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Gorod: stikhi [The city: verses] by Gontcharova, Natalia and Aleksandr N. Rubakin

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Seller: Bernett Rare Books Inc

Title: Gorod: stikhi [The city: verses]
Author: Gontcharova, Natalia and Aleksandr N. Rubakin
Seller: Bernett Rare Books Inc (United States)
Description: Paris: [Aleksandr Rubakin], 1920. Octavo (25.5 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Nataliia Goncharova; [6], 54 pp. and nine leaves of plates. Illustrated with full-page lithographs and vignettes by Goncharova. A very good copy, with the usual light wear to the overlapping wrapper edges, but else bright and apparently unread. Reproduced entirely by lithography, the book combines Rubakin's poems, written in an elaborately stylized script, and Goncharova's full-page lithographs and vignettes (altogether 42 illustrations). The poems reflect Rubakin's emotional turmoil after the death of his wife in 1918, as well as his intense experience of urban life, strikingly interpreted by Goncharova. Her drawings "complement the text providing insights into the scope of her work up to 1920, ranging from Neo-Primitivism to Futurism to theatrical lyricism" (Ryan, Letter Perfect: The Art of Modernist Typography, p. 62). Each pair of facing printed pages is followed by two empty pages, creating a rhythmic experience that accentuates her contrast-heavy drawings. The choice of avoiding letterpress printing and other forms of mechanical reproduction in favor of lithography reflects the Futurist attempt to convey a more immediate and spontaneous type of artistic expression. Together with her companion, Mikhail Larionov, Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) left Russia in 1915 and permanently settled in Paris in 1917. After training and exhibiting widely in Western Europe, she had developed a highly original style that incorporated Russian iconography, folk culture (lubki), as well as cubofuturism and abstract "rayonism," a tendency she pursued together with Larionov. Building on her successful career as a Russian avant-garde painter, she was primarily active as a stage and costume designer for the Ballets Russes, both in Paris and internationally. A highlight of Russian futurist book design. One of 325 copies printed; this copy out-of-series and unnumbered. Getty 686. MoMA 292.

NOCTURNAL NOTEBOOK by (MASSON)

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Seller: L'Estampe Originale

Title: NOCTURNAL NOTEBOOK
Author: (MASSON)
Seller: L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description: New York., Curt Valentin., 1944. Thin 4to. 6pp, 14 reproductions of drawings, 1 vignette in colophon. Original decorative wraps. 36 pp. including 14 illustrations of drawings. One of the ed. of 600 copies, 50 were signed with an original etching and 15 had an original drawing. Mint cond.

Type-Faces: A Photographic Study of Ward Ritchie [SIGNED limited edition; incomplete copy (see notes)] by Blanco, Amanda; with a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell

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Seller: ReadInk

Title: Type-Faces: A Photographic Study of Ward Ritchie [*SIGNED* limited edition; incomplete copy (see notes)]
Author: Blanco, Amanda; with a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Northridge CA: Santa Susana Press. Near Fine. 1988. Limited Edition. Hardcover. [brown cloth clamshell box has some minor scuffing to the underside; mounted plates are in Fine condition]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED by the subject, master printer Ward Ritchie, on the title page and also on Plate 12, latterly with an inscription "For old friends from the 1930s -- the Petits"; additionally SIGNED by Lawrence Clark Powell on the limitation page. "Designed, printed and produced by D'Ambrosio, using hand set Della Robbia type and a Vandercook No. 4 proof press . . . under the direction of Norman E. Tanis, Director of Libraries, California State University, Northridge." Contents: ii [title page]; iii-v (Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell); followed by Plates 1 (WR at work, 1984), 2 ("The 'burden' of printing by hand on an antique Albion press"), 3 ("Setting the frisket"), 4 ("The man and his press"), 5 ("Anticipation"), 7 (Grant Dahlstrom, Jake Zeitlin, WR, and LCP -- the Zamorano 'Compadres' -- at the Clark Library, 1980), 9 (Irving Block, Norman Tanis and WR at an exhibition of WR's books at the Oviatt Library, 1985), 10 ("A good sport"; WR with a tennis racket), 11 ("Gosh! Isn't this fun?"), 12 ("Ward Ritchie: A man for past, present, and future centuries," 1986). Each of the photographic plates is a 4x6 black-and-white print mounted on 2-ply archival board; the text is printed on the same type of boards. [NOTE that Plates 6 and 8 are not present.] The plates are followed by two boards containing "About the Photographer," plus the limitation page stating this to be No. 24 of sixty-five copies; these latter three boards all un-numbered. NOTE also that two of the plates have the previous owner's address label on the verso. NOTE also that there may be another missing board; the order was jumbled when I acquired this, and I'm not certain if the limitation page belongs at the end (where I've placed it) or at the beginning. (There is no page numbered "i", which makes me slightly suspicious.) At any rate, the set IS incomplete, with only 10 of the original 12 plates present, and is commensurately bargain-priced. [Another NOTE: the scanned image is of Plate 1.] Signed by Collection of Signatures .

(Photo Post Cards): New York World's Fair 1939 Actual Photos. 12 for 50 Cents

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA

Title: (Photo Post Cards): New York World's Fair 1939 Actual Photos. 12 for 50 Cents
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Underwood & Underwood, 1939. Unbound. Near Fine. 12 photo postcards measuring 5.5" x 3.5" in a die-cut folder. Rubbing on the folder, near fine; the post cards are fine.

The Natural House by Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.)

Title: The Natural House
Author: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Description: Wright, Frank Lloyd. THE NATURAL HOUSE. New York, Horizon Press, 1954. 1st edition. Dust jacket slightly chipped, book near fine.

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