112 - 771 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
- Fine set.
- Covers sl. yellowed/ thumbed along margins; backcover sm. stain. Backstrip sunned and sl. rubbed; top of spine sm. dam.
= Rare in full board binding. Ex/ Hoek p.126 and ill. 204; Brusse 652; Purvis, col. ill. between p.122/ 123; Purvis/ De Jong p.95; Broos/ Hefting p.63. With illustrations after i.a. P. Bromberg, A. Kurvers, P. Zwart, E. Wichmann, J.F. van Royen, F. Cohen, A.D. Copier, W.H. Gispen, P. Schuitema, V. Huszár, T. van Doesburg and G. Rietveld.
- Wrappers (sl.) foxed/ soiled; backstrip rubbed; top of spine strengthened w. tape..
= Le Coultre d10-3. Ex/ Hoek p.126 (and ill. 205): "Bij zijn ontwerp voor Wendingen nam Huszár de betekenis van de naam als uitgangspunt. Een langwerpig tekstblok kreeg afwisselend boven en onder elkaar geplaatste letters; een vierkant tekstblok bevat de letters in allerlei richtingen en op de keerzijde van het omslag is de compositie in gesloten blokvormen herhaald."
- Most wr. sl. soiled. No.1 waterstained in inner margin (and wr. along spine) and w. some markings/ annots. in pen in margins; no.5 sm. tear throughout in fore-edge margin; no.6, 15 and 16 (water)stain in lower corner/ margin (incl. wr.); no.8/9 partly (badly) stained (incl. wr.), w. some page dam. from formerly sticking together.
= Rare. Bolliger IV, 362. i10, the renowned Dutch avantgarde magazine, was published between 1927 and 1929 in 22 issues. Its editorial board consisted of A. Müller Lehning, J.J.P. Oud, W. Pijper and L. Moholy-Nagy. Contributors include H. Arp, M. ter Braak, C. van Eesteren, V. Huszar, J. Ivens, W. Kandinsky, L. Moholy-Nagy, P. Mondriaan, G. Rietveld, P. Schuitema and K. Schwitters.
= Produced in a very small (unspecified) number of copies.
AND 3 other works the same, all publ. by the same and produced in 20 numb. copies, orig. almost unif. spiralbound dec. boards, sm. folio: Water (1985), Earth (1985) and Venus (1986, signed).
- Occas. trifle foxed; bindings w. some rubbed spots. A fine set.
Quintana, F. de P. El Hierro Forjado Español. Siglos XII al XVIII. Ibid., F. Sintes, n.d. (1928), (7)p., 80 plates, loose as issued in orig. hcl. portfolio w. ties, slipcase, sm. folio.
- Text lvs. occas. sl. foxed. Frontcover w. sm. stain. = The standard oeuvre catalogue.
- Sm. number written in blank corner title-p. Backstrip a few sm. yellow spots.
AND 2 others: W. HERZOGENRATH (ed.), Max Ernst in Köln. Die rheinische Kunstszene bis 1922 (Cologne/ Bonn, 1980, num. (col.) ills., orig. pict. boards, 4to. Fine) and "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" (n.pl., n.d., col. ills., plain wr., 4to. A curious (privately produced?) volume w. (partly combined) col. proofs of works by MAGRITTE, a few w. a ballpoint sketch).
- Frontcover trifle rubbed. Otherwise very fine.
= I.a. "Rolt zelf uw sigaretten van Van Nelle's Shagtabak" (unfolded board advertorial display, 5 copies); two calendars (1933 and 1934); "Van Nelle's gebroken thee/ Thé coupé Van Nelle" (unfolded tea packet, 20 copies); several small posters/ advertorial leaflets, i.a. "Een vrolijk voetbalboek (...)" and "Voetbal Vademecum seizoen 1932-33" (Jac. Jongert 1883-1942 'proeven is koopen' 251 and 256) and "Van Nelle's gebroken thee" (board display sign w. suspension cord; one dam. spot).
= I.a. "Van Nelle's gebroken thee"; "Van Nelle's Takel"; "Van Nelle's boei tabak"; "250 gram Raedthuysbaai"; "Van Nelle's Prisma"; "Van Nelle's Cirkel"; "Van Nelle's "Contenta" theebuiltjes" and "Van Nelle's Magneet koffie".
- Spine dustwr. sl. sunned.
Gribaudo, E. (ed.). Jorn. Cuba. Torino, Fratelli Pozzo, 1970, (45)p., (col./ photogr.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to (fine).
= Photographic account of Jorn at work on the murals that he designed for a Cuban banking company.
- Year 1904 some lvs. frayed/ loose(ning) and spine-ends worn. = SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIV.
- Partly yellowed (sl.) foxed.
= 1. G. Biermann, MAX PECHSTEIN (orig. dec. boards w. mounted title-piece; lacks backstrip); 13. H. von Wedderkop, PAUL KLEE (orig. dec. boards w. mounted title-piece; lacks backstrip); 21. W. Wolfradt, GEORGE GROSZ (orig. clothbacked dec. boards; spine-ends and upper joint sl. dam.); 42. W. Grohmann, WASSILY KANDINSKY (orig. clothbacked dec. boards w. mounted title-piece); 52. G. Biermann, OSKAR KOKOSCHKA (orig. clothbacked boards; spine pasted over w. cloth tape).
- Some occas. foxing. Binding thumbed/ sl. soiled.
= The first edition was published in January 1912, the second in April of the same year. Roethel 82-92 and p.443, 8. Cf. The Artist and the Book 137; Bolliger VI, 394; Jentsch 6 (1st ed.).
Marc, F. Briefe, Aufzeichnungen und Aphorismen. Berlin, P. Cassirer, 1920, 1st ed., 2 vols., text vol.: 144,(3)p., 1 double-p. col. plate; plate vol.: (6) textp., 35 monochr. plates, orig. unif. cl., modern cl. slipcase.
- First vol. upper hinge partly split; both vols. sellotape stains on endpapers and owner's entry on first free endpaper. Bindings foxed/ sl. stained; backstrips dam. and corner worn. Contents fine.
- Mediocre copy: dogeared; partly w. (narrow) stain in blank margin. Wrappers stained, vague folds, sl. frayed and gilding on frontwr. defective; backstrip lacks ±4 cm. of both ends.
= First edition of the most important early monograph covering Kandinsky's development as a painter over the period 1901-1913. From the library of Erich Wichman, with his owner's entry in green ink on the title-p. Bolliger VI, 551 and I, 128: "Im Anhang die wichtigen Schriften des Künstlers "Rückblicke" und "Notizen". Von grösster Seltenheit."
- First blank loose and dam. in inner margin; last leaf loosening; weak on hinges; a few lvs. trifle frayed in blank fore-edge margin. Spine pasted over w. cl.; wrappers sl. browned and some foxing and sm. marginal stains; frontwr. lacks tiny portion of upper blank corner; backwr. w. sm. dam. in upper blank margin; spine-ends strengthened w. scotch tape.
= Bolliger III, 8 and IV, 40. One of the major anthologies of contemp. modern art, containing illustrations of works by i.a. H. Arp, T. van Doesburg, M. Ernst, J. Gris, G. Grosz, F. Léger, El Lissitzky, L. Moholy-Nagy, P. Picasso and Man Ray. Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIV.
ADDED: a facsimile reprint of the work (Budapest, 1977, orig. wr., 4to).
= With autograph dedication on first blank "To Wous with Best Wishes, Alison".
Bol, L.J. Aart Schouman. Ingenious Painter and Draughtsman. Doornspijk, Davaco, 1991, 134p., num. (col.) ills., orig. giltlettered cl. w. dustwr., folio. - AND 3 others, all richly illustrated, all orig. cl. w. dustwr.), i.a. S. ALSTEENS, M. VAN BERGE-GERBAUD a.o., Regards sur l'art hollandais du XVIIe siècle (...) (Paris, 2004, large 4to) and C. BOSCHMA, Willem Bartel van der Kooi (1768-1836) en het tekenonderwijs in Friesland (Leeuw.,1978, 4to).
- Blindst. ex-libris in first blank.