103 - 587 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
= Standard reference work, with sword guards arranged by design school and historical period.
ADDED 1 other: C. FALGAYRETTES-LEVEAU a.o., Réceptacles (Paris, 1997, num. (full-p.) (col.) ills., orig boards w. dustwr., 4to).
- Binding sl. soiled; spine-ends sl. worn.
Gruyter, W.J. de (introd.). Some Japanese Hanging Scrolls in the Collection of Mr. F. Tikotin. The Hague, Wed. J. Ahrend & zoon, 1949, (17) textlvs., 18 tipped-in plates, all loosely inserted in orig.(?) hcl. portfolio w. ties, printed in a lim. numb. ed., folio.
- (Sl.) foxed. Portfolio sl. worn/ soiled; joints split(ting). = Rare.
AND 6 others on (erotic) Japanese art, incl. M. BEURDELEY a.o., Erotic Art of Japan. The Pillow Poem ((New York, 1981), 140 (col.) ills., orig. boards w. dustwr., folio).
- Four stamps/ two sm. annots. inside. Scratch in upper right corner frontcover; trifle rubbed along extremities.
= Very nice art deco pattern designs.
- Stamp on first free endpaper and table of contents; otherwise contents fine. Spine dam.; sm. sticker on frontwr.
= Scarce.
- Vol. 16: only 18 plates; 17: only 21 plates; 18: only 21 plates; 19: only 14 plates; 20: only 14 plates; 21: only 15 plates; 22: only 27 plates.
= Beautiful (Jugendstil) plates of ornamental motives used in architecture, interior decoration etc.
- Occas. trifle foxed; 4 library stamps in blank margins on htitle and title-p. Unobtrusive sm. remnant of sticker and vague pen scratch on frontcover; corners showing; spine-ends trifle worn.
= SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE IX.
= Contains the oeuvre catalogue by K. Berends and T. Philipsen.
Geest, J. van. Wim Schuhmacher. De Meester van het Grijs. Arnh., Jan Brand Boeken, 1997, 320p., (full-p.) (col.) ills., orig. wr., 4to.
= With catalogue raisonné.
Horn, L. Else Berg en Mommie Schwarz. Kunstenaarspaar in Amsterdam 1910-1942. Wezep, Uitgeverij de Kunst, 2012, 191p., num. ills., orig. boards.
- No.1 lacks the loosely inserted postcard by Richard Hamilton. Wrappers trifle (dust)soiled.
= All published. Contains contributions by i.a. Dieter Roth, Tom Phillips and Ben Vautier.
ADDED: an issue of ZWEITSCHRIFT (no.2, Hannover, 1976, ills., orig. wr., 4to. Special issue on "Neue Musik") and A. BUCHER, Spirale, Ein Künstlerzeitschrift 1953-1964 (Baden, 1990, (col.) ills., orig. clothbakced boards. Nice monograph).
- Textpages sl. foxed in blank margins (preliminary lvs also sl. foxed in text). A few sl. rubbed spots on backstrip.
AND 1 other.
- Box discoloured and sl. worn/ splitting along extremites.
- Portfolio trifle soiled and w. some scratches.
= Nobuyoshi Araki is primarily known for his erotic and kinbaku (Japanese bondage) photography. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XI.
- A very fine copy. Two hardly visible, minimally rubbed spots on leather cornerpiece in upper outer corner of frontcover. Clamshell box trifle foxed along extremities of backcover.
= UNIQUE COPY with a sprawling drawing with extensive AUTOGRAPH dedication by PETER BEARD in pen and red, green, black and purple ink on the transparant colophon leaf preceding the printed title-page. The dedication is written partly in a drawing of a hand and a giraffe and reads: "Special Delivery by hand to the inestimable & amazing Vlada & André (in ecology green) Best from Peter [heart] November 27th 2006 ad Driftwood Cove Box 603 Montauk Point L.I. N.Y. 11954". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XII.
- Wrappers trifle rubbed along extremities and backstrip creased. Otherwise very fine.
= Kearney 20.1. Brassaï's photographic plates evoke French nightlife in the thirties. Good copy of this fine, but fragile publication.