Artists’ Books

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[ARTIST’S BOOK]. ALBERS, Josef (1888-1976). Interaction of Color. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1963.

Folio. 80 silk-screened folders, many with aps, cut-out overlays or other variables, demonstrating a profusion of colors and color combinations. Folders loose as issued with commentary booklet in cloth folding case, accompanied by text volume in cloth; original cloth slipcase.

FIRST EDITION of one of the most important tools in teaching art.

$2,500-3,500 87

[ARTIST’S BOOK]. BASKIN, Leonard (1922-2000). Laus Pictorum. Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1969.

Folio (356 x 280 mm). 10 wood engravings and 5 etchings, each SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY BASKIN in pencil lower margin, each laid into window mount lettered in blind. Loose as issued in original brown morocco chemise; original morocco-backed folding case (corners slightly rubbed).

LIMITED EDITION, number 45 of 175 copies with a single set of matted portraits of a total edition of 402.

$500-700

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[ARTIST’S BOOK]. CHAGALL, Marc (1887-1985). Jerusalem Windows. New York: George Braziller, 1962.

4to (326 x 245 mm). 2 original color lithographs by Chagall, numerous illustrations. Publisher’s red cloth (some slight fading to spine); original printed dust jacket (slight wear to top edge, a few very short tears); clear acetate jacket.

FIRST EDITION, illustrating Chagall’s designs for 12 stained glass windows for the synagogue at Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center in Jerusalem.

$400-500 89

[ARTIST’S BOOK]. DALI, Salvador (1904-1989). Paternoster. Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1966.

4to (405 x 333 mm). 8 offset lithographs after Dali, one additional color plate, original printed tissue guards. Original blue silk gilt (lacking acetate jacket, some fading or minor staining, some wear to small portions of joints). Provenance: Gift inscription in ink, 15 July 1967.

LIMITED EDITION, one of 900 unsigned copies, of a total edition of 1200.

$300-400

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[ARTIST’S BOOK]. DALI, Salvador (1904-1989), illustrator. -- DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge (“Lewis Carroll”) (1832-1898). Alice in Wonderland. New York: W.U.C.U.A. and Maecenas Press - Random House, 1969.

4to (430 x 290 mm). Etched frontispiece and 12 heliogravures BY DALI. Loose as issued in original brown cloth chemise; quarter morocco folding case gilt, bone clasps (lacking clasps, joints broken, slight chipping with minor losses to spine ends).

LIMITED EDITION, number 2139 of 2500 copies SIGNED BY DALI and printed on Mandeure paper.

$3,000-4,000

92 [ARTIST’S BOOKS] --[DERRIÈRE LE MIROIR - MIRO]. A group of 6 Joan Miro issues, comprising:

MIRO. No. 87/88/89. June/July/August 1956. -- MIRO. No. 139/140. June/July 1963. -- MIRO. No. 193/194. -- MIRO & UBAC. No. 155. December 1965. -- MIRO. October/November 1971. -- MIRO. No. 203. April 1973. -- MIRO. No. 231. November 1978.

All published Paris: Maeght Éditeur. Each with numerous lithographs and illustrations, loose as issued in original lithographed wrappers. First trade editions, condition generally ne.

$600-800 91 [ARTIST’S BOOKS] --[DERRIÈRE LE MIROIR - CHAGALL]. A group of 4 Marc Chagall issues, comprising:

CHAGALL. No. 27/28. March/April 1950. -- CHAGALL. No. 225. October 1977. -- CHAGALL. No. 235. October 1979. -- CHAGALL. No. 246. May 1981.

All published Paris: Maeght Éditeur. Each with numerous lithographs and illustrations, loose as issued in original lithographed wrappers. First trade editions, condition generally ne.

$400-500

93 [ARTIST’S BOOK]. -- [DERRIÈRE LE MIROIR]. Derrière Le Miroir. 10 Ans D’Edition 1946-1956. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1956.

Folio (373 x 280 mm). 3 lithographs by Chagall, Miró, and Bazaine (2 printed in color and double-page); 2 engravings by Giacometti and Miró; numerous black and white reproductions. Publisher’s original lithographed wrappers, woodcut by Raoul Ubac on upper cover (slight toning, creasing and a few short tears to edges).

FIRST EDITION, celebrating the 10th publication anniversary of Derrière le Miroir.

$500-600

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[ARTIST’S BOOK] --DINE, Jim (b. 1945). Glyptotek. New York and London: Pace Editions and Waddington Graphics, 1988.

Large folio. Title-page print, 40 intaglio prints from copper plates by Jim Dine. Original publisher’s cloth; original slipcase.

LIMITED EDITION, number 30 of 90 copies SIGNED BY DINE. The intaglio plates are Dine’s interpretations of the classical sculpture in the Glyptotek in Munich. “These are not academic studies of stone sculptures. Rather than recording them as ancient carvings, through his graphic transformation Dine willed them back to their original state of living beings... The urgency of the line, the exaggerated tonal variations, the large scale, and the obvious link to the great monuments in Western art history result in an expressive power that hits the viewer with full force” (Feinberg, Dine, p. 87).

$2,000-3,000

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[ARTIST’S BOOK] -- HOCKNEY, David (b.1937). Hockney’s Alphabet. Stephen Spender, editor. London: Faber & Faber, 1991.

Folio. Each letter of the alphabet and “&” illustrated by Hockney and accompanied by a poem or short text by a contributor. Original quarter vellum, handmade Fabriano Roma paper sides; original slipcase.

LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies SIGNED HOCKNEY, SPENDER, AND 22 CONTRIBUTORS: Douglas Adams, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, William Boyd, Margaret Drabble, Patrick Leigh Fermor, William Golding, Seamus Heaney, David Hockney, Kazuo Ishiguro, Erica Jong, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, Iris Murdoch, Nigel Nicolson, John Julius Norwich, Joyce Carol Oates, V.S. Pritchett, Craig Raine, Susan Sontag, Stephen Spender, and John Updike. Printed for the AIDS Crisis Trust, all proceeds from the book were donated to support its programs to help people suffering from the disease. A FINE COPY.

$1,000-1,500

96 [ARTIST’S BOOK]. KERTÉSZ, André (1894-1985). J’Aime Paris. Photographs since the Twenties. New York: Grossman Viking, 1974.

4to. Numerous reproductions of Kertész’s photographs. Original blackstamped grey cloth; original printed dust-jacket (short tear to top edge, slight toning).

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY KERTÉSZ (“A. Kertész”) on the title-page.

$400-600

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[ARTIST’S BOOK]. LARTIGUE, Jacques Henri (1894-1986). The Photographs of J.H. Lartigue. New York: Time-Life, 1978.

Folio. 16pp. booklet, an autochrome after Latigue set inside front cover, 10 gelatin silver print photographs, each numbered “140/5000” in pencil in lower margin, mounted to mat with gilt titles and blindstamp to overmat. Housed in original light blue blind-stamped velvet folding portfolio, gold ties; original tissue wrapper; original box (later tape).

LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED and numbered by the photographer on limitation label mounted to portfolio. Number 140 of a planned edition of 5,000 English language copies, of which only 1,000 are thought to have been produced.

$1,000-1,500 99

[ARTIST’S BOOK] -- [MATISSE, Henri (1896-1954)]. GEORGE, Waldemar. Henri-Matisse Dessins. Paris: Éditions des Quatre Chemins, 1925.

4to. 64 lithographs reproducing Matisse’s works. Original blue textured paper wrappers (spine and edges slightly sunned).

LIMITED EDITION, one of 1,000 unsigned copies on Lafuma paper without an original etching signed (as issued).

$200-300

97 [ARTIST’S BOOK]. KERTÉSZ, André (1894-1985). A Lifetime of Perception. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1982.

4to. Numerous reproductions of Kertész’s photographs. Original silver-stamped grey boards; original printed dust-jacket (slight toning).

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY KERTÉSZ (“A. Kertész”) on the titlepage.

$200-300

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[ARTIST’S BOOK] -- [PICASSO, Pablo (1881-1973)]. JANIS, Harriet and Sidney. Picasso: The Recent Years 1939-1946. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1947.

4to. 135 photographic reproductions of Picasso’s work (a few in color). Publisher’s gilt-lettered black cloth over linen; original slipcase (worn).

LIMITED EDITION, number 285 of 350 copies SIGNED BY PICASSO.

$600-800

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[ARTIST’S BOOK] -- [TIBER PRESS - ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM]. ASHBERY, John. The Poems. Prints by Joan MITCHELL. -- KOCH, Kenneth. Permanently. Prints by Alfred LESLIE. [with:] O’HARA, Frank. Odes. Prints by Michael GOLDBERG. -- SCHUYLER, James. Salute. Prints by Grace HARTIGAN. New York: Tiber Press, [1960].

4 volumes, folio. Each volume with three full-page color silkscreen prints “hors texte”, and additional silkscreens on the title pages and upper covers. With prospectus. Original cloth-backed illustrated boards with publisher’s thick acetate dust-jackets, cloth slipcase (light wear).

LIMITED EDITION, number 119 of 200 COPIES, EACH SIGNED BY THE POET AND ARTIST on the limitation page on Hahnemüle paper.

Tiber Press was founded in New York in 1953 by master printer Floriano Vecchi and Richard Miller; they specialized in dynamic screenprints by the leading Abstract Expressionist artists of the time. This project was the press’s most ambitious: the text was hand set and printed in Walbaum-Antiqua type on handmade paper by Brüder Harmann in West Berlin; the at sheets were brought back to Tiber Press where they were printed with the artists’ works, which were drawn or painted directly onto silk screens solely for this publication.

A signi cant collaboration between four of the most in uential American poets of the second half of the 20th century and four important second-generation New York School artists. Each of the collaborators lived in New York City; the press “left the choice of partners in this project to the individuals themselves, and, in collaborating, the poet and painter were acknowledging an awareness of some real relationship between their work” (prospectus).

$6,000-8,000

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[ARTIST’S BOOK] -- [VERVE]. Verve. Volume I, nos. 2-4. Paris: Tériade, 1938-1939.

Folio, 4 numbers bound in one volume (348 x 257 mm). Lithographed plates by Kandinsky, Masson, Chagall, Miró, Rattner, Klee, Matisse and Derain and numerous reproductions. Publisher’s original cloth; original wrappers bound in (small scuff on spine, corners slightly bumped).

$400-500

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[ARTIST’S BOOKS]. A group of 4 works, comprising:

ZERVOS, Christian. Pablo Picasso. Vol. 5 Works from 1923 to 1925. Paris: Éditions Cahiers D’Art, 1952. Half morocco gilt. -- PRÉVERT, Jacques. Le Cirque D’Izis. Monte Carlo: André Sauret, 1965. Original publisher’s cloth, original printed dust jacket. -- CHAGALL, Marc. Chagall Lithographe 1962-1968. France: André Sauret, 1969. Original publisher’s cloth, original printed dust jacket. -- Picasso Lithographe. Monte Carlo: André Sauret, n.d. Half morocco gilt. -- Together 4 works in 4 volumes, condition generally ne.

Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery

$400-600 103

[ARTIST’S BOOK]. VLAMINCK, Maurice de (1876-1958), illustrator. DUHAMEL, Georges (1884-1966). Les Hommes abandonnés. Paris: Marcel Seheur, 1927.

4to. Frontispiece etching, 24 lithographs (8 full-page, 16 in text). Original gray wrappers printed in black and red; original onionskin glassine (a few short creases or minor chipping).

LIMITED EDITION, number XVI of XX copies “hors commerce” on Velin d’Arches of a total edition of 345.

$800-1,200

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[ARTIST’S BOOKS] -- [20TH-CENTURY ARTIST REFERENCE WORKS]. A group of three works, comprising:

KORNFELD, Eberhard W. Verzeichnis des graphischen Werkes von Paul Klee. Bern: Verlag Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1963. Original dust jacket. One of 1400 copies in German. -- Verzeichnis der Kupferstiche Radierungen und Holzschnitte von Marc Chagall. Band I: Werke 1922-1966. Bern: Verlag Kornfeld und Klipstein, 1970. Original dust jacket. One of 1500 copies in German. -- PRASSE, Leona E. Lyonel Feininger. A Definitive Catalogue of His Graphic Work, Etchings, Lithographs, Woodcuts. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972. -- Together, 3 works in 3 volumes, all rst editions, all in original publisher’s cloth and dust jacket where noted, condition generally ne.

BACON, Francis, Sir (1561-1626). The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall...with a Table of the Colours, or Apparances of Good and Evill...Newly enlarged. London: John Beale, 1639.

4to. Title printed within a typographical border, text printed within single-rule border. (Lacking rst and nal blanks, as often, lacking A1 “License,” some minor soiling or spotting, small marginal mathematical pencil annotations throughout, G7 w/ paper aw affecting border.) Contemporary blind-tooled calf, old manuscript label to spine (old repairs to hinges reattaching covers). Provenance: Thomas Foley (contemporary signature); presumably Thomas Foley, 2nd Baron Foley (1703–1766), Fellow of the Royal Society (armorial bookplate).

Second edition, the suppressed Beale edition: [Beale’s] right to the title was disputed and his press taken down, the edition con scated, and, despite powerful outside interference, he was forced to make submission” (Pforzheimer 31). ESTC S100372; Gibson 17; STC 1151.

Property from the Collection of Rhoda H. Clark and The Monastery Hill Bindery

$400-500

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BEAUSARD, Pierre (1536-1577, editor). Annuli astronomici, instrumenti cum certissimi, Tum commodissimi, usus, ex variis aithoribus. Paris: Guillaume Cavallat, 1557.

8vo (164 x 108mm). Woodcut device on title, woodcut illustrations, headpieces, initials, each treatise with separate section title. (Title lightly soiled; some minor marginal staining and spotting; nal blank with short internal tear.) Provenance: “Io: Delphini” (early signature on title-margin); faint de-accession? stamp on title verso.

Second edition of this collection of treatises on astronomy, edited by Pierre Beausard, professor of Mathematics at the University of Louvain. The work was rst published in Antwerp in 1553. The authors include Gemma Frisius, Johann Dryander, Joannes Regiomontanus, de Latus Bonetus, Burkhard Mithob and Oronce Fine. Adams A-1169; Houzeau and Lancaster 2589.

$700-900

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[BIBLE, in English]. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. London: George R. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1847.

12mo. (138 x 82 mm). Contemporary leather-backed decorative papier-mâché with relief of Christ to each cover, turn-ins gilt, edges gauffered and gilt (some light cracks and chipping). Provenance: C. E. Wiseman (signature, 1891); Anthony David Estill (bookplate).

$200-300