Homage to Wassily Kandinsky (XXe Siecle, 1975)
New York: Leon Amiel, Published 1975, quarto cloth in dust jacket, fine in VGjacket with just a touch of soil and wear, illustrated thoroughly including 4 woodcuts. More
Price: $50.00
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Origin and History of all the Pharmacopeial Vegetable Drugs, 8th and 9th Decennial Revisions (Botanical Descriptions Omitted) with Bibliography
Cincinnati: The Caxton Press, Second Printing, 1929, buckram with black leather gilt spine label, very good, faint surface soil to cloth, 449 pp, occasional plates. More
Price: $60.00
Im Anschaun Meines Kindes, Gedicht von Anton Wildgans (Handmade unique book)
A beautiful rendering of one of Wildgans's most beloved poems, probably from the 1940s, possibly 1930s. Quarto (11.25 inches; 29 cm), hand bound in silk with colorful block print,over stiff wraps, hand sewn along gutter, hand painted endpapers, poem hand lettered in a very modernist style on 9 pp. The... More
Price: $250.00
Line Form Color / An Intense Detachment: Ellsworth Kelly's Line Form Color
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, Published 1999, wraps issue, 2 volumes in paper slipcase, books fine. slipcase shows a little soil. More
Price: $70.00
Beasts from a Brush
New York: Pantheon, First edition, (1955). Oblong boards in dust jacket, near fine in very good dust jacket with faint soil, one short closed tear at bottom of spine, mildest rubbing to corners and tips. More
Price: $25.00
Five Little Monkeys (1952 first in dj)
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, First edition, 1952 (date on title page), quarto, cloth in dust jacket, book just short of fine, crisp copy, jacket VG plus to near fine, lightest rubbing along spine, even lighter rubbing to corners and tips, one very short closed tear to top of front flap fold... More
Price: $350.00
Will Burtin: Visual Aspects of Science, published by the Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan as a guide through an exhibition of designs by Will Burtin
Kalamazoo: Upjohn Company, Probably published 1964, in 10 x 10 printed envelope, housing a catalog of Burtin's work, stapled embossed red wraps, 20 pp. of photographs and text printed on either translucent paper or heavy grainy silkscreened paper, featuring futuristic photographs by Stoller. Fine, envelope just a tad soiled. Design... More
Price: $375.00
For the Voice (in English and Russian), Voices of Revolution, Collected Essays (3 volumes in slipcase)
Cambridge: MIT Press, Published 2000, slipcased edition of three volumes, a facsimile of the original 1923 edition, English translation, and Railing's anthology, all in wraps, fine, slipcase very good with some surface wear and soil. Oddly uncommon. More
Price: $150.00
The Dada Painters and Poets (1951 fine in jacket with laid in broadsides)
New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc., First edition, 1951, with laid in (folded) broadsides by Tzara and Huelsenbeck, cloth small quarto in dust jacket. 388 pp., illustrated. Fine in TWO dust jackets, the one underneath just about fine, and unfaded along the spine, and the outer dust jacket very good with... More
Price: $300.00
Multiples the First Decade (1971)
Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Stiff wraps with snaps, various colored pages, photos tipped in, b/w, showing 65 images total. Near fine with bellyband, just a touch of discoloration to top of rear wrap. More
Price: $45.00
John Marin, a Stylistic Analysis and Catalogue Raisonné, 2 volumes 1970
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, First edition, 1970, 2 volumes in dust jackets and slipcase, small quarto, cloth, books fine, jackets VG plus with some foxing or spotting to spines, slipcase just about fine, solid and crisp. 891 total pages, illustrated. Extra postage likely required for this heavy set. More
Price: $50.00
Gems from Tupper, compiled by a Clergyman (1848)
Syracuse: Stoddard & Babcock, Published 1848, small octavo, wonderful and unusual publisher's cloth binding of gray cloth with horizontal blue stripes (faded to tan on spine), blind embossed decorations to covers with gilt lyre and floral sprigs to covers, gilt decorated spine, near fine with lightest wear to spine head... More
Price: $50.00
Marca-Relli
Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, First edition, 1976, oblong quarto, cloth in dust jacket with stencilled cut-outs and acetate overlay, 218 pp, illustrated. Book near fine, jacket with light soil to spine and light wear to corners, acetate jacket good with some chips and tears, contents excellent. Study of this artist at... More
Price: $50.00
AC 62: International Asbestos-Cement Review, April 1971, Vol. 16, no. 2
Zurich: Dr. H. Girsberger, 1971 single issue of this odd architectural journal, oblong pictorial wraps, quarto, 62 pp, heavily illustrated, including some photos that are tinted green or pink. Near fine. With photos, plans and studies of residences and buildings and sometimes with statements from their architects about the use... More
Price: $50.00
Herbert Bayer - Painter -- Designer -- Architect (1967 in dust jacket)
New York: Reinhold, First edition, 1967. Quarto, cloth in dust jacket, book near fine with just a touch of dustiness to edges, jacket VG plus with very small loss to top of spine corner and minor soil. 211 pp, illus. More
Price: $85.00
The Evolution of an Architect
New York: Horizon, First edition, 1962, quarto, cloth in dust jacket, book very good plus with just a slight bowing to boards, jacket also very good plus or better, mild age toning and lightest shelfwear. 288 pp, illustrated. More
Price: $35.00
José Luis Sert - architecture -- city planning -- urban design (1967 in dj)
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, First US edition, 1967. Oblong quarto, cloth in dust jacket, book very good plus with a bit of spottiness to the text block's top edge and fore edge, old inscription from 1967 on flyleaf, jacket near fine with just slightest rubbing to tips and corners. 244 pp., illustrated. More
Price: $75.00
Umi kara kita shojo / Alice from the Sea (1979)
Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, First edition, 1979. Quarto, hardback, in slipcase that has color wraparound dust jacket and bellyband as well. Book is fine, slipcase and jacket near fine with just a touch of shelfwear. 96 pp, color photos of a model named Samantha who looks prepubescent and is shown... More
Price: $150.00
Marcel Duchamp (1959 in dj)
New York: Grove Press in conjunction with Trianon Press, First Grove Press edition, 1959, quarto, cloth in dust jacket, book fine, jacket VG with light soil and bit of loss to spine head. 192 pp, illustrated mainly in b/w but a few in color. More
Price: $100.00
Homage to Fernand Leger, special issue of XXe Siecle
New York: Tudor, Published 1971, quarto, hardback in dust jacket, book near fine, jacket VG plus with light wear, contains original lithograph between p. 112 and 113, fine condition. More
Price: $50.00
Day Book of J. C. McClanahan of Hollidaysburg, PA 1864-1866 documenting business of the foundry
Large leatherbound ledger, 1864-1866, McClanahan's name in gilt at spine bottom, Day Book written in hand on cover, approximately 300 pages filled in with various accounts, including the running of the Gaysport Tin Shop, and the purchase of materials, sale of products, etc. The company of McLanahan and Stone, which... More
Price: $300.00
Eighteenth Annual Report of the United States Steel Corporation for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 1919
Published 1920, quarto, printed tan wraps, 52 pp, about very good, some tanning and light wear. Oddly enough, the most significant event of 1919 for US Steel remains lightly mentioned if at all: the huge steel strike organized by William Zinser Foster of the AFL, in which US Steel prevailed... More
Price: $50.00
La Premiere Legion (The First Legion) piece en trois actes et onze tableaux - inscribed by Silvain to his sister
Paris: Les Editions Max Cealis, First edition, 1948, wraps, inscribed to Jeanne Silvain, the co-author's sister, by Jean. Very good, some sunning along spine, and top edges, light wear. Play is set at a large house converted into a Jesuit academy in the United States. More
Price: $75.00
Platon (Les Heures Antiques) - inscribed by Paul Vinson
Paris: Bernard Grasset, Published 1925, no. 490 of 500 Presse copies, wraps, inscribed to theatrical director Edmond Roze by Paul Vinson. Good with some light wear and curling to wraps, contents largely unopened. More
Price: $40.00