Search Results: Authors starting with C from Sims Reed Rare Books

Basel.: Galerie D'Art Moderne., 1971.. Original wrappers.. 8vo. (210 x 147 mm).. 7 monochrome illustrations. Brief guide accompanying the exhibition of works by Calder held at the Galerie D'Art Moderne from the 12th of June to the 14th of August 1971.

Turin.: Palazzo a Velo., 1983.. Original wrappers.. 8vo.(215 x 116 mm).. Numerous monochrome illustrations. Guide to the Calder retrospective held at the Palazzo a Velo in Turin from July to September 1983.

Bruxelles.: Galerie Francois Meyer., 1971.. Original card with grey text against a yellow background to covers.. 4to. (245 x 215 mm).. Leaflet accompanying the exhibition of Calderara's work at Galerie Francoise Mayer 11th May to 5th June 1971, with biographical note, bibliography and list of Calderara's exhibitions since 1960.

Hannover.: Kestner-Gesellschaft., 1968.. Original publisher's stapled wrappers.. 8vo. (164 x 209 mm).. Monochrome and colour illustrations throughout. Published to accompany the exhibition of Antonio Calderara at Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover from January 25 - February 25 1968. With texts by Albert Schulze Vellinghausen, Jean Christophe Amman and Kurt Leonhard.

Nurnburg.: Galerie Defet., 1969.. Original card, screenprinted titles on front cover, minor foxing.. 4to. (200 x 212 mm).. Card folded 3 times with original screenprint. Leaflet accompanying the exhibition of Antonio Calderara's work at Galerie Defet with note by H. Gappmayr, biographical note and list of Calderara's exhibitions since 1960.

Stirling.: Eneas Mackay., 1930.. Original publisher's chocolate calf-backed moiré patterned silk cloth, label to front cover with gilt titles, cream dust-jacket ruled in red and black, titles to front cover and spine in black.. Folio. (420 x 306 mm).. Half-title with justification verso, tipped-in leaf with signed original etching by Cameron verso (see below), printed title with copyright and editions verso, leaf with dedication, leaf with contents, leaf with illustrations, prefaces to the editions and text illustrated with 10 plates reproducing wash drawings. An excellent copy of the de luxe edition with Cameron's signed original etching.From the edition limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Cameron and Graham to the justification.The frontispiece is a signed original etching, 'Lake of Menteith' by Cameron which appears here only; the plate was subsequently destroyed.A first edition was published in 1895 with a second in 1907. The copyright notes that all rights are 'reserved except in… Read More

Prague.: Aventinum., 1921.. Publisher's cloth with gilt titles to front cover.. 4to. (234 x 188 mm).. Linocut endpapers printed in two colours, the frontispiece and two linocut illustrations by Josef Capek. A fine example of book design by Josef Capek (1887-1945), who was a significant figure of the Czech avant-garde movement. Limited to 1,000 copies.

Prague.: Zátisi, Knihy srdce i ducha., 1920.. Original publisher's printed wrappers.. 12mo. (143 x 94 mm). Original wrappers, with linocut cover, in red, on off-white stock by Josef Capek.

Paris.: L'Edition d'Art Henri Piazza., 1926.. Original publisher's purple printed wrappers for each vol., title to front covers and spines with elaborate decoration in the Islamic manner in gilt and turquoise, suites loose in separate paper board portfolios, slipcase for each vol. with gilt decoration.. 12 vols. 4to. (312 x 240 mm).. Each vol. with decorative half-title and title by Racim Mohammed in Islamic illuminated style and twelve hors-texte colour plates by Léon Carré (vol. IX with ten plates, vol. XII with 14), each plate on paper with printed decorative pattern and gilt border, tales with elaborate Islamic illuminated titles, bismillah head-pieces and 12-line initials, each 'Night' with decorative head-piece in differing colours and 6-line initials, text with Islamic printed borders in differing colours, index with list of plates, justification and achevé d'imprimer to each vol. A very fine copy - in original wrappers as issued - with an additional suite of the plates in black.From the… Read More

Milan.: Galleria Schwarz., 1970.. Original publisghers wrappers.. 8vo. (240 x 170 mm).. 10 black and white plates. Catalogue of the exhibition Carrega held at the Galleria Schwarz from the 5th to the 30th of May 1970. Text in Italian, French and English which comprises Carrega's poetic text in the context of the exhibited works. With biography and list of exhibited works.

Paris.: Mazo Lebouc., 1991.. Loose as issued in publisher's wrappers, housed in rust cloth box.. Folio. (603 x 430 mm).. Illustrated with eight full-page colour lithographs signed in pencil and colour lithograph text illustrations and designs. From the edition limited to 230 copies signed by the author and artist.

London.: Rudolph Ackermann., 1840.. Publisher's cloth, rubbed on spine and forecorners, some staining to boards, paint marks on rear pastedown.. 8vo.. pp. 47, 8 adverts + 11 coloured plates. "The Author's long experience as an artist (together with the success of those who have been taught by him, on a system which includes precept and example on a portrait or composition, landscape, etc. painted in the presence of the pupil), enables him to undertake, with confidence, the instruction of amateurs in the art. His terms are Half-a-Guinea for a lesson of two hours, at the residence of the pupil.It is needless to point out, to connoisseurs, the great importance of confiding a damaged painting to the care and superintendence of an artist, instead of entrusting it to the experimental efforts of a mere mechanic." (Cawse).

Paris.: Tériade Editeur., 1948.. Loose as issued in original publisher's printed wrappers with titles in black to front covers, chemises with labels to spines, without slipcase.. 2 vols. Folio. (388 x 286 mm).. Half-title and title for each vol. half-title of vol. I with justification verso and Gogol's text illustrated with 96 original etched plates and 22 etched initials by Marc Chagall, 'Table', engraved 'Table' on 11 leaves recto only for the placement of the engravings and final leaf with achevé d'imprimer and colophon. Marc Chagall's masterful illustrations for Gogol's 'Dead Souls'.From the edition limited to 370 numbered copies signed by Chagall, with this one of 50 from the édition de tête, however this example is without the extra suite printed on Japon Nacré.The 96 prints for Gogol's masterpiece were executed between 1927 and 1930 for Vollard but Tériade was the first to publish them.[Cramer 17].

Paris.: Georges Courville., 1933.. Loose as issued in wrappers.. 4to.. With 19 original drypoint etchings by Edgar Chahine, including portrait frontispiece and eight hors-texte. Edition limited to 215 copies, with this copy unnumbered, printed on japon imperial with an extra suite of the etchings printed with remarques.

Paris., 1923 – 1924.. Contemporary blue cloth-backed marbled boards, original publisher's pictorial colour printed wrappers for each issue preserved, bookplate of 'Librairie du Spectacle, Garnier Arnoul' to front pastedown.. Small folio. (274 x 194 mm).. Printed text in double columns in French with songs, articles, letters, quotations, printed music, caricatures, vignettes and photographic portraits. A very scarce complete set of the revue devoted to the singers and songs of Montmartre.Founded by Roger Toziny ('poète-chansonnier') as a forum - an impartial one - for the discussion, appreciation and criticism of those songs from the cabarets, night-clubs and music halls of Montmartre. 'Les Chansons de la Butte' looks back to the heyday of Le Chat Noir and its aftermath but also to the contemporary song. The first issue features a photograph of Henri Fursy (Président de l'Association Amicale des Chansonneurs) to the front wrapper and begins with a laudatory letter from Jacques Ferny (the author… Read More

London.: ICA., 1996.. Complete set of 36 original colour photographs, each 100 x 142 mm. With justification 'Zygotic Exposure, 1996. 36 originals by Dinos and Jake Chapman', signed by both artists. The Chapman Brothers' random photographic multiple work.Published in conjunction with the Chapman brothers notorious Chapmanworld exhibition at London's ICA gallery (May - July 1996) was the photographic work 'Zygotic Exposure'. The edition consisted of 100 undeveloped colour films, each made up of a completely different set of images taken by the brothers. As the ICA's sales pitch said at the time, 'it could be anything or it could be nothing'. It was the responsibility of the purchaser to have the film developed.This set consists almost entirely of the brother's trademark zygotic mannequins in staged set-ups in their studio. Situated in the cavernous dark spaces of a deserted warehouse, the Chapman's studio is seemingly full of the dismembered limbs of their pubescent mannequin sculptures, their… Read More

(Alès).: P[ierre]. A[ndré]. B[enoit]., (1962).. Full terracotta calf by Pierre-Lucien Martin with his signature in blind and dated 1962, front board with inset panel of polished wood incised with the contributors names, title to spine in blind, wood doublures and endpapers, matching wool-lined calf-backed card board chemise and matching slipcase.. Oblong 4to. (222 x 270 mm).. Title, leaf with list of contributors, aphorisms by Braque and Char illustrated with 8 tipped-in original monochrome photographs by Mariette Lachaud and PAB each with caption, leaf with list of subjects and attribution and justification. An excellent copy of this scarce book by PAB marking the friendship of the four contributors in a beautiful binding by Martin.From the edition limited to 21 copies, signed and numbered by PAB and with Lachaud's final photograph signed in pencil.The 8 photographs illustrate two aphorisms, the first 'Chemin faisant ainsi va l'amitié' by George Braque and the second 'Nous n'avons pas de… Read More

(Paris).: Le Comité du Bal des Quatr'z'Arts., 1893.. Single sheet of card. (138 x 320 mm).. Lithograph illustration in bistre by Jules Chéret above printed letterpress text in black (see below). A scarce ephemeral illustrated invitation to the second Bal des Quatr'z'Arts held at the Moulin-Rouge in 1893.Held on Feburary 9th, the 'Bal Costumé' began at midnight and continued until 5 o'clock. As the invitation, in an effort to encourage original and interesting costume, states: 'Le costume est de rigueur, la blouse, l'habit, le moine et le domino noir sont interdits'.The invitation, with the lithograph by Jules Chéret, features a stamped number (no. 2621, suggesting a large number of guests) and the owner's name 'Monsieur [printed] Delfau', written in the appropriate space in black ink. The invitation also bears the stamp of the 'Ecole des Beaux-Arts / Atelier Laloux'.

Wroclaw.: Galeria Kwartal., 1974.. Loose in original publisher's printed glossy wrappers.. 8vo. (200 x 124 mm).. An excellent example of thi scarce catalogue for Bruce Cheyne's Polish exhibition.The booklet was published to accompany the exhibition of little-known British visual poet Bruce Cheyne (b.1940). The fold-out catalogue illustrates Cheyne's tantric diagrammatical style of poetry.

Paris.: Le Livre du Bibliophile, Georges Briffaut, Editeur., 1941.. Loose as issued in original publisher's printed wrappers with titles in red and black to front cover and spine, burgundy board chemise with paper label with titles to spine and matching slipcase.. Small folio. (330 x 254 mm).. Half-title with justification verso, inserted leaf with original colour etching by Chimot as frontispiece, printed title in red and black, dedication to Théophile Gautier, 'Au Lecteur' and Baudelaire's verse illustrated with 20 etchings in colour by Edouard Chimot (frontis. included), 'Table des Matières' and final leaf with achevé d'imprimer From the edition limited to 500 numbered copies, with this one of 26 from the édition de tête on Japon Impérial with five planches refusées (in three states), an original signed drawing for one of the plates and two additional suites of the plates, each with remarques.The material with this set includes:1. 20 colour etchings as published.2. 20 colour etchings… Read More