NIKI DE SAINT PHALLE: Bilder - Figuren - Phantastische Garten (Pictures - Figures - Fantastic Garden )
Munich: Prestel, 1987. German language edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 160pp. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in German.
New Arrivals
WILLI BAUMEISTER: (3 Volumes). Band 1: Gemälde; Band 2: Zeichnungen, Gouachen, Collagen; Band 3: Serigraphien
Stuttgart: Edition Cantz, 1989. Hardcover. Quarto. Three Volumes. Text in German. Each volume has a substantial essay with beautiful color plates. Volume 1: Gemälde (Painting), 254pp.; Volume 2: Zeichnungen, Gouachen, Collagen (Drawings, gouaches, collages) 273pp.; Volume 3: Serigraphien (Serigraphs) 159pp. Hint of fading to dust jacket spines. In cardboard slipcase.....
DIX. Otto Dix zum 100. Geburtstag 1891 - 1991. (Otto Dix: For His 100th Birthday)
Stuttgart: Verlag Gerd Hatje, 1991. Softcover. Quarto. 351pp. Text in German. Nicely illustrated with mostly color plates. Light general scuff to glossy dark cover.
MAX ERNST: Retrospektive zum 100 Geburtstag
Munich: Prestel, 1991. Softcover. Quarto. 388pp. Text in German. Exhibition catalogue for traveling show in 1991-1992. Profusely illustrated with 254 color plates, 117 black and white illustrations.
HERMANN ZAPF: Caligrapher, Type-Designer and Typographer
Cincinnati: The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1961. Softcover. 12mo. Unpaginated. Perfect-bound with laid-paper wrappers, paper spine label. INSCRIBED by Herman Zapf. Gift inscription, To Anne...from Joseph...Hermann Zapf, San Francisco, 1965" Exhibition catalogue. Lovely little book that lists Zapf's Calligraphy, Type-Design and Book Designs with many examples. Includes brief.....
SELECTED STUDIES IN BIBLIOGRAPHY
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979. Hardcover. Lg. octavo. 506pp. A few b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED, by the author, " For Joshua Odell, with all good wishes..." Odell's small bookplate on paste-down. Very light wear, issued without dust jacket.
SALVADOR DALI: Catalogue Raisonne of Etchings and Mixed-Media Prints, 1924-1980 and Catalogue Raisonne of Prints II. Lithographs and Wood Engravings 1956-1980
Munich: Prestel, 1994 /1995. Hardcover. Quarto. Two Volumes: Volume I: 262pp. with 1,052 illustrations, 79 in colour. Volume II: 192pp. 693 illustrations, 85 in colour. Foreword by Robert Descharnes. "...this definitive volume of the graphic works is the key to authenticating every print the artist ever worked on..." -publisher.
SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP 1889-1943
Stuttgart: Hatje. Softcover. Quarto. 176pp. Nicely illustrated with mostly full page color plates. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Sophie Taeuber-Arp, 1889-1943" Text in German.
THE PAINTINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ART CLUB
Los Angeles: The California Art Club, 2000. Hardcover. Quarto. 76pp. Incl list of donors. 41 paintings described and illustrated in color. Dark dust jacket has a light general scuff.
THE LONELY VOICE: A Study of the Short Story
Cleveland: World Publishing, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 220pp. Green cloth stamped in red and gilt. Dust jacket has light wear at spine ends. Review copy slip laid-in. Each essay focuses "upon one of the great masters, O'Connor attempts at an understanding of this special craft and.....
PARAPHS. Publications of the Society of Calligraphers No.1
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Limited edition in slipcase. Hardcover. Octavo. 82pp. #318 of a limited edition of 540 copies, SIGNED by Hermann Puterschein (a.k.a. Dwiggins). Decorated paper covered boards with cloth spine. Chapter heading decorations by Dwiggins, printed in red. Spine label faded and worn. In slipcase that.....
FROM THE AMERICAN MERCURY 1927
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Hardcover. Octavo.155pp. #417 of a limited edition of 600 copies. Includes poetry by James Weldon Johnson, a story by Sherwood Anderson, and an editorial by Mencken. Decorative black paper over boards is rubbed, worn on corners. Green cloth spine, lettering a bit dull. Older.....
THE BORZOI 1925 - Being a Sort of Record of Ten Years of Publishing
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. Hardcover. Octavo, First trade edition, limited to 5000 copies. First state with Willa Cather's birthdate uncorrected on page 246. 351pp. Incl. Bibliography of Borzoi Books. INSCRIBED, by contributor J. Brooks Atkinson to Al Abrams of the Pittsburg Post Gazette on first blank. Contributors include.....
THE BORZOI 1925 - Being a Sort of Record of Ten Years of Publishing
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. Limited edition. Hardcover. Royal octavo, large paper edition limited to 500 copies. 351pp. Incl. Bibliography of Borzoi Books. INSCRIBED, "For Johnny Lo??..." by Alfred, Blanche and Sam Knopf on half-title. Contributors include Willa Cather, A.E. Coppard, Walter de la Mare, D.H. Lawrence, H.L. Mencken.....
THE ART OF CAPTAIN COOK'S VOYAGES: The Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery 1776-1780. Volume Three. (Two volumes)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Folio. Two volumes: Text and Catalogue. Continuous pagination, xi-669pp. incl. index and bibliography. The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages contains all the known drawings and paintings done for these voyages as well as a fascinating narrative and explanatory text by Bernard Smith and.....
DUTCH INTERIOR
Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 277pp. Blue cloth has light rubbing to spine ends. Endpapers toned. Dust jacket spine is toned with some chipping to spine ends and corners. Author's second novel. "Ireland's greatest story-teller is at his best in this novel. Savage in.....
ABC OF ANARCHISM
London: Freedom Press, 1945. Softcover. Octavo. 103pp. Later printing. Nicely designed small magazine. Corner bumped. "First published in 1929, this book by Alexander Berkman answers some of the charges made against it and presents the case for communist anarchism...."
A JOURNEY TO ARZRUM
Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, Inc., 1974. Hardcover. Tall octavo. First edition thus. 104pp. Incl. notes. Gold cloth stamped in black has a little surface cracking at exterior hinge. Red dust jacket is faded on spine, light rubbing and small edge tears.
RUSLAN AND LIUMILA
Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, Inc., 1974. Hardcover. Tall octavo. First edition thus. 104pp. Incl. notes. Yellow cloth stamped in black. Blue dust jacket is lightly faded on spine, has spotting, rubbing and small edge tears.
DRUCKPUNKT. (Pressure Point). Poems and prose about Berlin by Gunter Kunert with Original Lithographs by Klaus Fussmann 1986/88
Berlin: Veregt bei Peerlings, 1988. Limited edition. Hardcover. Tall octavo. 47pp. Limited to 400 copies, SIGNED by both Kunert and Fussmann, this is copy #11. Poems and short prose pieces illustrated with Fussman's striking lithographs. Text is in German. Grey cloth covered boards. Small decorative stamp on corner of fly-leaf.....
BROOM. September 1922 (Vol 3, No2)
New York: Harold A. Loeb, 1922. Softcover. Quarto. Pagination continues from vol. 1; 2pp ads, 83-156, plus 4pp. ads at rear. Cubist style cover illustration by Juan Gris. Featuring ANIMALS, by Karl With, VITRION, by Ilya Ehrenbourg, poems by Pierre Reverdy and Edwin Muir and much more. Illustrated with photographs.....
BROOM. August 1922 (Vol 3, N1)
New York: Harold A. Loeb, 1922. Softcover. Quarto. 80pp. plus 1pp.ad. Cubist style cover illustration by Marcoussis; woodcut illustrations by Andre Derain and Max Weber. Featuring THE LAY OF MALADOR, by Comte De Lautreamont, FRENCH LETTERS AND THE WAR, by Jacques Riviere, poems by William Carlos Williams and Yvor Winters.....
BRAIN BAND: Ed Moses, Drawings of the 1960's
Los Angeles: Ferus Gallery, 2010. Softcover. 8 x 4". Three thin notebooks with red paper band. Thin cardboard covers, blind-stamped with Moses' name printed on front. Still in publishers shrinkwrap with original cardboard mailing envelope.
THE JEWELRY OF KEN CORY: Play Disguised
Tacoma: Tacoma art Museum. 1997. First edition. Softcover. 9 1/2'' x 6 1/2''. 135pp. Spine lightly faded, tiny crease to corner of first page.
EMPEROR, SCHOLAR, ARTISAN, MONK.
London: Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 1984. First edition. Softcover. 11 1/4'' x 8 1/4''. 288pp. Plus 3 hardback facsimiles. These four volumes are in a slipcase that shows some wear.