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1935553702Moscow: VOKS 1935. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Design and photomontage by V. Stepanova and A. Rodchenko. Quarto. 312 12pp. Text in English. Quarter red leather and cloth with paper illustration over boards. Endpapers illustrated with film images on photo paper. Extensively illustrated with innovatively illustrated half-title and title page with film illustrations in color tipped-in celluloid sheet with Stalin's silhouette a folding plate of a theatre and audience etc. Publication celebrating an overview of the Soviet cinema with contributions by many profiles of filmmakers mention of the industry in Soviet Union vassal states etc. Near fine. VOKS hardcover
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
193651694Prague: ÚstÅ™ednà knihovna lavnÃho mÄ›sta Prahy Prague Central Library/ Printed by V. Neubert and Sons 1936. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto. Unpaginated. Black paper wrappers. Main title page and additional exhibition title page both illustrated with striking photo-montage in b/w. Title page signed in pen by Karel Hajek.<br /> <br /> This finely printed photo-illustrated work was published to coincide with the the exhibition of photography by acclaimed Czech photographer and photo-journalist Karel Hajek 1900-1978 held in January 1936 at the Prague Central Library. Images throughout the publication are all gorgeous examples of vibrant b/w photogravure printing. The layout design and typography of the work was created by Hajek in collaboration with the acclaimed Czech illustrator puppeteer and animator Jiřà Trnka 1912-1969. Following the title page with a playful photomontage showing the photographer in a newsprint suit is a page of introductory text for the exhibition from writer playwright and filmmaker Vladislav VanÄura 1891-1942 art critic Bohumil Markalous 1882-1952 and finally Hajek himself. This is followed by a beautiful full-page photomontage of images by Hajek which serves as an introduction to the exhibition. A selection of 7 captioned images from the exhibition is then followed by a text page of technical information concerning the photography and a full list of the 181 photos included in the exhibition along with their respective film stocks. The final pages are comprised of numerous finely photo-illustrated period advertisements all also printed very nicely in photogravure. A now very scarce document of the early career of this important figure of Czech photo-journalism.<br /> <br /> Minor scratches and abrasions to the front wrappers. Light chipping with tiny stains along the bottom edge of the back wrapper. Lightly rubbed at the head and tail of the spine. Starting at the gutter of the interior front cover. All images throughout very clean and nice. Wrappers in very good interior in very good condition overall. 5 OCLC copies worldwide. Not found in 'Czech and Slovak Photo Publications 1918–1989' Manfred Heiting ed. [Ústřední knihovna lavního města Prahy] (Prague Central Library)/ Printed by V. Neubert and Sons unknown
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
193345815Kharkiv: Рух Ruch 1933. First edition. Hardcover. fair to vg. Quarto. 105pp. 1. B/w photo-illustrated dust jacket with black lettering on red on the front cover. Yellow cloth boards with red lettering and a cut/out from a b/w photograph mounted on the front cover. Red endpapers. This scarce work is a comprehensive monograph on the life and early career of acclaimed Ukrainian stage and film actor Amvrosi Buchma 1891-1957. Buchma's most notable film roles are perhaps in Aleksandr Dovzhenko's "Arsenal" 1929 pictured in this book and Sergei Eisenstien's "Ivan the Terrible Pt. I & II" 1944 and 1958. He was a prominent member of the Berezil theater from 1922-1936. Issued to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his entry to the stage as a professional actor the publication is illustrated throughout with countless b/w photographic reproductions and covers the actor's work on both stage and screen. Index of images and table of contents at the back.<br /> <br /> Biographic text captions throughout and index in both Ukrainian and German. <br /> <br /> Dust jacket with some tears and reinforced with Japan tissue. Binding lightly sunned with some minor rubbing and bumping to extremities. Interior front cover with name of a previous owner in ink. Minor smudging throughout. Dj in fair binding in very good interior in very good condition overall. Extremely scarce. Protected by modern mylar. English text on the bottom of the last page: "Life and Work of the Ucranian sic actor Amvrosi Buchma by Kost Burovi. Рух (Ruch) hardcover
1924059773New York Ny: G. P. Putnam's Sons / Knickerbocker Press 1924. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Plates And Illustrations In Text. Xv 184 Pp. #32 Of A Limited Edition Of 110 Copies Of Which 100 Were For Sale. Faux Vellum Spine Blue Boards Spine An Cover Labels Printed In Blue Blue And White Illustrated Endpapers The Trade Edition Had Map Endpapers. First Edition Signed By Kent On Limitation Page And Again In The Two Color Woodcut Bound Before The Half Title And With The Extra Illustration Not Present In The Trade Edition Placed After The Introduction. Light Wear Showing With Tinybumps/Splits/ Frays At Corners. Hinges Tight. Faint Damp Stain In Small Area At Top Of Spine Panel Affecting Upper 2/3 Of The Spine Label And 1/2" Across Bottom Edge Of Spine. <br/> <br/> G. P. Putnam's Sons / Knickerbocker Press hardcover
1930106072BBMontrouge, Draeger Frères für Edition Iribe, (1930). 4°. 29 S., [1] Bl. u. 7 Tafeln auf Klarsicht-Folien, jeweils vor strukturierten Kartons mit Metallbeschichtung in Gold u. Silber. OKart. mit Büttenpapierumschlag u. Metallring-Heftung. [17 Warenabbildungen]
190218974ABMähr. Neustadt, Kochwasser, 1902 - 1906. 33 : 22 bis 85 : 115 cm. 28 Original-Aquarelle auf festem Karton.
1936028494New York / Los Angeles: Merle Armitage / Lynton Kistler 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original Signed Lithograph By Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano. 60 Pp. Beige Morocco Blindstamped In Similar But Not Duplicative Design As The Regular Clothbound Issue But In A Larger Format 6 9/16" X 5 3/32" Which Preserves More Of The Original Lithographic Drawing We Also Have Available Separately A Full Page Printing Of The Lithograph Signed And Annotated By Napolitano Which Image Is Abbreviated Even In This Large Paper Copy.There Is A Stated Limitation Of 112 Copies This Copy Numbered 116 One Of Armitage's Copies Of A Small Overage In The Print Run. Designed By Merle Armitage Printed By Adcraft Under Supervision Of Lynton R. Kistler. Frontispiece Lithograph Portrait Of Picasso By Napolitano Pulled By Hand From Stone By Lynton Kistler And Signed In Pencil By Napolitano. Text Printed In Bodoni 12 Pt. Additionally Inscribed By Armitage "A Special Leather Bound Copy For Napolitano Merle Armitage 1936". A Near Fine Copy Slight Rubbing At Corners Of Binding. A Possibly Unique Armitage Printing In This Larger Format. <br/> <br/> Merle Armitage / Lynton Kistler hardcover
1993109336First Impressions. 1993. First Impressions. Seattle. Distributed by Mandarke Press in the UK. First edition. 1993. In three large 4to hardback volumes. Black cloth gilt no wrappers issued. Trade hardcover edition. Illustrated throughout. marbled endpapers.Head and tails of spine very slightly crumpled slight rubbing to upper boards more so to vol. I otherwise a remarkably clean and sound set. SCARCE. hardcover
1940BAWDENED001019Faber & Faber London. 1940. First edition. Octavo. 108 pages. Pictorial boards with cover design printed in blue and black and title-page design by Edward Bawden. One of Bawden's own copies: his pictorial bookplate is on the front pastedown and he has signed the front free endpaper.Tail of spine slightly pushed. Near fine in good dusty and slightly marked price-clipped dustwrapper with shallow chipping to the edges the front flap partially torn away and a closed tear along the length of the spine. Part of the original wraparound band is present. Faber & Faber, London. hardcover
1935BAWDENED003265Faber & Faber London. 1935. First edition. Octavo. 126 pages. Pictorial boards printed in blue and reddish-brown and black-and-white title-page by Edward Bawden.One of Bawden's own copies: his pictorial bookplate is on the front pastedown and he has signed the front free endpaper.Spine darkened. Very good. No dustwrapper. Faber & Faber, London. hardcover
1937BAWDENED003305Faber & Faber London. 1937. First edition. Octavo. 117 pages. Original pictorial boards with design in green and red and title-page design by Edward Bawden.One of Bawden's own copies: his pictorial bookplate is on the front pastedown and he has signed the front free endpaper.Spine darkened. Head and tail of spine a bit pushed. Very good. No dustwrapper. Faber & Faber, London. hardcover
19245970Paris, Levy, (1924). 4 Bll. 54 Tafeln. 4°. Lose in OHLwd.-Mappe (lädiert). [2 Warenabbildungen]
1925877511925. DESIGN Shimomura TAMAHIRO. TAMAHIRO GASHU. 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
1939List01103Holyoke and Northfield: Litho Inc. / American Youth Hostels 1939. First Edition. Includes: Bicycle for Adventure on the Youth Hostel Trail. Holyoke Massachusetts c. 1939: Valley Litho Inc. Lithographed poster 19 x 25 inches; Take to the A.Y.H. Trail. Northfield 1939: American Youth Hostels . Lithographed poster 17 x 22 inches; Hostellers Know.Northfield 1939: American Youth Hostels Inc. Lithographed poster 17 x 22 inches. All are signed “Isabel†in images. Excellent condition overall with some toning small chips and various wear to margins but overall quite well preserved. Near Fine. Isabel and Monroe Smith a married couple from Northfield Massachusetts started the American Youth Hostel movement in 1933 after gaining inspiration from Richard Schirrman’s German Hosteling Organization. The movement grew quickly with thirty hostels operating throughout New England within the first year. The first hostel was the Northfield Chateau a large mansion on Birnham Road that was eventually demolished in 1963. The network of chaperoned hostels created the opportunity for safe bicycle-based travel as shown in the posters offered here. <br /> <br /> Offered here are three early posters from the movement designed by Isabel Smith each with her signature in the image. All posters are variations on the cycling theme. One of them states that “When the grand day’s bicycling is done… no fare can compare with the Royal ‘Hostellers’ Own.†Smith’s design aesthetic is quite accomplished and we are surprised to find no examples of these in institutional collections. Overall a visually compelling group uncommon. Litho Inc. / American Youth Hostels unknown
1954160645Loudonville OH: The Flxible Company 1954. Archive of 22 vintage photographs of the Flxible Land Cruiser motorhome circa 1954. Of the 22 photographs in the collection 17 bear stamps on the versos six bear annotations noting serial number and descriptions and eleven bear stamps noting the serial number model and company. <br /> <br /> The collection includes one photograph of the exterior of the motorhome and 21 photographs of the very mid-century modern interior frequently with models in various positions demonstrating the vehicle's comfort and luxury. Eight of the photographs note a serial number beginning with "B53" and one photograph notes a serial number beginning with "B54" likely indicating production in 1953 and 1954.<br /> <br /> Founded in 1913 in Loudonville Ohio Flxible was a manufacturer of motorcycle sidecars funeral cars ambulances intercity coaches and transit buses. In 1948 Flxible introduced its Land Cruiser model a standard 29 passenger Clipper shell with an elaborately furnished interior heralding a new era in recreational vehicles and introducing the motorhome to the American public during the automobile boom of the 1950s and 1960s. Notably the vehicle proved popular with R&B and country musicians providing a comfortable and practical vehicle for touring preceding the arrival of the modern tour bus. The company sold its Land Cruiser division to Custom Coach Corporation in 1955 and discontinued marketing the finished conversions while continuing to manufacture the shells of the vehicles. The last Flxible vehicles were produced in 1995 and the company declared bankruptcy in 1996.<br /> <br /> 10 x 8 inches. Very Good plus with approximately half the photographs with faint cracking to the emulsion and four with even toning. The Flxible Company unknown
1966013558NY: Van Nostrand 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG-. Presentation copy from Calder to book's author Arnason. Inscribed by Calder on the title page to H. Harvard Arnason with an exclamation coming from Calder's mouth in a photograph of him opposite page: "Hello Harvey! Glad you survived. Sandy Calder". Arnason in turn inscribed the book on the upper right corner ffe "to Robert Goldwater and Louise Bourgeois with affection and respect extending over many years Harvard Arnason 6/21/67" Arnason 1909 - 1986 was an art-historian educator and museum administrator who served as executive at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC in the 1960s and authored many books; his "History of Modern Art" 1968 remains the authoritative textbook on the topic. Robert Goldwater 1907 - 1973 was an art historian African arts scholar and the first director of the Museum of Primitive Art New York from 1957 to 1973. Louise Bourgeois 1911 - 2010 French artist and sculptor was his wife. Book near fine; dustjacket spine heavily faded. Van Nostrand hardcover
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
19689054no place: By the author 1968. Fine. 1968. Hardcover. Unpaged; 98 pp. ; 5' x 8 1/2"; plain red cloth over boards; tan endpapers; hand-drawn and colored drawings on each page you can feel the ink on the paper's surface. Designed in the form of a flip book which format Deitch had used in 1967 with "Nudnik the cut finger fumble" published by Cinémathèque Canadienne occasion of the World Retrospective of Animation Cinema as part of Expo 67. This work appears to have never been published in book form but was produced as a film. The book appears to be unique bound as a 'pitch bible' for The Giants. There are several pastedown replacements/edits on pages form textual parts to half to whole page. It appears that some leaves are actually two pages stuck together as another way of removing or editing parts or reusing the back side of a page to redraw a part. One of these was just separated enough to be able to see partial drawings 'inside' so to speak. Eugene Merril Deitch born August 8 1924 1 is an American illustrator animator and film director. Based in Prague since 1959 Deitch is known for creating animated cartoons such as Munro Tom Terrific and Nudnik as well as his work on the Popeye and Tom and Jerry series. The background leading up to the creation of The Giants as a film as well as its sensational reception and subsequent banishment is a fascinating and complex drama. The inspiration for the story according to Deitch was the Israeli - Palestinian conflict: "But first back to the dilemma of the offer by the Czechs to back an original film by me. I didn't want to offend them with an all-out no. I just said that I couldn't afford to do a film without a hard-currency backer. But that didn't stop me from thinking about the idea and a statement I had long wished to make about the futility of violence - violence begetting counter-violence. The seemingly endless blow and counter-blow between Israel and the Palestinian was on my mind. It had been going on a long time already in the mid-60s and as of this writing it is still going on. So even though I couldn't make such a film for the Czechs The Prague government at that time strictly backed the Palestinian - no evenhanded story about that could possibly be filmed here however I might mask it. But I nursed a hope that I might someday find a backer so I worked up a storyboard. I titled it 'The Giants'." It was to be staged with symbolic characters two equally ugly snarling spitting dwarfish figures one solid blue and the other a flaming magenta on a deathly landscape. They hurl venomous insults at each other to the constant irritating rasping sound of locusts. One dwarf loudly calls out the name of his protector. Thunderous earthshaking footsteps are heard and giant feet and legs the same color as the summoning dwarf stride in and stand behind him. Then the other dwarf turns and calls out the name of his protector. More thundering footsteps and a giant of his color strides in. Then the two dwarfs goad each of their giants to engage in a series of blows and counter blows. After numerous drastic exchanges and a devious peace conference the two giants ultimately abandon their two irreconcilable clients to fight it out by themselves. But the mean-spirited dwarfs have no stomach for personal battle and so cling together in a terrified embrace repeatedly moaning" How will we get along without our protectors" "I got the wildest designer in the country Vratislav Hlavat_ to give the film the highly bizarre look the story demanded. Hlavat was not only a wild designer but also a wild adventurer. He and few other hot-eyed pals were flying on natural gas in homemade balloons! I brought in my most promising assistant Milan Klikar to do the layouts. Then just as we were ready to begin animation the Russians came in! After a week of terror I put Zdenka and the Giants layouts in my little Saab car and drove over the border to Austria. I couldn't take a chance of being expelled from the country . By the author (1968) hardcover
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
19913117196London: ANTHONY D'Offay GALLERY. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1991. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. SIGNED by Gerhard Richter on half-title. Fine in fine dust jacket. 91pp. 9 3/4" X 11 3/4" Exhibition 22 April to 17 June 1991. ; 9 3/4" X 11 3/4"; 91 pages . ANTHONY D'Offay GALLERY hardcover
