Rare books from Lauren Otis

Large hardcover, Fine with a Fine dust jacket, this volume has never been removed from its original white-board sleeve. Inscribed and signed by RBMarx in 1990.
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This is a folding portfolio made of navy board with gray title labels on the cover and spine. Includes a 24-page booklet and 72 loose b&w plates (complete) containing reproductions of Klee's drawings between 1921 and 1930. Published by Curt Valentin Gallery, with an essay by Will Grohmann. Printed in the summer of 1944 in an edition of 700 copies by the Meriden Gravure Company.
The deckle edge booklet features Grohmann's essay and a list of the 72 plates. The booklet contains light tanning on edges and one folded corner, some b&w plates also have light tanning at edges. The portfolio spine, front and rear cover edges are faded, also with scuffing and some marks. Otherwise, a remarkable collectible portfolio of work by Klee in great shape. "The drawings reproduced in this volume are examples of Klee's intuition, his creative inventiveness and his mastery of technique. They permit a glimpse into the workshop of an indefatigable and inehaustible artist," according to Grohmann.
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In Portuguese and English, with photographs by Marcel Gautherot. Second edition, 1985, revised and expanded. Blank page facing front endpaper contains a personal dedication, signature and self-portrait drawn by Roberto Burle Marx in pen, dated 1985.
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Well-kept copy of this comprehensive volume, with a clear dust jacket cover and slipcase. Front cover board bumped in upper and lower right corners; inner front dust jacket flap price clipped and contains a crease and a fold (see photos). Previous seller pencil notation on half title page. Otherwise a wonderful book in wonderful shape.
This is the 1968 English-language translation of the original 1967 Italian-language architectural study. 452 pages with 401 b&w photographic plates and 147 drawings. Because of book size and weight, non-U.S. overseas shipping may be higher than generated at checkout. Overseas purchasers may receive a request for additional postage prior to completion of the order. Please email me with any questions.

A comprehensive tribute to architect Stanford White, designer of the Washington Square Arch in New York, among other projects. White was a member of the famous McKim, Mead, and White Gilded Age architectural firm, designers of New York's original Penn Station and other famous commissions.
Hardbound with no dust jacket, 1920 First Edition, measuring 12.5 by 17.5 inches. 33 pages followed by 56 plates, including sketches, drawings and photographs of White's oeuvre. Boards have edge and corner rubbing, a stain on the upper right front, and a piece of the top edge of the spine is missing. Some inside pages are lightly soiled but most are clean, in VG shape. See photos for more detail on book condition.
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Hardbound First Edition in VG+ condition with dust jacket in G condition. Some soiling along page edges, mostly the top, otherwise an excellent copy. Dust jacket, has small chips, front and back, two tears on front, on top and bottom edge, yellowing and staining mostly on the spine. See photos for better idea of condition.
Illustrated lavishly throughout with many color reproductions, this book was undertaken with "the encouragement and counsel of Frank Lloyd Wright who generously permitted his drawings to be reproduced." Intoductory essays by Professor Giuseppe Samonà of the University of Venice, and A. Hyatt Mayor of the Metroploitan Museum of Art. Published for the Bear Run Foundation Inc. and the Edgar J. Kaufmann Charitable Foundation by Horizon Press.
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Rare, one-volume second edition of this comprehensive survey of Portuguese vernacular architecture first published in 1961. Text in Portuguese. 763 pages with b&w images and drawings throughout.
VG condition throughout. Front board corners are bumped, there is a crease in the title page, and light tanning along page edges. See images for a better idea of condition.
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1924 2nd printing of this volume. Cover is stained with chips and tears in the spine. Inside pages are clean and in good shape. See images for better idea of condition.
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This is a 1926 edition of 20 etchings by French artist Charles Meyron (1821–1868). Meryon was celebrated among artists and collectors alike during the nineteenth century for his etched depictions of Paris. This series of his Parisian views were inspired by the novels and poetry of Victor Hugo.
Number 38 out of a limited edition of 636. Includes Meyron's original cover etching for the 1852 edition on the front board. Includes a portrait of Meyron by Félix Bracquemond, and Meyron's well-known etching "Le Stryge," often translated as "The Vampire," which shows the famous chimera perched on the balustrade of the gallery of Notre-Dame Cathedral against an aerial view of the expanding French capital.
An remarkable artistic document of old Paris prior its modernization. With a biographical essay by R. Cantinelli and a separate folder of notes on the etchings, all in French. Overall good condition with etched plates VG (several have moderate foxing). 20 plates are matted and contained in a folder attached… Read More

A large and lavish 19th Century study of the city, culture and people of Venice. Illustrated with 525 engravings, a number in color. French text by Charles Yriarte. Third edition published in 1878 by J. Rothschild, Paris. 328 pages.
Bookplate on the inside front board indicates this copy was in the collection of Edward Hubbard Litchfield, New York City-based real estate investor and art collector. Ornate gold-stamped binding with some soiling and rubbing, a chip and significant wear at top and bottom of spine, wear on board corner tips. Foxing on page edges other than top, which is gold edged. Limited foxing on some interior pages. Overall G+ condition.
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Two-volume study of the historic dwellings and vernacular architecture of Lebanon, in French. Volume one (82 pages) authored by Professor Kalayan of the American University of Beirut; volume two (86 pages) by architect Jacques Liger-Belair. With b&w photos throughout by both Kalayan and Liger-Belair. Liger-Belair's volume is inscribed and signed.
The volumes are in very good shape with only some yellowing in page margins, in endpaper folds, and along the spine. Comes with original cardboard slip cover in fair shape, previously repaired with tape. See images for a better idea of condition.
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A beautifully designed and illustrated book on the art of Japanese flower arrangement, or Ikebana. Author Seido Iwata is both a master of the traditional art of Ikebana as well as a contemporary offshoot she pioneered at her School of Seki-So-Ryu (School of the Rocks and the Flowers). Cover design is by famed Franco-Japanese Modernist artist Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, the author's cousin.
No date, but probably published in the late 1950s, after the 1954 publication of a similar book by Iwata in Japan. 88 pages with numerous B&W and color images of flower arrangements.
This hardcover edition is in very good+ condition, with only some tanning on the spine, light bumping on board corners and internal separation of a small section of one of the internal pages from a red glassine cover sheet. Includes the paper wrap-around title band in lieu of a dust jacket. Book is contained in a hard board, glossy black slip cover with red title label pasted on, in good condition. Slip cover missing a piece just below… Read More