Binding: Stiff Card Boards

32 pages; 9 duotone plates plus one tipped-in plate within the text. A commemorative book of the exhibition of self-portraits to celebrate the gift of the Mapplethorpe Foundation to the Guggenheim and to inaugurate the Museum's Robert Mapplethorpe Gallery. A poem, "Reflecting Robert", by Patti Smith and an essay by Germano Celant, who organized the exhibition. Letterpress printed by the Stinehour Press; Limited to 700 copies of which 300 were signed by Patti Smith; this copy is of the unsigned 400. Clean throughout, including the enclosed four-page testimonial letter from Thomas Kerns (Gug...
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Vermeer de Delft

By: Proust, Marcel; André Malraux; [et al]

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Librarie Gallimard : 1952

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 003935

ISBN: no

Binding: Stiff Card Boards

Condition: Very Good

128; 6 pages; 40 full-page tipped-in color plates protected by glassine sheets; numerous additional b&w illustrations. The fourth volume in the collection, La Galerie de la Pléiade. The first essay by Proust, the second by Malraux, many authors contributed commentary on the paintings. French text. Clean throughout, no tears or bends. Dustjacket whole, protected by a poly cover.
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Nürnberger Exlibris: 28 ausgewählte Bucheignerzeichen von Albrecht Dürer bis zur Jahrhundertwende

By: Rödel, Klaus

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Frederikshavn, Exlibristen : 1979

Edition: Limited Numbered Edition

Seller ID: 003911

ISBN-13: 9788773170588

Binding: Stiff Card Boards

Condition: Very Good

67 pages; 28 illustrated bookplates. The use of bookplates in Germany to the turn of the century (20th). Illustrated are plates from the 15th to the 20th centuries. Some made by Dürer, some by his workshop, some incorrectly attributed to him. No. 281 of 400 copies. Text in Danish, German and English. Book and jacket clean throughout.
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Edvard Munch: The Decorative Projects

By: Tanaka, Masayuki; Ingebjørg Ydstie; Gerd Woll (essays)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art / The Tokyo Shimbun : 2007

Seller ID: 003382

Binding: Stiff Card Boards

Condition: Fine

202 pages; 3 essays; 108 color catalogue illustrations; b&w text illustrations. Bibliography. The exhibiiton explored Munch's work as "decorative painter". Munch named his essential works The Frieze of Life and he said, "the Frieze is intended as a series of decorative paintings, which, gathered together, would give a picture of life." Clean throughout, no marks, tears, creases. Japanese and English text.
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Capolavori di Oreficeria della Collezione Thyssen-Bornemisza

By: Thyssen-Bornemisza, Hans Heinrich (Premessa); Anna Somers Cocks (Introduzione); Elisabeth Nagy; Maria de Peverelli

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Lugano / Milano, Fondazione Thyssen-Bornemisza / Electa : 1989

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 004227

ISBN: no

Binding: Stiff Card Boards

Condition: Very Good

110 pages; 124 items illustrated in color and b&w with full catalogue entries. Clean throughout, tight binding. Small tear at the head of the back panel of the jacket
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Binding: Stiff Card Boards

Egyptian Tomb Paintings

Philip Pearlstein

Mirrors

Vermeer de Delft

Nürnberger Exlibris: 28 ausgewählte Bucheignerzeichen von Albrecht Dürer bis zur Jahrhundertwende

Edvard Munch: The Decorative Projects

Capolavori di Oreficeria della Collezione Thyssen-Bornemisza