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

(London?).: (Hours Press?)., (1931).. Loose as issued.. 4to. (254 x 202 mm).. Drop-head title, section title 'Exposition of the Facts' and printed text recto and verso on thick wove paper, signature Y. Cloud at foot of text; central horizontal fold and trace of paperclip to verso of second leaf. An excellent example of this very scarce English Surrealist tract on Buñuel and Dalì's film 'L'Age d'Or' likely written by Nancy Cunard and Louis Aragon and printed at Cunard's own Hours Press.This scarce English-language tract, likely printed shortly before the first showing of 'L'Age 'Or' in England in January 1931, opens with 'Exposition of the Facts', which details the initial reception of the film in France, analyses the scandal it caused and outlines the resulting outcry, political and religious, and its final effects. The second, untitled section of the tract assesses the film itself, quotes from 'Le Figaro' and refers in detail to its content and delineates its meaning. Written under a pseudonym,… Read More

Moscow.: Published by the author., 1926.. Original publisher's printed wrappers.. 8vo.. Front and rear lithographic cover designs by Gustav Klutsis. From the edition limited to 5,000 copies.A miscellany of poetry and essays on literature by Kruchenykh (1886-1969) aimed at establishing certain principles of literary production and criticism.

Tokyo.: Aoi-shobo., 1937.. Original wrappers.. 4to. (29.7 x 21.7 cm).. With 6 illustrations by Onchi Koshiro. Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by the author beside his photograph reproduced on the opening page.Kitasono Katue (1902-1978) was one of the most important Japanese Avant Garde poets of the 20th Century. Due to circumstances ranging from language barriers and lack of translators to stereotypes to misfortunes in publication, his work is not widely known outside Japan. Ezra Pound considered him one of the great poets of the century, and the two corresponded and influenced each other for decades. Kitasono was editor-in-chief of the renowned Tokyo avant-garde poetry magazine Vou, which continued, with occasional suspension, until Kitasono's death in June 1978.'Natsu no Tegami' was designed with surrealist illustrations by Onchi Koshiro (1891-1955), one of the first abstract painters in Japan, and a leader of the Sosaku Hanga (New-style prints) movement. He produced single sheet prints… Read More

New York.: Leo Castelli / Castelli Graphics., 1974.. Publisher's cloth, with dust-jacket. Slight flecking and uneven toning to dust-jacket, with crease to front flap, otherwise a good copy.. Oblong 4to.. 51 full-page photographic plates. This copy is signed in pen by Lewis Baltz on the title page, and numbered 36.100.“In 1975, the year he published his first book, ‘The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California' Lewis Baltz was also included in a landmark exhibition at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House called ‘New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape.' Although some of the participants in that show managed to elude the label, Baltz - along with Robert Adams, Stephen Shore, Henry Wessel, Jr., and Bernd and Hilla Becher - was effectively branded, and ‘The New Industrial Parks' was paired with Adams' 1974 ‘The New West' as the most cogent, concise, and rigorous New Topographics documents produced in America. The label stuck primarily because… Read More

Rome.: Sperone., (1972).. Postcard. (148 x 105 mm).. Postcard with monochrome photograph with the printed text 'A New Sculpture / by / George and Gilbert' recto, verso with exhibition details verso. The scarce invitation for the Gilbert & George exhibition in Rome.The card for the exhibition at Sperone Gian Enzo and Fischer Konrad, from December 7th to 21st, 1972, shows Gilbert & George (or 'George and Gilbert' as here) seated in a bar. The image has been carefully distorted and gives a skewed and inebriated impression. Gilbert & George were present for the opening on December 7th.

Rotterdam.: Kunsthal., 1998.. 8vo. (150 x 210 mm).. Card advertising the exhibition Niki de Saint Phalle Een beeld voor Rotterdam held at the Kunsthal from the 5th of December 1998 to the 28th of February 1999.

Vienna.: Kunst Haus Wien., 2004.. 8vo. (210 x 100 mm).. Leaflet advertising the exhibition Niki de Saint Phalle Die Geburt der Nanas at the Kunst Haus Wien from the 19th of May to the 26th of September 2004.

Paris.: Gabriel de Gonet., 1847.. Oblong 4to. (c.375 x 300 mm).. Nine original engraving plates, each engraved recto only with two images and titles, blindstamp verso 'MOREAU ET LEROY / A PARIS'. A collection of original etching plates for the first edition of Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées.Les Fleurs Animées, one of Grandville's last books and one of his own personal favourites, was published by Gabriel de Gonet in 1847 and illustrated with two colour frontispieces, 50 colour plates and two botanical plates in black and white. Each of the plates presented here features two of Grandville's anthropomorphic flowers; a second edition of the work was printed in chromolithography rather than the colour engravings that were issued with the first edition.The plates presented here, each with two images, consist of the following flowers: 'LAURIER / MYRTE', 'CAPUCINE / AUBEPINE', 'CAMELLIA / BELLE-DE-NUIT', 'FLEUR DE PECHER / CACTUS', 'EGLANTINE / SOLEIL', 'PERUENCHE DESSECHE / HORTENSIA COURONNE… Read More

Barcelona.: Fundació Espai Poblenou., 1994.. Loose as issued in metallic box with paper label to upper cover and justification pasted to lid interior.. Square metal box. ( ).. The book contains a list of calls made to the Barcelona police from 7 to 13 April 1994; also included is a card bifolium with inserted monochrome photograph, a card box with two audio tapes and a canvas-backed map of Barcelona with extensive annotation in ink. The deluxe edition of Boltanki's 'Noticies del dia,'From the deluxe edition limited to 25 signed and numbered copies.Published on the occasion of the show 'Faits Divers' held between May 12 - September 30, 1994, this special edition has the book bound in full cloth, and placed in a typical Boltanski metal biscuit tin. In addition the box also contains two audiotapes, one black and white photograph (signed and numbered on the verso), and a folded map of Barcelona backed onto fabric. Boltanski has marked this plan of the city by hand with crosses showing where… Read More

London.: Office of the Arundel Society., 1856.. Original leather-backed printed boards; slightly warped and stained; rebacked in modern cloth.. 4to.. With 9 tipped-in original albumen photographic plates by J. A. Spencer. The ivories represent European work of the 6th-14th centuries, illustrated in a series of nicely-reproduced albumen prints of varied size. When the Society began selling casts of the originals they gave a booklet describing them to each purchaser. The author comments that it took some time to make the required number of photographic prints needed for the undertaking.[Gernsheim - Incunabula of British Photographic Literature, no.51].

Frankfurt.: Typos Verlag., 1964.. Publisher's wrappers.. Small 4to. (20.9 x 19.6 cm).. 16 illustrations. Exhibition catalogue, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden. Signed by Claus on title page.

Paris.: Société d'Editions Littéraires et Artistiques / Librairie Paul Ollendorff., c.1900.. Full blue crushed morocco by Dubois with his signature gilt, boards ruled in gilt, banded spine six compartments with gilt title, turn-ins ruled in gilt with fleuron corner tools, marbled endpapers, original publisher's pictorial wrappers by Morin preserved.. Small folio. (328 x 248 mm).. Half-title with printed dedication, justification verso, printed title in red and black with publisher's vignette and Doucet's text illustrated with a total of 48 colour text illustrations and 16 vignettes by Louis Morin, after his watercolour designs, leaf with 'Table' with head-piece, final leaf with achevé d'imprimer and vignette. Louis Morin illustrating Jérôme Doucet.Each of Doucet's 'Pantomimes' features an illustrated title and two leaves with his text and Morin's illustrations; each 'Pentomime' is dedicated to a different 'ami', among whom are the dedicatees 'Pierrot (Adolphe) Brisson' and 'Pierrot (René or… Read More

Prague.: Sfinx., 1932.. Original publisher's red printed wrappers with white label.. 8vo. (212 x 148 mm).. Illustrated cover and typography by Jindrich Styrsky. Introduction by Marie Marcanova.Translation by Bohumil Mathesius of poems by Mayakovsky, Pasternak and others.

Nevers.: Maison de la Culture., 1983.. Original publisher's glossy printed wrappers.. 8vo. (196 x 137 mm).. Artist book featuring quotes by Philip K. Dick, Ezra Pound, Grabbe, John Scarne and Charles Cotton. Published in conjunction with exhibition held from the 26th of February to the 27th of March 1983.[Küng 23].

New York.: Laurel Gallery., 1947.. Publisher's wrappers and portfolio.. Folio.. Text and 5 signed original prints. This copy number 36 of an edition limited to 60 copies.Contains original prints by:Milton Avery: 'My Wife Sally' (drypoint)Walter Pach: 'Scopasian Head' (etching)Gabor Peterdi: 'The Dreamy Lobster' (etching, engraving and offset colour)Leonard Pytlak: 'After the Fire' (serigraph)Alfred Russell: 'Twentieth Century Machine' (engraving and offset colour)The text is also illustrated with 3 designs by Alfred Russell, each hand-coloured in watercolour by the artist.Published by Chris Ritter at the Laurels Gallery, this work was designed to come out 4 times a year to promote fine print making.