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2001Best.-Nr. 288124Prague: Car Busters 2001. Paperback. 98p. wraps 5.75x8.25 inches very good condition. Anti-car cartoons. Car Busters paperback books
1987Best.-Nr. 206196San Francisco: MASPS 1987. Pamphlet. 15p 5.5x8.5 inches bilingual text in Spanish and English on facing pages very good in stapled pictorial wraps. Excerpts from El siglo del viento The Century of Wind. MASPS unknown books
1942Best.-Nr. 58639Washington DC: El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos 1942. Poster. Good. A suite of three WWII posters 20" x 14". Each poster has been mounted to a thin cardboard. With some creasing and occasional small losses from the edges. The largest loss is from the top right corner of the "palabra" poster measuring 4" x 3". The posters also have a general layer of light glue-staining. Three American WWII posters depicting the themes of Freedom of Worship Freedom from Want and Freedom of Speech. These posters were meant to highlight Franklin D. Roosevelt's four freedoms here three and to sway Latin American opinion against Germany Italy and Japan. The Spanish text at the foot of each poster reads: "One of the 4 liberties for which the allies fight." Edward McKnight Kauffer 1890-1954 was an American artist and graphic designer who worked mostly in the realm of poster art. He was born in Montana however he moved to England and became an expatriate. He was very influential in Europe however he was only known in the United States by a handful of those well versed in the study of design. Interestingly despite his obscurity in America in 1937 the Museum of Modern Art gave him a prestigious one-man show. At the time of the exhibition copy agents were continuing the tradition of using posters with romantic imagery and only a few designers were able to gain any attention from breaking free of this type of imagery. Still remaining in obscurity Kauffer returned to England only returning to New York City after the war broke out in 1940. He only received honors in the United States posthumously when he finally received an AIGA award. Russian born American artist Alexey Brodovitch 1898-1971 was most known for holding the art director's position at Harper's Bazaar fashion magazine during the years of 1934-1958. Like Kauffer Brodovitch played a significant role in introducing the United States to a substantially simplified modern design already popular in Europe. While at Harper's Brodovitch used art created by Man Ray Salvador Dali and A.M. Cassandre. Brodovitch received an AIGA award in 1987. Three boldly modern posters created by two artists who helped pioneer the modern poster in the United States with its symbolic imagery and social relevance. El Coordinador de Asuntos Interamericanos unknown books
1983Best.-Nr. 38069NY: National Academy of Design 1983. 4to pp. 175. Index. A catalog for an exhibition held in 1984-85 at seven American museums. Introduction by Michael Quick. With sixteen color plates and numerous black and white reproductions. Paper wraps. Small crack near top of spine o/w a nice copy. National Academy of Design unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 293662Los Angeles: James A. Doolittle 1950. PAM. 16p includes cover with a single sheet laid-in 9x12 inches biographies of the cast writer producers etc. with photos scenes from the operas stories of the operas very good souvenir program in stapled pictorial wraps. The shows were written in 1946/47 and produced in NYC Paris and London in those years. This is likely a Los Angeles production due to the participation of Doolittle and James K. Guthrie but no dates or locations are noted. Puerto Rican diva Maria D'Attili starred in "The Telephone" as well as "The Medium". Also starred Evelyn Keller Ted Barnett & Mary Davenport. Guthrie's bio-page was omitted and laid-in separately here. James A. Doolittle unknown books
1935Best.-Nr. 553702Moscow: VOKS 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Design and photomontage by V. Stepanova and A. Rodchenko. Quarto. 312 12pp. Text in English. Quarter red leather and cloth with paper illustration over boards. Endpapers illustrated with film images on photo paper. Extensively illustrated with innovatively illustrated half-title and title page with film illustrations in color tipped-in celluloid sheet with Stalin's silhouette a folding plate of a theatre and audience etc. Publication celebrating an overview of the Soviet cinema with contributions by many profiles of filmmakers mention of the industry in Soviet Union vassal states etc. Near fine. VOKS hardcover books
2003Best.-Nr. 46564St. Louis MO: Missouri Historical Society Press / University of Missouri Press 2003. Fine/Near Fine. St. Louis MO: Missouri Historical Society Press / University of Missouri Press 2003. First Edition with full number line. Octavo; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xv3190pp.; halftone photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear else a Fine copy. Signed by Freeman on title page and additionally signed by the cover designer Lucy Josey on copyright page. Memoir of the first woman to be appointed to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 1964 under the Lyndon B. Johnson administration a post she held until 1979 in order to serve as inspector general of the Community Services Administration. Missouri Historical Society Press / University of Missouri Press unknown books
Best.-Nr. 7643Boston: J. H. Bufford’s Lith. ca. 1870. Lithograph 20.25” x 30.25” plus margins. CONDITION: Very good old folds and a .5” chip to upper-right edge recently backed with Japanese tissue. A scarce and elaborate plat map for a seaside resort development at Pigeon Cove in Rockport Mass. Located on the eastern extremity of Cape Ann Pigeon Cove began attracting vacationers from the Boston area during the 1840s. Once the train reached the area in 1862 summer boarding homes soon gave way to seasonal hotels. Spearheading the development of Ocean View were the two men listed at the center-left of this map—George Babson of Pigeon Cove 1835–1895 and Eben Phillips of Boston 1808–1875 the latter owning much property there. The map shows the various subdivisions of Ocean View including occupied lots and those set aside for various purposes as well as numbered lots for sale. Among the lots occupied or in use are those of Pigeon Cove House Mrs. M. D. Babson Summer Boarding House Rev. E. H. Chapin of New York two observatories and the town school. Also identified on the plan are commercial entities surrounding Pigeon Cove Harbor such as E. Eames & Co. and Marchent & Co. A vignette entitled “View from Phillips Avenue near Dick’s Dream” shows a couple riding horseback against a sunset backdrop of vessels plying the waters. Text in the upper-left corner extolls Ocean View’s various beauties its mineral springs—“differing entirely from others and pronounced by leading physicians to contain great medicinal properties”—and the “laying out of the lots which are very large” and “beautifully shaded with a native growth of Walnut Oak and Pine trees…” In the lower-left corner are fifteen glowing testimonials from summer residents visitors from Boston and New York the editor of the New Orleans Picayune and publications such as Springfield Republican Boston Transcript etc. Commended here are Ocean View’s “wild and romantic” scenery; the “grateful odor of the forest mingled with the briny exhalations from the ocean”; “rocks in magnific multitudes” and so on. Poet William Cullen Bryant observes: “Full of pleasant paths running in every direction the woods here look like a beautiful rural temple.” One rapturous visitor cites a few lines of poetry: “Blended there / In wild reality when life is old / And many a scene forgot the heart will hold / Its memory of this.” Ocean View is here advertised as accessible from Boston by little over an hour’s rail ride via the Eastern Railroad; at the time of this map’s production four trains traveled from Boston to Ocean View each way daily. OCLC records just two holdings of what appears to be the same edition of this map at the Peabody Essex Museum and the Leventhal Center at the Boston Public Library. We locate a third example held by the town of Rockport. Another edition with tinting and more vignettes was published as well. A rare and quite handsome promotional map for this North Shore resort development. REFERENCES: Ray Martin. “Ocean View” at Notes from Halibut Point online; pictured at Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts of Rockport Town Hall. Boston: J. H. Bufford’s Lith., [ca. 1870] unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 46500New York: School of General Studies SGS / Hunter College 1970. Very Good. New York: SGS School of General Studies under the auspices of Hunter College ca. 1970. First Edition. Quarto 30.5cm; original staple-bound and blind-embossed metallic gold card wrappers; 93pp.; illus. throughout. Moderate wear to wrapper margins a few faint surface scratches else Very Good and sound. Single issue of this short-lived literary student magazine. Contributions include poems by Ira Cohen Marc Kaminsky and Rlene Dahlberg's cycle of six poems dedicated to Emma Goldman. School of General Studies [SGS] / Hunter College unknown books
1945Best.-Nr. 137873Washington DC: Congress of Industrial Organizations Department of Education and Research 1945. Pamphlet. 28p. stapled wraps 6x8.75 inches illus. wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Rear wrap is from a litho by Tobias. Examines the problem of low wages in several industries; prepared in cooperation with the Textile Workers Union of America. Congress of Industrial Organizations, Department of Education and Research unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 340588Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press Cambridge 1957. Hardcover. 301p. good first printing stated first US edition hardcover bound in shelfworn quarter gray cloth over red paper boards with red spine titles in a good unclipped dust jacket with edgewear and soiling. Source of the 1958 film starring Laurence Harvey & Simone Signoret. Braine's debut novel and best-known work. Angry Young Man/Kitchen Sink melodrama. Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press Cambridge hardcover books
1965Best.-Nr. 45569New York: Simon and Schuster 1965. Very Good-. New York: Simon and Schuster 1965. Second Printing. Small octavo; publisher's photo-illustrated paper covered boards; 90pp.; illus. throughout by Lennon. Boards quite rubbed front hinge starting to crack; overall a Good to Very Good only example of this fragile work. Signed by Lennon on title page with Certificate of Authenticity laid in. Simon and Schuster unknown books
1997Best.-Nr. 340285San Diego: San Diego State University Drama Dept 1997. 8p includes covers 5.5x8.5 inches cast crew notes very good theatre program in stapled pictorial wraps. University production of a musical play based upon Coward's "Blithe Spirit San Diego State University Drama Dept unknown books
Best.-Nr. 45451New York: Arista Records 1975. Good. New York: Arista Records 1975. Original record store poster 86x61cm printed offset lithograph reproducing Robert Mapplethorpe's iconic photographic portrait of Smith which also appeared on the album's sleeve. Old fold lines with subsequent rubbing to paper stock ragged pinholes at corners uneven dampstaining. Overall a Good only example of this extremely rare poster with heavy signs of use either at a record shop or equally likely a dorm room. Promotional poster to Patti Smith's first solo album "Horses" released at the end of 1975. The album recorded at Electric Lady Studios and produced by the former Velvet Underground member John Cale was one of the earliest releases under the Arista Records label. Arista founded in 1974 by Clive Davis quickly established itself as a force in the 1970s music scene signing Barry Manilow Aretha Franklin Patti Smith and Dionne Warwick all in quick succession. "Horses" while not a runaway hit was an instant classic respectably reaching no. 47 on the Billboard 200 with songs like "Gloria" "Redondo Beach" and "Free Money." We find no copies of this poster in the trade auction records or OCLC as of September 2025 though we do locate an example at MoMA attributing the design to Bob Heimall. Arista Records unknown books
1973Best.-Nr. 45441New York: New York Avant Garde Festival 1973. Very Good. New York: New York Avant Garde Festival 1973. First Edition. Large pictorial poster 77x50.5cm printed offset in red and black on white stock. Previous folds else a Near Fine example. Small printed note "Last Year's Brochure" mounted to verso. Beautiful example of the photomontage poster accompanying this pseudo-annual avant garde festival founded by the cellist and performance artist Charlotte Moorman 1933-1991. The Festival which ran fifteen times in eighteen years featured the musical offerings of the Fluxus movement as well as kinetic and video art. Among the artists whose work was featured in 1973: Ay-o the Gorilla Action Group Video Free America Jud Yalkut Jackson Mac Low Bernadette Mayer Jim McWilliams John Cage Yoko Ono and many many others. New York Avant Garde Festival unknown books
1909Best.-Nr. 912721909. DESIGN Kamisaka SEKKA artist. MOMOYOGUSA. Kyoto: Unsodo Meiji 42 1909. Volume one of three. 30.1 X 22.5 cm. Most consider it the finest Japanese design book of all time this exquisite suite of double-page color-printed woodblocks is printed and overprinted using opaque and metallic inks to produce a sumptuous surface. This is an early impression. The condition is internally quite good with almost none of the gutter fading and metallic ink transfer common to this work. One of the better printings we have seen. Complete as issued with all 20 prints from volume one included. Has the original printed title label The mica patterning from the front cover is gone. unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. 912441934. DESIGN Kamisaka SEKKA. UTA-E Kyoto & Tokyo: Unsodo Showa 9 1934. 1 volume 31 x 22 cm cloth ribbon bound covers paper label. 25 color full page images after designs by Sekka. As Sekka's last work it crowns his remarkable career with a lovely evocation of Koetsu's Saga-bon. For more on this important work see Hillier's description on p.976 of the second volume of his ART OF THE JAPANESE BOOK. The condition is a bit better than average with relatively little of the offsetting from the prints to the poems that is usual in this book. Slight foxing and slight edgewear. The printing is very good the colors lovely. It is a good copy overall but the back cover has an ownership note in Japanese upon it. Without the original publishers clasped case but otherwise complete. Priced accordingly. One volume:. unknown books
1903Best.-Nr. 911311903. DESIGN UNSODO 芸艸堂 Publisher. BIJUTSUKAI 美術海. Kyoto Unsodo 24.0 x 16.3 cm 61 numbers of the 70 numbers printed in the BIJUTSUKAI design series Numbers 1 thru 61 Originally issued in 70 volumes in the early 1900s. Number one was published on January 1st Meiji 36 1903 Number 61 in 1905. Over 1200 color woodblock printed designs. A remarkable achievement by most of the important designers of the day. Bijutsukai printing is always good the early printings here are extraordinary In very good condition though number one is a bit tired. Enclosed in an old clasped chitsu case. There is quite a bit of confusion about this series BIJUTSUKAI and the SHIN-BIJUTSUKAI series which followed it. They are two different sets of design. The BIJUTSUKAI was printed under the general rubric of Shinbijutsukai but they are two different works pubished with two different series titles and numbering. Early printings of the BIJUTSUKAI have become unusual such a long run of the individual issues unheard of. unknown books
1927Best.-Nr. 910941927. ONCHI Koushirou æ©åœ°å四郎 binding design. NIHON JIDOU BUNKO 日本å…童文庫　JAPANESE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY 76 volumes complete. Searching for a concise introduction to this set I found a wonderful little essay written by the owner of the UMINEKO book shop in Japan. He was remarking on the exhibition of art bindings that he had seen at an exhibition of art bindings from the 20s and 30s that was held at the Old Book Center æ±äº¬å¤æ›¸ä¼šé¤¨ã€€in Tokyo a few years ago. This is a rather poor translation more a paraphrase really from his original Japanese. Just a nice introduction to the set and the era. ”When I went to the recent exhibition I was quite taken with a variety of book named "Yenbon" It is a general term for the collection of literary works published by many publishers in the late 1920s early Showa era. They were called 'yen book' at that time because they were priced cheaply at 1 yen per volume. So-called "Yen books" for children representatives of which are this "Nihon Jidobunko"Children's Library and "Shougakusei Zenshuu" Elementary School Children's Complete Works Published by Kobunsha Bungeishunjusha. ARS and Koubunsha are known for their fierce competition in advertising and sales in that era. "Nihon Jidoubunko" was a collection of 76 volumes published by ARS from 1927 Showa 2 to 1930 Showa 5. Ars Publishing is a publishing company founded by the famous poet Kitahara Hyakushu's younger brother Tetsuo. They published wonderful works on art theory photographic manuals dictionaries of science. many designed by Onchi. The sales policy of this "Japan Children's Library" was "Distributed only to reserved members not sold individually. Separate volume 'Self-Study Dictionary' will be given free of charge." In other words quite like the animal encyclopedia my parents bought me monthly at the supermarket back in the early 60s. Illustrated by Takeo Takei Yumeji Takehisa Hatsuyamaji Kiichi Okamoto and many other of the finest children's illustrators of the time. The authors and editors included Mimei Ogawa Hakushu Kitahara Shoyo Tsubouchi Miekichi Suzuki and Toson Shimazaki. Onchi himself worked on the cover art and binding of all volumes and the cover art is different for each volume. All are very beautiful. Onchi worked on everything from the layout of the illustrations to the creation of the block copy and the creation of the advertising pamphlet for the entire volume. A revised edition was released after the war in 1953 Showa 28. Onchi was in charge of the binding for the revised version but the design and binding are the same for all volumes. Not varied for each volume as here. Thus a remarkable set virtually impossible to find complete of a collection of contemporary children's stories by famous Japanese authors housed in a beautiful binding and book design. brother Tetsuo. They published wonderful works on art theory photographic manuals dictionaries of science. many designed by Onchi. The sales policy of this "Japan Children's Library" was "Distributed only to reserved members not sold individually. Separate volume 'Self-Study Dictionary' will be given free of charge." In other words quite like the animal encyclopedia my parents bought me monthly at the supermarket back in the early 60s. Illustrated by Takeo Takei Yumeji Takehisa Hatsuyamaji Kiichi Okamoto and many other of the finest children's illustrators of the time. The authors and editors included Mimei Ogawa Hakushu Kitahara Shoyo Tsubouchi Miekichi Suzuki and Toson Shimazaki. Onchi himself worked on the cover art and binding of all volumes and the cover art is different for each of the 76. All are very beautiful. He also did the layout of the illustrations created the block copy and the advertising pamphlet for the entire volume. A revised edition was released after the war in 1953 Showa 28. Onchi was in c. unknown books
Best.-Nr. 91071RokÅ no Hiketsu 露光ã®ç§˜è¨£ The Secrets of Photographic Exposure Sawa KurÅ ä½å’Œä¹éƒŽ author Onchi KÅshirÅ æ©åœ°å四郎 book design ARS アルス Arusu-sha アルス社 publisher ShÅwa 29 昭和29 1954 Hardcover volume 21.3 x 15cm bound and opens Western style. Yellow front cover with black geometric design and silver line accent and printed title and black rear cover. Vol 1 in a series by the publisher entitled Sawa Shashin Gijutsu KÅza ä½å’Œå†™çœŸæŠ€è¡“講座 Sawa Course in Photography Techniques by author Sawa KurÅ ä½å’Œä¹éƒŽ. 240pp of Japanese text and reproduced photos. Colophon has a publisher’s seal and a photo negative with in glassine tipped in. Author Sawa KurÅ ä½å’Œä¹éƒŽ was employed as an engineer in a job related to electrical engineering when he took up photography as hobby. In 1921 he opened the photography shop Hinomaru ShÅsha æ—¥ã®ä¸¸å•†ç¤¾ in Ginza; the same year he founded the photo magazine Kamera カメラ Camera. He went on to write numerous books on the subject of cameras and photography. Book design by Onchi KÅshirÅ æ©åœ°å四郎 1891–1955. The accomplishments of Onchi KÅshirÅ æ©åœ°å四郎 throughout the first half of the 20th century begin with his eminence as a printmaker. He was an innovator who domesticated the ideals of abstraction and "creative printmaking" in Japan when still in art school. From his early years working with Takehisa Yumeiji 竹久夢二 among others he began a long career as a printmaker book designer and book illustrator. From the very beginning of his life in the arts he was the center and focus of the Creative Print Movement SÅsaku Hanga 創作版画 surrounding himself with fellow artists who took inspiration from his dedication to the cause of self-expression. His works are held in institutions internationally. Publisher sheet folded to 18.3 x 12.7cm laid in. The title of the publisher sheet is Dokusha to Chosha èªè€…ã¨è‘—者 Reader and Author and the text on the first page is by the author. The inside pages feature essays by two university professors in the field of photography and information about the course. The rear page features a photo illustration and ad for the next book in the series カメラã¨ãƒ¬ãƒ³ã‚º Cameras and Lenses. Housed in a yellow and black case 21.7 x 15.6cm with printed title author and publisher that opens Japanese style with the opening to the left. Wear and dust staining to case and stain on front cover of book as well as a chip. unknown books
1933Best.-Nr. 900971933. DESIGN FUJII Tatsukichi 藤井é”å‰ designer. SÔSAKU SENSHOKU ZUANSHÛ 創作染色図案集. A Collection of Designs for Dyework Tokyo & Osaka: Bungado Showa 8 1933. Large portfolio 41 x 31 cm. decorative cloth covered clasped chitsu case with a printed decorative label all enclosed in the publisher's folding cardboard outer box. A 4 page fascicle of preliminaries and a table of contents. With the chitsu design the cover design 3 preliminary page designs and 61 designs on the 50 content fascicles. The designs are primarily in color woodcut printed on both paper and occasionally cloth. A beautiful production here in almost perfect condition. Fujii Tatsukichi 1881-1964 was one of the most important reformers of the traditional arts in Japan. His creativity touched nearly every area: lacquer pottery papermaking dyeing - his influence was enormous. This scarce and lovely portfolio of his original designs helps to illustrate why he was so important. This deluxe production cost 25 yen in 1933 - a princely sum during the depths of the Depression in Japan. Complete. unknown books
1902Best.-Nr. 891971902. DESIGN Fujii Rindo. SHOKUMON ZUKAN 1-4. Kyoto Yamada Unsodo Meiji 35 1902. Four volumes complete each volume with printed title string-bound Japanese-style fukuro-toji. 24.2 x 16.4 cm. Illustrated throughout with lightly colored woodblock prints of traditional design motifs. The covers are worn some pages split but present. unknown books
1934Best.-Nr. 891821934. DESIGN BOOK Yoshida Gyokujo compiler. TANSAI GAFU. Kyoto Happpodo Showa 9 1934. 2 vols. complete. Tall folios 36.7 x 25.4 cm orihon folded album in woodcut printed paper over board covers with printed paper title labels. There are 25 total full page color woodblock prints. Interesting style mixing flat solid colors with small naturalistic elements in a single print. Good impressions and colors. Complete in clasped chitsu case with printed silk label. Case is worn books about good. The set eventually ran to 4 volumes these are the first two produced. unknown books
1910Best.-Nr. 891951910. DESIGN Ogino Issui designer. ZUAN HYAKUDAI. 3 Vols. Kyoto Unsodo Meiji 43 1910 An orihon in 3 volumes 27 X 19 cm with woodblock printed covers all in a later fitted clasped cloth chitsu case. Unsodo outdid itself in this early design effort. Dozens of double page horizontal designs which become large prints the paper size being 37.5 x 27 cm as well as circular and fan-shaped and single page designs too. Most in the neo-Rimpa style which Unsodo artists pioneered at the beginning of the last century - bold and lovely. A bit of browning and fading the covers show some wear but overall very good condition a very nice impression of this important set. Complete. One of the very best of the Unsodo design books which is very good indeed. unknown books
1937Best.-Nr. 892151937. DESIGN Azuma Dojin. Koutashirabe AZUMA KOROMO. Unsodo Kyoto & Tokyo Showa 12 1937. A large folding album 34.0 x 24.8 cm 10 pages 15 designs of superbly printed color woodblock images by the "Companions from the East" The margins and facing pages have browning and foxing. This the "spring" volume appears to be one of two volumes published. The covers are detached. Sold with all faults. unknown books
