- Some foxed spots; otherwise fine.
- A few sm. tears in dustwrs. Otherwise fine.
- Title-p. w. brown offsetting. Dustwr. yellowed, sl. brittle and w. num. (marginal) tears and dam. spots, partly rather crudely repaired w. sellotape.
= Lissitzky-Küppers 168. Contains chapters on i.a. Le Corbusier, Moholy-Nagy, J.J.P. Oud and Frank Lloyd Wright.
- Frontwr. w. sm. additions in pen and ink; spine and fore-edge frontwr. restored/ strengthened.
- Title-p. and a few lvs. at the beginning w. restorations (mostly) in upper margin. Lacks orig. backwr. and backstrip (neatly replaced w. matching col. paper); frontcover sl. creased and w. restoration in lower corner.
= Rowell/ Wye 106; Compton, Russian futurist books 1912-16, p.126. With literary contributions by i.a. V. Aseev, V. Mayakovsky, B. Pasternak and V. Khlebnikov. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XII.
- Sl. creased; some sm. annots. on frontwr.
= Khan-Magomedov p.142f; Rowell/ Wye 852 and ills. p.237. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIII.
- Wr. chipped and restored along edges; vague stamp on backwr.
= Khan-Magomedov p.121 and 125; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34 p.82, 86 and 157 note 50: "Rodchenko's fascination with film continued to inspire many of his book covers, including a scheme capable of variation for a series of popular detective stories - Mess Mend or the Yankee in Petrograd (...) - written by Marietta Shaginian under the pseudonym Jim Dollar. For all ten volumes Rodchenko devised a complicated geometric layout combining colour with black and white, by dividing the cover into alternating coloured and black fields carrying white lettering. The central areas vary from cover to cover: they include cleverly cut photographs, including close-ups, reflecting the description to be found on the title page of volume one: 'cinematographic novel'. He chose a different colour for each cover and the series, which came out in 1924, remains most effective, though cheaply produced" (p.82).
- Spine and edges of wrapper restored. Stamp on backwr.
= Khan-Magomedov p.121 and 125; Compton, Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34 p.82, 86 and 157 note 50: "Rodchenko's fascination with film continued to inspire many of his book covers, including a scheme capable of variation for a series of popular detective stories - Mess Mend or the Yankee in Petrograd (...) - written by Marietta Shaginian under the pseudonym Jim Dollar. For all ten volumes Rodchenko devised a complicated geometric layout combining colour with black and white, by dividing the cover into alternating coloured and black fields carrying white lettering. The central areas vary from cover to cover: they include cleverly cut photographs, including close-ups, reflecting the description to be found on the title page of volume one: 'cinematographic novel'. He chose a different colour for each cover and the series, which came out in 1924, remains most effective, though cheaply produced" (p.82). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XII.
- Fine copy. = Rowell/ Wye 939. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIV.
- Frontwr. first vol. w. 2 mounted lithogr. pieces: "Vologda 1921" and "Proletarii vsekh stran soyedinyaites'" (Proletarians of all countries unite); all wrappers w. restored spots, mostly along spine.
= 1. Svyaschennyj klich (Sacred cry); 2. Sarai (Sarai); 3. Meshok almazov (Bag of diamonds); 4. Krasnyj chas (The red hour (dedicated to Sergei Yesenin)); 5. Vecher (Evening); 6. Pevuchij bereg (The singing shore); 7. Kiburaba (Kiburaba); 8. Zolotoe bezlyudye (The golden desolation); 9. V ogne i slave (In fire and glory); 10. Raskovannyj mir (Unleashed world). Very rare complete set of 10 self-published volumes of poetry. Aleksei Ganin was a close friend of Sergei Yesenin. In 1924 he was among a group of 14 people, mostly artists and poets, arrested on the charge of forming the "Order of Russian fascists". He was exected in 1925 and rehabilitated 40 years later. The first posthumous publication of his works dates from 1991. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIII.
- Crossed out owner's entry on htitle. Frontwr. loose.
= Rowell/ Wye 600. WITH the very rare addendum "Izvestia LTzK" (fold. newspaper, (4)p., 1 ill.).
- Wr. trifle stained; stamp on verso backwr. = Rowell/ Wye 808. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIV.
- Good/ fine copy.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135; Rowell/ Wye p.209; Bowlt/ Hernad p.135; Andel p.166. Periodical of the early Russian avantgardist movement. Only 7 issues were published between 1923 and 1924. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XV.
- Sm. dam. spot at fore-edge of bookblock; wr. trifle foxed; spine splitting at edges.
= Promotional booklet of the Meyerholdt Theatre aimed at informing the provincial soviet audience of the theatre's activities. Very rare.
- Final 4 lvs. w. tiny chipped spot in lower corner. Wr. trifle creased and fingersoiled. Otherwise fine.
= Lissitzky-Küppers 94-110; El Lissitzky Retrospektive 82; Rowell/ Wye 478 and ills. p.194f; Compton, Russian avant-garde books p.92ff; Bolliger IV, 679. One of the most striking examples of El Lissitzky's constructivist bookdesign. "The sheer invention of his design of Mayakovsky's For the Voice of 1923 - with its page margins stepped like an address book to form an index to the poems - equals that of Rodchenko's design for About this (Pro eto) of the same year. (...) He built his illustrations from the printers' stock, printing in red as well as black to enliven the pages" (Compton). "Eines des außergewöhnlichsten Bücher, deren typographische Gestaltung Lissitzky übernahm (...)" (El Lissitzky Retrospektive). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XIV.
- Large part of dustwr. renewed (only ±¾ part of orig. frontwr. preserved), w. part of text/ image very carefully reproduced in pen and ink; bookblock and covers sl. wrinkled; some pencil annots.
= Rowell/ Wye 1006 and ill. p.240.
- Creased and sl. frayed.
= Rowell/ Wye 220. Rare periodical with literary contributions by i.a. Osip Mandel'shtam, Aleksandr Blok and Sergei Yesenin. Seven issues were published between 1918 and 1922.
- Wrapper trifle creased.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Žurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
- Sm. stamp and rubbed spot on backwr. Otherwise fine.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Žurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
- Sm. stamp on frontwr.; backwr. vaguely waterst.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Žurnal levogo fronta iskusstv.
- Spine splitting; wr. loose(ning) and sl. specked.
= Khan-Magomedov p.135ff; Rowell/ Wye 715; Compton, Russian avant-garde books 1917-34 p.60. The continuation of LEF. Žurnal levogo fronta iskusstv. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XV.
- Portion of one text leaf cut out. Owner's entry on frontwr. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XV.
- A few sm. library stamps. Vague fold in frontwr. Otherwise fine.
- Wrappers partly frayed and split(ting) along spine; year 1925, no.3 lacks half of backwr.
Radio slušatel' (The Radio Listener). Year 1928, no.3, 7, 8 and 15; year 1929, no.7 and 18/19. Ibid., N.K.P.T., 1928-1929, 6 issues, ills., orig. unif. wr., 4to.
= Partly w. interesting typography/ design.
- Sm. owner's entry on first text leaf. Spine sl. waterst. at foot.
= Rowell/ Wye 815. Important periodical of the OSA (Obyedinenie Sovremennykh Arkhitektov - Union of Modern Architects), founded by members of constructivist artists' collective LEF. Among its contributors were i.a. J.J.P. Oud and Walter Gropius.
- Wr. creased, sl. stained and fingersoiled; crack in frontwr.; backstrip lacks tiny portion at foot.
= Lissitzky-Küppers 121 and p.93; El Lissitzky, Retrospektive 217; Compton, Russian avant-garde books p.93; Rowell/ Wye 70 and p.215. For the frontcover Lissitzky used his photographic double-portrait of Hans Arp. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XVII.
- Vague stamp on backwr.; some scratches on frontwr.
= Rowell/ Wye 815. Important periodical of the OSA (Obyedinenie Sovremennykh Arkhitektov - Union of Modern Architects), founded by members of constructivist artists' collective LEF. Among its contributors were i.a. J.J.P. Oud and Walter Gropius. This issue contians A. Gan's article on Kazimir Malevich, incl. images of his suprematist architectural models. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XVI.
- Some underlining in pen and ink. Spine splitting; wr. loose(ning).
= Rowell/ Wye 815. Important periodical of the OSA (Obyedinenie Sovremennykh Arkhitektov - Union of Modern Architects), founded by members of constructivist artists' collective LEF. Among its contributors were i.a. J.J.P. Oud and Walter Gropius.
- A few sm. annots. and library stamps on title-p. and frontwr.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XVI.
- Vaguely waterst. in upper corner. Frontwr. trifle foxed/ soiled and w. library stamp.
- No.5 frontwr. loose; no.1 some annots. on title-p. and spine splitting.
= With nice wrapper design somewhat reminiscent of 1920s/ 1930s Russian children's books. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XVII.
= SIGNED in black ballpoint by the artist on first free endpaper.
Schoemaker-van Weeszenberg, M. a.o. Jan Schoonhoven Delft. Delft, Licht op Schoonhoven, 2015, 160p., richly illustrated, orig. boards, sm. 4to. Hillings, V. a.o. Zero. Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s -60s. New York, Guggenheim, 2014, 242p., num. (col.) ills., orig. boards, 4to. Deinum, S. Dichter bij Siep. Sijbren Ridsert van den Berg (1913-1998). Leeuw., Wijdemeer, 2014, 384p., num. col. ills., orig. boards, folio. - AND 8 others, i.a. J.-C. MARCADÉ and M. TYL, Serge Charcoune monochromes (Paris, 2018, ills., orig. boards, sm. 4to).
= Arntzen/ Rainwater E133: "An authoritative dictionary (...). Based on original research. Good bibliographies; excellent illustrations."
AND 2 others, i.a. M. SEUPHOR, De abstracte schilderkunst in Vlaanderen (Brussels, 1963, num. (tipped-in)(col.) plates, orig. hvellum, slipcase, large 4to).
= Arntzen/ Rainwater E133: "An authoritative dictionary (...). Based on original research. Good bibliographies; excellent illustrations."
= Contains a catalogue raisonné of his drawings and graphic art.
AND 3 others, i.a. 2 on French art, i.a. F. ROBICHON, L'Armée Française. Vue par les peintres 1870-1914 (ibid., 1998, richly illustrated, orig. cl. w. dustwr., obl. 4to).
= One of 50 numb. copies SIGNED by the artist and w. "original sheet with a pair of leaves collected in 1975 for the sun and shadow-leaf project" (not present in our copy). Without the matching cl. slipcase.
Pelsers, L. (introd.). Sjoerd Buisman. Sculpturen/ Sculptures. Enschede, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, 2002, 112p., num. (col.) photogr. ills., orig. blindst. boards, 4to.
- Spine sl. sunned. Contents fine.
Alphen, E. van. Ronald Ophuis. Zurich, JRP/ Ringier, n.d. (2008), 146,(6)p., (double-p.) (full-p.) col. ills., orig. wr., 4to.
= With dedication of the artist to ARMANDO on title-p.
AND 8 others on sculpture, i.a. L. PELSERS a.o., Piet Tuytel. Objecten 1980-2005 (Rott., 2005, ills., orig. boards, 4to) and P. HEFTING, Cornelius Rogge. Beelden. Een overzicht (Enschede, 1999, ills., orig. buckram, obl. 4to).
- Partly sl. wrinkled, caused by damp (not visible). Wrapper sl. dam. along extremities; back of wr. mouldy.
= SIGNED and with DEDICATION by the author "Arno Breker. Herr Armando in Erinnerung am 1. August 72".
Castieau-Barrielle, T. Amadeo Modigliani. Courbevoie, ACR Édition, 1987, 235p., num. (col.) ills., orig. giltlettered cl. w. (sl. discol.) dustwr., 4to. Ansenk, E., Wiesinger, V. a.o. Alberto Giacometti. Rott. etc., Kunsthal Rotterdam etc., 2008, 176p., num. (col.) (photogr.) ills., orig. boards, large 4to. - AND 5 others, all richly illustrated, all (near) fine, i.a H. SCHEERDER, Gijs Jacobs van den Hof 1889-1965. Beeldhouwer (Overveen, 1995, orig. wr.) and U. BERGER and J. GABLER, Hundert Jahre Bildgiesserei H Noack (Berlin, 1997, orig. wr.).
- Sl. discoloured spot on frontcover; slipcase restored.
AND 2 others, i.a. P.A. SCHEEN, Lexicon Nederlandse Beeldende Kunstenaars 1750-1880 (The Hague, 1981, num. (col.) ills., orig. cl., large 4to).
- Browned. Sl. rubbed along extremities.
Munari, B. Discovery of the square. New York, G. Wittenborn Inc., 1965, 84,(4)p., num. ills., orig. wr., 8vo.
- Binding foxed/ stained; sm. tear in frontcover.
- Fine. = Oculi. Studies in the Arts of the Low Countries, vol.12.