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Koln: Galerie Ferdinand Möller. Very Good. 1953. First Edition. Paperback. 8 pages; Clean and complete in stapled self-wrapper. Exhibition list for a group show including Gottfried Diehl, Johanna Schutz-Wolff, Peter Steinforth. OCLC 79640607 RE: The Gallery: Ferdinand Möller (1882-1956) was a high-profile German art dealer and gallery owner. Möller's career was at its height through the years of the German Republic. After 1933, being neither Jewish nor among those identified by the party as a government opponent, he remained a leading figure in the German art world, although the nature of the arts business was transformed during the Hitler years. About 1937 Möller was obliged to end his involvement with organising art exhibitions. In 1938 Möller became one of four leading art dealers mandated to dispose of art works confiscated in the campaign against so-called degenerate art. Many sources assert or imply that he found opportunities to interpret his… Read More

Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 144 pages; Publisher's white cloth, with a vivid design in blue -- repeated on the dust jacket. Fine, apart from staining to the endpapers caused by glue used in the binding process. The dust jacket shows only light wear at the spine tips, unclipped. One of 4000 copies printed. A well illustrated retrospective of the development of the collection of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy over its first hundred years. .

Bern: Verlag Paul Haupt. Very Good. 1957. Stiff Wrappers. 30 pages; 15 pages of b&w photographic illustrations. Includes three articles on decorated eggs. Former owner's name on front wrappers (Irene Emery), upper right corner bent, otherwise very good. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Hempstead: Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University. Near Fine. 1972. First Edition. Paperback. 32 pages; Hempstead: Near Fine. 1972. First Edition. 32 pages; Clean and secure in original glossy wrappers. Introduction by Robert Doty. Includes information about and 1 black and white image from each of these photographers: Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Solomon D. Butcher, Alfred Stieglitz, Charles H. Currier, Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Andre Kertesz, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Emmet Gowin, and Duane Michals. OCLC 20352915 . ; Art and Art History, Photography, Most Recent Listing .

Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum. Very Good. 1948. First Edition. Paperback. 48 pages; Clean and tight in original pictorial wrappers. Brief biographies accompanied by photographs of examples of each artist's work. .

London: Messrs. Henry and Company. Very Good-. 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. [14], 266, [8] pages; Contents clean and secure in original pinkish brown cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front board and six gilt ornaments to front board of bird with a leaved branch with berries. Binding has some wear at spine ends and lower corners, a half inch abrasion at edge of spine and a half inch spot on rear board. OCLC 317949455 Cloth binding designed by Charles Ricketts; endpapers by Lucien Pissarro. Illustrated with 23 Plates; ornate capitals and a few text illustrations. Literary contents include Austin Dobson, Edmund Gosse, Max Beerbohm et al. Illustrations includes pictures by Gustave Moreau, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Charles Condor, Edward Burne Jones, George Frederick Watts, Charles Hazelwood Shannon; Walter Crane, et al.; lacks the two leaves with Lucien Pissarro woodcut (pp 59-62). Includes the essay "The Pictures of Gustav Moreau" by Gleeson White. .

Berlin: Max Lichtwitz. Very Good. 1947. First Edition. Stiff card boards. 118 pages; Clean and secure in original stiff boards with green cloth spine, white title label at spine printed in red and orange boards printed in white. Unpaginated. Frontispiece, plus 74 b&w reproductions, 7 colour reproductions. OCLC 1230459785 Introduction by Will Grohmann. Design by Prof. Kurt Tillessen. Artists exhibited include Ernst Geitlinger, Edgar Ehses, Jeanne Mammen, Otto Hofmann, Wolfgang Frankenstein, Negro sculpture, Hans Thiemann, Herbert Spangenberg, Wilhelm Haerlin, Herbert Mhe, Hans Kuhn, Luise S. Stomps, Theodor Werner, Hans Uhlmann; plus the 2nd Annual Gerd Rosen Group Artists Show with works from Willi Baumeister, Alexander Camaro, Edgar Ehses, Wolfgang Frankenstein, Ernst Geitlinger, Karl Otto Gotz, Karl Hartung, Werner Heldt, Itto Hofmann, Jure Kubicek, Hans Kuhn, Curt Lahs, Jeanne Mammen, E.W. Nay, Herbert Spangenberg, Luise Sophie Stomps, Paul Strecker, Christian Theunert,… Read More

London: William Weston Gallery. Very Good. 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Catalogue 3; 128 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial wrappers. OCLC 42613657 126 illustrations, of which 20 are colour. A notable selection of works of fine art. Laid-in broadside with details of the exhibition and sale. Order Form laid-in. Works by Archipenko, Arp, Bonnard, Braque, Calder, Cezanne, Chagall, Ernst, Delacroix, Dufy, Kollwitz, Maillot, Manet, Millet, Munch, Nolde, Picasso, Redon, Renoir, Roualt, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vasarely, Vuillard, Matisse, et al. .

New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. Paperback. Contents clean and tight in original plain card wrappers in dustwrapper reproducing colour lithograph from Jean Arp. Dustjacket has a couple spots. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum. Very Good+. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 41 pages; Publisher's pictorial wrappers [front cover is a color reproduction of a painting by Emil Nolde]. A scarce catalogue, illustrated in color and b/w, with text in Dutch. Commemorates a 1960 exhibition in Amsterdam -- Tentoonstelling Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 30 juni-19 september 1960. .

Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft. Very Good. 1951. First Edition. Paperback. 24 pages; Catalogue of an exhibition at Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hannover. Introductory text by Hentzen. Illustrated with 16 b&w reproductions. OCLC: 78909070 Artists represented include: Oskar Goller, Hann Trier, Karl Fred Dahmen, Wolfgang Frankenstein, Karl Otto Gotz, Otto Greis, Georg Meistermann, Gustav Deppe, Paul Wendt, Horst Skodlerrak, etc. .

Washington DC: Department of Housing and Urban Development. Very Good. 1971. First Edition. Paperback. 68 pages; Oblong, illustrated wrappers. Double page centerfold with multiple colour images of the winning Design Projects; plus b&w illustrations throughout. Introduction about the awards process and members of the jury. Winning Urban Design Concepts are described and pictured in detail (models and architectural diagrams)including: Detroit 1990, Jonathan New Town, Metro Center 1985, Reading Downtown East, Skyline Urban Renewal, and Yerba Buena Center. Winning Project Designs also are described and pictured in detail: Acorn Housing, Banneker Homes, Christopher Columbus School, Crown College Residence Halls, Diamond Heights Housing, Dwight Cooperative Townhouses, Medgar Evers Memorial Pool, Homestead Valley, Housing for the Elderly, Lower Grassy-Trace Branch Community Center, Marinview, Nine-G Cooperative, Northridge House, Dan Ryan Rapid Transit Station, Santa Venetia Oaks, 727 Front… Read More

Szombathely: Savaria Muzeum. Very Good. 1985. Paperback. 48 pages; Clean and tight in original pictorial wrappers. OCLC: 18168361; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Szombathelyi Keptar. Very Good. 1990. Paperback. 120 pages; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Otterlo: Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller. Very Good. 1968. First Edition. Paperback. Exhibition catalogue for shows at Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller - May 4, 1968 through July 7, 1968 and at Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen in Rotterdam - September 17, 1968 through November 4, 1968. Clean and tight in original wrappers. Wrappers have a few creases at lower front corner. OCLC: 14866219; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Praha: Nova Sin Kveten. Very Good+. 1991. Paperback. 14 pages; Fourteen pages including a two page extract translated into English. Clean and tight in original stiff wrappers. Illustrations of some of her magnificent textile sculptures ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

New York: Sidney Janis Gallery. Very Good+. 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Clean and tight in original glossy wrappers. An exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery opening Monday 4 to 7, October 1 thru 27, 1962. Fifteen works illustrated, along with two images of the exhibition. Adolph Gottlieb (1903 – 1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He was one of the most traveled New York Artists. In 1923, he studied at Parsons School of Design and Cooper Union. After a one man show in the 1930s, Gottlieb achieved recognition from the art community. From 1935 until 1940, Gottlieb and nine others (Ben-Zion, Ilya Bolotowsky, Louis Harris, Jack Kufeld, Mark Rothko, Louis Schanker, etc.) known as “The Ten” exhibited their works together. They became known as the Abstract Expressionists. .

Baden-Baden: Woldemar Klein Verlag. Very Good-. 1950. Paperback. 66 pages; Contents clean and secure in original yellow pictorial wrappers; dust soiling to wrappers. Contents include: Ferdinand Herrmann - On the Material, Subject Matter and Style of African Sculpture; Eckhart von Sydow - The Animal in African Sculpture; Julius F. Glück - The Art of Brass in Africa; Heinz Lucas - African Masks; Ferdinand Herrmann - On the Interpretation of African Sculpture; Elsa Dziomba - A European Sculptor in South Africa. 124 photographs of traditional objects, 43 photographs of contemporary African art. From the collection of Stefan P. Munsing [1915-1994] who worked in New York City as a designer for Hans Knoll, Norman Bel Geddes and RCA. Munsing served in the Army in World War II, then as Chief of the Monuments, Fine-Arts & Archives Section in Munich. The MFAA was an Army unit locating stolen artworks which had disappeared into the huge Nazi hoards during the war. [The "Monuments… Read More

New York: Judge Company. Very Good. 1908. First Edition. Print. 1 pages; Image clean and clear, with bright white matting. Image measures 13 X 9.25 inches; matted measures 22 X 14 inches. Full page cover of JUDGE magazine for April 11, 1908 depicting William Jennings Bryan as a golliwog (African American caricature) with a basket of eggs representing electoral delegates, some of them dropping to the floor and cracking. Beyond the door is a sign pointing to Denver (site of the Democratic National Convention), and hiding in the dark is an image of Bryan's primary challenger Minnesota Governor John Albert Johnson with a threateningly raised hatchet labeled "Minnesota Delegates." The 1908 U.S. Presidential election occurred in the backdrop of the Progressive achievements of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's second term as well as against the U.S. recovery following the Panic of 1907. In this election, Roosevelt's chosen successor, Republican William Howard… Read More

Zürich & Lausanne: ETH Zürich. Very Good+. 1978. First Edition; First Printing. Paperback. 175 pages; Publisher's dark grey wrappers, with printing and a design in white. Scarce significant exhibition catalogue on the great Italian born modernist master Alberto Sartoris [1901-1998] -- jointly prepared by ; Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule Zurich & Ecole Polytechnique Lausanne (where Sartoris left his archive). Texts (in German and French) by E. Bianchi,Th. Bogaet J. Gubler. Préface by B. Reichlin. Limited to 1000 copies. OCLC Number: 757289000 or 74481052. Ausstellungskatalog -- Text in Deutsch und Französisch (Catalogue biliingue Français- Allemand). Errata leaf laid in. .