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1952Best.-Nr. 165340New York: Simon and Schuster 1952. First Edition. First Edition. Board and jacket design by Henri Matisse. Original "captions" booklet laid in as issued. One of the most influential collections of twentieth century street photography a testament to Henri Cartier-Bresson's unique and discerning eye and his ability to capture the emotive nature of his subjects. Near Fine in a spectacular Near Fine dust jacket. In a custom green clamshell box with a black leather label on the spine also Fine. The best copy of this title we have ever seen. Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 165255London: Hamish Hamilton 1967. First UK Edition. Contemporary bookplate on the front endpaper see image else Fine in a Fine price-clipped dust jacket. A superb copy of a very elusive title in dust jacket or this condition. Hamish Hamilton unknown books
1998Best.-Nr. 166005Paris: Norma Editions 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. As New in dust jacket. Oversize volume shipping billed at cost. Norma Editions unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 158542New York: Inkweed Studios 1959. Vintage poster for the 1959 off-Broadway play which opened on July 15 1959 at the Living Theatre. Poster designed by Inkweed Studios with a label affixed to the recto stating showtimes. Presumably either unique or produced in very small quantity. Mounted on art board as issued and used. Founded in 1951 by Beat poet Kabbalist and Lower East Side underground luminary Lionel Ziprin with his wife illustrator and dancer Joanne Ziprin Inkweed Studios was originally created to produce "studio cards"-greeting cards to rival the mass-produced cards produced by the Hallmark Company. While not financially successful Inkweed did produce many outstanding graphics such as the poster on offer here. The company also served as the launching pad for the graphic work of artists such as Harry Smith Jordan Belson Bruce Conner Barbara Remington and William Mohr. Jack Gelber's landmark play within a play observes a producer and writer attempting to stage a production using "real" heroin addicts largely jazz musicians waiting for their score interspersed with jazz music. Notable not only for its honest depiction of addiction the play also radically re-imagined the relationship between audience and actor with actors utilizing the theatre's aisles as performance areas an actor presented as an audience member and actors remaining in character and panhandling during intermission. A key play in the history of American jazz and an evocative portrait and product of the Beat era. Winner of three Obie Awards including Best New Play Best All-Around Production and Best Actor for Warren Finnerty. Made into an equally groundbreaking and largely unrecognized motion picture in 1961 directed by Shirley Clarke and starring Finnerty and William Redfield. 13.75 x 21.75 inches archivally framed to 16.25 x 24.25 inches. Very Good plus with some light corner and edgewear a small chip to the bottom right corner and a small bruise to the mid-right edge. Inkweed Studios unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 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
1970Best.-Nr. 152982Berkeley: University Art Museum 1970. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. An exhibition catalog developed from an exhibition titled "The Eighties" presented at the University Art Museum in Berkeley from March 17 1970 - April 12 1970. Scarce. Near Fine in wrappers and a white comb binding as issued. University Art Museum unknown books
1958Best.-Nr. 154419Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1958. First Edition. First Edition. Cover art designed by Andy Warhol produced in the early stages of his career during his brief tenure as a commercial and advertising artist. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Stray pen mark on the front endpaper and faint foxing to the top page edge. Jacket lightly edgeworn and rubbed with a short closed tear to the bottom front hinge. J.B. Lippincott unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 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
1974Best.-Nr. 13406Providence Rhode Island: Burning Deck Press 1974. Original wraps. Fine. Linda Lutes. A pristine copy of this 1974 poetry portfolio issued in a tiny edition of 75 copies by Burning Deck Press of Providence. This is a Proof copy INSCRIBED BY THE DESIGNER AND ILLUSTRATOR LINDA LUTES TO NEW YORK PERFORMANCE ARTIST AND POET CARL MORSE. 8 loose signatures as issued laid into a printed off-white chemise. Both the chemise and the plates are in immaculate condition. The 7 poets featured are: Michael Benedikt William Bronk Michel S. Harper Edwin Honig Rochelle Owens Diane Wakoski and Rosemarie Waldrop. Burning Deck Press unknown books
2013Best.-Nr. 51839Halifax NS Canada: NSCAD Press et al 2013. A comprehensive collection of publications and other documents from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design NSCAD an unexpected yet tremendously important center of conceptual art and postminimalism throughout the 1970s. Beginning as a nondescript art school in 1887 nothing about this small Halifax institution presaged the enormous international influence that the school would exert when Garry Neill Kennedy took over as NSCAD's president in 1967 at age 32. The school's subsequent and unprecedented creative direction must be credited to Kennedy who with a budget of $62000 turned the school away from its previous provincialism toward the influential international posture it would maintain for the next decades. This stature was due in no small part to the faculty and visiting artists that Kennedy brought to the school including Vito Acconci Sol LeWitt Dan Graham Martha Rosler Jenny Holzer Daniel Buren Hans Haacke Yvonne Rainer Robert Frank Robert Morris Dara Birnbaum Seth Seibelaub Lucy Lippard Robert Smithson Gerhard Richter Eric Fischl Lawrence Weiner Joseph Beuys and Claes Oldenburg among many others. The geographical location of NSCAD on the transatlantic route between New York and Europe aided in its access to the international scene. This brought many visiting artists who instead of appearing only for a talk or lecture used the opportunity for longer residencies exhibitions and collaborations with the school. Notably Joseph Beuys's first trip to North America was not to New York but to Halifax as a visiting artist at NSCAD. During its heyday between the late '60s and '70s NSCAD's teaching philosophy radically changed. Starting with the removal of a lettered grading system NSCAD became the first degree-granting art school in Canada advocating an intense engagement on all ends of the art-making spectrum between professional and student artists. NSCAD also documented its own significance through the publications of its press as well as the numerous invitations and catalogues produced by its galleries in conjunction with the shows and exhibitions it mounted during this period. This combination of publications exhibitions and collaborations generated by the school in many ways made it a contemporary Black Mountain College - and its subsequent influence has proved no less significant. Indeed in 1973 ART IN AMERICA proclaimed NSCAD "the best art school in North America" and thirty-five years later a major exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and publication by MIT Press wryly celebrated NSCAD as "The Last Art College." The NSCAD Press began operations in 1972. Initially led by Kaspar Koenig and then by Benjamin Buchloh the Press published 26 titles between 1982 and 1987 including now rare and important works by Jenny Holzer Steve Reich Michael Snow Donald Judd Dan Graham Martha Rosler Gerhard Richter Carl Andre Lawrence Weiner and others. All are present in this collection - many in their rare hardcover editions. The collection also documents two other canonical aspects of NSCAD. The first the "Projects Class" was developed by David Askevold one of Kennedy's new young hires. In the spirit of the school's new direction of dismantling traditional teaching methods the class invited artists to submit proposals for students to undertake under the artists' guidance. A rare complete set of cards documenting the first instantiation of this class from 1969 is present in its original envelope and includes submissions from artists Robert Barry Mel Bochner James Lee Byars Jan Dibbets Dan Graham Douglas Huebler Joseph Kosuth Sol LeWitt Lucy R. Lippard and Robert Smithson among others. The collection also includes materials from the Lithography Workshop under the direction of Gerald Ferguson who had insisted on hiring Askevold. The workshop's goal was not only to train students in printmaking but to produce prints for renowned artists both local and international. It allowed a space for NSCAD students to develop alongside professional artists taking their printmaking from initial concept to final execution. The workshop encouraged exploration of mediums and invited not only visual artists but performers writers dancers musicians and other famous and emerging creatives to make one-off projects. More than half a dozen pieces explicitly attributed to the workshop are present including work from Emmett Williams Huebler and Lawrence Weiner. But perhaps the most significant components of this collection are the ephemeral documents invitations flyers postcards posters catalogues produced by NSCAD's legendary Mezzanine Gallery which operated between 1970 and 1973 under the directorship of Charlotte Towsend-Gault. This remarkable program produced ground-breaking contemporary art projects exhibitions events and residencies by such artists as Bas Jan Ader Dan Graham John Baldessari "I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art" Tony Shafrazi Eleanor Antin Charlotte Moorman Sol LeWitt Martha Rosler Donald Judd On Kawara Martha Wilson and many others. These are almost to an item uncommon with most scarce and many quite rare. As a group the roughly 90 Mezzanine Gallery items included here would be virtually impossible to reassemble now. In 2006 Printed Matter NYC presented an exhibition of this material under the curatorship of AA Bronson. The present collection includes not only all of the material shown in that exhibition but other documents acquired subsequent to it. The collection also includes later ancillary and reference materials. Taken as a whole it documents all aspects of the most critical years at a key institution that served as both incubator and promoter for some of the most important and influential art in the second half of the 20th century. Some 155 items in all. Generally very good or better overall with most of the ephemera near fine or better. All carefully and neatly housed in a series of archival enclosures. A complete inventory is available. (NSCAD Press, et al) unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 42745Providence: Burning Deck Press 1972. First Edition. Near fine. Third issue of this magazine from the esteemed poetry press. Featuring work from David Antin Carlos Reyes Carolyn Stoloff Barbara Baracks and Ron Silliman a 4-page pamphlet titled "4 short and untitled things". Clay and Phillips 272. Wraps. 8vo. Side-stapled printed wraps. Near fine. Trace toning to several pages. Otherwise bright and clean throughout. Good and sound. 42pp. Pamphlet insert by Ron Silliman laid in; 4 pp. (Burning Deck Press) unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 42955Philadelphia 1930. Very good. Extensive custom catalogue containing metal fixtures and display equipment for hardware stores published by David Lupton's Sons a steel company based in Philadelphia. The catalogue includes suggestions for store layout providing examples of merchandise display on Lupton display cases and shelving with extensive diagrams showing the proper distribution of for example various-sized shovels on a particular shelving unit. From a stamp appearing several times throughout the album and on a piece of laid-in marketing ephemera which reads "Bowes Hardware & Plumbing 425 Danforth Ave Toronto" this particular album was almost certainly compiled by Lupton for Bowes as part of its "Store Planning Service" referred to on the album's cover. A fascinating example of the marketing and merchandizing of U.S. hardware store equipment and a glimpse into the process of starting a North American small business during the height of The Great Depression. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. album. Screw-bound leather-covered boards with publisher's text in printed in gold to front cover. Holds photos diagrams text and paint swatches all affixed to 29 dark-gray stiff leaves divided into four sections. Appears almost entirely complete with corners of several captions torn off. Album about very good overall with many affixed papers toned from age or glue-stained but all remain readable. Sound overall. Additionally laid-in are 21 clippings and advertising ephemera relating to hardware stores including several in Toronto. unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 50142Zurich Switzerland: Galerie Hauser & Wirth 1999. Fine/Fine. Zurich Switzerland: Galerie Hauser & Wirth 1999. First Edition. Quarto 30.5cm; publisher's card wrappers in glossy pictorial dust jacket; 147pp.; color illus. throughout. Fine condition. Bilingual text in German and English. Collection of autobiographical stories accompanied by the paintings by the late American artist Mary Heilmann 1940-2026. Galerie Hauser & Wirth unknown books
1953Best.-Nr. 50129New York: Stinson Records 1953. Later repressing. Vinyl album. vg-. Square Quarto 11 1/4". Original illustrated album cover with white lettering on cover. Protected by modern mylar. Striking modernist cover design with photomontage of bayonette. Cover design credited to "Nils" possibly Nils Borg. 10" vinyl record album 33 1/2 RPM Long Play containing the Stinson Records repressing of the album original issued as "Songs of the Lincoln and International Brigade" in a three record album released in 1944. The original album was produced by Moses Asch for his Asch record label and contained songs performed mostly in Spanish a few in English by members of the Almanac Singers including Pete Seeger Bess Lomax Baldwin Hawes and Tom Glazer. These were tunes sung by the antifascist volunteers during the Spanish Civil War. The original record set consisted of three 78 records and a total of 6 songs. This single 10" album reissue combines 4 of those tracks and adds an additional 6 tracks originally comprising the 1940 record "Six Songs for Democracy" Keynote Records July 1940 performed by German singer and actor Ernest Busch 1900-1980 along with a chorus of members of the International Brigades during the Spanish civil war in 1938. The Busch recordings comprise the A side of this record and the first song on the B side. The final four tracks on the B side are the Seeger recordings. 10 Tracks: Side A: - Band 1: The Peat-Bog Soldiers - Band 2: Hans Beimler - Band 3: Song of the International Brigades - Band 4: Freedom - Band 5: Song of the United Front. Side B: - Band 1: The Four Insurgent Generals - Band 2: Cook House - Band 3: Spanish Marching Song - Band 4: Quinte Brigada - Band 5: Quinte Regimento. The Abraham Lincoln Brigade was an international brigade of volunteers for the Republican cause during the Spanish civil war with the album containing "the songs of the men who left home and safety behind them in 1937 to fight Fascism" in Spain. The record label originally had an association with Moses's Asch's Asch and then Folkways label's. Stinson was initially known for its release of recordings made in the Soviet Union. It issued recordings by folk and blues music including recordings by Woody Guthrie and Josh White and was known for an association with leftist politics. Back cover with listing of folk music recordings released by Stinson Records. A scarce pressing of a historically important record. Album cover wear along edges with minor scuffing and lightly rubbing. Bottom edge mostly split. Vinyl with some light scratches. The record is somewhat noisey with some pops but is still listenable overall. Missing original inner record sleeve. Cover and record in vg- condition overall. Cover protected in modern mylar. Stinson Records unknown books
1975Best.-Nr. UB-17888Cincinnatti: Cal Kowal 1975. First Edition. Very Good. First Edition. Photographic essay documenting Joseph "Mr. Spoons" Jones the Cincinnati street and bar performer who spent over three decades playing spoons in the bars of Over-the-Rhine - including Aunt Maudie's - while supplementing his income selling handmade paper corsages. Kowal's black-and-white photographs capture Jones performing including a striking image of him posed at a pool table with spoons arranged to spell out "SPOONS." Text includes biographical and anecdotal matter under headings "Bar Hopping · Spoon Flopping · Street Troubadour" and "Livelihood" along with a Shakespeare epigraph from A Midsummer Night's Dream "Wilt thou heare some musicke.let us have the tongs and the bones" IV.i.33 printed against a black page with a white photogram-style fern/leaf motif echoed from the covers. Rear free endpaper carries contact information stamped in black "TO RENT MR. SPOONS / CONTACT LOU / AT: JIMMY SKINNERS MUSIC CENTER / ON VINE ST." with a phone number added by hand in blue ink. The same leaf bears a printed dedication to "Joe's amicable family" special thanks to Noel Martin and the Cincinnati Art Museum and the production credits above. Signed: Inscribed in ink by the subject Joseph Jones: "With luck from Mr Spoon Joseph Jones." Additionally inscribed below by Dick Robbins: "With the wish that you always get what you want and want what you get" signed with a small hand-drawn spoon beneath his signature. Robbins' identity/relationship to the subject or production has not been established through outside sources - he does not appear in the book's own credits or in available secondary accounts of Jones/Aunt Maudie's; the inscription itself is the only evidence of his connection to this copy. Bound in at rear is a sleeve containing a 45 rpm single. Vetco Records 5825 Vine Street Cincinnati Ohio 45202 ℗ 1975 catalog/matrix no. 741278. Labels credit "Jimmie Skinner Music. Pub." Side 1 / "Jimmie Skinner Music Pub." Side 2 and bear the artist name "MR. SPOONS." Side 1: "Spoon Rag" 2:04 / "Spinning Spoons" 1:50 Side 2: "Spoon Tapping" / "Dueling Spoons" - label scuffed/worn on this side obscuring the catalog number and partially obscuring both track titles; readings above are my best guess from what's legible and should be confirmed by ear or under raking light before going to print. Vinyl Condition: Vinyl/playing surface clean and bright on both sides with light handling marks only; appears playable. Side 2 label scuffed and abraded in an arc near the spindle hole affecting legibility of two track titles and the catalog number; Side 1 label clean and fully legible. Record is taped into a die-cut pocket at the rear of the book. Book Condition: mild wear and rubbing to extremities with chipping/bumping at the corners of the front panel; scattered brown foxing/spotting to the rear free endpaper and adjoining leaves. Spiral binding remains tight and intact. . Cal Kowal unknown books
1901Best.-Nr. 1717801901. NAKAMURA Gyokushu. Miyama no shiori. 2 volumes. 250 x 160 mm. Kyoto: Honda Unkido 1901. An exquisite collection of designs probably created as patterns for kimonos. In fine condition and extremely rare. Some of the plates have a distinctly modernist feel. There is some soiling but the stunning plates are immaculate. OCLC lists The National Diet Library and the Wolfsonian. unknown books
1888Best.-Nr. 221661888. Original patent documentation for Edmond Verstraete's innovative 1888 railway car design an uncommon surviving artifact from the era of rapid industrial expansion and technological advancement in American rail transport. Verstraete Edmond. Railway Car. Washington D.C.: U.S. Patent Office July 24 1888. Patent No. 386512. First edition. 2 printed lithograph sheets measuring 9" x 7". Signed by inventor and witnesses. Includes two detailed mechanical drawings by Verstraete with formal submission details signed by the inventor and his attorney. This patent filed during a period when the U.S. railroad network was transforming American commerce and mobility documents Verstraete's reconfiguration of the passenger car interior and structural layout. The diagrams show side and overhead views of a self-contained passenger railcar marked by articulated platform entries segmented internal seating and a defined vestibule region. Of note are the annotated elements marked "x" in red ink labeled as "Lower entries" and "Passengers" likely indicating areas of operational focus or examiner queries. The first sheet offers a longitudinal cross-section while the second presents a plan and elevation revealing design emphasis on safety comfort and structural balance. The late 19th century witnessed a proliferation of railway car patents as inventors sought to enhance efficiency passenger experience and operational safety in the context of growing urban transit systems and long-haul travel routes. Verstraete's work fits within this inventive surge paralleling the emergence of Pullman cars electric trolleys and elevated rail networks. As cities like New York Chicago and San Francisco expanded rail-based infrastructure designs such as this laid the groundwork for more integrated mass transit and intercity rail travel. Light toning minor smudge at lower margin of first sheet archival notations in red and pencil at margin; "EXAMINER" hand-stamped at top. Overall very good condition. A scarce and compelling primary document reflecting the ingenuity and regulatory mechanics of the Gilded Age railroad boom ideal for researchers in industrial history transportation technology and the evolution of public transit. unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 40294New York: Daylark Press / Doubleday and Company 1967. Good. New York: Daylark Press Distributed by Doubleday and Company 1967. Second Edition see note. Narrow oblong octavo; publisher's blue staplebound card wrappers; 7ll. featuring eighty-four 84 slogan stickers. Wrappers rather worn with small pinhole to upper cover some light foxing and soil to contents. Good and complete overall. Humorous and often quite tasteless collection of joke slogan stickers: "Nasser Had His Nose Bobbed" "Rape Is Inconsiderate" "I Can't Relate to Trees" "Feed Twiggy" etc. Though the copyright states "Second Edition" we find no examples of a first in retail or OCLC which lists just three examples as of April 2026 at Cornell Harvard and U. Washington. Daylark Press / Doubleday and Company unknown books
2012Best.-Nr. vot844Osprey Florida: Historic Spanish Point 2012. Produced by Gulf Coast Heritage Association Inc. Octavo softbound stiff full-color photo. illustrated stapled slick wrappers 26 pp. Fine. Illustrations throughout. This is a history of the Webb family. Their story is taken from the letters they wrote about their pioneer days on the Florida frontier. Their story is significant in many ways. We study history to discovery the lessons of the past. Historic Spanish Point, (2012). Produced by Gulf Coast Heritage Association, Inc. paperback books
1928Best.-Nr. 1723681928. SOVIET PROPAGANDA DESIGN. Za oboronu SSSR For Defence of the USSR. 48 pp. illustrated with 32 full page plates printed in red and black. Small folio 275 x 200 mm. bound in publisher's wrappers illustrated by Czech artist P. Skala. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo AKHRR: Shkola FZU pri 1-i Obraztsovoi tipografii 1928. A remarkable collection of Soviet imagery intended as instruction for decorating workers' clubs reading huts and use during rallies. The illustrations include fully decorated interiors concepts for 'hands-on' attractions such as a 'rayok' or Russian peep show shooting galleries and quiz shows. Most of the imagery is in the constructivist style but also includes numerous caricatures of western fat cats fascists and even a Ku Klux Klan member which would have been inspiration for costume design. Rare OCLC finds just one copy at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. The leaves with illustrations have an even toning from the printing process else a fine copy with the errata slip and unusually printed on fine thick paper. unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. 1653411934. JAPANESE DESIGN. Juraku Cho. 3 volumes illustrated with a total of 90 colour and monochrome woodblock plates. Oblong folio 270 x 390 mm. bound in publisher's silk over boards in a new chitsu case. Kyoto: Unsodo 1934. A spectacular series of designs with superb colour woodblock plates with each volume devoted to a different motif. Volume 1 is Ryu no maki the dragon. Volume 2 is Hoo no maki the phoenix and Volume 3 is Shishi no maki the lion. Both the full colour plates and the monochrome plates facing them are masterpieces of the woodblock maker's art. Unsodo is the name of a large Japanese publishing company with branches in both Tokyo and Kyoto. Founded in 1891 this company is still in existence today. From the 1890s through the 1930s the Unsodo publishing house was involved in printing high quality pattern books for various crafts including textiles and lacquer.Some wear to the boards but otherwise a fine set. Rare with no listing on OCLC. hardcover books
1973Best.-Nr. 389005Atlantic City: Grand Central Resort 1973. Unbound. Very Good. Flexible aluminum illustrated lithographic plate. Approximately 15.75" x 20.5". A couple of small punctures some small micro-scratches about very good. The central photographic image is of a group of people in costumed disco dress: roller skater construction worker hippie tuxedo etc. The half-tone screened picture also lists make-up and hair credit as well as printing and photography credits. The flexible plate was meant to fit over a drum-like cylinder from which the image was pressed onto paper or cardboard. The aluminum plates were often recycled or re-inked and subsequently reused. Their survival is uncommon. Grand Central Resort unknown books
Best.-Nr. 2068London: T. Fisher Unwin 1904. An octavo of 267 pages bound in the original pictorial cloth of a gardener in a white shirt and hat tending a garden bed with his rake. The spine features a large bay standard with twisted twin trunks set in a large pot. This exceptional publisher's trade binding is executed in white olive and chartreuse green set against navy blue. Colored frontispiece of sweet peas. Written by the author of Recipe For The Million it contains a wealth of practical information for garden lovers. The text can be readily had in various internet formats and reproductions.but the satisfaction of the boldly handsome binding representing the best elements of the Arts and Crafts period of design cannot be captured in modern commercial endeavors. A bit of light foxing and rubbing as well as a little wear to the spine extremities. Overall a very good copy indeed of this scarce title in its original binding. hardcover books
1958Best.-Nr. 4465New York: Lester Rossin Associates 1958. Very good. 4to 295 x 230 mm. Original 4-flap portfolio of brown pictorial paper containing three folders of bifolium sample illustrations designs and photographs loose as issued collated complete. Portfolio margins and folds with a little wear and creasing contents in excellent state. "MAD MEN" ERA GRAPHIC DESIGN BEING A PROMOTIONAL PORTFOLIO FOR A NOTED NYC ADVERTISING AND MARKETING AGENCY. THE PORTFOLIO IS ITSELF INGENIOUSLY DESIGNED AND THE CONTENTS PRESENT A "STABLE" OF INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ILLUSTRATORS DESIGNERS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS INCLUDING RAY PROHASKA AND D. STONE MARTIN. Lester Rossin is recognized as being one of the original "Mad Men" an elevated advertising art and marketing firm that thrived in the 1950s and 1960s. Offered here is an original portfolio of design work that was no doubt distributed to potential clients. The portfolio was designed by Clifford Condak and contains three color-coded folders with samples from the firm's three divisions. The folders are: Illustrators blue folder with a circle: 13 samples; Photographers green / square: 4 samples; and Designers red / triangle: 6 samples. Each folder bears the names of the individuals whose work was contained therein. On the front of the portfolio is an extraordinary "raison d'etre" by the firm which bears reprinting: "Design is the basis of a creative illustration. Whatever the medium message or technique only a heightened sense of design will raise the work from craftsmanship to the level of art. This is our belief. It is the basis of our achievement the discipline of our daily work and the guarantee of our future." On the back of the portfolio is a long list of the company's "Distinctions" including "Bests" at the 1957 International Poster Annual and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Here the potential client is informed that "In the past 12 months we have designed and produced art for 2198 advertisers 1561 mailing pieces and 932 point-of-sale units." On the upper cover is the statement that this "First in a series"; no other subsequent portfolio has been located by us and not even this one is listed in WorldCat. Lester Rossin Associates unknown books
1972Best.-Nr. 49830New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence 1972. Very Good /Very Good. New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence 1972. First Edition stated first printing. Octavo 21cm; quarter-bound black and silver boards in publisher's dust jacket with $7.95 price intact grey endsheets; 276pp; black-and-white photographs throughout. Dust jacket rubbed toned and scratched. Boards bumped; spine slightly cocked. Binding sound. Textblock endsheets and interior pages toned. Former bookseller's price in green pencil at half-title page. Very Good or better. The complete "experimental television script" to a program which aired on March 13 1972 generously illustrated with stills from the program. Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence unknown books
