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1906879181906. DESIGN Kamisaka SEKKA. NIHON JOSÔ 7 vols. Kyoto Unsodo Meiji 39 1906. 26.3 x 18.7 cm. String-bound Japanese style fukuro-toji printed paper title labels. An interesting visual history of women's fashion in traditional Japan. The bw woodblock prints were supervised by the master himself Kamisaka Sekka. A good impression some cover soiling in very good condition overall. Complete. unknown books
1936892161936. DESIGN Kanô Shûhô artist. Ukiyoe Monyô KOSODE HYAKUSEN. Kyoto Happodo Showa 11 1936. 36.7 x 27.2 cm. Though this copy has no colophon or textual material it consists of 48 of the 50 woodblock printed sheets each with two designs so 96 of 100 designs. Each design is identified by the original ukiyo-e artist's name. The printings are fine the condition good overall. With the original title page all in a clasped chitsu case. Sold with all faults. unknown books
193731077Moscow: State Publishing House of Graphic Arts 1937. First Edition. Folio 41.5cm; photo-illustrated card wrappers stapled; 36pp; illus. with three illustrated plates tipped onto thicker stock in-text and three panoramic fold-out plates designed by Es and El Lissitzky; text is in English. Light wear along spine fold and extremities else Near Fine with all plates intact. Well-preserved issue of this landmark Soviet art magazine issued from 1930 to 1941 to celebrate the achievements of the first two Five Year Plans and through various foreign-language editions to propagandize the stark contrast between the vibrant Soviet economy during this period and the stagnation of Western economies under capitalism. "All the visual strategies of the propaganda photobooks designed by Lissitsky Rodchenko and others.were developed in USSR in Construction one of the most beautifully produced magazines of the twentieth century" Parr-Badger The Photobook I:148.<br/><br/>The present issue is devoted to the various people groups of the Caucasus region their history industries and accomplishments. A superior copy of a desirable issue. State Publishing House of Graphic Arts unknown books
2000CNJL795Baltimore Maryland: Dolphin Press / Maryland Institute College of Art 2000. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Lorenz Hilary. No. 7 of 40 copies of the deluxe edition total edition 100 elephant folio size 40 pp. signed by Albert Mobilio and Hilary Lorenz. "The Handbook of Phrenology" is a collaboration between artist Hilary Lorenz an artist and printmaker whose work has been exhibited throughout the United States Europe and Asia and the co-founder of the Dolphin Press and writer Albert Mobilio a poet and literary critic whose work has appeared in The Village Voice Harper's Fortune and The New York Times Book Review n. b. artist bios from the book. <br/><br/>The book is a collection of five prose fiction pieces that revolved around the nineteenth-century science of phrenology or "the reading of one's head shape to determine personality" n. b. from website of Hilary Lorenz and is a provocative examination of what is now recognised as a pseudoscience.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full black Japanese Asahi cloth gilt vignette and lettering on the front board hand-marbled paste-down endpapers hand-sewn binding six etchings interspersed throughout the text both etchings and text printed on the rectos only; Dante monotype on Rives Heavyweight elephant folio in size 16" by 13.5" unpaginated with 20 leaves excluding front and back blank leaves per the colophon page a limited edition of 100 copies this being number 7 per the web site for Hilary Lorenz numbers 10-100 were for sale signed by Albert Mobilio and Hilary Lorenz on the colophon. The slipcase is covered in matching cloth gilt vignette and lettering on the front which mirrors the book lined with maroon paper. With a sheet with a description of the book serving as the prospectus one sheet printed on one side.<br/> <br/>___CONDITION: Volume is fine with a strong square text block solid hinges perfectly straight corners with no rubbing the interior is clean and bright and it is entirely free of prior owner markings - crisp as new. Slipcase is also fine strong and sturdy clean without wear. The prospectus sheet is near fine clean with very light toning to the edges and light wear to the corners else fine.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an oversize book and additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us 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. Dolphin Press / Maryland Institute, College of Art hardcover books
1915857611915. DESIGN Saikasha. SAIKA. Tokyo 1924-9. 30 issues bound into 10 volumes out of 36 issues bound in 12 volumes. Significant run of the SAIKA series which captured Japanese and Asian design in all its manifestations - objects utensils. fabrics rugs architectural elements lacquerware cloisonnee etc. etc. There is a total of approximately 500 plates of which about 100 are color woodblock printed and another dozen or so are color collotypes and color lithographs. The remainder are collotypes and offset. An interesting series from the reference library of the Mitsukoshi Department Store. Two of the volumes are disbound with a few plates missing but they have the original covers. Sold with all faults and priced accordingly. Unusual set. unknown books
1933891861933. DESIGN Hisatomi Jun; Yoshida Tamashiro designes. SHINKÔ KOSODE BURI 1 2 3 5. Kyôto Happôdô Shôwa 8 1933 36.1 x 26.1 cm. Each volume of the four of five contains 10 lovely color-printed woodblock design in a kimono sleeve format. A wonderful collection of these "shinkô" "modern" designs. The woodblock printed covers are loose and some folds in the folding albums are starting. Sold with all faults. 4 volumes. unknown books
1901891941901. DESIGN KOSUGI Sugimura & YOKOI Tokifuyu designers. DAI NIHON BIJUTSU ZUFU 4 vols. Tokyo Yoshikawa Hanshichi Meiji 34 1901. 4 plate volumes orihon folding albums illustrated with 154 pages of color woodcut. 25.1 x 18.5 cm Complete as such BUT not including the 4 text volumes. A lovely compendium of traditional design. Very good colors impression and condition. Volume 4 is split at one fold; its rear cover is detached and its front cover attached with a tissue repair. unknown books
1919004668London: Martin Secker first two issues Cecil Palmer third issue. Printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son 1919 1923. First edition. Wraps for first issue hardcover paper pastedown second two issues. Very Good. Literary journal with extraordinary roster of contributors including Max Beerbohm Siegfried Sassoon T. E. Lawrence John Doyle Enoch Soames Robert Graves John Crowe Ransome John Masefield John Galsworthy Thomas Hardy Walter de la Mare Rockwell Kent Vachel Lindsay Edwin Lutyens William Nicholson etc. 4to. 32 by 25 cm. Mostly poetry with also a mix of stories dialogues etc. and lovely plates quite a few in color. All produced handsomely and though short-lived the confluence of talent marks these as an unique undertaking. Minor edge chips to wraps of the first volume. Chips along the joints and the spine of the second. Within the leaves are age toned with some scattered light foxing. <br /><br /> Martin Secker (first two issues), Cecil Palmer (third issue). Printed by Vincent Brooks, Day & Son hardcover books
1911902691911. EHON - Design Book Yamada Unsôdô publisher. MOMIJI. Kyoto: Yamada Unsodo Meiji 44 1911. 26.5 x 19 cm. Orihon with printed paper covers over boards. Thirty double fold sets of color woodcuts detailing the leaf forms of some 187 different species of Japanese maple. A scarce example of Unsodo's wonderful design work with a naturalistic theme from the early part of the 20th century. The covers are a bit worn but the impressions and colors are very good. Complete as issued in one volume. unknown books
196933815New York 1969. Watercolor on paper. 1 vols. 18 x 23-1/2 inches. Framedvery good/fine. Watercolor on paper. 1 vols. 18 x 23-1/2 inches. 'DANCES AT A GATHERING'. Illustrious American fashion illustrator Joseph "Joe Eula 1925-2004 is best known for his work as the creative director at Halston during the 1970's. In 1968 however Eula's work in American theater garnered him a Tony Award for the Broadway production of Private Lives. His later work in costume design for Jerome Robbins and the New York City Ballet includes Dances at a Gathering 1969 and costumes for The Goldberg Variations. unknown books
1925877511925. DESIGN Shimomura TAMAHIRO. TAMAHIRO GASHÛ. Kyoto & Tokyo: Unsodo Taisho 14 1925. Single sheets cord-bound into illustrated boards with a printed paper title label. 36.2 X 25.3 cm. There are 16 pages of color woodblock printed designs and 30 pages of bw collotypes. One of the hybrid design books that Unsodo created in the 20s and 30s. Very clean and bright in the original publisher's slipcase. A very unusual and late effort by Tamahiro 1878-1926 an important Unsodo designer who began his work for them at the turn of the century. Even more unusual in such lovely original condition. Complete. unknown books
1911869271911. DESIGN Shirokiya Department Store. 38 COVERS FROM RYÛKÔ MAGAZINE. Tokyo Taisho era design done by the design staff including Furuta Tachiji of Shirokiya Department store for this their monthly magazine. Here we have a group of 38 front covers removed from the original magazines. They were trimmed by a collector to uniform size andstab bound into an album. Here removed again they provide a repositury of Taishô chic design at its best. Save for the trimming and occasional foxing in very good condition. unknown books
1918869371918. DESIGN ODA Kazuma artist and designer. ÔYÔ ZUAN Gekkan Dai-ichi-go. Tokyo Papiyon Zuansha Taishô 7 1918. Folio-sized wrappers 34.5 x 24.2 cm. This "Practical Design" monthly features the work of Oda Kazuma 1882-1956 in this its first issue. This issue features articles on the use of electric lights at night for advertising with a note at the end on some recent advertising posters that have appeared. Obviously a periodical by professionals for professionals in the design and advertising world. Not a world one usually thinks of Oda Kazuma belonging to but here he turns his talents at lithographic printmaking to more practical ends with sevarl examples of advertising designs and commercial art. Very good condition throughout. Very unusual. unknown books
193538548Moscow: VOKS 1935. First Edition. Small quarto 27cm. Leatherette-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; 1-24 25-306 20pp. Mild external wear; slight lean to text block; still a tight Very Good or better copy with both pictorial inserts present and in good condition bit of wrinkling to the fragile celluloid insert bearing Stalin's silhouette portrait. Unusually well-preserved copy of this landmark of Soviet book design featuring copious examples of the revolutionary photomontage work of Rodchenko and Stepanova. The two extremely fragile inserted design elements - a die-cut folded plate bearing Lenin's portrait on a movie screen and a clear celluloid sheet with the printed silhouette of Stalin are rarely found intact if at all; in this copy both are present and complete in excellent condition. VOKS unknown books
19301598251930. JAPANESE COMMERCIAL DESIGN. A Collection of approximately 200 labels for food and drink products. Various sizes mounted in an album. Small folio 305 x 225mm bound in pale blue wrappers in a recent brown chitsu case. NP. ND. Japan 1930's. An eclectic collection of Japanese food and drink labels from the first quarter of the twentieth century. Fruits vegetables spirits candies canned meats and fishes are all represented on colourful labels featuring combined western and Japanese design sensibilities. They are neatly tipped into an accordion style album of thick pale blue paper and mostly remain in fine condition. unknown books
193020242Philadelphia ca. 1930s. Hardcover. Very good. Oblong 4to. album. Screw-bound leather-covered boards with publisher's text in printed in gold to front cover. Holds photos diagrams text and paint swatches all affixed to 29 dark-gray stiff leaves divided into four sections. Appears almost entirely complete with corners of several captions torn off. Album about very good overall with many affixed papers toned from age or glue-stained but all remain readable. Sound overall. Additionally laid-in are 21 clippings and advertising ephemera relating to hardware stores including several in Toronto. <br/><br/>Extensive custom catalogue containing metal fixtures and display equipment for hardware stores published by David Lupton's Sons a steel company based in Philadelphia. The catalogue includes suggestions for store layout providing examples of merchandise display on Lupton display cases and shelving with extensive diagrams showing the proper distribution of for example various-sized shovels on a particular shelving unit. From a stamp appearing several times throughout the album and on a piece of laid-in marketing ephemera which reads "Bowes Hardware & Plumbing 425 Danforth Ave Toronto" this particular album was almost certainly compiled by Lupton for Bowes as part of its "Store Planning Service" referred to on the album's cover. A fascinating example of the marketing and merchandizing of U.S. hardware store equipment and a glimpse into the process of starting a North American small business during the height of The Great Depression. hardcover books
1934891821934. DESIGN BOOK Yoshida Gyokujô compiler. TANSAI GAFU. Kyoto Happpôdô Shôwa 9 1934. 2 vols. complete. Tall folios 36.7 x 25.4 cm orihon folded album in woodcut printed paper over board covers with printed paper title labels. There are 25 total full page color woodblock prints. Interesting style mixing flat solid colors with small naturalistic elements in a single print. Good impressions and colors. Complete in clasped chitsu case with printed silk label. Case is worn books about good. The set eventually ran to 4 volumes these are the first two produced. unknown books
1932894051932. DESIGN Iida Shikô. HÔEN-CHÔ. Kyoto: Maria Gabô Shôwa 7 1932 Oblong orihon folding album in the original publisher's chitsu clasped case. 28.3 x 39.0 cm. There are 23 ornately printed circular designs with metallic inks etc. Maria Gabô was not prolific but what they printed was always done with first rate craftsmanship. unknown books
1902845761902. DESIGN Matsuoka Tokikata; Honma Hyakuri. Kojitsu Sôsho SHOKUMON ZUE. 7 vols. originally privately published by Hyakuri apparently from 1815-25 as a completion of work begun by Tokikata in the late 18th very early 19th century. This is the reprint of this classic work done as part of the "Kojitsu Sôsho" Classic Library series published by Yoshikawa Hanshichi et al in Meiji 34 35 19012 Very slightly smaller than the original volumes each about 18.2 x 24.9 cm string-bound Japanese-style fukuro toji with printed paper title labels - all bindings match. Hundreds of beautiful color textile designs reproduced in color woodcut. Nobleman Ladies Ceremonial dress Brocades Imperial costumes all are covered. Retains most of the appeal of the original edition. Slight external wear lovely inside. unknown books
19651002159Rome: Faro Disegni 1965. Beautiful archive of midcentury porcelain designs each an original hand-colored work of art spanning a wide variety of botanical geometric and figural styles. Some feature realistic portraits of flowers and birds while others are much more stylized: traditional folk motifs linear Art Nouveau florals bright mod blossoms. This is a working archive: many of the images are annotated and corrected in pencil and themes like the firebird are developed over multiple sheets. Of the 168 designs that survive eight are unnumbered and the others are numbered as follows: 1-47 49-67 69-138 140-144 146-155 157-165. Roman firm Faro Disegni is best known for their textile designs; this archive testifies to their participation in other aspects of the decorative arts. A remarkable survival. Collection of 168 original hand-colored designs for porcelain plates each on a separate sheet of various sizes: a group of 111 designs executed in pencil ink and watercolor on heavy paper most measuring 14.5 x 13 inches and a smaller group of 57 sketches executed primarily in pencil and crayon on onionskin measuring less than 12 inches square. Most designs labeled "Faro Disegni" and numbered in ink; a few designs mounted many marked in pencil with annotations in French and English. Housed in two chemises within a custom clamshell box. Faro Disegni unknown books
1930D4924Alfafar Valencia c. 1930s. Near Fine. Album containing unmounted watercolor and gouache pencil and color printed studies of individual pieces of furniture and interior design ensembles probably created as maquettes for advertising purposes. Includes 17 in pencil ranging in size from 5.5-by-9 inches to 11-by-17 inches; and 32 in color most about 11-by-15 inches with 3 large pieces 18-by-24 inches folded once down the middle. Total of 48 pieces some a little rubbed or chipped along the edges; a few of the pencil sketches foxed; but the whole is overall nice and bright suitable for display. Remarkably detailed the polished wood shines! and accomplished artwork shows lavish nigh on palatial bedrooms and dining rooms -- with ornate beds bookcases chairs tables bureaus dressers and more prominently on display. 13 images in pencil or in color focus on specific pieces of furniture sometimes many per page taking them out of their context rooms and allowing a detailed look at the piece itself. The designs seem primarily focused on classical and neoclassical styles but Muebles Rodriguez is known for carrying modern colonial Provencal and avant garde pieces as well -- some of that influence is apparent here. A lovely and rich presentation. <br/><br/> unknown books
1960151331N.p.: N.p. 1960. Vintage satin banner with hand-sewn lettering by an unknown artist made after Paul Krassner and John Francis Putnam's 1963 poster. <br/><br/>Krassner created the "Fuck Communism" poster for sale through his satirical underground magazine The Realist with typography by longtime Mad magazine art director Putnam. In addition to publishing The Realist from 1958 to 2001 Krassner was a founder of the radical activist group the Youth International Party The Yippies and an early member of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters. <br/><br/>In the words of occasional Realist contributor Kurt Vonnegut "At the beginning of the 1960s FUCK was believed to be so full of bad magic as to be unprintable. . By having FUCK and COMMUNISM fight it out in a single sentence Krassner wasn't merely being funny as heck. He was demonstrating how preposterous it was for so many people to be responding to both words with such cockamamie Pavlovian fear and alarm." <br/><br/>36 x 14 inches. Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1997CNJL1063Monmouthshire: The Old Stile Press 1997. Limited Edition. Leather. Fine. Pitts J. Martin. No. IX of X specially bound copies folio size 27 pp. signed by J. Martin Pitts and Paul Delrue with prospectus. Paul Delrue b. 1944 bound his first book at the age of fifteen in 1959 and knew he had discovered his calling. He became an apprentice at the University College London from 1961-64 and worked there as a binder until 1971. He set up his own bindery in 1971 and in 1981 was elected a Fellow of the Society of Bookbinders having founded and served as chairman of the Chester and North Wales branch in 1979. Paul has earned numerous awards and honours including the Silver medal and three other awards in 1991 in The Bookbinding Competition. He was elected a Fellow of Designer Bookbinders in the same year; the following year he was awarded two Bronze medals in the prestigious Prix Paul Bonet. <br/><br/>Paul invented the lacunose style of binding which is masterfully shown in this work although he uses other methods as well. His work is highly prized and springs from within him; as he writes on his website "A book and its binding are inextricably linked - the one complements the other in a way which creates something more than just a book with an attractive cover. My design bindings draw on what a book says to me and how it inspires me emotionally." <br/><br/>The lovely Delrue binding perfectly complements the story by The Hon. Roden Noel 1834-1894. "In this poem he mixes elements of the story of Salmacis & Hermaphroditus from Ovid's Metamorphoses with memories of moods settings and atmospheres from his Irish childhood combining as John Addington Symonds wrote full sensuous feeling for the material world with an ever-present sense of the spirit informing it and bringing all its products into vital harmony." n.b. from the web site of The Old Stile Press<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full leather in the Lacunose style with leathers used in colours of different blues grey greens brown and tan with swirls of lighter colour reminiscent of water pooling and white featherstrokes fore- and bottom edges uncut printed on brown paper throughout French folds double-spread title page with two-colour linocut by J. Martin Pitts in brown and white linocuts in brown and white by Pitts throughout; folio size 13" by 10" 27 unnumbered pages one of 225 copies this number 206 number IX of X specially bound copies signed by J. Martin Pitts and Paul Delrue on the colophon. With the prospectus for the special edition a grey sheet with a biography of Paul Delrue folded once with another sheet folded once to make four pages with four tipped-in colour photographs of the binding. In a case of quarter tan cloth with pictorial cloth boards with pocket made of grey-green cloth with grey-green ribbon stamped "Delrue". <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine with clean boards straight corners a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings. The prospectus is near fine clean with only light wear. The case is fine also strong and sturdy clean and without wear. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please contact us 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. [The Old Stile Press] unknown books
197119762New York: New York Committee To Free Angela Davis / Afro-Arts Inc 1971. Original poster lithographed in three colors on white stock measuring 58.5cm x 76cm 23" x 30". A Fine copy / A. An original poster designed and produced by Richard McCrary for the NY Committee to Free Angela Davis. The poster prominently features an image of Davis with her fist clenched and a poem by McCrary printed at upper left corner: "Angela yes you are a black woman - and I want it to be known; The only thing you're guilty of is being a black woman to the bone / For such beauty to be held captive is really no mystery; It is because you are a black woman truly black enough for me." We note a single example at auction Swann 2014 - $7500 with the only other example known to us held in the Rossman Family Collection at the Oakland Museum of California. Not located in OCLC. A1. New York Committee To Free Angela Davis / Afro-Arts Inc unknown books
1931KC16123Moscow; Leningrad 1931. Paperback. Fair. Rare periodical with photomontage cover design by El Lissitzky. pp. 32. Some loss to top edge; rear lower corner loss at the back resulting in some missing text. Edgeworn and creased. Not a pretty copy but very few of this issue have survived. <br/><br/> paperback books
