{"title":"Illustrated Books 1900 to Present","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"kyokarakami-japanese-pattern-paper","title":"KYOKARAKAMI, [JAPANESE PATTERN PAPER","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKara nagatezuri mokuhan monyo\u003c\/em\u003e [\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKara-cho Designs for Hand-Printed Woodcut Pattern Paper.\u003c\/em\u003e] Edited by Ansou Hisao.  Preface by Osaragi Jiro.  Two volumes.  Contents includes: 2 ff. prefaces, 102 sheets of decorated papers, printed in colours from the original woodblocks on Kurotani paper, sheet size 390 x 510 mm.  Text fascicles loosely inserted in each volume (each 16 pp., with collotype illustrations; small 4to., self-wraps., secured with cord, as issued).  Large folio, loose in original publisher's purple silk-covered wooden cases.  Tokyo: [Bijutsu Shuppan-sha], 1966-1967.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOne of 120 copies.  A special publication reproducing \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ekyokarakami\u003c\/em\u003e  (hand-printed woodcut pattern paper) from actual woodblock specimens from the firm Karacho, the oldest surviving studio producing these papers by hand.  Founded in Kyoto in the early seventeenth century, Karacho filled the tremendous demand during the beginning of the Edo period to decorate paper doors (\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efusuma\u003c\/em\u003e), walls, ceilings and folding screens, in temples, imperial villas (as at Katsura) and grand private residences.  By the 1830s, thirteen studios were in operation in Kyoto; today, all of them, except Karacho, have disappeared.  Karacho preserves more than 600 original woodblocks in its inventory. Of these, some 250 were made in the Edo period after 1789, following a disastrous fire in Kyoto; 200 others date from the Meiji period after 1867, and 150 from the Taisho period, after 1912.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis substantial collection presents a selection of the best designs.  The sheets are printed on \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKuratani\u003c\/em\u003e (luxurious imported paper) manufactured especially for this publication, and the designs are realized using rare natural materials, such as powdered oyster shell and mica, gold, lacquer, and gouaches derived from natural plants.  On account of the fragile nature of the original blocks, many of which have since been withdrawn from use, this publication will never be reprinted.  This set of papers, made by Karacho, represent one of the most important source books of Japanese classical design in Kyoto.  Some wear to the cases, the papers remain in fine fresh condition. \u003c\/p\u003e\nA complete list describing each paper design is available upon request","brand":"Calab Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44635624014145,"sku":"","price":10000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/3547\/7825\/products\/web_d6af4fcb-07b3-4e3b-a237-00de22369026.jpg?v=1678974710"},{"product_id":"yakov-chernikhov","title":"Yakov CHERNIKHOV","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKonstruktsiia arkhitekturnykh i mashinnykh form. 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Some professional reapairs to the binding, overall an unusually fine copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Conrads and Sperlich, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Architecture of Fantasy\u003c\/em\u003e, p.154.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calab Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44635886944577,"sku":"","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/3547\/7825\/products\/web_af996791-7e63-4298-adb0-de0dca00cacf.jpg?v=1678976787"},{"product_id":"solomon-telingater","title":"Solomon TELINGATER","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eO Lenine. O komsomole\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e [O\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003en Lenin. On the Komsomol\u003c\/em\u003e].  7 volumes.  8vo., 190 x 130 mm, each volume bound in publisher's photographically illustrated wrappers, preserved in publisher's red slip case with photograph of Lenin, designed by Telingater.  Moscow: Molodaia gvardiia, 1932.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA classic example of Telingater's genius as a book designer. This particular work was banned and withdrawn from circulation after Pavel Postyshev, the author of part 5 was jailed, as an enemy of the USSR, and subsequently executed. The complete set in it's original box is rare, with OCLC lisiting only NYPL and Univ. of Chicago in the US. 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Firstly, it possesses a cardboard slipcase wrapped in paper decorated with haphazardly placed letters that spell \"Pierre à feu,\" the publishing division of the Galerie Maeght.  Secondly, it includes a supplementary stand-alone cardboard chemise intended to encase and protect the pink cardboard covers on which Duchamp had collaged the foam-rubber breast and paper label.  The exterior recto and verso of the stand-alone chemise is wrapped in the same randomly lettered paper as the slipcase. Along its spine, the title LE SURRÉALISME EN 1947 is embossed in gold ink on a black ground.  A second paper label, also reading PRIÈRE DE TOUCHER, is glued to the inside front cover of this chemise.  Due to the handmade nature of paper covering the slipcase and chemise, \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eeach one is unique\u003c\/strong\u003e.  Thirdly, the spine of the pink stand-alone covers is blank, thus avoiding any visual interference between\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Prière de toucher\u003c\/em\u003e and Duchamp's paper label.  Finally, the pink paper employed to wrap the stand-alone covers is subtly mottled in imitation of the blemishes and irregularities visible on the skin of a white person.  The paper selected for the stand-alone covers of the more common variant of the deluxe edition described above is uniformly pink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis version was made for a planned\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e grand-deluxe édition de tête\u003c\/em\u003e, the copies of which were to be numbered I-XLIX and signed by Breton and Duchamp, as indicated in the catalogue.  After the production of this edition was abandoned, surviving copies of the slipcase and matching chemise were used to house some of the copies of the deluxe edition, but copies are virtually unknown \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand it is not mentioned in Schwarz.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e This copy is number 34 of 999 copies.  It is accompanied by a satirical rebuff of the exhibition by Noël Arnaud and Christian Dotremont entitled \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSurréalisme en 947\u003c\/em\u003e.  Branded a 'patalogue', a reference to the work of Alfred Jarry, it sets the fictionalized exhibition in the dark ages, a pointed critique of Andre Breton's project. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Schwarz, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp\u003c\/em\u003e, 328, for the regular issue.   \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom Manet to Hockney\u003c\/em\u003e 115.  Castleman, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Century of Artist's Books\u003c\/em\u003e 232.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calab Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44635929641281,"sku":"","price":75000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/3547\/7825\/products\/web_8938eef7-f07d-420f-b909-10db0c44ac44.jpg?v=1678977626"},{"product_id":"man-ray","title":"MAN RAY","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRevolving Doors.\u003c\/em\u003e  Comprised of 10 pochoir plates.  Folio, loose in original publisher's black portfolio with ties.  Laid into a new folding box.  Paris: Editions Surréalistes, 1926.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA fine copy of this legendary surrealist publication. Between 1916 and 1917, the artist and photographer Man Ray created a series of collages he called \"Revolving Doors.\" He included the series in his third solo exhibition at the Daniel Gallery in New York, in 1919.  The collages, whose geometric shapes combine machine-like and anthropomorphic forms, were framed and installed on a rotating pole that the viewer could spin. The original collages were destroyed, but he later reproduced them in this series of pochoir prints, published by Éditions Surréalistes in Paris.  This publication represents an important contribution to avant-garde art and together with \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJazz\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProse du Transsibérien\u003c\/em\u003e comprise the Holy Trinity of great pochoir books of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eComplete sets in fine condition are extremely rare.  One of 105 copies, signed on the colophon by Man Ray.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReynolds 71.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calab Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44635946156353,"sku":"","price":85000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/3547\/7825\/products\/web_7249738f-74bc-4b89-b779-5cd73785c9e3.jpg?v=1678977930"},{"product_id":"joan-miro","title":"Joan MIRO","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Aidez l'Espagne.\" \u003c\/em\u003ePochoir print in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCahiers D'Art\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYear 12\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNo. 4-5\u003c\/em\u003e. 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The 1934 'Umi no Dowa,' 'Nursery Tales ofartist himself on fifteen blocks' (though never more than three for any one print), with verses by the artist. The designs are of a kind of chance groupings of fragments of human figures or everyday objects, in conjunction with geometrical shapes, the block-applied colour making its own quite illogical contribution. One is reminded more than anything else of the abstracts of certain Russian Constructivists of the 1920s, with their spare designs partially helped out by machine drawing, and it is conceivable that Onchi had had the chance to study specimens of their work. 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In \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChu, Gyu, Kai\u003c\/em\u003e \"he not only wrote the experimental verses, but embarked on new departures in printing techniques, combining with the colour woodblock mechanically produced half-tone and line block.\"(Hillier)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA fine copy of this rare, important and desirable book.  No\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003c\/strong\u003e158 of 200 copies.  OCLC lists only the Art Institue of Chicago worldwide\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  Hillier, Jack: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Art of theJapanese Illustrated Book\u003c\/em\u003e (London, 1987), p. 1019f.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calab Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44636002484545,"sku":"","price":5750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/3547\/7825\/products\/web_c39ec819-a849-4df6-b3cc-d1d2f5626784.jpg?v=1678979468"},{"product_id":"henri-matisse","title":"Henri MATISSE","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoésies de Stéphane Mallarmé.\u003c\/em\u003e  [2], 153, [8] pp.  Illustrated by Henri Matisse with 29 etchings printed in black.  Small folio, bound in original printed wrappers, and housed in the original calf-backed chemise and slipcase.  Lausanne: Albert Skira \u0026amp; Cie., 1932.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA superb copy of this masterpiece of twentieth century book illustration. 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A fine copy with some light wear to the delicate chemise and slipcase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Duthuit 5.  \u003cem\u003eThe Artist and the Book\u003c\/em\u003e 196.  \u003cem\u003eFrom Manet to Hockney\u003c\/em\u003e 95.  \u003cem\u003eA Century of Artists Books\u003c\/em\u003e 92.  Elderfield, \u003cem\u003eHenri Matisse: A Retrospective\u003c\/em\u003e 295-300\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003eAndel, \u003cem\u003eAvant Garde Page Design \u003c\/em\u003e449.  Bidwell, \u003cem\u003eGraphic Passion, \u003c\/em\u003ep. 18-41.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calab Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44636006416705,"sku":"","price":50000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/3547\/7825\/products\/web_f06ac0ce-8108-4514-b63c-c4285d2eb62a.jpg?v=1678979587"},{"product_id":"yves-klein","title":"Yves KLEIN","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDimanche: Le Journal d'un Seul Jour\u003c\/em\u003e. 4 page 'newspaper', 558 x 762 mm when flat. 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A fine copy of this fragile conceptual art feuilleton.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calab Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44636021293377,"sku":"","price":5000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/3547\/7825\/products\/web_c2d6d870-94b0-46e8-89a2-104b4a2d9b0a.jpg?v=1678979955"},{"product_id":"kamisaka-sekka","title":"Kamisaka SEKKA","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCho senshu\u003c\/em\u003e. 2 Volumes, each with 25 double-page plates of coloured woodcuts depicting butterflies by Sekka. 8vo.,bound accordion-style (orihon) in green silk over boards.  Kyoto: Yamada. Unsodo, 1903.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA fine copy of this landmark of twentieth century Japanese design. “A colour-printed book of elaborate decor based on the forms of butterflies. All the designs are ‘patterned,’ but some conform to the actual shape and markings of believable butterflies, though there is certainly no intention to be entomologically accurate, but in some, the artist simply used the insects as a theme for variations, distorting and manipulating the butterfly shape until it is barely recognizable, often achieving the kind of art nouveau that we associate with some Secession jewelry . . . Sekka is especially inventive when he allows swarms of butterflies to float over the page, achieving colourful geometric diagrams, or, in one, amorphous silver shape outlined in brown, green and yellow, as evocative and irrational as abstracts by Arp”, (Hillier).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHillier, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Art of the Japanese Book\u003c\/em\u003e p. 976. Keyes, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEhon. 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Illustrated throughout with photographs bv Man Ray.  Small 4to., 245 x 185 mm, loose as issued publisher’s wrappers.  Paris: Editions G.L.M., 1935.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFirst Edition.  A classic work of Surrealism in which Man Ray illustrates Paul Eduard’s love poems to his wife, Nusch Eluard, with a series of unusually posed nude photographs of Nusch.  “In this work, Man Ray identified the female body with the space of the page by bleeding photographs across double spreads throughout the book” (Andel, p. 329).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“A prolific creator of Dadaist and Surrealist imagery, Man Ray was equally comfortable as a painter-sculptor or as a photographer.  \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFacile\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most beautiful surrealist publications containing photography” (Johnson p. 184).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA near fine copy, uncommon thus.  One of 1200 copies. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Century of Artist Books\u003c\/em\u003e 183.  Johnson, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArtist’s Books in the Modern Era, 1870-2000\u003c\/em\u003e, No. 108.  Andel, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAvant-Garde Page Design\u003c\/em\u003e, p. 329.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Calab Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44636367880513,"sku":"","price":4400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/3547\/7825\/products\/web_23a61eb7-d10f-4811-91c0-712889cd2172.jpg?v=1678997367"},{"product_id":"ladislav-sutnar","title":"Ladislav SUTNAR","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecatalog design progress: advancing standards in visual communication\u003c\/em\u003e.  By K. 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