London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 250pp., 52 plates. Modern red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Auction catalog for the estate of the late Mr. Magniac, of Colworth, Bedford, sold by Christie, Manson & Woods, at their great rooms, 8 King Street, St. James Square..... More
London: Harvey Miller & Medcalf, 1972. First edition. Folio. 143pp. Embossed blue linen with gilt lettering to spine in original dj. Tears, scuffing and creasing to dj. Frontispiece. "This book is a unique record of one of the greatest monuments-now lost-of Romanesque painting. The Chapter House of the Convent at..... More
Mexico City: Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior, 1985. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/5000. Folio. 148pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over grey cloth, with burgundy lettering on spine and front cover. This striking picturial survey of 19th-century visual arts in Mexico is splendidly illustrated throughout with numerour color and b/w photographic reproductions..... More
México: Gobierno Constitucional del Estado de Colima, 1986. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/5000. Folio. 80, [4]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over gilt-stamped dark blue leather, with gold lettering on front cover. Exquisite collection of 12 striking colorful tipped-in watercolor reproductions depicting picturesque views of Colima, a small state located in the..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1967. First English language edition. Hardcover. Folio. 400, [2]pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket, black lettering on spine, over illustrated white cloth. Color frontispiece pasted down. Fascinating work dealing with Schwitter's relation to Der Sturm, to the Dada movement and the Club Dada, to the..... More
Berlin and Leipzig: Verlag von Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 20pp., 32 plates, 1 page. Original brick red quarter-cloth over tan boards with JK debossed in green and red and reversed lettering on cover, black lettering on spine. Color frontispiece. First edition of "Young Art" of Max..... More
Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1994. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 181 (4)pp. original black and brown wraps with white lettering on frontcover and spine, black on back cover. Double page photographic frontispiece in black and white, color double page at rear. Catalog of a traveling exhibition Musée..... More
Los Angeles: Collier Publishing Company, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong Quarto. 230pp. Original pictorial dustjacket over dark brown textured cloth with gilt stamped lettering on cover and spine housed in a textured brown cloth slipcase with giltstamped lettering on cover and spine. A charming collection of more than 180 color..... More
Tokyo: Kodansha, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio. 350pp. Original dustjacket over blue cloth with matching clamshell box, both with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece double-page color photograph. Comprehensive publication on the work of one of the most popular artists, lavishly produced with exhaustive color and b/w reproductions..... More
Paris: Fernand Hazan, (1966). Hardcover. Folio. 12 magnificent color prints and few pages of text resting in stiff paper folder with dust wrapper protected by glassine. Tan cloth slipcase with printed facsimile of Buffet's signature. Same signature on front of folder. Minor staining and rubbing on slipcase. French text by..... More
Paris-London-New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 6 leaves text, 12 plates. Original stiff paper portfolio in heavy paper dust jacket with two color lettering on cover, in light gray cloth chemise with orange lettering on black handle bar, housed in gray cloth slipcase with gray and..... More
Istanbul: rh+yayinlari, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 255 (2)pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over orange cloth and blind-stamped lettering on cover and spine. Orange endpapers. Frontispiece portrait color photograph. Richly illustrated with striking color reproductions of Saleri's artwork. "Saleri has conveyed through her canvas the cultural wealth and the centuries-long..... More
New York: View, 1946. First edition. Softcover. Small Folio. 52pp. Original color illustrated wraps with black, blue and brown lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Volume VI. Cover is a photograph of the sculpture Constantin Brancusi's studio in Paris. With contributions by Jean-Paul Sartre's "The nationalization of Literature," a...... More
London: Phaidon, (1999). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 512pp. Black cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original color illustrated dust jacket. "Victorian Painting is a comprehensive survey of one of the most fertile and varied eras in the history of painting. It embraces not just the United Kingdom..... More
Stuttgart: Gerd Hatje, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. XXXIX, [1], 151, [1]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over illustrated cloth with black lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers. Remarkable volume on Marc Chagall's graphic work magnificently illustrated with 151 b/w photographic reproductions and 4 color phototypes (including 2 double-page). Very minor age wear on..... More
Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Cantz Verlag, 1996. First English language edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 153 (1)pp. Original tan cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. "Richter's approach long appeared disorienting, incoherent, even absurd: the artist developed an extraordinary diversity of forms, moving from "photo-realist" pictures to others that seemed to run the..... More
Mexico City: Galeria de Arte Mexicano, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Large 4to. 155 pp. Black cloth with silver lettering on spine. Dust jacket. Dj slightly scuffed on top and bottom of spine, on bottom edge and on all corners. The set of oil paintings presented in "The Anti -Portrait of..... More
Leipzig: Haessel, 1922. Hardcover. Oblong 8vo. 53pp, followed by 133 numbered plates. 3/4 vellum over marbled paper covered boards with gilt lettering and illustration to spine. Marbled endpapers. Contains 134 numbered mounted-on b/w sketches, etchings, reproductions of oil paintings etc. by various artists (including Goethe himself), depicting images of places..... More
Dresden: Verlag der Schönheit, 1927. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 32pp. 5, 47 plates. (1)pp. Original brown stiff wraps with portrait lithograph of Fahrenkrog and black lettering on brown cover, back cover gray with publisher's advertisement; protected by modern mylar. Title page with a decorative Fahrenkrog lithograph, including lettering, with pink..... More
Wien: Office of the Lower Austrian Government, 1991. First edition. Softcover. Small Folio. Unpaginated. Original stiff white wraps with red lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece portrait. Catalog on the occasion of the exhibition "Kindskopf" shown by the State Museum of Lower Austria (Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum) at the Minoriten Church in..... More
Los Angeles: Self published, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Small Folio. 137pp. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover in original illustrated dustjacket, housed in gray slipcase with black lettering on label of spine. Vignette on title page. Frontispiece photograph of Wieczorek by Arthur Kales. Max Wieczorek was a German..... More
Dresden: Landesverwaltung Sachsen, 1946. First edition. Softcover. Oblong Sextodecimo. Text unpaginated at front and rear, 96 plates. Original illustrated orange wraps with brown lettering on cover. Organized by the state government of Saxony and the Cultural Association for the Democratic Renewal of Germany. Extensive exhibition in the city hall at..... More
Vienna: Verlag der Genossenschaft der bildenden Künstler, 1885. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 30pp. Original gray wraps with decorative ruling and red and black lettering on cover. Frontispiece heliogravure with tissue guard. Makart was an Austrian painter, designer and decorator, best known for his influence on Gustav Klimt. Makart was considered..... More
Wien: Vereinigung Bildender Künstler Österreichs, 1913. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. Unpaginated, with 28 plates. Original tan illustrated wraps with brown lettering on cover. Illustrated with twenty-eight b/w offset reproductions of paintings of artist of the Vienna Secession, including Anna Scherb-Brabbée, Leopold Gottlieb, Heinrich Krause, Felix Albrecht Harta, Walter Klemm, Alois..... More
Munich: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 163pp. Original gray cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, in original illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. ""In Claude's work, Nature stands eternally revealed." Thus Goethe expressed his admiration for the most celebrated landscape painter in the history of art..... More