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

Amsterdam., 1921.. Original publisher's stitched lithographic wrappers by El Lissitzky; slightly worn, with some with loss to right edge.. Square 4to. (330 x 330 mm).. Illustrated with monochrome photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright's oeuvre throughout; decorative borders and advertisements printed in grey. The famous Frank Lloyd Wright issue of Wendingen with the original lithographic cover by El Lissitzky.An individual number from the splendid example of early 20th century ideas in art and architecture, unique among similar projects for the length of its run, its immaculate production, consistent high quality, and highly individual typography by H. Th. Wijdeveld. Of Wendingen's 116 issues, all but 11 are devoted to single subjects, with an unusually high percentage of architecture including 8 issues on Frank Lloyd Wright of which this is one.

Munich.: Carl Hanser Verlag., 1973.. Publisher's wrappers.. Small 4to. (21 x 18 cm).. Signed by Rühm on title page. Complete with 7" vinyl record.

London.: Matthews Miller Dunbar., 1972.. Original green morocco-backed marbled boards by Giovanni Codina, Milan, red morocco label to front board with title, banded spine in five compartments with red morocco label with gilt title, original slipcase.. Square 4to. (350 x 325 mm).. Half title, title with copyright verso, leaf with quotation from Nietzsche and 25 monochrome photographs by Street-Porter and 25 tipped-in waitress photographs by John Suttcliffe in sepia on yellow paper, leaf with tipped-in original signed colour lithograph, leaf with original signed colour lithograph, leaf with justification and final leaf with list of restaurants. An excellent presentation copy of Waitress. Published in three language editions, each of 125 copies, this copy is from the English edition, signed and numbered by the artist on the colophon; this copy signed by the photogrpher to the title: 'Tim Street-Porter / Long live Boulestin!' and with a dedication from the artist on the quotation leaf: 'For Beris from… Read More

New York.: Buffallo Press., 1973.. Original publisher's printed wrappers with photographic reproductions to front and rear covers.. 4to. (252 x 204 mm).. Pages split horizontally into two sections, as designed. Each of the pages reproduces a colour-tinted black-and-white photograph. An excellent copy of 'Walls Paper', Gordon Matta-Clark's scarce artist book.Gordon Matta-Clark, who died in 1978 aged only 35, was best known for his site-specific sculptural work known as 'building cuts'. These were sculptural transformations within constructions scheduled for demolition, made by cutting through them and exposing their cross section and interiors. Although requiring a good deal of quite violent hard work, Matta-Clark's creations now exist primarily in the form of photographs, videos and films.'Walls paper' is his most renowned photobook. It consists of a suite of colour photographs depicting the exposed interior walls of Bronx tenement buildings that were being demolished. Clearly, Matta-Clark had… Read More

Berlin.: Ernst Wasmuth., n.d. ca 1890. Loose as issued in publisher's portfolio, worn on hinges, backstrip coming loose at base of spine, 2 ties missing. Internally good.. Folio.. 40 monochrome and colour plates (plate 38 missing, supplied in photocopy ). 19 text illustrations.

Itzehoe.: Verlag Hansen & Hansen., 1969.. Original publisher's printed wrappers.. 12mo. (135 x 149 mm).. (Vorspann. Eine Schriftenreihe zur Einführung in die Dichtung der Gegenwart, Nr. 3/4).

Chelsea / Chantmarle, Dorset.: (The Ashendene Press)., 1924, Christmas.. Original publisher's blue printed paper wrappers with Yapp edges, titles to front cover in black, some creasing to wrappers.. 8vo. (207 x 148 mm).. Leaf with title and Tolstoy's text with large 11-line initial in red in English in red and black throughout, final leaf with colophon with Ashendene press mark recto; printed text in Fell English type. The scarce Christmas Ashendene translation of Tolstoy.From the edition limited to c.200 copies on paper.Printed at Essex House, Chelsea (see colophon), 'Where God Is Love Is', was issued 'With All Good Wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from St. John and Cecily Hornby' 'for their friends whom God preserve this Christmastide'.Also included, inserted loose, is a letter with envelope from Hornby to a 'Miss Crane' on a single sheet of paper with his letterhead ('From C. H. St J. Hornby, Shelley House, Chelsea Embankment &.') and dated '19 April 1926'. Hornby invites… Read More

Cologne.: Galerie Wilbrand., 1969.. (15 x 15 cm).. Exhibition announcement, March - April 1969.

Ghent.: Imschoot, uitgevers., 1999.. Original publisher's stiff printed wrappers.. 8vo. (210 x 148 mm).. Artist bok by Peter Downsbrough incoporating monochrome photographs.Downsbrough's artist book was based on a project originally executed in 1987, featuring monochrome photographs of a woman rotating 360 degrees and overlaid by a similarly rotating line.[Küng 61].

Munich.: Galerie van der Loo., 1968.. 8vo. (21 x 15 cm).. Invitation to the opening of the Wols exhibition, January 1968.

Paris.: Galerie Europe., 1964.. 8vo. (19.2 x 14.8 cm).. Announcement for exhibition, June 1964.

Milan.: Edizioni del Milione., 1956.. 8vo. Portfolio. (208 x 157 mm).. Small portfolio with introductory text by Francesco Arcangeli and 6 tipped in colour plates on Wols.

Milan.: Edizioni del Milione., n.d. c.1952.. Loose as issued in card folder.. 8vo. (21 x 15.7 cm)..

Paris.: Galerie Alexandre Iolas., 1965.. 8vo. (12.4 x 16.8 cm).. Exhibition announcement card, February - March 1965.

London.: Art for All., (1970).. Loose as issued in original card folder with interior tissue flaps, printed titles and vignette in black and artists' signatures to front cover, justification to rear.. Folio. (291 x 203 mm).. Each leaf with letterpress text and central monochrome portrait vignette of either Gilbert (sheets 'one' and 'three') or George (sheets 'two' and 'four'), the sheets numbered at upper right and with G. and G. crest at head and imprint at foot and with legend beneath each vignette, all recto only; sheet size: 255 x 165 mm. The very rare discrete portfolio edition published the year after the appearance of their first 'magazine sculpture' 'The Words of the Sculptors Gilbert & George'.From the edition limited to 35 numbered copies, signed by the artists to the front cover in sepia ink and numbered to the rear.'The Words of the Sculptors Gilbert & George' was presented as their first 'magazine sculpture' (four were to follow) on four pages (pp. 43 - 47) of the Autumn 1969 issue… Read More

London.: Printed for Richard Baldwin., 1693 - 1694.. Full contemporary blond calf with decoration in blind, boards ruled in blind to surround central ruled panel with fleurons at corners with interior drawer handle decor around central section of ruled darker calf, banded spine in five compartments with red leather label with gilt titles within roll tool border, board edges with decoration in blind, all edges striped red, black morocco-backed velvet-lined buckram box.. 5 vols. in 3. 12mo. (160 x 96 mm).. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Rabelais with quote from Theodorus Beza dated 1552, printed title to each book, 'The Life of Dr. Francis Rabelais' in Book I, publisher's and translators' dedications in Book I and Book IV, Rabelais' dedications throughout, extensive laudatory material in Book I (see below), text of Book I to Book V including in Book V the 'Pantagruelian Prognostication', further works by Rabelais and his 'Letters Written ... During His Stay in Italy', indices in Book III and Book V,… Read More

London.: George Allen., 1903 - 1912.. Contemporary burgundy half-morocco by W. J. Mansell with his stamp to front free endpapers verso, marbled boards and endpapers, banded spines with gilt titles, t.e.g. others uncut.. 39 vols. Large 8vo. (250 x 176 mm).. Monochrome and colour plates and text illustrations throughout. The complete literary works of John Ruskin.This edition remains the only collected edition of Ruskin, limited to 2062 copies and produced to a very high standard at the Ballantyne Press.

London.: Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1906 - 1908.. Full contemporary blue crushed morocco, banded spines with gilt titles in six compartments, turn-ins with decorative gilt borders, marbled endpapers, blue silk placemarkers, t.e.g.. 80 vols. 8vo. (235 x 168 mm).. Each vol. with leaf with limitation verso, half-title and printed title in red and black with publisher's vignette and Arguably the best edition of Dickens' works, with the definitive text, large type and facsimiles of title pages and original covers, etc. Limited to 750 copies.This a deluxe extra-illustrated set with before-letters proof states of most of the wood-engraved plates, together with additional hors-texte illustrations, many hand-coloured.This set also includes an original ALS from Dickens to George Dolby, his manager, dated the first of July 1866, in which Dickens tries to fix a date for the two to meet. A truly fine set.

Los Angeles.: Jack Rutberg Fine Arts., 1988.. Printed card (180 x 127 mm).. Invitation to the opening reception of the Karel Appel Works on Paper exhibition at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Los Angeles on the 4th of March 1988. The exhibition ran from the 4th of March to the 16th of April 1988. Annotated in pen on reverse with artists name.

(Tokyo).: (Privately published)., 1935.. Loose as issued in original carved wooden box, the lid with elaborate decoration and stylised carved initials 'S S', title label to interior. . Small 4to. (212 x 284 mm).. 36 original silver gelatine prints on various paper stock, each with tissue guard with printed titles in Japanese and in English; sheet size:155 x 206 mm or the reverse. Shimomura Shotaro's beautiful presentation series of 1930s Modernist travel photographs.Shimomura Shotaro (1883 - 1944), chairman of the Daimaru chain of department stores, builder of a Tudor villa in Kyoto, philanthropist, traveller and remarkable photographer produced these 36 photographs during a world tour in the early 1930s. Spanning India (4 photographs), the USA (11 photographs), Egypt (1), Italy (3), Switzerland (3), Austria (1), Denmark (1), Holland (1), Italy (3), France (2), Britain (8), and one aboard ship (the SS Katori Maru), Shimomura's photographs each capture an iconic aspect and display it with an… Read More