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Catalogue 130-N: Modern Art: Rarities of the Avant-Garde
ars libri ltd.
rare and scholarly books
on the fine arts
Catalogue 130-N: Modern Art: Rarities of the Avant-Garde
102
FONDANE, BENJAMIN Tagaduinta lui petru. Literatura biblica. Cu o lamurire despre simbolism. [By: B. Fundoianu.] [Desenuri si vignete de Ross.] 31, (1)pp. Illustrations by Ross. Sm. 8vo. Dec. wraps. An unnumbered copy from the tirage of 25 on vélin, from the limited edition of 42 copies in all. Benjamin Fondane’s first book. An unopened copy. Covers slightly worn. Of utmost rarity.
Iasi (Editura "Chemarea"), 1918. $4,500.00
Ilk K449
103
FONDANE, BENJAMIN
Ulysse. 75, (5)pp. Wraps. Edition limited to 500 numbered copies on Featherweight paper.
Bruxelles (Cahiers du "Journal des Poètes"), 1933. $1,500.00
Ilk K452
104
(FÖRG) Köln. Galerie Gisela Capitain
Günther Förg. Grosse Zeichnungen/ The Large Drawings. Text by Werner Lippert. 154pp., including 115 full-page plates (67 color). 7 illus. (6 color). Lrg. 4to. Cloth. D.j. Glassine cover. Publisher’s carton. Parallel texts in German and English. Vorzugsausgabe: one of 20 copies with an original lithograph by the artist as dust jacket, printed in violet on heavy stock, and signed and numbered in pencil on the verso. Mint.
Köln (Galerie Gisela Capitain), 1990. $650.00
105
FOTOMONTAGE (Social Kunst. 8.) (32)pp. 28 illus. (partly in color). 4to. Dec. self-wraps. (reproducing a photomontage by John Heartfield.) The text is uncredited. Reproductions after posters, dust jackets and other designs by John Heartfield, El Lissitzky, Hans Richter, Moholy-Nagy, Rodchenko, Klutsis, et al.
Oslo/Copenhagen (Fram Forlag/ Mondes Forlag), 1932. $250.00
106
DIE FREIE STRASSE. NR. 9.
November 1918. "Gegen den Besitz!" [Editors: Raoul Hausmann and Johannes Baader.] (4)pp. (single sheet, folding). Front page with massive block tilted on the diagonal, printed in black. Tabloid folio, folded as issued. Texts by Raoul Hausmann ("Gegen den Besitz," uncredited), Johannes Baader ("Die Geschichte des Weltkrieges," under the pseudonym Joh. K. Gottlob), Karl Radek ("Revolution und Konterrevolution"), et al. "That psychoanalytic ideas were acceptable to Dadaists in Berlin was consistent with their adherence to systematic politics, which Dadaists in France, Switzerland and America rejected. Even so it was not Freudian psychoanalysis that interested Dada in Berlin, but a psychotypology that was based on the researches of Otto Gross as systematized in 1916 by Franz Jung... who, the following year, founded the review "‘Die freie Strasse’ to propagate these views. It became the first voice of Dada in Berlin" (Rubin). A fine copy.
Berlin-Friedenau (Verlag Freie Strasse), 1918. $4,500.00
Dadaglobal 27; Almanacco Dada 59; Bergius p. 414; Dada Artifacts 35; cf. Ades 4.64, Raabe 26, Rubin p. 10
107
(FREYSSINET) Badovici, Jean (introduction)
E. Freyssinet. (L’Architecture Vivante. Neuvième année, No. 35. Printemps 1931.) 16pp., 25 plates with numerous fine collotype illus. Plans and elevations in text. Lrg. 4to. Portfolio (boards, 1/4 cloth; ties). All contents loose, as issued. In addition to Badovici’s introduction, the portfolio includes the text "Les ponts en béton armé, de très grande portée" by Freyssinet.
Paris (Éditions Albert Morancé), 1931. $300.00
108
(FURNIVAL) Meyer, Thomas
Blind Date. With etchings and embossed prints designed by John Furnival. (2), 50, (4)pp. 10 full-page prints, each with an original etching set within an embossed maze design; 1 additional color aquatint loosely inserted, signed and titled by the artist in pencil. Sm. sq. folio. Portfolio. Cloth slipccase and chemise. Contents loose, as issued. One of 30 Artist’s Proof copies from the limited edition of 345 in all, all with all prints initialled by the artist and the book signed in full by him in the colophon. "A visual and verbal interweaving of two Greek myths that deal with strength and courage: Theseus’ heroic slaying of the Minotaur and Hercules’ publishment by Zeus and enslavement by Omphale" (Stein). Slipcase slightly scuffed; a fine copy.
Guildford, Surry (Circle Press), 1979. $400.00
Stein, Donna: Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image, 1967-1988 (New York, 1990), p. 30
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FUTURIST MANIFESTOS
A collection of 29 original manifestos of the Futurist movement, 1909-1927, including 5 by Umberto Boccioni (et al.), 13 by F.T. Marinetti, 1 by Enrico Prampolini, 1 by Luigi Russolo, and others by Fedele Azari (2), Mario Bartoccini & Aldo Mantia, Franco Casavola, Bruno Corradini & Emilio Settimelli, Auguste Joly, Ray Nyst, Balilla Pratella, and Valentine Saint-Point. 4to. Self-wraps. 8 of the group are in French-language issues; the balance are in Italian. Nearly all were published by the Direzione del Movimento Futurista in Milan (or Rome); 2 were issued by "Poesia." The collection includes a number of the seminal texts of the movement, including Marinetti’s "Fondazione e manifesto del Futurismo" (1909), Boccioni’s "Manifesto tecnico della scultura futurista" (1912), the "Manifesto dei pittori futuristi" of Boccioni, Carrà, Russolo, Balla, and Severini (1910), and Russolo’s "L’art des bruits" (1913). A detailed list is available on request.
Milano/Roma, 1909-1927. $6,000.00
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GAUGUIN, PAUL
Noa Noa. (Marees-Gesellschaft. VL. Druck.) (4), 204pp. Prof. illus. (primarily tipped-in color). Lrg. 4to. Publisher’s original raffia-covered boards. The very beautiful exact color collotype facsimile of the original manuscript, printed in a limited edition of 400 copies at the Ganymed-Presse, Berlin. Made directly from the original manuscript, today in the Louvre, this is the primary facsimile from which all subsequent reproductions were made. Raffia slightly frayed at hinges, light wear at bottom corners; a fine copy.
[München] ([R. Piper & Co.]), [1926]. $3,500.00
Castleman p. 83; The Artist and the Book 115; Manet to Hockney 15; Skira 129; Wheeler p. 26; Andel 6; Andel: Avant-Garde Page Design 1900-1950 no. 21
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GLEIZES, ALBERT
Kubismus. (Bauhausbücher. 13.) 101, (3)pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Printed wraps. First edition. Typography and design throughout by Moholy-Nagy. Front cover somewhat soiled.
München (Albert Langen), 1928. $650.00
Chamberlin 2386; Wingler p. 628
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