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193651380Brno: Telehor 1936. First edition. Moholy-Nagy. 4to. 138 pp. color and b&w plates from paintings photographs photograms graphics and filmstrips. Metal spiral bound printed wrappers with original glassine over-wrapper and the plain tan paper outer wrapper which is chipped. There is a tiny bit of rubbing to the lower edge less than one sixteenth of an inch wide on the front wrapper; else fine near new including the plain black card that was issued to protect the rear wrapper. This is the rare variant issue with black wrappers and the artist's name on the front wrapper. Housed in a new clamshell box of cloth with a morocco foredge. This multilingual French English German and Czech international review published only this single combined volume. The entire issue is devoted to the work of Lazslo Moholy-Nagy his paintings photographs and graphics. Edited by Frantisek Kalivoda with texts by Moholy-Nagy including "From Pigment to light" "A new instrument of vision" "Problems of the modern film" and "Once a chicken always a chicken." The introduction is by Sigfried Giedion and a short a text by Frantisek Kalivoda. The first illustration shows the glassine over-wrapper. <br/><br/> Telehor hardcover books
19251656851925. MOHOLY-NAGY L. Malerei Photografie Film. 140 pp. include over 100 b&w illustrations. 4to publisher's cloth dust-jacket and glassine in a new cloth folding box. Munich Albert Langen Verlag 1925. Rare First Edition of this landmark work with typography dust jacket and design all by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Among the many illustrations are work by by Alfred Stieglitz F. M. Duncan Charlotte Rudolf Renger-Patzsch Moholy-Nagy Grünewald Consemüller J. B. Polak Man Ray Eckner Lohöfener Dr. Mabuse Muche Citroen Hannah Höch. This is Volume 8 of the series Bauhaus Bucher edited by Gropius and Moholy-Nagy. Some slight damage to the dust jacket which is also a later issue with Photographie spelled Fotografie. Nevertheless an exceptional copy. Wingler 563 8 - Heidtmann 5507 - Fleischmann 22 Bolliger VI 54. Andel Avant Garde Page Design 341-343. Fundacion Juan March The Avant-Garde Applied 1890-1950. No. L376 hardcover books
1932279095New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam 1932. First. hardcover. very good. Moholoy-Nagy. Translated by Daphne M. Hoffmann. Illustrated with 170 black & white images. 191 pages. Short slim 4to red-lettered gray cloth; spine sunned and with some light wear at ends; light foxing throughout heavier on first and last several pages. New York: Brewer Warren & Putnam Inc. 1932. First edition. A very good copy of this exceedingly scarce book.<br/><br/> Printed in Berlin by Felgentreff & Co. with cuts by C. Dunnhaupt Dessau -- Freitag 6626.<br/><br/> Brewer, Warren & Putnam unknown books
1929309977Munich: Albert Langen Verlag 1929. First edition. Illustrated with b/w photo reproductions throughout. 241 1 pp. with broadsheet advertisement for Klubsessel mit Stoffbespannung laid-in. 4to. Publisher's decorated yellow cloth stamped in red. Small tear to cloth at head of joints else fine. Small bookseller's ticket. First edition. Illustrated with b/w photo reproductions throughout. 241 1 pp. with broadsheet advertisement for Klubsessel mit Stoffbespannung laid-in. 4to. No. 14 in the Bauhausbücher series edited by Walter Gropius and Moholy-Nagy. Save for a small snag at the head of the spine a pristine copy. Albert Langen Verlag unknown books
193411343France: Le Comite de l'Aasociation Abstraction Creation 1934. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Third issue of four of this magazine devoted to abstract art. Text in French. Soiling to covers and wear to lower spine area. A very good copy of one of the scarcer issues of this magazine. Containing a who's who of the major players in the field. <br/><br/> Le Comite de l'Aasociation Abstraction Creation paperback books
19303047Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann 1930. Small quarto-sized in wrappers 11 pages text 60 photographic plates. First edition. Introduction by Franz Roh. Designed by Jan Tschichold. Text in German English and French. Thin quarto. Photographically illustrated wrappers. Slight erosion at the paper spine slight soiling else a near fine copy. The first study to concentrate on the important Bauhaus artist's photography. Klinkhardt & Biermann unknown books
193623740London: John Miles Ltd. 1936. Former owner's dated 1936 inscription spine darkened else very good in a good jacket with a chip inexpertly repaired at the spine head in addition to other small defects. A rare jacket in any condition. First Edition. Thick octavo. 64 Moholy images of London's street markets captured in rich gravure. Underrated subject and book. London: John Miles Ltd. unknown books
1967149368N.p.: N.p. 1967. Vintage oversize borderless photograph of actress Charlotte Rampling barefoot in a mini-dress posing in a doorframe circa 1967. With a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso along with the stamps of Parimage press agency Camera Press Ltd. and photographer Ivan Nagy.<br/><br/>8 x 11.5 inches. Very Good plus. N.p. unknown books
19591448<p>Single sheet folded to create 10 panels each measuring 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches 242 x 140 mm when folded.</p><p>An imaginative announcement for an exhibition of paintings by Grace Hartigan and Larry Rivers and poems by Frank O'Hara. This glossy booklet unfolds to form a 10-panel announcement for the show and features a poem by Frank O'Hara interspersed with images from the exhibition. It was held November 24 through December 24 1959 at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery a very important player in the New York School of painting and poetry.<br /></p><p>The exhibition featured Oranges eight oils on paper by Hartigan; Stones 12 lithographs by Rivers and O'Hara; portraits of O'Hara by both Hartigan and Rivers; and a portfolio of lithographs from the press of Universal Limited Art Editions.<br /></p><p>A rather uncommon bit of New York School ephemera. <b>SCARCE</b>.<br /></p><p>CONDITION: Some soiling and staining to the outer panels less so inside along with general handling wear. About Very Good. <br /></p> Tibor de Nagy Gallery books
19541670Hungary 1954. Poster. Original hand painted tempera on paper. Very good. 84 x 58 cm. Large propaganda poster urging Hungarians to make every effort to "contribute" to government loans; part of the postwar reconstruction plan. Some small tears to edges with 1 cm. loss at top corner. Fold mark at center. <br/><br/> unknown books
1950WRCLIT28388New York: Harper & Bros. 1950. Cloth. Plates and photographs some in color. A very good copy in somewhat chipped and worn pictorial dust jacket. First edition of this profusely illustrated biography with an introduction by Walter Gropius. Harper & Bros. hardcover books
1969270977Cambridge: M.I.T. 1969. Second. hardcover. fine. Many black & white illustrations. 8vo silver cloth. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press 1969. Second Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Presentation from Sybil to Nan Piene.<br/><br/> M.I.T. unknown books
1939WRCLIT32817London: Reprinted from the PENROSE ANNUAL 1939. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Plates. First separate issue not printing of this essay maintaining the pagination of the original appearance. A very nice copy and uncommon. Reprinted from the PENROSE ANNUAL unknown books
195016320Berkeley: Associated Students of the University of California Berkeley 1950. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Spring 1950 issue of Cal Berkeley's literary magazine. Edited by Dale Joe. This issue featuring numerous writings on jazz by Brubeck Kid Ory Turk Murphy and others plus Patchen Miller and more. A very good copy in stapled printed wrappers. Decidedly uncommon issue. <br/><br/> Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley paperback books
1969D4194New York et al: Frederick A. Praeger 1969. Third printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Grey cloth stamped in silver; illustrated dust jacket; 4to; pp. 317 illustrated in b/w throughout. Abstract Expressionist painter Alfonso Ossorio's personal copy signed on the half-title page in red and black ink in a decorative script style. Page 241 bound-in with small crease publisher's error otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket faintly dust-soiled; a little wrinkled along the edges; neatly reinforced with tape on the verso. <br/><br/>The author of this book Sibyl Moholy-Nagy was the daughter of Werkbund architect Martin Pietzsch and an art and architecture historian. Originally a German citizen she became the second wife of the Hungarian Bauhaus artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and accompanied him in his move to the United States. Frederick A. Praeger hardcover books
195726657New York: Horizon Press 1957. FIRST EDITION. Upper corners bumped else a near fine book in a very good to near fine dust jacket with several closed tears and with some foxing to rear panel. With 126 photographs and drawings. <br/><br/> Horizon Press unknown books
1969159177Cambridge MA: The MIT Press 1969. First edition thus. Hardcover. 150 pages. A reprint of the 1925 edition. Translated by Janet Seligman. Includes a note by Hans M. Wingler and a postscript by Otto Stelzer along with numerous black and white illustrations. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some minor wear to the front panel. A very nice copy of this important book. The MIT Press unknown books
1947185290New York: Wittenborn Schultz 1947. Softcover. VG/G- covers show wear soiling has tear along bottom and peeling. Pages are clean and tight. Foxing on text block edge. Illustrated wraps. 92 pages : illustrations portrait. Series: Documents of modern art<br/>Contents: Preface / by Walter Gropius -- Biographical chronology ; Bibliography of L. Moholy-Nagy ; Books on the Bauhaus -- The new vision. Forewords to the second and third English editions ; Introduction ; Preliminaries ; Ther material surface treatment painting ; Volume sculpture ; Space architecture -- Abstract of an idea -- Obituary note / by Walter Gropius.<br/>"The new vision 1928" is a translation of D.M. Hoffman of Von Material zu Architektur./ Includes bibliographical references page 8. Wittenborn, Schultz unknown books
19579013974New York: Horizon Press 1957. 1st. Hardcover. Very good/very good. With 126 photographs and drawings. Bound in publisher's original quarter red and black cloth with the spine stamped in gilt. the dust jacket has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities. <br/><br/> Horizon Press hardcover books
199514853Budapest: Kormendi Galeria 1995. Hardcover. Fine. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY GEZA NEMETH on the title page. An immaculate copy to boot of the impressive 1995 monograph on this important Hungarian artist. Tight and Fine in its pictorial laminate boards. Quarto lovely color reproductions thruout. <br/><br/> Kormendi Galeria hardcover books
1967171741Mainz and Berlin: Bei Florian Kupferberg 1967. First edition thus. Hardcover. 148 pages. Text in German. Originally issued in 1925 as part of the legendary Bauhausbucher series. This issue has a note by Hans M. Wingler and a postscript by Otto Stelzer. Includes numerous black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket that has a few small edge tears and some minor edge wear. Bei Florian Kupferberg unknown books
1990142366Springfield & Chicago IL: University of Illinois Press and The Illinois State Museum 1990. First edition. Oblong softcover. Preface by Kent Smith Introduction by curator Terry Suhre. Additional text by Nathan Lerner Lloyd Engelbrecht and Richard Kostelanetz. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A close to near fine copy in wrappers with a vertical crease to the front cover near the spine and some slight wear. Seemingly fairly uncommon. University of Illinois Press and The Illinois State Museum unknown books
1957D4151New York: Horizon Press 1957. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Cloth-backed paper over boards; pictorial dust jacket; 4to; pp. 223 illustrated in b/w throughout. Spine tips and corners very gently rubbed otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket a little sunned along spine; rubbed on rear panel. <br/><br/> Horizon Press hardcover books
1995156861Cambridge MA: The MIT Press 1995. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 256 pages. Includes 108 black and white images. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The MIT Press unknown books
1946WRCLIT47029New York: Wittenborn and Company 1946. Quarto. Printed wrappers. First edition thus with the added material. Preface by Walter Gropius. Wrappers rather darkened and soiled internally very good. Wittenborn and Company unknown books
