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An Original Painting (Titled in His Hand "Build a House")
Woody Guthrie
Price: $30,000.00
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1924 1st edition, limited to 270 numbered copies. A bright, clean, Near Fine example, in its decorative cloth. 10 sumptuous, tipped-in original woodcuts. Each is in pristine, Fine condition and each is either signed by Urushibara in a light pencil (7 of them) or imprinted with his red chop seal (3 of them). Tall quarto, introduction by Laurence Binyon. The 10 woodcuts are tilted, in order of appearance: Fishing (Entrance to the Scheld); Mosque Ibu Touloun; the Resting Place (Scutari); The Mill (Dixmuden); 'The Court of the Mosque of Memory'; 'The Shepherd's Watch'; Trees (Montreuil); In the Docks; The Golden Horn and, lastly, The Outskirts of a Flemish Town.
Ten Woodcuts: Cut and Printed in Colour By Yoshijiro Urushibara After Designs By Frank Brangwyn, R.A.
Yoshijiro Urushibara ( and Frank Brangwyn)
London: John Lane/The Bodley Head Limited, 1924.
Price: $4,000.00
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1871 1st English translation, published by London's infamous John Camden Hotten. 60 magnificent, highly-eroticized hand-colored and tinted plates complement the text. Re-bound in a handsome 20th century duotone cloth in extact replica of publisher's original binding. Bright gilt-lettering and decorative borders to spine, top-edge gilt, new marbled endsheets. A tight, very well-preserved, Near Fine copy. The plates, artistic and skillfully rendered, have held up very nicely: bright and clean and near-immaculate. Tall quarto, 123 pgs.
The Royal Museum at Naples, Being Some Account of the Erotic Paintings, Bronzes and Statues Contained in That Famous "Cabinet Secret"
Colonel Fanin
London: John Camden Hotten, 1871.
Price: $2,500.00
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Wonderful portfolio of landscapes by the early 20th century Mexican artist Dr. Atl. 32 drawings all told (mostly charcoals) and a 24 pg. booklet in its stapled wrappers, both housed in a beautifully-illustrated cloth chemise. The earthen, terra cotta colors of the chemise nicely set the tone for Dr. Atl's 6 watercolors, which are tipped-into the booklet. THE BOOKLET IS ALSO WARMLY INSCRIBED BY DR. ATL on the front free endpaper. The 32 loose charcoals are in beautiful condition and the booklet, has held up very nicely as well and is VG+, with very light soiling at the front panel. And the chemise is bright and VG+, with a very light, inconspicuous trace of staining near the spine base. Oblong quarto, original ribbon-ties completely intact. Former museum bookplate at chemise's rear pastedown.
El Paisaje: Un Ensayo
Dr. Atl
Mexico: Self-published, 1933.
Price: $1,500.00
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A beautiful copy of the 2000 1st edition, SIGNED BY SOL LEWITT(!!) on the half-title. Immaculate and Fine in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Quarto, 416 pgs. The catalogue based on the February-May 2000 exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Sol Lewitt: A Retrospective
Sol Lewitt
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.
Price: $1,500.00
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The Deluxe Edition, #41 OF ONLY 55 COPIES ISSUED WITH A SIGNED LITHOGRAPH PORTRAIT BY ROCKWELL KENT AND A SIGNED COLOR PRINT BY T.M. CLELAND HIMSELF. Clean, bright, vellum-backed over elegant, decoish, gilt-decorated panels. Solid and tightly-bound and Near Fine. Tall quarto, 99 pgs. The book itself also signed at rear limitation page by Cleland. Also includes a worn, somewhat-chipped, VG- example of publisher's printed slipcase. A very attractive T.M. Cleland -and Rockwell Kent-- item.
The Decorative Work of T.M. Cleland: A Record and Review
New York: The Pynson Printers, 1929.
Price: $1,500.00
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Die Stadt
Frans Masereel
Paris and Munich: Editions Albert Morance and Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1925.
Price: $1,500.00
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Papermaking by Hand in India
Dard Hunter
Pynson Printers, New York, 1939.
Price: $1,500.00
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Kiyonaga: a Study of His Life and Works with a Portfolio of Plates in Color and Collotype (2 Vols.)
Chie Hirano
Harvard University Press, 1939.
Price: $1,250.00
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The Tempest
William Shakespeare
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908.
Price: $1,250.00
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La Sculpture Sur Pierre En Chine Au Temps Des Deux Dynasties Han
Edouard Chavannes
Paris: Ernest Leroux, Editeur, 1893.
Price: $1,250.00
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Monografia: Las Obras De Jose Guadalupe Posada--Grabador Mexicano
Mexico: Mexican Folkways, 1930.
Price: $1,250.00
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Uncommon Rockwell Kent item. 1 of only 85 copies issued, with an original lithographed frontispiece SIGNED BY ROCKWELL KENT. Additionally, THIS COPY INSCRIBED BY KENT on the front free endpaper to noted collector P.K. Thomajan. Folio, unpaginated, top edge gilt. Vellum spine over blue cloth boards with red and gilt leather label to front panel. A bright, VG copy with minor scuffing to the panels. A fragile and attractive production, and very well-preserved.
Unser Kent
Waldo Pierce
Cortland, New York: Privately Printed, 1930.
Price: $1,000.00
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J.-H. Fragonard
Pierre De Nolhac
Paris: Goupil & Cie, 1906.
Price: $1,000.00
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Flosculi Sententiarum: Printers--Flowers Moralised
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1967.
Price: $1,000.00
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The Prince of Wales and Other Famous Americans
Miguel Covarrubias
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.
Price: $1,000.00
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Aspen Magazine No. 8, the 1969 Fall-Winter issue. "Art/Information/Science". Complete in 14 numbered sections. Including contributions by Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Edward Ruscha, Steve Reich, Jackson Mac Low, Philip Glass, etc. Folded chemise, neatly containing all 14 sections. Very light rubbing at the front panel and just a bit of soiling to the inside folds, otherwise clean as could be and solidly VG+. Quarto, unpaginated. One of the scarcest issues of this seminal late 60s art magazine.
Aspen Magazine No. 8
Phyllis Johnson, Ed.
New York: Aspen Communications Inc.,
Price: $1,000.00
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INSCRIBED BY CHARLES SMITH at the rear colophon (which includes artist's biography). A handsome copy to boot of the 1939 1st edition. Bright and VG+ in its gray cloth. Octavo, includes the 6 original abstract color woodblocks.
Abstractions
Charles Smith
New York: The Johnson Publishing Company, 1939.
Price: $1,000.00
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Alexandra Ekster Kak Zhivopisets I Khudozhnik Stseny
Jakov Tugendkhol'd
Berlin: 1922.
Price: $1,000.00
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INSCRIBED BY CHRISTO on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1970 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in a bright, clean, Near Fine dustjacket. Oblong quarto, hundreds of crisp black-and-white and color photographs thruout. One of the great early monographs on Chrsito. ALSO INCLUDES A VG EXAMPLE OF PUBLISHER'S UNCOMMON ORIGINAL SHIPPING CARTON.
Christo
David Bourdon
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970.
Price: $950.00
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