An Autobiography by Wright, Frank Lloyd - 1943

New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Boldly Signed by Rem Koolhaas on a large sheet (6" x 8") of archival Arches paper, laid into the book First edition / First printing. Pink paper-covered boards. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light wear to the edges, an outstanding copy of a scarce title. Rem Koolhaas is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 2000.

Beautifully signature-bound in publisher's raw tan linen; front board & spine decoratively lettered; decorative endpapers. Generally, a very good or better set with signature satiric & anarchistic illustrations. One of the most important illustrated radical periodicals. Artists include but are not limited to: A. Roubille, Gustave-Henri Jossot, Konrad-Wagner, Valery Muller, Hermann-Paul, Leonetto Cappiello, Jules Cheret, Juan Gris, Jules-Alexandre Grun, Jossot, Frantisek Kupka, Paul Iribe, Theophile-Alexandre Steinlen, Orazi, Adrien Barrere, Poulbot, H. G. Ibels, Kees van Dongen, Armand Gallo, Ricardo Flores, and many others. Being a periodical that did not shy away from less attractive topics, they covered such topics as crime, economy, leisure and travel, politics, current events, international relations, religion, health and even the Press itself. Color and black and white illustrations copiously throughout. Vol. 1, 2, and 9: front board and spine are beginning to detach but are still sturdy. 10 1/4… Read More

1te. - (4te.) Lieferung. 4 instalments (= all published). Basel und Genf, H. Georg's Buch- und Kunsthandlung (1864 ?). 20 original photographs (albumen – various sizes ca 110 x 180 mm to 225 x 280 mm) mounted onto white cardboards. Loosely contained in publisher's lithographed wrappers, with calligraphed title on front cover and contents on back cover. Folio (450 x 310 mm). Spine of fourth instalment restored, wrappers lightly dust-soiled and with a few short tears in margins. Cf. ADB XL, 460-465 (for Wackernagel) ; not in Heidtmann. Bibliographie der Photographie. Jakob Hoeflinger (1819-1892), was a native from the Black Forest region who emigrated to Swiss and became a photographer around 1853. He established his very successful business in Bale in 1857. His son Albert (1855-1936) took over the company in 1885. In 1896 he sold it to his cousin August Höflinger (1867-1939), who had joined the management the same year as he. From then on, August himself devoted himself to portrait painting. Until… Read More

Set of 36 handcoloured lithographs after satirical illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Scheffer from What one says and what one thinks, Little Scenes of the World.An album of rare lithographs that depict comical scenes of daily life in Paris during the reign of King Charles X, in the Restoration era. Women in the voluminous puff-sleeved dresses and bonnets of the time, the men in elegant jackets and pants, lounging in restaurants, cafes, libraries, gardens and galleries.With title page and 36 hand-coloured plates lithographed and printed by Gihaut Frères in Paris (last six plates printed by Charles Tilt, London). These delightful satirical scenes mock the hypocrisies and annoyances of bourgeois society, in the same way as Thomas Rowlandson depicted the Miseries of Human Life in Regency England. The captions show what the characters say on the left, and what they really think on the right. Women flatter Plain Janes and ugly men, men flatter ugly women, a widow takes a new lover before her husband's… Read More

Very good complete suite of 21 aquatint views of Paris in the years of the Bourbon Restoration.Lively collection of Parisian scenes showing the sights (parks, bridges, catacombs, morgue, swimming pool, etc.), the people (tradesmen, famous characters, itinerant merchants, street performers) and events (festivals, military rituals, religious processions). A good selection of post-Napoleonic costume too.First published in parts in oblong folio with the title A Tour of Paris in 1822, this is the first collected edition with letterpress and the title A Tour Through Paris. Plates dated 1822 and 1824.The illustrations are unsigned but accredited to the French artist Victor Auver. Four plates previously appeared in Richard Brinsley Peake's The characteristic costume of France, (1816): Itinerants on the Boulevards, Street Characters (as Water Carriers), The Catacombs and La Morgue.The plates depict: Distribution of wine on the morning of St. Louis; The voitures (coach-drivers) of Versailles; The blind man… Read More

Parma: In fine: Parma, per Mario Vigna. 1646. [Figurato Architettura-Cortona] (cm. 35) ottimo cartonato originale con nervi in cuoio esterni e tracce di coloritura.-- cc. 4 nn., pp. 119 + 1 p. con il colophon. Frontis inciso + ritratto di Odoardo Farnese + ritratto dell' autore + 3 tavv. f.t. più volte ripiegate. Nel testo molte figure incise in rame con piante di fortificazioni, schemi, figure geometriche, calcoli ecc. Alcune firmate da Camillo Congi, G.B. Zampa, Sodi. Edizione originale ed unica della massima rarità citata da D' Ayala con data errata e Cockle replica l' errore. Choix e Mugnaini hanno esemplari scompleti. L' opera manca a Piantanida, Michel-Michel, Pollak, Graesse, Brunet, Comolli e a molta bibliografia consultata. Alcune notizie sull' autore di Parma, sono in Manzi assieme ad una ampia descrizione dell' opera. un lievissimo alone in alto su alcune carte altrimenti esemplare molto bello e a grandi margini con incisioni in ottima tiratura.… Read More

Vinegia: Vincenzo Vaugris. [Architettura-Prima edizione] (cm.16,5) ottima piena pergamena sec. XVIII. Titolo calligrafato al dorso.-- cc. 12 nn., (di cui l' ultima bianca), cc. 248, c. 1 con la marca tipografica. La dedica del traduttore Pietro Lauro Modenese è a Bonifacio Bevilacqua. prima edizione in qualsiasi lingua moderna e prima traduzione italiana di questo capolavoro dell' architettura rinascimentale. L' Editio Princeps del " De Re Aedificatoria " apparve nel 1485 a Firenze e ripropone in dieci libri la struttura del testo di Vitruvio. I primi tre libri riguardano il progetto e l' esecuzione; nel 4° e 5° si esaminano le grandi opere come città, ponti ecc. Nell' 8° e 9° si gtratta dell' apparato ornamentale, nel 10° si tratta di restauro e idraulica. Opera fondamentale non solo per l' architettura ma anche per il pensiero rinascimentale nel suo insieme. Qualche lieve traccia di polvere alla prima e ultima carta, altrimenti… Read More

Paris: Javal and Bordeaux, 1930. Limited Edition. JOUVE, Paul. Illustrated by one of the leading painters in France, this superb work brings Kipling's classic Jungle Book story into the realm of fine 20th century French publishing. Limited edition of 125 copies, bound in snakeskin-style folding case, protected by matching slipcase (some wear), 340 mm x 265 mm, 130 unbound pages as issued, 21 plates, printed on imperial Japan paper, an excellent copy.

La Mélodie Acide, (1980). Twelve of 14 original stone lithographs by Joan Miro housed with limitation page in printed portfolio and protected by exterior paperboard portfolio. Loose as issued. Signed on plate (plate signed) and hand numbered out of 1500. Limitation page in French and English. This set is No. 1477/1500.
"The series was printed using the original plates for the portfolio LA MELODIE ACIDE, published in January 1980....The present edition consists of 1,500 prints on Arches paper of the 14 original plates, numbered from 1/1,500 to 1,500/1,500, and with the artist's signature on each of the plates."
This set is INCOMPLETE with 12 of the 14 plates. Plates measure 13 x 10 inches and are in excellent condition. Exterior paperboard portfolio is heavily torn at the flap and lightly soiled overall.
Photos are of the portfolio and prints we have here at Barbed Wire Books. Please don't hesitate to contact Barbed Wire Books with any questions.

A fine archive of three original drawings by the English "mouth artist" John Carter, two letters by his biographer, a copy of the revised edition of Carter's Memoir, and related materials. A fine collection of three original drawings by John Carter (31 July 1815 - 2 June 1850), an English mouth artist, together with a memoir and two autograph letters discussing Carter's work by William James Dampier, Carter's first biographer. The collection also includes a heliotype after a drawing by Carter as well as a list of subscribers to Dampier's memoir. The small collection was apparently presented by Dampier to one of his friends. Original drawings by carter are rare, as most "of his work, now widely dispersed and probably unrecognized, is of course only known from nineteenth century reproductions" (Trevor Disley) John Carter was born in Coggeshall, Essex, "of humble parents", as Dampier notes. At school "he showed a disposition to scribble the figure of a man, a horse, or a bird, upon his desk or copy… Read More