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1909rif. 25038Hamburg: Alfred Jannsen 1909. First Edition. Original publisher's pictorial paper covered boards designed by Czeschka with the designer's monogram incorporated into the pattern. All edges colored black; black endpapers. Near fine. 8vo 152 pp. Carl Otto Czeschka Austrian painter and graphic designer was associated with the Wiener Werkstatte. A rare example of his design work for book bindings executed in a most fragile medium. OCLC cites 7 holdings with only two in America Wolfsonian & Wisconsin. Alfred Jannsen hardcover books
1885rif. 980Freiburg: F Wagner 1885. First Edition. Contemporary cloth backed boards. Very good; small early institutional ink stamp on the title but no other accessioning. 4to 8 1 - 52 29 lithographic plates mostly folding of sections plans and details of prisons. An exceedingly interesting work on prison architecture and design. The plans show cell designs and interior appointments of prisons right down to the windows locks and railings. The book was the result of a series of committee meetings between the Prussian government officials and the organization of prison directors. F Wagner hardcover books
1818rif. 21486Paris: Chez Genty Jean-Baptiste Genty 1818. Very Good Minus. A delightful print depicting a troupe of talent and well-dressed dogs -- not just dancing but doing other stunts such as using a spinning wheel. The multivarious canine act has not just a trainer but several other assistants including a drummer. There are seven spectators none betraying much amusementThe print measures 22.5 by 34 cm. The print is rare -- no copies listed on OCLC First Search. The edges are uneven and overtrimmed. None of the illustration is lost but some of the publication information below the title has its letters partly lost -- enough remains to make out the words. Two pinholes upper right. Moderate soiling on top of age toning. Some corner creasing. Chez Genty (Jean-Baptiste Genty) unknown books
1926rif. 54867Moscow МоÑква: Kinopechat Кинопечать 1926. First edition. Softcover. Good to very good condition. Octavo. 80pp. Dark blue and white wrappers with constructivist typography on the front cover housed in modern blue heavy paper portfolio with printed typographic design of original cover pasted to cover flap. Publisher's device on title page. This scarce published screenplay for the film adaptation of Sholem Aleichem's novel "Wandering Stars" by the acclaimed Russian-Jewish novelist playwright and journalist Isaac Babel 1894-1940. The film was premiered in Kiev on January 4th 1927 and was directed by Grigori Gritscher-Tscherikower 1883-1945. It was produced by VUFKU studios the national film studios of the Ukrainian SSR. This book contains the entirety of the film's screenplay accompanied by three striking b/w illustrations by Soviet artist and designer Alexander Bykhovskii 1888-1978 who likely also created the striking cover. The final three pages contain publisher's ads listing other work on the topic of cinema. The story tells of the love between Leibel the son of a wealthy shtetl family and Reizel a poor cantor's daughter in Bessarabia. The two run off to join a traveling Yiddish theater group. They are later separated with each becoming successful in their own right only to eventually reunite in America. The work was first serialized and originally appeared in the Warsaw newspapers between 1909 and 1911. It has come to be seen as the third in an unofficial trilogy of novels by the writer centering on musicians or performers preceded by Stempenyu 1888 and The Nightingale 1889. In 1925 the Moscow State Jewish Theater suggested that the Goskino the Soviet State Film Studio produce a film adaptation of Sholem Aleichem's novel. The order was commissioned to Isaac Babel for translation and adaptation from the book's original Yiddish language to Russian for the screenplay. During this period Babel had been working on other translations of Yiddish literature into Russian including the collected works of Sholem Aleichem and work by David Bergelson. According to Babel's foreword printed here he faced a number of difficulties adapting the novel including the modification of petty bourgeoisie motifs as well as the changes of film directors and their differing requirements. Because of certain elements in the script of which the main committee of the Goskino did not approve the film's production had to ultimately be switched to VUFKU studios in Odessa. In a letter during the period of production Babel apparently wrote: "I will have to be present on the set. if I am not there the director will ruin everything" and later upon hearing of further changes made by Gritscher-Tscherikower wrote that "it is more profitable for me not to participate in this shameful production". Regardless of Babel's opinion of the final product the film was well received by Soviet audiences at the time. Text in Russian. Portfolio with minor wear. Wraps partially restored with minor wear. Previous owner's names and date at top of title page one near gutter. Light water staining along right half of bottom edge of first 30 pages reappearing from pages 40 to end though along lower part of foredge more pronounced on pages 75/76 and light fraying along foredge from pages 67 to 76. Block lightly age-toned. Kinopechat (Кинопечать) unknown books
1971rif. 88595New York: Viking Press / A Studio Book 1971. First American Edition. Published simultaneously in Canada. Quarto 31cm; gray cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; photographic endpapers; 78-216pp; black-and-white photographic halftone illustrations. Light shelf-soil and -wear with sunning to lower board margins; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $18.95 and $22.50 lightly tanned with modest shelf-wear and -soil 0.5" tear to upper spine panel and light peeling to extremities; Very Good. Photographic interpretation of Calder with chronology of his works and some of his quotes. 88595. Viking Press / A Studio Book unknown books
1985rif. 142New York: National Academy of Design 1985. Softcover. Good. Wraps. 95 pp. 24 bw 8 color repros. Foreword by John H. Dobkin introduction by Annette Blaugrund essay by Carrie Rebora. Catalogue lists 32 works with notes on most. National Academy of Design paperback books
1983rif. 338383Tokyo: Kodansha 1983. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Profusely illustrated in color with examples of Japanese graphic design. Folio red cloth illustrated d.w. slightly rubbed. Tokyo: Kodansha 1983. First edition. Very minor spotting to endpapers. A very good copy in a very good dust wrapper. Kodansha unknown books
1982rif. 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
2019rif. 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
1936rif. 338228Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques 1936. paperback. poor. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. 4to colorful pictorial wrappers front cover & first few pages detached; spine entirely lacking. Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques 1936. Poor copy of this scarce periodical but internally clean with wonderful illustrations. Arts et Metiers Graphiques unknown books
1990rif. 56006New York: Fashion Institute of Technology 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Very good to fine condition. Quarto. 1 4 wing fold 13 plates 2 double plates 2 plates. Original black cloth clamshell box holding 19 heavy paper leaves 3 of them folding. Published to coincide with FIT's exhibition held from April 24 to May 10 1990 celebrating both Peretti's 50th birthday and her 15th anniversary with Tiffany & Co. With a prosaic text on Peretti's genius and work by Richard Martin Executive Director at the Shirley Goodman Resource Center Fashion Institute of Technology. Beautiful production with calligraphed titles in turquoise in lithography thirteen plates introducing the breadth of Peretti designs including reproductions of her notes and drawings a double plate with photographs of her colleagues plus photos by Richard Avedon Oberto Gili Hiro Horst Helmut Newton among others. Contains plates at rear with photo credits a plate with Elsa Peretti's biographical data another with Peretti quotes published in known magazines and newspapers as well as exhibition credits. Very light wear to clamshell box. Fashion Institute of Technology hardcover books
2010rif. 41065Bay Shore NY: Universal Limited Art Editions 2010. Very Good . Bay Shore NY: Universal Limited Art Editions 2010. Limited Edition. Suite of 12 graphic prints on heavy paper stock approx. 28x35.5cm Lotus Bed I & II and Lotus I - X printed digital ink-jet each with additional title sheets printed on tissue paper; title and publisher on additional tissue sheets 29 printed sheets total. Also includes oblong quarto sting-bound booklet 16ll. with essays on Rauschenberg by Mimi Thompson and Judith Goldman. Text in Chinese followed by English translations. Housed in original decorated silk-covered case with string ties which is in turn housed in the rather worn original white Styrofoam shipping box. Minor creasing and folds along edges of sheets and booklet; rubbing to case; Very Good and sound. Colophon notes that this work was presented to Holding Capital Company and Global China Holdings to commemorate the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. We note the 2008 Lotus Series Da Feng Gallery Exhibition Catalog is rather uncommon with only one holding at The Whitney Museum in OCLC. We find no record of this slightly later and rather neat production. Universal Limited Art Editions unknown books
1936rif. 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
1925rif. 55297New York: Arthur Klar 1925. First printing. Softcover. Very good condition. Small Folio. 16pp. Original black string-tied handmade paper with gilt relief and facsimile signature on front cover; protected by modern mylar. Laid in the program for the performances at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles and a November 8 1931 New York Times Book Review of "Pavlova" by Walford Hyden the first biographical sketch to be published since her death. Handsome brochure introducing the program of Pavlova's American Farewell Tour. Contains sepia-toned depictions of Pavlova in her roles in Don Quixote Snowflakes Chopiniana Sleeping Beauty among others. Two Photo-Illustrated Pavlova endorsements of Welte-Mignon and Baldwin piano's on two full pages at rear. During this tour Pavlova and her company performed the ballet Chopiniana during a two-week engagement at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles. Second to last leaf loosened along bottom third. Arthur Klar unknown books
1945rif. 54643Amsterdam: Van Holkema & Warendof N.V. 1945. First edition. Spiral_bound. g to vg. Oblong octavo. Unpaginated. 30 pages. Spiral binding. Black heavy stock cardboard with white lettering on the front cover. The work contains harrowing and powerful photo-documantation of Nazi atrocities carried out in the concentration camps of "Grossdeutschland" "Greater Germany". There are a total of 26 striking b/w images in collotype each captioned underneath. The photos were taken by various unnamed Allied war photographer unders the auspices of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force after the liberation of the camps Bergen-Belsen Buchenwalde Langestein Mauthausen Dachau and Schwabmuenchen. The images were then collected and assembled here by acclaimed Dutch photographer Willem van de Poll 1895-1970. The second page contains a b/w map showing the location of the larger camps in "Grossdeutschland" of the time. Text in Dutch throughout. Binding with light wear along edges. White lettering on front cover lightly borwned so is white back cover and here two light water stains along top of cover. Inside cover with inked name and date of previous owner. Block somewhat age-toned due to paper quality. Alternate title: Nazi Hel SS. Van Holkema & Warendof N.V. unknown books
1963rif. 54664Bratislava: Mladé letá 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Very good to near fine condition. 1/5000. Large quarto. Unpaginated. 72pp. Original off-white cloth with abstract illustration of a human heart on front cover red lettering on spine in original photo-illustrated dustjacket black lettering on spine red on cover protected by modern mylar. Photo-illustrated endpapers. "The book is one of the most unusually edited and designed and also rarest postwar photo books by Karol Kállay." Czech and Slovak Photoo-Publications p. 316 This rare and poignant photo-essay by Slovak photographer Karol Kállay present seventy-two sheet-fed gravures. Divided into two parts: A selection of photographs showing Bratislava children playing together or walking through a neighborhood under construction in part one and part two documents the everyday life of surgeons and nurses dedicated to save lives at the Bratislava Children's University Hospital where children are seen undergoing open-heart surgery while anxious parents wait and hope for a positive outcome. Text in Czech. Dustjacket lightly rubbed along edges slightly more pronounced at top of front foredge and minor chips at tail of spine. Binding age-toned along top and bottom edges. Interior in near fine condition. Karol Kallay 1926-2012 was a citizen of the world a photographer with blue blood running in his veins who in the educational spirit of the First Republic remained a sworn Czechoslovak even after the breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1993. He was born a Hungarian aristocrat on the 26th of April 1926 in Cadca in Czechoslovakia's First Republic where right from the republic's beginnings the use of aristocratic titles - distinguishing those with "blue blood" from the mere mortals - was officially banned. Despite this his distinction conspicuously radiated out of him all his life. He always wanted to be a photographer. Perhaps it was because at the age of sixteen he won a gold medal in a Slovak photo contest. But it was also thanks to the excellent education he got from his older friends in the Trencin amateur photographic club Halasa Hajduch Farkas which was one of the many Slovak photographic societies started after the war by Jiri Jenicek an officer of the Czechoslovak army and a brilliant and enthusiastic amateur photographer. Kallay's wise father didn't want to impede his son's "comedian career" as he regarded the photographic profession but he had one condition - his son had to study something proper first. And so Karol after the end of the Second World War studied commercial engineering and law in Bratislava. He worked for a construction company in Zilina and Sucany and in his free time he devoted himself to photo reportage as an associate of a photo weekly Domov and Svet. That brought him to Prague where he meet two eminent photographers: Karel Hajek the shining star of reportage photography and Jan Lukas whose recently published book Zeme a lide not only impressed him but practically predetermined his future photojournalistic direction in the spirit of humanistic photography. "Through Jan Lucas I discovered magazines - "Life" "Paris Match" "Illustrated London News" including fashion magazines such as "Vogue" and "Harper's Bazaar"; articles and the opinions of the aesthetician Alexander Libermann and the artistic direction of Alexey Brodovitch - it was all important learning for me because we didn't have that in Slovakia" he remembers. And so Kallay's specific bipolarity as an excellent fashion and advertising photographer was basically the source of his income with excellent reporting constantly mapping out the people's lifestyles that he found on his frequent travels all over the world. Thanks to the Bratislava weekly magazine "Moda" to which he was a regular contributor he could leave his regular job in 1956 and become a freelance photographer. That opened the way for him to contribute to the most important foreign fashion magazines - mainly "Jardin des Modes" in Paris and "Saison" and "Sybille" in Berlin. And because of this at home he became forever known as a successful photographer of fashion who brought the freshness and the dynamism of live photography into his work. In other words: he stopped photographing models as stiff coat hangers. In addition he traveled published books and did reportages for prestigious magazines such as "Geo" "Stern" "Spiegel" "Focus" "Merian" "Sports International" "Paris Match" and "Illustré" of which at that time the world behind the iron curtain knew practically nothing about. And thanks to this talent Karol Kallay became a photo reporter like none other in Czechoslovakia. Mladé letá hardcover books
1935rif. 54208Berlin: Gemeinnützige Berliner Ausstellungs- Messe- und Fremdenverkahrs-G.m.b.H. 1935. First edition. Softcover. Good- to very good condition. Octavo. 160 viii 32pp. Original wraps with cover design by Herbert Bayer protected by modern mylar. Official guide for the exhibition "The Miracle of Life." An important work by Bayer who designed both the exhibition "The Miracle of Life" and the exhibition catalog. Illustrated throughout with photographs and diagrams. Text in German. Some wear along edges of wraps chips and creasing rubbed and very small stains on back cover. Wraps in overall good- interior in very good condition. Gemeinnützige Berliner Ausstellungs-, Messe- und Fremdenverkahrs-G.m.b.H. unknown books
1929rif. 53757Berlin: Neuer Deutscher Verlag 1929. First edition 1.-20. Tausend. Hardcover. Very good condition. Small Quarto. 231 5pp. Original boards with embossed photomontage by John Heartfield on front and back cover; protected by modern mylar. Tan endpapers. The book was designed by John Heartfield. "Deutschland Deutschland Über Alles" by German-Jewish writer Kurt Tucholsky 1890-1935 is a work of fierce social criticism of the late 1920's Germany. Tucholsky also a journalist and satirist warned against antidemocratic tendencies and the threat of National Socialism. This is apparent in his choice of Heartfield's anti-Hitler photomontage on the cover of this work. His books were banned blacklisted by the Nazi's as "Entartete Kunst" and burned. Tucholsky also wrote under the pseudonym Kaspar Hauser. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs by Tucholsky W. Nettelbeck Robert Sennecke Hans Schroeder Otto Storch Otto Haeckel R. Horlemann and many others. Text in German. Light wear along edges of binding and two small light stains on front cover. Ever so lightly starting at half-title. Block very lightly age-toned not affecting photographs. Neuer Deutscher Verlag hardcover books
1930rif. 51604Berlin: Dr. Selle-Eysler A.G. 1930. First printing. Softcover. Very good- to fine condition. Folio 15 1/4 x 11 3/4". Unpaginated 45 leaves. Original stiff ivory paper boards with embossed circular company logo in silver and red on cover with tissue guard in original stiff ivory parchment dustjacket with gilt lettering and red and black ruling on cover. Frontispiece silkscreen. Double page silkscreen with white lettering on gilt background announcing the 25th company anniversary. The dedication page with a silkscreen with gilt lettering and the founder's portrait Dr. med. Gustav Selle in gilt and black both silkscreens. Second frontispiece with gilt company buildings in gilt title page with bold gilt lettering and red and black ruling. Decorative initials. Lavish company history of the Selle-Eysler A.G. one of the first industrial graphic design companies specializing in photographic photomechanical and electromechanical procedures to prepare artwork photographs and graphic design for the printing process. Following the title page four pages with high quality offset reproductions of photographs of the company founder Erich Zander the cofounder Siegmund Labisch both full page and five members of the corporate board on one page. The photographs are rendered in photogravure and many of the designs with gilt overprinting. Striking work celebrating the 25th anniversary featuring the highest quality of graphic design and printing stating an example for the company intrinsically linked to the history of these techniques. This book is profusely illustrated with numerous b/w and color photographs of prepress procedures printing facilities company employees and contains an extensive section with color reproductions of various magazines including :Elegante Welt" "Das Magazin" "Wahre Geschichten"Deutsche Illustrierte" "Lustige Blätter" and others printed by the company. Includes various diagrams. Typesetting clichés and printing by the Dr. Selle-Eysler AG. Printed to heavy flat as well as glossy paper. Scarce in original dustjacket. Text in German. Dustjacket with light wear along edges minor chips and creasing closed tears reinforced with clear tape along inside bottom of front flap cover and spine and lightly rubbed. Binding with small strip of sunning along top of front cover interior in fine condition. Dr. Selle-Eysler A.G. unknown books
rif. 52019Bonlanden/ near Stuttgart: Edition Domberger 1973. First edition. Paperback. Very good- to fine condition. Folio 1971 17 x 11 3/4". 1 12/14pp.; Elephant Folio 1972 1972 19 1/4 x 16 1/2". 1 12/12pp. each. Spiral-bound calendars with original screen prints and black lettering on covers with additional screen printed mylar overlays. All calendars designed by Luitpold Domberger and printed at the Domberger KG Bonlanden Germany. All calendars are limited editions and hand-numbered on title page. The screen-printed mylar overlays create an op-art effect. The 1971 contains prints by Max Bill Herbert Bayer and Robert Indiana. 1971 558/2500: Cover and overlays with screen prints by Herbert W. Kapitzki; January: Max Bill; February: George Van der Sluis; March: Herbert Bayer; April: Robert Indiana; May: Müller-Brittnau; June: Allan d'Arcangelo; July: Horst Scheffler; August: Peter Stroud; September: Josef Levi; October: Sanford Wurmfeld; November: Erich Lethgau; December: Larry Zox. 1972 1754/3000: Cover and overlay with screen prints of Herbert W. Kapitzki; January: Stephen Edlich; February: Robert Indiana; March: Frank Werner; April: Josef Levi; May: Richard Anuszkiewicz; June: Luitpold Domberger; July: Nicholas Krushenick; August: Horst Scheffer; September: Hugo Dietz; October: Edna Andrade; November: Peter Stroud; December: Raimund Gierke. 1973 2107/2500: Cover and overlay with screen prints by Herbert W. Kapitzki; January: Walter Allner; February: Werner Berges; March: Allan d'Arcangelo; April: Julian Stanczak; May: Larry Stark; June: Ingrid Pohl; July: Rinaldo Paluzzi; August: Timo Kw. Heimann; September :Karel Novosad; October: Fritz Ruoff; November: Gerd Winner; December: John Willenbecher. Text in German. Printed overlay of the 1971 calendar partially separated from spiral. 1971 bound with two duplicate pages of calendar January and October without graphic. Front cover of 1972 with three inch crease at bottom right of front cover not affecting screen print. Generally some minor wear. Screen prints in fine condition. Calendars all protected in modern mylar. Luitpold Poldi Domberger was a pioneer of screen-printing in Germany. He established his first printing studio in 1949 in Stuttgart. His neighbor at the time was Willi Baumeister. His son Michael Domberger joined him developed and continued his legacy to the present day. Edition Domberger is at the forefront of screen-printing and continues to develop and promote the medium. Amongst the artists collaborating with Edition Domberger are Josef Albers Josef Beuys Keith Haring Claes Oldenburg Robert Indiana Antoni Tapies Cy Twombly among many others. "For decades the Domberger brand has been synonymous with excellence in screen printing. The print workshop is open to artists and publishers providing a wide range of technical possibilities alongside seasoned expertise. It offers the highest level of craftsmanship in both digital- and screen-printing. The exceptional quality of the prints produced by Domberger have made it one of the leading print workshops in the world" Edition Domberger. Edition Domberger paperback books
rif. 50199Tokyo: Shueisha 集英社 1971. New edition. Hardcover. vg- to near fine. Large oblong folio. 15x21". Unpaginated. All content housed inside the publisher's original cardboard shipping box with printed label pasted on the front. Binding protected in original a white cloth portfolio with red lettering on the front cover and lavishly decorated interior flaps. Black suede-covered boards with mutli-colored illustration mounted on the front cover. Decorative endpapers. Engraved stainless-steel plate showing Mishima's face mounted on black paper preceding the title page. The deluxe and lavishly printed new bilingual edition of the acclaimed and eroticly-charged work also know as "Killed by Roses" by Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe b.1933. It gained notoriety and elicited controversy when it was originally released in 1963 and won the Japan Photo Critics Association's writer award. The main photographic subject of the book the acclaimed and controversial writer Yukio Mishima 1925-1970 wrote the preface to the original edition and also writes the preface for this new edition both are included here. Mishima's acclaimed works include the famous and controversial novels "Confessions of a Mask" 1949 and "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion" 1956. Hosoe's striking high-contrast b/w photographs are all printed in high-quality photogravure retaining all the power and atmosphere of his original images. In comparison with the first version of the work this edition features the content having been noticeably re-edited with one image added a few others removed. The images have been thematically re-organized into five new chapters with the names "Sea & Eyes" "Eyes & Sins" "Sins & Dreams" "Dreams & Death" and "Death" respectively. Influential artist and graphic designer Tadanori Yokoo b. 1936 oversaw all of the design and layout aspects of the book and also created its additional illustrated elements most of which comprise the first chapter of this new edition. While Hosoe was still completing work to prepare this new edition of "Ordeal by Roses" the notorious "Mishima Incident" occurred November 25th 1970 which culminated in the ritual suicide of Yukio Mishima by seppuku. The incident shocked the nation and in its wake the photographer was quite unsure of how to proceed regarding the publication of the book. Not wanting to seem like an opportunist taking advantage of the controversy and the publicity surround Mishima's death he contemplated shelving the project but was later persuaded by Mishima's widow Yoko who said that her husband would have wanted it to be released. It was finally release only a few months later on January 30th 1971. Text in Japanese and English throughout. Portfolio with foxing to the white cloth including the front cover and the interior but the illustrations on the flaps are still clean. Suede binding clean and protected in modern mylar. Light foxing to the edges of the book block. Interior with all pages and images clean and vibrant save for a few sporadic instances of the most minor stains or smudges on the blank versos a few pages. The verso of the final photographic plate and the page opposite have a bit more foxing. Portfolio in very good- binding and interior in very good to near fine condition overall. Alternate title: 細江英公写真作å“. Shueisha (集英社) hardcover books
1965rif. 48080Arnsberg and Dortmund Germany: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gestaltendes Handwerk 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Duodecimo 6 1/8 x 8 1/2". Unpaginated app. 100 leaves each three volumes. Original screw-bolted brown cloth with gray lettering on spines. Text printed to handmade paper in variant colors: black brown gray blue cream yellow green burnt Sienna and umbra photographs printed to glossy white paper. With lists of full and associate members of the workshop at front printed in white on black paper. Complete catalog of "Werkstattporträt Workshop Portrait" in three volumes a joint venture of the Project Group Creative Crafts for the Districts of Arnsberg and Dortmund Germany from 1961 to 1965. Participants of this project included craftsmen and women from the fields of pottery weaving embroidery bookbinding lathe work carpentry photography painting and sculpting. An extraordinary project presenting a state-of-the-art view of craftsmanship and art in Eastern Westfalia in the 1960s illustrated with 309 b/w photographs. Albert Renger-Patzsch participated in this project not only as a photographer see portrait 10 but provided one-hundred and forty-five of the three hundred and eleven photographs of works of other participants including portrait photographs for the catalogs "Werkstattportrait." Renger-Patzsch had worked as press photographer for the Chicago Tribune before publishing his title 'Crassula" with the Auriga-Verlag in the series 'Die Welt der Planze' in 1924. He had his first museum exhibition in 1927. His second book "Die Welt ist schön" became his best-known publication. During the 1930s he remained in Germany and made photographs for the German industy and in advertising. His archive was destroyed during W.W.II. In 1944 he moved to Wamel North Rhine-Westfalia and lived there for the rest of his life. The catalog is structured in twenty-nine chapters 0-271 introducing artists and craftsmen and women including one introductory chapter with eight photographs and a final chapter with six photographs. The object of the project was to further the exchange of knowledge and experience collaboration in research shared leisure time and visits of the workshops and studios of participants. Regional and national exhibitions and publications were arranged to help find buyers for the created work. The introductory chapter includes lists of full members and associate members. Each of the twenty-seven workshop portraits includes an introductory leaf for the respective participant describing the workshop or studio and the career including particulars about the techniques and material used by the artist with captions on the objects captured in eight b/w offset reproductions of photographs by Albert Renger-Patzsch and others on verso. Each set of photographs includes a portrait of the respective artist. Following each set of photographs a page with contact information of the artist and photo-credits for the work displayed. The final chapter is entitled "Workshop Portrait." It includes a brief description of the workshop taking place from April 1961 to December 1965 six b/w photographs of workshop exhibits and a list of all participants with contact information. The last page of this chapter an address by Walter Römhildt states the conclusion of this project and announces the continuation of publications of the series "werkstattforum" at his new office the "Beratungsstelle für Handwerksform bei der Handwerkskammer Hannover." Participants of the project "werkstattportait" will automatically receive those publications. Content with participating artists: portrait 0: Introduction of the project with photos by Renger-Patzsch 9 portrait 1: Hildegard Bäumer weaver Siegen photos by Renger-Patzsch 6 and Foto-Besser Siegen 3 portrait 2: Ignatius Geitel Glass painter Bochum with Klischees by Titze & Lorenz Gelsenkirchen 9 portrait 3: Karl Josef Hoffmann sculptor Attendorn with photos by Renger-Patzsch 9 portrait 4: Anneliese Kretschmer photographer Dortmund photos by Anneliese Kretschmer 9 portrait 5: Udo Dickerhoff carpenter Bochum photos by Renger-Patzsch 8 Sabine Renger 1 and Christian Bathe Münster 1; with two transparencies. portrait 6: Ingeborg and Bruno Asshoff potters Bochum photos by Renger-Patzsch 10 Dagmar Korn Düsseldorf 2 and Helmut Hering Dortmund 2 portrait 7: Martha Wurm embroider Wattenscheid photos by Photo-Soeding J. Müller Soest 11 portrait 8: Otto Pickhan turner Mollseifen photos by Renger-Patzsch 9 portrait 9: Irmgard Timmermann weaver Soest photos by Photo-Soeding J. Müller Soest 9 H. Musmann Lage 1 and Renger-Patzsch 1 portrait 10: Albert Renger-Patzsch photographer Wamel photos by Sabine Renger Wamel 1 Renger-Patzsch 11 Klischees by Titze & Lorenz Gelsenkirchen; portrait 11: Andrea Böhm picture weaver Lüdenscheid w/o photo-credits 10 portrait 12: Päule Jelich goldsmith Iserlohn photos by Schmidt Lueg Iserlohn 11 and Foto Melchers Herne 1 portrait 13: Wolfgang Kruse turner Hamm photos by Schmidt Lueg Iserlohn 10 portrait 14: Wolfgang Kreutter sculptor Dödesberg photos by Bert Brösel Siegen 1 Heidersberger Wolfsburg 2 Schmidt Lueg Iserlohn 9 portrait 15: Marianne Proll bookbinder Hagen photos by A. Bach Hagen 6 Renger-Patzsch 8 portrait 16: Heinz Abendroth metal smith Dortmund photos by Rolf Schmieding Dortmund 9 Dinstühler Dortmund 1; portrait 17: Liesel Bellmann sculptor Dortmund photos by Gerd Schlitzer Dortmund 4 W. von Frankenberg Dortmund 1 Rolf Schmieding Dortmund 3 and Heller Telgte 1 w/o credit 3 portrait 18: Karl Jlling metal smith Mallar photos by Renger-Patzsch 10 portrait 19:Dieter Pieper goldsmithLüdenscheid photos by Werkstätten Carl Golderer Pforzheim 24 portrait 20: Marieluise Quade painter and graphic designer Lüdenscheid photos by Carl Huth Lüdenscheid 2 w/o credits 7 portrait 21: Waldemar Wien sculptor Kierape 1 photos by Renger-Patzsch 13 portrait 22: Christel Humpert potter Bochum photos by Renger-Patzsch10 portrait 23: W. K. A. Weisheit carpenter Plettenberg-Oesterau photos by Renger-Patzsch 9 portrait 24: Günter Hülshoff potter Rosemarie Hülshoff batik both Wangern photos by Renger-Patzsch 14 portrait 25: Josef Severin metal smith Anröchte/Krs. Lippstadt photos by Renger-Patzsch 6 and Sabine Renger 4 portrait 26: Gisela Lohse weaver Hagen photos by Renger-Patzsch 11 portrait 27: Johannes Scharfenstein carpenter Meschede photos by Renger-Patzsch 10 and Foto-Zwietasch Kornwestheim 1 "werkstattportrait" with Klischees by Tietze & Lorenz Gelsenkirchen 6 Text in German. Minor wear overall with some red underlining of text in Römhildt address on last page. Translation of werkstattportrait 10: "Albert Renger-Patzsch born on June 22m 1897 graduated at the Humanistic Gymnasium studied chemistry until the preliminary examination after that he became the head of the photography department of the Folkwang Publisher in Hagen and Darmstadt. Since 1925 independent photographer in Bad Harzburg; first exhibition at Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hannover in 1925; first publication: "Die Halligen" in 1927 worked from 1929-1944 in Essen after that in Wamel near Soest. Following his title "Die Welt ist schön" he published monographs of cities and architecture books on marked-off landscapes and other topics. Renger=Patzsch works are in the collections of the MOMA New York the Eastman House in Rochester the Gernsheim Collection in London the Copper-Engraving Collection of the National Library in Paris and the Photo-Museum in Dresden. He was awarded the David Octavius Hill Medal of the G.D.L. in 1957 the Culture-Award of the German Society for Photography Cologne in 1960 and the Golden Society Medal of the Vienna Photographic Society in 1961. Renger-Patzsch is seen as the father of "Neue Sachlichkeit" in photography. In his book "Die Welt ist schön" he introduces a program with the goal to deter photography from engaging in a race with painting and reflect on its own medium. His notion that photography based on its mechanical structure is better suited to do justice to an object portrait it as an artistic individual pertains to large fields of photography today. Arbeitsgemeinschaft Gestaltendes Handwerk hardcover books
2000rif. 47346Laubach and Berlin: Triton Verlag 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. 1/2000. Folio. 391 3pp. and portfolio with 20 facsimile enclosures. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and ruling on spine gilt publisher's device on cover of portfolio housed in matching blue paper-covered slipcase. Blue endpapers. Two title pages printed in red and black with variant publisher's devices. Printed to heavy paper. Blue ribbon marker. Publication documenting the early work of the Insel-Verlag Insel Publisher from 1899 to 1924. A contribution to the aesthetics of book publishing in the early 20th Century. With contributions by John Dieter Brinks Susanne Buchinger Marcus Haucke Kurt Ifkovits Renate Müller-Krumbach Theo Neteler Lindsay Newman Gerhard Schuster Barbara Stark Roland Stark Klaus Weber Marcus Behmer Franz Blei Rudolf Borchardt Harry Graf Kessler Anton Kippenberg Rudolf von Poellnitz Henry van de Velde and Stefan Zweig. Illustrated with two hundred and forty sample images of book binding art and design of Insel publications one hundred and forty of those in color some with gold overprinting; includes seven folding plates. Contains appendix with listing of Insel publications and notes. The portfolio contain twelve numbered facsimile reproductions of color endpapers for special publications and eight facsimile reprints of original publisher's advertisements for their publications. Exquisite publication of a extraordinary publisher. Text in German. Triton Verlag hardcover books
2004rif. 48646London: Guiding Light/Michael Hoppen Gallery 2004. Limited first edition. Softcover. near fine. 1/100. 15 1/2 x 11 1/2". Elephant folio. 82pp. 2. Unbound folded leaves. House in a lined translucent and re-sealable electrostatic shielding bag with a hand-numbered sticker on the front. Printed photo-illustrated b/w wrapper with pink lettering on the front cover. #95 from a limited edition of 100 numbered copies with a signed original 8x10" b/w print. Print protected in plastic. This copy is also signed by the photographer on the front cover of the publication in black marker. A large scale catalog issued in conjunction with the exhibition Daido Moriyama: Vintage Prints at the Shine Gallery and Michael Hoppen Gallery London held February 2004. Profusely illustrated throughout with finely printed large scale b/w photographic reproductions after unpublished images from the acclaimed Japanese photographer's work. Initial text from photographer William Klein and gallerist Michael Hoppen on the interior front cover. From the publisher: "A collection of rare vintage prints from Moriyama's own personal collection providing a substantial body of work from the 1960's 70's and 80's previously unseen in public. A stray dog is caught in strong shadows against a high-contrast background piercing the viewer with an unwavering gaze. The best-known image of Moriyama it encapsulates perfectly the detached observation and raw unsettling style of this highly influential Japanese photographer. Along with Eikoh Hosoe and Kikuji Kawada Moriyama has gone from being one of Japan's most radical and rebellious photographers to being one of it's most celebrated and important visual artists today the Japanese equivalent of Robert Frank. Recently Moriyama has had important retrospectives at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art the Shimane Art Museum Kashiro Art Museum Japan and the Fondation Cartier." Catalog and print both in near fine condition overall. Guiding Light/Michael Hoppen Gallery unknown books
1937rif. 49068Berlin: Comité Nacional para el Fomento del Turismo en Alemania/ Reichausschuss für Fremdenverkehr 1937. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Folio. 26pp. Illustrated orange and brown wrappers with brown lettering on the front cover. This Spanish-language publication was issued by the German government during the years of the Third Reich to promote tourism in the county. The publication is profusely illustrated throughout with photographic reproductions and drawings in b/w. This issue includes articles promoting the wintery landscape and winter sports of the area of Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps where the then recent 1936 Winter Olympics were held as well as the 20th anniversary of the German railway catering company Mitropa the anniversary of the death of English-German racial philosopher Houston Stewart Chamberlain and articles on the Carnival celebrations in the country. Include images taken by infamous Nazi photographer and publisher Heinrich Hoffmann. Striking art deco front cover design by German designer Ottomar Anton back cover by Edwin Henel. Wrappers with light foxing to the front cover and moderate foxing the back cover. Book block dis-bound from wrappers. Interior wrappers with foxing as well as title page. The rest of the pages are quite clean save for some minor sporadic smudges and minor age toning. Wrappers in good interior in very good condition overall. Comité Nacional para el Fomento del Turismo en Alemania/ Reichausschuss für Fremdenverkehr unknown books
