Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1984. First edition. Soft cover (lightly shelfsoiled, stained). 197p, many photos and other ills. In French. Large exhibition catalogue on all aspects of Kahnweiler's influential career as modern art dealer, publisher, and writer. Texts and documentation by Jardot, Werner Spies, Liliane Meffre, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, and Claude..... More
![From Pong to Pac-Man [on video games]. David Joselit, DeCordova Museum](/pictures/thumb/25950.jpg?v=1633973464)
Lincoln, MA: DeCordova Museum, 1982. First edition. One sheet of stiff coated paper, which folds out into 3 panels (each 8 1/2 x 11 inches), printed on both sides. N.p., 8 ills. Guide to an exhibition devoted to video games of the day and their appropriation by contemporary painters. The..... More
Zuirch: Bodmer, 1987. Chamberlain, John. Limited edition. Soft cover. N.p., many full-page photos and line ills., a few in color. In English and Spanish. One of 3500 copies. Introduction to the collection of, and plans for, this ambitious museum-studio of installation art in Marfa, Texas. Works by Judd, Dan Flavin..... More
![Katalog 88, 92, and 93 [3 catalogues]. Jurgen Holstein Antiquariat](/pictures/thumb/30178.jpg?v=1633973521)
Pocking bei Munchen: Jurgen Holstein, [1983]. First edition. Soft cover. Cat. 88: Illustrierte Bucher Graphik und Plakate aus einem halben Jahrhundert, 1892-1942. 1983. 40 items with long descriptions and illustrations + 3 pages of additional books. Without the "Faltblatt" (brochure) on Russian children's books. Corners bumped. Cat. 92: New Acquisitions..... More
![Americana [Catalogue 572]. Karl W. Hiersemann, bookseller](/pictures/thumb/30751.jpg?v=1644154024)
Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, 1927. First edition. Soft cover (dusty, age soiled; spine chipped). 472 entries, 23 line ills. Pages age browned. Blank order form laid in. "A collection of rare and valuable books relating to South and North America from the time of the discovery up to the year..... More
Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1990. First edition. Soft cover. 168p, ca. 100 ills. (ca. 60 in color). Large exhibition catalogue featuring the work of 20 mid-century painters, among them John McLaughlin, Peter Krasnow, Oskar Fischinger, Rico Lebrun, Helen Lundeberg, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, and June Wayne. Good survey... More
Kassel: Kasseler Kunstverein, 1968. First edition. Unbound sheets. N.p. (12 large folded sheets within soft covers), many large plates, a few in color. In German. Laid in: exhibition brochure. Catalogue of an exhibition of 31 artist books by Arp, Bellmer, Beuys, Blase, Dali, Dubuffet, Ernst, Giacometti, Miro, Lucebert, Paolozzi, Raysse..... More
Barcelona and New York: Ediciones Poligrafa and Galeria Joan Prats, 1986. First edition. Soft cover (shelf rubbed). 45p, 19 large color ills., chiefly of prints. With "The Cobra Movement" by Willemijn Stokvis. Catalogue of many illustrated books and catalogues, periodicals, and graphics, including a few pre-Cobra works. Designed by Arnold..... More
![Desiderio da Settignano: St. Cecilia [signed]. Clarence Kennedy, Toldeo Museum of Art, photographer](/pictures/thumb/30853.jpg?v=1648467842)
Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, n.d. [ca. 1938-39]. Kennedy, Clarence. First edition. Unbound sheets. Gelatin silver photograph printed on semi-glossy paper and mounted on light card stock, laid within 4-page letterpress folder. No date, but ca. 1938-39, as the portfolio was probably issued in commemoration of the work's acquisition in..... More
Moscow: Detgiz [State Publishing House for Children's Literature], 1958-59. Unstated editions. Soft cover; hardcover. Most are 16-20p. All soft cover except Cat's House, which is 48p and in boards. Cat's House is a play; the others are verse about animals (About Everything in the World is also an ABC book)..... More
New York: Abrams in association with Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, 1989. Kiefer, Anselm. First edition. Hardcover. Fwd. by Anne Seymour. 226p, 302 ills. (253 in color). Monograph on Kiefer's monumental "Zweistromland," which consists of "two enormous steel bookcases containing almost 200 gigantic lead books, so heavy that each one requires..... More
Folkestone, UK, and Hamden, CT: Dawson & Son and Archon Books, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. 204p, 103 black-and-white ills. Lacks jacket. Sticker removed from front endpaper. Good informative survey. The purpose and techniques of zoological illustration, zoological works up to Linnaeus, "the great age of illustrated works," and the modern..... More
Darmstadt: Alexander Koch, n.d. [1910-11]. First edition. Hardcover (limp boards). 30 plates with captions, printed on rectos. A wonderful collection of 600 monograms, initials, and signets designed by leading German and Austrian typographers, designers, architects, etc., of the turn of the 20th century. Includes many prize-winners, Wiener Werkstaette artists, and..... More
Bethlehem, CT: June 1 Gallery, 1980. Arms, Pennell, Eby, Lewis, Chamberlain. First edition. Stapled paperbound. 32p, many ills. Sale catalogue of 116 prints by Arms, Pennell, Eby, Lewis, Chamberlain, and many other portrayers of buildings as they "actually look." Grouped by Italy, France, Spain, England, Other European Places, Small Town..... More
New York: H.P. Kraus, n.d. [1950]. First edition. 36p (73 items), several large black-and-white pls. Occasional pencil marks. Features manuscript herbals, colorplate flower books, fish, and birds, etc., all meticulously described. Buffon, Merian, Redoute, etc. Can be sent outside the U.S. for less than the default shipping rate... More
Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1993. Baumann. First edition. Hardcover. 158p, 125 color pls. A beautiful copy of this tribute to a master of the color woodcut, the first book ever on his work. Published to accompany a traveling exhibition. Baumann specialized in landscapes of the Southwest and..... More
London: Henry Sotheran, 1991. First edition. Soft cover. 142p + 16 pls., 9 in color. Annotated exhibition catalogue of ca. 500 works of fiction and non-fiction by ca. 230 "New Woman" writers, well known and lesser known. With an insightful introduction by Drabble. Can be sent outside the US for..... More
![Margarethe Krieger: Holzschnitte zu Brecht [signed]. Karl Krolow, fwd](/pictures/thumb/26219.jpg?v=1633973471)
1966. Krolow, Karl, fwd. Margarethe Krieger: Holzschnitte zu Brecht. Ludwigshafen: Galerie Lore Dauer, n.d. [1966]. [36]p, 16 large pls. Very good paperbound (front cover chipped, lightly stained). Signed by Krieger. ** Powerful expressionistic woodcuts illustrating works by Brecht. One of Krieger's early publications. Can be sent outside the U.S. for..... More
New York: Nancy Hoffman Gallery, 1994. Frey, Viola. First edition. Soft cover. 40p, 69 color ills. including cover. Photo here is cropped on the sides. Traveling exhibition catalogue of 69 of Frey's expressionistic plates, which Kuspit describes as both funk and hallucinatory. Large; shipping/handling may be extra. Please keep this..... More
![News [1 of 60 signed copies]. Rosa Lachenmeier](/pictures/thumb/30102.jpg?v=1633973508)
Basel: BookART, 1993. Lachenmeier, Rosa. Limited Edition. Bolt-bound boards. N.p., many color ills., printed by photo-offset. No text except the front and back matter and month part-titles. No. 8 of 60 signed copies. The artist presents a monthly chronicle of world and other events via news photos collaged within global..... More
Boston: Lame Duck Books, n.d. [ca. 1999]. First edition. Soft cover. 88p + 1 color ill. on cover (an e.e. cummings painting). 356 detailed items. Fwd. by proprietor John Wronoski. "We would like to think...[that this catalogue] suggests a shadowy, and often tragic, narrative of the romantic individualism at the..... More
Paris: CNRS Editions, 2004. Bosse, Abraham. First edition. Soft cover. 317p + 38 ills. Detailed study of the influential French etcher-illustrator and his times--his life, the world of printmaking and illustration, the Academy and his difficulties with it, his study of perspective and theory, etc. Scarce in the U.S.... More
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Introd. by Ellen Lupton, essay by Alston Purvis. 272p, many ills. including many large color pls. The plates reproduce all 116 of the covers, with details of their design and production. Jacket photo is cropped a little. Definitive history of this..... More
Paris: Le Courrier Graphique, 1956. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, many ills. and ads (some in flat color). Issue 86 of this French trade journal devoted to book design and the printing and publishing industries. Surveys a decade of French typography, fine press books, photography books, pocket books ("un probleme..... More
Tokyo, New York, San Francisco: Kodansha, 1975. Hamada. First edition. Hardcover. 305p, 88 ills., many in color. Laid in: a slip describing the binding, which was used only on this first edition--silkscreen designs on hand-laid paper over boards. In original clear plastic jacket. The first extensive English-language study of the..... More
