use and they continue to create fabulous hand-printed publications using traditional techniques. Hand bound by Pauline Rummel in natural linen with black title and illustration silk screened to front cover. In full color illustrated dust jacket with yellow title to spine panel and blue title to front. The illustrations were re-drawn for letterpress and the layout was redesigned by Mana Kaasik. Body text composed with Literaturnaya Bold on a Linotype machine. Title page and dust jacket set by hand with Admiral typeface. Composed and printed on Holmen Book Cream paper by pressman Jörgen Loot. 95 pages including a two page epilogue by Lemmit Kaplinski former director of TYPA. Size: About 8 x 6 inches. PRI/090721. TYPA hardcover books
1982réf. 338576London: Pentagram Design 1982. paperback. very good. 8 volumes. Thin small 8vos unpaginated stiff pictorial wrappers with flaps slightly rubbed at edges. London: Pentagram Design - 1975 -1982. Very good to near fine. First 8 volumes of this ongoing series of idiosyncratic highly collected monographs published annually by the global design firm since 1975. Includes: ABC A Dictionary of Graphic Cliches; The Pessimist Utopia; Brushes And; Face To Face; The Palace of the League of Nations; Would You Care To Make a Contribution; Photographs of Bomarzo; & Bruce Davidson Views from Pentagram. Pentagram Design unknown books
2008réf. 45002London: The Folio Society / Cambridge University Press 2008. Near Fine. London: The Folio Society / Cambridge University Press 2008. Facsimile Edition. Folio 42.5x31cm; 559pp. Illustrations and decorative elements throughout printed in red and black on Oxenford twin-wire laid paper. Full red-brown cloth decorated in gilt; top edge gilt; reading ribbon.; gray endpapers. Housed in publisher's slipcase. A couple minor scuffs to slipcase and boards; binding sound; pages unmarked; a Near Fine copy of this handsome reproduction of the famous Kelmscott production. The Folio Society / Cambridge University Press unknown books
1936réf. 55919New York: The Black Sun Press 1936. Limited first edition. Hardcover. poor to vg. 1/1500. Quarto. 191 1pp. Illustrated dust jacket with purple text on the front cover. Illustrated paper boards exactly matching the design of the dust jacket. One of 1500 copies of this limited first edition as stated on the colophon at rear. Cover and jacket design by American avant-garde visual artist and filmmaker Joseph Cornell 1903-1972. Includes some pages throughout printed on green yellow and pink paper. An early English-language monograph on Surrealism in all types of media and contexts. Includes quotes texts and short essays from various noted Surrealist figures as well as discussions of the moment as it relates to the fine arts photography film poetry literature psychology terminology and the human experience. Includes b/w photographic reproductions of artwork throughout. Also notable is the inclusion of English translations of the scenarios for the seminal Surrealist films Un Chien Andalou An Andalusian Dog 1929 and L'Age d'Or The Golden Age 1930 by Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. Scarce dust jacket with spine missing. Additional light stains as well as chipping and tears to the covers of the jacket with minimal loss of image. Small piece of masking tape stuck to the back cover of the jacket. Binding with sunning to the spine as well as the covers with additional light smudges and stains. Book block tight. Interior quite clean save for some light stains to the first few pages and at the very edges of the pages in the last sections. Jacket in poor binding in very good- interior in very good condition overall. Protected in modern mylar. Julian Levy 1906-1981 was an American art dealer and writer who was a prominent champion of the Surrealist art movement. His gallery in New York City served as an important location to showcase surrealist art avant-garde artists and American photographers in the 1930s and 1940s. The Black Sun Press hardcover books
1927réf. 45649Berlin: Rudolf Kaemmerer 1927. First edition. Softcover. g. Octavo. 103 1pp. B/w cover with photomontage and yellow lettering. Singed and inscribed by the authors "Mit schönsten Grüßen von Schaeffers und Nikolaus VIII. 27" on the title page. Collection of sketches stage arrangements and letters by two "conferenciers sociopolitical commentators" of the 1920s Berlin Cabaret scene. Both know for their appearances in the Kadeko Kabarett der Komiker which the Nazi's kept a watchful eye on eventually moved against to turn it into a venue sympathetic to the Nazi regime. Printed page dedicating the publication to a large number of colleagues incl. Emil Jannings Zille Tucholsky Ernst Rowohlt Valesca Gert Trude Hesterberg Thomas Heinrich and Klaus Mann Max Brod Fritz Lang among many others. Striking b/w photomontage on the cover featuring notable imagery and prominent cultural figures from Weimar-era culture including Bertolt Brecht and Conrad Veidt among others by Berlin designer Franz A. Flachslander. Text in German. Light wear to wraps and rubbed. Wraps and interior in overall good condition. Extremely scarce. Protected by modern mylar. Rudolf Kaemmerer unknown books
1937réf. 005398Milano: G. Ricordi & C. Editori 1937. First edition. Wraps. Very Good. Scarce libretto of a strange Futurist one act opera with talking a tree Euphobia shrubs and airplanes among the characters some of which are actually human --aviators soldiers and natives -- even if they intone like actors in a Greek tragedy. This oddball propagandistic work more an oratorio than opera celebrates war "sweet war" aviation and territorial conquest -- the things that cast a spell on so many Futurists and which were the essence of Fascism. Three copies located on OCLC of this libretto brochure at Berkeley Harvard and one in Italy. There are copies of the printed music elsewhere. The work was first performed at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in 1937. 8vo. 20 by 13 cm. 23 pp. Dedicated to Mussolini. Pavolini like many adherents of the Futurist Movement came to embrace Fascism. In his case he had a brother who was a prominent member of the Fascist heirarchy. After the war Pavolini found success as a screenwriter. Age toning to the leaves. G. Ricordi & C. Editori unknown books
1932réf. 42043Moscow: 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. 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
2000réf. 27747New York: Aperture 2000. First English Language Edition. Folio 33.5cm.; original cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 431pp.; chiefly photographic illustrations. Text pamphlet laid into clear plastic chemise mounted to rear pastedown. Very Near Fine. Photographic documentation of mass-migration covering six years in 40 countries in Eastern Europe the Middle East Africa Latin America and Asia. Aperture unknown books
1929réf. 144757New York: Henry Miller's Theatre 1929. Original flyer for the 1929 play "Journey's End" which premiered at Henry Miller's Theatre on Broadway on March 22 1929 and closed on May 17 1930 for a total of 485 performances. The first US production of the play after its smash hit at at the Apollo Theatre in London which starred a young Laurence Olivier and was directed by then-unknown director James Whale. It is widely considered to be one of the greatest plays ever written about World War I following the plight of a British Army infantry company in 1918. Whale accompanied the play to America for the production advertised here which by late 1929 was being performed by 14 companies in English and 17 in other languages and he would go on to direct the 1930 film adaptation starring Colin Clive David Manners and Ian Maclaren. His film would be the first of numerous adaptations including: "The Other Side" 1931 "Aces High" 1976 and "Journey's End" 2017. Whale would go on to even greater Hollywood fame later directing "Frankenstein" "The Invisible Man" "The Bride of Frankenstein" and more and was one of the first openly gay directors. Two-color single leaf folded once 10 x 8 inches. Bright and Near Fine with a few closed tears and edge creases. Henry Miller's Theatre unknown books
1901réf. 11370New York: McClure Phillips & Company Publishers 1901. Very Good. New York: McClure Phillips & Company Publishers 1901. First Edition Second State with four pages of pictures before "Humpty Dumpty." Quarto. 96 pp. Bright and highly amusing color illustrations by Denslow throughout with verses hand-lettered by the esteemed type designer Frederic W. Goudy. Paper-covered boards with color illustration to front and back stamped in black. Illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. Boards edgeworn with exposure and some fraying at spine ends. Spine lettering and colophon notably sharp and binding is sound. Touch of off-setting to pages but overall pages unmarked. Greene & Hearn 24. McClure, Phillips & Company Publishers unknown books
réf. 53918KIMONO DESIGN - MANUSCRIPT. 10 1/2" x 14 1/2" oblong design book bound in single backed sheets on the short side with string not fukuro-toji. With a brushed title label sealed throughout but otherwise anonymous. As often happens with manuscripts the name of the shop which used it as a pattern book has been excised. There are 25 black and white design sketches for elaborate kimono. More of a Kano rather than a Rimpa style. The album probably dates from the first half of the 19th Century. A lovely item which suffers from very bad worming throughout. Though the damage is worse at the extremities of the work holes are shot through the paper and effect the design images as well. Sold with all faults. unknown books
1929réf. 45821Leningrad: ИздательÑтво ПиÑателей в Ленинграде Izdat. Pisatelej 1929. First edition. Softcover. g. Square 12mo. 93pp. 3. Illustrated grey stiff paper wrappers with blue and black lettering on the front cover. A first edition of this masterpiece work of avant-garde Russian poetry from Mikhail Kuzmin 1872-1936. The eleventh and final book of poetry from Kuzmin divided into six parts it has been seen as marking a new direction in the poet's work and a departure from Russian literary tradition. Based on the principles of free association and dream logic the style of this work has been noted to be influenced by surrealism cinema and Freudian thought. The poems contain homoerotic elements occult influences and coded references to the author's personal life. The modernist front cover was designed by Russian poet Vladislav Khodasevich 1886-1939. Text in Russian. Wrappers with some light smudges and stains. Minor rubbing to extremities. Interior with sporadic minor to light water stains and/or smudges throughout. Book block tight. Wrappers and interior in good condition overall. Scarce. Protected with modern mylar. Russian transliteration: Forel Razbivaet Led Bibliographic references: Turchinsky p. 281 Rozanov No. 3138 Lesman No. 1231. ИздательÑтво ПиÑателей в Ленинграде (Izdat. Pisatelej) unknown books
1894réf. 886851894. DESIGN HARUNA Shigeharu editor. Kogei Oyo ZUAN ZASSHI 7 issues. No.'s 20-26 Tokyo Meiji 26-27 1893-4. 24.5 x 16.6 cm. Stab-bound wrapper's in woodblock printed paper covers. Haruna Shigeharu 1847-1913 was a pottery painter born into the upper classes in Ishikawa prefecture here using his artistic and design skills to organize and edit this "PRACTICAL ARTS DESIGN MAGAZINE" full of black and white design ideas and articles on such topics as the Columbian Exposition etc. Very unusual periodical here in very good condition inside and out. A short but continuous run. unknown books
2012réf. 207331Los Angeles CA: AMMO Books 2012. First edition and first printing. Large oblong hardcover. 408 pages. Massive monograph on the furniture and design of Charles and Ray Eames. Edited by Gloria Fowler and Steve Crist. Features essays and quotes by Charles & Ray Eames Lucia Eames Carla Hartman Byron Atwood Lucia Dewey Atwood Eames Demetrios and Llisa Demetrios. Includes illustrations of furniture graphics textiles toys & games and numerous other works. A fine copy and in a very near fine slipcase with some color shift from light exposure. No dust jacket as issued. Still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. One of most comprehensive books on the Eames who helped define the Mid-Century Modern style. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. AMMO Books unknown books
1949réf. 1414420London: The Grey Walls Press Ltd 1949. First British Edition Second Impression. Hardcover. Small Octavo 189 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine pictorial with red lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering price uncut: "8s. 6d." small chips missing to head and tail of spine light shelfwear and rubbing. Light toning to endpapers from glue. Shelved showcase. 1414420. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Grey Walls Press Ltd hardcover books
1974réf. 10122New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1974. Octavo 21.5 x 14.5 cm. 215 pages. FIRST EDITION. The first work in Trillin's classic "Tummy Trilogy" and the first volume of his food writing in book form. Very good in publisher's red over blue cloth; the unclipped dust jacket with a design by Seymour Chwast has some light soiling but is otherwise very good. Signed by the author on the half-title. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover books
1939réf. 45407Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Biblioteka Polska 1939. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto. xvi 527pp. 3. Dark blue pebbled leather with gilt-stamped illustration on the front cover and spine. Red label with gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge gilt. Published shortly before the German invasion this work is a groundbreaking literary report on the state of the ongoing industrial and economic progress of the Second Polish Republic during the inter-war period. The book's author acclaimed Polish journalist Melchior Wańkowicz conducted research and interviews from across the economic and political spectrum from factory workers miners and and teachers to politicians including the president Ignacy Mościcki ministers and captains of industry. The book is profusely illustrated throughout with countless finely-printed full page and in-text b/w photogravure image and photomontage as well as few images in color including a two page spread after p.56. Also included are some charts maps and other illustrations. Text in Polish. Binding with some rubbing to extremities and some minor chipping along the side edge of the covers. Title page with previous owners ink stamp. Interior with a few minor sporadic pencil markings in the text and a few minor water stains throughout. Image unaffected binding tight. Binding in good interior in very good condition overall. Protected by modern mylar. Scarce. Melchior Wańkowicz 1892 - 1974 was a polish military officer popular writer and journalist. Wydawnictwo Biblioteka Polska hardcover books
1958réf. 155556Vienna: Verein für Soziale Wohnkultur 1958. Two vintage furniture and home decor booklets produced by Austrian furniture maker Soziale Wohnkultur for subsidized housing in Vienna circa 1958. One booklet illustrated throughout with black-and-white and color photographs the other illustrated with black-and-white photographs only. Text in German. In 1952 in the midst of rebuilding the city after WWII the government of Vienna formed a furniture initiative called Soziale Wohnkultur or "Social Living Culture" a project spearheaded by architect Franz Schuster. The project introduced a line of furniture for low-income municipal housing residents that was designed to be attractive and high quality but also inexpensive and practical for small apartments. A number of prominent Austrian designers were commissioned to work on the project and the resulting designs ranged from kitchen bedroom and living furniture to wall shelving and lamps all emblazoned with the "SW" logo. The furniture and fittings produced by the SW are considered to have had a significant influence on mid-century Austrian design and extant furniture from the period is still highly in demand today. Booklets 5.75 x 7 inches. One booklet with perfect binding the other saddle stapled. Both booklets with brief curling else about Near Fine. Verein für Soziale Wohnkultur unknown books
1901réf. 840301901. DESIGN BOOK Kamisaka SEKKA Yoshitaka. SHIKISHI. Kyoto: Tanaka jihei Meiji 34 1901. 2 folios each 31.2 x 21.5 cm. Volume one has 2 color prints and 30 bw sumi prints volume two has 30 bw sumi prints. An interesting design book of subtlety. The covers are quite worn and stained and there is some internal wear and spotting as well. But overall a good early printing. Cord-bound fukuro-toji Japanese style with the title printed on the covers. Complete. unknown books
1932réf. 894161932. PREWAR DESIGN Atorie-sha. ZUAN SHINGIHO KOZA NOUVEAU COURS: METHODES DU DESSIN DECORATIF 8 vols. Tokyo Atorie-sha Showa 7 1932. 8 volumes 8vo. complete bound western-style in wrappers. An interesting synopsis in Japanese of world-wide trends in commercial art in the early 1930s. Very good or better condition many bw illustrations. In the original publisher's slipcases. The Atorie-sha was one of the most important publishers of art criticism etc. before the war in Japan. unknown books
1932réf. 88038Moscow: State Publishing House of Graphic Arts 1932. First Edition. Folio 41.5cm; original pictorial wrappers stapled; 40pp; ilus.; text is entirely in English. Light wear to extremities touch of oxidation to staples with some very mild creases to spine-fold; contents clean complete; Near Fine. A significant 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. The present issue is entirely devoted to Magnetogorsk an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast on the eastern side of the Ural Mountains. The interior is laid out by M. Alpert and A. Smolyan with N. Troshin's cover being one of the most striking in the magazine's history. 88038. State Publishing House of Graphic Arts unknown books
1948réf. 1004053New York: Whitney Publications 1948. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated collection of articles first published in INTERIORS magazine in the original dust jacket designed by Alvin Lustig inscribed by author Francis Schroeder: "The first copy of my first book for my first wife - Bunny." Journalist and art critic Schroeder was the editor of INTERIORS from 1941 until his death in 1952 documenting the midcentury modern revolution in industrial and interior design. The first half of this volume "Anatomy for Interior Designers" offers ideal sizes and proportions for the furnishing of private and public spaces: "styles in furniture have nothing to do with these measurements. They will apply just as well to a Louis XV bergère as to a chromium and rawhide chair; to a quick lunch counter as to an office desk; to a Victorian love seat as to a park bench." The second half "How to Talk to a Client" provides practical advice on the pursuit cultivation and management of design clients: "It is possible to have a client give final approval to finished drawing without the use of alcohol but it is apparently seldom done." The recipient of this copy the wife of Schroeder's youth was Charlotte Dwight Church: by 1948 the year of the book's publication both Schroeder and Church had remarried. A terrific presentation copy in near-fine condition much nicer than usually found. Single volume measuring 10 x 8.75 inches: 9 10-69 1. Original orange boards lettered in black original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Presentation inscription from Schroeder to front pastedown with his pictorial bookplate designed by Leo Kober laid in. Light shelfwear to jacket offsetting to front endpapers. Whitney Publications unknown books
1958réf. 37615Berlin: Verlag des Ministeriums für Nationale Verteidigung 1958. First edition. Paperback. g to vg. 18 2pp text 48 loose plates 2 loose folded maps as issued. Original photo-illustrated wrap around. Published by the East German Ministry of National Defense on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Red Army this work features 48 b/w photographic plates depicting the Soviet Army in action during the Russian Civil War 1917-1922 the Second World War 1941-1945 to the annual Moscow Military Parade held on the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution November 7 1957. Includes two color folded maps The fronts of the civil war and the armed intervention 1918-1920; and The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Moderate rubbing along edges of wrappers. Text and captions in German. Wraps in overall good interior in good to very good condition. Verlag des Ministeriums für Nationale Verteidigung paperback books
réf. 1002995France nineteenth century. Large fragment of an original embroidery design likely for a shawl or tablecloth executed in red watercolor. The stylized parrot snail and lizard are meticulously plotted out by hand stitch by stitch against a background of oak leaves and acorns. This design is plotted on "papier quadrillé" manufactured by the Paris publisher Chavant & Dessaigne. Fleury Chavant was an industrial designer who issued a number of influential pattern books in the 1830s and 1840s. In addition to finished patterns his company offered a range of these printed grid papers with gauges corresponding to every kind of needlework enabling those at home to produce their own designs. A striking survival. Original watercolor executed on two sheets of printed "papier quadrillé" joined together entire piece measuring 15 x 32 inches. Publisher information printed at base of sheets: "8 en 10: à Paris chez CHAVANT & DESSAIGNE Rue Cléry No 19 / No. 23." Several pale pink areas where paint spread; trace of glue along seam; later pencil notes to verso. unknown books
1902réf. 891971902. DESIGN Fujii Rindo. SHOKUMON ZUKAN 1-4. Kyoto Yamada Unsodo Meiji 35 1902. Four volumes complete each volume with printed title string-bound Japanese-style fukuro-toji. 24.2 x 16.4 cm. Illustrated throughout with lightly colored woodblock prints of traditional design motifs. The covers are worn some pages split but present. unknown books
