Search Results: Art & Design from Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1997. First Edition. Quarto, 223 pages. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with some shelf wear and a small loss to the bottom of the spine.  Good reference work on American painted furniture.

New York: Martha Jackson Gallery, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (8 1/2 x 7 inches; 220 x 180 mm), [44] pages in illustrated wrappers and illustrated slipcase.Scarce exhibition catalogue for Antoni Tàpies (1923-2012) at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York in 1968. Nicely written preface by playwright Edward Albee. Mostly black-and-white reproductions throughout. Enclosed in an illustrated cardboard slipcase. A beautiful production. SCARCE. CONDITION: Fine in a Near Fine slipcase (rubbing to edges, small closed tear at top of spine).

Copenhagen: Editions Ejnar Munksgaard, 1950. First Edition. 16mo (6 3/4 x 5 1/8 inches; 170 x 130 mm), [16] pages in stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by Karel Appel on the inside front cover: "Voor / Gert-Jan / Appel." The recipient was the Dutch art collector Gert-Jan Hemmink. Booklet presenting paintings by Dutch artist Karel Appel (1921-2006), one of the giants of the Cobra art movement. With a short introduction in French by Belgian artist Christian Dotremont, who was also associated with Cobra. The cover illustration, an original lithograph, is in color, the works inside in black-and-white.
In 1950, the publisher issued a set of 15 volumes focusing on Cobra artists, such as Alechinsky, Corneille, Heerup, Constant, etc. with separate sets in French and Danish. Our copy is from the French edition, #3 in the Bibliotheque de Cobra series edited by Danish artist Asger Jorn.
OCLC lists this booklet under numerous accession numbers. Most institutional holdings are in Europe, although a few are in the U.S.… Read More

Ghent, Belgium: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1991. First Edition. Quarto, 215 pages. Comprehensive volume on Belgian art nouveau, focusing mostly on the city of Brussels. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with some edge wear and rubbing. Couple of small tears on rear of dj at bottom. Scarce. 

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto (12 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches; 320 x 240 mm), [8] pages in stapled rust-colored wrappers, with a woodcut laid in.Catalogue of an exhibition of works by Jan Cox, with a woodcut laid in (signed in pencil). The exhibition took place at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and featured more than 70 paintings, gouaches, drawings, and lithographs. In the 1950s, Cox (1919-1980) was head of the painting department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Cox was a founding member of the Jeune Peinture Belge artists' group and exhibited in New York at the Curt Valentin and Catherine Viviano galleries. SCARCE WITH WOODCUT. #102113 CONDITION: Some edge wear to wrappers, foxing, creasing, and soiling to internal pages, along with some evidence of waterstaining. The signed woodcut has a couple of creases and ragged edges on two sides. About Very Good overall.

Trenton, New Jersey: New Jersey State Museum, 1970. Octavo (9 x 6 inches; 227 x 152 mm), 52 pages, in stapled wrappers.Introductory guide to the various types of printmaking, with a glossary and bibliography and information on how to make your own prints and exhibit them. Wrapper designs by the author, Burton Wasserman, an artist who taught at Rowan University in New Jersey. CONDITION: Light edge wear and rubbing to wrappers. Internally, clean and unmarked. Very Good or better.

London: Spink-Leger Pictures, 1999. First Edition.
An exhibition catalogue presenting nine drawings by Alexander Cozens (c. 1717-1786) and four drawings by Victor Hugo (1802-1885). Short biographies of each artist, followed by the drawings.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Oblong 24mo (14 x 26 cm), [36] pages in wrappers (soft cover).
CONDITION: Fine.

2002. Revised Second Edition. Quarto, 176 pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket with only slight edge wear. Beautifully illustrated. 

Hong Kong: Joint Publishing (H.K.) Co., Ltd., 1991. Third Impression. Quarto, 328 pages. Lavishly illustrated volume on classic Chinese furniture by the world's foremost expert. An essential reference. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Some small black marks and wavy lines on front and back end papers. Jacket has shelf wear and some bubbles in a few places, especially on the back.  This book has it all: hundreds of excellent color and black and white plates, along with a glossary and bibliography. An absolute must for collectors interested in Ming and Early Qing furniture.

Oxford, England: Phaidon Press Limited, 1989. First Edition. Quarto, 127 pages. Excellent reference work on Russian art in the waning days of the Soviet Union. Very Good in a Near Fine dust jacket. Many pages have light creases, probably due to improper shelving. Some rubbing to the jacket. Overall, a nice copy. 

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1986. First Edition. Quarto, 358 pages. Lavishly illustrated volume by the Louvre's former curator-in-chief of objets d'art. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket, with some small scratches, smudges and creases. Note: This is an oversize book and may require additional postage. Terrific work of scholarship (by a Louvre curator), with hundreds of illustrations. An important reference on European decorative arts.

New York: Free Press, 2003. First Edition. Large Octavo, 544 pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket with only slight edge wear. Important reference work.  Comprehensive reference covering design in furniture, silver, glass, textiles, ceramics, etc.

New York: Crown Publishers, 1954. Sixteenth Printing. Quarto, 202 pages. A classic in furniture scholarship, with 1,115 photographs and numerous line cuts. Cloth rubbed, with a few stains, especially on the rear board. Corners bumped. Pages lightly toned. Various pages toward back are slightly creased, probably due to improper shelving. No dust jacket. (100537)

Catalogue for an exhibition on women in Renaissance and Baroque prints at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. This catalogue features essays and detailed entries and images for 152 prints. An extensive bibliography rounds out the catalogue. An important reference work.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches; 280 x 215 mm), 238 pages, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover).
CONDITION: Some light edge wear and rubbing to the wrappers, slight creasing to some page corners. Otherwise, clean, bright, and unmarked. Very Good or better.

London: Spink & Son, 1987. First Edition. 4to., 158 pages. Very Good, with a touch of soiling to the top edge as well as a some tiny creases at the top edge of some pages. The dust jacket is Very Good, showing a bit of edge wear, scuffing, and a very small tear on the front cover near the spine.  Interesting, nicely illustrated look at HSBC's art collection.

Small Quarto (10 1/4 x 9 1/2 inches; 260 x 242 mm), 73, [3] pages in illustrated wrappers.
SIGNED by Francesco Clemente on the title page, where he has also drawn a heart. This is an exhibition catalogue from the Mary Boone Gallery in New York, presenting 44 works by the great Italian artist. With an introductory essay by the late art critic Arthur C. Danto.
Signed copies of this catalogue are uncommon. SCARCE SIGNED.
CONDITION: Light edge wear. Near Fine.

Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, 1989. Quarto, 168 pages, soft cover. IN FRENCH. Catalogue of an exhibition of prints by Gauguin and the Pont-Aven school of artists. Contents Fine. Front and back covers show shelf wear and a few scratches. Small, unobtrusive bookseller's label on inside rear cover. Overall, a nice copy.  Good reference work on the prints of Gauguin and the Pont-Aven school of artists. Fans of author Alfred Jarry might be surprised to find that he was also a printmaker.

London: Jupiter Books, 1983. First Edition. Quarto, 206 pages. A good introduction to two important German art movements: Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter. Nicely illustrated in both color and black and white.CONDITION: Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket that shows slight edge wear and scuffing. Top edges of some pages a bit wavy, not affecting any text.

Hamburg: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 235 x 190 mm), 72, [4] pages in illustrated wrappers (soft cover).Exhibition catalogue focusing on artistic renderings of the Epic of Gilgamesh (in German, Gilgamesch), a Mesopotamian king. With drawings by Willi Baumeister and prints by Baumeister, Richard Janthur, Josef Hegenbarth, Rolf Nesch, and Emil Schumacher. Baumeister (1889-1955) had long been interested in the ancient art and culture of the Near East. Indeed, according to Baumeister biographer and friend Will Grohmann, Baumeister knew the epic by heart. (See "Gilgamesh in Modern Art," by Brigitte Pedde, in F. Pedde and N. Shelley (eds.), Assyromania and More: In Memory of Samuel M. Paley, marru 4 (2018), pages 449-458.) The catalogue features beautiful original screen prints by Baumeister on the upper wrapper and frontispiece. Text entirely in German. CONDITION: Light soiling to wrappers, internally clean and unmarked.… Read More

New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Quarto, 318 pages. Lavishly illustrated catalogue accompanying a 1990 exhibition at the Morgan Library in New York. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket with some rubbing and scratches. Shadow of price sticker on back of jacket. Featuring 120 color plates and 162 B&W illustrations.