112 - 771 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
- Tear in last free endpaper; bookplate on upper pastedown.
= Holstein, The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic p.310.
Knickerbocker, H.R. Der rote Handel droht. Der Fortschritt des Fünfjahresplans der Sowjets. German transl. C. Thesing. Ibid., E. Rowohlt, 1931, 1st ed., 203,(1)p., orig. limp boards w. photomontage dustwr. by P. URBAN.
- Dustwr. sl. frayed/ worn and strengthened on verso.
= Holstein, The Book Cover in the Weimar Republic p.310.
ADDED 2 others: H. MÜLLER-FRANKEN, Die November-Revolution. Erinnerungen (ibid., 1931, 2nd ed., orig. cl. w. dustwr. by J. TSCHICHOLD) and I. EHRENBURG, De Tweede Scheppingsdag (Amst., 1934, 1st ed., orig. cl. by C. OORTHUYS and J. VOSKUIL).
- Title-p. and verso frontwr. sl. foxed. Wr. sl. frayed and strengthened on verso; faint vertical knack in frontwr.
ADDED 2 others: M. ILIN, Moscow has a Plan. A Soviet Primer (London, 1931, ills. and orig. cl. by W. KERMODE) and G. GRINKO, Der Fünfjahrplan der UdSSR (Vienna/ Berlin, 1930, loosely inserted fold. col. map, orig. wr.).
- Wrappers sl. soiled and trifle worn at extremities.
= Brusse 816; Maan/ Van der Ree 100 and p.36: "De montage voor 'Nieuwe mensen in Moskou' krijgt zijn specifieke karakter door het verschil in beeldrichting: verticaal, horizontaal en diagonaal met daarbij het geraffineerd gebruik van de kleuren blauw en bruin."
AND 4 others w. (photomontage) (dust)wr. des. by C. Blazer/ W. Brusse (A. RUIZ VILAPLANA, Ik verklaar onder eede. Rott., 1938, orig. plain wr. w. (dam.) dustwr.), H. Cahn (H. NOORDUYN-JANSEN, Recepten voor de reformkeuken. The Hague, n.d. (1936), ills., orig. (worn/ stained) spiral-bound wr.), Co-op 2 (F. AUGUSTIN, Frisch uw Duitsch op! Amst., (1941), orig. plain wr. w. (restored/ strengthened and stained) dustwr.) and C. Domela (E.E. KISCH, Tijdopnamen. The Hague, 1931, orig. cl. w. modern plain dustwr. w. the orig. (dam.) frontwr. laid down).
= One of 50 numb. copies with a loosely inserted original photomontage "Osram" by DOMELA (modern gelatin silver print, 19,2x17 cm., mounted on board leaf, mount signed "Domela" and "II/X" in pencil. No mention of Roman numb. copies in the colophon).
Maan, D. and Ree, J. van der. Typo-foto/ elementaire typografie in Nederland. 1920-1940. Utr./ Antw., Veen, 1990, 109,(2)p., num. (col.) ills., orig. cl. w. dustwr., 4to. - AND 3 others, i.a. J. FIEDLER (ed.), Photography at the Bauhaus (Cambridge, 1990, num. (col.) ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., large 4to).
- Folded; sl. creased. = Very rare pro-Hindenburg electoral pamphlet.
- Slipcase and wr. some fingersoiling. Box occas. splittng on joints.
= Kibbey 1466; Goeppert 115. According to Goeppert, "Picasso made some cut-outs of heads and silhouettes of men, women and animals. Villers mounted the cut-outs on different photographs - thirty in all - thus varying their effect and quality". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVIII.
- Wrappers sl. discol. along margins.
= Bolliger III, 207: "Bedeutende avantgardistische Zeitschrift (...)". Contains contributions by K. Malewitsch ("Suprematismus"), H. Wescher ("Hommage à Malewitsch" and "Malewitsch in memoriam"), G.L.K. Morris ("On the abstract tradition") and S. Giedion ("Brauchen wir noch Künstler?").
- Center leaf loose. Wrappers sl. sunned along margins.
= Bolliger III, 207: "Bedeutende avantgardistische Zeitschrift (...)". Contains contributions by Gabrielle Buffet (on Picabia's periodical 391) and Hans Richter. WITH the loosely inserted manifesto "Dimensionisme" by CHARLES SIRATO (1 fold. leaf, 32x24 cm. (unfolded), printed in black on orange paper on recto and verso (sl. discol./ dustsoiled in outer margins, w. a few tiny marginal tears. Verso shows the manifesto, recto has quotations by various artists as well as a list of names of the artists who signed the manifesto, incl. Cesar Domela, Francis Picabia, Hans Arp, Ladislas Moholy-Nagy, Marchel Duchamp, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Wassily Kandinsky).
- Last page w. some underlining in pen and ink. Backwr. (sl.) soiled; spine partly split.
= Bolliger III, 207: "Bedeutende avantgardistische Zeitschrift (...)". Contains the surrealist group novel "L'homme qui a perdu son squelette" by H. Arp, M. Duchamp, P. Eluard, M. Ernst, G. Hugnet, H. Pastoureau and G. Prassinos, and poems by R. Hausmann, W. Kandinsky, H. Arp, K. Schwitters and G. Hugnet.
- Some vague pencil markings and annots. = Rare.
AND 3 (small) catalogues on WOBBE ALKEMA (2x) and JAN VAN DER ZEE.
= "Berigt" 11 supplied in photostat. Each "berigt" contains short notes, describing prints after drawings by Dutch masters, available for sale.
Bloys van Treslong Prins, P.C. Het geslacht Ploos van Amstel. The Hague, Centraal Bureau voor Genealogie en Heraldiek, 1911, (4),57,(1),4p., contemp. cl.
- Bookplate and library ticket on upper pastedown.
AND 3 others on the same.
- Dustwr. sl. dam. = Facs. reprint of the ed. Amst., 1853.
Someren, J.F. Beschrijvende catalogus van gegraveerde portretten van Nederlanders. Amst., F. Muller & Cie., 1888-1891, 3 vols., VII,(1),243,X,(2); VII,(1),416; VII,(1),417-809,(5),IVp., contemp. unif. hcl. w. orig. frontwr. laid down.
- All vols. owner's stamp on first free endpaper; endpapers browned. All vols. laid down frontwr. sl. dam.; backstrips browned.
= Contains 6316 entries.
AND 7 others, i.a. CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ DE PORTRAITS DE PEINTRES, GRAVEURS, ARCHITECTES (...) (Amst., 1877, contemp. boards); D. FOSKETT, British Portrait Miniatures (London etc., 1968, 2nd ed., num. ills., orig. giltlettered cl. w. dustwr. Dustwr. sl. yellowed) and EXPOSITION DE LA MINIATURE (...) BRUXELLES MARS-JULLET 1912. CATALOGUE GÉNÉRAL (Brussels, 1912, contemp. cl. w. mor. letterpiece, orig. wr. pres. Occas. sl. foxed; backstrip sunned; frontcover w. 2 dam. spots).
- Regular pencil marking; first 90p. of vol. 2 waterstained and sl. wrinkled. = Contains 6316 entries.
AND 1 other: F. MULLER, De Nederlandsche geschiedenis in platen. Beredeneerde beschrijving van Nederlandsche historieplaten, zinneprenten en historische kaarten (Amst., 1970, reprint ed., 4 parts in 3 vols., orig. unif. giltlettered cl. in slipcase. Pencil marking; joints of vol. 2 worn/ splitting).
= Cf. Arntzen/ Rainwater P383 (reprint ed. 1962): "Reproduces and describes each hallmark." Reprint of the edition Paris, 1925-28.
= Arntzen/ Rainwater P484: "A dictionary of 3,000 hallmarks of French goldsmiths from the 14th century to 1838. Reproduces and describes each hallmark." Reprint of the edition Paris, 1929.
- Spine-ends sl. bumped; sm. stain on frontcover. = Facs. reprint of the ed. London, 1935.
= Issue of the extremely rare Romanian art and literature periodical published 1924-1925, with French and Romanian language contributions. Although the periodical was subtitled "A Review of Constructivist Art", it was dedicated not only to constructivism, but also covered other forms of abstract art and had strong links to Dadaism. Cf. Bolliger III, 146. For the woodcut by Marcel Janco ("Constructie"): Ilk 70.