Max Ernst.
NY: Crown, [1973]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated in color. Fine in dust jacket with a faint blue line from former jacket protector. More
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Marcel Duchamp A Retrospective Exhibition: By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Selavy.
Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Art Museum, 1963. Softbound issued in printed acetate dust jacket. First edition. Catalog designed by Duchamp for his important first museum retrospective that took place at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1963. Profusely illustrated in b&w with three tipped-in color plates. Minute wear to spine extremities, minor..... More
Marcel Duchamp: Works from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art Collection.
[Sarasota]: John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, [1983]. Softbound. First edition. Illustrated in color and b&w. Fine. More
The Better Dream House.
[SF: White Rabbit, 1968]. Pamphlet. First edition. Presentation copy inscribed in the year of publication to poet Donald Schenker and his wife, Alice: "For Don & Alice, at the best of it. Jess '68." Text by Dunn with lots of full-page collages by Jess. White covers slightly toned around the..... More
Palais des Machines: Ferdinand Dutert.
[London: Phaidon, 1994]. Square 4to. Softbound. First edition. Color photos, architectural diagrams etc. Published as part of the Architecture in Detail series. As new. More
Matisse in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
NY: Museum of Modern Art, [1978]. Square 8vo. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated throughout. Touch of wear to base of spine, else fine in slightly spine-faded dust jacket. More
Art of Japan.
NY: Abrams, [1985]. Thick 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition in English. Profusely illustrated throughout. A mammoth, comprehensive study. Very fine. More
Boyle Family.
Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 2003. Square 4to. Softbound with French flaps. First edition. Signed by Sebastian Boyle, Georgia Boyle, Mark Boyle, and collaborator Joan Hills. Profusely illustrated in color throughout with supplementary text. As new. More
Invitation card for Max Ernst's 1944 show at the Julien Levy Gallery.
NY: Julien Levy Gallery, [1944]. The card features illustrations by Ernst and gallery info printed in white against a charcoal background. The Julien Levy Gallery was the preeminent venue for Surrealist art, photography, and experimental film during the '30s and '40s. Fine. More
Une Semaine de Bonte: A Surrealistic Novel in Collage.
NY: Dover, [1976]. 4to. Softbound. First edition thus. A classic collection of Ernst's collages, originally published in 1934. Very fine. More
Mateo Falcone.
[Berlin: RE: Surgo!, 2012]. Tall 4to. Softbound. First edition. Full-page, color screenprint reproductions of terrific expressionistic works. One of 77 numbered copies signed by the publisher. As new. More
de Chirico.
[NY: Abrams, 1968]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition. Profusely illustrated. Minor offsetting to f.f.e, else fine in dust jacket with barely perceptible yellowing to edges. More
American Indian Art.
NY: Abrams, [1965]. Thick, square 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Mammoth, landmark study. Profusely illustrated including many tipped-in color plates. Fine. More
Varieties of Visual Experience: Art as Image and Idea.
NY: Abrams, [1972]. Thick 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. Second edition, revised and expanded. Profusely illustrated throughout. Fine. More
Angel Cassoulet.
[France: Dernier Cri, 2013]. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Limited to 200 copies. Features the work of various artists. A contemporary take on the surrealist's "cadavre exquis." Excellent work both macabre and vibrant. Wonderfully silk-screened throughout, with the pages cut into three sections that can be flipped through to make endless..... More
What Nigel Knew.
NY: Clarkson N. Potter, [1981]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Dust jacket illustration by Edward Gorey. Very fine. More
Meiji Revisited: The Sites of Victorian Japan.
NY: Weatherhill, [1995]. Small 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Illustrated with photographs. A study of the famous buildings of Japan in the Victorian era. As new. More
The Art in Cartooning: Seventy-five Years of American Magazine Cartoons.
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, [1975]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Gahan Wilson, George Booth, Bill Woodman, S. Gross, B. Tobey, Modell, Jack Ziegler, Dana Fradon, and one other. Fine in dust jacket with barely perceptible yellowing to spine and back panel. More
The Artist and the Photograph.
Barcelona: Actar, 2000. Hardbound in illustrated boards. First edition thus. An elaborate and wonderful parody with Fontcuberta creating photographic images utilizing the iconography of Miro, Picasso, Dali, and Tapies---but offering them here as if they were photographs actually created by those artists---with Fontcuberta portraying himself as merely the curator of..... More
View, May 1945, Series V, No. 2.
NY: View, 1945. A magazine of surrealist art and literature. Cover by Wifredo Lam. Contributions by Ramon Sender, Jules Henry, Paul Rivet, and others. "Tropical Americana" presented by Paul Bowles with photos by Rudy Burckhardt depicting life in the tropics. Near fine. More
View, February-March 1942, Vol. 1, Nos. 11-12.
NY: View, 1942. A magazine of surrealist art and literature. This issue in early tabloid format (on slick paper). Kurt Seligmann, Henry Miller, Leonora Carrington, and Parker Tyler are among the contributors. Cover sheet split at top and bottom of spine, else near fine. The early issues are scarce... More