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First edition of Harold Rosenberg’s study of Armenian-American artist Arshile Gorky, whose lyrical abstract oeuvre prefigured Abstract Expressionism. Published in 1962 by Horizon Pre...

Early collection of poems by anarchic satirist Tuli Kupferberg, a key figure in the Beat Generation and counterculture movements. Self-published in a small run in 1959 by Poets Union...

First edition, later printing of Lewis Mumford’s magnum opus, a magisterial study of the development of machine technics, proposing technology as a cultural phenomenon, pushing the g...

First edition, stated, of American journalist and historian William Shirer’s chronicle of life in Nazi Germany as foreign correspondent for American news agencies including CBS, base...

Early monograph on the French modernist designer Mathieu Mategot, featuring his celebrated and still prized “transparent metal” furniture and lighting, often with juxtaposed elements...

Brochure showcasing postmodern lighting and furniture designs by Los Angeles-based designer and entrepreneur Ron Rezek, self-published circa 1986. Included are his well-known Iris floor lamp and Orbis table lamp, along with the 420 uplight, 200 and 300 pendant lights, 640 floor lamp, Scroll sconce, Ovuli table lamp, Cymbal sconce, Cygno table lamp, Nimbus ambient light, and Squiggle table...

Catalog presenting four modular design groups by renowned mcm Danish designer Illum Wikkelso (1919-1999), produced by the Danish firm C.F. Christensen Mobelfabrik and published circa 1974. Laid in are two typed and signed letters on Christensen letterhead dated to 1974, plus a single two-sided spec sheet, folded, for the Plexus Group. Included is the “bestseller and very popular” Plexus grouping, a stately series of solid wood, caning, and upholstery; and the Venus group in solid teak oak and rosewood with upholered cushions. Both of these groups retain a presence in the vintage design market on platforms such as 1stdibs and Chairish. Less commonly seen then or now are the Campus/Sixtus group—described in the catalog as one of WIkkelso’s “least traditional designs” and the similarly progressive Discus group. Sixtus, unsurprisingly, is based on hexagonal shapes in white or black lacquered wood with starkly contrasting fabrics (black on white, orange on black). Discus seating features minimalist but graphically striking forms of teak, rosewood, or black-stained oak plywood. Rare to the current market, these last two groups are shown in full-blown 70’s modular settings. On the last page of the catalog are bar carts by Henning Korch and Johs. Andersen and a sculptural wooden cocktail table...

First edition of this first monograph on the celebrated and influential mid-century architect Donald Wexler, focusing on his pioneering use of steel in desert architecture for projec...

First edition monograph showcasing the mid-1980’s poster designs of renowned Italian graphic designer, illustrator, and educator Andrea Rauch and his design collaborator Stefano Rovai. Published in 1987 in Firenze by Press 80. Text in Italian by Goffredo Fofi, Aldo Colonetti, and Gunter Rambow...

Hardcover first edition (stated) of this classic work. 160 pages, 4to, black cloth decorated in gilt, dust jacket, with 94 half-tone illustrations and 8 color plates. Published by Wi...

First edition of Mira Nakashima’s tribute to her father, George, whose standing as one of America’s foremost designer/craftsmen is reflected in his blue-chip status in the vintage de...

Second English edition of Franz Sales Meyer’s influential compendium of historical ornamental motifs, revised by Hugh Stannus and published in 1894 by B.T. Batsford in London followi...

Dossier of works by Spanish sculptor Miguel Berrocal (1933-2006), known for his abstract and often figurative interlocking puzzle-sculptures, produced in limited editions in various ...

Catalog of furniture and accessory designs by Danish master Borge Mogensen, produced in Sweden by AB Karl Andersson & Sons for distribution by the Danish emporium Illums Bolighus. Pu...

First American edition of a survey of contemporary Italian interiors, published in 1975 by Studio Vista/Whitney Library of Design following its original publication in Italy in 1974. Edited by Franco Magnani and translated into English by Bobbi Mitchell. 4to (8.75” x 11.5”), hardcover with dust jacket, 156 pages, profusely illustrated with color reproductions. Showcases a range of interiors by Italian interior designers and architects, many lesser-known, including: De Rossi Coretti studio, Guido Veneziani, Puccinelli, Fabrizio Cocchia and Gianfranco Fini, Enrico Buzzi, Luigi Massoni, Piero Castellini...

First American edition, stated, of the fourth entry in David Hicks’s acclaimed series promulgating his views on interior design and decorating. Published in 1971 by World Publishing/...

First edition in English of Esbjorn Hiort’s biography of modern design master Finn Juhl, published in 1990 by The Danish Architectural Press, with translation by Martha Gaber Abraham...

Monograph on American artist Alexander Calder, first edition thus, published in 1951 by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and distributed by Simon and Schuster. An expanded edition...

Culinar series flatware of stainless steel designed by Carl Aubock III (1924-1993) and manufactured by Collini, Austria in 1979. Thirteen pieces in total, consisting of the followin...

Luxe, limited edition artist’s book in portfolio format by marketing and branding whiz Marc Gobe, consisting of ten loose copper-etched photogravures with scenes from the French seas...

Catalog accompanying a group exhibition of contemporary New York City artists held at the Tony Shifrazi Gallery in Soho from September 13-October 12, 1986. Part of Shifrazi’s influen...

Limited edition, ring binder catalog/artist’s book published in conjunction with an exhibition held at Galleria TOT in Padua in 1982, curated by the Italian artist and graphic design...

Catalog accompanying an exhibition of modernist chairs by Australia’s pre-eminent postwar furniture designer Grant Featherston (1922-1995), held at the National Gallery of Victoria f...

First edition in English of this retrospective monograph/exhibition catalog on the renowned Austrian artist and designer Dagobert Peche, published in 2002 by Yale University Press in...

Monograph on eminent Austrian-born Australian architect Harry Seidler, written by eminent American architect, historian, and educator Peter Blake. Seidler (1923-2006) was an early an...

Encyclopedic survey of modernist Swiss design beginning in 1870 but focused on the Bauhaus/Ulm School driven twentieth century, which is divided into chronological chapters of 15 to ...

Weighty monograph on Italian modernist architect and designer Guglielmo Ulrich, whose prolific creative output spanned the years from 1926-197 and whose furnishings in art deco and m...

First American edition of Patrick Mauries’s comprehensive monograph celebrating the whimsical, surrealist-inspired oeuvre of prolific Italian designer Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988). P...

Booklet touting the wonders of the nascent electronic era published in 1942 by the General Electric Company, “leader in radio, television, and electronic research.” Austrian-America...

First edition, second printing of a foundational text of the women's liberation movement, radical both in its political messaging and because it was written “by women for women.” Ari...

First edition of The Documents of Modern Art, Vol. 8, edited and with an introduction by Robert Motherwell. Cover and typography by Paul Rand. Published in 1951 by Wittenborn, Schultz Inc. With texts by Richard Huelsenbeck, Hugo Ball, Kurt Schwitters, Jacques Vache, Tristan Tzara, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, George Hugnet, Andre Breton, Jean Arp, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon, Gabrielle Buffet-Picabia, and Hans Richter. Illustrations by (or after) Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Raoul Hausmann, Paul Klee, Marcel Janco, Man Ray, Francis Picabia, Tristan Tzara, Kurt Schwitters, Kasimir Malevich, Pablo Picasso, Sophie Tauber...

Youth International Party (Yippie) mimeographed handbill distributed to promote a planned anti-consumer protest at Macy’s flagship New York store followed by a gathering in the Centr...

Marketing poster/brochure for Harry Bertoia’s line of sculptural steel wire mesh-and-rod chairs for Knoll Associates, published in 1957. Graphic design by Herbert Matter. Folded in e...

Cook book comprising 161 recipes, some real and some decidedly not, by 161 different artists and world personalities, mostly from lower Manhattan. Each recipe accompanied by a b/w il...

Catalog accompanying an exhibition held at New York’s Marisa Del Rey Gallery from May-June 1988. Features both independent and collaborative work by the French artists Claude and Fra...

First edition of this comprehensive monograph on acclaimed Italian architect and designer Osvaldo Borsani (1911-1985), tracing his career and oeuvre from early works in an Italian Ar...

First edition of this book showcasing Carlo Mollino’s portrait photographs, unpublished in his lifetime, taken between 1956 and 1962 and set in one of Mollino’s private apartments in...

Catalog published in conjunction with an exhibition of Irving Penn’s experimental platinum-emulsion photographs held at New York City’s Marlborough Gallery from September 8-October 1...

First American edition of Raymond Chandler’s fifth Philip Marlowe detective novel, concerning a case of blackmail involving a Hollywood starlet and a Cleveland/LA hoodlum. Published ...

First edition, second printing of this appealing monograph on Finnish architect Matti Suuronen’s iconic saucer-shaped Futuro House, introduced in 1968 and produced in an edition of 7...

First edition monograph on the Belgian mid-century designer and interior architect Jules Wabbes (1919-1974), edited and with text in English by his daughter, the art historian Marie ...

The Advent 1 series bookcase was originally designed for Ford Motor Company before going into production for several years in the early 1970’s. It i...

Exhibition poster and announcement for a show of Sister Mary Corita Kent's new serigraphs held at New York City's Morris Gallery from December 7-31, 1966, ...

First edition (stated) of this Christmas story by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, with illustrations by Fritz Kredel. Published in 1940 by Alfred A. Knopf. 12mo (4.25” x 5.5”), 42 pag...

First edition of of this collection of photographs by American fashion photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber, whose ad campaigns include projects with Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Revlon, Armani, Louis Vuitton, and Versace and whose editorial work has appeared in Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Elle, Life, Interview, and Rolling Stone magazines. Published in 1999 by Arena Editions. 8vo (6.75” x 8.5”), 284 pages, hardcover with photographic dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with full-page photography in color and b/w on matte paper. Snippets of text by James Agee, Robert Frost, T.E. Lawrence, Shel Silverstein...

Catalog accompanying an exhibition of the works of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, held at the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, from June 27-September 12, 1999. ...

1965 mail order catalog from Danish emporium Illums Bolighus, the Copenhagen “Center of Modern Design” that retailed high-end Danish furniture and accessories along with a smattering of European offerings to both Danish citizens and the market abroad. Foreigners could shop at the department store when traveling or could order from one of the published catalogs. The 1965 catalog showcases chairs, tables, case pieces, desks, beds, carts, and wall systems by eminent and lesser-known Danish designers including Hans Weger, Peter Hvidt and O. Molgaard Nielsen, Vilhelm Wohlert, N.O. Moller, Finn Juhl, Harbo Solvsten, Erik Kierkegaard, Arne Jacobsen, ROsengreen Hansen, Nanna and Jorgen DItzel, Aage Schmidt Christensen, Poul Hundevad, Grete Jalk, Borge Mogensen, Arne Vodder, Kurt Ostervig, Folke Ohlsson, Kaare Klint, Ingemar Thillmark, Ib Kofod-Larsen, Karl Erik Ekselius, Poul Kjaerholm, Ole Wanscher, Erik Worts, Hans Olsen, Hohs. Aasbjerg, Edv. Kindt-Larsen, E. Engholm and Sv. A. Willumsen, Kai Kristiansen, and Sven Langkilde. Each entry includes a photograph along with curatorial information—designer, materials, and measurements. Stand-out designs in the catalog include Hans Wegner’s cube bar cabinet and Papa Bear chair and ottoman, Finn Juhl’s Judas dining table...

First edition of this revolutionary/reactionary study of the Las Vegas strip co-authored by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour. Published in 1972 by the MIT Press,...

First edition of art director Ladislav Sutnar and research director Knud Lonberg-Holm’s landmark exposition on information design and visual communication, published in 1950 by Sweet...

First English language translation of Czech artist, critic, curator, and functionalist architectural theorist Karel Teige’s seminal “The Minimum Dwelling,” published in 2002 by MIT P...

Handsomely produced catalog for the mid-century furniture lines offered by the Dutch company Ahrend, showcasing the industrially-oriented modernist designs of Friso Kramer and Wim Ri...

First edition, second printing of J.D. Salinger’s iconic American bildungsroman, first published by Little, Brown, and Company on July 16, 1951. The second printing followed in the s...

Reprint of a 1953 international survey of modernist lighting, originally published in Germany by Alexander Koch. This edition published in 2012 by Arnoldsche Art Publishers. Faithful reprint of the original, with a new introduction by Bernd Dicke. Large 8vo (8.5” x 12”), pictorial boards, approximately 122 pages, fully illustrated with b/w photos plus several color images at the front. Introductory text in German and English; curatorial text in German, English, and French. A bible for sourcing and documenting early postwar lighting, based on the perspicacity of the editor(s). A roster of designers and manufacturers, gleaned fro the index at the rear, includes: Arredoluce, Arteluce, BAG Turgi, Peter Behrens, Alexey Brodovitch, Paul Bry, Franco Buzzi, Alexander Calder, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Robert Gage, Lester Geis...

All 48 issues (plus the June 1962 Special Supplement) of Ayn Rand’s first monthly publication The Objectivist Newsletter, running from January 1962-December 1965 and from Vol. 1, No....

First edition monograph on legendary architect and designer Carlo Mollino’s modernist ski chalet in Cirvinia in the Italian Alps. After designing the building in 1947, Mollino was br...

First (and only) printing of this Larry Clark photo-book that anticipated the themes of his subsequent groundbreaking movie Kids. Published in an edition of 1000 in 1992 by Thea West...

First edition, stated, of Slim Aarons’s first book of photographs, published in 1974 by Harper & Row. “Attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places,” in the artist’...

First edition monograph on the lead-in to the hanging of The Gates in Central Park in April 2004, published ahead of the installation itself and in conjunction with an exhibition at ...

First edition of Richard Avedon’s provocative second book, a collaboration with the writer James Baldwin (a friend and former classmate) who provided the text accompanying Avedon’s i...

Seminal monograph on progressive-to-radical Italian lighting design, both iconic and obscure, in the period 1968-73. With selections by eminent gallerist, curator, designer, and auth...