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1936PPMA001New York & Los Angeles: Merle Armitage 1936 Illustrated with a lithograph by Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano executed by Lynton R. Kistler signed in pencil by Napolitano. Limited edition this being number 65 of 112 numbered copies. Publisher's yellow cloth title stamped in black and brown to upper cover. Very good overall covers slightly bowed light soiling to cloth light wear to spine tips residue from sticker on spine light soiling to front endpapers interior otherwise clean and bright including the lithograph tissue guard still present binding slightly shaken. Overall a pleasing copy of a scarce book with the signed lithograph in fine condition. These two essays by Picasso were first published separately in The New York Times in 1923 and 1930. They appear here with an additional statement by its publisher Merle Armitage. Armitage started his career in the arts as a set designer in New York City and became a tour manager and theatre producer in Los Angeles. He authored over 100 books about artists and musicians and was an art collector befriending many artists including Picasso Kandinsky Klee and Chagall. After meeting artist Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano Armitage wrote a book about his Modernist style. Napolitano studied many different forms of art including painting ceramics and architectural design and he executed many architectural murals for the WPA. He illustrated several books written by Armitage and through their collaboration Napolitano became involved in set and costume design notably working on The King and I. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. New York & Los Angeles: Merle Armitage hardcover books
197419059ENew York: Grosset & Dunlap 1974. First Edition First Printing. From the library of the great film director Billy Wilder signed and inscribed by the author / photographer David Douglas Duncan to Billy Wilder and his wife at the behest of their mutual friends Anne & Kirk Douglas. Inscribed: “For Audrey and Billy Wilder Merry Christmas from Anne and Kirk and David Douglas Duncan.†Kirk Douglas was the star of Billy Wilder’s great 1951 masterwork film Ace In the Hole. Oversized art coffee table art book. Fine copy in a near fine dust jacket wtiha a small tear at the top rear corner and some very minot wear. A book of photographs by David Douglas Duncan comprising the artist Pablo Picasso’s private collection of his own work. With many candid images of Picasso his family home friends dogs and more. Billy Wilder’s legendary status in Hollywood as a director screenwriter and producer includes such classic films as Ninotchka Sunset Boulevard Double Indemnity The Lost Weekend Stalag 17 Some Like It Hot The Seven Year Itch The Apartment and The Fortune Cookie. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
198618428Boston: Atlantic Monthly 1986. First edition. leather_bound. Full orange morocco. Fine in near fine solander case of quarter orange morocco with two spine inlays in gray morocco spine lightly sunned and beige basket weave cloth. 349 pages. 30 1/2 x 23 1/2 cm. Edited by Arnold Glimcher and Marc Glimcher. Bound by the Harcourt Bindery with their ticket at backcover paste-down in full orange morocco decorated in blind in a Picasso motif a line drawing of male/female faces intertwined with this design motif replicated on the cover of the solander case. Copiously illustrated in black and white and color including samples from each of 175 different sketchbooks. Features essays by Claude Picasso Robert Rosenblum Sam Hunter Francoise Gilot and others. The monograph presents for the first time the personal sketchbooks of Picasso and contains a catalogue raisonne which fully describes all 175 extant sketchbooks. This book was produced in conjunction with an accompanying exhibition at the Pace Gallery in New York in 1986. Atlantic Monthly unknown books
1965175627Paris: Les Ateliers de Daniel Jacomet 1965. Softcover. VG plexiglass case is torn on one side. Tan illustrated canvas notebook measuring 4x3 in unpaginated in color illustrated cardboard envelope measuring 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 in all in printed plexiglass case with black and red lettering. "The Notebook of Notebooks" Facsimile of an illustrated Picasso notebook given to Marcel Duhamel and drawn by the latter in 250 copies plus a few non-commercial copies for the artist and the collaborators. It is kept in the strong paper enveloped printed in color from the original envelope decorated by Picasso for Marcel Duhamel the founder and director of the Serie Noire and a friend of Prevert. Without the printed booklet of Marcel Duhamel's presentation text which is often missing. Envelope addressed to "Señor Don Marcel Duhamel Antibes - A.M. On cover: Pour Duhamel Marcel 18.1.65 This copy is number 20 out of the 250 copies printed. Les Ateliers de Daniel Jacomet paperback books
197121655Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili 1971. Limited ed. Hardcover. Near fine. Oblong 24mo. Red cloth with gilt-stamped "Album" title to front and facsimile inkstains to rear. With accompanying perfect-bound booklet in glassine-covered jacket. Both housed in marble printed slipcase with title label to one side. Near fine overall. Label on slipcase moderately rubbed. Books both very near fine. Unpaginated sketchbook facsimile and 68pp booklet. <br/><br/>A gorgeous and incredibly detailed facsimile reprint of the second of Picasso's earliest sketchbooks. With accompanying text written in both Spanish and English. From an edition of 300 copies. Editorial Gustavo Gili hardcover books
1961140941418New York: Harry N. Abrams 1961. First US Edition. First American edition. Publisher's pictorial white cloth in original slipcase. Near Fine with slightly toned spine hinge at front starting in slipcase with wear and fraying along edges toning. Lacking title band. Picasso on bullfighting. Harry N. Abrams unknown books
19647427Paris: Maeght 1964. Folio loose as issued in illustrated wrappers. Four original lithographs in color by Miro Tal-Coat Ubac and Pallut; one original black and white double-page litho by Picasso. One engraving l'eau-forte by Georges Braque after "Les trois oiseaux sur fond violet". With illustrated wrappers and eight other illustrations after Braque including etched frontispiece "Trois oiseaux sur fond violet"; plates by additional artists including Man Ray Marc Chagall and others. Some very light soiling to wrappers otherwise very good. Maeght unknown books
1948905Paris: Rene Drouin 1948. First Edition with more than 90 half-tone photographs of Picasso with his family working and with completed works. With an important commentary by noted author and friend of Picasso's Paul Eluard and an Introduction by another noted author and close friend Jaime Sabartes. Folio 3/4 blue morocco with marble pastepaper spine panelled author and title in gilt teg original pictorial wrappers of Picasso bound in. An important record of the master and his work. Rene Drouin unknown books
196121649Barcelona: Sala Gaspar 1961. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. Picasso Pablo. 24 pages. 24.5 x 19 cm. Front cover is an original color lithograph. 72 black and white and tinted lithograph illustrations. Index provides size and format of each illustration. Introduction by J. Ainaud Director of Art at the Barcelona Museum.Text in Spanish. Interior clean and fresh slight ding to cover corners. Sala Gaspar unknown books
195646468New York: Harry N. Abrams 1956. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. New York: Harry N. Abrams 1956. Introduction by Hans Bolliger translation by Norbert Guterman. Numerous b/w illustrations. xxii plates pp. Hardcover. Square 4to. Black cloth. Spine lettering and decorative device to front board stamped in white. Spine faded. Chip to head and closed tear to heel of publisherÕs mylar dustwrapper. Very good/Very good. Insurance required to ship this item. Harry N. Abrams hardcover books
1948320147Paris: Verve 1948. First edition. 18 tipped-in full-colour plates and 21 black and white plates. Printed by Draeger frères. 47 1pp. Folio 35 x 27 cm. Printed pictorial wrappers. Fine. First edition. 18 tipped-in full-colour plates and 21 black and white plates. Printed by Draeger frères. 47 1pp. Folio 35 x 27 cm. VERVE p.182 ". one of the unique qualities of "Verve" Nos. 19/20: a unity of time and place that gives this form of presentation -- known in English as a `work in progress' its singular character. Verve unknown books
1971311098Berne: Kornfeld & Klipstein 1971. First editions. Illustrated. 310; 345pp. 2 vols. 4to. Cloth in fine djs. First editions. Illustrated. 310; 345pp. 2 vols. 4to. Kornfeld & Klipstein unknown books
1971WRCLIT65359Berne: Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein 1971. Large quarto. Rough woven cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Picasso four hundred plus black & white plates of graphic print works both published and unpublished. Bookplate on front pastedown else about fine in near fine dust jacket with minor use at edges. First edition. The second volume of the four volume catalogue raisonné of Picasso's graphic works. Introductory text in French English and German descriptive text in French. Editions Kornfeld et Klipstein hardcover books
1925KC15849Prague 1925. Paperback. Good. Jind ich Honzl Odeon Praha 1925 184pp. 5.25 x 7.5. Front cover photomontage by týrský Jind ich & Toyen Marie ermínová with interior graphic design by Karel Teige. Illustrated with work by: Lissitzky Molnár Schlemmer Picasso Leger and many others. Very good original printed wrappers with some soiling and lightly worn edges; splits and light wear to the spine head/heel. Some pages loose but complete. CZECH AVANT-GARDE. Rare. <br/><br/> paperback books
197128082Barcelona: Ediroial Gustavo Gili S. A. 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two oblong books in hard slipcase. One of 300 copies. This slipcase houses two books: one clothbound is a facsimile of one of Picasso's earliest sketchbooks; the other softbound in delicate opaque wrapper contains text in Spanish and English. Both books in near fine condition. The softbound book has a couple of small cover stains. With two additional printed cards from the publisher laid in. Slipcase shows just mild handling wear. Ediroial Gustavo Gili, S. A. hardcover books
1956018304New York NY: Henry N. Abrams 1956. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. First American edition. Folio. 22 pages of text xxii including an introduction by Bollinger followed by 100 black & white plates. Black hardcover cloth binding with minor to moderate sunning to the spine. The original printed glassine wrapper has several tears and chips. Lacks the slipcase. Translated by Norbert Guterman. The beautiful catalogue of Picasso's graphic work produced for the French publisher Ambrose Vollard. There are two small x's in ink in the list of illustrations. The text is otherwise clean and unmarked. First American edition. Henry N. Abrams Hardcover books
1948WRCLIT58237Paris: Éditions "Cahiers d'Art" 1948. XXIII:1. Large quarto. Original printed wrappers. Heavily illustrated with photographs. Crown of spine a bit frayed else fine in partial glassine and slipcase with printed label frayed at crown as well. An issue devoted to Picasso's works 1946-8 as well as reproductions of 446 of his ceramics with text by Picasso as well as Christian Zervos René Char et al. Éditions "Cahiers d'Art," unknown books
195224125San Francisco: Privately printed by Adrian Wilson 1952. First edition. Boards spine slightly faded otherwise fine. One of 75 copies. <br/><br/> Privately printed by Adrian Wilson hardcover books
198065441NY: Alpine Fine Arts Collection 1980. First US edition. Folio. 18 150 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Essay by Luis Miguel Dominguin. Translations by Edouard Roditi. Facsimile edition of Picasso’s 1959 sketchbook. NY: Alpine Fine Arts Collection unknown books
1921D1255Munchen: Delphin-Verlag 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated paper over boards. Some very light rubbing and chipping and spine tips and corners. <br/><br/> Delphin-Verlag hardcover books
195921010803New York: A Studio Book The Viking Press 1959. Hardcover. Fine. Picasso Pablo. Octavo size 143 pp. in a custom binding. A handsome austere custom binding of half leather with the backstrip and fore-edges of leather over black paper boards. <br/><br/>Pablo Ruiz Picasso 1881-1973 was not only an extremely prolific artist but captured the imagination of the entire world with his co-founding of Cubism and invention of constructed sculpture; he would become and likely remains one of the best-known artists of the 20th century. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: In a custom binding binder unidentified of half rust orange leather over black textured paper boards black endpapers replete with mostly black-and-white reproductions of photographs and Picasso's art; octavo size 9 1/4" by 7 3/8" pagination: 1-5 6-143. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine overall the leather smooth and supple the binding clean and unworn straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; some natural varieties in the leather and a minute spot of wear on the back board else fine. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. A Studio Book, The Viking Press hardcover books
19718015New York: Harry N. Abrams 1971. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Translated from the German by J. Maxwell Brownjohn. With 670 illustrations. "The first comprehensive historical and critical interpretation of Picasso's sculpture." <br/><br/> Harry N. Abrams hardcover books
1970WRCLIT45478Paris: Andre Sauret / Editions du Livre 1970. Quarto. Gray cloth stamped in black. Fully illustrated in color and b/w. Edges faintly discolored in a couple of places extreme corners of one half-gathering creased from having been mistrimmed else very good or better in lightly dust smudged dust jacket with two short closed tears at the crown of the spine panel. First German language edition of a substantial redaction of the catalogue raisonné translated by Eric Weiser and Horst Hoeft. Foreword by Helene Parmelin. Andre Sauret / Editions du Livre hardcover books
1970WRCLIT81067Boston: Boston Book and Art 1970. Large quarto. Pictorial wrapper over boards. 407 plates several in color. Fine in chipped acetate wrapper with chip at lower edge of rear panel and plain and somewhat worn shipping case. First edition US issue produced by André Sauret in France. Essay by Hélène Parmelin. Translated from the French by Jean Didry. Boston Book and Art hardcover books
1970WRCLIT81155Boston: Boston Book and Art 1970. Large quarto. Pictorial wrapper over boards. 407 plates several in color. Small pencil erasure on free endsheet otherwise fine in acetate wrapper and worn plain shipping case. First edition US issue produced by André Sauret in France. Essay by Hélène Parmelin. Translated from the French by Jean Didry. Boston Book and Art hardcover books
