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NY: MOMA, 1959. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. decorated tan cloth. Near fine in worn dust wrapper. 192 pages. 9 12/2 x 8 1/2". 93 illustrations. Index.

London: Chartwell, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 128 pages. 28 x 21 cm. Copiously illustrated in color and black and white. Bibliography. Index.

Vienna: Berger Druck, 1909. First edition. leather_bound. Orig. white leather decorated in gilt, black and red. Aeg. Fine in slightly rubbed lettered and decorated box with white cloth tie. Unpaginated. 14.5 x 16.6 cm. Celebrates the Ball Der Stadt in the year 1809 with twelve chromolithographic plates by Geyling, an Austrian painted and stage designer. The images printed on boards present scenes from Viennese history with this one commemorating the second conquest of Vienna by Napoleon, an illustrated score by Hadyn, and commemorating social events in Vienna during 1809. The covers are pristine, white leather designed by Wilhelm Melzer, who also designed the illustrated box holding latter. The Wiener Werkstätte is this publication, one of the loveliest Viennese "dance-gift" of the period -- an outstanding document of the Viennese Art Nouveau. The expressive illustrations show scenes from the Viennese history. One tie lacking.

Paris: Bibliotheque de Arts Decoratifs, 1964. First edition. Paperback. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 98 pages. 21 x 21 cm, illustrated in black and white. Index.

Vienna: Gerlach & Wiedling, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards rebacked and recornered. Very good. Unpaginated. Folio, 58 x 44 cm. Introduction leaf, chromolithographed title and 29 chromolithographed plates, 26 in color. Seder a follower of the Jugendstil movement was the first director of the Ecole Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, founded in 1890. Art Nouveau artist Anton Seder's rare portfolios containing otherworldly compositions of dragons, lizards, fish, lobsters, birds and other exotic, fanciful and beguiling beasties. Seder also was art professor and Director of the Kunstgewerbeschule in Strasbourg. Text in German. New endpapers, a few plate margins renewed or repaired as is the title page with plate images bright and bright clean as issued. Front cover slightly toned.

Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated brown boards. Very good. 31.5 x 45 cm. Seven full page woodcuts. Barlach, an outstanding sculptor of the Expressionist movement whose style has often been called "modern Gothic." Influenced early in his career by Jugendstil, Germany's Art Nouveau style, he vacillated between pursuing sculpture and the decorative arts. His work removed from German museums under the Nazi regime and categorized as "degenerate art." Printed at the Pan-Presse. Text in German.

Mountrath, Ireland: Dolmen Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Fine in fine matching black slipcase. Clarke, Harry. 160 pages. 30 x 21 cm. Limited edition, copy 66 of 125 signed by Bowe, published by Dolmen with an extra suite of eight pates reproduced from Clarke's original drawings for illustrations to Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner." Nos. 126 to 250 published in the USA by H. Keith Burns in Los Angeles. Front cover gilt decoration from a design by Clarke adapted from the binding of the special copies of the 1922 edition of the "Fairy Tales" of Perrault. Irish born, plagued with ill health (tuberculosis) Clarke died an early death at 41. The author was a leading authority on the Arts and Crafts movement in Ireland. Appendix A & B. Notes on The Text. As new copy with the original glassine clear dust wrapper.

Munich & Liepzig: G. Hirth's Kunstverlag, 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated dark rose cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. Near fine. 2 Vols. 872 pages. 30 x 23 cm. Jugend  (German:  "Youth") (1896-1940) was an influential German arts magazine. Founded in Munich by Georg Hirth the weekly was originally intended to showcase German Arts and Crafts, but became famous for showcasing the German version of Art Nouveau.  It was famous for its shockingly brilliant covers and for its avant-garde influence on German arts and culture, ultimately launching the eponymous Jugendstil  ("Youth Style") movement in Munich. In addition to modern illustrations and the ornamentation of Art Nouveau, Jugend featured impressionist and expressionist art, as well. Covers are color lithographs, a cornucopia of interior designs (one by Steinlen) with a host of black and white and color lithographs within the text. Index in Vol. II. Small stamps of H. Leitner, Hamburg front free endpapers and title page.

Paris: Armand Colin, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards, matching endpapers, rebacked. Near fine. Unpaginated. 32.5 x 25 cm. 17 lithographed Art Nouveau illustrations hors texte and a host of decorative floral borders and drawings. Schwabe, a painter and print maker featured allegorical and mythological themes indicating the idealism of the Symbolists. Original wrappers bound-in. Regular edition outside the limited edition of 150. Bound by Blackwell, raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt, bookplate. CARTERET 73. MONOD 4397.

Paris: Editions Albert Levy, 1928. First edition. Boards. Orig. decorative cloth backed boards with full color paper inset on front cover, contents loose as issued in string tied portfolio. Near fine. Folio, 49 x 38 cm. Title leaf: Twenty pochoir lithographs colored by Jean Saude after Benedictus with 86 Art Nouveau and Art Deco textile and wallpaper designs by an artist who was also a chemist who invented bullet proof glass. A stunning array of designs in an amalgam of colors creatively combined, if not normally expected. Pochoir upper cover design, some modest rubbing to backstrip head and foot.

New York: Stein and Day, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth. Near fine in slightly nicked dust wrapper. 296 pages. Copiously illustrated in color and black and white. Hillier concentrates on the great period of poster art -- from about 1870 until World War II. He also traces the development of theatrical and war posters, as well as the role of the poster in the sudden expansion of the advertising industry.

New York: Meredith Press, 1968. 1st American edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. 386 pages. Sixteen plates in full-color and 122 pages of black and white plates with the greater part of the illustrations here, never reproduced previously. Bibliography. Index. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER P272. "An erudite, readable survey of European and American pottery and porcelain....Emphasizes the social and economic aspects in the development of ceramics rather than stylistic factors.