new arrivals

Kreymborg, Alfred.

Mushrooms, A Book of Free Forms.

New York: John Marshall Co. Ltd., 1916. Small octavo, 142 pages. First edition of the first collection of free verse from this poet, editor and the first literary figure to be included in Alfred

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Explication de l'Etranger.

[Paris]: Aux dépens de Palimugre, 1946. Duodecimo, 31 pages.

First edition, one of an unspecified number of hors commerce copies. ''Pour son plaisir et pour celui de quelques amis, le PALIMUGRE,

Becher, Bernd and Hilla.

Anonyme Skulpturen. A Typology of Technical Constructions.

New York: Art Press Verlag, 1970. Quarto, 4 pages of text and numerous black and white photographic illustrations.

First edition, simultaneous with the German issue, of this important

D'ors, Eugenio.

Pablo Picasso. Translated from the Spanish by Warre B. Wells.

Paris/New York: Editions des Chroniques du Jour/ E. Weyhe, 1930. Quarto, 62 pages and fifty-four black and white plates, with four color pochoir plates.

First edition, one of 1250 copies. D'ors,

(Messel, Alfred).

A. Wertheim G.M.B.H. Berlin. Leipziger Strasse, am Leipziger Platz. Weitere Verkhaufshauser in Berlin.

Berlin: A. Wertheim, n.d. [c. 1905]. Tall quarto, 32 pages. First edition.

A promotional photographic brochure for what was the largest department store in Europe at the time, designed by

Frank, Robert

The Americans.

New York: Grove Press, 1959.

Oblong octavo, vi pages of preface + unpaginated photogravure plates. With an illustration for the rear panel of the dust jacket by Alfred Leslie. First American

Renger-Patzsch, Albert.

Eisen und Stahl. 97 Fotos von Albert Renger-Patzsch.

Berlin: Verlag Hermann Reckendorf, 1931.

Quarto, unpaginated. Text with 97 black and white photographic plates. In silver boards with black lettering, and a white printed spine on blue cloth.

(Gabo, Naum) Hamilton, George Heard.

Naum Gabo. Space and Kinetic Constructions.

New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1953.

Squarish octavo, 8 pages. First edition of this handsomely designed exhibition catalog. With an essay by George Heard Hamilton. Printed on coated stock

Sitte, Camillo.

The Art of Building Cities. City building according to its artistic fundamentals.

New York: Reinhold, 1945.

Translated from the German by Lt. Charles T. Stewart, U.S.N.R. Oblong octavo, 128 pages. First English language edition, illustrated throughout in black and white. With

Hartree, Douglas.

Calculating Instruments and Machines.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1949. Large octavo, 138 pages. First edition, first printing of what is considered one of the two foundational works on computers (along with Berkeley's Giant

The Gallery of Everyday Art (Walker Art Center) .

The Gallery of Everyday Art. Furniture and Fabrics. Second Exhibition in the Everyday Art Gallery.

Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1946.

Original squarish three panel folio, with 2 page insert. First edition, with short essays by Gallery Director D.S. Defenbacher and Curator Hilde Reiss. A

Duchamp, Marcel (Richard Hamilton - designer & George Heard Hamilton, translator).

The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even.

New York: George Wittenborn, Inc., 1960.

Large octavo, unpaginated. First edition of this first English typographic translation of Duchamp's Green Box, with translation and typographic treatment

Michaux, Henri.

Mouvements. Soixante-quatre dessins. Un poeme. Une postface.

Paris: Librairie Gallimard/Le Point du Jour, 1951.

Quarto in stiff paper-covered boards, unpaginated. First edition, one of 1200 hors commerce copies. Mouvements was published in the year of

Raymond, Antonín (Nakamura, Katsuya, editor).

Antonín Raymond. His work in Japan 1920-1935. Preface by Elie Faure.

Tokyo: Johnan Shoin, [1935].

Oblong folio, 29 pages of text, 102 pages of illustration, including 19 architectonic illustrations in photogravure. First edition. With an article by Antonín and

Stepniak [Sergei Kravchinski].

The Career of a Nihilist. A Novel.

New York: Harper & Brothers Printers & Publishers, 1889.

Octavo, 320 pages + ads. First edition of this important novel of nihilism and anarchism by an early anti-Tsarist revolutionary. 'Stepniak'

Arbus, Diane.

Diane Arbus. An Aperture Monograph.

Millerton, NY: Aperture, (1972). Quarto, unpaginated. First edition, wrappered issue, (with the photo Two Girls in Identical Raincoats which was suppressed from subsequent issues). Published in

Billy, A(ndre).

Scene de la Vie Litteraire a Paris.

Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, 1918. Small octavo, 246 pages. First edition. An eyewitness account by a member of the inner circle of French literary and artistic scene, well-known as a biographer

Titayna, A.P. Pantoine & R. Lugeon.

Chez les Mangeurs d'Hommes. Nouvelles Hebrides. [In the House of the Cannibals].

Paris: Editions Ducharte, 1931.

Quarto, 57 pages + 80 plates. First edition. Beautiful black and white photographs of this now mostly lost culture. Includes a number of plates of masks, several

Calder, Alexander.

Three Young Rats, and other Rhymes. Drawings by Alexander Calder. Edited and with an Introduction by James Johnson Sweeney.

New York: Curt Valentin, 1944.

Quarto, 130 pages. One of 700 unsigned copies on Arnold unbleached paper, from a total edition of 760. A delightful and early book by the great playful sculptor,

(Heartfield, John) Sinclair, Upton.

Petroleum. [Oil!] Roman.

Berlin: Malek Verlag, (1931).

Small thick octavo, 618 pages. Special gold edition for “Auflage 125.000”. First edition thus. This special edition for the 100,000-125,000th copies of this classic

Alechinsky, Pierre.

Pierre Alechinsky, Ideotraces.

Paris: Editions Denoel, 1966.

Quarto, 6 pages, plus 85 plates. First edition, one of 3000 copies from a total of 3100 copies. With an introductory essay by the artist. Slight offset to one page

Matta (Gallerie Rene Drouin) (with an essay by Andre Breton).

Preliminaires sur Matta.

Paris: Rene Drouin, 1947.

Small squarish octavo, unpaginated. First edition of this exhibition catalogue, with a lengthy essay by Breton. Illustrated with three tipped-in reproductions, as welll

Klee, Paul (Berggruen & Cie.) Prevert, Jacques.

l'univers de Klee

Paris: Berggruen & Cie., 1955.

Tall duodecimo, unpaginated. First edition, printed in pochoir by Jacomet, and in lithograph by Mourlot. A beautiful small catalogue, with only slightest rubbing

Kandinsky, Wassily (designed by Max Bill).

Essays uber Kunst und Kunstler.

Bern: Benteli Verlag, (1963). Octavo, 210 pages. Second edition of Kandinsky's seminal text, with an additional forward by Bill. Designed throughout by Bill. Illustrated throughout with Kandinsky's

Roth [Rot], Diter [Dieter] Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art.

Recent Still Life. February 23-April 4, 1966.

Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1966. Squarish octavo, unpaginated. First edition, one of 1000 copies. Numbered and signed with initials by Diter Rot, who created the

Dali, Salvador.

American Fabrics. Silk. Commemorative Issue. 1957 (with original cover design by Dali).

New York: American Fabrics Magazine, 1957.

Folio. 102 pages. First edition of this commemorative special issue of American Fabrics Magazine on the occasion of the sixth silk conference in NYC.

(Huna Research Associates) Long, Max Freedom.

Huna Research Associates - group of thirty-eight bulletins.

Los Angeles: Huna Reseach Associates, 1950.

Convolute of original bulletins: HRA 1, 2, & 3; HRA Telepathic Mutual Healing Group; Compiled HRA Bulletins 1, 2 & 3 comprising bulletins 4 - 26; and

de Lempicka, Tamara (Julien Levy Galleries) Maurois, Andre.

Paintings by Tamara de Lempicka (Barones de Kuffner).

San Francisco: Julien Levy Galleries, c. 1941.

Octavo, one sheet folded, 4 pages with original silver gelatin photograph of de Lempicka's Still Life pasted down to front cover. First edition of

(Clews, Henry) Musee Jacquemart-Andre.

Le Monde Etrange de Henry Clews. Exposition 15-30 Juin 1959.

Paris: Joseph Foret, 1959.

Small octavo, unpaginated. First edition of this exhibition catalogue, apparently coordinated witht he release of the de luxe monograph on Clews by the same name,

Cassandre, A.M.

Color lithograph advertising card for Maison Prunier.

Paris: Maison Prunier, 1934.

Color postcard-sized advertising piece, 3 x 5 inches. Original color lithograph, signed and dated in the image, of fish and a lobster above a white table-clothed dining

Claudel, Paul.

Ideogrammes Occidentaux.

Paris: August Blaizot, 1926.

Thin quarto, 16 pages. First edition, one of 200 copies, of this separate book publication of this short text by Claudel, originally published in the periodical "Le

Computer Graphics. Une Esthetique Programmee.

Mohr, Manfred

Paris: A-R-C Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1971. Squarish octavo, 48 pages. First edition of this catalogue of an exhibition of work by Manfred Mohr, all of which was executed in Fortran

Les Pas sur le Sable. Ornements graves sur bois par Alexandre Noll.

(Noll, Alexandre illustrator) Remy de Gourmont.

Paris: Societe Litteraire de France, 1919. Duodecimo, 60 pages. First edition, one of 975 copies on Rives, from a total of 1000. Illustrated with woodcut ornaments by Alexandre Noll. Noll is perhaps

Medium. communications surrealiste. nouvelle serie, no. 1-4.

Schuster, Jean ed.

Paris: Medium, 1953. Four issues, small quarto all, 178 pages altogether. Complete series. Illustrated throughout. Contributions by Benjamin Peret, Andre Breton, Jean-Louis Bedouis, Julien Gracq,

Vasilisa Prekrasnaja. (The Beautiful Vasilisa).

Bilibin, Ivan Jakovlevic.

St. Petersburg: Staatsdruckerei, 1902. Large quarto, 12 pages. First edition, with eight chromolithograph illustrations in the text, four of which are full pages. The second of nine short fairy tale

Vitalita del Negativo Nell'Arte Italiana 1960/70.

Carlo, Argan Giulio & Achille Bonito Oliva.

Firenza: Centro Di/Edizioni, 1970. Square quarto, unpaginated. First edition of this catalogue of an exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome covering the sixties in Italy. Features the

Frank Lloyd Wright, Aus Dem Lebenswerke Eines

(Wright, Frank Lloyd) de Fries, H.

Berlin: Ernst Pollak, 1926. Quarto, 80 pages, with over 100 illustrations and 9 coloured plates. First edition of this early rare monograph with texts by Wright, de Fries and Richard Neutra. A very

L'architecture vivante en Allemagne Troisième Série.

(Bauhaus) Badovici, Jean.

Paris: Editions Albert Morancé, 1931. Quarto sized portfolio. First edition, 34 pages + 50 black ans white plates. With two articles by Jean Badovici, and 50 photographic plates illustrating

Troisieme Front. Poemes de guerre, suivi de pieces detachees. Illustre par l'Auteur. Third Front and Detached Pieces.

Mesens, E.L.T.

London: London Gallery Editions, 1944.

Octavo, 48 pages. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies signed by the author. The first volume in the London Gallery Editions' series 'Collections of

Railroad Comfort and Patent Furniture. offprinted from The Technology Review.

Giedion, Sigfried.

(Cambridge): The Technology Review, 1945.

Quarto, 24 pages. First edition, of this essay which would eventually appear in Giedion’s magnificent study, Mechanization Takes Command. Thoroughly