Leipzig: C.G. Boerner, 1904. First edition. Soft cover. 215p, many ills. Auction catalogue of over 2700 lots, held May 30-June 4, 1904. A very large offering of German literature of the 18th-19th centuries (including a Wagner manuscript), German theater history (including opera and dance), autographs, portraits, etc. Joseph Kurschner was..... More
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Paris: L'Art & Les Artistes, 1915. First edition. Soft cover. 76p, many photos and paintings. Laid in: subscription sheet plus a reproduction of an unpublished woodcut by Pierre Gusman. A special issue of the journal L'Art & Les Artistes documenting the devastation of Vise, Liege, Louvain, Ypres, and many other..... More
St. Gallen, Switzerland: Galerie im Erker, 1958. Dix, Otto. First edition. 20p, many black-and-white ills. Very good paperbound. Owner's neat ink name. Texts by Otto Nebel on Dix's war subjects, and by Otto Conzelmann on "overcoming sentimentality." There is no list of the items in the exhibition. Can be sent..... More
Munich: Eigenthum und Verlag von Jos. Albert, n.d. [1866?]. Schnorr von Karolsfeld, Jos. Albert. First edition. Portfolio. 16p + 20 loose plates (mounted photographs). Scattered foxing and spotting, but the photos are overall clean, very crisp, and richly printed. Cover wear (front cover is detached). Ex-library (long ago), with title..... More
Frankfurt: Joseph Baer & Co., 1929. First edition. Soft cover. 28p, many ills. Prospectus for the "most important private collection of 15th century books formed in Germany since the Klemm Collection has been sold in 1886." Illustrations of woodcuts and text pages from a selection of the 850 books to..... More
Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, 1986. First edition. Stapled soft cover. [24]p, many ills. Printed in red and black. In Dutch. Loan exhibition catalogue of the early printed work of this legendary Dutch graphic artist (1897-1973)--posters, advertisements, brochures, books, etc., from the 1920s-30s. Can be sent outside the US for less..... More
Stuttgart: Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, 1992. First edition. Soft cover. 190p, many color ills. Color-packed survey of advertising posters made for the German Savings Bank, from the late 1920s through 1992, along with historical texts. Many well-known artists, and a wide variety of styles, are here. The title, "He who doesn't honor..... More
New York: J.B. Neumann and G. Franke, [1931]. Beckmann, Max. First edition. Soft cover (stiff wrappers). 48p, over 40 full-page pls. and other ills. No jacket (as issued?). Following the short text are 12 plates of Beckmann's prints, 12 installation photos of the large Beckmann show at the Basel Kunsthalle..... More
New York: Peter Deitsch Fine Arts, 1968. Grosz, George. First edition. Soft cover. [20]p, 50 ills. Ex-museum-lib. (cover name, ink stamps). Figures, nudes, war-damaged German soldiers and citizens, etc. Price list laid in. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo, 1996. Stockmans, Piet. First edition. Hardcover. 96p, many color ills. Parallel texts in English and Dutch. Published on the occasion of Stockmans's appointment as Cultural Ambassador of Flanders 1995. Photo is cropped on the sides. "Piet Stockmans loves the medium porcelain in all its qualities: he designs..... More
Konigstein im Taunus: Karl Robert Langewiesche Nachfolger Hans Koster, 1962. First edition. Soft cover. 47p, over 100 color ills. On the Curt Tillmann collection of 20th-century German book jackets--Steinlen, Bernhard, Koch, Zapf, Salter, Kredel, Heartfield, Reiner, Piatti, and many more. Includes adult and children's books. Uncommon in the US. Can..... More
New York: Abrams, 1967. Schwitters. First edition. Hardcover. 400p, 420 ills., including 54 tipped-in color plates. Jacket is lightly shelf soiled. Photo is cropped on right and bottom. A beauitiful copy of this important monograph on the Dada and Constructivist collagist, painter, and graphic designer, creator of his own style..... More
Dresden: Albertina, 1930. First edition. Soft cover. 50p + 24 pls. Spine reinforced with tape; lower corner of front cover and opening pages chipped away. Paper age browned; the book has the look of a much earlier publication date. Exhibition catalogue of 206 drawings by Rembrandt and many of his..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1989. First edition. Soft cover. 262p, over 140 ills., chiefly large color pls. Traveling exhibition catalogue; the organizers were especially proud that the show was going to Soviet as well as to Scandinavian museums. Very useful survey, with long artist biographies. More
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987. First American edition. Hardcover. 296p, 263 ills. (9 in color). Important survey of German architecture, ca. 1740-1845: the influence of France and England, neoclassicism in North Germany and South Germany, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Leo von Klenze, etc. With an applendix of every important German neoclassical..... More
