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rare and scholarly books
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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
11 ARTAUD, ANTONIN
Ci-git, précédé de La Culture Indienne. (44)pp. Wraps. Uncut. One of 435 numbered copies on vélin pur fil du Marais from the limited edition of 450.
Paris (K éditeur), 1947. $600.00
12
ARTAUD, ANTONIN
Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu. Émission radiophonique enregistrée le 28 novembre 1947. Texte intégral suivi de variantes, extraits de presse et 8 lettres à Fernand Pouey, René Guignard, Wladimir Porché, René Guilly, le R.P. Laval, Paule Thévenin. 109, (3)pp. Wraps. Uncut. Edition limited to 455 numbered copies.
Paris (K éditeur), 1948. $450.00
13
ARTAUD, ANTONIN
Révolte contre la poésie. (16)pp. Wraps., over loose signatures, as issued. First edition, printed for friends of the author in a limited edition of 50 copies on Arches, "mis en page et imprimé avec amour à Paris dans la brume de 1944 pour ceux qui savent choisir." This copy is designated HT 5/12, apart from the rest of the tirage. A little light browning. Rare.
Paris, 1944. $1,000.00
14
AVEDON, RICHARD & CAPOTE, TRUMAN
Observations. 152pp. 103 fine photogravure plates. Folio. Printed boards. Slipcase (light wear; somewhat foxed). Design by Alexey Brodovitch. A very nice copy.
New York (Simon and Schuster), 1959. $500.00
Roth: The Book of 101 Books p. 148; Freitag 472
16
BADOVICI, JEAN
Grandes constructions. Béton armé, acier, verre. ("Documents d’Architecture.") 39, (1)pp., 54 plates with numerous fine collotype illus. 25 plans in text. Lrg. 4to. Portfolio (photo-illus. boards, 1/4 cloth; ties). All contents loose, as issued. Covering a wide range of building types, from theatres to factories, by Perret, Behrens, Poelzig, Freyssinet, Mendelsohn, Oud, Gropius, Taut, Garnier, and Albert Kahn among others, and including some powerful industrial structures reminiscent of the Bechers, all very finely presented.
Paris (Albert Morancé), n.d. $375.00
16
BALLA, GIACOMO
Il vestito antineutrale. Manifesto futurista. Milano, 11 settembre 1914. (4)pp. (single sheet, folding). 6 illus. 4to. Self-wraps. One of the only Futurist manifestos with illustrations, Balla's call for dynamic, aggressive, joyful and assymetrical 'anti-neutral attire' includes superb drawings, both of motifs ("modificanti guerreschi e festosi") and of full-scale red-white-and-green suits to be worn by Cangiullo and Marinetti.
Milano (Direzione del Movimento Futurista), 1914. $700.00
Salaris p. 84; Scrivo 42; The Avant-Garde in Print 1.2
17
BALLA, GIACOMO & DEPERO, FORTUNATO
Ricostruzione futurista dell’universo. Milano, 11 marzo 1915. (4)pp. (single sheet, folding). 4to. Self-wraps. "Written by Balla with the younger Fortunato Depero, and illustrated by ingenious constructions by both of them…the manifesto itself had less to do with the war at hand than with playful and disrespectful inventiveness…. This Futurist Universe would feature an Artificial Landscape to replace boring Nature, and be populated with Metallic Animals, millions of them, which would, under the direction of Balla and Depero, bring about 'the greatest war (a conflict between all the creative forces of Europe, Asia, Africa and America), which will undoubtedly follow the current marvellous little human conflagration'" (Tisdall/Bozzola). The 'Plastic Complexes' illustrated in halftone photographs, are extremely interesting and witty, Depero's in particular, utilizing a whole range of metals, tissues, colored glass, celluloid, springs and noise-making devices to produce a sculpture that would rotate and decompose.
Milano (Direzione del Movimento Futurista), 1915. $600.00
Salaris p. 85; Apollonio p. 197ff.; Lista p. 202ff.; Scrivo 47; Taylor p. 123; Tisdall/Bozzola p. 195f.
18
BAUER, LEOPOLD
Das Haus eines Kunst-Freundes. Ein Entwurf in zwölf Tafeln. Introduction by Felix Commichau. (1), 2ff., 12 full-page plates, printed with elevations and plans in blue, overprinted in colors and gold. Title-page calligraphically designed, in red and black. Lrg. folio. Portfolio (boards with calligraphic title tabel on front cover, 1/4 cloth; ties). Front-cover slightly scratched; small tear in outer margin of the title-page and the first page of text. In 1901 the "Zeitschrift für Innendekoration" sponsored a competition for the architectural design and interior decoration of a ‘House for a Lover of Art.’ The three projects judged to be the best submissions--by M.H. Baillie Scott (the winner), Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and Leopold Bauer--were subsequently published by Alexander Koch in the following year in three separate portfolios, under the rubric "Meister der Innenkunst." This one is Bauer’s. It is characteristic of his villa designs of the turn of the century, influenced by Otto Wagner, his teacher, and Olbrich, and quite charming in many of its details.
Darmstadt (Alexander Koch), 1902. $2,500.00
19
(BAUHAUS) Bauhaus Standard 32. 91 original patterned and decorated wallpaper samples, printed in colors on various types and textures of stock, each with model and style numbers on the verso. Title-page on coated stock, with descriptive text and technical specifications; on the verso, a full-page photographic view of the Dessau Bauhaus. Oblong 4to. Turquoise boards, 1/4 cloth, lettered in white, secured with massive nickel bolts, as issued. The recent book ‘Bauhaustapete: Reklame & Erfolg einer Marke/ Advertising & Success of a Brandname’ gives a fascinating account of the fortunes of the Bauhaus wallpaper products during the Nazi era, and the amazing persistence of these commercial lines under the Bauhaus name, even with National Socialist endorsement, years after the Bauhaus itself had been shut down. In the case of this particular swatchbook, the Dessau Bauhaus was still in operation at the time of publication, and is illustrated on the verso of the title-page, captioned in an appropriate Bauhaus font. The well-known manufacturer of the papers, Gebr. Rasch, is not named in the present swatch-book, which is stamped "J.Z. & Co./ D." on the front cover. Covers faded and rubbed; 11 small samples, originally mounted under front cover, crudely removed.
N.p., 1932. $1,250.00
Kieselbach, Burckhard, et al. (eds.): Bauhaustapete. Reklame & Erfolg einer Marke (Köln, 1995), p. 52ff.
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(BAUHAUS)
Gebr. Untermann. Bauhaus 1939. Jubiläumskarte. 1f. text, 115 original patterned and decorated wallpaper samples, printed in colors on various types and textures of stock, each with model numbers on the verso. Oblong stout 4to. Turquoise boards, 1/4 cloth, lettered in white, secured with massive nickel bolts, as issued. This 1939 ‘Jubilee’ collection, marking the tenth anniversary of the Bauhaus wallpapers, is introduced with a page of remarks set, notably, in a modern Bauhaus font and layout; so is the bold front cover. The four illustrated interiors which are interspersed with the samples (die-cut with holes, to expose the actual wallpapers in the appropriate place) are, on the other hand, quaintly old-fashioned. The well-known manufacturer of the papers, Gebr. Rasch, is not named in the present swatch-book, which was marketed by Gebr. Untermann, Berlin. Front cover slightly rubbed.
Berlin, 1939. $2,800.00
Kieselbach, Burckhard, et al. (eds.): Bauhaustapete. Reklame & Erfolg einer Marke (Köln, 1995), p. 52ff.
