451. [Calder, Alexander] Aimé et Marguerite Maeght et Adrien Maeght.

Derrière Le Miroir N°212 – Janvier 1975 [With 8 lithographes originales (including front and rear cover) / Two of these lithographs are fantastic double-page colour-lithographs of which one is figurative (card-players “Les Joueurs de Cartes”)]. Avec Essais: “Un Tournant chez Calder” par Mario Pedrosa.

First Edition. Paris, Maeght Editeur [Aimé et Marguerite Maeght], 1975. Folio (27.8 cm wide x 37.8 cm high). 24 pages plus lithographed Cover (In this edition the Text reverts back to being paginated (until page 11 only) excluding the cover). This Volume also includes a section of black-and-white as well as colour-photographs of Sculpture by Calder, all photographs by Clovis Prévost. Original, illustrated softcover / brochure. Lower spine with minor damage. Slightly foxed in some locations only. Overall Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. All Lithographs in excellent condition.

452. [Calder, Alexander] Aimé et Marguerite Maeght et Adrien Maeght.

Derrière Le Miroir N°201 – Janvier 1973 [With 6 lithographes originales of “Mobiles” (including front and rear cover) / One of these lithographs is a fantastic double-page colour-lithograph)]. Avec Essais: “Retour au Mobile” par Maurice Besset et Essai: Calder ou le Poids de L’Air” par Andre Balthazar / [Photos of Stabiles par Clovis Prévost]. [Calder’s Stabiles “Three Bollards” from 1970 look like possible inspirations for Heptapods “Abbott and Costello” in Denis Villeneuve’s Film “Arrival”].

First Edition. Paris, Maeght Editeur [Aimé et Marguerite Maeght], 1973. Folio (27.8 cm wide x 37.8 cm high). 30 pages including lithographed Cover (In this edition the Text reverts back to being paginated excluding the cover). This Volume also includes a section of colour-photographs of Sculpture by Calder. Original, illustrated softcover / brochure. Lower spine with minor damage. Slightly foxed in some locations only. Overall Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. All Lithographs in excellent condition.

453. [Calder, Alexander] Aimé et Marguerite Maeght.

Derrière Le Miroir N°190 – Février 1971 [With 5 lithographes originales of “Stabiles” et “Animobiles” (including front and rear cover) / One of these lithographs is a fantastic double-page colour-lithograph)]. Avec Essais: “Calder : La Liberté” / “Aux portes de L’Enfer” par Carlos Franqui (Traduction Jean-Franci Reille) / [Photos of Stabiles par Clovis Prévost]. [Calder’s Stabiles “Three Bollards” from 1970 look like possible inspirations for Heptapods “Abbott and Costello” in Denis Villeneuve’s Film “Arrival”].

First Edition. Paris, Maeght Editeur [Aimé et Marguerite Maeght], 1971. Folio (27.8 cm wide x 37.8 cm high). 28 pages including lithographed Cover. (In this edition the Text was paginated including the covers until page 26, with covers and front pastedown as well as rear paste-down and rear cover not paginated. Clearly; by the early 1970s, Aimé and Marguerite Maeght must have realized the lithographic covers were part of the appeal for collectors and they followed suit with the same pagination book-publications were paginated with this standard (first page after title is paginated as “3”). This Volume also includes a large section of black-and-white-photographs of Sculpture by Calder. Original, illustrated softcover / brochure. Lower spine with minor damage. Slightly foxed in some locations only. Overall Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. All Lithographs in excellent condition.

454. [Calder, Alexander] Aimé et Marguerite Maeght.

Derrière Le Miroir N°173 – Octobre 1968 [With 8 lithographes originales (including front and rear cover) / Two (2) of these lithographs are fantastic double-page lithographs)]. Avec Essais: “Un geant enfant” par Giovanni Carandente / “Note sur les “fleches” par Jacques Dupin /

First Edition. Paris, Maeght Editeur [Aimé et Marguerite Maeght], 1968. Folio (27.8 cm wide x 37.8 cm high). 24 pages plus 4 pages of lithographed Cover. (Text partially paginated up to page 14 and then continued without pagination). This Volume also includes a large section of black-and-white-photographs of Sculpture by Calder. Original, illustrated softcover / brochure. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

455. [Calder, Alexander] / Aimé et Marguerite Maeght.

Derrière Le Miroir N°156 – Fevrier 1966 [With 8 lithographes originales, including cover / 3 of the lithographs are fantastic double-page lithographs (including cover)]. Avec Essais: “Oiseleur du Fer” (Solomon Grundy) par Jacques Prevert / Essai: “Alexander Calder” [Biographical Essay on Calder and his Mobiles] par Meyer Schapiro / Essai: “Les Gouaches de Calder” par Nicholas Guppy / Essai: “De L’Art’s Students League aux Totems…” par Alexander Calder.

First Edition. Paris, Maeght Editeur [Aimé et Marguerite Maeght], 1966. Folio (27.8 cm wide x 37.8 cm high). 28 pages plus 4 pages of lithographed Cover. (Text partially paginated up to page 15 and then continued without pagination). This Volume also includes a large section of black-and-white-photographs of Totems and Gouaches of Calder. Original, illustrated softcover / brochure. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

456. [Calder, Alexander] / Aimé et Marguerite Maeght.

Derrière Le Miroir N°113 – 1959. [With two (2) fantastic, original double-page lithographs of “Stabiles”]. Avec Essais: “STABILES” par Georges Salles / “LE LURON AUX PROTEGE-GENOUX” par Jean Davidson.

First Edition. Paris, Editions Pierre A Feu – Maeght Editeur [Aimé et Marguerite Maeght], 1959. Folio (27.8 cm wide x 37.8 cm high). 28 pages (Text paginated and each double-page-Lithograph counts as 4 pages). Plus photographic front- and rear-cover with portrait-photograph of Alexander Calder. Original, illustrated softcover / brochure. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

457. [Calder, Alexander] Sweeney, James Johnson.

“Calder” – Catalogue des Oeuvres exposees. [Du 2 Avril Au 31 Mai 1969] – Fondation Maeght – 06 Saint Paul] / [Avec Texte du Jean-Paul Sartre]. Le texte de J.J.Sweeney a ete traduit de l’anglais par Annick Baudoin, celui de G.Carandente de l’italien par Alain Veinstein.

Fondation Maeght, 1969. Quarto. 226 pages. Illustrated. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

458. [Calder, Alexander] Marchesseau, Daniel.

The Intimate World of Alexander Calder. [With 680 Illustrations, Including 200 in Full Colour]. Translated by Eleanor Levieux and Barbara Shuey.

[English edition of “Calder Intime”]. Paris / New York, Solange Thierry Editeur / Harry N.Abrams, 1989. Quarto. 399 pages / Illustrated. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Minor staining to pastedown / Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

459. [Calder, Alexander] Bruzeau, Maurice / Masson, Jacques / Feld, Charles.

Calder à Saché. Texte et Poems – Maurice Bruzeau / Photographie – Jacques Masson / Mise en pages – Charles Feld.

Paris, éditions Cercle d’Art, 1975. Quarto. 200 pages avec 252 illustrations [139 en couleurs]. Original Hardcover with see-through dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

460. [Walter Benjamin Collection] – [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)”.