Atomic Waste – Schröder.

Cäsium 137 – Rekordwerke im Waldboden oder: Harrisburg – Tschernobyl – Biblis. / Critical Serigraphy towards atomic waste in our environment – Harrisburg – Tschernobyl – Biblis.

Originale Serigraphie / Original Serigraphy. Flensburg, 1989. Beautifully framed. Size of frame with artwork: 35.5 cm x 45 cm. Size of actual artwork: 30 cm x 40 cm. One of only 5 / Signed. / Eines von nur 5 Exemplaren. Rekordverdächtige Pilze wachsen im Waldboden. Sehr schöne, allegorische Arbeit, entstanden aus den fruehen Aengsten zur radioaktiven Verseuchung der Umwelt und den AKW-Bewegungen “Atomkraft Nein Danke”.

[Auerbach, Frank] Hughes, Frank.

Frank Auerbach. With 174 illustrations in duotone and 80 in color.

London, Thames & Hudson, 1990. 4°. 240 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition.

Ayrton, Michael.

Paintings by Michael Ayrton.

London, Grey Walls Press, 1948. Large Octavo. 17 pages of text with 40 leaves of plates. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Baldry, A. L.

The Wallace Collection at Hertford House.

London, Goupil & Co., 1904. 22.5 cm x 30.2 cm. 302 pages. With black & white illustrations throughout. Original Hardcover in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. The price for this heavy book includes international shipping per Courier !

Barron, Stephanie / Dube, Wolf-Dieter / Dückers, Alexander / and others.

German Expressionist Prints and Drawings. The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies.

One. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Prestel, 1989. 26.5 cm x 31.5 cm. XVI, 211 pages. Richly illustrated throughout. Hardcover – publisher’s original black cloth with lettering on spine. Large blind-tooled reproduction of Conrad Felixmüller’s ‘Selbstbildnis mit Frau’ on front board. The beautifully illustrated dustjacket illustrated with same reproduction in protective collector’s Mylar. Near fine condition.

Batselier, Dom Pieter / Callender, Elsie (trans.)

Saint Benedict – Father of Western Civilization.

Antwerp, Mercatorfonds, 1981, 26 cm x 33 cm. 476 pages. 476 beautiful mononchrome and colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Near fine condition. Interior in excellent condition also.

[Beckett, Samuel] Delargy, Diarmuid.

The Beckett Suite. A Suite of 24 etchings based on the post-war prose piece “From an Abandoned Work” by Samuel Beckett. With an essay by Patrick McCabe: “Mother-loathing, Ducks and Horses whither than Ide-Cream” – A rumination on the work of Samuel Beckett and Diarmuid Delargy. With an introduction by Catherine Marshall.

Galway, Arts Centre / Taylor Galleries, c.2005. Oblong Quarto. 6 pages text plus 24 pages with illustrations of the suite, a photographic illustration of a Bronze of Beckett, created by Diarmuid Delargy in 2005. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of wear.

[Bell, Charles] Simons, Phillida Brooke.

The Life and Work of Charles Bell. Including The Art of Charles Bell: An Appraisal by Michael Godby.

Vlaeberg South Africa, Fernwood Press, no year (c.1998). 28 cm x 24.5 cm. Frontispiece, 176 pages. Numerous coloured and monchrome illustrations. Hardcover / publisher’s original half leather with slate gray boards. Gilt lettering on spine with raised bands. Gilt pictoral on front board. Housed in grey cloth-covered book case with coloured vignette on front board. Fine, absolutely excellent condition throughout. Interior in excellent condition. Hand-numbered 21 of a collectors’ special edition of only 100 copies. Signed by author on the certification page. Presentation inscription in calligraphy to Christopher Robin White. Front endpaper beautifully embossed. Superbly produced work.

Benetton, Simon / Moderna, Galleria Civica d’Arte (Editor).

Simon Benetton – L’Immagine plastica come idea architettonica / A Plastic Image as architectonical Idea. [SIGNED / INSCRIBED] 1 Aprile – 6 Maggio 1984, Comune d Ferrara. Assessorato Istituzioni Culturali, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti Ferrara, Sala d’Arte “Benvenuto Tisi”.

O.O., o.V., 1984. 8°. 95 Pages. Original Softcover (titled, illustrated). Beautifully inscribed and signed by Simon Benetton in Italian on front free endpaper.

[Benjamin, Walter] Haas, Willy / [Stefan Zweig / Heinrich Mann / Thomas Mann / etc.].

Die literarische Welt. [Mit zahlreichen Erstdrucken von Essays und Rezensionen von Walter Benjamin: “Die Technik des Schriftstellers in dreizehn Thesen” / Walter Benjamin – “Skandal im Théatre-Français” / Buch-Chronik der Woche von Walter Benjamin: “C.A.Bernoulli – Johann Jakob Bachofen und das Natursymbol” / Walter Benjamin – “J.P.Hebel – Ein Bilderrätsel zum 100.Todestag des Dichters” / Buch-Chronik der Woche von Walter Benjamin: “Franz Hessel” / Walter Benjamin – “Der Kaufmann im Dichter” / Walter Benjamin – “Aussicht ins Kinderbuch” (mit Abbildungen von Titeln aus der Sammlung Benjamin) / Walter Benjamin – “Noch ein Paar Neue Kinderreime” / Walter Benjamin – “Kinder” [I.Karussellfahrendes Kind / II. Zu Spaet gekommenes Kind / III. Verstecktes Kind”] / Titelseite als Kalenderblatt mit Karikatur-Portraits von Mitarbeitern der “Literarischen Welt”: u.a. Walter Benjamin, Walter Mehring, Willy Haas u.v.a. “Zum Neuen Jahr lasst Blumen sprechen” / “Wandkalender der “Literarischen Welt” fuer 1927 – Verse von Walter Benjamin / Zeichnungen von Rudolf Grossmann / Walter Benjamin – “Der Regisseur Meyerhold – In Moskau erledigt ?” – “Ein literarisches Gericht wegen der Inszenierung von Gogols ‘Revisor’” / Walter Benjamin – “Zur Lage der Russischen Filmkunst” / Walter Benjamin und Oscar A.H.Schmitz – “Eine Diskussion ueber russische Filmkunst und kollektivistische Kunst ueberhaupt” [Schmitz eroeffnet die Diskussion mit “Potemkinfilm und Tendenzkunst” – Walter Benjamin antwortet daraufhin dem “Bildungsphilister” Schmitz mit einer Polemik].

First Edition. Two Volumes with 94 Issues in total (31 issues in duplicate / 31 Hefte doppelt). Berlin, Ernst Rowohlt, 1925 – 1927. Folio. Pagninierung / Pagination of both Volumes: Volume I: The following 42 issues available in this collection are: 1. Jahrgang / Annual (1925): Nr. 2 und Nr. 4 / 2. Jahrgang (1926): Nr. 14, 19, Nr. 36 – Nr. 52 (17 Issues) / 3. Jahrgang / Annual (1927): Nr. 1-21 [Each issues with 8 pages with illustrations] / [Jedes Heft mit 8 Seiten incl. Abbildungen] / Volume II: 3. Complete Third Annual of 52 Issues for 1927): Kompletter 3. Jahrgang: Nummer 1-52. [Each issues with 8 pages with illustrations]. Illustrations in original woodcut-textillustrations are by Rudolf Großmann (several), Lili Réthi, B. F. Dolbin (several), Frans Masereel (several), George Grosz (Kinderzeichnungen), Renée Sintenis, Alfred Kubin, Max Beckmann, Man Ray and others. Hardcover (original title-wrappers inside a privately printed half-cloth binding) / Hardcover / Privater Halbleinenband der 20er Jahre. Small cutout to page 5 of Issue 2 (Advertising ? 8.4 x 14.5 cm) / (1 cm-tear to outer margin of all issues in Volume one – text not effected) / Titlepage of Issue 49, IInd Annual (1926), missing. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. While it would usually be desirable to have these issues in their original, unbound form, these two privately bound Volumes are actually a blessing and led to these issues to be preserved in unusually excellent condition. A Rare run of this peridocal, with a provenance of one “Frl. Nippoldt” (Miss Nippoldt), Weissenburgstr. 17 / Kleiner Ausschnitt auf Seite 5 der Nummer 2 von 1925 (Werbung) / (1 cm Einriss in den Rand der Nummern von Band 1 – Text nicht betroffen) / Titelblatt der Nummer 49 des II.Jahrgangs (1926) fehlt / Sonst sehr gut erhalten. Auch wenn eine ungebundene Broschur-Version dieser seltenen Zeitschrift einer Privatbindung normalerweise vorzuziehen ist, so ist in diesem Fall die Wahl der Bindung sehr gelungen und man ist fast dankbar wie gut die einzelnen Ausgaben dadurch erhalten wurden. Einige der Ausgaben haben einen alten Besitzvermerk: “Frl. Nippoldt” – “Weissenburgstr.17”, sowie gelegentliche, interessante Kommentare und Annotationen im Text (mit Bleistift)”.