Search Results: Authors starting with T from Sims Reed Rare Books

London.: Printed by J. L. Cox and Sons., 1841.. Loose as issued, later morocco-backed portfolio.. 4to. (229 x 182 mm).. Leaf with drop-head title and note above opening text, printed text recto and verso on following leaves, folded as issued. The rare first edition of the first announcement of William Henry Fox Talbot's calotype method - the negative / positive photographic process - the most important innovation in the history of photography.Although Talbot had announced his researches and progress in the field of what was to become photography in his 1839 lecture to the Royal Society ('Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing ... &c.'), that lecture, although ground-breaking, dealt largely with the achievement of an image on treated paper and only alluded briefly to the possibility of a more versatile development. It was not until his 1841 lecture to the same body (the title as per the present publication is 'The Process of Calotype Photogenic Drawing ... &c.') that the details of his… Read More

Paris.: Collection le Quadrangle. K éditeur., 1947.. Original publisher's printed wrappers as issued: a grey jacket with illustration after Tanguy in white with excised section to front cover and beneath a yellow patterned wrapper with printed text in red (see below). . 4to. (248 x 192 mm).. Half-title, title with copyright verso and Péret's verse illustrated with 4 hors-texte phototypie plates reproducing gouaches by Tanguy, 'Table', justification and final leaf with achevé d'imprimer; inserted loose (as issued) is Tanguy's original etching (238 x 188 mm). An excellent copy of the édition de tête.From the edition limited to 1,030 numbered copies, with this copy one of 30 copies from the édition de tête on pur fil Johannot numbered in Roman numerals and with Tanguy's original etching.'Feu Central' collects Péret's verse collections 'Immortelle Maladie' (1924), 'Dormir, Dormir dans les Pierres' (1927), 'Je Sublime' (1935), 'Un Point C'est Tout' (1946) and 'A Tatons'; all, save 'A Tatons',… Read More

Montpellier / Paris.: Le Grand Pal / Editions Fata Morgana., 1975.. Loose as issued in original publisher's wrappers with flaps, the whole wrapper a double-page relief engraving by Tapies, original card mailing box with decoration by Tapies retained.. Large 8vo. (278 x 178 mm).. Half-title, printed title, engraved frontispiece etching by Tàpies, leaf with dedication 'Pour Maurice Nadeau' recto and introductory quotations verso and Jabès text illustrated with 3 additional original etchings by Tàpies (one double-page) and 13 monochrome vignettes in the text, leaf with 'Table' and final leaf with justification and achevé d'imprimer; the wrapper for the book is also a double-page etching. Antoni Tàpies illustrating Edmond Jabès' philosophical verse.From the edition limited to 102 copies on Arches signed by the author and the artist, with this one of 12 hors commerce copies reserved for the collaborators; a further edition of 1,000 copies with reproductions of Tàpies etchings was issued in the… Read More

Paris.: maeght éditeur., 20th October, 1978.. Loose as issued in original publisher's engraved wrappers by Tàpies, publisher's brown cloth box with black decoration by Tàpies.. Large folio (548 x 432 mm).. Illustrated with signed engraved frontispiece and six engraved plates (including two double-page) by Antoni Tàpies using etching, aquatint and carborundum; the engraved wrappers for the book using the same technique form the eighth engraving. Tàpies illustrating Paz.From the edition limited to 195 copies on 'papier à la main du Moulin du Larroque' signed by Paz and Tàpies,Octavio Paz's text is present in Spanish and French. The French text is translated by Claude Esteban and marks the first appearance of Paz's text in French.

Barcelona.: Poligrafa., (1975).. Loose as issued in original publisher's wrappers with trompe-l'oiel printed chemise; solander box with a painting after Tapies.. Folio. (620 x 430 mm).. Takiguchi's poems illustrated with 12 original hors-texte lithographs by Tapies, 3 of which are double-page; colophon page marked 'H. C.' and signed by Tapies in pencil. Tapies illustrating Shuzo Takiguchi.From the edition limited to 125 copies printed on special laid Estraza paper and signed by Tapies, this copy marked 'H. C.'

Hagen.: Erschienen im Folkwang., 1919.. Later black cloth-backed grey paper-covered boards, vignette and titles to front board in black, original publisher's printed wrappers retained.. Folio. (392 x 330 mm).. Vignette title, list of plates, twenty-two tipped-in monochrome plates and eight colour plates, all after drawings by Taut. The work is divided into 5 sections, each of which has a title. Bruno Taut's remarkable and fantastic 'Alpine Architektur'.Taut illustrates in 30 delicately drawn plates his proposal to transform an entire Alpine range from the lakes of northern Italy to the Monte Rosa into a fantastic landscape of shrines and crystal-lined caves ('Kristallhaus'). His second stage, 'earth-crust architecture', ('Architektur der Berge') proposed that all the continents be covered with glass and precious stones in the form of 'ray domes' and 'sparkling palaces', while the final 'stellar' ('Sternbau') phase proposed the transformation of stars and planets of the cosmos in a similar fashion.… Read More

London / Berlin.: Ridinghouse Editions / Klosterfelde Gallery., 1996.. Loose in black cloth box.. Oblong 4to. (250 x 315 mm).. Leaf with title, justification and credits and 10 monochrome photolithographs recto only together with additional CD with soundtrack from the film, the CD inscribed in black ink. From the edition limited to 8 numbered copies, with this a printer's proof example inscribed 'P / P'; 4 artist proofs were also issued.The film '16mm' was Taylor-Wood's first film produced in 1993. The photolithographs presented here - issued three years later in 1996 - show a woman apparently dancing to the tune of gunfire.

Hamburg.: ZICKZACK., 1982.. Sleeve with multi-colour print, with special high gloss printed photo motif, and texts. Lower right corner of sleeve affected by damp staining. Record fine.. 12'' 33 rpm record.. Die Tödliche Doris (Deadly Doris) was a German performance art and music group based in Berlin from 1980 to 1987. It was founded by band members Wolfgang Müller and Nikolaus Utermöhlen, and later joined by Chris Dreier, Dagmar Dimitroff, Tabea Blumenschein and Käthe Kruse.Die Tödliche Doris was part of the Geniale Dilettanten (Ingenious Dilettantes) movement, a merger of the New Wave and post-punk scene, which combined influences like Frieder Butzmann, Einstürzende Neubauten and Malaria!.Rather than constructing a consistent identity, typically essential for pop music groups, Die Tödliche Doris challenged the notion of convention or stereotype. Instead, they tried with each music piece and production not to follow a style or image.On this, their second album, are 13 tracks, which… Read More

Prague.: Aventinum., 1925.. Original publisher's printed wrappers with titles and illustration in red and blue.. 8vo. (214 x 134 mm).. Illustrated wrappers by Karel Teige and Otakar Mrkvicka. Czech translation by J. Seifert and M. Srami.

Prague.: Melantrich., 1947.. Publisher's blue cloth-backed boards with titles to spine, photomontage dust-jacket by Teige.. 8vo. (220 x 150 mm).. Text translated by Stanislav Budin. With photomontage dust jacket designed by Karel Teige.

Prague.: Aventinum., 1925.. Original publisher's photomontage wrappers.. 8vo. (196 x 120 mm).. Original wrappers, with amusing photomontage cover by Teige and Mrkvicka, and fine constructivist title page by Teige.

Prague.: Borovy., 1945.. Original publisher's photomontage wrappers.. 8vo. (194 x 124 mm).. Title page and typography by Karel Teige, who was also responsible for the photomontage covers.Reedition of Capek's important text that was originally published by Borovy in Prague in 1936.

Prague.: Odeon., 1929.. Bound in contemporary blue half morocco.. Small 4to. (235 x 186 mm).. Numerous black and white illustrations. Subtitled in four languages (Czech, French, German, Russian) with Czech text throughout. Volume One of the series Mezinárodní soudobá archtitektura (International Contemporary Architecture) is a wide survey and important document of the experiments and achievements of modern design of the day. The list of contributors include Bauhaus (Hannes Mayer, Gropius, Mies, Breuer, Hilbersheimer), Suprematists (El Lissitzky), Constructivists, (Vesnin, Leonidov, Melnikov, Stam, Oud), Purists (Le Corbusier, Malevich), Futurist-Rationalists (Sartoris) and lone individuals (many) who were key players in the development of international modernism.Mezinárodni soudobá archtitektura ran to three volumes published between 1929 and 1931.

Paris.: Le Soleil Noir., 1974.. Original green cloth box, with a vitrine to upper board in the shape of a hammer, allowing the hammer on the first print to be viewed, text volume inset.. Square folio (plates) + 8vo. (text).. Illustrated with five original colour screenprints by Telemaque. From the edition limited to 1,300 copies, with this one of 125 copies with a suite of signed screenprints by Telemaque.

London.: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington., 1881.. Original publisher's green cloth, with gilt title and elaborate decoration in blind and gilt figures from 'Covent Garden Flower Women' and 'the London Boardmen', printed floral endpapers, later cloth box with label with pictorial title to front board and label with title to spine (both taken from the binding itself).. 4to. (284 x 222 mm).. Title, list of plates and twenty-one monochrome Woodburytype photographs, each mounted on card within a red border with title in red. Street Incidents, John Thomson's photographic depictions of London's street life. Published as a shortened version of Thomson's earlier Street Life in London, Street Incidents contains 16 fewer plates, though apart from the altered title the binding is the same. It is unknown whether the plates were reprinted due to the popularity of the work or whether the present volume was reissued with fewer plates to ensure sale of the publisher's stock.Thomson's photographs in… Read More

Cologne.: Edition Hake., 1965.. Loose as issued in publisher's black card folder, with printed label pasted to front cover with artist's name.. Square folio. (410 x 410 mm).. Leaf with publication details recto, two leaves with printed verse by Max Bense recto and three original signed colour drawings produced by Tinguely's Meta-Matic no.10 machine, each signed, numbered and dated by Tinguely at lower right in black ink. Jean Tinguely's extraordinary mechanical drawings produced by his constructed machine / sculpture 'meta-matic no. 10'.From the edition limited to 25 copies with three original drawings produced by 'meta-matic no. 10', each signed, numbered and dated by Tinguely in ink.Also included, loosely inserted, is the original printed prospectus for the portfolio with Tinguely's diagram of his 'Meta-Matic No. 10', a brief text and the details of the portfolio, as well as the poster for a Tinguely exhibition of Meta-Matic drawings at Burkhard Eikelmann Classics.A total of 75 drawings were… Read More

Cologne.: Klemens Gasser., 1996.. 8vo. (120 x 170 mm).. Invitation to the opening of the exhibition Jean Tinguely Briefzeichnungen at Klemens Gasser on the 9th of February 1996, the exhibition ran to the 4th of April 1996.

Montevideo., 1945 – 1953.. Original publisher's printed wrappers, the majority with title in differing colours and with cover illustration, some issues stapled as issued.. 28 issues. 25 vols. Folio. (400 x 288 mm) + 2 vols. 4to. (305 x 230 mm + 334 x 246 mm ) + 1 vol. Small 4to. (240 x 168 mm).. Cover illustration and printed text in Spanish in double columns throughout on large folded sheets of newsprint paper, several issues with inserts of white glossy paper with monochrome illustration, several with inserts of single or double leaves of newsprint, final two issues with extensive illustration and text in smaller format with tipped-in illustration on glossy paper; some very minor chipping to some wrappers, one issue with some repair but an excellent set overall. The complete series of 'Removedor' published by Joaquin Torres-García and his students as the Taller (studio) Torres-García.Edited by Guido Castillo, 'Removedor, was the organ of the Taller Torres-García, the academic artistic… Read More

Montevideo.: Asociación de Arte Constructivo / Taller Torres-Garcia., 1947 – 1948.. Original publisher's printed wrappers with titles and vignette to front cover, vignette and publisher's details to rear, all in black by Torres-Garcia.. 5 vols. 8vo. (209 x 166 mm).. Leaf with publication details recto, list of publications by the Taller Torres-Garcia verso, title, leaf of explanatory text and the text of Torres-Garcia's 'Leccion 1a' to 'Leccion 16a' illustrated throughout in monochrome on glossy white paper, final leaf of each fascicule with 'terminó de imprimir'. A very good complete set of the published versions of Torres-Garcia's 1947 lectures on Universal Constructivism, in the original wrappers.'Lo Aparente y lo Concreto en el Arte' collects the 16 lectures given by Torres-Garcia between April 4th and September 6th, 1947. The lectures, expounding Torres-Garcia's theories of Universal Constructivism, were all given at the 'Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias' in Montevideo which had been… Read More

Paris.: L'Estampe Originale., 1894.. Original publisher's printed wrappers with title and original lithograph by Toulouse-Lautrec to front wrapper, sheets held in by canvas cords.. Square folio. (408 x 390 mm).. Leaf with justification verso, blank, leaf with publisher's imprint verso, 16 leaves with Geffroy's text and original lithographs by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, all printed in olive green ink recto only, 2 blank leaves, final leaf with colophon recto. Sheet size: c.375 x 390 mm. Toulouse-Lautrec's masterpiece, pre-dating Bonnard's 'Parallèlement' by some 6 years, and one of the earliest and greatest modern illustrated books.From the edition limited to 100 numbered copies on Arches, signed by Yvette Guilbert in green crayon.The silhouettes of the female entertainers such as Yvette Guilbert and Jane Avril had already appeared in Lautrec's 1892 poster Divan Japonais, and again in his illustrations for Georges Montorgueil's Le Café Concert of 1893. In the Yvette Guilbert volume, published… Read More