- Quarto [approximately 12 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], blue cloth titled & decorated in gilt in a dust wrapper. There are a few light score marks to the binding & its top edge is very slightly faded. The edges of the dust jacket's flaps are slightly darkened & there is a tiny chip to the film surface of its front panel at the head of the spine. 379 & [1] pages plus indexes. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. The fore-edge is lightly foxed. Very good. A book about Czech Art Nouveau. The text is in Czech with a brief summary in English. Dust jacket present. View More...
- Quarto [11 inches high by 8-5/8 inches wide], softcover bound in printed tan wrappers. The binding is very slightly soiled. 31 pages plus colophon. Illustrated with 11 color plates. Near fine. Limited edition of 700 copies. Laid in are a price-list for the exhibited paintings and a card advertising another of the center's exhibitions. The one-page introduction by Paul Nizon is printed in the original German with a French translation. The work of Laurent Wolf, an artist and sociologist, is centered on the use and creation of space in society in general, and in art in particular. Nizon writes ... View More...
Roncafort di Trento: Arti Grafiche Saturnia, (1985).. (1985).. Very good. - 4to, brown cloth (top corner of front cover bumped; small, light stain to rear cover) titled in gilt, in dw (rubbed). 120 & [11] pp. plus colophon. Profusely illustrated in B&W & sepia with 2 plates & full-page & textual illustrations. Fine internally.
Engravings and acquatints of castles and landscapes from the province of Trento by Italian painter and engraver Remo Wolf, with commentary by Aldo Gorfer. Dust jacket present. View More...
Basel [Switzerland]: Wiese Verlag, (1996).. (1996).. Very good. - Quarto [11-7/8 inches high by 9-1/4 inches wide], cloth in a dust wrapper. The binding is lightly bumped. The edges of the dust jacket panels are slightly darkened & their corners are lightly creased. viii & 259 pages. Numerous illustrations in color and black & white. There is an ink number on the rear pastedown. Very good. German edition.Produced by the Adolf-Wolfli-Stiftung Kunstmuseum Bern. The text, which is in German, includes contributions from Daniel Baumann, Marie-Francoise Chanfrault-Duchet, Josef Helfenstein, Louis A.... View More...
New York: Rizzoli, (1990).. (1990).. Very good. - Quarto [approximately 11-1/4 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide]. There are tiny areas of rubbing to the corners with a small white stain to the front cover. There is a price-sticker on the rear panel of the dust wrapper & the tops of the folds are rubbed. 335 & [1] pages. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Very good.
First American edition. Dust jacket present. First Edition. View More...
London: Chris Beetles Ltd, (1991).. (1991).. Fine. - Small quarto [8-1/4 inches square], softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. The edges of the rear wrap are slightly darkened. 192 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. The page edges are very slightly darkened. Near fine.
Catalog for an exhibition held at Chris Beetles Ltd., London from 26 November to 20th December 1991. The catalog was compiled by Julia Cornelissen and the text is by David Wootton. View More...
NY: The Museum of Modern Art, (1988).. (1988).. Fine. - Quarto, pictorial wraps. Very lightly rubbed. 263 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. Near fine.
First edition, wraps issue. First Edition. View More...
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (1988).. (1988).. Fine. - Quarto [12 inches high by 10-3/4], softcover bound in pictorial wraps. The binding is lightly rubbed & bumped. 261 pages. Profuse color illustrations. Near fine.
First edition, wraps issue. The Preface is by Richard E. Oldenburg.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by Stuart Wrede at the Museum of Modern Art. First Edition. View More...
- Letter penned on 3 sides of a sheet of cream paper folded to form 4 sides, each 6 inches high by 3-3/4 inches wide, with a postscript on the 4th side. His monogram, a small woodcut print of a bee in a box, is on the first side at top left. Signed Alan Wright. There a few tiny marks on the 4th side. Near fine. British landscape painter and illustrator Alan Wright [1864-1927] apologizes to author Kineton Parkes for the delay in sending him illustrations for his story. [I] am sorry to say I have not yet been able to settle upon them. I have had a horrid non working fit, sitting day by day in fr... View More...
Paris/New York: Zabriskie, (1991).. (1991).. Very good. - Octavo, softcover bound in printed white wrappers. There are a few small, very light stains to the front wrap. 34 pages, including 11 pages of black-and-white illustrations. Very good.
Catalog for an exhibition shown at the Galerie Zabriskie in Paris and the Zabriskie Gallery in New York in 1991. The introductory text is printed in English and French. View More...
- Small quarto [10 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial color wrappers. [xiii] & {2} pages plus 16 full-page color reproductions of Zhu's paintings with captions & notes on the facing pages. There is also a full-page color portrait of the artist. Near fine. Zhu Quizan had recently died at an age of over a hundred years and the Wender gallery write about the artist and their ten-year relationship with him in their preface. View More...
- Small quarto [10 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide] softcover bound in pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with 19 full-page reproductions of paintings in color and black & white by Zhu Qizhan with captions on the facing pages. Fine. Catalog of an exhibition shown at China 2000 Fine Art, New York City from May 13 to June 15, 2002. There is a brief introduction by Karen and Leon Wender. Laid in is an illustrated card advertising the exhibition. Zhu Qizhan [1892-1996] was a professor, dean of the Western Fine Art School of Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts and an advisor to the Chinese Artists Associat... View More...
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., (1990).. (1990).. Fine. - Quarto, 13 inches high by 11-3/4 inches wide. Black cloth titled in silver on the spine, in pictorial black dust wrapper. 183 pages, with profuse color and black & white illustrations throughout. Near fine.
Text by Jean-Louis Zimmermann translated from the French by Leonor Michelsen and illustrated with photographs by Pierre-Alain Ferrazzini. Dust jacket present. View More...
- What is offered are 26 original engravings on the subject of Roman antiquities extracted from the work on the subject attributed to the Comte de Bonneval. Each richly engraved plate measured 8-3/4 inches high by 6-1/2 inches wide. 12 of the engravings are tastefully hand-colored. All are in very good condition with a hole in the margins of only 2 of the plates and a short tear to the corner of another. The plates, listed in order of the page in which they originally appeared, are as follows: Page 233: Beaux Restes D'un Temple Consacre A Bacchus (B&W) Page 236: La Grande Porte, Nommee Autreme... View More...
Farnborough, Hants, England: Gregg International Publishers Limited, (1970).. (1970).. Very good. - Folio, 12-1/2 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide. Rust brown cloth titled in gilt on the spines. The bottom front corners of the second volume are quite bumped. Profusely illustrated with full-page, double-page and folding plates, most of which are to be found in the first volume. Very good. A wonderful facsimile reprint of the 1761-1762 edition which was originally published in Vienna by Joannis Thomae Trattner. The original 2,776 plus pages of text from the original edition are here printed in t... View More...
- Quarto, 15-1/2 inches high by 12-1/4 inches wide. A portfolio of 39 tipped-in plates, including 20 in color, mounted onto heavy green stock and laid loose with a 54-page text booklet, printed in Russian, French and English, into a red leatherette folding clamshell portfolio titled with floral gilt decorations on the front cover. The portfolio's black endpapers are each illustrated with an oval vignette. The white front cover of the booklet, which is titled in red, gilt and black, is very slightly soiled and bumped at the corners. The corners of the leatherette portfolio are also bumped and t... View More...
