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1999réf. 9013755Woodstock: Overlook 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Overlook hardcover books
1972réf. 9013799San Antonio: University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures 1972. Hardcover. Fine/fine. One of 200 copies signed by Carl Hertzog Al Lowman William R. Holman and William Wittliff. Bound in publisher's original quarter black leather and burnt orange boards with a cream paper label stamped in black on the front cover with an acetate dust jacket and in a red paper covered slipcase with a cream paper label stamped in black on the cover. University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures hardcover books
1996réf. 9011526New York: Penguin Studio 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Penguin Studio hardcover books
1883réf. 30421883. Softbound. VG. Wraps. appx. 120 pp. numerous line engravings. Catalogue lists 605 works many of which are reproduced by line engraving. Includes names and adresses along with numbered catalogue entries for each artist at rear. Rare. paperback books
2000réf. 9007681New York: Thames and Hudson 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Thames and Hudson hardcover books
réf. 1178Rogers Bruce. Wolfe Humbert. THE SILVER CAT AND OTHER POEMS. New York Bowling Green Press 1928. One of 780 copies designed by Bruce Rogers and printed by William Edwin Rudge. Bound in paper boards. Fine condition. Ransom p.403. hardcover books
1930réf. 1180London: Victor Gollancz 1930. Very good. One of 400 numbered copies printed on hand-made paper and signed by the author. Bound in full cloth. Dust jacket soiled and chipped at head and heel. Very good condition. Signed by Author Victor Gollancz hardcover books
1928réf. 383London: Victor Gollancz 1928. Hardcover. Very good/very good. One of 410 numbered copies signed by Wolfe. Dust jacket. Very good condition. Signed by Author Victor Gollancz hardcover books
1971réf. 823Verona: Stamperia Valdonega 1971. Hardcover. Fine. One of 250 numbered copies designed by Giovanni Mardersteig. Bound in blue half leather and blue cloth boards. Slipcase. Slight sunning to spine else fine condition. Stamperia Valdonega hardcover books
réf. 51000Letterpress poster 38" x 25" designed by Duchamp printed in black and orange on white ground acting as both notice for and as a catalogue of works shown at the landmark DADA exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York April 15 to May 9 1953 with the texts and list of exhibited works creating a complex typographically radical and beautifully informative tableau. New York Sidney Janis Gallery 1953. The international group exhibition was assembled catalogued and installed by Duchamp and included some 212 works by both Duchamp and a roster of artists associated with the DADA movement working both individually and collaboratively. According to Arturo Schwarz in the Duchamp catalogue raisonne "The catalog was distributed at the exhibition as a ball of crushed tissue paper 'a Dada gesture to cancel the 'seriousness' of exhibition catalogs'. Sidney Janis in answer to a request for further information wrote 'The Dada poster by Marcel Duchamp for our DADA show of 1953 was very carefully planned over a period of weeks and when it was finally accepted as perfect then Duchamp crushed one into a wastepaper ball to be discarded into the wastepaper basket. 'This is the way you should mail them' and we did just that. We also had these 'wads of wastepaper' on exhibit in a wastepaper basket and when the visitors arrived they rescued these from the basket opened them and flattened them as best they could and read the catalog notations. Many clients complained that they did not receive the DADA catalog and when we checked we discovered that the various maids and butlers receiving these 'wads of paper' threw them away without noticing them to be a catalog.'" Arturo Schwarz "The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp; Third revised and expanded edition; New York Delano Greenidge 1997; entry #543 page 801. Because so many of the posters were crushed and discarded only a small number of uncrushed examples have survived thus making the present object quite rare. Our copy is one of an unknown but presumably very small number of uncrushed examples though it was folded at one point. There is some fading to the orange ink to various degrees and some very minor soiling along a couple of folds otherwise a very good copy of a rare and important work documenting an influential exhibition both Johns and Rauschenberg were reportedly big fans of the show that has only gained importance over the ensuing years. unknown books
1967réf. 008323New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston 1967. RARE Review Copy of this groundbreaking behind-the-scenes look into the New York art scene of the 1960s. With four 8" x 10" B&W glossy photos from the book laid in; George Segal's "Couple at the Stairs"; Andy Warhol in his studio; Marcel Duchamp in his Manhattan apartment; and Lee Bontecon relaxing in her studio first 3 photos Fine last photo small faint spot bottom margin and faint bottom corner crease. The book is Near Fine small prior owner name 2nd front end page slight bowing to boards. In a Very Good dust jacket 1/4" chip across head and 1 1/2" chip base of spine narrow chip at top edge front flap fold several small closed edge tears. Original photographs from this New York collection are uncommon at auction.RBH. While these four are not originals they would be striking framed as a set. . First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. Tall 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall. Review Copy. Holt, Rinehart and Winston Hardcover books
réf. P4745Prague: Československý spisovatel 1968. Quarto 29.5 × 18 cm. Original blind wrappers with typo-illustrated dust-wrappers; accordeon-bound leaves; 69 pp. With four full-page color lithographs "graphic labyrints" by Zdeněk Sklenǎŕ and numerous pages of typographic compositions by Hlavsa. A very good copy. Bilingual edition with text in Latin and Czech of John Amos Comenius' treatise "Typographeum vivum" "The Living Printing Press" a lengthy metaphorical comparison of his pedagogical approach to the means of producing printed books. The book was published to celebrate the five-hundredth anniversary of the appearance of the first printed book in Bohemia in 1468 The Trojan Chronicles. From the English-language resume: "the great seventeenth-century Czech humanist Jan Amos Komenský . had faith in the grandiose possibilities open to the printed word that can spread life-giving ideas. And finally it is to the second half of the twentieth century that the book owes its graphic design. This is the work of two contemporary Czech artists who have many times already shown themselves to be outstanding masters of book design and illustration -- the graphic designer and typographer Oldřich Hlavsa and the painter graphic artist and illustator Zdeněk Sklenář. It is no coincidence that this bibliophile publication is designed and illustrated in a way that enables the artistic aspects of its typography to create new meanings." Parallel Latin and Czech text with Czech editorial notes and English Russian German and French summaries. Striking large-scale typographic design by Hlavsa incorporating fonts such as Bodoni Times Roman an eighteenth-century Prague specimen Verdi Frutiger's Univers and Menhart's Figural. One of 1000 copies printed. unknown books
réf. P6865Prague: Melantrich 1948. Octavo 22.5 × 15 cm. Original cloth-backed decorative boards; pictorial dust-jacket; 116 4 pp. Very good; dust jacket very lightly discolored and age-toned to verso; in protective mylar. Second printing 2000-3000 the hardcover version of the Czech translation of "La grande épreuve des démocraties. Essai sur les principes démocratiques : leur nature leur histoire leur valeur philosophique" by the French philosopher Julien Benda. Teige was a formative member of the avant- garde movement "Devětsil" and served as a key conduit for West European avant-garde and surrealist tendencies to the Czech Republic in the interwar period in addition to his own prolific work as an editor graphic designer and theoretician. Pictured as no. 524 p. 208 in Karel Teige a typografie. hardcover books
1995réf. 38289Woodside CA: Occasional Works 1995. Small narrow 4to 27 cm; 10.5". 54 pp. Sunday collection was edited designed & published by Ann Rosener at Occasional Works Woodside California. The edition is limited to 100 numbered copies. Composed in monotype Bembo at M & H Type San Francisco and handset Bembo at Occasional Works. Title set in Adobe Trajan designed by Carol Twombly. Printed letterpress on Rives paper at Okeanos Press Berkeley. Handbound with printed paper over boards at Foolscap Press Berkeley. This is copy number 11"colophon. Contents: Foreword -- The Sabbath / W.H. Auden -- Sunday 4 a.m. / Elizabeth Bishop -- Sunday / Laura Riding -- The sense of the sleight-of-hand man / Wallace Stevens -- Mr. Eliot's Sunday morning service / T.S. Eliot -- Easter service / W.S. DiPiero -- Palm Sunday / Edgar Bowers -- Palm Sunday / Amy Clampitt -- Easter morn / Diane Glancy -- A Sunday drive / Margaret Atwood -- The silent Sunday / William Plomer -- For me at Sunday sermons the serpent / Lynn Emanuel -- Sunday afternoon / Denise Levertov -- Sunday morning through binoculars / Eamon Grennan -- An April Sunday brings the snow / Philip Larkin -- Sunday night in the city / Sharon Olds -- Sonnets to Chris / John Berryman -- A lesson for this Sunday / Derek Walcott -- Picnic / Adrienne Rich -- The visit / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden -- Song : Come enjoy your Sunday! / Robert Graves -- Sunday outing / Brian Jones -- Sunday at the end of summer / Howard Nemerov -- The Sunday news / Dana Gioia -- A walk / Gary Snyder -- Sunday afternoon in Buffalo Texas / Donald Justice -- Sunday illumination / Al Young -- Sunday Tarzan in his hammock / Lewis Buzbee -- Monday morning / J.V. Cunningham. Publisher's green papercovered boards illustrated with designs incorporating time-telling devices. Very good condition. Occasional Works hardcover books
1968réf. 24939Knightsbridge Hamilton Ohio: Champion Papers Inc. 1968. Illustrated in color and black and white this issue's theme is the city people & history of San Francisco California in illustration literature and lore. Presented using a variety of Champion Papers for printing colored illustrations maps views photographs of San Francisco locales personages sports examples of old invoices restaurants theatre promotions the graphic signage of San Francisco; all California-themed idea graphics. Concept and creative direction by Needham Harper & Steers Inc. With various printing techniques plates & more. All papers and processes used carefully identified and listed for each item. Approx. 10 1/8" x 11 3/4" size heavy paper stock illustrated spiral-bound covers; a little edge-wear & darkening to the covers; contents clean and in very good condition. . First Edition. Spiral Bound. Very Good. Champion Papers Inc. paperback books
1974réf. 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 paperback books
1965réf. 31489New York: Whitney Library of Design 1965. Second printing. Paperback. Very Good. Nearly square papewrbound volume. 204 pp. Stated second printing. Includes 26 essays on problems in design architecture etc by Nelson. A handsome very good copy of this classic in the field. Whitney Library of Design paperback books
1949réf. 25476Woodstock Vermont: William Edwin Rudge Publisher Inc. 1949. 68 pages 8 pages of advertisements at back. Cover design by Frank Lieberman; the issue is illustrated in black and white. Contributions from Mary Kingsbury writing on Emily Connor and the Marchbanks Press; Dorothy Miner on Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages & Renaissance; John Taylor Arms Ray Nash with book reviews graphic arts topics production notes. Old rubber stamp of Contempo Advertising Artists Inc. on a few leaves at lower margin. Approx. 7 1/4" x 10" size; illustrated paper softcovers. Binding with a few tiny chips at bottom edge top corner; contents clean and very good condition. A very good graphic arts compendium from mid-20th century. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. William Edwin Rudge, Publisher, Inc. paperback books
1980réf. 157706San Francisco: the Brigade 1980. 8.5x11 inch flyer with reproductions of 10 gay liberation buttons from the 1970s and a police whistle: the latter being the "one we use" the principal tool of the Brigade's anti-violence campaign initiated by community activist Hank Wilson. the Brigade unknown books
1998réf. 39611NY:: Simon and Schuster. Very Good in Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0684837250 . Color photographs throughout. First printing. Front free endpaper has been removed else very good in a fine dust jacket. . Simon and Schuster, hardcover books
1977réf. 173556Boston MA: Little Brown and Company 1977. Softcover. 232 pages. Interesting book by legendary designer George Nelson who long worked for Herman Miller. Includes numerous black and white illustrations. A very good copy in wrappers with some minor wear and some slight foxing. Signed by Nelson on the half title in red marker and dated 1979 in Chicago. Uncommon signed. Little, Brown and Company unknown books
1940réf. WRCAM49639New York 1940. Forty-two original works from approximately 9 x 7 1/4 inches to 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Most on paper and mounted to cardboard backing some executed on art board some matted. Minor dust-soiling to some several examples have pencil drawings of room layouts or floor plans on the verso Hofstatter stamps on verso of two a few examples detached from mount. Overall clean and in excellent condition retaining vibrant coloring. A stellar group of thirty-nine original watercolors and three original pencil drawings depicting early 20th-century furniture designs largely in the French Provincial style. The artwork was executed by New York furniture designer and interior decorator Theodore Hofstatter or artists working for his firm. The group includes wonderful depictions of mirrors beds window drapes chairs desks bureaus tables and stands. Additionally there are eleven works showing the interior design of various room settings. Theodore Hofstatter succeeded his father in their New York City business of furniture design and construction naming the firm Hofstatter's Sons when his brother Adolph joined him in the concern in the early 1870s. The Hofstatter family concentrated their efforts on building quality furniture at wholesale prices. In 1885 Theodore Hofstatter founded a branch of the business to focus on interior decorating opening a separate location on Broadway near Twelfth Street. Eventually the business would move to at least two different addresses on Fifth Avenue evidenced by Hofstatter labels affixed to the verso of several of the watercolors here a few of these labels are also marked "Special Design" by Hofstatter. According to THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY 1894 Theodore's design business "kept abreast ever since its opening with the current of fashionable taste in illustrating in the styles reproduced all those characteristics with which the names inseparably connected with the history of the three Louis are essentially a part. Berain Lebrun Watteau Andre Charles Boule have now a historical significance; Cailleri Gouthiere Reisener Fragonard Greuze Boucher Martin and the rest awaken a whole train of associations. It is through their influence and such as theirs that Theodore Hofstatter's designs possess the material to produce only those effects that can be truthfully termed good style." Hofstatter restricted his decorating contracts largely to commercial interests furnishing the City Club the Downtown Club the Arkwright Club and nine floors of the Hotel Savoy. He also cultivated a small group of private clients one of whom was Cornelius Dresselhuys Dutch consul to Great Britain. Two of Dresselhuys's rooms the Entrance Hall and Vestibule at 9 Kensington Palace Gardens in London are featured here in lovely full watercolors. A fascinating group of artwork featuring furniture and interiors from a prominent New York City furniture maker and interior designer. Such original illustrations of furniture and interior decoration are in our experience quite scarce. unknown books
1968réf. 13612Ithaca NY : Cornell University 1968. First Edition. Comb Bound. Near Fine. First Edition. 6 v 4 34 4 27 4 19 4 23 4 61 4 30 4 20 4 34 4 15 pages. Comb bound photo-mechanically reproduced report. 9 x 11 inches. Comb Bound. A project funded by NASA and involving 2 professors and 14 students with some serious objectives. "This project was conceived for the purpose of achieving two diverse objectives. The first of these objectives was technical. It was the design of certain components of a control system for an unmanned lunar rover a test vehicle to be used in development and test of these components and a soil sampler. The second objective was educational. The desire was to provide professional engineering candidates with as real a design situation as would be possible within an educational institutions.TECHNICAL OBJECTIVE. The exploration of the lunar surface by an unmanned roving vehicle is a logical step in the program of manned lunar exploration . Therefore a remotely controlled Lunar Roving Vehicle Simulartor LVRS was to be designed and built. An additional technical project was a lunar soil sampler." page i. Cornell University unknown books
1969réf. 26325Watford England: Watford School of Art / Edition Hansjorg Mayer 1969. Light foxing to the text block and some scratching and wear to the mounted tin covers else very good in cloth wrappers. Limited edition. Quarto. Number 100 of an edition of 100 copies. Includes copies of works by Richard Buckley Ian Burton Elliott Frank Challenger Veronica Loveless Hansjörg Mayer Graham Pow Kathryn Wallbridge Cilla Weeks and John Wells printed with a Rotaprint R 70. Covers are original works of art on tin attributed to Watford School of Art on the colophon page. Watford, England: Watford School of Art / Edition Hansjorg Mayer unknown books
2003réf. 31464New York: Princeton Architectural Press 2003. First edition. Paperback. Very Good . Thick wide paperbound quarto with wide French flaps and printed paper obi. 191 pp. Correct first printing of this intriguing monograph on the famed record designer with texts by Emily King Christopher Wilson Paul Morley and others. Profusely illustrated. Light wear to cover edges. A sound very good plus copy of this uncommon and desirable book on Saville. Princeton Architectural Press paperback books
