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

Paris., 1979 – 1984.. Original wrappers designed by Guy Rousille, Arthur Cruzeiro-Seixas, Giovanna, Marcel Lannoy and Jean-Pierre Griffoul. .  An extraordinary French artist's periodical, here in the deluxe issue in a series of artist-designed boxes.French art and literary periodical with strong ties to Surrealism, edited by Jean-Marc Debenedetti. Issues dedicated to themes such as L'Objet magique, Lethal, ... du réel, Quant à l'objet, La poésie c'est parfois poème, Refléchier, Amérives. Contributions by Jean Orizet, Pascale Falvigny, Bernard Atmani, Patrick Grainville, Francoise Jones, Philippe Casella, Pierre Sabourin.Each issue in this deluxe set is housed in an artist-designed box reminiscent of Joseph Cornell's work - the three-dimensional objects are housed in glass-fronted boxes, with the issues of Ellébore housed in rear compartments. This set is complete with the special numbers and other subsidiary Ellébore publications.No.1 (1979) - one of 50 copies with a signed… Read More

Paris.: Musee d'Art moderne., 1975.. Postcard. (120 x 165 mm).. Postcard invitation to the vernissage of the exhibition EXIT by Jochen Gerz at the Musee d'Art moderne Paris on the 6th of May 1975, the exhibition ran to the 15th of June.

Paris.: Librairie de l'art., 1876.. Bound in contemporary red calf-backed boards.. Folio.. 20 original etchings by Goncourt. From the edition limited to 300 copies, with this one of 200 examples with the plates printed on Hollande.

Paris.: Librairie de l'Art / Charles Delagrave., 1876.. Loose as issued, later cloth-backed portfolio with flaps and cloth ties, titles to front cover in red and black.. Folio. (470 x 325 mm).. Half-title in red and black, printed title in red and black with large engraved vignette by de Goncourt, nine leaves with Burty's text illustrated with 11 monochrome vignettes and plates (three full-page), ten leaves with 'Catalogue de l'Oeuvre de Jules de Goncourt' with monochrome vignette tail-piece, leaf with 'Index des Eaux-Fortes' recto and 'Liste des Bois' verso, leaf with printer's monochrome vignette, final leaf with justification recto and 20 original monochrome etchings by de Goncourt, each printed recto only on uncut sheets of Hollande; sheet size: c.440 x 310 mm or the reverse. Philippe Burty's catalogue raisonné of Jules de Goncourt's etchings.From the edition limited to 300 numbered copies, with this one of 200 examples with the text on papier teinté and the plates on Hollande.The… Read More

Paris.: Ben Fluxus., 1970.. Loose pages, hole-punched, issued in ring binder. Title label printed in red and black pasted to front board.. 8vo.. Several hundred texts, drawing & photographs reproduced. Edition limited to 751 copies, with this one of 100 copies signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon.Compilation of Ben works, including Quelques Idees, Moi Ben je signe, Esthetique, Cinema, Theatre, Musique, and Poesie. Complete with the series of posters (folded in rear plastic pouch) and the 'Tout' cards in envelopes.

Berlin.: Rainer Verlag., 1992.. Original publisher's white printed wrappers with titles in black.. Small 8vo. (150 x 100 mm).. Half-title, title and printed images / Concrete poetry based on the halving (1/2) fraction, final leaf with imprint and copyright details, all recto only. A very good copy of Wezel's visual mathematical / text artist book.

Planegg / Munich.: Edition UND / Willing Verlag., 1972.. Original publisher's white printed wrappers with titles to front cover and spine in black.. Square 8vo. (180 x 180 mm).. Leaf with imprint verso, printed text, type works and Concrete poetry throughout recto only, final leaf with copyright recto. A very good copy of Wolf Wezel's Concrete poetry artist book.

(Copenhagen).: (Fluxus)., 1963.. Rolled scroll. (c. 210 x 30 mm).. Printed text recto and verso on two conjoined sheets of newsprint paper (1145 x 210 mm unrolled). The scarce Fluxus newspaper roll: 'Ekstra Bladet'.From the edition of unknown size.'...could you prepare a dozen or so fluxus long rolls. [Fluxus Preview Review] (paste them carefully! straight!) maybe some Koeln printer can do them for you quickly. & send a few out. (as drucksache by boat to [a] few N. Y. people: Higgins, Flynt, Mac Low, Brecht, La Monte, Watts, Mekas, etc.) ... send them this way: take small, narrow roll & wrap it in wide - newsprint roll [Ekstr Bladet] then paste edge on itself, so that when they get it they will just read headline; Politiken, they will think it is just wrapping paper and cut it or rip, when cut they will have the wide roll in 100 pieces, nice? so do it like this ... '. (Maciunas to Tomas Schmit, August 1963).'The title Ekstra Bladet is a Fluxus pin, being both the name of a Danish newspaper,… Read More

Cologne.: Galerie Der Spiegel., 1965.. Wrappers with embossed gilt vignette to front cover. Slipcase.. 4to. (330 x 276 mm).. Illustrated through in a combination of offset reproductions of photos by Heinz and Renee Trokes, and reproductions of drawings Edition limited to 400 numbered copies, signed by the artist. This one of 25 edition de tete copies with an original signed watercolour by Heinz Trokes

Paris.: Le Calligraphe, Editions Point du Jour., 1946.. Original publisher's printed wrappers with text to front cover in black and red.. 4to. (224 x 172 mm).. Half-title, justification verso, inserted original colour lithograph (Paysage Habité), printed title in red and black and Guillevic's verse (each leaf with text ornament in red), final leaf with achevé d'imprimer. Edition limited to 306 copies (10 on papier d'Auvergne including 3 nominatifs and 296 on B. F. K. de Rives including 7 nominatifs); copy number 235 on B. F. K. de Rives with the inserted original three-colour lithograph Paysage Habité (215 x 335 mm).The lithograph was printed by Desjobert, Paris and the book, the third from the collection Le Calligraphe, was printed by E. Aulard for Les Editions du Pont du Jour.[Webel 100; pg. 49].

Paris.: Aux depens d'un amateur., 1962.. Loose as issued in publisher's portfolio. Boxed.. Folio.. With 33 illustrations by Vlaminck, of which 5 are coloured (3 double page). Edition limited to 298 copies, one of 183 copies with the illustrations in their final states, on 'Grand vélin d'Arches', this copy unnumbered.

Hannover.: Paul Steegemann Verlag., 1920.. Original printed wrappers. This copy with contemporary newspaper cuttings pasted onto recto and verso of title (images of Hannah Hoch, the first Dada exhibition in Berlin, and an assemblage painting by Hans Citroen). Slight browning to wrappers otherwise a fine copy.. 8vo. (235 x 154 mm).. Richard Huelsenbeck's En avant dada, his history of the beginnings of dada.Huelsenbeck took a prominent part in the foundation of the Zürich and Berlin dada movements. He had been an Expressionist poet and writer but a visit to Zürich in February 1916 and contact with the 'Cabaret Voltaire' caused a change in his outlook. He returned to Berlin in January, 1917, initiating the dada group there. Huelsenbeck edited the 'Dada Almanac' in Berlin in 1920 and wrote this legendary work, 'En Avant Dada', a history of dadaism, in the same year.[see Ades pp. 80 - 81].

Hannover.: Paul Steegemann Verlag, 1920.. Original publisher's cream printed wrappers with titles and typography in red.. 8vo. (235 x 154 mm).. Richard Huelsenbeck's 'En avant dada', his history of the beginnings of dada.Huelsenbeck took a prominent part in the foundation of the Zürich and Berlin dada movements. He had been an Expressionist poet and writer but a visit to Zürich in February 1916 and contact with the 'Cabaret Voltaire' caused a change in his outlook. He returned to Berlin in January, 1917, initiating the dada group there. Huelsenbeck edited the 'Dada Almanac' in Berlin in 1920 and wrote this legendary work, 'En Avant Dada', a history of dadaism, in the same year.[see Ades pp. 80 - 81].

London.: Printed for Taylor and Hessey., 1818.. Full green crushed morocco by Rivière & Son with their signature gilt, boards with triple gilt ruled borders, banded spine with gilt decoration, floral tools and gilt title in 6 compartments, turn-ins with elaborate decorative borders, board edges ruled in gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, later matching green morocco-edged cloth board slipcase.. 8vo. (224 x 150 mm).. Half-title with printer's credit verso, title, leaf with dedication to Thomas Chatterton, two leaves with Keats' 'Preface', leaf with five-line errata and 'Book I' to 'Book IV' of Keats' verse with section title to each 'Book'; several leaves retain uncut deckle edges at foot and outer edges. The first edition of Keats' 'Endymion'.'Endymion' was John Keats' second book, dedicated to Thomas Chatterton, who like Keats and Shelley and Byron, epitomised the Romantic ideal with their precocious talents and tragic early deaths. 'Endymion' was received badly by contemporary reviewers… Read More

London.: William Collins., 1943.. Original publisher's terracotta paper-covered boards with illustration and text in white, matching paper dust-jacket.. 8vo. (222 x 166 mm).. Illustrated with 8 colour plates and 31 monochrome text illustrations. A very good copy of the first edition with the dust-jacket.'Mr. Betjeman knows England as few other writers know it ... To those who know Mr. Betjeman's poetry, this book will merely be a confirmation of those rare qualities of wit, observation and discrimination with which they are familiar.' (From the dust-jacket).This copy with a presentastion on front free endpaper: 'Harold, / Love From, / Betty. / Feb. 22nd. 1944.'.

Liverpool.: Henry Young & Sons., 1910.. Original publisher's cloth, circular vignette portrait and title to upper cover, title gilt to spine, t.e.g., spine darkened, small split to front hinge.. 4to. (292 x 242 mm).. Half-title with justification verso, frontispiece self-portrait of Haden with tissue guardleaf, printed title in red and black, introduction with list of works, exhibitions and chronology and the catalogue illustrated with 109 plates, each with tissue guardleaf reproducing 250 etchings and index. [PROVENANCE: Circular armorial bookplate of Gustave Bourcard to front pastedown, further bookplate of Bourcard to same together with a reproduction photographic portrait of Haden, biographical notices, letters &c. - see below]. Gustave Bourcard's copy with a number of original letters and his extensive annotations.From the edition limited to 225 copies.The scholar and collector Gustave Bourcard (1846 - 1925) was the noted author of a number of important late nineteenth-century and early… Read More

(Paris)., c.1775 - 1822.. Contemporary French mottled calf, banded spine with elaborate decorative gilt tooling and green morocco label with gilt title 'OEUVRES / DE / PONCE' in seven compartments, boards with double gilt rules, marbled endpapers and edges; front board detached, block sound and contents good.. Folio. (520 x 340 mm).. Illustrated with portrait of Ponce and 406 engravings, each tipped-in (one loosely inserted), many leaves with several per page, many with title in manuscript in pencil beneath. An exceptional recueil of Nicolas Ponce's graphic oeuvre, likely constituted by the artist himself, and an important monument to the history of French engraving in the eighteenth century.Nicolas Ponce (1746 - 1831) was a student of Jean-Baptiste-Marie Pierre (1713 - 1789), Etienne Fessard (1714 - 1777) and Nicolas Delaunay (1739 - 1792). As an engraver he produced works primarily after others, including numerous vignettes and book illustrations, for Ovid's Metamorphoses and Orlando Furioso, as… Read More

Caen., 1971, May – June.. Original publisher's printed stapled wrappers with titles and illustration in black (issue 2 with blue tape reinforcement to staples).. 2 vols. 4to. (297 x 210 mm).. Photocopy text printed recto only throughout. A very scarce late Surrealist review published in Caen.Edited by Patrick Fournier, Francois Leperlier, and Jacky Roulland. Cover designs by J. Roulland.[see Le Fonds Paul Destribats 765 for Issue 1].

Paris.: Typ. Lud. Annae Sevestre ... Cum Privilegio Regis., 1708.. Full contemporary red morocco à la dentelle surrounding central vignette of St. Peter (front board) or St. Paul (rear), borders with lyre and other evangelical tools, Saints Peter and Paul at alternating corners, banded spine with green morocco label with gilt title and elaborate decorative tooling in gilt in seven compartments, turn-ins with floral roll tool borders, board edges ruled in gilt, green and cream silk placemarkers, marbled endpapers, a.e.g., later burgundy calf-backed marbled board box with gilt titles to spine.. Folio. (380 x 250 mm).. Engraved frontispiece of the Crucifixion, printed title in red and black with engraved publisher's vignette and the text of 'Epistolae et Evangelia', printed text in Latin in different fonts throughout within double ruled border, large engraved head-piece of the Sermon on the Mount by Giffart to opening of the text, elaborate five-lined decorative initial to same, large engraving to pg.… Read More

Amsterdam.: Editions Duwaer., 1949.. Loose as issued in original wrappers. Ex libris on front flyleaf.. Small folio.. Unpaginated text with 25 tipped-in plates, some in colour, several folding. An unnumbered copy, from the limited edition of 300.Letterpress typography by the artist. Texts by Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart (including his significant “abstraktkonkret-absolut”), Ozenfant, Vantongerloo, Van Doesburg and others, in German, French and English. A superbly designed volume, published in memory of Frans Duwaer.[Ref. “Typographie kann unter Umständen Kunst sein”: Vordemberge-Gildewart Typographie und Werbegestaltung (Landesmuseum Wiesbaden, 1990), no. T444].