Zeitschrift Fur Praktische Baukunst by Rombery, J. Andreas (Ed. )

Abbeville Press, NY, 1978; First Edition; Folio, 308 pages; illustrated. Art historian Michael Croydon’s catalogue raisonné of unique American artist Ivan Albright (1897-1983), whose shocking paintings provoked the public for more than fifty years. Foreword by contemporary painter Jean Debuffet, who describes Albright’s works as "unequaled in their powers of revelation." One-hundred and seventy magnificent plates, 83 of them in full color. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket that has not been price-clipped. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp.

Alfred A. Knopf in association with Callaway Editions, New York, 1987; First Edition; folio. One hundred sensuous O’Keeffe flower paintings, lavishly reproduced full-page in brilliant color from 8" x 10" color master transparencies which were then scanned to produce the plates. Edited and with informative background text by Nicholas Callaway. Very Fine, in a Very Fine dust jacket and complete in all respects, with publisher’s illustrated wraparound band, separate color illustrated index card to all the flowers, and the original silver-color corrugated cardboard shipping case. A beautifully published and sumptuous book.

Sotheby Parke Bernet Publication LTD, New Jersey and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, New York, 1976 Book. Good. Hardcover. English text.; Hardcover (3 volumes with dust jacket in slipcase). Top edges gilt.; 34 x 25.5 cm.; 8.3 Kg.; 1034 pages with black and white and a few colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jackets and slipcase. Interior in very good condition.; Limited edition of 2,000 copies of which this is 793.; Among the arts of Japan, the colour print continues to exercise the strongest appeal to us in the West. The main reason for the present widespread and growing interest is the powerful design combined with the beauty of the colour harmonies of the prints. But there are also other reasons; they depict a Japan of the past now almost vanished, its culture, mores, annual events, legends and its history; and they also show the influence of the Japanese print on the evolution of modern Western art. In the last few years the most important event in the world of… Read More

New York / Cambridge, MA: The New Museum of Contemporary Art / MIT Press, 1987. First edition / First printing. Gray cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Rare in hardcover.

Privately Printed, 1924. Softcover. Very Good. Original exhibition catalog issued on the occasion of an exhibition of books containing illustrations by celebrated painter, engraver, publisher and illustrator Jean-Gabriel Daragnes - specifically, woodcuts. Illustrated with an original portrait etching of Daragnes by Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, 11 black-and-white Daragnes plates, three depicting lesbian scenes, and an original Daragnes hand-colored engraving laid in showing a husband walking in on his wife in bed with her lover - a scene from Fielding's Tom Jones. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper thus: "Pour Madame Legat | Ce registre d'etat und des infants | qu'un pere demature confie a | l'assistance publingier | le pere indigne | Daragnes." Translation: "For Mrs. Legat: This register of state and children that a father has entrusted with the assistant publisher. The unworthy father, Daragnes." Also signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by an… Read More

Abbeville Press, NY, 1978; First Edition; Folio, 308 pages; illustrated. Art historian Michael Croydon’s catalogue raisonné of unique American artist Ivan Albright (1897-1983), whose shocking paintings provoked the public for more than fifty years. Foreword by contemporary painter Jean Debuffet, who describes Albright’s works as "unequaled in their powers of revelation." One-hundred and seventy magnificent plates, 83 of them in full color. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket that has not been price-clipped. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp.

Alfred A. Knopf in association with Callaway Editions, New York, 1987; First Edition; folio. One hundred sensuous O’Keeffe flower paintings, lavishly reproduced full-page in brilliant color from 8" x 10" color master transparencies which were then scanned to produce the plates. Edited and with informative background text by Nicholas Callaway. Very Fine, in a Very Fine dust jacket and complete in all respects, with publisher’s illustrated wraparound band, separate color illustrated index card to all the flowers, and the original silver-color corrugated cardboard shipping case. A beautifully published and sumptuous book.

Sotheby Parke Bernet Publication LTD, New Jersey and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc, New York, 1976 Book. Good. Hardcover. English text.; Hardcover (3 volumes with dust jacket in slipcase). Top edges gilt.; 34 x 25.5 cm.; 8.3 Kg.; 1034 pages with black and white and a few colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jackets and slipcase. Interior in very good condition.; Limited edition of 2,000 copies of which this is 793.; Among the arts of Japan, the colour print continues to exercise the strongest appeal to us in the West. The main reason for the present widespread and growing interest is the powerful design combined with the beauty of the colour harmonies of the prints. But there are also other reasons; they depict a Japan of the past now almost vanished, its culture, mores, annual events, legends and its history; and they also show the influence of the Japanese print on the evolution of modern Western art. In the last few years the most important event in the world of… Read More

New York / Cambridge, MA: The New Museum of Contemporary Art / MIT Press, 1987. First edition / First printing. Gray cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Rare in hardcover.

Privately Printed, 1924. Softcover. Very Good. Original exhibition catalog issued on the occasion of an exhibition of books containing illustrations by celebrated painter, engraver, publisher and illustrator Jean-Gabriel Daragnes - specifically, woodcuts. Illustrated with an original portrait etching of Daragnes by Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, 11 black-and-white Daragnes plates, three depicting lesbian scenes, and an original Daragnes hand-colored engraving laid in showing a husband walking in on his wife in bed with her lover - a scene from Fielding's Tom Jones. Signed and inscribed on front free endpaper thus: "Pour Madame Legat | Ce registre d'etat und des infants | qu'un pere demature confie a | l'assistance publingier | le pere indigne | Daragnes." Translation: "For Mrs. Legat: This register of state and children that a father has entrusted with the assistant publisher. The unworthy father, Daragnes." Also signed and inscribed on front free endpaper by an… Read More