THE SPIRIT OF THE LETTER IN PAINTING (Missives) by Jean Laymarie - 1961

Swissair. Good. 1966. Paperback. Fold crease on front cover. Contains no writing. Small stain on the front cover. Otherwise in good condition. ; 48 pages .

Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1966. Softcover. Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy of an exhibition catalogue, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear and soiling. Texts by the three authors, bound in stiff pictorial wraps ("Pink Nude" at front cover), and included is a "Letter From Henri Matisse to Henry Clifford," and with gorgeous reproductions of the paintings, the sculptures, the drawings, the graphics, and the decoupages. Full bibliography, a list of catalogues and exhibitions, a catalogue of this 1965 exhibition, and then several dozen examples, all printed on bright and shiny, high-gloss paper. 207 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Skira, 1998. Paperback. Good. Former library book. Slight signs of wear on the cover. Edition 1998. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Geneva: Éditions Gérald Cramer, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Geneva, Éditions Gérald Cramer, 1976. Quarto, 103 pages with 141 illustrations, including 26 tipped-in colour plates. Cloth; a fine copy with the fine dustwrapper in the slightly sunned and rubbed plain card slipcase. Number 427 of 1200 copies of the standard edition of this catalogue raisonné of monotypes (numbers 168-308). The first volume, containing numbers 1-167 from the period 1961 to 1965, was published in 1966.

1972. New York , The Viking Press, 1972. Large 4to. Bound in an elegant light brown full morocco binding with gilt lettered author to spine. Five single gilt lines to front board forming a star with a pentagon inside with inlaid geen leather. Gilt lines inside the pentagon forming a satyr playing the flyte. House in a cloth slip case. A very fine and clean copy. X, 309, (2) pp. Fiirst US edition. With 108 reproductions in full color.

New York: Braziller, 1962. First edition. Folio, original red cloth, original lithograph frontispiece, illustrated throughout. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very sharp example. Jerusalem Windows illustrates and chronicles the creation of twelve stained glass windows, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel, designed by Chagall for the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center Synagogue in Jerusalem.