No place [Buffalo?]: No stated publisher, 1987. First edition. Soft cover. Six reproductions of photographs, printed in duotone on glossy card stock, laid in folder. Short texts by Reyner Banham, Anthony Bannon, and the photographer. Ca. 6 x 9 inches. Folder lightly soiled; price sticker removed from back; photos are..... More
Paris: 1926. First edition. Soft cover. Introduction by Jean Cocteau. N.p., 72 large black-and-white pls. Auction catalogue of the fabled Quinn collection of modern paintings and works on paper by Cezanne, Derain, Dufy, Fresnaye, Gris, Laurencin, Matisse, Pissarro, Redon, Rouault, Rousseau, and Segonzac. Prices lightly penciled in. The sale was..... More
Beaufort-en-Vallee, France: Bergmans en Brouwer, 1983. First edition. Soft cover. 80p, many ills. In English and French. A remarkable offering of 389 items relating to the Paris Salon through the years. With short historical texts, selected bibliography of secondary sources, and a list of publications on the Salon, 1800-1900 (in..... More
Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. 286p, several photos. Slight wear to jacket. History of the innovative curriculum at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University from 1900 on, through a study of the administrations of the first six art directors (Charles F. Binns, Charles..... More
Lyon: Braun, 1943. Walch, First edition. Soft cover. 16p, ca. 15 ills. Despite having been born with a deformed leg and arm, Alsatian-born Charles Walch achieved artistic renown in France between the world wars. Besson was the first critic to champion him. Some of the paintings reproduced here recall Chagall's..... More
London: Marlborough Fine Art, 1962. Vantongerloo. First edition. Soft cover. 54p, many ills., a few in color. Retrospective exhibition catalogue of paintings, drawings, and constructions in many media. With some texts by the artist, including "Reflections" and "An Intimate Biography." Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the..... More
New York: Reinhold, 1956. Second printing (1st pub. 1955). Hardcover. 200p, many photos (6 in color), line ills., and 2 pages of mounted chips of "functional colors" for factories, offices, schools, and hospitals, and "decorative colors" for stores, hotels, restaurants, and homes. Jacket soiled, foxed, torn (edge tears not shown..... More
New York: Cooper Union, 1928-1951. Mostly first editions. Hardcover (buckram, spine gilt-stamped). Variously paged and illustrated (chiefly text). From the library of E. Maurice Bloch, with his bookplate. Typed contents page glued in. The museum is now the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. Contents: "Proposed Plan of the Cooper Union Museum..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967-1969. Various editions. Hardcover. Hundreds of pages, some ills. Light shelfwear and soil; overall clean and sturdy). No d.j. (if issued?). From Henry Adams to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Vol. 5 is the 1969 first printing; vols. 1-4 are 3rd or 4th printings of 1967 and..... More
![Das Tier in der Antike [The Animal in Antiquity]. Hansjorg Bloesch](/pictures/thumb/30411.jpg?v=1633973579)
Zurich: Archaeologisches Institut der Universitat Zurich, 1974. First edition. Soft cover. 71p + hundreds of small ills. on 64 pls. In German. An enormous loan exhibition of 400 works depicting animals in ancient art--Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Chiefly small and large sculptures, vase paintings, and metalwork. Birds, cats, sea..... More
Minneapolis: Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1958. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, 21 ills. One of 1000 copies designed by Rob Roy Kelly. Back cover and last few pages dampstained along spine. Covers age soiled. Catalogue for a loan exhibition that aimed to assemble all the major Poussin paintings in..... More
Rennes: Compagnons du Sagittaire [printer], 2007. Limited edition. Soft cover. 264p, many black-and-white photos. In French. One of 700 copies. Very informative exhibition catalogue of more than 50 artist magazines from the US, Britain, and Europe that were published from 1962 on. The exhibition was held at three sites in..... More
Rome: Capitolium (Revista di Roma), 1968. First edition. Soft cover. Special issue of the journal Capitolium. Over 250p (some numbered separately), hundreds of photos + ca. 10 folding maps and plans in flat colors. Covers worn, outer pages dogeared, but text block is secure and sturdy. The maps are generally..... More
No place: No stated publisher, n.d. [1986?]. First edition. Paperbound. 16p, 18 large color ills. Light handling soil to covers. The text is titled "Hand-Werk zu Arbeiten von Peter Reichenberger." The oils on canvas or paper have a resemblance to color field painting. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
Amsterdam: Fragment, 1989. First edition. Soft cover. 144p, hundreds of ills. Texts by various writers in Dutch and English. One of 1700 paperbound copies. Important exhibition catalogue of several dozen postwar books by 13 photographers. The show's aim was to critically analyze the documentary photobook as an "independent art form..... More
Frankfurt: Societats-Verlag, 1930. First edition. Soft cover. 16p, several ills. + 200 ills., mostly full-page plates. They are numbered to 199; the 200th is the half-title photo. Half-title page detached. Original covers chipped. Text in German; captions in German, French, and English. Short survey of the first 30 years of..... More
![Third Annual Dinner [menu printed on silk]. Boston Marketmen's Republican Club](/pictures/thumb/26593.jpg?v=1633973484)
Boston: Elwell French (printer), 1891. First edition. Unbound folded sheet. The menu is printed on one piece of unhemmed yellow silk, originally tied with thread within stiff covers; the covers have now detached.. The sewing is still intact on the silk. The lettering on the cover, which surrounds an image..... More
Clermont: Typographie de Paul Hubler, 1861. First edition. Soft cover. 212p, no ills. Institutional library discard, minimally marked. Housed in card-stock folder. First edition of this catalogue and visitor's guide to the recently established provincial museum in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Short introduction, list of donors and subscribers, over 500 entries for..... More
New York: Jaap Rietman, 1976. Andre, Carl. First edition. Soft cover. 88p, many black-and-white ills. Covers lightly soiled overall, foxed. Published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition. More
New York: Rosa Esman Gallery, 1978. First edition. Soft cover. [16]p, several ills. Outer pages foxed; covers soiled. Catalogue of 42 works on paper and books by Malevich, Exter, Goncharova, Larionov, El Lissitzky, Rodchenko, Tatlin, and others. Published on the centenary of Malevich's birth. Can be sent outside the US..... More
New York: Princeton Architectural Press for New York Chapter/American Institute of Architects, 1987. Rodchenko, Alexander. First edition. Soft cover. [32]p, many black-and-and white ills. Exhibition catalogue. Texts by Bowlt, Alexander Lavrentjev, and Vieri Quilici on Rodchenko's photographs and graphic design, architectural language, and constructivist theory. Can be sent outside the..... More
London: Routledge, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. 654p,many tables, + many ills. Over 20 essays by specialists on 17th- and 18th-century material culture in Britain, Europe, and America. Their interpretations help shape "a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services." The parts are: Problems, Methods and Concepts;..... More
Cambridge, MA: Privately printed (Harvard University), June 1955. First edition. Hardcover. 176p, no ills. Photo-duplicated typescript, printed on rectos. Tipped in: "This report is confidential and not for distribution or publication until permission has been granted by the Present of Harvard University." Covers lightly shelf-rubbed. A mid-century needs and opportunities..... More
![The Story of the Mosaics [Moars Cafeteria]. Benjamin Bufano](/pictures/thumb/30401.jpg?v=1633973576)
San Francisco: Moars Cafeteria, n.d. [1950s]. No stated edition. one sheet, folded into thirds. One sheet, printed in green. Folded, 4 x 6 inches. For many years Moars Cafeteria on Powell Street in San Francisco was home to three large mosaics by Italian-born sculptor and mosaic artist Benjamin (Benny) Bufano. ..... More
Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1987. Burke, Bill. Limited edition. Hardcover. N.p., many duotone photos by Burke and other ills., some in color. Plasticized pictorial boards; no jacket, as issued. One of 1000 copies (unstated). The first edition of this remarkable artist’s book. Via photographs, diary entries, and collaged ephemera, Burke documented..... More
