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Item #54024 [SURREALISM IN THE CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC] Spojité nádoby [Communicating Vessels,...

[SURREALISM IN THE CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC] Spojité nádoby [Communicating Vessels, originally: Les Vases communicants]. Translated by Jindřich Honzl and Vítěszlav Nezval.

André Breton (author) and Toyen (illustrator).

Prague: S.V.U. Mánes, 1934. Octavo (20 × 13.4 cm). Original printed light pink wrappers; pictorial dust jacket illustrated with a drawing by Toyen; 180, [2] pp. A very good copy in very good dust wrapper; very minor nicks to spine extremities. First Czech edition of Breton's essay, originally published in..... More

Price: €350.00

[BERLIN'S RESPONSE TO POP ART] Berlin Report.

Aue, Walter, editor and author – Baehr, Ulrich, Bettina von Arnim, Werner Berges, and other artists.

Cologne: Wolfgang Hake Verlag, 1968. Square quarto (25 × 25 cm). Original typographically designed wrappers (stab-sewn leporello binding); [48] pp and and 24 original graphic works by 21 artists, mainly colour serigraphs, aquatint etchings, and linocuts, but also one collage, all numbered and signed by the respective artist. Binding slightly..... More

Price: €2,500.00

[FRANCISCAN ICONOGRAPHY BY THE DÜRER CIRCLE – THE PREACHERS OF POVERTY AND SILVER MINING BY THE HABSBURGS AND THE FUGGERS] Die Legend des heyligen vatters Francisci [The Legend of Saint Francis].

Bonaventura [de Balneoregio; born Giovanni di Fidanza], author. – [Wolf Traut], artist. – [Agricola, born Daniel Meyer, presumed translator].

Nuremberg and Schwaz: Hieronymus Höltzel printed for Caspar Rosenthaler, 1512. Octavo (20 × 15.3 cm). Modern crushed morocco over five raised bands and with gold-embossed title to spine; [212] pp. with 57 woodcuts from 51 blocks by Wolf Traut. Front pastedown with exlibris of collector and cultural patron Renate König;..... More

Price: €9,500.00

[UNDER PENALTY: NAPLES' LEADING ENGRAVER, THE COUNTER-REFORMATION, AND THE SACK OF ROME] Vita beati Caietani Thienaei ordinis clericorum regular. fu[n]datoris a. P. D. Ioanne Baptista Castaldo clerico regulari olim edita nunc eiusdem opera imaginibus expressa [The Life of Blessed Cajetan of Thiene, founder of the Order of Regular Clerics, formerly published by Fr. Giovanni Battista Castaldo, Regular Cleric, and now, through his efforts, represented in images].

B[aratta], A[lessandro] and N[icolas] P[errey], artists. – Giovanni Battista Castaldo [Pescara], author.

Verona: [n.p., but presumably printed in Naples by Alessandro Baratta] 1619. Quarto (26.6 × 21 cm). Contemporary limp vellum with gilt fillet borders and gilt ornaments to boards and spine; engraved title page and 50 copper engravings by Alessandro Baratta and Nicolas Perrey. Vellum somewhat warped and stained; remnants of..... More

Price: €4,800.00

[MAVO: DADA IN JAPAN – NO COPY TRACED WORLDWIDE] Chīsai Pētā [Little Peter]. Translated by Hayashi Fusao.

Grosz, George (artist), Hermynia zur Mühlen (author), and Tomoyoshi Murayama (cover design).

Tokyo: Gyoseikaku, 1927. Small octavo (16.5 × 12.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers illustrated by Tomoyoshi Murayama; [4]; 89, [5] pp. with 6 plates of illustrations by George Grosz. An uncut copy with wide margins; wrappers and margins somewhat dust-stained and toned; good or better. Rare first Japanese edition of the..... More

Price: €3,000.00

[SOVIET AVANT-GARDE – PHOTOMONTAGE] Oformlenie massovykh prazdnestv za 15 let diktatury proletariata [The decoration of mass holidays during fifteen years of the dictatorship of the proletariat].

Gushchin, Aleksandr, author and Solomon Telingater, Nikolai Sedel'nikov, and L. Iurkevich, artists.

Moscow-Leningrad: OGIZ-IZOGIZ, 1932. Quarto (28.5 × 22.3 cm). Original photo-illustrated card wrappers by Solomon Telingater; [58] pp of illustrations and [19] half-leaves of text, with one large foldout photographic plate. Light soil to wrappers, professional restoration to spine extremities. Small stain to rear wrapper, with lower card corner spliting. Overall..... More

Price: €8,000.00

[CONSTRUCTIVISM FOR SOVIET CHILDREN] Nas mnogo [We are many].

Ivensen, Margarita Il’inichna, author; A[ndrei Andreevich] Brei, illustrator.

Moscow: OGIZ-Molodaia gvardiia, 1932. Octavo (16 × 13.5 cm). Original staple-stitched chromolithographed wrappers; 15 pp. of chromolithograph illustrations and text. Light soil to wrappers; small tear to bottom of wrapper not affecting text; rust to staple; else very good. A colorful first book by the children’s author and radio broadcaster..... More

Price: €1,250.00

[NEO-DADAISM AND SURREALISM ON THE EVE OF WWII] Polyphème ou l'Escadron bleu: poëme. 10 dessins de Michel Tapié [Polyphemus or the Blue Squadron: a poem. 10 drawings by Michel Tapié].

Jausion, Jean (author) and Michel Tapié (artist).

Paris: Éditions des Réverbères, 1939. Tall narrow octavo (25.7 × 7 cm). Original sewn decorative wrappers; [40] pp. Printed on differently colored paper stock of slightly different sizes. Wrappers and one leaf with overlapping edges with minor fraying to edges; still about very good. Rare volume of poems published by..... More

Price: €1,500.00

[ISOTYPE GRAPHICS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA – PROGRESSIVE PEDAGOGY IN ZLIN] Obrazová statistika v kreslení škol měšťanských a vyššího stupně škol obecných [Pictorial statistics in the drawing of secondary schools and higher general schools].

Konvička, Vladimír, author and design.

Prague: Nákladem Československé grafické unie A.S. v Praze, [1934]. Quarto (29.3 × 20.8 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 28 pp. including wrappers. Thirteen pages with isotype graphics, including two in color. Lacking the twenty-nine leaves of isotype illustrations, which were apparently issued along with the pamphlet. Very good, save for light rust..... More

Price: €950.00

[A MANIFESTO OF INDIGENISMO] El movimiento artístico de México [The artistic movement in Mexico].

Navarro Aceves, Salvador (author) and Germania Paz y Miño [de Brehil] (illustrator).

Quito, Ecuador: Elan, 1935. Octavo (19.7 × 14.7 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Germania Paz y Miño; [112 pp] with 7 plates of color illustrations by Paz y Miño. Leaves evenly toned due to stock; binding lightly shaken; still about very good. First edition of this treatise arguing for reconnecting..... More

Price: €1,500.00

[CZECH POST-WAR SURREALISM – SIGNED] Josef Istler. [Cyklus "hlav" od Josef Istlera. The cycle of "heads" by Josef Istler].

Pečírka, Jaromír, author.

Ústí n. Orlicí: JZK ROH Klub prátel výtvarného umění, 1965. Octavo (21.3 × 13.9 cm). Single folded leaf, printed to recto only and apparently conceived as a poster. With four full-page reproductions of Istler's work. Signed by Istler to the front page. Fine condition. Ephemeral exhibition catalog, printed as a...... More

Price: €150.00

[THE SACRED COURTESAN – WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN SPIRITUALITY – ELABORATELY ILLUSTRATED WORK OF FLEMISH BAROQUE AND COUNTER-REFORMATION] La Magdeleine de F. Remi de Beauvais capucin de la province des Pais-Bas [La Magdeleine by F. Remi de Beauvais, Capuchin monk from the province of the Netherlands].

Remi de Beauvais [Clément Lucien Mollet] (author), Martin Baes, Cornelis Galle, Jean Collaert, and Peter Paul Rubens (artists).

Tournay: Charles Martin, 1617. Octavo (16 × 11 cm). Contemporary vellum binding with contemporary neatly written title on the spine and green (later?) textile ties; 746 [recte 744, pagination jumps from 458 to 460], [5] pp., 1 errata leaf, with copperplate title (with Noli me tangere, blood-nourishing pelican and resurrected..... More

Price: €2,500.00

[ESCENA DE AVANZADA CHILENA – CHILEAN NEO-AVANT-GARDE – PHOTOBOOK – PERFORMANCE ART] Cuerpo correccional [correctional facility].

Richard, Nelly (author) and Carlos Leppe (artist and author of an epilogue) as well as Catalina Arroyo (epilogue).

Santiago de Chile: Edición Francisco Zegers — V.I.S.U.A.L., 1980. Quarto (26.7 × 18.4 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 113, [11] pp. With numerous, partly full-page photographic reproductions, printed on art paper and a few pages on glassine. Very good. First edition of the richly illustrated publication, important for the self-image of..... More

Price: €2,000.00

[THE FIRST MODERN SERBIAN NOVEL, WITH LGBT THEMES – ZENITISM AND AVANT-GARDE – PHOTO-MONTAGE] Terazije: roman posleratnog Beograda [Terazije Square: a novel of post-war Belgrade ].

Tokin, Boško, author and artist.

Beograd: Izdavačka Knjižarnica Gece Kona, 1932. Octavo (19.8 × 13 cm). Original pictorial wrappers with a photomontage by Tokin; 153, [2] pp. Signed and inscribed by the author to front free endpaper (to one Vučević); light wear to edges and spine extremities; still about very good. Rare first edition of..... More

Price: €2,000.00

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