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1951174311Cincinnati OH: Zebra Press 1951. First edition. Softcovers. The third and final issue of this legendary magazine which was edited by Frank Zachary and George S. Rosenthal and with art design and direction by Alexey Brodovitch. This issued featured articles on Ben Shahn stereoscopy but lacking the 3-D glasses Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographs of Asia Jackson Pollock as photographed by Hans Naumuth and a look at Alexander Calder with images by Herbert Matter. An about very good copy in wrappers with the spine missing soiling to the wrappers some tears and some wear to the corners and edges. Internally a clean copy. Zebra Press unknown books
198712551New York: E. P. Dutton 1987. First edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. 4to. 214 pp monograph on this well known designer. Sharp well bound copy in black cloth binding in near fine price intact dustwrapper. Highly recommended for fans of this art deco designer. <br/><br/> E. P. Dutton hardcover books
196315032Ulm: Hochschule fur Gestaltung 1963. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. September 1963 Double issue 8 and 9 of 21 published in 14 volumes. Celebrated magazine arm of the influential German school of design which was founded by Inge Aicher-Scholl Otl Aiker and Max Bill. Somewhat musty but in clean very good condition. This issue features IBM advertisements in Students' Work Josef Albers speaks about color system for petrol filling stations and other product designs in the Teacher Design Work section. 85 pp. All issues of this design journal have become difficult to track down. <br/><br/> Hochschule fur Gestaltung paperback books
1955140940743New York: The Noonday Press 1955. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 111 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in light purple. A little wrinkling to terminals else Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with toning sunning and small hole in spine panel head and tail worn. A poetry book with a dust jacket and title page illustration by renowned pop artist Andy Warhol in his phase as a commercial designer. The Noonday Press unknown books
1933877691933. DESIGN NAITÔ Ryôji. SÔSHOKU KATTO GASHÛ. Tokyo Sosaku Zuan Kankokai Showa 8 1933. Western bound in incised leatheroid over boards. 26.8 x 19.5 cm. 78 bw images mostly full page of "Decorative Cuts" drawing on the female form - flappers vamps and decadent androgynous beauties in many roles pirates a cowgirl a nun etc. etc. Ero-guro meets Beardsley. Very good condition in the original publisher's slipcase. Very unusual showing a different side of the decorative impulse in the Japanese 1930s. unknown books
P4745Prague: Äeskoslovenský spisovatel 1968. Quarto 29.5 à 18 cm. Original blind wrappers with typo-illustrated dust-wrappers; accordeon-bound leaves; 69 pp. With four full-page color lithographs "graphic labyrints" by ZdenÄk SklenÇÅ and numerous pages of typographic compositions by Hlavsa. A very good copy. Bilingual edition with text in Latin and Czech of John Amos Comenius' treatise "Typographeum vivum" "The Living Printing Press" a lengthy metaphorical comparison of his pedagogical approach to the means of producing printed books. The book was published to celebrate the five-hundredth anniversary of the appearance of the first printed book in Bohemia in 1468 The Trojan Chronicles. From the English-language resume: "the great seventeenth-century Czech humanist Jan Amos Komenský . had faith in the grandiose possibilities open to the printed word that can spread life-giving ideas. And finally it is to the second half of the twentieth century that the book owes its graphic design. This is the work of two contemporary Czech artists who have many times already shown themselves to be outstanding masters of book design and illustration -- the graphic designer and typographer OldÅich Hlavsa and the painter graphic artist and illustator ZdenÄk SklenáÅ. It is no coincidence that this bibliophile publication is designed and illustrated in a way that enables the artistic aspects of its typography to create new meanings." Parallel Latin and Czech text with Czech editorial notes and English Russian German and French summaries. Striking large-scale typographic design by Hlavsa incorporating fonts such as Bodoni Times Roman an eighteenth-century Prague specimen Verdi Frutiger's Univers and Menhart's Figural. One of 1000 copies printed. unknown books
191219010809Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1912. Hardcover. Near fine. First printing with Margaret Armstrong's binding design duodecimo size 144 pp. The designs of Margaret Armstrong 1867-1944 utilising the Art Nouveau style and floral patterns were a sensation in the publishing business; Armstrong created over 270 book designs often for the works of well-known authors such as Charles Dickens Robert Louis Stevenson and George Washington Cable. In addition to designing books Armstrong wrote books as well including a comprehensive guide to wildflowers in the American West which she also illustrated.<br/><br/>"The Song of the Cardinal" is a novel by acclaimed writer Gene Stratton Porter 1863-1924 who in addition to writing best-selling works of fiction also contributed pieces to notable magazines such as "McCall's" and "Good Housekeeping". This volume is the first printing with Armstrong's binding design the third printing of Porter's book.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Full red cloth floral design in purple green and gilt by Margaret Armstrong unsigned and gilt lettering on the front board floral design in green and purple with gilt lettering on the spine title page with decorative border and floral illustration in black; duodecimo size 7.5" by 5.25" pagination: i-viii 1-135 136.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Volume is near fine with clean boards colours and gilt are bright on the front board and spine straight corners a strong square text block with solid hinges and the interior is clean and bright; slight sunning to the spine some rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and to the corners a small spot of soiling to the front free endpaper the bottom corner of page 23 is creased and there is a prior owner inscription reading "Merry Christmas / to / Uncle John and Aunt Gus / from / George and Thelma. / 1912." in pen on the front free endpaper.<br/><br/>___CITATION: Gullans and Espey no. 198<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Â 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. The Bobbs-Merrill Company hardcover books
197235295Amsterdam: Aktiegroep Nieuwmarkt 1972. Original pictorial poster 56x44cm. printed silkscreen in black on white stock; minor wrinkling from handling tiny piece of tape reinforcement at bottom edge verso else Very Good or better. Issued during the years-long battle between developers and citizens regarding plans to build a freeway through Amsterdam's Jewish neighborhood the eventually successful protests spearheaded by the Aktiegroep Nieuwmarkt. Designer and publication information provided by OCLC no. 943722911 IISH only as of September 2017--the dimensions differ slightly from our copy theirs with enough room for the publication information lacking in this state. Aktiegroep Nieuwmarkt unknown books
1952159085Chicago: Paul Theobald 1952. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. An important look at the history of printer's marks and trademarks in publishing. Features the work of Herbert Bayer Alvin Lustig Paul Rand along with several others. A fine copy in yellow cloth boards with errata slip laid in and in a very good plus dust jacket that has a number of small edge chips and some edge tears and some creasing to the top of the rear panel. A bright and clean copy and uncommon in any dust jacket. Paul Theobald unknown books
198541785Washington DC: Smoke-In Central 1985. First Edition. Offset lithographed poster in colors 58cm x 43cm ca 23" x 17". Original vertical and horizontal folds as issued else a fine fresh apparently uncirculated example. Terrific punk-inflected poster advertising a 1985 rally in the Capital to promote marijuana legalization and oppose police brutality especially the then-burgeoning phenomenon of police tasers here called "stun-guns". Features a vivid central caricature of President Ronald Reagan who is surrounded by vignettes of police brutality; along the upper quadrant Nancy Reagan chases a line of potheads including Groucho Marx and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers through the sky wielding a stun-gun while sitting astride a flying pig. Copy at the Center for the Study for Political Graphics and not uncommon in commerce though fine copies are unusual; otherwise unlocated in institutional collectons. Smoke-In Central unknown books
199019671New York: Rizzoli 1990. First edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. Spectacular monograph on the graphics interiors and products designed by Vignelli Studios. Oblong 4to. 292 pp. Essays by Germano Celant and others. Gorgeous copy in black cloth binding in near fine bright red dustwrapper with some light fade at spine color. A strikingly beautiful book. A large and heavy volume. <br/><br/> Rizzoli hardcover books
1948164490New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers 1948. Hardcover. 200 pages. An important reference book from one of the more important and influential book and type designers of the 20th century. A very good copy in black cloth boards that have some minor wear with the gilt lettering to the spine largely flecked off and with a bookplate to the front pastedown. No dust jacket. Internally a clean copy of this classic that is seemingly fairly uncommon in any edition. Harper and Brothers Publishers unknown books
196427663New York: Reinhold Publishing Company 1964. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Square hardbound 8vo. 94 numbered pp. Brief textual introduction by the three authors followed by over 90 pages of examples of advertisements and graphic design examples that provide solutions to gadvertising and communication problems. A very good copy. Spine lettering dulled but still readable. Issued without dustwrapper. Quite uncommon in the hardbound edition. Reinhold Publishing Company hardcover books
1968172005New York: The Viking Press 1968. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Text by Lawford and photographs by Horst. Foreword by fashion doyenne Diana Vreeland. A rare glimpse into how the affluent live illustrated throughout with some black and white and numerous color images. A tight close to near fine copy with a small former owner signature markered over on the front free endpaper in an about very good price clipped dust jacket that has a number of small edge tears chips and wear to the edges. Despite the flaws a solid copy of a classic book. The Viking Press unknown books
192945542Berlin: Malik-Verlag 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 18.5cm.; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 306pp. Jacket a bit worn at extremities with short splits to top inches of both spine ends else Fine in Very Good jacket designed by John Heartfield. Publisher's prospectus for works by F.C. Weiskopf laid in. Novel of the nationalistic fervor of German youth just a few years before the rise of the Third Reich. The author himself a communist later fled Nazi Germany for the Soviet Union only to be a victim of the Great Purge perishing in the Gulag in 1943. Malik-Verlag unknown books
198734323Amsterdam: Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland n.d. but 1987. First Edition. Original poster 84x29.75cm. printed offset in colors over glossy white stock. Some general wear to extremities including very faint dampstain along left-hand edge faint horizontal fold else Near Very Good and sound. Issued on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the 1912 founding of South Africa's anti-apartheid political party the National African Congress today the country's majority political party. The poster depicts a photo-montaged speer a black man's screaming face in the middle of the blade. IISH only in OCLC as of June 2017. Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland unknown books
195519947New York: Museum Books 1955. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Metal spiral bound quarto. Cover design by Ronald Clyne. Unpaginated volume on the history and evolution of letterhead typography. Includes 54 actual examples at rear of volume. Black cloth spine over patterned boards. Boards are worn along the edges. Still a very good clean example with wonderfully designed examples of letterhead typography. Uncommon volume. <br/><br/> Museum Books hardcover books
1951WRCLIT57619Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs 1951. 4pp. plus forty-six plates 74 images. Quarto. Loose sheets paid into cloth-backed decorated board portfolio. Light foxing to endsheets of portfolio two plates minutely nicked in extreme margins a few smudges of offsetting on versos of a few plates otherwise very good. First edition. An intriguing assemblage of samples of work done by various artists for use in wallpapers and decorative papers including work by Fini Henry Moore Matisse Bonfils Prassinos Berard Ackermann et al. Six of the full-page plates are in color via pochoir or screen-printing. Librairie des Arts Décoratifs hardcover books
86884DESIGN. SAIKÔKYÛ MIRAAKOOTO-KAMI TOPPAN-ZURI OODAMATCHI MIHONCHO NP ND Japan 1960s. 16.3 X 24.5 cm. Leatheroid covers 23 pages of 5.5 x 8 cm designs for matchbox covers done in a "mirrorcoat" process of relief printing. One sample clipped for color matching. The back covers is loosening. Overall a good copy of this very scarce and ephemeral catalogue. unknown books
1903874891903. DESIGN Gotô Ryûkô. HANA NO NISHIKI #3. Kyoto: Unkindo Meiji 36 1903. A single woodblock-printed sheet approx. 36 X 50 cm. folded into printed covers 25.2 x 17.8 cm. Unkindo a short-lived but brilliant publisher later merged into the Unsodo concern. A bit browned and edgeworn it is number 3 from an unknown number of such single-sheet designs. Very unusual unknown in the literature. unknown books
2003RDOYDIS00tmGreen Cat Press 2003. Fine. Doyle Roddy. Disney. Makov design and illustration Susan; Eddington design and illustration Patrick. Salt Lake City: Green Cat Press 2003. #15 of 60 signed. 12pp. Illustrated. 4to. Signed by author. Book condition: Fine in protective plastic cover. Decorated endsheets. Green Cat Press unknown books
1931WRCLIT76120Boston: American Photographic Publishing Co. 1931. Cherry red cloth lettered in gilt and black. Color frontis and 12 b&w plates. A couple of the plates have cast pale shadows on facing pages but fine in bright decorated dust jacket with some minimal rubbing and slight fraying at spine extremities. First edition. The illustrations are by Constance Hacker. A curious work dedicated by the Hackers to F. W. Murnau and featuring nine scenarios as examples for amateurs for the development of occasionally unconventional visual themes and techniques. American Photographic Publishing Co. hardcover books
1963011463London: Hutchinson 1963. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good . Presentation copy from author and British swell Beverly Nichols 1898 - 1983 to art-collector artist inventor author designer and American swell Nancy Hays Hammond 1904-1985 on the ffe: "For N.H.H. With Christmas greetings from B. N.one of the many contributors of this little book. who.as she will learn inside is not. So distinguished as he how briefly how briefly imagines." Nichols contribution is a witty piece called "On Discovering that Jane Austen was One's Great-Great-Great-Aunt". Hammond does not appear; it seems that Nichol's inscription to Hammond is his typically arch way to perhaps ridicule the editorship of the book for not including an article that Hammond may have submitted. Book near fine dustjacket price-clipped. Nichols inscriptions aren't that common particulalrly considering how much he got published. Hutchinson hardcover books
19391183Boston: Trustees of the Will of Mary Baker Eddy 1939. First edition. First edition. Book in original glassine dust wrapper and llower half of original paper box. Illuminations throughout in full color by Violet Oakley including gold-highlighted title page. With color portrait of Mary Baker Eddy by Alice Barbour laid in. A scarce and interesting offering. Book is fine. <br/><br/> Trustees of the Will of Mary Baker Eddy unknown books
1921WRCLIT81928Mitteneague Mass: Strathmore Paper Company 1921. Narrow small folio 33 x 22 cm. Gilt lettered cloth backed boards printed label. Extremities a bit rubbed and shelfworn ink name on free endsheet boards slightly marked otherwise very good in custom made cloth and marbled boards slipcase. The supplemental portfolio is not present. First edition of this sumptuous production designed and overseen by Cleland with two color renderings by Helen Dyden and 19 folding contrivances exhibiting color samples printed on Strathmore papers the series designed by Rudolph Ruzicka. Strathmore Paper Company hardcover books
