Search Results: Titles starting with B from Sims Reed Rare Books

Paris.: E. Dentu, Editeur., 1893.. Orange quarter-morocco, speckled boards, marbled endpapers.. 3 vols. 8vo.. Illustrated throughout in monochrome; index of the 12 issues bound in at rear. A complete set of Le Bambou.'Nous voulons publier des oeuvres d'imagination neuves, sur de sujets passionnants et inconnus, des sujets qui nous conduiront a travers le temps et a travers l'espace ... En un mot, dans une publication nouvelle par sa compsition materielle, nous tenterons d'infuser un esprit hardi et novateur, qui s'adresse a tout le monde et qui emeuve tout le monde. Aucun sacrifice ne nous coutera, pour que l'oeuvre soit tout ensemble luxueuse, commode, parfaitement artistique, originale et documentee'. This quotation taken from the 'avertissement' for le Bambou, best sums up the appeal of this theatrical, literary and artistic periodical.

Washington D. C., Paris, Rome, Athens.: The Black Sun Press., 1945 - 1947.. Each issue loose in original publisher's portfolio (differing sizes and colour paper portfolios for each issue) with printed title.. 6 issues. Folio.. Profusely illustrated in colour and monochrome throughout. A very good complete set of the international Black Sun Portfolio.Published in different cities (Washington D. C., Paris, Rome and Athens) with contributions from eminent figures from various modern movements (see below). Although copies are often in poor condition, the copy offered here is in very good, even exceptional, condition with only some very minor creasing to some of the card portfolios. Volume 1. Portfolio. Washington. Cover leaf, fore leaf and 26 leaves (single sheets and bifolia as issued) of text and plates. Edited by Caresse Crosby. Assistant editor: Harry Thornton Moore; Editorial advisors: Henry Miller (Prose), Selen Rodman (Poetry), Sam Rosenberg (Photography). Texts by Caresse Crosby, Henry… Read More

(Paris).: Le Comité des Quatr'z'Arts., 1892.. Single sheet. (433 x 265 mm).. Black letterpress text printed on brown butcher's paper, the single illustration is covered by a label with the stamped text 'Dessin supprimé par la censure.' The scarce, ephemeral invitation to the first of the 'Bal des Quat'z'Arts'.The 'Bal des Quat'z'Arts', which took place on 23 April 1892, was organised for students of architecture, painting, sculpture and engraving at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. The event was held in the Elysée Montmatre and behaviour was modest by comparison to standards reached in subsequent years. The owner's name is handwritten in pencil. The invitation has been folded down the centre.

Vienna.: Wilhelm Melzer., 1909.. Bound in original decorated leather with gold, red and black armorial stamping.. Square 8vo.. 12 colour lithographs by Geyling. The iconic ladies' program for the 1909 Ball der Stadt.For the 1909 Ball der Stadt, the ball committee commissioned Remigius Geyling and Wilhelm Melzer to design a program as a ladies' souvenir.The Ball was held to commemorate the second conquest of Vienna by Napoleon and showing an illustrated score by Haydn and commemorating events in Vienna during the Napoleonic War of 1809.

London., 1972.. Original publisher's white card wrappers with titles to front cover in black.. 8vo. (164 x 114 mm).. White card with inserted folded leaf of cream paper with exhibition details recto and verse verso and single mounted photographic plate captioned 'A Day of Pleasure' with the 'GG' stamp in red at lower right. The scarce announcement card to the exhibition 'The Bar' in 1972.Three shows by Gilbert & George opened simultaneously in November 1972 (Anthony D’OffayGallery, Situation and Nigel Greenwood), all shows related to drinking at Ball’s Brothers Wine Bar in Bethnal Green in London. Both Gilbert & George were arrested and locked up on separate occasions in the 1970s. Drinking became their lives and art, a total art work.The photograph in this invite, as usual during this period of work, apparently shows George in a skewed doorway, demonstrating the effects of intoxication. The adjacent verse is gin-related and reads as follows: 'From the Cradle as a Kiddy / To the Bottle I… Read More

Stuttgart / London.: edition hansjörg mayer., 1979.. Original publisher's scarlet cloth and original dust-jacket with tinted photograph illustration over covers and spine, printed titles in black to front cover and black and matching slipcase.. Large 8vo. (234 x 176 mm).. Monochrome frontispiece portrait of Roth, leaf with dedication recto and presentation verso, title with limitation verso, introduction and catalogue illustrated with xx colour images, biography, list of exhibitions and final leaves with list of the Gesammelte / Collected works. From the edition limited to 4500 copies, with this one of 1,000 copies from the édition de tête bound in cloth and with the additional inserted folded card with Dieter Roth's 'original speedy drawing' 'Selfportrait as a Sprinter' executed in pencil and with additional highlighting in colour sigend and dated in pencil.

1990.. Original publisher's wrappers, stapled. . 4to. (210 x 195 mm).. Illustrated throughout with monochrome photographs. Text in German, Italian and English. Published to accompany the Bernd and Hilla Becher / Raymond Mucha exhibition at the German Pavilion, Venice Biennale 1990. (Commissioner: Klaus Bussmann).The publication includes the essay 'Das Deutschlandgerat' by Raymond Mucha (1990) and a biography of Bernd and Hilla Becher.

London / 118 New Bond Street.: Kasmin Gallery., (1963).. Single sheet of card, (210 x 148 mm).. Illustration printed in monochrome with detailing in red; text printed below in red. A very rare Kasmin Gallery Christmas card reproducing a David Hockney drawing of holly.

Pisa.: Nicolas Capurro, Lung'Arno., 1828.. Full contemporary vellum, gilt decoration and titles to spines.. 3 vols. 12mo. (198 x 122 mm).. Printed title to each vol., vol. I with leaf with dedication 'To the Chevalier Louis Chiaveri', 'Preface' by the translator, introduction by Manzoni dated 'Milano, 25 Gennajo, 1828', leaf with 'Advertisement' and Manzoni's text in 34 chapters (XI in vol. I, XII. in vol. II and XI in vol. III), final leaf of vol. I with advertisements, final leaf of final vol. with errata verso. [PROVENANCE: Engraved bookplate of [Austen] Henry Layard to front pastedown with 'Perseverando' above his arms containing the motto 'Juvante Deo'; engraved bookplate of bibliophile Robert J. Hayhurst to front free endpaper with his note attributing authorship of the translation]. The very rare first edition in English of Alessandro Manzoni's masterpiece of Italian literature 'I Promessi Sposi'.'Il più celebre romanzo della letterattura Italiano.' (Fabrizio Govi).Alessandro Manzoni's… Read More

Munich.: Aktionsraum 1., 1970.. Large sheet of white paper. (863 x 608 mm).. Monochrome screenprint image recto only. Poster for the 'Bewohner' art performance.A poster without text, consisting only of a photograph of a young girl. This was one of the portrait ‘heads’ that appeared in the windows and balconies of the apartment building reproduced on Nemetschek's poster for the 'Bewohner' performance.In 1969 Eva Madelung (patron), Peter Nemetschek (artist photographer) and Alfred Gulden (theatre studies) established Aktionsraum 1 as an avant-garde collective in Munich. They created a space for young artists in which conventional works and presentational forms from the art-world were to be avoided in favour of providing an effective public platform for the new performative art.Over the next year, 50 projects concerned with actionism, performance, and Arte Povera took place in a rented and empty factory on Waltherstrasse. Artists such as Klaus Rinke, HA Schult, Jochen Gerz, Christian… Read More

London.: Grey Editions., 1986.. Publisher's wrappers, lightly worn at edges.. Oblong 4to.. Unpaginated, with 33 four-color plates. Signed copy of Paul Graham's 'Beyond Caring'.'Beyond Caring is a searing indictment of the conditions in social security and unemployment benefit offices across Britain. Throughout 1984 and 1985 photographer Paul Graham visited the waiting rooms, corridors and cubicles of the Department of Health and Social Security and the Department of Employment, to document the squalor, all-day queues and inadequate service in this most vital section of the welfare state. Each photograph dramatically conveys the misery and sheer human waste endured by the many millions at the poorer end of our society. They build to form a unique document of the suffering and hardship caused under the current welfare benefits system, and give powerful voice to the argument for its compassionate reform.' (From publisher's statement). [Parr, M. and Badger, G., The Photobook: A History Vol.2, p.300].

Paris.: Les Editions Lapina., 1928.. Original wrappers, slip case.. 8vo.. 5 original etchings on Verge de Rives by Louis Icart, one additional original etching, the portrait of the author, by L. Madrassi. From the edition limited to 1162 copies.

St. Petersburg., 1910.. Original wrappers, chipped at edges.. 8vo.. Monochrome text illustrations. Text in Russian. Presentation copy from the Russian scientist Nekrasov.Vladimir Bekhterev (1857-1927), the prolific neurologist and social psychologist, studied at the Military Medical Academy of St. Petersburg the same time as Pavlov, obtaining his doctorate in 1881 and returning in 1893 as a professor of psychic and nervous diseases. Among his many accomplishments, he founded the first experimental psychology laboratory at the University of Kazan in 1885 and the Psychoneurological Institute in 1908, which has since been renamed in his honour. He described the large bundles of the brain stem and the pia mater nodes of the base of the brains; studied and described the reticular formation in 1885, and established the precise location of the taste centre within the brain cortex in 1900. He has been eponymously recognised by having several brain structures, such as "Bechterev's Nucleus," named after him.

(Brussels).: (Herman Daled)., (1971).. Single sheet of thin black tissue with minuscule central printed gold text. (Sheet size: 365 x 495 mm). A superb copy of James Lee Byars' fragile conceptual book.James Lee Byars had intended to collect the important questions of 100 eminent thinkers - in the fields of art, science, philosophy and theology - although many of the eminent thinkers refused to respond. He had previously performed 'I'm Collecting Questions' in 1969 and, in association, his slightly later work 'The World Question Center'. In conjunction with both of these performances, Byars issued this, his conceptual book with imaginary covers with central printed text in gold of 100 questions (or statements made into questions with the addition of a question mark) in 1971 as 'The Black Book' at a performance in Belgium. The work was later used as the cover for an issue of Flash Art; the title 'The Black Book' was also used for a Byars show at the Michael Werner Gallery in Cologne.This copy has… Read More

London.: B4 Publishing., 1988 – 1991.. Original publisher's colour boards, gilt titles to front covers.. 6 vols. Folio. (421 x 303 mm).. Original lithographs, screenprints, relief prints, woodcuts, collages throughout, with the majority signed. Complete set of the richly illustrated periodical 'Blank Page,' an impressive and extensive survey of the plastic arts.Blank Page was a biannual portfolio publication, designed and edited by Philip Dobree with Adrian Self. It is notable for its display of original works of pure abstraction (many signed and numbered), interspersed throughout with critical texts by significant theorists, writers and designers. Presented as original multiples, the works featured include lithographs, screenprints, relief prints, woodcuts, collages, etc. Volume 6, the final publication, is particularly rich in its gathering of many leading practitioners of pure abstraction, such as Charles Biederman, Cesar Domela, Anthony Hill, Michael Kidner, Francois Morellet and George… Read More

Berlin.: Galerie Ferdinand Möller., 1928.. Publisher's wrappers, stapled.. 8vo. (21 x 15 cm).. With 7 black and white illustrations. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, November 1928. With texts by Will Grohmann, Ferdinand Möller, and Willi Wolfradt. At the exhibition 22 paintings and 19 watercolours were shown.

Prague.: Ladislav Kuncir., 1927.. Original printed wrappers.. 8vo. (204 x 126 mm).. First editon, limited to 1000 copies. Typography and original wrappers, designed by Vít Obrtel. Fine typographical cover design by Obrtel, with black lettering and a blue circle, the latter repeated on the title page.

Paris.: Editions Jeanne Bucher., 1983.. Original publisher's printed wrappers with titles to front cover and spine after Dubuffet's manuscript, original grey cloth slipcase.. 8vo. (248 x 172 mm).. Monochrome text and illustration printed recto and verso throughout: text and illustration after Dubuffet's original manuscript including pictorial title and 26 monochrome illustrations (one double-page, the remainder full-page), penultimate leaf recto with justification, final leaf recto with achevé d'imprimer. Dubuffet's 'Bonpiet beau neuille.'Edition of 89 numbered copies on vélin d'Arches including the first 10 with an original drawing, 70 signed and numbered, 6 hors commerce numbered in Roman numerals and 3 'hors tirage en surplus' also numbered in Roman numerals; copy numbered 'II / VI' and signed by Dubuffet in black ink to the justification.' ... texte autographe de Jean Dubuffet calligraphié et illustré de 27 dessins à l'encre de Chine réalisés en octobre et novembre 1982 imprimé en… Read More

(Providence, Rhode Island?).: (By the artist)., (1958–64).. Loose as issued in original publisher's black wrappers, original grey cloth box.. Square folio. (424 x 428 mm).. Initial green leaf with manuscript colophon / justification and dedication (see below), 24 leaves of alternating green and red each with 90 degree hand-cut slots, final blank red leaf; sheet size: 404 x 408 mm. A very rare hand-cut 'slot book' by Di[e]ter Rot[h] with red and green sheets.From the proposed edition of 25 copies (although far fewer were issued, see The Dieter Roth Times quoted below) inscribed on the initial orange leaf in pencil: 'NR. 8 / 25 / DITER ROT / BOOK B / IDEA 1958 SC. 1964' and with the artist's thumbprint in black ink. Inscribed in blue ink 'fûr Kees Broos, Souvenir aus Basel / Marz 1987 / Dieter Roth.'This copy also includes an additional sheet of black paper with hand-cut slots, not called for, and presumably included in error.'As of 1958, Roth created works that rest between print-making and… Read More

London.: H.S. Nichols and Co., 1894.. Original publisher's black cloth with large gilt Islamic motif and title in Arabic (Alf Layla wa Layla) to front covers, gilt calligraphic Arabic titles to rear covers, vignettes and English titles gilt to spines, cream glazed endpapers, t.e.g.. 12 vols. Large 8vo. (257 x 174 mm).. Half-title, frontispiece with Arabic quotations verso and printed title in red and black to each vol., 'Editor's Note', reproduction of the title in red and black of the Kamashastra Edition, leaf with black-bordered dedication to 'John Frederick Steinhauser, contents and 'The Translator's Preface' to vol. 1 and Burton's text translated from the Arabic; publisher's slip inserted between endpapers of each vol. A beautiful set of Sir Richard Burton's translation of Alf Layla wa Layla, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night.The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, a closer translation of the Arabic title of Alf Layla wa Layla than 'The Thousand and One Nights' is narrated by… Read More