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rare and scholarly books
on the fine arts
Catalogue 130-N: Modern Art: Rarities of the Avant-Garde
222
MAZZA, ARMANDO
Firmamento. Con una spiegazione di F.T. Marinetti sulle parole in libertà. 105, (5)pp. Sm. 4to. Dec. wraps. Uncut. Parole in libertà verse by one of the leading first generation Futurist poets. Light wear at backstrip. An unopened copy.
Milano (Edizione Futuriste di "Poesia"), 1920. $500.00
Salaris p. 55
223
MENDELSOHN, ERICH
Amerika. Bilderbuch eines Architekten. Mit photographischen Aufnahmen des Verfassers. 1.-3. Auflage. ix, (1), 82, (2)pp., 77 plates with 78 gravure illus. Folio. Publisher’s printed boards, 1/4 cloth. First edition. The skyscrapers and urban landscape of New York, Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, presented with passionate intensity; one of the great books of architectural photography. Covers slightly darkened; a fine copy.
Berlin (Rudolf Mosse Buchverlag), 1926. $650.00
Freitag 8069
224
(MENDELSOHN) Badovici, Jean (introduction)
L’architecture vivante en Allemagne: Erich Mendelsohn. (L’Architecture Vivante. [Hiver 1932.]) (16)pp., 25 plates with numerous fine collotype illus. 6 pages of plans in text. Lrg. 4to. Portfolio (boards, 1/4 cloth; ties). All contents loose, as issued. This portfolio is devoted entirely to the work of Erich Mendelsohn. A fine copy.
Paris (Éditions Albert Morancé), 1932. $300.00
225
MERIANO, FRANCESCO
Equatore notturno. Parole in libertà. 51, (5)pp. Lrg. 8vo. Wraps. "Piazza schematizzata", "Sleeping car", "Prosa cinematografica", "Lampada X Vetro", and other parole in libertà, set entirely from type and typographic elements, with no freehand intervention; compositions highly esteemed by Marinetti.
Milano (Edizioni Futuriste di "Poesia"), 1916. $550.00
Salaris p. 55; Falqui p. 72
226
MESENS, E.L.T.
Troisième front. Poèmes de guerre suivi de Pièces détachées. Illustré par l’auteur./ Third Front & Detached Pieces. Translated by Roland Penrose and the author. 47, (1)pp. Illustrations by Mesens after drawings and collages of steel engravings, integrated with text. Sm. 4to. Wraps. D.j. Edition limited to 500 copies on uncut heavy wove paper, signed and numbered in pen by Mesens in the colophon. Parallel texts in French and English.
London (London Gallery Editions), 1944. $400.00
Biro/Passeron 1982; Gershman p. 30; Ades 16.67
227
(MIRO) Tzara, Tristan
L’arbre des voyageurs. Orné de quatre lithographies de Joan Miró. 98, (4)pp., 4 original lithographs by Miró. Sm. 4to. Orig. wraps. Fitted clamshell case (cloth, 1/4 black morocco with leather label). One of 65 numbered copies on vélin d’Arches from the limited edition of 503, signed in pen by Tzara and Miró in the justification. These lithographs are among Miró’s first prints, and are indeed his first book illustrations (those in Liese Hirtz’ "Il était une petite pie" of 1928 having been pochoir reproductions). A fine copy of this exceptionally fine Surrealist illustrated book.
Paris (Éditions de la Montagne), 1930. $6,000.00
Cramer 1; Mourlot 2-5; Berggruen 9; Harwood 12; The Artist and the Book 205; Manet to Hockney 87 ; Skira 263; Rauch 163; Strachan p. 64; Berggruen 163; Andel 144
228
(MIRO) Tzara, Tristan.
Parler seul. Poème. Lithographies de Joan Miró. 111, (9)pp. 73 original lithographs, including 20 hors-texte in color, 50 in-texte (27 color), cover (in color, with collage elements, partly printed on hand-torn newspaper), slipcase sleeve (color) and slipcase box (repeat of sleeve). Sm. folio. 380 x 280 mm. Signatures loose, as issued. One of 200 copies on malacca pur chiffon, from the limited edition of 250 in all, signed in pen by Tzara and Miró in the justification. Text printed by Fequet et Baudier, lithography by Mourlot Frères.
One of Miró’s most important and beautiful livres d'artiste. "Of texts illustrated in some form of surrealist idiom, the late Tristan Tzara’s poem ‘Parler seul,’ published in 1950 with Miró’s lithographs in black and colour, holds a particular interest, having been composed by the poet--one of the famous originators of the Dadaist movement--while undergoing treatment in a psychiatric clinic... The gaiety of colour, the Bosch-like imagination, the rightness of the placing on the page combine to arouse a shudder of delight or horror. They evoke moods of apprehension--’Le couteau dans la plaie’ with black scimitar-like shapes, the almost tachiste splodge of black with a circle of red above it and two pages later two creatures, one blue, one red, suspended like street lights with vestigial arms composed of a bow, with blobs of colour for hands and attached to long black bodies and elegant ideographic legs" (Strachan). A pristine copy.
Paris (Maeght), 1948-1950. $15,000.00
Cramer 17; Mourlot 102,104-107; Berggruen 34; Harwood 42; The Artist and the Book 206 (full-page illus. in color), p. 145; Chapon p. 290f., cf. p. 178; Rauch 165; Strachan p. 339, cf. p. 126; Villa Stuck 75; Basel 200; Stern 77; Bareiss 48; Bibliothèque Nationale: 50 livres illustrés depuis 1947, no. 9
229
(MIRÓ) Prévert, Jacques & Ribemont-Dessaignes, G.
Miró. 219, (1)pp., 8 original color lithographs by Miró (4 folding). Prof. illus. (numerous color). Sq. 4to. Wraps. D.j. Lithographs printed by Mourlot.
Paris (Maeght), 1956. $1,250.00
Mourlot 162-170
230
[MOLZAHN, JOHANNES]
Willst Du wie dieser sein.... Broadside (verso blank). 297 x 416 mm. (ca. 11 3/4 x 16 3/8 inches). 2 halftone illus. Oblong sm. folio. A municipal flyer promoting exercise and physical development. Layout credit to the Kunstgewerbeschule Magdeburg. The forceful "new typography" design of the flyer is undoubtedly the work of the designer Johannes Molzahn, director of the Kunstgewerbeschule from 1923 to 1928. Unobtrusive foldlines.
Magdeburg [ca. 1928]. $400.00
231
MOYLAN, DONNA
Romanzo. Book and paintings by Donna Moylan, December 1984. 9 original watercolors (7 signed and dated in pencil) and 1 pencil drawing. The watercolors are on white wove paper, 6 in the full sheets (230 x 307 mm.; ca. 9 x 12 inches), and 3 in part sheets; all are loosely inserted into corner mounts on the brown leaves of the album. The pencil drawing, on a lighter buff stock, measures 85 x 65 mm. (3 3/8 x 2 5/8 inches), and is tipped in under the front cover, facing the artist’s signed and dated title-sheet. Sm. folio. Flexible boards, taped at the spine.
Roma, 1984. $1,000.00