Art And Artists from Cat's Cradle Books

Stuttgart: Stahle & Friedel, N.D.. Portfolio. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. Quarter tan cloth over paper boards. All 15 images present, plus an additional print (Verkündigung an Maria) and extra copies of Golgotha and Abendmabl. Portfolio has scrape on front, tanning, light dampstaining, with flaps peeling at hinges. Prints have light foxing but many are… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: Office Chief of Military History, Department of the Army, 1964. First Edition. Unbound. Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by H. Charles McBarron. First Edition. Dates of some are 1964, others undated. One title page creased, prints lightly bumped and scuffed (1812 has dark scuff across verso)), no markings. Ex-library folder with sticker damage at… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Dorothea Lange et al.. First Edition. Exlibrary markings. Binding a bit shaken, hinges holding well. Pages off-white with occasional marginal marks and underlined passages in pencil. Cloth over boards is shelf worn, edge worn, with bumped corners and tape reinforcing… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Karl Robert Langewiesche, 1959. Softcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Book is in the German language. Sound binding. Pages clean, off white. Wrappers have edge rubbing. DJ has edge rubbing and light handling wear. ; Color plates of German paintings from the period 1900-1918, with essay. ; Blauen Bücher; 10.5" tall; 66 pages.

Leipzig: Karl Robert Langewiesche, 1936. Softcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Book is in the German language using fraktur. Sound binding. Pages clean with light tanning. Wrappers have edge rubbing. DJ is tanned with edge rubbing and light handling wear. ; German artists in self portraits from the 14th century to the early 20th, with introductory… Read more about this item

Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany: Sulamith Wülfing, 1931. Second Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Sulamith Wülfing. Second Edition. Text in German language. Binding is sound. Wrappers have light handling wear, darkening at spine. Pages off-white. Color plates of Wülfing's work tipped in. ; Poetry by Rilke, with color lithographic print by Wülfing tipped in on facing… Read more about this item

Berlin: Kunstreihe des Safari, 1959. Softcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Text in German language. Binding sound. Pages and wrappers off white. DJ foxed with handling wear, closed tear on back. ; Color prints of works by Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) tipped in. ; Safari Kunstreihe; Color Prints; 12.5" tall; 24 pages.

Leipzig: Im Bärenreiter Verlag zu Kassel, 1932. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Rudolf Koch, Frik Kredel, Emil W&ou. Text in German language using fraktur. Seven loose leaves, each one showing a woodcut by Frik Kredel of a drawing by Rudolf Koch with handcoloring by Emil Wöllner. Drawings also appear in a three-volume work on wildflowers… Read more about this item

Köln: Hoursch & Bechstedt, 1914. Softcover. Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Foxing on endpapers. Pages slightly off-white. German language using fraktur. Wrappers are heavily edgeworn. ; Title translates as The Eifel in the Changing Seasons. Twenty color plates of important paintings of German landscape artist Fritz von Wille (1860-1941),; 12.0" oblong; 4 pages.

Berlin: Wolfgang Krüger Verlag, 1942. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the German language. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, tanned pages. Paper over boards is edge rubbed with heavier wear at corner tips. Spine is darkened. ; 25 full color reproductions of medieval art representing the seasons of the year. ; 10.0" tall; 112 pages.… Read more about this item

Berlin: Kunstverlag Weingarten, 1983. Softcover. Very Good. Sound binding. Foxing on endpapers. Pages clean, bright. Wrappers have light shelf wear. Previous owner's name on ffep. ; Black and white, color plates. Art from the Bauhaus School in Germany. ; 9,5" tall; 71 pages.

Wuppertal, Germany: Kunst- und Museumsverein, 1967. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is sound. Some foxing at staples inside book. Pages clean, bright. Wrappers have light shelf wear. ; Examples of German works in the genre this book terms "Magical Realism," done between 1920 and 1933. Black and white plates. ; 10.25" tall; 32 pages.… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by John Dos Passos. First Edition. Sound binding. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep. Clean, off-white uncut and rough-edged pages. Wrappers are a bit rippled, but no water damage is evident. Spine is tanned. Signed by Cendrars and Dos Passos on page preceding… Read more about this item

München: Delphin-Verlag, 1921. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Book is in the German language, using fraktur font. Sound binding, tanned pages. Wrappers have closed tear at top of spine, darkening at spine, general handling wear. ; Essay on the work of German painter Hans von Marées (1837-1887) together with 31 black and white plates of… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, N.D.. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Felix Timmerman. Sound binding and hinges. Pages foxed, tanned. Small amount of writing on ffep including a date of 21.10.26, suggesting a publication date in the 1920s. Book is in the German language, translated from the original Dutch edition, which was published in 1923. ; Story and… Read more about this item

München: R. Piper, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the German language. Sound binding and hinges. Pages off-white. No writing or marks. Paper over boards has edge wear, overall light shelf wear. ; 16 color plates of tempera works by German artist Christian Rohlfs(1849-1938). ; 7.5" tall; 56 pages.

München: R. Piper & Co, N.D.. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Stapled binding holding text block together, but the text block has separated from the wrappers. Pages tanned, previous owner's name at top of title page. General edge wear, shelf wear to wrappers, which are tanned and a bit soiled. ; No publication date, probably… Read more about this item

Stuttgart: Cantz, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the German language. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, off-white pages. Pictorial paper over boards is very slightly bowed with darkened spine, general light handling wear. ; Photos and sketches of Stuttgart. 8.5" oblong; 110 pages.

Köln: Zeigler Beckmann, N.D.. Softcover. Good with No dust jacket as issued. Book is in the German language. Sound binding. Endpapers foxed, and there is also some foxing to some of the page margins. Wrappers show edge rubbing, tanning, light handling wear. ; Black and white plates depicting medieval art housed in the museum. Also included are two… Read more about this item

Stuttgart/Berlin/Leipzig: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1925. Hardcover. Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the German language. Sound binding and hinges. Previous owner's name on ffep. Pictorial cloth over flexible boards is edge rubbed, slight soiled, with some discoloration of the cloth. The picture and lettering on front are clear. Lettering on spine is a bit faded. ;… Read more about this item