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(WEBER, BRUCE) (BRUTUS). Weber, Bruce, Nan Bush, Sofia Coppola, Herbie & Christian Fletcher, Ingrid Sischy, Franca Sozzani, Helmut Lang, et al.. Tokyo: Brutus, 2005. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Periodical. Near Fine.. 170pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. Published in conjunction with the 2005 opening of the "Weberbilt" boutique in Tokyo, Japanese fashion and lifestyle bible "Brutus" magazine devoted this entire issue to all things Bruce Weber. Included are more than one hundred and twenty pages of photo-essays, collages, drawings, interviews, and a completely illustrated Little Bear bibliography and filmography. A most handsome example of this obscure necessity for the Bruce Weber completeist. Inventory Number: 020952

(WEBER, BRUCE) (VOGUE ITALIA). Weber, Bruce. With Brief Texts By Woody Guthrie & John Steinbeck. Milan, ITALY: Vogue Italia, 2003. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. np (124pp + covers), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Published separately as the supplement to a 2003 issue of "Vogue Italia", this Bruce Weber film journal was an advance peek at his feature, "A Letter to True". True is True Blue, the photographer's youngest pup, and the movie is a cinematic love letter to Weber's many dogs, as well as Tyson the cat. Mixed in amongst the hundreds of photos revolving around the canine cast here are Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, Natalie Portman, Renee Zellweger, Owen Wilson, Charlize Theron, Jude Law, Drew Barrymore, James Franco, Kate Moss, Colin Farrell, Vinnie Jones, Paul Walker, Snoop Dogg, Peter Cincotti, Muhammad Ali, Marianne Faithfull, Sean Penn, "the Boy Who Wanted to Look Like Elizabeth Taylor", and many, many more! A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap along with the issue of Vogue. Inventory Number: 023324

(XXe SIECLE). Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri, Managing Editor. Paris: XXe Siecle (Vingtieme Siecle), 1957. First Edition. Large 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Art Periodical. Near Fine.. 88pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French. Cover design after Wassily Kandinsky. This eighth installment of San Lazzaro's deluxe, semi-annual art periodical features two original color pochoirs by Jean Dubuffet, and one each by Jean Arp and Jean Miro; who also has contributed an original color lithograph (entry number forty in Patrick Cramer's "Joan Miro: The Illustrated Books - Catalogue Raisonné). The contents include contributions on or by Maria Luz, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Lebel, Jean Arp, Patrick Waldberg, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cassou, Wassily Kandinsky, Pierre Volboudt, Paul Klee, Will Grohmann, Joan Miro, Pierre Gueguen, Jean Dubuffet, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Gilioli, Jacques Dopagne, Jean Fautrier, Andre Verdet, Giuseppe Marchiori, Alain Boaquet, Cesar, Pietro Consagra, Umbro Apollonio, Signori, Robert Muller, Georg Schmidt, Futurism, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, Manessier, Franco Gentelini, Alberto Burri, Atlan, Zoran Music, Jackson Pollock, and more. A bright, most handsome example. Inventory Number: 016583

(XXe SIECLE). Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri, Managing Editor. Paris: XXe Siecle (Vingtieme Siecle), 1952. First Edition. Large 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Art Periodical. Very Good.. 88pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French. Cover design after Guillaume Apollinaire. This third installment of San Lazzaro's deluxe, semi-annual art periodical features original lithographs by Jean Miro, Alexander Calder, Henri Michaux, and Alberto Giacometti. The contents include contributions on or by Herbert Read, Guillaume Apollinaire, Futurism, Gino Severini, Poetry and Text in Art, Jean Arp, Jean Cassou, Jean Miro, Alexander Calder, Pierre Courthion, Henri Michaux, Michel Tapie, Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob, Salvador Dali, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Eluard, Milena Milani, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Motherwell, American Abstract Art, Michel Seuphor, Antonio Corpora, Gustave Singier, Julio Gonzalez, Amodeo Modigliani, Henri Laurens, Frank Lloyd Wright, Igor Stravinsky, Vittorio De Sica, and more. A handsome example showing a slight soft crease through the textblock at the lower foredge corner. Inventory Number: 016582

Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. Canberra, AUSTRALIA: Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1972. First Edition. 4to. Printed Stapled Wrappers. Journal. Very Good -.. 36 + 14pp. This is the May 1972 installment of the Newsletter of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies. A most presentable example bearing the neat ink ownership inscription of well-known ethnomusicologist Dr. Elizabeth May on the front cover, with the first published Index to the Newsletter (covering the years 1963-1970) laid in, as issued. Inventory Number: 004965

Bland, Jr., C.W., Tyson Wellman Reilly & Michelle Aaronson, Editors. San Diego, CA: Socio Library, 1971. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Erotic Periodical. Fine.. 62pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Published in the wake of Masters and Johnson's landmark studies "Human Sexual Response" and "Human Sexual Inadequacy", the Socio Library's six volume "Photo-Illustrated Encyclopedia of Deviant Sexual Behavior" is notable for its hard core pornographic approach to scholarship. This third installment contains explicitly illustrated contributions on the subjects of Femoralism, Fetishism, Flagellation, Frictation, Frottage, Gerontophilia, Graophilia, Group Sexuality, Hermaphroditism, Homosexuality, Hyperaesthesia, Incest, Indecent Exposure, Inunctionism, Lesbianism, and Lingerie Fetishism. A most handsome example of this uncommon item showing a tiny vintage "Pacific News" distribution sticker on the front cover. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. Inventory Number: 022713

Cohen, Arthur A.. New York: Ex Libris, 1982. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Fine.. np (30pp), 62 b&w illustrations. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. This slender hord serie catalogue was devoted entirely to The Bauhaus and its impact - featuring one hundred and ninety fully described original photographs, weavings and textiles, drawings, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed ephemera related to the likes of Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Aenne Biermann, Walter Dexel, T. Lux Feininger, Walter Gropius, Joannes Itten, Paul Klee, El Lissitzky, Hannes Meyer, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Lucia Moholy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Xanti Schawinsky, Oskar Schlemmer, Joost Schmidt, Thonet, Jan Tschichold, "Umbo" (Otto Umbehrer), Theo Van Doesburg, and many, many others. And while at the time of its publication the prices here seemed astronomical, some thirty-five odd years later they are finally downright bargains! A most handsome example this uncommon reference. Inventory Number: 025895

Cohen, Arthur A.. New York. ND (circa 1988).: Ex Libris. First Edition. Tall Narrow 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Fine.. np (48pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. Catalogue number eighteen features fifty-two fully described and illustrated exceptional works, photographs, posters, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed ephemera on or by the likes of Hans (Jean) Arp, Broom, Francesco Cangiullo, Fortunato Depero, Andre Derain, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Die Flaeche, Fluxus, Natalia Goncharova, Wassily Kandinsky, Valentina Kulagina, Fernand Leger, El Lissitzky and Mayakovsky, Kazimir Malevich, Henri Matisse, Bruno Munari, Diter Rot (Dieter Roth), Kurt Schwitters, Surrealism, Ladislav Sutnar, Yves Tanguy, Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni), Tolschin, H. Th. Wijdeveld, Tristan Tzara, Frank Lloyd Wright, Piet Zwart, and more. And while at the time of its publication the prices here seemed astronomical, some thirty years later they are finally downright bargains! A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon reference with the original price list additionally laid in. Inventory Number: 025893

Cohen, Arthur A. & Trevor Winkfield. New York: Ex Libris, 1983. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Illustrated Jacket. Bookseller's Catalogue. Near Fine./Fine.. np (76pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Tamar Cohen and Elaine Lustig Cohen. With a bibliography. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. Catalogue number ten was devoted entirely to Dada material - featuring three hundred and thirty-six fully described and indexed original works, photographs, posters, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed ephemera on or by the likes of Hans Arp, Hugo Ball, Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Richard Huelsenbeck, Marcel Janco, Alfred Jarry, Man Ray, Francis Picabia, Hans Richter, Kurt Schwitters, Tristan Tzara, Theo Van Doesburg, and many, many others. And while at the time of its 1983 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, some thirty-five years later they are finally downright bargains! A most handsome example of this uncommon reference in a like dust jacket. Inventory Number: 025890

Cohen, Arthur A. & Trevor Winkfield. New York. ND (circa 1976).: Ex Libris. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Very Good.. np (152pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. Catalogue number three features nine hundred and eighty-five fully described and indexed original works, photographs, posters, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed ephemera on the subjects of Guillaume Apollinaire, Architecture, Expressionism, Illustrated Books and Livres de Peintre, Alfred Jarry, Periodicals and Annuals, Photographs and Photogravures (including a large collection of plates from "Camera Work"), Photography and Film, and Surrealism. And while at the time of its 1976 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, some forty years later they are finally downright bargains! A handsome example of this uncommon reference showing a bit of light sunning to the covers along with its title added discreetly in ink to the spine. Inventory Number: 015159

Cohen, Arthur A. & W. Michael Sheehe. New York: Ex Libris, 1977. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Very Good.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen. With an index and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. Catalogue number six was their piece de resistance - with four hundred and thirty-four fully described and indexed books, periodicals, pamphlets, and posters of the Russian Avant-Garde by the likes of Natan Altman, Yurii Annenkov, David Burliuk, Vladimir Burliuk, Marc Chagall, Vasilii Ermilov, Alexandra Exter, Pavel Filonov, Naum Gabo, Natalia Goncharova, Vasilii Kamensky, Vasilii Kandinsky, Ivan Kliun, Gustav Klucis, Petr Konchalovsky, Mikhail Larionov, V. Lebedev, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Mikail Matiushin, Petr Miturich, Liubov Popova, Ivan Puni, Alexander Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Georgii Stenberg, Vladimir Stenberg, Vavara Stepanova, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexandr Vesnin, and many, many others. It contains over five hundred additional items related to F.T. Marinetti and Italian Futurism, De Stijl, The Bauhaus and its Legacy, and Eastern European & German books, periodicals, graphics and photographs. And while at the time of its 1977 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, some forty years later they are finally downright bargains! An internally most handsome example of this uncommon reference showing wear, rubbing, and some sunning along the spine of its graphically striking covers. LC 77-71400 Inventory Number: 025835